Word: curriculum
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...committee of students and faculty members work to revamp the council. The report proposed that house committees increase their involvement in council activities. Also, it suggested that non-council members be allowed more input in student-faculty committees which oversee aspects of the college ranging from the core curriculum to college life...
...party has also promised to push for student services such as a 24-hour library, an inter-house face-book, reform of the core curriculum and key card access to all houses...
...article, Mr. Chrisman attempts to demonstrate the flaws in the current core curriculum. Perhaps I should consider myself fortunate, for virtually every teaching fellow and professor I have encountered in the core has been excellent, neither "undertrained, undermotivated" or "confused." I have found that the "chronology, content, proportion and priority" which Mr. Chrisman obtained from his General Education requirements are still present in today's core, albeit in a different form...
...take courses like Literature and Arts C-16, "Rebirth and Karma in Indian Literature and Ritual." This is a course which Mr. Chrisman singles out, apparently for its specific focus. In my opinion, the current diversity at Harvard simply does not, and should not, allow for a limited core curriculum. To cite and example from my own studies, a course with a non-Western slant which I took in the core curriculum influenced my course selection for the next two semesters and has led directly to my thesis topic. I am not implying that Mr. Chrisman views only courses...
...ruined" General Education, but I find the narrow focus of the core courses refreshing when compared to the broad introductory courses required within one's major. As already stated, introductory classes in any field are here for the taking. I also believe that professors who teach in the core curriculum successfully teach "approaches to knowledge" in their core courses, rather than merely exploring one specific topic. One of the best classes I have had at Harvard is Professor of Germanic Philology Eckehard Simon's Literature and Arts C-43, "The Medieval Court." Rather than concentrate solely on the content...