Word: curriculum
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...could possibly prefer Chem 20 to "the major religious and philosophical conceptions of man"? In the abstract, it is very hard to criticize the liberal values of the Core Curriculum proposal. Everyone agrees that pre-professionalism is a bad thing, and the ideals of a liberal arts education--the inculcation of moral values, an introduction to the history of culture--sound very noble. Liberal arts humanism seems so superior to pre-professional narrowness that the few course requirements in the Core proposal seem quite reasonable...
...closely. In 1949, when Gen Ed became a regular part of education at Harvard, students were required to take three lower level Gen Ed courses. The distribution requirement had to be filled by taking middle group or departmental courses. The 1949 system was essentially the same as the Core Curriculum that is now being debated: students were permitted a limited choice of courses in a few prescribed areas, except that in 1949 there were three areas while the current proposal calls for five...
...curriculum report will go to the printer this week and copies will be distributed within a week or ten days...
...Faculty Council voted yesterday to release the draft proposal of the new core curriculum to the full Faculty and the press after making minor changes in its content...
Yesterday's meeting was the first time the Faculty Council has discussed the core curriculum proposals. The Council also began debate over how best to implement the proposals if they are approved by the full Faculty...