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Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 also says that an improved advising system must accompany the recommended shift...
...Gross has suggested that one way the curriculum may offer more interdisciplinary opportunities is through broad-based Harvard College courses—lecture courses that may be used to fulfill the distribution requirement that the proposal will suggest replaces the Core...
...goal would be to provide students with more flexibility,” Gross says, “while still giving a strong indication of what courses the faculty would recommend for a general education...
...Gross says that such a combination would be a better method than either distribution requirements or the Core alone. It would mix the breadth of the latter with the established, generally-available body of courses that Harvard now offers in its 11 Core areas...
According to Gross and several professors, a new system will be proposed which will replace the Core with the Harvard College Courses—classes based on foundational knowledge of key fields, not approaches to knowledge...