Word: academicization
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Goldstein can introduce so many abstract concerns because she chooses here, as in many of her other books, to make her characters professional scholars, a territory she knows well. Seltzer’s academic career is narrated by Goldstein—a former fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...
That Goldstein is much more at home in the academic realm than in the religious gradually becomes clear. For all her novel’s ambition to portray and explain the modern religious experience, it is unable to shake sufficiently free of its author’s initial presumptions. Like...
For all its intellectual banter, witty academic satire and thoughtful portrayal of religious life and community—all of which make this a far more elegant and effective work than any new atheist polemic—“36 Arguments for the Existence of God” still...
The proposal has prompted hesitation among some SEAS faculty and course TFs due to concerns that the new grading scheme may be incompatible with course credit policies and may weaken the academic rigor of the class, which drew more than 300 students when it was offered last fall.
SEAS Associate Dean for Academic Programs Robert D. Howe stressed that some professors were especially concerned that students concentrating in engineering or applied mathematics typically take CS50 for concentration credit. In order for the course to count for an engineering or applied math requirement, it must be taken for a...