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...committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) march to the beat of a very, very slow drummer. As shopping period races by, the Core Standing Committee and the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) have failed to keep pace, leaving students to suffer in the confusion of mixed tempos. Despite the promise that accompanied announcements of a secondary fields program and Humanities General Education courses, the disorganized implementation of curricular reform has made this shopping period a particularly chaotic...
...administration first erred in its half-baked implementation of secondary fields. After announcing the initiative to much fanfare, the EPC has neglected to operate with any consideration of Harvard’s academic calendar. Rather than attempting to solicit and publicize departmental requirements for secondary fields to guide students’ course selections, the EPC has created curiously late deadlines for consideration of secondary fields The mid-October and mid-February dates inexplicably fall just beyond the reach of shopping period in either semester, meaning students are unable to choose classes with the necessary information. Setting earlier deadlines would have...
...EPC has left students in the dark about what courses to shop, what seminars to apply for, and how generally to structure their academic futures. Many students have scrambled to individual departments to investigate what requirements may potentially be put in place. But the EPC’s vague guidance as to what might constitute an approvable secondary field has made it tough for departments to publicize their intended requirements with confidence. Unable to post anything on their websites, departments are left to field phone calls from students who can only receive vague and provisional advice. We hope the EPC...
...Pilbeam served as dean of undergraduate education and most recently as chair of the committee on advising and counseling—one of the few committees in the curricular review whose recommendations were implemented. Along with his role as senior adviser, Pilbeam will co-chair the Education Policy Committee (EPC) with Gross. Formed in 1992 by Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles, the EPC is responsible for making suggestions for curricular reform. Although Knowles and William C. Kirby both co-chaired the committee during their tenures as deans of the Faculty, Knowles wrote...
...EPC will make recommendations to the Core Standing Committee, when relevant, for secondary fields that meet the requirements for Core areas...