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...place of the Core, which is an arbitrarily constricted group of mostly obscure offerings, the HCCR suggests that undergrads be set loose upon academic departments, where their options will become even more obscure. It seems exceedingly likely that many Core courses will simply be incorporated into academic departments. Thus Quantitative Reasoning 28, “The Magic of Numbers,” will become “Mathematics 01,” and the only thing that will change about admittedly lackluster courses is their name...
...undergraduate education. But before that can happen, the HCCR needs confident leaders to take the helm and demand that the HCCR—including CGEs—be solidly finished before it is implemented. Better to wait for the Class of 2011 and make a clean break with the Core than attempt a major change in the curriculum without finalizing the centerpiece courses of Harvard’s new general education philosophy...
...College Curricular Review (HCCR) is finally brought before the Faculty in the coming semester, its focus will shift from broader issues of general philosophy and overall framework to finer details of implementation. Chief among these unresolved details is the pressing issue of how and when to transition from the Core Curriculum to the new system. Because of the deficiencies of the Core and the ostensible simplicity of a transition, the best course of action for current students is “instant implementation”—getting rid of the Core and moving all students...
...partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never will be a Red Tory--but his stolid textbook campaign managed to attract a diverse group of voters, from rural Albertans to southern Ontarians to nationalist Quebeckers. If Harper proves he can govern...
...Back again by popular demand, the course’s popularity last spring is likely a testament to students’ cravings for food beyond the routine dining hall menu. Over a quarter of students last spring took Social Analysis 70 as an elective, not to fulfill a Core requiremnt, and the course can be expected to draw another hungry crowd this shopping period as well...