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There’s nothing micro about the introductory microeconomics course Social Analysis 10. With 965 undergraduates enrolled in it this semester, the Core course better known as “Ec 10” is Harvard’s largest class—and it’s 42 percent larger than last year...
Critics of this curricular review’s earlier plans to replace the Core with broad distribution requirements said that Harvard was simply following in the footsteps of other Ivy League schools. Now, by moving to become the only Ivy that requires its undergrads to study religion and American history, Harvard is finding a new path...
According to the Student Handbook, the goal of the Core is to “broaden each student’s perspective.” Now perhaps, the Core Office must broaden its own perspective, which, after having been around for 24 years, should have evolved its practices to the point of accommodating common sense...
...most important thing is for the Core Office to be more flexible and stop making petty distinctions between classes. Why, after all, is English 151, “The 19th-Century Novel” somehow worthy of Core credit, while English 141, “The 18th-Century Novel,” is not? And it is absolutely baffling why a person who has taken five English literature classes must be compelled to do another in order to fulfill a requirement in Literature and Arts C, whatever that...
Only a radical change at the Core Office can help the transition to better, broader requirements altogether. We look forward to the new report of the General Education Committee, which, we hope, will hopefully overthrow the tyranny of the Core. Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House. Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Eliot House...