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...only reference to Gen Ed Elizabeth R. Holly ’12 could remember happened during freshman week. Her academic adviser did not know much about the new program either, though she assured Holly that more information would come. Six months later, according to Holly, that information has yet to arrive...
Unlike the Core, Gen Ed does not exempt students from any of its categories. All Harvard students, starting with the class of 2013, must take courses in all eight categories: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, Culture and Belief, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Science of Living Systems, Science of the Physical Universe, Societies of the World, and the United States in the World...
Back in his office, Harris describes the philosophy behind the Gen Ed program. “Students really need to be able to situate themselves in traditions of culture, evaluate data-driven claims, display scientific literacy, engage the world ethically,” he says...
What will set this curriculum apart from previous ones may be the extent to which Gen Ed courses tie the subject matter to students’ lives outside of the classroom...
Harris adds that Gen Ed aims “to connect what students learn to their lives outside of college, most emphatically not in the vocational sense.” The curricular review, however, set out to change more than just the curriculum...