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...Faculty contemplated general education reforms. Now that final Faculty legislation on general eduaction is in sight, the UC should move decisively to bring calendar reform to the forefront of discussion.The UC’s third primary focus should be on improving general education for students stuck with the Core. The latest general education report contains several reforms which can and should be immediately applied to the Core. The most beneficial change would be to to relax the rules by which classes are cross-counted for Core requirements. The Core office should remedy its unreasonable strictness—which the Task...
...been a long, hard struggle, choked full of casualties. The curricular review, in progress since 2002, has devoured with alarming ferocity the various faculty members who have attempted to find a replacement for the outmoded Core Curriculum. It has also managed to outlast both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean and the University president who were its initiators. Talk about staying power...
...vision for undergraduate education to date at last week’s Faculty meeting. Deliberately and thoroughly crafted over the last six months by an elite and semi-secret so-called Task Force on General Education, the proposed new requirements will surely revolutionize the way that oversubscribed, underwhelming Core courses are labelled and described in the course catalogue. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited...
...philosophy behind the Core’s heir presumptive is a staggering departure from the Core’s ethos. It does not attempt to create intellectual breadth by introducing students to major disciplinary “modes of inquiry,” as the Core supposedly does now. Rather, the new general education curriculum strives “to connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard,” focusing on buckets of subject matter rather than on disciplinary approaches to academic problems. In other words, instead of imparting knowledge to make...
...change in the curriculum’s rationale is vital. Under the old Core system, it was never quite clear what precisely was involved in introducing students to “modes of inquiry.” More often than not, Core courses are watered-down introductions to the hyper-esoteric, poorly designed examinations of how disciplines engage with academic problems. This present perversion of the Core’s philosophy has led to courses whose names would suggest an enrollment of just a few sub-sub-specialists attracting hundreds of undergraduates whizzing along this college’s path...