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...students started shopping, classes were packed all around—often overflowing into hallways—with a disproportionate number of these courses counting toward the Core Curriculum. Though College administrators were able to predict that General Education classes would be large since freshmen have just one "U.S. in the World" class to look at this fall, they may have forgotten that there are still all those sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are under a curriculum that has already "shuffled off its mortal coil," in English professor James Simpson's words over a year...
...expect a course on classical Chinese ethical and political theory to attract that much attention. Sure, we all know about Confucius, and maybe Sun Tzu too. But considering Harvard students' tendency to take eight classes with overlapping subject matter in order to pad their GPAs, it's surprising that this East Asian studies class had students packed and overflowing into the hallway (and about half the students there had to stand). But wait for it, wait for it: its official title is Moral Reasoning 78, and only two other Moral Reasoning classes are being offered this fall. While this...
Another professor whose course flier declares, "Wake up, it's the 7th century!" (for History 1040: "The Fall of the Roman Empire") is also teaching in the ancient Core. Though this Historical Study B class doesn't double-count toward Gen Ed, about 20 people couldn't get in, and upperclassmen were flooding the hallways to such an extent that one lone freshman girl on the window-sill had to ask, "Can freshmen take this...
English 168d: "Postwar American and British Fiction," which counts toward Literature and Arts A. (Although the crowd in this class probably has more to do with the headlining professor, the inimitable James Wood, than the fact that it counts as a core class. Let's be honest—is anyone going to compete with a flock of fawning English concentrators when all they really want is an easy A in a core...
...American Arts and Crafts Movement, which imbued the creation of furniture and the domestic with a political aspect; working in opposition to the sterilizing effects of the Industrial Revolution, the movement emphasized a return to handicraft, an importance of organic materials, and an emphasis on style within the middle-class home. For the brothers Greene, this was manifested in the subtle details of their furniture design. One living room table was sent to the builders with the instructions that the “architect will give direction of grain,” and sure enough, the wood?...