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Many professors and students welcome the possibility of a change to general education at Harvard, complaining that the Core limits student choice...
...don’t think the Core is any better now than it was when it started,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes. “I think it’s too restrictive. I keep hearing students say that half of their academic career is taken up with requirements...
Others say that the Core requirement presents an obstacle for any student wishing to explore new and different fields...
...Core courses tend to obliterate all the nooks and crannies in the course catalog that students come to be interested in,” says Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn. “They also suck the life out of department courses because the enrollments become too small to sustain them...
Many students concur that fulfilling Core requirements can be frustrating...