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...problems of the Core are not only related to the redundance of its humanities requirements. The Science requirement, too, has drawbacks. Both of the subgroups deal only with physical world and how it works. Science A courses are designed to "introduce students to areas of science dealing primarily with deductive and quantitative aspects and to increase the student's understanding of the physical world." The Science B requirement is meant to "provide a general understanding of science as a way of looking at man and the world by introducing students to complex natural systems with a substantial historical or evolutionary...
...Core Science requirement includes no courses teaching a technological approach, evidenced by the lack of any courses in the Applied Sciences. Now, no one challenges the merits of understanding the world around us, but nowhere in the Core is there any treatment of sciences derived from human inventions, such as Engineering or Computer Science...
Computer Science is probably the best example. There is no theoretical reason why CS 10 and CS 11 should not be included in the Core, the reasons for which this has not been done are primarily logistical Modular algorithmic thinking is a concept which can be applied easily to solving any scientific or humanistic problem. A huge problem is broken down into smaller problems, which are in turn broken down into tiny problems, which theoretically solve themselves. Instead of examining isolated events or phenomena as part of a general trend or linking them as illustrations of a broader theory...
...UNDERGRADUATE Council has been debating the issue for quite some time now. According to Jeffrey M. Rosen '86, co-chairman of the Academics Committee and one of two student representatives to the Standing Committee on the Core, a little known fact is that when the Core Program was originally outlined, there was to be a third Science subgroup, to include Math and Computer Science. But, says Rosen, "in all the politicking, the Science people lost out to the Humanitarians...
Rosen and his colleagues conducted an extensive study last year on the strengths and weaknesses of the Science requirement of the Core. They found that of the students polled, over 80 percent of non-Science concentrators and a majority of Science concentrators would like to see Computer Sciences in the Core...