Word: programing
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Otto T. Solbrig, professor of Biology and chairman of the Core subcommittee on Science, agrees with Rosovsky's holistic approach. "Philosophically, the totality of the program is the issue, but it is debatable whether that is educationally valid--I think it is," he says, adding, "There are certain things an educated person needs to know, and the Core is an introduction...
...notion of reviewing courses with a specific set of guidelines in mind before approving them is a departure from normal Harvard procedure. Part of the problem with the General Education program was that the committees governing it could not say no to their colleagues who wanted to offer courses, says Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. The Core, observes Solbrig, has higher standards...
...reasons for Faculty enthusiasm over the Core, according to Bowersock, is that the program is "a prestige item--the place to be seen now is in the Core." Solbrig points especially to the Science courses as ones taught by some of Harvard's most renowned scholars--including Nobel Prize-winners Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, and Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics...
...What that review turns up is anybody's guess, but for now, after one year of witnessing the Core in action, Rosovsky says he is encouraged, especially by the large number of courses developed specifically for the Core--about 70 per cent of those offered. He calls the program "the greatest injection of new courses in Harvard's history...
Based on that and the quality of professors teaching in the program, Rosovsky says, "I allow myself to hope that we have improved undergraduate education. I've always said curriculum is not the only issue in undergraduate education. I realize that very well. There are many other things, but this is one discrete part." Discrete, perhaps, but definitely the most prominently displayed...