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...Thank heavens for my liberal education!” Then I imagine the sound of millions of televisions being flung at those people’s heads.But what will our liberal educations enable us to talk about during the great Analog Darkness of 2009? The current Core curriculum that occupies approximately one quarter of every Harvard undergraduate’s course-load exists because, in the words of the 2007-8 Courses of Instruction, “every Harvard graduate should be broadly educated, as well as trained in a particular academic specialty or concentration.” This seems...
Harvard professor Maria Tatar, who teaches a Core Curriculum course on childhood, said the pick wasn’t as unusual as it seemed to some...
...maybe write an essay for The New Yorker. From Nassau.The actual business of running Harvard is frustratingly tedious. The Faculty figured out as much last spring, when several hours—hours!—of tepid discussion preceded the passage of Harvard’s latest undergraduate curriculum. It’s much more fun, after all, to nab a quote in the paper when one’s colleagues claw each other’s eyes out over something trivial. What fun it was when anthropologist J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan...
...details of the academic curriculum are definitely still a work in progress,” Gerbi says...
...boxes, the proposed system could start today. But this would not be true reform. Gen Ed’s success will not derive from a creative reassignment of today’s Core courses. Rather, if it achieves its aims, the program’s legacy will be a curriculum that integrates innovative teaching methods, and focuses on the twenty-first century world. Accomplishing such lofty goals requires a period during which such Gen Ed plan generalities can assume a concrete meaning: a period to develop the necessary curricula and to prepare the faculty to make such aspirations a reality...