Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the review committee's working paper, the goal of the Core science classes is to "convey a general understanding of experimental and theoretical science as a way of looking at human beings and the world...
...Core does accomplish that goal, Faculty members...
Other Faculty members, however, acknowledge that they are some Core classes that more approximate the pure science classes concentrators have to take, and are more "hardcore," but they are not as popular...
Verba admits that "it's probably true" that the science classes in the Core are not very "science-y" but that students still learn a great deal from them...
Until the Faculty eliminated the exemption earlier this year, students could substitute Advanced Placement (AP) scores for Cores. The beauty of AP exams; for those who attended high schools offering AP biology, chemistry or physics, getting a score of four or five means that you can place out of one--but only one--of the science Core classes...