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However, by 1980, 50 Core courses were offered in the six delineated areas, prompting Rosovsky to call the program “the greatest injection of new courses in Harvard’s history,” in an article published in The Crimson June...
More than 25 years after the birth of the Core, students are now seeing a rejection of the “modes of inquiry” approach to education that typified the 1978 concept of a liberal arts education. Instead, Harvard is returning to its more traditional pre-Core roots. That today’s Harvard College Curricular Review calls to replace the Core’s fragmented approaches to learning illustrates the the perennial problem of balancing academic guidance with academic freedom...
While development of the centerpiece of last year’s report—the replacement of the Core Curriculum with a set of knowledge-based general education requirements—is still caught at the committee level, other committees have submitted ideas to the full faculty for review...
Along with its findings, the Committee on Race Relations also issued 13 recommendations, suggesting that courses on race relations be incorporated into the Core Curriculum and that affirmative action admissions be increased...
...Harvard College Courses, a January-term (J-Term), internationalization, revamped advising, and scientific literacy, among others—left much to be desired. They were vaguely defined and lacked the inspiration of previous reviews which gave us the “Red Book” of 1945 and the Core Curriculum of the 1970s. All of this was supposed to change this year as a set of outstanding essays on general education by members of the Faculty gave the curricular review a much-needed lift just a couple days into the fall semester...