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...best way for the EPC to promote flexibility in concentrations is to reduce the total number of requirements, not delay the date of concentration choice. As such, we endorse the EPC’s proposal to limit the number of courses required for concentrations (honors and non-honors) to 12, with exceptions made for highly technical fields (Engineering, for example) and interdisciplinary study. Twelve courses, which will comprise about 40 percent of a student’s undergraduate course load, should allow students to become experts in a particular field while granting them the freedom to pursue a truly diverse...
Moving from major to minor, the EPC’s idea of instituting a “secondary field” seems outwardly appealing. Theoretically, these fields could work like the Language Citation program, allowing students to get credit for in-depth work in a non-concentration field. The EPC suggests that students can take four to six classes in a field outside their concentration to merit a certificate in a secondary field. While the benefits are obvious, we can foresee a time when graduating with a secondary field certificate becomes the norm and students who take a truly diverse...
...with honors tracks), this doesn’t bode well. Clearly, the success of the EPC’s proposal to cap requirements—the only one of its recommendations we support—will hinge on the successful implementation of an exemption procedure. For future drafts, the EPC should flesh out this procedure with an eye towards placating its critics. But it must not sacrifice the main goal of the proposal, as fewer concentration requirements would have broad-ranging positive effects for all Harvard students...
...report, released to the public yesterday, is similar to another draft report released by the EPC in May. While that report discussed the possibility for a “secondary field” it made no mention of abolishing the joint concentration...
...curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC) recommended yesterday that joint concentrations be eliminated in favor of “secondary fields” akin to minors, and that most concentrations cap requirements at 12 courses...