Word: 10a
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first semester, History 10a, covers Western history from antiquity to 1650, while the second semester, History 10b, is a survey of European history from the first cities and empires to modern times...
...keep one step ahead of the students and teach myself about African empires and the Justinian Code, I think back to all the failed Faculty debates on including History 10a and 10b in the Core, all the swirling chatter about "methods and approaches to knowledge," and I wonder: To what end the self-righteous administrators' smugness at keeping the Core untainted by survey courses, if I hold a degree from Harvard and cannot call myself liberally educated...
...jokes designed to see whether or not I am one of those `sensitive' feminists," says Kirsten D. Sword, a teaching fellow for women's studies 10a...
...indefensibly large and the administration should loosen its belt to hire more TFs. But in not a few cases, particular sections are over-subscribed, leaving the other sections with less than 10 students. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment faced this problem this fall. In History 10a, he secured funding for two additional sections to be offered on Fridays. Although the first sections all had well over 15 students, Professor Ozment literally had to beg students--he offered gourmet cupcakes as bribes--to switch into the Friday sections...
Some departmental courses do the Core's job better than the Core. These are often courses that the Core program has rejected. Take, for example, the survey courses History 10a and 10b, which seem to be natural candidates for the History A Core requirement. These classes, which provide a considerable breadth of knowledge as well as a solid introduction to the methods of historical study, were turned down for the most peevish of reasons: They didn't precisely fit the description of the Core divisions Historical Studies A or B. This leads us to believe that the Core administrators, rather...