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Kirby’s letter also summarized the work of the Curricular Review committees and confirmed that the recommendations—including a January term, an increase in study abroad opportunities, and a revamping of the Core Curriculum??will be ready for a Faculty vote by the end of the spring...
...full Faculty has yet to approve any of the review’s preliminary recommendations. Kirby, who is leading the review, said he anticipates the Faculty will vote on some of the proposals this spring. Changes not relating to the curriculum??like those involving advising and housing—do not require a Faculty vote, Gross said...
Forty-three Faculty members will staff the four primary committees that will be responsible for bringing to life changes—from assigning freshmen to upperclass Houses upon matriculation to axing the Core curriculum??that will transform the Harvard undergraduate experience...
...first summer of the program, students study a unique curriculum??the theme of which is “students as citizens”—at Harvard for four weeks...
...introduce bodies of knowledge, concepts and major texts.” For these classes to be effective, they must emphasize the world’s most essential texts and ideas—though we oppose a strict “Great Books” curriculum??and highlight the best Harvard has to offer, both with professors and teaching fellows (TFs). In any case, the HCCR needs to be clearer in the coming month about what it expects this new class of courses to look like...