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...required course and / or a building block for a number of concentrations in the applied sciences. As such, many of its students have an external incentive to learn the material in addition to simply wanting a good grade—an incentive that almost all Core classes utterly lack, as they are generally the first and last course in that field which most of their students ever take...
...Imputing human characteristics onto Harvard Core classes, which Core class would you spend a single evening making sweaty pig love to, and which would you make your life partner...
...want to make sure that these add-ons don’t actually take resources away from the core mission of the schools,” said University Provost Steven E. Hyman...
...There is a seduction to centers because they are so topical...but they were taking funds for the core interests of the school,” Bloom said. “And that makes it harder to support our mission as a University...
While Harvard is certainly a university of the highest quality, experiences at other schools can be even more valuable to students, and so they deserve Harvard Core or concentration credit. Harvard should expeditiously finalize its two-track system to provide students with programs that are preapproved for credit, which would eliminate students’ uncertainty about receiving College credit. When students can receive credit for a wide range of educational opportunities, those without advance standing will be more likely to study abroad. And as the number of students studying abroad increases, Harvard should make undergraduates well aware that financial...