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...students are taught by not one but two, three, or four instructors.One recent popular offering featured University President Lawrence H. Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel matching wits in Social Analysis 78, “Globalization and Its Critics,” and many science and Core courses currently tout a double professor byline.Team teaching is not new to the Courses of Instruction handbook, but offerings will likely increase as a result of the ongoing curricular review, which has recommended the implementation of interdisciplinary “portal” courses. Come fall, an introductory humanities course...
...current general education requirement, the Core Curriculum, was established in 1979 after six years of careful consideration. Its guiding theme was that students should be inducted into the special “ways of thinking” that characterized the various disciplines. Knowledge was expanding rapidly, and the prevailing idea that students should study a common body of material was becoming increasingly questioned. Some of what now seems arcane in the Core can be explained by intellectual controversies that loomed large when the program was first developed. Today, as the disciplines have grown and changed, the structure of the Core...
There is a great deal to be said for this proposal. To be sure, it does not include requirements in moral or quantitative reasoning, as does the current version of the Core. But it does represent very well the transition we are making to a more fluid understanding of how knowledge is structured and how students might be encouraged to learn...
...curricular review as well.”Full faculty discussion of the recommendations next fall, many faculty members say, will allow faculty to feel ownership of the proposals, and may finally lead to their approval.LOOKING BOK AND AHEAD When then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky sent the initial Core Curriculum report to professors in 1978, The New York Times declared on its front page, “Like the Red Book a generation ago, the report released this week is likely to have widespread influence throughout American higher education.”But if the faculty passes the current...
...women in the sciences, administrative turnover, and Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, than on initiatives in life sciences and globalization or reform of undergraduate education. Summers’ political capital eroded throughout these controversies, which were in many ways peripheral to his core aims, leaving little opportunity for his proposals to take tangible form. Ultimately, far more was said than done. How, then, are we to judge Summers’ tenure? Was it merely a vision unfulfilled?Summers banked his presidency on the assumption that his vision for Harvard was the right one. He aimed...