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Then add to a Harvard student life the Harvard Faculty, those souls who’ve spent their lives in this wildly diverse environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum??s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...
...Philosophy Alison Simmons, a co-chair of this year’s Committee on General Education. Tuesday’s meeting offered faculty the first chance to discuss the committee’s preliminary report in a public setting. The report calls for the replacement of the Core Curriculum??and its emphasis on approaches to knowledge—with a program focused on subject matter. Over a dozen professors spoke—some endorsed the proposal, while others rose to criticize its rationale and the five broad areas of inquiry it would create. Bass Professor of English...
...this question. It has proposed that the College train students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum??s “approaches to knowledge” in favor of teaching knowledge itself. Methodology, particularly the scientific approach to human society, should play a prominent role in general education...
...current FiCom vice chair and served as the committee’s secretary last semester.Zaidi was visibly involved in getting a month delay before the Malkin Athletic Center closes for renovations beginning this spring, and he has also spoken out on the Curricular Review, particularly to keep the Core Curriculum??s moral reasoning requirement as part of the proposed General Education curriculum. “For the most part, I’m fairly certain that I will seek candidacy in the UC election,” Zaidi says. Sopen B. Shah ’08, who said...
...global warming, or even just understanding that mixing bleach and ammonia is not a good idea, to be educated today means to be scientifically literate. It is embarrassing that this can’t be said of every Harvard College graduate. The basic problem plaguing the current Core Curriculum??s science program is a lack of rigor. Students can easily make their way through their 32 courses at Harvard without ever really encountering the scientific method or learning what a controlled experiment is. If a Harvard student doesn’t understand a scientific issue, his general education...