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Among the courses offered are College favorites “Constructing the Samurai,” taught by Professor of Japanese History Harold Bolitho, and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant’s “The Rome of Augustus...
Student apathy is another obstacle which Core-teaching professors must overcome. Professor of Japanese History Harold Bolitho teaches “Constructing the Samurai,” a Literature and Arts C course that attracted so many students this fall that it had to be lotteried. Nevertheless, Bolitho says, “You often get students who don’t want to be there. You get students whose eyes are on something else...
...Core has been bemoaned and analyzed more than it has been reformed. Those on both sides of the lectern have come to accept the good with the bad. Despite his complaints, “Samurai” prof Bolitho says he enjoys teaching in the Core because it allows him to access students who have little previous knowledge of his specialty. “I like teaching non-concentrators,” he says. “I don’t want to teach Japanese history to just history majors...