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With those two books out of the picture, the next step is easy. Disregard the "workload" or "difficulty" of a class. Use the course catalog to narrow classes into two genera relative to you: interesting (very small) and uninteresting (very large). Next, take the first genus and divide it into two species: difficult and easy. Now, start making calculated decisions about how much you want to read and write this semester. The worst mistake you can make during shopping period is to enroll in an uninteresting class because you've read or heard that...
...post-internship blues were setting in when we let our fingers do the schlepping through the 1997-98 Course Catalog. Initially charmed by overused quotation marks and the inscrutable difference between a conference course and a proseminar, we soon despaired after sitting through page upon page of dreary course titles. But here and there are a few humdingers-courses whose names and blurbs make the heart race and palms sweat...
...Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From the Course Catalog Award: to "Philosophy 161r: Topics in Metaphysics," in which Derek Parfit, of Oxford's All Souls College, tells his flock "why the universe exists." Coming next year: "Philosophy 666: The Apocalypse: Where, When and what You Need to Face It." Runner Up: Goran Ekstrom's "ESPP 90B: Preparing for Natural Disasters." Maybe they should co-teach...
...first time in many years, Fair-bank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson's Foreign Cultures 62: "Chinese Family, Marriage and Kinship"-known belovedly among students as "Mating and Dating"-is not listed in the course catalog...
After spending almost three years and more than $9 million, Donald Smaltz became the first among the independent counsels examining the behavior of the Clinton Administration to bring charges against his main quarry. Smaltz threw a whole catalog at Espy, producing multiple charges out of a small set of incidents. The 39 criminal counts accuse Espy of accepting gifts and favors from government-regulated businesses and then trying to cover...