Word: coreness
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...whiff of Eurocentrism still wafts through the Cambridge air.Of course, concerns about the responses to globalization and multiculturalism in the academy are not novel. In fact, this year’s General Education program was originally conceived as an antidote to the university’s increasingly specialized core curriculum offerings (“Dinosaurs and Their Relatives”, anybody?). As it stands, however, Gen Ed is essentially a reshuffling of existing courses into new subcategories—these pages criticized it as “little more than a muddled and insipid rehash of the old Core?...
LACKING A CORE...
...Despite purported differences in philosophy, many of Gen Ed’s categories resemble those of the Core: Ethical Reasoning looks like Moral Reasoning, and Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning looks like Quantitative Reasoning...
Selsby said that these maintenances are also part of an ongoing, larger effort funded by FAS known as the “Core project,” which seeks to upgrade FAS networks. Over the past few years, Selsby said that FAS IT has been upgrading “all sorts of things,” including actual servers, machine rooms, and the electrical system itself...
...Some professors say that the College needed to overhaul its curriculum because students were frustrated: both with limited choices and a proliferation of seemingly irrelevant Core classes...