Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offerings are often appropriate for someone learning the material--and how to look at it--for the first time. But some students come to the Core already comfortable with certain disciplines. Rather than forcing them to learn the basics over again, they could be allowed to take a higher level class in the same subject area that gives them a chance to use what they already know...
...perennial fall Core favorite, "Justice." Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel takes a hoard of students on a dizzying flight through categorical and consequentialist reasoning, from politics based on independent standards of right to home-grown community justice. It is a worthwhile trip, but not a unique one. Upper level political philosophy courses also serve as a window into the conflict between the right and the good. Achieving harmony between our roles as citizens and as people is not a question that begins and ends in Moral Reasoning...
...Core is Historical Studies A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World." Here the emphasis is on using the lessons of history, thinking in time and concocting cogent recipes of theory and historical fact. Very noble aims. That's why the same techniques are similarly emphasized in upper level courses in comparative politics. Learning the lessons of history is as useful a tool when studying the French Revolution as it is in the international conflicts...
...administration's weak position in maintaining distinctions between upper-level and Core courses in particuliar areas withers under the rational objectivity of science. In physics, chemistry and biology, departmental offerings do count for Core credit--even though the differences between Core and department offerings are more striking than in any other discipline...
...time to rescue those students trapped for too much of their precious college years in the first 44 pages of the Course catalog. Expanding Core credit to certain upper-level classes would also improve the quality of life for those who elected to stick with the Core offerings. While those well-versed in a field could take more satisfying upper-level options, novices in a particuliar area would not have to deal with irritating pedants in section...