Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undergraduates probably noticed as the 13-odd Gen Ed courses--once the staple of a Harvard education--became an academic frill. This is because nearly all Harvard students have known only Gen Ed's successor, the highly touted Core Curriculum, which entered the course guide seven years...
...other Gen Ed classes have seen their enrollment dwindle since the Core debuted in 1978. Professors in some of these courses say the death of the Gen Ed requirement is to blame, and some have said they will try to muscle their courses into the prosperous Core...
...they have yet to define the political and economic structure they seek in its stead. "The Chinese are not sure where they are going," says a Western economist who has served as a consultant in Peking. "There seems to be no overall plan." Deng's goal, pragmatic to the core, is to pursue whatever makes China strong...
...really say it's a collection of eager first-year students mingling and getting to know each other. That would be called a core class...
Down beneath the Science Center, between maintenance shops and the closed doors of laboratories, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, who co-teaches the overcrowded core course "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilizations: Japan"--commonly known as "Rice Paddies"--glances over his notes before entering the lecture hall...