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After four long years, the Curricular Review has finally found its heart. The preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education released this week articulates a comprehensive and compelling vision of what it means to be educated in the 21st century. On the whole, the document advances a sound underpinning philosophy for general education: that all Harvard College graduates should be knowledgeable about the seminal issues that face their generation. Yet members of the Harvard community have voiced concerns about the particulars of the committee’s proposal, most notably the balance of the 10 required fields, which...
...We’re all baffled and plan to double check on this in the morning,” Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, a co-chair of the task force that drafted the report, wrote in an e-mail yesterday evening...
Nevertheless, the committee’s preliminary report, which would require students to take courses on religion and U.S. history as part of a new set of 10 mandatory areas of study, started making waves across the nation yesterday. In an evening dispatch, The Associated Press called the task force’s recommendations “surprisingly bold.” And The Wall Street Journal gave prominent treatment to news of the proposal on its website...
June 2006: During his last weeks in office, Dean Kirby appoints six professors to the Task Force on General Education, which he charges with creating yet another report addressing the future of general education at Harvard...
October 2006: The Task Force on General Education releases its preliminary report, which rejects the distribution requirement suggested by previous reports and instead suggests that students be required to complete approved courses in specific “areas of inquiry and experience” and “critical skills...