Word: coreness
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...committee of professors released its final report on general education today, setting the stage for a Faculty vote to replace the Core with a curriculum that emphasizes the real-world context of a liberal arts education...
...wanted ethical reasoning to be a more inclusive, or a more expansive, category than the current 'Moral Reasoning' requirement," Simmons said, referring to a category in the present Core...
Before facing a dizzying array of problem sets, response papers, and midterm examinations, Harvard undergraduates face shopping week woes: which courses to shop, which Core requirements to fulfill, how to balance extracurricular commitments with heavy course loads. And then, of course, there is book shopping. Harvard professors, it seems, have a particular ability for picking expensive and hard-to-find textbooks for their reading lists. Students gripe that many professors require such books that they end up using very little. The Harvard Square-based Coop, in name a cooperative but managed by Barnes and Noble since 1996, has long...
...Mercedes to think of) and in the answering adrenal bursts of the Israeli soldiers scarcely older than the stone throwers. Maybe this time the shabab would disperse before the soldiers' charge. Perhaps some would be caught and beaten, or hit by rubber bullets (rubber, that is, with a core of steel). Tear gas might be fired. Someone might get shot, and killed. Tradition draws upon tradition. The uprising in the territories, deep into its fourth month, has its violent patterns by now, action and reaction, provocation...
Second, the faculty and program administrators should take mercy on students seeking to satiate their curiosity while still meeting requirements and navigating bureaucracy. Currently, only one course that counts for secondary field credit is allowed to be “double-counted” to fulfill a Core requirement. Although we agree that a secondary field should be a major intellectual effort, the current no-exceptions policy is unnecessarily constraining. A more judicious system would allow for credit petitions, which, given the resources being devoted to implementing secondary fields, seems feasible...