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...years later, the outcome of that conservative swing in the pendulum will be reviewed as Harvard's celebrated Core Curriculum undergoes a faculty and administrative review. While not expected to call for broad revision or fundamental change, the assessment will represent Harvard's latest statement on what makes an "educated person...
Administrators will study whether the Core courses--specifically tailored to fit a 1978 plan for providing a sound undergraduate education--succeed in teaching "modes of knowledge" and analysis of varying disciplines. But the review takes place amid continuing debate over the Core's fundamental premise of basing education on the "approaches to thinking" in a loose ordering of disciplines...
Harvard's first formal review of undergraduate education since 1945 began in 1971 with a quiet meeting between then President-elect Bok and then-Professor of Economics Henry Rosovsky. Two years later, Rosovsky took over as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) with a mandate for curricular reform...
...following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...
...many believe the Core has not completely met its broad educational aims. A frequent target for criticism is the Core's science content. In an otherwise rosy accreditation review last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges found Harvard's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) superficial and criticized the absence of math in the Core...