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Students were required to take courses in the eight Core areas furthest from their concentration...
Lowell’s reforms, which were the predecessors of the distribution requirements and the Core curriculum that would follow later in the century under University Presidents James B. Conant ’14 and Derek C. Bok, required Harvard students to focus a minimum of six of their required 18 courses on one division (their concentration) while also taking at least six courses outside this primary field...
...Core” was made up of 10 broad areas: two in Historical Studies, two in Literature, two Science, Music and Art, Social Analysis, and Moral Reasoning—the Quantitative Reasoning requirement was not added until a 1997 review of the Core...
...result was the Core Curriculum, which was adopted...
Though it has been tweaked several times in the past 25 years, the Core curriculum is the system Harvard College uses today...