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Chair of the General Education Standing Committee Jay M. Harris presented an update on curricular reform at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), highlighting a new strategy for course development that will use graduate seminars as vehicles for planning future undergraduate courses...
...seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence” in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...This sort of insecurity might trail after any period of flux, but it must be accompanied by a resolute show of good faith in the system to which we are transitioning. If current underclassmen and incoming freshmen are to be confronted with an unstable curricular landscape at large, then the College should at least maximize the number of departmental courses that count for Core credit. Students should not be impeded on the road to graduation by the insistence that every course accepted for Core credit meet bureaucratic and rigid guidelines fixed by faculty legislation–regulations which provoked much...
...admissions information is simply appalling. This is hardly the time for faculty and administrators to hide tumult under the guise of calm: A transitional plan should be articulated before the student body, without a moment’s hesitation on questions of academic eligibility or distinct curricular options...
Considering the College is in the throes of a curricular transition, however, these efforts to get professors to proactively apply for Core credit have proved inadequate. Students should be given more options, rather than feel limited to the narrowing constraints of a failing program. It is especially disconcerting that only nine Core courses have been approved to double-count for Gen Ed credit for the next academic year. This is hardly accommodating. No wonder Gen Ed Committee Chair Jay M. Harris is insistent that the Class of 2012 not get too caught up next year trying to fulfill their requirements...