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...shopping period gets underway, all Harvard students are finding themselves up curriculum creek without a paddle. The period of transition from the Core to General Education has been poorly handled and badly implemented, forcing students into a position where choosing classes (and choosing a curriculum) is a trauma. Although we stood behind the original Gen Ed program as envisioned by its creators, the entire process has become perverted by the College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally...
...category. But the Gen Ed committee, stewarded by Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, was able to reach a solution over the summer. The decision comes just in time for freshmen to take Ec10 this fall with the knowledge that it will count for either curriculum. In a departure from the Core, if Ec10 is taken for just one semester, it will not count toward Gen Ed at all. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...regrettably, as The Crimson Staff, it is our obligation to bring you the veritas of your situation. Harvard may be an old school, but its nothing like Old School. You won’t be doing many keg stands, but you will get to try out a shiny new curriculum that is not yet obsolete (or at all different from the old one). You will probably have to go to a few lectures once in a while, but don’t fret, your professors (if you meet them) will all be extraordinary in one way or another. Your Ec10...
Though Gordon wishes to see a smooth transition into a new general education curriculum, he said he is otherwise “not coming in with a particular set of goals and concerns...
When Gen Ed officially launches next fall, counting new Gen Ed classes for Core credit will be crucial to making sure that the Class of 2012 has enough flexibility as the last class to graduate under a soon-to-be-extinct curriculum...