Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program was introduced, we saw ourselves only temporarily involved in an international conflict, and it wasn't until later that we saw that we were going to be increasingly and permanently involved in a more and more interdependent series of countries that made an emphasis in the Core Curriculum along these lines more necessary...
...media--and I'm excluding The Crimson--has trumpeted the Core as a back to-basics program. Would...
...term that I certainly wouldn't want to say that's all it is. I think to most people, back-to-basics connotes a kind of remedial education, or a kind of drill on the fundamentals. I don't think that's a very good description of what the Core is trying to do. What the Core is attempting to do is to define the most important elements of the liberal education, the most important intellectual skills and the most important ways and methods of apprehending the important areas of human experience, and make sure that everything in the Core...
FACULTY MEMBERS often point to the passage of the Core Curriculum as evidence of their commitment to undergraduate education. Supporting a stronger tutorial program would be a more convincing display of that commitment...
With the institution of the much-vaunted Core Curriculum and some Faculty struggles to reform tutorials, the University may be headed for even more change. Still, critics both inside and out of Harvard called the changes cosmetic, and urged more progressive measures...