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“Our responsibility therefore is to educate students for a world that in many ways is ‘globalizing,’ but which is a world of still different, and changing, cultures and civilization,” Kirby wrote. “Should we not expect...
If students have the option of studying their own cultures to fulfill the Foreign Cultures requirement, I had to question the point of Foreign Cultures. After flipping through a nearby 2003-2004 Courses of Instruction book, I learned that one of the goals of the Foreign Cultures requirements is to...
Yet, despite the fact that 7.1 percent of the Class of 2007 is, in fact, “foreign” according to the admissions office—meaning that they are not from the United States or Canada— and that 34.9 percent other students identify themselves as...
Although Susan Lewis, director of the Core Program, pointed out that minority students could very well have not gained any exposure to their parents’ or grandparents’ cultures while growing up, it is unfair to assume so. Yet the title “Foreign Cultures?...
Perhaps the Foreign Cultures component of the Core Program is well-intentioned—considering it was created in the 1970s in order to expose a more homogeneous student body to non-Western ways of life—however it may be time for a bit of modification. While its...