Word: historyes
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Already, the Core Committee has commissioned studies of the academic background of Harvard undergraduates in science and history--the two areas that have received the most faculty complaints.
According to one Core Committee study, 100 percent of the Class of '93 had taken high school math, but only 67 percent of students had studied European history and 56 percent had taken computer science in high school.
"History is a non-entity at high school," Professor of History Simon M. Schama said in an interview last month. "It is not surprising that students are unprepared, seeing that the textbooks are so appalling."
But Harvard is not well-suited to help students without a solid grounding in history and science, since the Core Curriculum is designed to teach undergraduates modes of analysis rather than basic facts and figures.
And the Harvard International Relations Council sends 27 students each week into Rindge and Latin's American history classes to spend an hour or so talking about current issues.