Word: curriculum
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Henry Rosovsky, the flamboyant and outspokenformer dean of the Faculty, guided FAS through thechanges of the 1970s and masterminded the creationof the Core Curriculum--an innovation which drewnational attention to Harvard's undergraduateprogram...
...although the course catalogue describes History 1a and 1b as the normal point of entry for concentrators it is still not a requirement. And Harvard's Core Curriculum, introduced in 1979, is designed to introduce students to the major "approaches to knowledge" in fields of study rather than any particular body of knowledge...
...Harvard really buys into the logic of the Core Curriculum, they would try to make it a little easier for students to fulfill," Kennedy said...
...much trouble getting professors as a difficulty balancing them between fall and spring," said Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core Curriculum. "We try to distribute classes equally, but all those teaching Moral Reasoning are trying to balance a number of needs...
History is a popular discipline among undergraduates today; it regularly places in the top one or two most popular concentrations and draws many graduate students, as well. Women's history, on the other hand, has been a perennial gaping hole in the Harvard curriculum--despite, or perhaps because of, the role history plays in determining the relative status of various groups...