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...successful, the Harvard College Curricular Review will transform introductory courses from the narrowly focused Core designed to teach a “way of knowing?? into a sweeping, interdisciplinary intellectual odyssey. In order to do so, however, changes must go beyond a mere shuffling of syllabi and involve fundamental changes in pedagogy. We believe this will require reform in Harvard’s stringent policies on hiring full-time teachers.On this page, we have repeatedly maligned the Core Curriculum and endorsed the recommendation of the review’s Committee on General Education, in which students would...
...seems to be moving in circles. Students and faculty must know what the principles underlying the proposed system of general education are—and they must buy into it—or else the long-heralded HCCR will simply replace one meaningless slogan (“ways of knowing??) with another one, such as “essential facts.” We worry that the College is in danger of shallowly slapping a new name on the barren intellectual wasteland that sits in the first section of the course catalog. Real reform is within reach...
...aims to instruct students in “ways of knowing,” and concentration tutorials initiate students into the methods of their chosen field. These are all laudable goals, yet they all focus on what is already known. In addition to learning “ways of knowing?? in specific fields, students should also learn to identify what they do not know. Rarely will students come across professors or others dwelling on the great unsolved mysteries of Romantic poetry, urban decay or immunology. In some ways, the unwillingness to think at length about the largest, most...
...greater Harvard community. This year’s Freshman Seminar 19: “Considering Works of Art in the Harvard Museums” may introduce a first-year to University resources seldom taken advantage of by most students, while Freshman Seminar 18: “‘Knowing?? Boston,” may provoke students to venture into the city unfortunately unexplored by many Square-bound undergraduates...