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Harvard structures students' academic experiences to afford the greatest possible freedom to design individual programs. Students normally enroll in four classes each term. Their plan of study includes work in their concentration, the Core Curriculum, Expository Writing, and Foreign Language...
...first sentence is the usual Harvard spiel about how much flexibility everyone has with their schedules (though freshmen in Life Sci, Ec10, and Justice may beg to differ). Granted, it doesn't sound blatantly wrong. But then why would they mention the Core Curriculum to the class of 2013 when they won't be falling under the Core at all...? If the viewbook is bothering to mention the Core, they are going to explain the transition to Gen Ed right about now--right...
Right. After explaining that everyone at Harvard takes classes in the Core Curriculum, the viewbook describes Gen Ed in enormous detail...
...were a prefrosh, I would feel like I know so much about Gen Ed. Are these a restricted group of classes or courses that can be drawn anywhere from the (online) course catalog? How is Gen Ed different from the Core in structure? In philosophy? What is Gen Ed supposed to be all about...
...what would take the greenback's place? Economists say that China's suggestion of turning to SDRs might be viable, since SDRs are already considered a core part of central-bank reserves. But global traders would have to begin denominating transactions in SDRs instead of dollars, and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon. Portes of the London Business School says using SDRs as the top international currency is "not impossible," but he adds that "the fundamental problem is that the issuer of the [international] currency also has to be the lender of last resort. The IMF does...