Word: cored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is nothing new about your editorial criticizing the Core (Sep. 20), recent reform notwithstanding. Harvard's 20-year-old Core Curriculum is still embarrassingly inadequate to prepare students to join 'the company of educated men and women' once they graduate...
Although I was dissatisfied with the Core throughout my time at Harvard because of its sporadic approach to a well-rounded education (much like throwing darts in the dark), I have never been so unhappy with it as now. As I prepared this summer to teach seventh grade, I sadly remembered that the only world history I learned at Harvard was the century or so around the time of Augustus. A critical period, certainly; an interesting class, yes; but not enough to give me perspective on even the emperors who followed, let alone the far-reaching effects of the entire...
...keep one step ahead of the students and teach myself about African empires and the Justinian Code, I think back to all the failed Faculty debates on including History 10a and 10b in the Core, all the swirling chatter about "methods and approaches to knowledge," and I wonder: To what end the self-righteous administrators' smugness at keeping the Core untainted by survey courses, if I hold a degree from Harvard and cannot call myself liberally educated...
...Faculty meetings--and the smaller, bi-monthly gatherings of the 18-member Faculty Council--the Faculty helps the administration hammer out policies such as Core reform and changes in foreign language requirements...
Some members of the Faculty have argued againstlotteries and in favor of pre-registration, saidLewis. But the Core committee has yet to considerpre-registration as an option