Word: coreness
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...even though Gen Ed will allow for a greater variety of courses—including classes without final exams—it actually requires students to take eight courses as opposed to seven in the Core, limiting elective options further...
...many professors, this sacrifice of freedom of study appears worthwhile as long as it is accompanied by the destruction of the Core. Most seem to agree that after 30 years, it was time for that program...
...Core will die. The Core is a dead core. This core is no more. It has shuffled off its mortal coil,” English professor W. James Simpson said, imitating a Monty Python sketch...
...program’s success will depend on whether the committee is able to “hold their nerve” and reject proposals that do not fit the criteria, Simpson said. In doing so, it will preserve the desired differences between Gen Ed and the Core...
...evolution of the undergraduate program of general education has reflected and intensified this expansion of curiosity and knowledge. The postwar Red Book was profoundly and proudly “Western,” and emphasized the humanities more than the sciences. The Core, set up in the 1970s, asserted that it focused on different modes of thinking (something on which a divided faculty could agree), but it also introduced Harvard undergraduates to different cultures, to ethical reasoning, and to more scientific knowledge. The new general education program adopted last year (in a country in which anything that is 30 years...