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...hundreds of students who are eager to take such courses. That can only be achieved by a well-articulated, top-down initiative that bears the imprimatur of Larry Summers, Deans William Kirby or Benedict Gross, the so-called “Gang of Five” who overtook the curricular review this past summer, or whoever has the semblance of authority and courage to call the pedagogical shots around here.Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator affiliated with Mather House. His column appears regularly...
...well know, three years ago our Faculty began a comprehensive review of the undergraduate educational experience at Harvard College. In April 2004 the Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review was issued, laying out a series of fundamental recommendations. Over the last year and a half, a further sequence of committees, comprised of faculty and students, have met to review more closely the heart of what we do here...
...that so many colleagues and students have taken part in the Working Groups of our first year and the review committees of the past eighteen months; that faculty and students alike have produced substantial essays on education at Harvard; [2] and that every department and concentration is now discussing curricular renewal...
...political choice and economic uncertainty, of artistic imagination and cultural repression. There is no "one-size-fits-all" educational menu for such alternative futures, nor would one be appropriate for the enormously diverse talents that comprise the student body at Harvard College. Thus, while there are of course many curricular routes to liberal education, the one proposed in these reports sets out a curriculum of choice, incentive, and opportunity more than one of restriction and requirement. It aims to allow our students to shape their education, even as it gives departments and individual faculty greater responsibility in helping to shape...
...doing just that over the next week or so will prove, they haven’t really been taking full advantage. In the midst of all this academic agony, we’re grateful that one thing hasn’t yet changed: our calendar. While the Harvard College Curricular Review was in full swing last year, the consolidation of the schedules of all of Harvard’s nine schools seemed imminent. Four of the schools have their finals before break, and the other five, like the College, hold their finals after break. This calendar disconnect makes it harder...