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The stress on connecting “what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard” and the nebulous concept of “global citizenship” blend together to create a set of meaninglessly broad curricular areas. Furthermore, in noting that few Harvard undergraduates intend to...
The reduced emphasis on history and literature in favor of two courses in “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” and “The United States: Historical and Global Perspectives” is the most egregious sin of the new curriculum. At a time when pre...
So in the end, embarrassing as it might be to begin again, this curriculum sorely needs to be shifted away from its heavy emphasis on the contemporary and practical to provide a broader, more fulfilling set of divisions. Now, if we just added a few more literature and arts courses...
This proclivity for poor timing is not described in any textbook but is a phenomenon well known to psychologists. Two concepts explain the behavior. The first is recency bias, a tendency to place a disproportionately large emphasis on recent price performance without sufficiently weighing other relevant facts, including long-term...
The Bush Administration's recent shift in strategy on the Iraq War - ending talk about "staying the course" and replacing it with a new emphasis on flexibility in response to changing conditions on the ground - may be a smart political tactic. But the implication of Bush's newfound candor, and...