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...critics, like Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman, say efforts to design an undergraduate education are futile without first establishing what the College is trying to design...
...looked to me that the thing was done somewhat backwards, with the form done without the rationale behind it,” says Feldman, who served on the review’s pedagogy working group. “The [general education] committee came up with a general form but no specifics...They may say they have a perfect rationale but I haven’t seen...
...Feldman says he worries the review may even look backwards rather than forwards, arguing it has an “alarming resemblance to the general education requirements” of two generations ago, with its proposal to replace the Core with a combination of departmental distribution requirements and the so-called Harvard College Courses, a set of as-yet-undefined broad interdisciplinary survey courses. This proposal somewhat resembles the distributional requirement system established in the 1940s, which faced widespread faculty and student dissatisfaction by the time of Rosovsky’s 1970s review that created the Core as a replacement...
...Feldman says one of his subcommittee’s chief recommendations, the development of a pedagogical institute to research and improve teaching at Harvard, was cut from the final report, while the group’s recommendation for a January term was “substantially modified...
Still, it is unclear to what extent the faculty will need to hammer out some of these recommendations. Though Gross is adamant that faculty will be consulted to some extent on all aspects, Feldman says the administration holds almost complete control over the fate of the review’s proposals...