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...Social Analysis 66: “Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States”—taught by Government Professor and Gen Ed committee member Jennifer L. Hochschild—will be the third offering in the United States in the World category...
Despite these new additions, three out of the eight new Gen Ed categories have yet to include newly-developed classes: Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Science of the Physical Universe, and the United States in the World. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu
...Harvard students are finding themselves up curriculum creek without a paddle. The period of transition from the Core to General Education has been poorly handled and badly implemented, forcing students into a position where choosing classes (and choosing a curriculum) is a trauma. Although we stood behind the original Gen Ed program as envisioned by its creators, the entire process has become perverted by the College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally frustrated freshmen who are forced...
...Gen. David Petraeus, the architect of the U.S. surge policy in Iraq, leaves to take over U.S. Central Command later this fall - a swath of territory from Kazakhstan to Kenya, including Iraq and Afghanistan - he's passing the baton to his former top deputy in Iraq, Gen. Raymond Odierno. The New Jersey-born and bred Odierno, an imposing (6-ft. 5-in.) leader whom the troops call "General O", spent 15 months as Petraeus's number two during the implementation of the surge. His new job will include advising the next President on if and when to pull...
Incoming freshmen officially are entering under the Core, but can switch to Gen Ed next year if they wish...