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...them the freedom to do so,” he said. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard said he found the “Reason and Faith” requirement “less appropriate for a general education curricular” than the current “Moral Reasoning?? requirement. “My general impression of the proposal,” Burgard concluded in an e-mail statement, “is that—not in all the general education courses it would include and encourage, but in its principles and rationale?...
...States: Historical and Global Perspectives” and “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” to “Historical Studies,” and renamed “The Ethical Life” to something a little less preachy sounding, say, “Moral Reasoning??”—Oh wait?...
This is a task that universities have all but abandoned. Harvard College, under the leadership of Dean Henry Rosovsky in 1978, irresponsibly marginalized moral inquiry to a “moral reasoning?? core requirement, fooling itself into thinking that a few months of reading can aid the self-realization of a lifetime. The latest update on the Core similarly ghettoizes moral reasoning into a fixed few courses...
Even if one were not satisfied by the number of students already taking the course, there is little need to create an entirely new Core category. One solution would have seen economic reasoning integrated into the “Analytical Reasoning?? or the “United States and the World” categories...
...prerequisites. Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," the College’s largest course, had no clear place. Some have speculated that the omission of economics may be a product of faculty backlash against former President Lawrence H. Summers. Others have suggested economics fits under “analytic reasoning?? or suggested that economic issues would be sufficiently touched upon in other required areas...