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Another option is to develop a second economics core class, but such a move would require the approval of the Core Office...
First off, Ec 10 is the largest class on campus and regularly gets the lowest CUE Guide ratings of any Social Analysis course in the Core, a sign that students, if given an opportunity, would love to walk out of their half-filled lectures in Sanders Theater and never return. But anybody planning to concentrate in economics, the most popular concentration at Harvard, must take Ec 10. Those interested in Social Studies are frequently herded into the class as well. Even those who are not forced to take Ec 10 by departmental requirements find that the course is the only...
...History of Art and Architecture to Environmental Science and Public Policy—that either touch on or are directly related to the field of architecture and urban studies. When Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City,” was introduced in the Core curriculum last year, there was an unexpectedly strong response from undergraduates, and 275 students ultimately enrolled in the course...
Architecture and urban studies is such a broad, liberal arts based field that it spans many if not all of the existing areas in the Core curriculum. For example, Social Analysis is central to the field of urban studies, and concentrators would likely be required to take introductory economics. A study of statistics (Quantitative Reasoning) is critical to understanding both the functionality of buildings and the composition of urban areas. A class I took at the GSD focused on the theories of Jurgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt and their application to built space/public space (Moral Reasoning). In Foreign Cultures, there...
...heart of architecture, and biological science (Science B) also has an undeniably important role, from the psychological implications of space to the ecological impacts of different types of land use. I am not concerned with the so-called “methodology” the Core purports to incorporate; still, it is clear that an architecture and urban studies concentration would integrate and expose students to the vast range of disciplines the Core encompasses...