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...core, and history courses are required of many humanities and social sciences concentrators. Although visiting professors may be able to prevent the number of course offerings from slipping significantly, students will hesitate to enroll in classes where they are unfamiliar with the professor and cannot rely on the CUE guide or word-of-mouth recommendations. In addition, students will miss out on opportunities to take classes from some of Harvard’s most renowned scholars, including College Professor William E. Gienapp, who teaches a popular course on baseball in American society, and Professor James T. Kloppenberg, who specializes...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) first considered this proposal in 1997, and last week the committee took up the issue once again. As Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said, “We should do this and get it over with.” Every year that passes without reducing the Core’s burden on students forces more students to take watered-down courses often short on substance...
...proposal has caused a split amongst faculty on the CUE. Many feel that the reduction may weaken the Core’s ability to achieve its central goal of exposing students to multiple disciplines. However, allowing departments to choose one additional Core exemption for its concentrators will not significantly narrow students’ academic experience; most departments touch on more than three of the broad Core areas anyway...
Giving students one additional space in their schedules would be good, but as some members of the CUE admit, it does not solve any of the larger problems with the Core. Any substantive Core reform must address the severe lack of course offerings in several Core areas as well as the Core’s increasingly apparent inability to achieve its mission, though only the abolishment of the Core and the institution of a distribution requirement would eliminate the problems the Core creates...
...staff admits that the reduction of the Core requirement from eight to seven courses would not solve the greater problem of the Core curriculum. However, they also myopically endorse, out of pure dislike for the current Core program, this proposed step of the CUE to reduce required Core classes. The staff misunderstands the consequence of both this proposed change and their ultimate goal, an overhaul of the Core curriculum. With either action, students would presumably not take those classes most removed from their concentration and instead only take electives pertaining to their known interests. By failing to recognize that...