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Summing up their motivations, the report??s authors write, “We wish to encourage students to range broadly, to follow their interests and curiosity, and to allow them the freedom to change their minds about the areas they wish to study.” As admirable as these goals may be, there is little indication that the proposed revisions would, in fact, accomplish these goals. Take the intention to emphasize interdisciplinary studies. Interdisciplinary concentrations will only be constrained by a cap on requirements—environmental science and public policy, for example, currently requires 16 courses...
...welcomed and should be embraced, but a successful, fundamental rethinking of Harvard’s undergraduate experience requires active processing and questioning of the committee’s recommendation. Beginning this week, The Crimson Staff will attempt to do just that and grapple with a number of the report??s most controversial proposals...
...mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last year’s Commencement seem to form the linchpin (if not the entirety) of the report??left the authors in no doubt about his priorities, even holding dinners at his house to speak to each subcommittee of the review...
...report??s vapid section on “Harvard College Courses” (it’s telling that they couldn’t even come up with a name), the proposed pseudo-replacement for the Core, reads like a bad handbook for elementary school teachers: “A Harvard College Course on world histories might be built around ‘cultures and contacts,’ introducing students to significant moments, from multiple centuries and continents, in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways; it might introduce students to episodes of international trade...
...will find few friends in Economics, which already has such a system—one where students can get a quick answer to a question from an advisor who knows nothing about you (and doesn’t much care). The department is too large to seriously implement the report??s suggestions of increased freshman seminars and freshman advising. The average Economics concentrator will also learn less about other fields from the dumbed-down Harvard College Courses. And while their knowledge of scientific concepts will suffer from overly-broad, ill-defined courses, science concentrators’ understanding...