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Done right, these HCCs could be tremendous draws. But it will be important to insulate them, at least initially, from competition with departmental courses (many of which should also fulfill gen ed requirements). While we support giving individual departments power over which courses will count for gen-ed credit, we also believe that students should take at least one HCC in their two required areas. Ideally, these courses would be so intellectually stimulating that students would want to take more than just the bare minimum...
...efforts stalled by a tangled web of earnest, academic motivations, what the Gen Ed Committee needs right now is some inspiration. Often, the toughest theoretical problems can be solved with one concrete example. We can name at least three. These courses succeed in meshing approaches to knowledge and core knowledge, and in educating students about the historical, theoretical, and experimental aspects of their topics. Gen ed classes will never fulfill everyone’s expectations to the fullest. But by following the examples of a handful of model courses, both the minutiae of gen ed syllabi and the broad guiding...
...gen ed committee has been dogged by criticism this year for its inability to come up with a strong guiding philosophy for the review. Though the committee completed a “draft final report” two months ago, the report was never released to the whole Faculty because it was poorly received by professors who had seen it in advance...
...April 2004 report first recommended, departmental classes and broad interdisciplinary Harvard College Courses will lie at the center of the gen ed proposal, Maier said...
...there are about 9,000 members of the military and security services who are former Baathists. With Chalabi being mentioned as the next deputy Prime Minister for Security, many current members of the Iraqi security services who were Baathists are getting nervous. "Not every officer was pro-Saddam," said Gen. Adnan Thabit, who left Saddam's army and the party in 1984, dismayed over the direction Saddam was taking. Today he commands the Ministry of Interior's Special Forces. From his office decorated with pictures of himself with Jay Garner, the first U.S. Iraq administrator, he boasted that two-thirds...