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There seem to be two substantive ways in which the program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum has chosen the first course. It proposes that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, nonwestern cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...
...dean's annual report to his faculty and a special task force report on basic curriculum requirements at Harvard both offer suggestions on how to re-establish that possibility. Among the recommendations: students should have an "informed acquaintance" with mathematical and experimental methods of the natural sciences, the main forms of analysis used in modern social sciences, the major religious and philosophical conceptions of man and "some understanding of, and experience in thinking about" moral and ethical problems...
James Q. Wilson and his task force on core curriculum started with the premise that General Education needs to be changed. But the task force has arrived at a conclusion that stands greatly at increasing liberalization. Instead of recommending that the now relatively meaningless requirements be scrapped in favor of a system that would advise students to take courses deemed worthy of a General Education, it has suggested that a series of restrictions be imposed that would force students to take a limited number of offerings in seven fields...
...Faculty adopts the logic of the task force report and insists on imposing required courses, the suggested courses in the report should be rethought. The core curriculum task force would have done well to understand that there are many students who are thrilled to leave the sciences behind them in high school. These students will do anything to avoid the rigorous type of science courses that the task force recommends. Unless Wilson also intends to be the policeman for these offerings, it will not take students long to spot the least scientific offering and flood it. Such a path seems...
Wilson heads the task force on core curriculum which recently recommended the replacement of Natural Science, Humanities and Social Science General Education groupings with a more restrictive program of required liberal arts courses outside the area of concentration...