Word: curriculums
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...including many athletes—are treated as outside the liberal arts tradition. Yet the new curricular proposals sustain that great intellectual tradition in name only. The gentleman amateur, dilettantish and unmoved by the financial exigencies of real life, is the ideal student of Harvard’s new curriculum...
...student athlete—just ask any student who makes the sacrifices necessary to wear a jersey, singlet, unisuit, or jacket with “Harvard” stiched on it. But the separation between athletics and academics need not span the Charles. As University Hall reexamines its core curriculum and social programming, it ought to more clearly understand the athletic lifestyle and the ever-changing needs of student-athletes as well...
...pushes the concentration choice deadline back to the middle of sophomore year, has two major implications for the structure of students’ education.First, the move requires many departments to overhaul their year-long sophomore tutorials, forcing them to offer a fall tutorial open to all sophomores, squeeze the curriculum into one spring tutorial, or extend the tutorial program into the junior year.Second, the later deadline will likely reduce concentration requirements in most disciplines because students will spend one less semester in the concentration.The choice delay will go into effect for next year’s freshmen, giving departments...
...reform and setting the stage for an uncertain debate on the future of the Core.The extension of the concentration choice deadline, which will go into effect for next year’s freshmen, follows the secondary fields legislation approved two weeks ago in bringing the structure of the College curriculum more in line with Harvard’s peers.Empty seats early in the session left some wondering whether the requisite one-sixth of the Faculty would show up to conduct a binding vote.“It was close, there were a lot of people out of town...
...will also stress research opportunities for students long before senior theses, Lieberman said. “Harvard is arguably the world’s best place to do the life sciences,” he said. “There’s amazing research going on and the curriculum wasn’t really reflecting that.” In addition to encouraging research, the new cluster of concentrations will offer a “consistent common foundation” across the life sciences which facilitates switching between them, Lue said. Council members offered unanimous support for the motion...