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...committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) march to the beat of a very, very slow drummer. As shopping period races by, the Core Standing Committee and the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) have failed to keep pace, leaving students to suffer in the confusion of mixed tempos. Despite the promise that accompanied announcements of a secondary fields program and Humanities General Education courses, the disorganized implementation of curricular reform has made this shopping period a particularly chaotic...
This semester’s fourth humanities course, Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” and all of the Humanities courses planned for the spring will be considered for core bypass status by the appropriate committees in the coming weeks, Knowles added...
...Core Office directed questions yesterday to Core Program Director Susan W. Lewis, who could not be reached for comment...
Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, one of the instructors of Humanities 10, said yesterday that while the Humanities courses don’t fit exactly into the standard model for core courses, current undergraduates need new core options until a full replacement for the core can be established in the coming years...
...Humanities] courses don’t fit very cleanly into the core categories because they are interdisciplinary,” Menand said...