Word: core
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...overhaul of Harvard’s Core Curriculum is one of the most important projects facing administrators, the Faculty, and students today. Thus far, the Committee on General Education has made some encouraging decisions for the future of Harvard undergraduate education. The committee’s preliminary assessments indicate an advocacy of distribution requirements over three general subject areas, as well as two mandatory Harvard College Courses that will be “broad in scope and ambition.” But while distribution requirements will allow for more student freedom in class choice, the committee’s failure...
...areas of proposed distribution requirements will include: The Sciences and Technology, The Humanities and the Arts, and The Study of Societies. The strength of this new structure stems from the fact that students will be able to fulfill their requirements with departmental classes, as well as with the traditional Core classes that will return to their rightful places in the departments. A greater array of classes will make it easier for students to select courses that interest them in one of the three areas. And with more student enthusiasm and interest comes better classes...
Freshman forward Jon Pelle, on adjusting to the collegiate level. Pelle is generously listed at 5’8 and had a bit of difficulty early on making the jump to Harvard from the Eastern Junior Hockey League’s New York Apple Core. With eight goals and 17 assists so far, though, he’s doing just fine...
...core of the PSP: the games. Of the five provided for review - Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal Head-on, Gretzky NHL, NBA and World Tour Soccer - none strike me as a must-have the way Grand Theft Auto became for the PlayStation 2. Still, they are pretty incredible for such a small device. The graphics and game play sophistication rival that of Sony's home system, the PS2. The sports games almost exactly mimic their "big-screen" counterparts with full rosters that you can manipulate and on-the-fly playmaking. Wipeout Pure, part of the futuristic Wipeout racing series...
...sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching,” Willig says. But she acknowledges that “grading student papers actually was very helpful.…It makes you think a great deal about structure...