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Thankfully, the Gen Ed Committee’s so-called Gang of Five, meeting clandestinely over the summer, has brought a sense of reason to the process that only a junta can. But will promised “portal” courses be any less vapid than the pipe dream of “Harvard College Courses” promised to be? Will they be mandatory and well-taught, or merely a re-christening of things we already have, with the added dignity of being recognized, rather meaninglessly, as foundational but only recommended...
...don’t quite fit, from the portrayal of the mean Noah Claypole to the clever Artful Dodger. Luckily for the audience, the narrative emphasis is taken off Oliver and the other children in favor of more complex characters like Fagin (Ben Kingsley), the leader of the pickpocket gang...
Here’s the setup of the film: Nerdy Crimson Editor gets kicked out of school for a crime he didn’t commit, and goes to England. There, he joins a football street gang. Right off the bat, he just starts beating fools up. And from the look of the trailers, he seems to feel great about...
...latest curricular revision, and no one knows what a Harvard College Course is, or what makes it truly different from anything else. There are no earth-shattering ideas, no revolutionary pedagogy. There’s a group of professors sneaking around called the “Gang of Five” writing reports and not officially releasing them. I’m still taking Cores...
...wouldn’t be especially difficult to find a way to dodge the aforementioned fiery abyss, either. Where the Review has decided that there should be fewer required areas in our Ged Ed—three according to the working “Gang of Five” report, only two required, for a total of six or four half-courses, depending on the courses—it wouldn’t be unreasonable to cut the required number of Core courses for each undergrad to five. The College could encourage professors to devise pilot courses now, with...