Word: curriculums
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These fruitful forays, far more than the Core Curriculum, taught me how to think at Harvard...
...Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath on the structure of the literature requirement misses the true problem with a Harvard College education.Which is a shame because, despite some limited success, Harvard is still failing on the whole. While some star professors—including...
...they were their own. A healthy organization acts as a team, which in times of urgency or uncertainty relies on shared values to achieve coordinated action.Confidence in your mission is more easily destroyed than created. Harvard’s leaders had nothing good to say about its curriculum but also had nothing constructive to say about what should replace it. We badly need a measure of inspiring idealism for the future.Changes are almost always better made gradually than radically. The U.S. does not call a constitutional convention every 25 years because someone says we’ve been living under...
...Jeremy R. Knowles. Yet we should not think of this time as a return to familiar and comfortable things. To do so would belie what we have learned during recent months. We need to continue what we have been doing for the past three years: working to reshape the curriculum, giving the College the strength and flexibility it needs to educate its current and future students...
...current general education requirement, the Core Curriculum, was established in 1979 after six years of careful consideration. Its guiding theme was that students should be inducted into the special “ways of thinking” that characterized the various disciplines. Knowledge was expanding rapidly, and the prevailing idea that students should study a common body of material was becoming increasingly questioned. Some of what now seems arcane in the Core can be explained by intellectual controversies that loomed large when the program was first developed. Today, as the disciplines have grown and changed, the structure of the Core...