Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Fernand Braudel's The Perspective of the World, and Philip Curtin's The World and the West will be studied, as well as works by Adam Smith and Max Weber, among others.
Working with the Core Committee was relatively painless, say both Ryan and Sachs.
"It was easy. They were enthusiastic and very helpful," Sachs says. "Everything went very smoothly."
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Other changes in the Core for next year are that Biological Sciences 50: "Genetics and Genomics" will count for Science B credit next year, and Historical Studies A-77: "The Emergence of Modern China ca. 1600-2000" will be cross-listed under Foreign Cultures.