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...members of the committee have been entrusted with the future heart of Harvard’s liberal arts education, and from the looks of it they want to punt. Unsurprisingly, last Friday a discussion of the full Faculty yielded little consensus on what should replace Harvard’s Core curriculum. More troubling, however, the Faculty seemed daunted by the still-ambiguous nature—even after so many months—of the proposals on the table. The Committee on General Education has done an admirable job grappling with the myriad competing theories of general education, but it seems...
...required at all. It is likely that they will only be the exciting, challenging and meaningful courses that they are intended to be so long as students can choose to abandon them for departmental courses en masse. Competition between courses, which is sorely lacking in the present Core, will ensure that these courses are truly the best courses Harvard offers. If they are truly as well-designed and well-taught as intended, students will want to enroll in them. If the Faculty insists on requiring at least some HCC, we hope that number will be as small as possible, with...
...Evan was once a hard-core sports writer and editor, but found his true calling in the 20 lovely pages we call FM. As Publisher, he’ll be working photographers and designers to get this rag all purdy-like and make production night run smoothly. And for that, FM is grateful...
...Library and several other members of the HCL team, the new service will drastically reduce the inconvenience to students, who currently are not permitted to check out reserve compact discs or cassettes from the library. We join everyone who has ever been a member of any Literature & Arts B core course in thanking HCL for introducing this great new service...
Baird Professor of Science Gary Feldman, who called today’s Core categories “not so bad,” took issue with the broad nature of the three principal areas of study defined by Sandel, arguing that they encompassed just about everything...