Word: curriculum
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Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core Curriculum, says the report was "very flattering," despite its criticisms. "Of course I think it's right," she says...
...fact, Lewis says she was surprised the evaluating committee did not produce more negative comments on the curriculum. "It was interesting to me that they didn't come up with other things. They spent a very substantial fraction of their time actually focusing on issues related to the Core...
...report's most pressing curricular concern is the failure of the QRR and the absence of mathematical instruction in the Core Curriculum. "The current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline," the report reads...
These mathematical shortcomings in Harvard's curriculum affect the teaching of science, Gray says, because such expertise cannot be assumed. "Some of the noted authorities in scientific fields [at Harvard] felt that what they could offer non-majors within the Core was greatly inhibited," she says...
...Herrnstein says he sees a related problem in the Core Curriculum. "It's struggle," he says, to get senior faculty to offer courses to non-concentrators. "The older the Core gets, the more routine it becomes. I think it will get harder and harder." Herrnstein says...