Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Core Curriculum is bursting its seams, serving 6000 more students with 40 percent fewer courses than its six-year-old plan calls for, professors and administrators said this week...
Students trying to fulfill their distribution requirements amid a complex system of lotteries and limited offerings wind up in a few large courses, they said. This semester, eight of the 10 largest courses are in the Core...
...program must persuade more senior faculty members to teach the courses, Core Curriculum Director Susan W. Lewis said last week...
...When the Core was created, nobody thought it would be as big as this," said Lewis. The new courses were originally expected to attract about 10,000 students a year, she said. But today, upwards of 16,000 enroll in Core courses each year...
...adds that she views her concentration as "all electives--there's no 'They say I have to take it.'" Nonetheless, no one-not even a special concentrator--is so special as to be exempt from the Core. "But," she added, "I made up my own exemptions...