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This demand is typically made less daunting, however, because of the four years over which students can spread out required classes. But at Harvard, along with the doomed core curriculum comes one time-specific requirement: that students take two semesters of a foreign language their freshman year unless they achieve a specified score on AP, SAT II, or Harvard placement tests...
...their draft proposal, released in October 2006, Harvard’s Task Force on General Education offered “a new rationale for general education at Harvard, one that is distinct from the rationale for the present Core curriculum.” The Committee’s report did not call the present Core—required of all Harvard undergraduates since 1978—a bureaucratic monstrosity compromised ever since its inception. Instead, reformers insisted that the Core is a victim of changing times. The draft asserted that today’s Harvard students “will...
...wonder: are we receiving—gasp—a twentieth century education? And more importantly, is the search for a new “rationale” behind educational breadth a subtle admission of just how badly practical flaws undermine the current system? In short, yes. The Core Curriculum so poorly represents the ideal of general education that the community has no need for it. Unconstrained by the etiquette of a faculty post, we can say that the Core is not simply “outdated” in its justification, but is implemented in such...
...structural design of the Core is its most significant flaw. The act of requiring a set number of large, mediocre lecture courses degrades—rather than improves—a Harvard education. Options under the Core program are often over-sized (Historical Study A-87, “Madness and Medicine” with an enrollment of 339), obscure (Literature and Arts A-63: Women Writers in Imperial China), or all too few (a total of three Historical Study B courses this semester). Students who will graduate before seeing Gen Ed implemented should not be constrained by this confessedly...
...Their only hope is to take away votes from McCain," says one Republican strategist. "They don't need to convince people to vote for Mitt Romney, they just need to make sure McCain doesn't get any help from independents and that hard-core conservatives cast some kind of anti-McCain protest vote." If Romney can eke out a close second, he heads to the primary in Michigan - his family's home state, where his father was governor - in a position to finally overtake McCain, probably finishing off that cash-strapped campaign for good. If Romney loses New Hampshire...