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This demand is typically made less daunting, however, because of the four years over which students can spread out required classes. But at Harvard, along with the doomed core curriculum comes one time-specific requirement: that students take two semesters of a foreign language their freshman year unless they achieve a specified score on AP, SAT II, or Harvard placement tests...
...their draft proposal, released in October 2006, Harvard’s Task Force on General Education offered “a new rationale for general education at Harvard, one that is distinct from the rationale for the present Core curriculum.” The Committee’s report did not call the present Core—required of all Harvard undergraduates since 1978—a bureaucratic monstrosity compromised ever since its inception. Instead, reformers insisted that the Core is a victim of changing times. The draft asserted that today’s Harvard students “will...
...Standing Committee on General Education has chosen the class of 2013 to be the first to graduate entirely under the new program. Given that Gen Ed’s goal is a “curriculum that is responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century,” students graduating before 2013 are left to wonder: are we receiving—gasp—a twentieth century education? And more importantly, is the search for a new “rationale” behind educational breadth a subtle admission of just how badly practical flaws undermine the current...
...Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) at San Francisco State staged a very large, vocal, and militant strike; similar demands followed at the University of California at Berkeley. At both institutions, coalitions of students, lecturers, and activists ran Asian American studies with autonomy, overseeing all aspects of the program. from curriculum to faculty hiring, independently of broader university institutions. These populist origins of the Asian American studies movement meant that the guiding principle regarding curricula was that of “relevance”—of issues that addressed the needs and concerns of the represented communities at hand...
...York City. All semester long his students have monitored their own progress, fully aware that a piece of Internet-scouring software, not their teacher, will be issuing the final grades. And as the 15 students regularly check the class's blog for the latest rankings, Wilkinson has structured his curriculum to give them tips on how to get - and stay - famous in this increasingly saturated virtual world...