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...curriculum approved today has its foundations in a report released in October by a task force headed by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. That report made headlines by proposing that every undergraduate be required to take a course in the study of religion and a course on the United States. The group’s final report, released in February, eliminated the requirement of a religion course but retained the requirement of a course on the United States...
Poetry doesn’t have the prominence it once did. Bass professor of English and American literature and language Louis Menand attributes the decline of poetry’s reputation to the increasingly more professionalized study of literature...
...It’s clear that the Faculty is going to go ahead with some version of what we’ve proposed,” Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, who co-chaired the task force that authored the report, said at the close of the meeting...
...promised to release their final report this month. “The comments will certainly be helpful to the task force as we prepare the final version of our report,” task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand wrote in an e-mail yesterday. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...spirit of pragmatism and anti-intellectualism. The Task Force’s underlying rationale for general education can be summed up in three words: real-world citizenship. Perhaps reflecting the pragmatic worldview of the task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, they have taken the focus off of academics and directed it instead towards real-life application and civic duty...