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...have been able to obtain a brochure that lists the numerous film courses—spread across various departments—offered at Harvard. The sheer number and diversity of courses that are present in this guide to “Film Studies at Harvard” demonstrate the breadth that would be available for students in a formalized program. If the track were approved, film courses that are not listed under VES in which students currently enroll as electives would garner concentration credit, giving students freedom to pursue academic interests more easily...
Currently, however, Harvard does not require anyone to ponder Shakespeare’s truths, much less to read a word of his plays. Casting the rejection of standards as an enlightened educational revolution, the Core bureaucrats giddily proclaim: “The Core...does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” But there are some Great Books that citizens of Western society, in order to be educated men and women, really should read...
...guides a six-foot speech-endowed dog through New York City, then orchestrates a meticulously choreographed aerial waltz with Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice.” Though Jonze’s collection is the most satisfying for its breadth of styles, the offerings are occasionally spotty and relatively shallow exercises...
Guare’s source material always stays a hair’s breadth away from quite making sense. Why do the college students balk at tracking down their old classmates, then eventually not only hunt them down but tape-record their conversation? Why does Paul, when given a perfectly good chance to make it in the upper crust, turn it down? The play also features a subplot involving two Utah theater students that peters out without concluding, and an abrupt, unsatisfying ending...
...divisional deans can impact the academic experience of undergraduates by improving the Faculty’s appointment system. More faculty members will lower class size, provide more professorial contact with students and expand course offerings to enhance both the breadth and depth of courses offered. As Kirby plans to expand the Faculty by 10 percent over the next decade, the new divisional deans can focus on hiring junior faculty—often younger, fresh professors, who regularly offer ground-breaking courses...