Word: coring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devoting time and effort to the development of new Cores which students will find truly interesting, along with constant review and even elimination of less popular Core courses, the directors of the Core Curriculum can achieve a more evenly balanced program that will fulfill its original purpose: to give Harvard students valuable and interesting exposure to the major areas of study outside their fields of concentration...
...faulty reasoning taking place here becomes evident after scanning a small red pamphlet entitled, "Introduction to the Core Curriculum: A Guide for Freshmen." In particular, the guide states that "by design Core courses are different from those offered by the departments" and that "in choosing Core courses you should, at an early date, take courses in one or more of the subdivisions [of the Core] that seem most remote from your present interests...
...this is truly the case, then why does it seem that Core professors, when forced to choose among students, tend to select the ones that are looking for Cores related to their concentrations? The answer is unclear...
...Music Graeme Boone limited the enrollment in "Jazz" to 400, he gave preference to juniors and seniors, which is the only sensible way to run a lottery. But the fact that students swarmed to a slightly modified version of an introductory level departmental course reflects badly on the Core as a whole. It indicates that Core courses are not as different "by design" as Core officials had hoped they would...
WHAT, then, can the Core do to eliminate the massive overcrowding which strikes both individual courses and entire Core subdivisions, notably the current offerings in Lit. and Arts...