The Review Gets Reviewed
The Crimson reports that Harvard professors generally like the proposed curricular review, despite some reservations about the lack of emphasis on the study of literature and the possibility that the review is too presentist. (Is that a word? Let's say it is.) It certainly does seem to me a little too obsessed with preparing students for a post-9/11 world. Fifteen years from now, when people start to criticize this review, will they say that it is too pragmatic? And that it prepares students for a world that no longer exists?
Still, there's no question that this train has left the station; there may be some modifications, but this review will happen, and it will certainly be a feather in the cap of Derek Bok, who has a gift for making things look easy....
