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Just over 50 faculty, administrators, and students attended last night’s symposium on the Core to hear four senior Harvard professors weigh in on its future. In the first public discussion about the recently begun curricular review, Harvard College Professor Jorge I. Dominguez, Gurney Professor of English Literature James Engell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences David Pilbeam and Harvard College Professor Maria M. Tatar were featured speakers...
...professors independently praised a 1997 critique of the Core written by James T. L. Grimmelmann ’99, Sarah K. Hurwitz ’99 and Benjamin A. Rahn ’99—three students that served on the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council. Engell said that he hopes students feel motivated to produce such a report again...
...response to a question posed by David M. Darst ’05 on whether or not students might ultimately be able to vote on a general education program to replace the Core, faculty dismissed the idea...
Pilbeam, who said that he recently met with a group of 12 first-years to discuss the Core, spoke about how decreased student attendance and interest in the Core has made his experience teaching in it much less enjoyable...
Most notoriously, the Core has become increasingly incapable of achieving its fundamental goal—learning about different “approaches to knowledge.” By forcing students into watered-down, overpopulated lecture classes, the Core assumes that students are incapable of learning those same “approaches” in more rigorous departmental classes. It eliminates the opportunity for true intellectual exploration by strong-arming students into taking basic courses in arbitrary areas. The Core’s elimination would be addition by subtraction...