Quantitative Reasoning is a regular part of the Core which means there is a Faculty committee overseeing it, chaired by Gross and Berkman Professor of Economics Eric S. Maskin.
Like other Cores, students who take classes in related areas are exempt from the QRR. Most introductory mathematics and statistics classes fill the requirement.
There are six classes being offered in the QRR area of the Core this year, ranging from Quantitative Reasoning 24, "Health Economics" and Quantitative Reasoning 26, "Choice and Chance: The Mathematics of Decision Making"
The number of classes is small because only first-years, transfer students and those who failed the QRR test five times need to take it.
In the coming years, the number will increase to 12--the target number for all Core areas.
Reaction
"I knew it was new because one of the booklets we got, the one on the core mentioned this was a new area," says Elias R. Sacks '03. "but I am not annoyed."
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