Word: cores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hundreds flocked into Science Center C during shopping period for the first lecture of Science A-39: "Time," a Core course offered for the first time this year. Attracted by a seemingly light workload, many non-science concentrators registered for the course, only to find now, halfway through the semester, that Science A-39 is taking up much more time than they imagined...
...been a common phenomenon in the history of the Core: students register for core courses expecting guts, only to be confounded by hundreds of pages of reading, multiple problem sets and unexpectedly complicated theories each week. But this year, the problem seems endemic. Once passable courses like Literature & Arts B-51: "First Nights" are toughening their standards...
Chen said the increased stringency of First Nights may reflect and effort to strengthen all courses on the part of the Core Committee...
...teaching fellows for the courses said the Core has always aimed to challenge students within the program, and that this year is no exception...
...Some people think [the Core] should be [easier], but I don't know that that is a goal of the Core necessarily," said Jane K. Cramer, a teaching assistant for Historical Studies A-51: "Modern World Economy...