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When General Education courses were created in 1946, faculty members expected the curriculum to eventually become mandatory for all students. But nowadays the only Gen Ed class everyone takes is Gen Ed 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," taught by Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50 and widely considered one of Harvard's easiest classes...
...General Education course structure was developed in 1945-46 under Benjamin F. Wright, chair of the Committee on General Education, who hoped to spawn a curriculum of mandatory "basic knowledge" courses in three areas: humanities, natural sciences and social sciences...
Today's General Education curriculum is divided among freshman seminars, which are restricted to first-years; house seminars, with strict enrollment limits; and a few general lecture courses, which are open to all students...
Much of the change can be traced to the establishment of the Core Curriculum in 1979. The Core is divided into six categories--foreign cultures, literature and arts, historical studies, social analysis and science...
...callousness and materialism of students is almost as irksome as the ideological straitjacket that binds much of the Harvard curriculum. In another economics class, students were asked what a business should do if its products were found to be unsafe for the environment and were banned in America. Most immediately responded that the company should try to take it business abroad where environmental standards were looser or nonexistent, and the teaching fellow agreed that this was a smart recommendation. Is it any wonder that some American companies still use dangerous pesticides such as DDT in Latin America...