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Professors spoke yesterday on both sides of issues ranging from reducing class size to the report??s proposals for general education to the report??s suggestion that all students be expected to study abroad...
...major element in the thinking about these courses seems to be the potential marketing of them,” he wrote in an e-mail, referring to the report??s suggestion that the proposed Harvard College Courses be “flagship courses, listed at the front of the course catalog...
...academic calendar and the introduction of a January term that allows for alternative experiences, as long as these changes are instituted in a way that does not compromise the importance of reading period for the synthesis and comprehension of material. The BMF also strongly endorses the HCCR report??s emphasis on an international experience for all students—as long as the College concurrently moves to expand and encourage travel and study opportunities in underappreciated regions such as Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean...
...extracurricular culture. Certainly, all Harvard students should be encouraged to study abroad. There is no real substitute for time spent in another country. Students cannot learn the ways and language of another people better than by immersion. Therefore, the College should—as suggested in the HCCR report??vastly increase funds and efforts to expand the number of international opportunities for students. However, the College should not go forward with its proposal to indicate on transcripts whether students have met the “expectation” of studying abroad...
...alleviate the pressures on students to remain at Harvard in order to secure a top extracurricular spot. The College, however, should not try to significantly alter Harvard’s extracurricular culture. Students should not be asked to sacrifice the quality of their academic or extracurricular experience. The HCCR report??s recommendations regarding the language requirement, however, are more on the mark. The report rightly suggests that a more intense focus on foreign languages might prove beneficial for students and their level of internationalization. Learning a language is an extremely important way to learn about another culture...