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Each panelist addressed the packed Thompson Room with ideas pertaining to their designated theme—either “What We Teach,” “Culture, Economy, and the Curriculum?? or “The Students We Teach...
Addressing the conflict between schools’ role in educating citizens and multiculturalist demands for diversity, sociologist Nathan Glazer posed this question in his book We Are All Multiculturalists Now: “Groups, racial and ethnic, and women want to see themselves in the curriculum??But what will this emphasis on multiculturalism, on ‘recognition,’ do to our efforts to teach our children truth and the best way to reach it, to promote American unity, to encourage civic harmony...
Topics under consideration will run the gamut from finding a balance between academics and extracurriculars, to determining how best to teach the sciences; from fostering greater faculty-student contact to figuring out what to do with the much-debated Core curriculum??the establishment of which was the cornerstone of the last curricular review...
Today, Harvard sits on the brink of yet another major curricular review. A central aspect under examination will be the Core Curriculum??and whether the requirements developed 25 years ago are still the most appropriate method of ensuring breadth in the Harvard education. And as professors and students prepare to get the upcoming review off the ground, many wonder whether answering this question will be as contentious...
...incorporating the arts into Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum might change the character of art production and its quality. He worries that increasing the arts component of the curriculum might steer students away from meaningful and exciting extracurricular activities. And there are practical difficulties in changing the curriculum??like recruiting world-class professionals to serve on the faculty...