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...Commencement address, University President Lawrence H. Summers acknowledged the “contradictory themes” driving the then-fledgling Harvard College Curricular Review. He pointed to a fundamental tension between the desire to give students “greater flexibility in choosing courses?? and the goal of providing them with foundational knowledge in topics such as history, literature, and science...
...central component” of the new general education requirement. The report, however, recommended that students be able to rely on departmental courses to fulfill all of their requirements if they wished, in contradiction with the “central” nature of the foundational courses??—which would be offered outside of departments...
...called Gang of Five, meeting clandestinely over the summer, has brought a sense of reason to the process that only a junta can. But will promised “portal” courses be any less vapid than the pipe dream of “Harvard College Courses?? promised to be? Will they be mandatory and well-taught, or merely a re-christening of things we already have, with the added dignity of being recognized, rather meaninglessly, as foundational but only recommended...
...abyss, either. Where the Review has decided that there should be fewer required areas in our Ged Ed—three according to the working “Gang of Five” report, only two required, for a total of six or four half-courses, depending on the courses??it wouldn’t be unreasonable to cut the required number of Core courses for each undergrad to five. The College could encourage professors to devise pilot courses now, with the ideals of the new curriculum in mind, and test them out as Cores. The College could...
Professors were enthusiastic about the courses?? potential to improve the course sequences for science concentrators, but others expressed worry that the courses might not be accessible for non-concentrators...