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...Faculty enthusiasm remains low and Harvard’s resources diminish, the fall 2009 launch date looms. The Gen Ed program now appears more difficult to implement than the Faculty may have anticipated...
...General Education, said that almost the entire room—168 professors, to be exact—raised their hands as the Secretary of the Faculty counted the votes. At that meeting, the Faculty moved to eliminate the nearly 30-year-old Core program and implement the new Gen Ed curriculum over a period of two years...
...Gen Ed committee is responsible for soliciting and approving prosposals for new courses and departmental alternatives...
While at first, Gen Ed’s required lower-level classes in the Humanities and Social Sciences, such as Social Sciences 2, would cover a broad array of thought—like the definition of love by different philosophers—they eventually devolved into more specialized classes, like Humanities 25: “Civilization of Continental and Island Portugal.” Gen Ed’s middle-level courses—which could be replaced with two departmental alternatives for each slot—were even more specialized. After almost 25 years, then-Dean of the Faculty...
...courses were approved for General Education credit late last month, one of the curriculum’s eight required categories now only lists one newly created course, and another still offers no new classes. As 1600 incoming freshman and approximately half of the Class of 2012 prepare to fulfill Gen Ed requirements, whether or not the nascent program has taken its intended shape remains in question. While two of the courses approved on February 26 are brand new, four of them are currently offered. There will be no changes to Government 20: “Introduction to Comparative Politics...