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Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives questioned committee chairs of the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education in a town hall meeting last night, focusing on proposed approaches to science and math. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons spoke to a group of 50 students that weren’t limited to UC members in Harvard Hall. Calling the core “old-fashioned,” Menand said that the current system fragmented knowledge into specific academic disciplines more suitable for the ivory tower than the outside world...
...second half of the book is more purely illustrative than instructive. It seems as though a separate book should be written for the three issues he discusses, namely neighborhood racial tensions, social interaction, and gene selection. The social interaction section especially, is more math-heavy; while it is nothing more complicated than basic arithmetic and algebra, its sheer volume is overwhelming. What’s more, there is no final chapter that ties the first two halves of the book together, binding theory and commentary. Had Schelling done that, the book would have been more memorable...
...subject and rigor rather than on a strict interpretation of relevance to society today. The report defines Analytical Reasoning to be a set of “conceptual skills” that include “logic, statistics, probability theory, and rational decision theory.” Proof-based math classes, however, do not count on the grounds that “the sort of analytical reasoning used in math proofs” doesn’t necessarily apply to the real world. While the language of higher math may not be applicable, the rigorous logical structure these classes teach...
Mathematics: Quite a tempting department, I have to say, especially Math 122 “Abstract Algebra I: Theory of Groups and Vector Spaces.” Wait, I have no idea what I just typed. I only know it was dripping with sarcasm. Math + Sara = danger...
...have to wait until after Feb. 15 for consideration in the spring. Sixteen departments have already submitted secondary proposals to the EPC; astronomy, Celtic languages and literature, classics, English and American literature and language, engineering and applied sciences, folklore and mythology, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, government, history, linguistics, math, organismic and evolutionary biology, philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and visual and environmental studies, according to Kenen. Several of these departments plan to offer more than one secondary field. For example, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures submitted a proposal suggesting two separate tracks...