Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pforzheimer University Professor, and Chair of the CRC, Sidney Verba '53 says that though it is difficult to know "how much is enough," certainly no one on the CRC would have objected to more science in the Core...
...could make an argument that no one should have less than four or five courses in science," Verba says, "but given constraints on time, it may be that the core is adequate. It really is impossible to know what the right answer...
...This whole business about how is enough has been a subject was a topic of debate since the Core was founded," says Henry Ehrenreich, Clowes professor of science who also chairs the FAS sub-committee on science...
Besides the fewer science requirements in the Core, science concentrators often scoff that the courses offered are not very "science-y" in nature and that it is possible to graduate from Harvard learning very little about how the natural world works...
...majority of Faculty members, however, say that the Core curriculum does indeed provide an adequate science education and does not necessarily need to be revamped...