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These continued deliberations led to unexpected changes in the Core requirements...
Placing a strong emphasis on the sciences, the Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum approved a measure in February, 1980 requiring that physical sciences concentrators be required to take a Core course in the biological sciences—raising the number of required courses for physical science concentrators to nine...
These changes contradicted the Committee’s November promise to cap Core requirements at eight for all students...
...while the 1978 proposal outlined 10 Core areas, by the 1979-1980 academic year, six main areas were chosen—Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis, Moral Reasoning, Science, and Foreign Cultures...
National hype surrounding the Core curriculum eventually enticed professors to design courses which fit Harvard’s new approach to education. But many faculty members still shied away from teaching courses designed for non-concentrators, students termed “the ignorant masses,” in a Sept. 14, 1979 article from The Crimson...