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...politics of 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...
...Core had long been threatening education like a gang of Carthaginians invading the Republic. Only in 2002 was it finally pronounced inadequate and in need of replacement. Its model of awkward categories and trivial information had led to a crisis of liberal education at the College, and so a review process began. Four years down the road, there is a feeling of déjà vu; we are left where we started and signs of stagnation abound. The President that started the review was ousted, but not before he ousted the Dean that spearheaded the effort. The faculty still...
...Harvard is poised to forge a path different than Yale and Princeton, and make unlikely bedfellows with the State University of New York system and George Mason University by mandating a course on the subject of the United States. As one of the general education categories replacing the unpopular Core and its "ways of knowing" approach, "The United States: Historical and Global Perspectives" is a welcomed component of a new curriculum...
...Like the Core, the new proposed curriculum will still require students to take two historically-oriented classes in order to graduate. Under current system, students are required to study both long-term trends and more isolated events and phenomena (Historical Studies A and B respectively). In its recast form, though, the curriculum wisely discards this temporal division and instead opts for a geographical one: between the US and the world...
...Even the core group of campus activists—those students whose names appear over and over again in Crimson articles, Cambridge Common blog posts, and House list announcements of rallies or protests–are unsure. Some say that Harvard is experiencing a period of disengagement, whereas others point to SLAM, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club, and ethnic and cultural groups as examples of the range of activism present on campus...