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...highlights of the undergraduate experience both for the essentialness of the material they cover and the superiority of the instruction they offer. The curricular review ends with a note on trust, saying that it hopes to increase “the trust we place in faculty to develop innovative courses?? and “the trust we place in students that they will choose wisely.” But for this curricular review to be successful, we must first place our trust in Harvard administrators to organize a framework in which the curriculum can flourish...
...best with a two-syllable “haiku” about the Harvard College Courses: “Ka-ching!” In a previous column, I mocked administrators for lacking the creativity to come up with a name more interesting than “Harvard College Courses?? (which would seem to imply that all other courses within the College are not, indeed, Harvard College Courses??perhaps they are just Harvard College courses). Instead, I should have tipped my hat to them for finding a name that will serve as a brilliant marketing device...
With most first-years shuffled into large introductory courses??where personal attention and writing instruction are virtually nonexistent—Expos 20 is a welcome aberration. Since its 1872 inception, the course has allowed first-years to polish their writing skills in a relatively intimate environment; however, more recently, the time-honored program has been met with mixed reviews. Despite its general favorability, many students agree that Expos falls short in several significant ways. The curricular review hopes to fix that, and indeed, the report contains some encouraging proposals. We are optimistic that the next iteration of Harvard?...
Ziolkowski said last night that the introduction of “brand-name courses?? appeared to be motivated by factors other than students’ education...
...report’s vapid section on “Harvard College Courses?? (it’s telling that they couldn’t even come up with a name), the proposed pseudo-replacement for the Core, reads like a bad handbook for elementary school teachers: “A Harvard College Course on world histories might be built around ‘cultures and contacts,’ introducing students to significant moments, from multiple centuries and continents, in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways; it might introduce students to episodes of international trade...