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Harvard claims to provide a safety hatch for students wishing to escape the rigidity of the Core curriculum. Individuals dissatisfied with limited, overcrowded and unchallenging Core offerings may petition the Standing Committee on the Core Program and request credit for a non-Core class. However, the apparent flexibility afforded by...
What's more, the Core Office is hesitant to release information about which departmental courses--outside of the few departmental courses officially recognized by the Core--have previously been accepted for Core credit, nor does it reveal the likelihood that a given petition will be granted.
Indeed, although the Core Committee claims that most departmental courses are significantly different from Core courses in ways that make them inadequate for teaching an "approach to knowledge," it provides little insight into what those differences are. Consequently, the petition process is rendered largely ornamental and provides little assistance for...
Even those types of petitions that the Core Committee sanctions--and, to some extent, encourages--provide less flexibility than is claimed. For example, students can petition for Foreign Cultures credit for a full-year foreign language course beyond the first-year level. However, despite this provision, many foreign language courses...
UNITED STATES Busy Courts As military officials said they would upgrade and extend prison facilities at Guantánamo Bay, a Los Angeles court heard the first legal challenge to the detention of 158 prisoners held there. District Judge Howard Matz gave government lawyers until Jan. 31 to respond to...