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Malkin reserves the most praise for the General Education courses, which he says “gave every Harvard student some shared intellectual experience....It was about exploring and understanding value systems.” He has kept up with the developments of the recent curricular review at Harvard, and he suggests that the University consider reimposing some kind of intellectual or academic experience which each student can share with every member of his or her Class...
...important cornerstone of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s developing vision for undergraduate education is that each student be supported and encouraged in planning his or her own “international experience.” The Curricular Review’s most recent report stresses the need for “global competency” and a more thorough understanding of cultures and societies that are not our own. If the College plans to seriously pursue this expectation it is essential that Harvard provide as diverse a set of opportunities and destinations as possible. While the report...
Mendelsohn said that the curricular review, the implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, and Allston development will rank among the council’s highest priorities next year...
...Harvard College Curricular Review. Quelle dommage. The latest reports from the committees are pretty gutless, and they certainly don’t reflect a consistent or even compellingly inconsistent vision for undergraduate education. The more drastic proposals include a requirement that every undergraduate have an “international experience” with or without the proper language and culture training one needs to make it worthwhile. Indeed, “international experience,” it seems, can mean interning in an air-conditioned glass-and-steel office building in London over one summer. Now that?...
Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, director of Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and chair of the curricular review’s task force on international education, declined to comment Friday. Jane Edwards, director of Harvard’s Office of International Programs, could not be reached over the weekend...