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After months of delays and an unheralded initial report, the General Education Committee of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) is heading back to the drawing board. There are many models they could use—a completely free curriculum like Brown, a great books program à la Columbia, or a system of several large divisions from which students must sample courses like at Yale. But Harvard is not a clone of any other institution and should not adopt some other school’s system. Instead of looking outward, the committee should look at which courses work best...
It’s clear that the Core Curriculum needs to be replaced. On this page and in University Hall, the Core and its “approaches to knowledge” philosophy have been maligned for not providing enough concrete knowledge. A system where students can fulfill one history requirement by taking a course on 15 years of Cuban history may be great for cocktail parties, but it is hard to see how seven courses in the Core Curriculum could form the foundation of what we believe should be the best program of studies in the world. A higher...
...include a theoretical component aimed at teaching students about the important ideas that shaped the subject matter. Ideally, this would involve reading selections from the great thinkers in each field. Through these theories, students would learn different analytic approaches to knowledge, much like they do in the present Core Curriculum. Finally, an HCC should have a practical or experimental component where theory is applied to case studies (in lectures as well as in sections), allowing students to put the theories and analytical tools into practice. An interesting add-on might be to devote the last few weeks of section...
...Core Curriculum, a majority of the courses is taught by graduate instructors. She’s throwing in every course at Columbia,” he said. “By cooking the books, they are trying to minimize any impact that the strike...
...avoiding bad publicity than exposing violent kids. Just ask Song. Her assailants were never punished, although they have to check in regularly with a supervisor. "I hope they forget I exist," says Song. "I'm still afraid." Fear of violence should not be part of any high school curriculum...