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...they criticized the current Core Curriculum for being dominated by non-teaching administrators, professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting stressed the importance of continued faculty leadership of the proposed general education program. Although most spoke in favor of creating an expansive new program that could be home to a number of courses currently taught within departments, professors remained divided over the place of departmental courses in the future plan.After stressing that one of undergraduates’ greatest qualms with the Core was the lack of course options, Professor of History Peter E. Gordon emphasized the importance of counting...
...late 2006, the task force charged with overhauling Harvard’s Core curriculum dropped “reason and faith” from its proposed list of general education courses, sending a very poignant message to the entire student body: religious debate does not belong in the realm of an undergraduate education...
...controversial a topic as faith may be, the university’s decision to exclude faith and reason from the Core curriculum may be doing more harm than good...
...Harvard curriculum. Also known as “Praxis Pedagogy,” ABL uses experiences outside the classroom to enrich student learning. Currently featured in about 13 undergraduate courses, ABL has been recommended as an integral part of the general education reforms that will replace the current Core Curriculum. “[ABL] helps you learn outside of the classroom in a way you can’t get from a book,” said Antonio Pino ’10, who taught Italian to elementary school students in Italian 60, “Italian and the Community...
...changes allowed students to have one of the usual four half-courses per semester graded pass-fail, excepting requirements like the Core Curriculum. It also delegated concentration credit policy to each department, in an effort to appease faculty wary of students taking too many pass-fail courses, which, at that time, was an effective compromise for addressing a new and revolutionary desire for academic freedom...