Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program takes over completely. Until then the class of '82 will have to meet the non-concentration requirements of the Gen Ed program, while at the same time many of those very courses are being phased out of existence to make way for the much-ballyhooed Core Curriculum. It's sort of like burying the body before it's even cold--but then again, nobody ever said funerals were...
...harken back to a happier time, if only for explantation's sake. In the 1940s then-President James B. Conant '14 initiated a reform of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum; his subsequent report, "General Education in a Free Society," eventually led to the adoption of a set of requirements that each student would have to take, in addition to courses in his or her concentration. The scheme was simple, at least on the surface: the range of disciplines was divided into the Social Sciences. Natural Sciences and Humanities (affectionately known as Soc Sci, Nat Sci and Hum), with the Committee...
That was when the gloves came off. The Task force's report set in motion the two-year sequence of events that culminated in last spring's Faculty vote to replace Gen Ed with a more detailed Core Curriculum. Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the architect of the Core proposal, calls the curriculum reform "an attempt to redirect the attention of the Faculty to the concerns of undergraduates"; others, such as Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, termed it "a return to 1953 General Education," nothing more than a stiffening of existing requirements...
...Core committees can experiment with various options and modify the basic proposal. Calling the Faculty's vote authorizing the Core plan "an IOU from the Faculty to the students," he makes it clear that the obligation will be fully repaid only when Harvard undergraduates have a completely revamped curriculum. It is a debt that the dean will go to great lengths to honor
...human imagination. The germinal public schools were founded in the Dark Ages, and then stayed rooted there well into this century. Originally extensions of churches and monasteries, set up to train some boys as choristers and others as clergy, the schools were anachronistic by the 16th century. Their curriculum consisted of little but the classics, drilled by rote into chilled, hungry, stupefied boys...