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...voice inside rapidly began rehearsing a litany of soul-searching Carrie Bradshaw-like questions about the intended and unintended consequences of our collective curricular efforts. Is it true, as President Lowell once famously declared, that Harvard freshmen “bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years”? Do we, as faculty, perceive the “spark of creativity” in the students who arrive here, then proceed to “water” it, as he is reputed to have declared at Commencement? Is education...
Emerson, to my mind, got it right. And when I read the January report on “Curricular Renewal in Harvard College,” I was reassured that we were also getting it right. After all, the report called for the creation of new courses in general education that would be “expansive in scope and integrative in approach.” The portal experience, it was emphasized, should be designed to “situate important texts, concepts, and discoveries in the context of larger problems and themes in ways that provide students with...
...Committee on General Education into multiple, concrete pedagogical practices. Once the principles are in place, what incentives do you provide to stimulate the creation of new courses, and how do you ensure that those new courses comply with both the letter and the spirit of the new curricular aspirations...
...have certainty when it comes to the Harvard College Curricular Review, but it is clear that there is lively consensus about the need for courses with interdisciplinary breadth and disciplinary depth, and humanities faculty are eager to teach them...
...with some success through a system of faculty-led tutorial and conference courses; its student-faculty ratio of less than 7 to 1 helps as well. The number of freshman seminars has soared, Harvard is midway through an effort to expand the Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath...