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...Faculty also voted to allow department alternates to Core courses in the humanities and social science areas; these already existed in the science areas. The Core Standing Committee has focused on expanding the offerings in the Core proper, but 16 department courses in the humanities and social sciences now satisfy Core requirements...
Language citations were introduced in 1999 to recognize and encourage sustained work in a foreign language. Today, 354 are being awarded in 18 languages. Students may use a language citation toward the Core Foreign Cultures requirement...
...Freshman Seminar Program to increase the opportunities for first-year students to benefit from small-group instruction. The program has expanded from 36 seminars offered that year to 114 to be offered next year. To open curricular space for students to enroll in seminars, the Faculty reduced the Core requirement from 8 to 7 of the 11 areas...
Over the past two years, the Faculty has sought to make study abroad a more natural part of a Harvard College education, creating a new Office of International Programs and asking concentrations to facilitate a semester abroad. To lower one barrier to study abroad, the Core Standing Committee reduced the Core requirement by one area for each full term of study abroad. During the past year, 173 students studied abroad for one or both terms. This summer, 130 students will study abroad, including 35 enrolled in courses taught by Harvard faculty through the Summer School...
...teaching have changed significantly in many fields, and we must think collectively about what and how we teach, and for what purpose. The rapid rate of curricular innovation and change over the past several years far outpaces what we had seen during the period from the introduction of the Core in the 1970s until the 1997 review. This too is a sign that the time had come to step back from business as usual and take a comprehensive look at the curriculum to make certain that the various components provide a unified vision of what we seek to achieve...