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Feldman says he worries the review may even look backwards rather than forwards, arguing it has an “alarming resemblance to the general education requirements?? of two generations ago, with its proposal to replace the Core with a combination of departmental distribution requirements and the so-called Harvard College Courses, a set of as-yet-undefined broad interdisciplinary survey courses. This proposal somewhat resembles the distributional requirement system established in the 1940s, which faced widespread faculty and student dissatisfaction by the time of Rosovsky’s 1970s review that created the Core as a replacement...
...sophomore standing option was one of four new programs created by the Faculty in spring 1954 to give students more flexibility with their undergraduate requirements??a theme echoed in today’s ongoing curricular review —and enable them to speed up their education by one year...
...Bachelor of Science degree—will study abroad. Government concentrators, with a more manageable 10-14 required credits, enjoy a more flexible curriculum and could be more apt to spend a semester abroad. Even if the College goes forth with the proposed 12-credit cap on requirements??a move we oppose—some concentration requirements, like those of Engineering Sciences, would not be affected by the cap due to national standards for the BS degree...
...minds about the areas they wish to study.” As admirable as these goals may be, there is little indication that the proposed revisions would, in fact, accomplish these goals. Take the intention to emphasize interdisciplinary studies. Interdisciplinary concentrations will only be constrained by a cap on requirements??environmental science and public policy, for example, currently requires 16 courses for its Basic track alone—and, as a result, they will be forced to limit not only the number, but likely the scope of their courses...
...arts courses, as well as the amorphous semi-historical and psuedo-literary no-man’s land of Literature and Arts C. Yet, in spite of the doubling up of these areas—and the existence of moral reasoning, social analysis, quantitative reasoning and foreign cultures requirements??there is no meaningful language requirement whatsoever. Please do not misunderstand me: I am not for one second suggesting that students should be exposed to less history, literature or science in exchange for learning a language. Learning a foreign language, however, should be viewed as just as important...