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Without economics, “this is a curriculum for people who don’t have to earn their living,” said Jennifer L. Hochschild, who is the Jayne professor of government and African and African American Studies...
...wrote educational philosopher John Dewey in 1907, “and all studies are of necessity correlated.”In 2006, the Harvard Task Force on General Education, a small committee chosen to rethink last year’s General Education proposal regarding the Core curriculum, wrote on page four of their preliminary report, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the liberal arts and sciences relates to their lives.”While no Opal Mehta, the 2006 General Education (Gen Ed) proposal seems...
Twenty-seven years after the Core Curriculum burst onto the stage of higher education to cheers and high acclaim, it is about to be booed off. Yet it would be foolish to birth a new general education curriculum in isolation; the Core’s record must be carefully considered, lest the new system repeat its flaws. Change must begin with a fundamental shift in the Core’s administrative structure. Currently, a distinct lack of discerning judgment and capacity for constructive criticism plagues the Core’s current stewards: the Faculty’s Core Standing Committee...
...implementing the new general education curriculum, the new committee should group courses that satisfy a particular requirement into two tiers. The first will contain all of the various departmental courses that satisfy a given general education requirement. These will be determined based on an evaluation of the course’s subject material and syllabus to make sure that the course matches up with the guiding philosophy of a given area of general education. We expect that the vast majority of courses that count for general education credit will be in this tier...
...best hope for an improvement in Harvard’s pedagogy—an area in which it has consistently lagged behind—lies in the genesis of a culture grounded in mutual, constructive critique. Given the vast scale of the Harvard curriculum, we believe that the new general education system, the common intellectual ground of every College student, is the natural starting point for such improvements. In the long run, however, pedagogical improvement must not end with these courses. In fact, we hope that such a culture change will develop across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?...