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Kirby also reprised the progress of the curricular review, which began in the first year of his term. The review has led to Faculty approval of a semester delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields, but professors are still far from agreement on the shape of the review’s centerpiece—the next system of general education and the future of the Core Curriculum...
...editors: The Crimson editorial of May 2, “Gov 97b, Good Riddance,” came as no surprise to the department of government. This year, in anticipation of curricular review changes in the timing of declarations of concentration, our tutorial office ran a comprehensive survey of the tutorial. The responses from our concentrators were detailed and enlightening, and in many cases sobering. With the help of our undergraduate committee, we are now reviewing Gov 97 and proposing radical changes. We will preserve the elements that students appreciate: attention to writing and analysis, a mix of great books...
...declare a secondary field retroactively. Departments have the final say in determining whether next year’s seniors will be able to declare a secondary field in the spring, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. The full Faculty approved the Curricular Review legislation to implement secondary fields a month ago.Secondary fields will not appear on diplomas but will appear on transcripts, according to Assistant Dean of Harvard College Stephanie H. Kenen.Some graduate programs—which are not available as undergraduate concentrations—will also propose secondary fields for undergraduates.Seventeen concentrations...
...autonomy.” The motion, put forward by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, would mandate that all courses of five or more students be evaluated for the annual guide published by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE).The Faculty Council and a curricular review committee have both supported mandating course evaluations, noting that they serve as crucial report cards for both professors and teaching fellows. According to Gross, about 60 professors opted out of the CUE Guide process last semester, leaving more than 230 TFs without evaluations.But at the beginning of full Faculty...
...since the early 1980s, is that students are only offered a limited number of courses in each of the Core’s 11 areas. As a result, students cannot take more advanced departmental courses, even if they have the appropriate preparation—a criticism acknowledged by the Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. For example, students can take Quantitative Reasoning 20, “Computers and Computing,” to fulfill a Core requirement, but they cannot take the more advanced Computer Science 51, “Introduction to Computer Science...