Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COURSES in Harvard's Core Curriculum may be maligned for being superfical and vacuous, but at least they are popular. Of the courses with the 10 largest enrollments this semester, nine were Core offerings. Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," weighed in with 769 students. Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," has 600, even though its course catalogue listing warns that enrollment is limited to 500. The only non-Core course to break into the top 10 was a notorious gut, History 1340b, "European Intellectual History...