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Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology”—the new introductory life sciences course offered this fall—represents a glimpse of what introductory lecture courses at Harvard and nationwide may look like in coming years...
...rolled out of bed at about 9:37 a.m., and, after grabbing a sweatshirt and trekking across the frostbitten Yard, I strolled into the Science Center about 12 minutes late. I faced the world—and my early morning Life Sciences 1a lecture—only reluctantly on that cold December morning. As I set foot in the lecture hall, stale coffee in hand, I saw Herschel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics Andrew W. Murray taking a stand against the chronic tardiness of students like me. I was surprised; while an unsettlingly high proportion of students arrive late...
...problem with Life Sciences 1a is that it pampers its students by posting video recordings of its lectures on the Internet within hours of their completion, thereby eliminating the need to come to class on time, if at all. Instead of resorting to dirty bribery to motivate its students to crawl out from the bed a few minutes earlier, administrators ought to cut some of these extraneous perks—perks that enable students to attend lecture electronically from their desks at their leisure, when they are feeling more alert...
...know and whose thought process I’m more familiar.” Although the waiting period varies, the quest for a tutor usually ends in triumph. Vivian M. Ku ’09 said she filled out a form to request a tutor for Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology,” and received a reply after five days. “It’s helpful,” Ku said. “It’s a good program...
...Life Sciences 1a, some students said they were frustrated by the large size...