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...offered based on the fancies of the faculty—is to set a dangerous precedent. Inevitably, there will always be courses that are less interesting to teach than others; for obvious reasons, many faculty members prefer to teach courses in their niches. But these preferences do not excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary foundational knowledge. History 10a aims to be “a survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.” Most students entering the College have had little formal exposure to such comprehensive...
This seems to be a pretty obvious tenet for general education, but you’d be hard pressed to find this view articulated in the pages of the final report of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). The burden of this ongoing curricular review lies on the shoulders of the Faculty, whose enthusiasm and care for research and education must outlast the students who cycle in and out of this College in rapid succession. But why would Sandel, a leading member of the HCCR’s Committee on General Education, articulate this now, three years after the review?...
...that University President Lawrence H. Summers is on his way out, one would hope that the secret meetings to determine the course of the curricular review and to discuss concerns about Summers would be things of the past. Instead, faculty members seem unable (or unwilling) to articulate their actual grievances with Summers or explain the motivation behind the HCCR. In lieu of clarity, we have closed door sessions; instead of open discussion of the troubles facing the Faculty, we have accusations of anti-Semitism...
...effort to move curricular review forward, Cabot House Master and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris spoke in favor of allowing more departmental courses to count for Core credit at Tuesday’s full faculty meeting. The meeting revealed that “there seemed to be two different ways of approaching” general education reform, with one group calling for further discussion and another calling for progress this year, Ryan said...
...votes on any aspect of the curricular review are expected for next week’s meeting of the full Faculty...