Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SHOPPING period is over, and you're settled into your classes. There are probably three courses you really want to take and then that omnipresent ball and chain around the leg of the Harvard student, the Core you know you need...
Students had been denied the retroactive credit at first, even though the new Core version uses two of the same principal texts of the Music Department's offering. The courses were so similar, in fact, that students who had taken Jazz I were not allowed to take the new Core version...
...after students brought their grievances, and only a little bit of hemming and hawing, the Core committee and the dean acknowledged their error and corrected it. It was really that simple...
...course, the more complicated issue is what the "Jazz" flap reveals about Harvard's Core curriculum. Supposedly, the Core curriculum depends upon specially crafted classes, designed to introduce non-concentrators not simply to a given body of knowledge, but rather to the methodolgy of a particular field...
Departmental offerings that meet the Core's goals, like "Jazz," are probably not uncommon, and the Core committee should be more willing to grant Core status to many interesting departmental offerings that otherwise would not attract non-concentrators...