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...Interdisciplinarity” is in many ways an inflated term. It has been bombarding the ears of undergraduates since last year’s report on the Harvard College Curricular Review, which emphasized fewer concentration requirements for students and more opportunity to explore different areas. As one of few schools requiring a concentration choice at the end of freshman year, Harvard has always emphasized specialized study over general academic work...
Harvard does harbor a minority of distinctly interdisciplinary concentrations, but these programs are not run by tenured, departmental faculty members. Rather, they are the province of graduate students and young academics. By contrast, the curricular review seeks to make general the connections between diverse disciplines. This would mean encouraging professors to create courses that draw on a variety of academic traditions and to guide their students to write senior theses that refuse to conform to one category of scholarship. Yet it seems clear that this cannot happen if professors themselves do not start to think more flexibly about what...
Glazer will be circulating the report to the faculty and administrators involved in the Curricular Review, including University President Lawrence H. Summers. The Committee on General Education is scheduled to meet tomorrow...
This report is the first stage of the UC’s agenda for critiquing the Curricular Review. According to Glazer, the UC will produce a report on every committee involved in the Curricular Review by the end of the semester...
...also passed legislation allocating $400 to create a website with the hopes of encouraging students to express their opinion on the Curricular Review. The website will include discussion boards, surveys, and information about the Curricular Review...