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Beginning next semester, English professor Louis Menand, one of the architects of the new General Education curriculum, will be teaching two courses for the program he helped design...
...Menand will be co-teaching Humanities 10: “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium” and the new course English 158: “The Novel in Europe.” Both will fulfill the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement...
...Menand said he had the philosophy of the new program in mind when he began planning “The Novel in Europe,” which he will be co-teaching with English professor Leah Price...
...incoherent education. To hasten the development of Gen Ed, incoming Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds must refocus Gen Ed around a meaningful educational philosophy. In their preliminary report a year and a half ago, the chairs of the Task Force on General Education, English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Allison Simmons, presented a brand of liberal education that sought to prepare students to engage with an increasingly globalized and multicultural world. It was more than just a revamped Core curriculum; Gen Ed was meant to be a forerunner in 21st century American higher education...
...This view of schooling is echoed by Menand: “Liberal arts are fields where inquiry is pursued disinterestedly, which means that it’s knowledge for its own sake,” he says. He notes that over the past half century, only about a tenth of Harvard graduates go on to earn Ph.D.s, while 60 percent go into business, law, or medicine...