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Despite the significant changes that the curricular review will mandate, the proposal for a new curriculum will highly endorse the existing Freshman Seminar program—and perhaps require that all first-years participate...
...many fine points to a Harvard education. But it could certainly be better. (My half-hour of “Jeopardy!” every afternoon is often more intellectually enlightening—and almost always more enjoyable—than my daily hour of section.) With the ongoing curricular review, Harvard has a real chance to improve the standard of its undergraduate education by removing a few of the myriad academic hoops students currently have to jump through and, in the process, putting the focus back on high-quality work rather than high-quantity. Right now, in other words...
...this point. University President Lawrence H. Summers was prompted to comment at the time that teaching quality in general “certainly could be better” at the College—and then do nothing concrete about the general malaise. All students have gotten is a curricular review with no visible results to date, save a few ponderous dialogues...
That’s “if we’re lucky.” If we’re unlucky, the curricular review will be overtaken by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ perennial refrain for science education—specifically, as he put it in his inaugural, that undergraduates should be able to “know a gene from a chromosome or the meaning of exponential growth.” What’s missing in this hollow rhetoric about the sciences is any real discussion of what science education consists...
...very structure of the curricular review process invites this reluctance to engage on serious levels with the intellectual ideas and concepts that face academia. A closed, unwelcoming, thoroughly unexciting process is not very likely to produce an exciting, revolutionary idea. Note that nothing has been accomplished beyond a short “interim report” memo from Gross and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, which merely outlined in superficial terms some of the questions that face the curricular review—including the obvious and uninspired (“communities of learning...