Word: sandel
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Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, the only professor to sit on both last year’s Working Group on General Education and this year’s Committee on General Education, began the discussion by saying that though his committee has not yet reached any decisions, “there is a shape” to the hypothetical system they will recommend to the Faculty...
...Sandel, who moderated the discussion in the second-floor Faculty room in University Hall, said that their recommendations would be similar to those made last April by the 54 participants in the first stage of the review in which the working group recommended the replacement of the Core with a set of distributional requirements and foundational, interdisciplinary Harvard College Courses. Unlike today’s Core classes which emphasize “modes of thought,” the proposed Harvard College Courses are more focused on facts the Faculty thinks students should know...
...hypothetical curriculum Sandel presented to the more than 100 professors in attendance suggested making students take classes in the humanities and arts. the social sciences and the natural sciences, in addition to requirements in history, moral reasoning and quantitative reasoning...
...became clear throughout the afternoon that professors are overwhelmingly undecided about what the general education system should look like. In an impromptu straw poll taken by Sandel towards the end of the over two-hour discussion, approximately 12 professors said they would favor a system of strict distributional requirements, while about twice that number voted in favor of a distributional system that would include Harvard College Courses...
...blue-state sea of Harvard, Professor Mansfield is a bold streak of red, a one-man antidote to liberal complacency,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail...