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Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn worries that if the Core were to disappear, so would the ideology behind it—namely the thought that students should have some training in various approaches to knowledge...
...Having taught in the Core for many years and having taught in general education before it, I would be sorry to see some of the underlying goals disappear,” he says. “Students ought to be acquainted with some of the basic materials across different disciplines...
...think the Core is a huge success. There’s an incredible number of outstanding courses, the likes of which you’d be hard-pressed to find at other universities,” says Committee on the Core Program member and Professor of German Peter J. Burgard. “What’s wonderful about these courses is that they bring together students from all over the University in a way that I do not think would happen in other [departmental] courses,” he says...
Burgard says that Core courses—whose syllabi must be approved by the Committee on the Core Program—are some of the most carefully designed courses in the University...
...addition, the Core has also been praised for the way it functions—as a kind of “virtual department” Tuck says...