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Thanks to relaxed Core requirements and administrators’ encouragement, the number of students thus marked rose sharply this year—93, according to a Sept. 17 Crimson article, compared to last year’s 51. This is, most of us agree, a positive trend. We all talk about being trapped in the Harvard bubble, but until lately few of us had done anything about it. How better to gain perspective on Harvard than by spending one’s junior year in, say, Buenos Aires? When we call my once and future roommate, who has adopted this...
...stood in line at the Coop, bracing myself for the bi-annual ordeal known as buying books, my friend jokingly suggested that I, having been born and raised in Tokyo, could take the class Foreign Cultures 84, “Tokyo” to fulfill my Foreign Cultures Core requirement. Considering the irony of this facetious proposal, I quickly noticed the Asian boy in front of me cradling a stack of books all bearing the word “China” in their titles. After casually striking up a conversation with him, I learned that he wanted to take...
Although Susan Lewis, director of the Core Program, pointed out that minority students could very well have not gained any exposure to their parents’ or grandparents’ cultures while growing up, it is unfair to assume so. Yet the title “Foreign Cultures” does just that; it suggests that any subject matter that isn’t American or Anglophone is indeed foreign. The description of Foreign Cultures further demonstrates the Core Program’s assumption, stating that the “courses also introduce methods of studying a culture...
Perhaps the Foreign Cultures component of the Core Program is well-intentioned—considering it was created in the 1970s in order to expose a more homogeneous student body to non-Western ways of life—however it may be time for a bit of modification. While its aims to introduce students to different cultures are still relevant, Foreign Cultures would better serve the undergraduate population by undergoing an alternation of title and mission statement...
Second semester started Wednesday with classrooms filled to their brims, professors scrambling to find additional teaching fellows (TFs) and core classes planning lotteries—even after moving to larger classrooms...