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...Task Force on the Arts that issued a report calling on Harvard to make the arts a more “integral part of the cognitive life of the University.” Among its recommendations were proposals for increasing the presence of arts practice in the curriculum and increasing student access to arts-practice courses. A quick glance at the studio art course offerings of the VES department underscores the serious need for such changes. But, with the imminent departure of Nancy Mitchnick, one of only two painting instructors in the department, the university appears to be moving...
Harvard structures students' academic experiences to afford the greatest possible freedom to design individual programs. Students normally enroll in four classes each term. Their plan of study includes work in their concentration, the Core Curriculum, Expository Writing, and Foreign Language...
...first sentence is the usual Harvard spiel about how much flexibility everyone has with their schedules (though freshmen in Life Sci, Ec10, and Justice may beg to differ). Granted, it doesn't sound blatantly wrong. But then why would they mention the Core Curriculum to the class of 2013 when they won't be falling under the Core at all...? If the viewbook is bothering to mention the Core, they are going to explain the transition to Gen Ed right about now--right...
Right. After explaining that everyone at Harvard takes classes in the Core Curriculum, the viewbook describes Gen Ed in enormous detail...
...need to push as an Undergraduate Council for those courses of all minority groups to be included in this curriculum,” Flores said...