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Harvard's current answer to achieving that goal is the Moral Reasoning requirement in the Core curriculum. Moral Reasoning, according to the 1995-96 Courses of Instruction, is designed to "discuss significant and recurrent questions of choice and value that arise in the human experience...
Like most of the Core, Moral Reasoning classes are uniform in structure: two or three lectures each week and a weekly section with a teaching fellow. As a result, Moral Reasoning classes tend to have the same effect as most Core classes; they're oversubscribed, watered-down and not especially meaningful to students...
...light of the numerous ethical misdeeds committed by students over the past two years, I believe that it is time to reconsider whether the Moral Reasoning requirement is effectively meeting its goals...
...would go a step further. I believe that a college should do anything and everything in its power to ensure that its students have had an adequate instruction in moral reasoning. As part of the large, watered-down Core, the Moral Reasoning requirement cannot accomplish that goal in its current form. Administrators may disagree on the effectiveness of the Core, but moral reasoning is simply too important to leave so much room for dissent...
What the College's curriculum needs is a dramatic revision of the Moral Reasoning requirement. Instead of the fluffy courses typical of the rest of the Core, the faculty should institute a series of small seminars in which students actively identify and discuss the ethical problems they face...