摘抄一段关于“核心课程”的说明: “The philosophy of the Core Curriculum rests on the conviction that every Harvard graduate should be broadly educated, as well as trained in a particular academic specialty or concentration. It assumes that students need some guidance in achieving this goal, and that the faculty has an obligation to direct them toward the knowledge, intellectual skills, and habits of thought that are the hallmarks of educated men and women.”
哈佛的“核心课程”分成七个板块:Foreign Cultures; Historical Study; Literature and Arts; Moral Reasoning; Quantitative Reasoning; Science; Social Analysis. 拿Moral Reasoning这个板块做为例子,所给的课程包括: