Committees Redefine 'Harvard Experience' for First Time in 25 Years.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: April 27, 2004 | Copyright information

By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 27--A Harvard College education should include more science, more personal contact with professors, and some time spent outside the United States, according to the committees charged with overhauling Harvard's undergraduate curriculum for the first time in a quarter century.

The report, a year in the making and released to Harvard's faculty yesterday, also recommends that Harvard scrap its required "core curriculum," the set of lecture classes devised in 1978 to ensure students were ...

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