Word: crc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...introduced to "approaches of knowledge that the Faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." The Core fails on its own terms as well as by standards of liberal education. So it is unfortunate-no, it is inexcusable that the recent reform process undertaken by the Core Review Committee (CRC) and headed by University Professor Sidney Verba '53 has failed in its mission to reform the Core...
Departmental bypass are the key element necessary to reform the Core. Even the otherwise-misguided CRC believes they are a good idea. The question, then, is a matter of degree. After a great deal of prompting by students, the CRC has espoused the opinion that the Core program should allow more departmental classes to count for Core requirements so that students are not limited to the meager number of choices that they now have. While we agree that there is a lack of options for students in the current Core program, there is a more substantive reason for allowing...
...most ridiculous thing about the Core program is that it does not allow students to take more substantive and difficult classes than are offered in the Core program even when they want to. The CRC says that departmental courses are too advanced for a novice in the field and that introductory courses are directed at concentrators. To the former claim, may we say that students here are not so stupid as to dive into a course for which they are ill-prepared unless they are willing to put in extra work. To the latter claim, we ask what better...
Beyond the Faculty's nominal concern that students not be smothered by departmental curriculums, the CRC voices qualms that a Core program with departmental bypasses would go the way of the General Education Program. The CRC Working Paper of Feb. 28 states that a Core with departmental bypasses will fail because of "no incentive for faculty to commit to the extra burdens of preparing and teaching Core courses...
...CRC package are even more radical proposals for the Core or other parts of undergraduate requirements that surfaced as part of recent Faculty discussions...