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Proponents of the Core claim certain problems that beset Gen Ed will be avoided. Gen Ed, they say provided no guidlines for selection of its courses, and so over the years accumulated an ill-defined hodge-podge of offerings...
...Core Curriculum, the brainchild of Dean Rosovsky's 1974 review of undergraduate education and five years of professorial debate and intensive faculty committee work, will be phased in over the next three years to replace the ailing 34-year-old General Education (Gen Ed) program. Under the Core, the three-part Gen Ed requirement--Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities--will become five sections--Literature and the Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Cultures, and Science...
Harvard's new Core Curriculum is the product of a few years of careful and wide-ranging study of Harvard's curriculum and General Education program--the first major such re-evaluation since 1945. Prompted by complaints about Gen Ed's intellectual shoddiness and overgrowth, Dean Rosovsky began the re-examination of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum...
Like Caesar, a number of these Latin leaders met their deaths through assassination: Castillo Armas in Guatemala, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and--within eight years--Carranza, Pancho Villa and Obregon in Mexico. Dictatorship brings with it danger, as today's headlines about Nicaragua's Gen. Somoza Debayle indicate. It is worth recalling that Somoza's father obtained his dictatorial power by assassinating Gen. Sandino, only to be assassinated himself some years later...
...Crimson originally opposed the Core and maintains that stand. While the General Education program certainly needed revamping, the Core is not the answer. Its rigid and complicated structure adds unnecessary restrictions to the already limited choices students face in pursuing a 'liberal education.' The Gen Ed principle, requiring a wide variety of courses in a loose framework, is desirable, but the Core goes too far, specifying too narrowly what the undergraduate education will be. It is only a poor substitute for good advice and counseling that would direct students toward a balanced education, without coercing them...