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...department also offers Core courses that Ford says are consistently popular. When it was last offered in the spring of 2002, 173 students enrolled in Literature and Arts C-20, “The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga...
Pitoniak emphasized that the rioting was the work of a “small, hard-core group of students,” though law enforcement officials estimated that more than 1,000 raucous students participated in the anarchy...
...underlying an American liberal arts education can broadly be summed up, to quote former Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1887, that “every educated man should know a little of everything and everything about something.” Whether or not Harvard’s Core Curriculum currently achieves that goal is somewhat dubious, and the curricular review process should, with any luck, improve things a great deal. One area, however, that there has been little buzz about—and thus seems in danger of being overlooked—is Harvard’s obligation...
...moment, the Core requires that all students take at some point during their Harvard careers two science courses, two history courses, two literature and arts courses, as well as the amorphous semi-historical and psuedo-literary no-man’s land of Literature and Arts C. Yet, in spite of the doubling up of these areas—and the existence of moral reasoning, social analysis, quantitative reasoning and foreign cultures requirements—there is no meaningful language requirement whatsoever. Please do not misunderstand me: I am not for one second suggesting that students should be exposed...
...creating a serious language requirement, however, would be even more meaningful as it would ensure that all students were forced to confront the world outside America. Indeed, those students who dodge languages at Harvard are probably those who most need to be forced to take them. Harvard has a Core Curriculum precisely to ensure that students are forced to confront important topics, even if they fall outside of their favored fields...