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...Core as it now stands represents both potential good and potential waste for students, according to Jacobsen...
Faculty, on the other hand, seem more concerned that Core courses are not taken seriously...
...vast majority of students are really interested in learning,” he says. “Then, when I hear those same people say, ‘I got the Core out of the way,’ it’s an enormously wasted opportunity...
Jacobsen also says a primary challenge for the Core is the need for universality in science education, embodied in specific problems like teaching science to non-science concentrators...
...Imagine teaching, in one semester, an English class to someone who doesn’t know the language,” says Jacobsen. “So how to teach a self-contained [science] Core class that goes into enough depth to make it interesting...