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...time to embrace, not retreat from the arts.” Some of the proposals in the Task Force’s report—such as increasing the presence of public art on campus and increasing the integration of the arts into our curriculum??should be implemented as soon as possible. In light of the push for more collective social space that serves the student body, there should be more on-campus art exhibitions. The student body would also benefit from more visiting artists and artists-in-residence. An emphasis on teaching and interaction with undergraduates...
...from getting too dull. The sound is thoroughly Californian, and lo and behold, Dennen hails from Oakdale, Calif. To his credit, he has done extensive work with The Mosaic Project, a San Francisco-based non-profit that educates children on diversity. He even made an album of music-related curriculum??“Children’s Songs for Peace and a Better World”—for them. And given his seven-year-old’s mentality, it’s easy to see how he could relate. “Hope...
...first to be approved for the new General Education curriculum. “We want students in their liberal arts education to really learn things that are going to reflect who they are as people,” said Stephanie H. Kenen, the General Education curriculum??s administrative director. “What better can you ask for than a class that asks people to think of themselves as an embodied person and what it means...
...hallmark of a Harvard education, it is argued, is its commitment to a liberal arts curriculum??one that is not wedded to preprofessional or vocational utility, but the development of the well-rounded individual. In the words of the Final Report of the Task Force on General Education (Gen Ed), a liberal arts education aims to “unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” To that end, the new program...
...Core Curriculum??s five-year review approaches, it may seem that the Faculty, the University community in general, and a good portion of the national press have already said all there is to say about Harvard’s grand educational experiment. This satiation must not dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments. We have long maintained that...