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Many students want to do it, many have found it too difficult, but the University is finally making it easier for students to leave Harvard. Last week the Faculty’s Standing Committee on the Core Program passed new guidelines that will liberate students from one Core requirement for every semester of credit they earn abroad. Students may also apply for exemption from the Foreign Cultures requirement on the basis of a summer or partial term spent studying overseas. This welcome policy will make study abroad more feasible...
Furthermore, while the new policy allowing Core exemptions is much needed, it contains some inconsistencies. Under the current plan, Core exemptions are capped so that students can be exempt from no more than two requirements on the basis of their study abroad. However, students studying abroad can apply for an exemption from the Foreign Cultures requirement in addition to exempting one Core requirement per semester overseas. This policy has the contradictory result that a student spending one semester away from Harvard can exempt Foreign Cultures and another core, but should they choose to spend two semesters overseas, they will still...
Under the new policy, as outlined in an e-mail sent to all undergraduates going abroad next fall, students will be exempt from one Core requirement for each full term—or four courses—of Harvard credit they earn, with a maximum of two exemptions allowed...
Additionally, students may apply to satisfy the Foreign Cultures area of the Core with their summer or partial term of study abroad, provided they are receiving an exemption from only one Core area...
...proposals this year is to bring to bear on study abroad the same principles that the Core uses for evaluating advanced standing,” Kirby said...