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...curricular review on hold until a new Dean of the Faculty has been appointed is erroneous for a number of reasons.First, we believe that the core of the review—the proposal to replace the current Core Curriculum with broader distribution requirements and optional broad foundational courses??€”would substantially benefit undergraduates. If it is approved this spring, it should apply retroactively to the Class of 2007 and subsequent graduating classes, so current students can use departmental courses to round out the last of their distribution requirements. Undergraduates must be freed from the shackles of the Core...
...time again, we have endorsed the recommendations of the Committee on General Education, which call for the replacement of the current Core Curriculum’s 11 areas with three broader distribution requirements in the arts and humanities, study of societies, and science and technology that include all courses??€”no matter if they are introductory Core-like courses or upper-level departmental courses. We are confident that future classes will benefit from the new system once the Faculty will approves it in due time. Current students, however, are bound by the strict requirements of the Core, and particularly...
...RateMyProfessors has attracted over five million postings and may be used by some students when selecting courses??€”especially at schools that do not publish official internal ratings such as Harvard’s Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide...
...instance, Russell embarked on lengthy comparisons to the Talmud and the Hadith. Students are mercifully relegated to the role of interlocutor, and even then, Russell shows no hesitation with swooping down, fatherly, to clarify and make pronouncements outright.In a land of facilitators, Russell is one of those rare educators.The courses??€™ workload and Russell are not for everyone—although that matters little since 80 percent of applicants were turned away, and upperclassmen have no chance of enrolling at all. One of the larger ironies of Harvard’s free range education, where students may roam...
While the course could provide a useful model for the creation of future courses??€”both in the sciences and in other disciplines—the resources required for numerous similar courses could prove daunting...