Word: curriculum
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Harvard should abandon the pretentious and lame distinction between Core courses and the rest of the curriculum. Students deserve more opportunity to explore the rich departmental offerings. Right now, fulfilling requirements is just a chore...
SOMETIMES, changes for the better come easily. Even at Harvard. The Standing Committee of the Core Curriculum decided last week to grant Literature and Arts B credit to students who took the earlier incarnation of the Core version of Music 30, "Jazz History for Non-Majors." Taught by Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, the course was designed to serve as an introduction to jazz for non-concentrators...
...course, the more complicated issue is what the "Jazz" flap reveals about Harvard's Core curriculum. Supposedly, the Core curriculum depends upon specially crafted classes, designed to introduce non-concentrators not simply to a given body of knowledge, but rather to the methodolgy of a particular field...
Critics of the Bennett agenda for curriculum reform say that his program represents a return to the ethnocentricity and the narrow-mindedness that prevailed in most college core courses in the humanities half a century ago. Further, they charge, it is as politically motivated as the push for a non-Western curriculum at Stanford which the Secretary condemned...
...that he excludes [from his great books curriculum] the cultural diversity that is the hallmark of modern life," Shattuck said...