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...perfectly great option for education. Whatever.” The Crimson’s patronizing attitude didn’t charm everyone. CSCI E-2, “Bits,” Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68, who also teaches the class for the Core Curriculum, says he was offended by the editorial. “I don’t think that Harvard misrepresents the difference between the College degree and the HES degree,” he says. HES students are “simply trying to better themselves and are honored to be able...
...give people skills necessary for a sophisticated understanding of the social sciences and current events. The roles of ethnic minorities, the dynamics of ongoing border disputes, the strategic positions of key waterways: concepts like these are fundamental to developing a mature perspective on global affairs. Without a strong core of geographic knowledge, analyzes of international events tend to be myopic at best and provincial at worst. Yet Harvard’s course catalog continues to feature a grand total of zero courses in the subject. If Harvard is to have any sort of meaningful core curriculum—one which...
Gordon said he thinks many students will still choose to take 10a and 10b, especially because the course is often taken as a Core course or an elective...
...them, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, is a member of the “Gang of Five” professors who drafted most of the review’s report on general education, which outlined a system of broad distribution requirements to replace the Core Curriculum...
...Minister Dominique de Villepin's presidential hopes, you might think the country's students would be simply content to celebrate their triumph. But while unions and some student groups said President Jacques Chirac's disavowal of the law was enough reason for them to end repeated demonstrations, more hard-core university and political groups pledged to continue staging marches and protests until the wider package of measures the now-defunct law was part of are repealed, including a similar, nine-month-old arrangement giving smaller businesses more flexibility fire young, new workers...