Word: maths
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...with two policy changes going into effect next fall, the College is turning its attention towards strengthening the place of math and sciences in the Core...
Since the Core replaced the General Education breadth requirements in the 1970s under then dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, the curriculum has come under fire for giving insufficient attention to math and the natural sciences...
Verba points out that pure math and science classes often require special knowledge and abilities that the social science and humanities don't, putting extra pressure on a non-science concentrator who has to take a standard chemistry or physics course...
...Students who are in the sciences have requirements in math and science," he says. "Everyone else has watered down requirements which are not adequate today to be an intellectual person...
...Basically, the AP tests are what we would consider high school-level science and math, they are useful only for placement--not for credit--in most cases," Michel says. "Students in the sciences take much more rigorous courses in math and sciences...