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...curricular review in more than 30 years, the Task Force on General Education—headed by Simmons and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand—convened over the summer and completed its 38-page report this October. In contrast to the current Core Curriculum, which emphasizes approaches to academic inquiry, the proposed program connects liberal education to life outside Harvard. “The ambition of the program of general education,” the report reads, “... is to enable undergraduates to put all the learning they are doing...
...this question. It has proposed that the College train students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum’s “approaches to knowledge” in favor of teaching knowledge itself. Methodology, particularly the scientific approach to human society, should play a prominent role in general education...
...Task Force’s turn against methodology may reflect a dissatisfaction with the Core, which, as I am urging, vaunted methods over facts. The Core’s approach to methodology, however, teaches methods via intensive exploration of a single, sometimes narrow topic. The scientific method’s general applicability, however, can be best taught by applying it in a wide range of settings. The Task Force’s emphasis on broader courses that teach a wide range of facts is a step in the right direction, especially if those facts serve to teach the scientific method...
...Republican Party remains at its core a small-government, low-tax, limit-spending, traditional-values, strong-defense party," he says. "I see the power of the ideas, even in a tough year." Friends say Rove plans to lie low in the '08 race until a nominee is clear. Then, whether in or out of government, he will be the connection between the White House and the campaign, refereeing the candidate's needs and Bush...
...current FiCom vice chair and served as the committee’s secretary last semester.Zaidi was visibly involved in getting a month delay before the Malkin Athletic Center closes for renovations beginning this spring, and he has also spoken out on the Curricular Review, particularly to keep the Core Curriculum’s moral reasoning requirement as part of the proposed General Education curriculum. “For the most part, I’m fairly certain that I will seek candidacy in the UC election,” Zaidi says. Sopen B. Shah ’08, who said...