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...group of three professors releases draft legislation based on the February report. It calls for the creation of a Standing Committee on General Education to oversee the new curriculum??s implementation, and says the committee that administers the Core should be dissolved after the 2007-2008 academic year...
...program places students in a single hospital for the duration of their third year, a policy that the curriculum??s designers believe better simulates professional medical practice...
...curriculum??s architects said they hope Harvard’s move will encourage other medical schools to implement similar reforms. But institutional resistance to change may prove to be a major barrier at other schools, the authors said...
...change in the curriculum??s rationale is vital. Under the old Core system, it was never quite clear what precisely was involved in introducing students to “modes of inquiry.” More often than not, Core courses are watered-down introductions to the hyper-esoteric, poorly designed examinations of how disciplines engage with academic problems. This present perversion of the Core’s philosophy has led to courses whose names would suggest an enrollment of just a few sub-sub-specialists attracting hundreds of undergraduates whizzing along this college’s path...
...still calling for tweaks to the first overhaul of general education in 30 years.Prominent members of the history and economics departments have expressed concerns about the place of their disciplines in the new curriculum, fearing that their subjects do not fall neatly into any of the categories.Given the proposed curriculum??s divisions, “The social sciences generally, as well as the study of the past, are the two areas that don’t fit so automatically anywhere,” said Andrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the history department...