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...When administrators refused to distribute the UC’s calendar proposal to the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences via e-mail, Petersen submitted an official request asking that the Commission of Inquiry??a relic of Vietnam-era student activism that hadn’t been assembled in nearly 20 years—be convened. (The request was dropped...
Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, says she is disappointed that the requirement was nixed and that she hopes to see “more support for inquiry?? between the two camps, though she doesn’t believe one group should cater to the other...
...October and when a final version was released in February. Finally, it seemed, the general education requirements for Harvard undergraduates would be endowed with a uniting principle. Gone would be the days of the extant Core’s cornucopia of obscurities, masquerading as “modes of inquiry?? somehow relevant and necessary to our liberal education. No more “Lit & Arts B-48: Chinese Imaginary Space.” No more “Science B-57: Dinosaurs and their Relatives.” Instead, our general education would be one of purpose, designed...
...American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry?? was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum to keep its cross-disciplinary shape under the stewardship of committed disciplinarian is no less ambitious...
...Arts and Sciences (FAS) Task Force on General Education, released last Wednesday, charts a radically different course from its predecessors. Designed to prepare undergraduates for membership in contemporary global society, the proposed program would discard the Core Curriculum’s once-revolutionary “modes of inquiry?? approach, while continuing to require undergraduates to take a prescribed number of courses in a set number of thematic areas. In plain English, it’s a very big deal...