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List of Harvard's New Gen Ed Courses

John Harvard founded the General Education program in 1651 in order to "educate the heathens regarding the Science of the physycalle Universe, and also empiracall and mathemattical Reasoning."
CAMBRIDGE, MA--On Tuesday, members of the committee reviewing Harvard's General Education program released a report proposing a dramatic overhaul, and a portion of the report enumerated a number of new course offerings. Satire V found a list of the new courses while completing the morning rounds of rummaging through recycling bins outside of administrators' offices. We have reproduced it below.
 
  1. Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 60: How to Tell Time on an Analog Clock
  2. Science of Living Systems 135: A Trip to the Morgue
  3. Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 210: Home Economics
  4. Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 55: Oodles of Doodles: How to Navigate Scheduling, Time Management, and Telling People That You’re Not Available
  5. Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 112: Making Art in Your Parents’ Basement
  6. Ethical Reasoning 2020: Investment Banking and You: A Harvard Tradition
  7. United States in the World 97: Coping with Group Projects through Unilateral Action
  8. Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 314: How to Have Your Pi and Eat It Too
  9. Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 72: Emails and Females: How to Convey Tone Digitally
  10. Culture and Belief 420: Introduction to Rastafarianism
  11. Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 73: Paint by Numbers!
  12. Culture and Belief 57: How to Stop Worrying and Love Your Problematic Uncle During Thanksgiving Dinner
  13. Societies of the World 33: Getting Laid During Study Abroad
  14. Science of Living Systems 63: Roaches and Rodents: Dormitory Biomes
  15. Visual and Environmental Studies 80: Loitering
  16. Ethical Reasoning 101: Making Money in Markets Without Morals
  17. Science of the Physical Universe 101: Quantum Field Theory
 
 
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