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...response to “UC Slates Curricular Review Meeting” (news, Feb. 27), I would suggest that Harvard’s interim president adopt a simple interim solution to reform of the core curriculum: vastly expand the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirements...
...current Harvard College students will experience a reformed curriculum. As a parent of a member of the class of 2008, I was briefed by the faculty about the pending plans to reform the core curriculum during the September 2004 freshman orientation. Today, with curriculum reform still being discussed and with the resignations of President Lawrence Summers and Dean William Kirby, it is certain that my daughter will enter her junior year, and most likely her senior year, with no curriculum reform in place at Harvard College...
Immediate curriculum reform for Harvard students is necessary because the current core curriculum has become an impediment to a liberal arts education. The distinctions drawn between core and departmental courses are inexplicable and irrational. My daughter’s multidisciplinary bioethics course does not count towards the core requirement of Moral Reasoning. Her history of science course on the nineteenth century social response to Darwinian evolution does not count as a History A or B. Her three demanding, higher-level French courses do not count towards either the Foreign Cultures or the Literature and Arts requirements of the core. Instead...
...simple and immediate solution to this problem is maintaining the core requirements for current students while substantially increasing the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirement. Designating which departmental courses count towards the core should not require the unpredictable and after-the-fact process of individual student application to the Registrar. A faculty committee, sitting down with the course catalog, could perform the task in a week. This reform actually could be in place by the fall 2006 semester...
...Developing high-rise living on the riverfront-mixed with single-family housing-means the population of pre-Katrina New Orleans could fit on about half the land it covers now, according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown...