Word: core
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These changes contradicted the Committee’s November promise to cap Core requirements at eight for all students...
...while the 1978 proposal outlined 10 Core areas, by the 1979-1980 academic year, six main areas were chosen—Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis, Moral Reasoning, Science, and Foreign Cultures...
National hype surrounding the Core curriculum eventually enticed professors to design courses which fit Harvard’s new approach to education. But many faculty members still shied away from teaching courses designed for non-concentrators, students termed “the ignorant masses,” in a Sept. 14, 1979 article from The Crimson...
However, by 1980, 50 Core courses were offered in the six delineated areas, prompting Rosovsky to call the program “the greatest injection of new courses in Harvard’s history,” in an article published in The Crimson June...
More than 25 years after the birth of the Core, students are now seeing a rejection of the “modes of inquiry” approach to education that typified the 1978 concept of a liberal arts education. Instead, Harvard is returning to its more traditional pre-Core roots. That today’s Harvard College Curricular Review calls to replace the Core’s fragmented approaches to learning illustrates the the perennial problem of balancing academic guidance with academic freedom...