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...life,” wrote educational philosopher John Dewey in 1907, “and all studies are of necessity correlated.”In 2006, the Harvard Task Force on General Education, a small committee chosen to rethink last year’s General Education proposal regarding the Core curriculum, wrote on page four of their preliminary report, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the liberal arts and sciences relates to their lives.”While no Opal Mehta, the 2006 General Education...
...Rich’s verdict? Like most Broadway productions today, the administration’s PR machine is full of glitz, lights, and spectacle, but at its core, it’s shallow, empty, deceiving and plays, for an unwitting and brainless audience...
Twenty-seven years after the Core Curriculum burst onto the stage of higher education to cheers and high acclaim, it is about to be booed off. Yet it would be foolish to birth a new general education curriculum in isolation; the Core’s record must be carefully considered, lest the new system repeat its flaws. Change must begin with a fundamental shift in the Core’s administrative structure. Currently, a distinct lack of discerning judgment and capacity for constructive criticism plagues the Core’s current stewards: the Faculty’s Core Standing Committee...
...ways of understanding and portraying humanity, so directly studying different forms of portrayals is as, if not more, important than learning the skills needed to analyze them.Such a scheme will not be hard to implement; in fact, it already exists at the College. For all its faults, the current Core Curriculum casts a sharp and sensible distinction between the Literature and Arts A and B categories. Literature and Arts A courses are concerned with the analysis of literary texts, while Literature and Arts B courses examine non-literary forms of art. The best way to instruct undergraduates in literature...
Instead of more bureaucratic distinction-making, the College should keep the general education requirement divided into eleven core areas but stop dictating a small list of classes that fulfill them. A class that examines literature should count for Literature and Arts A; likewise, a class that studies the behavior of people and institutions should count as Social Analysis. The Core was created for students, not students for the Core. Ultimately, only students have a stake in their own liberal education, and because of this, it should be the students who have the power...