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...system is that the Core forces students to enroll in courses for which they are overqualified if more advanced classes are not on the list. To earn a foreign language citation, for example, a student must complete at least four half-courses in a language, three of which are upper-level. These courses are often historical or literary and delve into issues of culture to a far greater extent than a Foreign Cultures Core; yet a foreign language citation does not fulfill the requirement, and students hoping to graduate are often forced to take less meaningful courses in order...
...smaller, upper-level computer science courses, however, this is often simply not possible...
Bose said that he would teach two courses next year: a conference course on South Asian history and a lecture that would be either an upper-level history department course or a Core class...
...wish to propose a program whereby a student would wander from survey course to survey course in hopes of achieving an appropriate "distribution." We will assume that the Crimson meant to advocate the opportunity for students with background in a field akin to one of the Cores to explore upper-level departmental coursework remote from their concentration in satisfaction of graduation requirements. In such cases, cross-listing departmental courses would be an appropriate route. For the majority of students, however, the Core effectively blends methods of thinking with manageable quantities of knowledge within a discipline in which a student...
...department-centered distribution requirement, one that preserves the balance of the existing Core while removing the current system's arbitrary obstacles. A requirement in quantitative reasoning could be met by any course in the mathematics or statistics departments; a requirement in foreign cultures could be met by any upper-level language course. No student would feel compelled to take a course of lesser depth, breadth or rigor simply to meet a graduation requirement. Some cross-listings as well as an open, predictable petition process would still be required to account for the courses whose methods of inquiry differ from that...