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...openly said at the beginning that this is not Math 55 or English 10a, where you have so much reading,” he says. “I think people have a perception that it’s easy because they like it. When you love something, it becomes much easier. For me, it’s reading philosophical texts. I love it, I enjoy it, so it feels easy, even though it’s hard reading...
...free range education, where students may roam a 938-page course catalog and pick whatever makes them happy, is that amidst the spasms of academic choice, course offerings have often become so peripheral that the only recourse to general education is to take impersonal, large surveys like History 10a (120 students) or English 10a (141 students). Those students who would prefer a 15-person Great Books seminar as opposed to, by way of example, an 11-person offering on “The Female Body in Modern America” are typically out of luck.Yale has solved this problem already...
...Earth and Planetary Sciences 132, “Introduction to Meteorology.” Other classes that end before the break include Economics 1035, “Policy Applications of Psychology and Economics,” Economics 1542 “International Trade Policy,” English 10a, “Major British Writers” and Chemistry 285, “Human Disease.” Final exams in these classes are not technically finals because they are not cumulative and are not worth more than any other test administered during the semester. But for students, one crucial...
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Still, anecdotal accounts from professors are hard to ignore. Lecturer on Sociology David L. Ager slammed the Coop in class for marking up the coursepack for Sociology 109, “Leadership and Organizations,” by more than 20 percent. Associate Professor Eric W. Robinson of History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650,” said in one of his first lectures that he expected the coursepack to cost $50. The Coop ended up selling it for $80. Every Harvard student is familiar with the endless litany of professorial rage...