Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials at Barnard said that the incentive for the new program. Which also includes a mandatory freshman seminar emphasizing women's studies did not come from models such as Harvard Core...
...faculty of Barnard College in New York City voted to institute a new set of curriculum reforms which includes a required course in mathematics or quantitative reasoning, similar in purpose to the quantitative reasoning course offered under Harvard's Core Curriculum...
...Dean Rosovsky and the Harvard Faculty think that the Core of a liberal education is learning techniques? It is precisely techniques, methods of inquiry, habit of thought that define academic disciplines and disciplines define university departments. By giving students a core of techniques, the "core" curriculum is introducing them to the methods of the departmental scholar, not providing a liberal education. The Harvard Core has not wrestled general education away from the influence of specialized disciplines, which Dean Rosovsky warned would make a long-term commitment to general education "much more difficult." In fact the Core has simply re-defined...
...succinctly: The Harvard "core" curriculum is no curriculum at all. As a neighboring liberal arts institution 1947 curricular reform report put it: "It is the function of a liberal college to require at least an intelligent consideration of a few of the fields of knowledge which the college, by the fact of its teaching them, has market as significant." Such marking requires that the Faculty define a hierarchy, establish educational priorities, make a judgement on what is fundamentally important for an educated American and what is secondary or important for the specialized scholar. The Harvard Faculty finds doing this...
Does this arrangement cause Dean Rosovsky less to worry whether Harvard graduates are educated? Does the Core curriculum as it is presently conceived fulfill Dean Rosovsky's two objectives for a liberal arts curriculum? Unfortunately. Harvard's Core curriculum has betrayed liberal arts education transforming it into technical training. The Core leaves students masters of scholarly techniques and habits but devoid of the spirit for intellectual inquiry into their human condition. Only by re-instituting a real "core" curriculum--against powerful departmental interests--can liberal education become a reality at Harvard again...