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...Whether the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) should be mandatory for all students...
Members of a student-faculty committee yesterday disputed the feasibility of an Undergraduate Council proposal that would allow students to bypass the Science A or B requirement with a mathematics and computer Science C option that would replace the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR...
...interview after the meeting, Mandery said that the faculty members would probably not accept the new option as a bypass for Science A or B and a replacement for the QRR...
College graduates should know how to use a computer and how to interpret statistics; quantitative reasoning is just as important as clear writing. Yet because of the QRR's structure, it is possible to graduate from Harvard without the ability to think quantitatively. Harvard doesn't make us use both sides of our brains. And it should...
...committee on the Core Requirement really wants students to achieve computer literacy, as well as competence in dealing with numbers and statistics, the QRR should be restructured. The Committee could incorporate quantitative reasoning skills into the Science A core requirement, or as the Undergraduate Council has proposed, add a computer and math option to the Core. Or perhaps a series of required minicourses could be established. In any case, the QRR should be either intensified or abolished. As it is, it serves no purpose and merely wastes time...