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Current freshmen might not be able to graduate under new general education requirements focusing on real-world applications of knowledge, the professor in charge of implementing the program said yesterday. Backing away from plans that would have ended the 29-year-old Core Curriculum for all students in as few as two years, Jay M. Harris, chair of the faculty and student committee in charge of the transition, said that the Class of 2011 will definitely be able to graduate under the Core. “They may have the option of finishing under Gen Ed, but that I can?...
...plan that could eliminate Core requirements for the current freshman class and possibly for sophomores as well.By the start of the spring semester, undergraduates may know which Core courses will count toward the new general education requirements, which were approved last spring with the goal of emphasizing the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.Jay M. Harris, the chair of the committee, said that the group hopes to bring freshmen under the new requirements, but that requirements for sophomores are a “big question mark.” He said juniors and seniors...
...matter is that few Harvard students can contemplate the enormity of the war—especially when delivered via news alerts on an iPhone screen—when it directly affects so few of us. The supposed purpose of General Education is to focus on “the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.” Despite this agenda, the University and University Council administrations have done little to foster civic participation among its students...
...about two young women caught up in Moscow's high life, but the crew's idleness was now stretching into hours. The shoot required a police escort that had been approved well in advance. But the Moscow city police on hand seemed bent upon giving the moviemakers yet another real-world lesson on the inexplicable, infuriating and often interminable delays endemic to Russia. The making of You and I, the third film produced in Moscow for a Western audience, has been awash with such cultural exchanges, Russian obliqueness grating against the time-is-money priorities of Hollywood. For the foreigner...
Flash Pass teaches children a valuable lesson in real-world economics: that the rich are more important than you, especially when it comes to waiting. An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada--get this--"we have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else...