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...students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise most of any Great Books curriculum. That over 100 freshmen applied to Russell’s fall semester seminar bespeak an unrecognized demand to the contrary. Once an instructor at Columbia, whose equivalent of the Core still consists of a general education in “Great Books,” Russell specialized in teaching the non-Western components of the curriculum. He has imported this emphasis into his Harvard seminars; alongside Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and the Bible are added the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra...
...comment briefly on the individual reports before returning to the larger picture. The Committee on General Education proposes to replace the Core Program with a curriculum at once broad and deep, opening up the entire Courses of Instruction for the general education of our students, empowering Departments to craft curricula for broader audiences, while summoning the Faculty to mount a new set of foundational courses to serve as 'portals' to large and important areas of knowledge...
...close up, and not at a distance. The most consistent-and most accurate-criticism of a Harvard education today is that student-faculty contact is much too limited. Our current system of concentrations decants too many students, much too early, into too few concentrations that are too large. Our Core Program funnels too many students into too few courses that are on the whole too big. To be sure, large concentrations and big courses can be of outstanding quality-that is presumably one reason for their popularity; but in both concentrations and our current Core, our academic culture...
That vote will be followed by debate on the Report of the Committee on General Education, which called for drastically reworking the undergraduate curriculum by eliminating the Core and replacing it with a combination of broad distribution requirements and optional “foundational courses...
Some professors have suggested “instant implementation” for the new distribution requirements, meaning that students starting with the Class of 2007 would have the choice between completing the requirements of the Core or fulfilling a simpler distribution system. But the Faculty has yet to discuss that proposal in great depth...