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...first of two symposia designed to foster discussion on the first widescale review of Harvard’s curriculum since the 1974, Dean of Undergraduate Benedict H. Gross ’71 will preside over a panel addressing the traditional arguments for and against the Core...
When a council member asked if students would be able to learn earlier if their petitions to count departmental courses for Core credit had been approved under a preregistration system, Gross called the idea “a very reasonable suggestion...
...When a petition comes through, we try to consider whether it can be universally applied to the Core,” he said. “Some professors don’t want to put it in the catalog as fulfilling a Core requirement...
It’s been a busy fall. The dean of the Faculty has announced that the entire undergraduate curriculum—Core, concentrations, the whole shebang—will be reviewed. A system is being developed for course preregistration, breaking an old Harvard tradition in the way students select courses but promising better advising and better-trained teaching fellows. Advocates of Israel and the Palestinians have thrown some blistering words at each other at Harvard events, and the president of Harvard has set off a debate on an important question of intents and actions. The President...
...It’s really in its infant stage. I have gotten a lot of enthusiasm for the project. I’m now getting a lot more help,” Bishop said. “I hope this will be the core, the group that people look back on as starting...