Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...General Education, the Whitebook argued, was, “that part of a student’s whole education which looks first of all to his life as a responsible human being and citizen.” The new curriculum that the Whitebook proposed would have required courses with names like “Great Texts in Literature” and “Western Thought and Institutions...
...That many—if not most—of the works that would be studied by Harvard’s white, male students under the new curriculum were written by white, male, dead people didn’t seem to bother the white, male, nearly-dead Faculty members who authored the Whitebook. They were too intent on the racist, sexist goal of educating civic-minded gentlemen to care...
...General Education became the Core Curriculum. The Faculty seemed to have at last woken up to the fact that one cannot both respect diversity and maintain consistency in undergraduate education. Thank goodness, then, that the Core was little more than an almost-coherent statement of what Harvard’s almost-diverse student body of 1979 ought to learn...
...name back to General Education last spring, it literally wrote “flexibility” and “diversity” into the programme from its inception. We shouldn’t fret that Harvard hasn’t totally dismissed the concept of an undergraduate curriculum; General Education has been gutted so profoundly of coherence and meaning that no two Harvard students need ever have anything in common ever again—ego, ambition, and Facebook notwithstanding...
...exclude the diversity of undergraduates who beg to differ. Striving to breed an army of investment bankers unencumbered by a clear set of values and a basic understanding of the society in which they live is, after all, much more politically correct. With the passage of our new undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty have finally woken up to what any good relativist could have told you decades ago: Harvard’s curriculum is finally as much of an incoherent, poorly composed morass as its student body...