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...While the humanities category Aesthetic and Interpretative Understanding boasts 15 new Gen Ed courses—with 36 total classes counting for credit—five other categories, including both in the sciences, have only a few newly developed Gen Ed classes. A quarter of the 221 total approved classes??174 of which will be offered next year, the rest the year after—are Gen Ed classes, while the remaining 156 courses will be departmental alternatives and Core classes counting for Gen Ed credit, according to Gen Ed Program Manager Anne Marie E. Calareso...
...citations, secondary fields, and concentrations in the language. Elvira G. DiFabio, the Italian program’s director of undergraduate studies, said the College Board’s decision was “really unfortunate” because AP Italian allows “more freshmen into the advanced classes?? and “may even lead them to consider a concentration.” Offering an AP Italian exam is also important because it offers an incentive for students to pursue the language in high school, she said. DiFabio said that the positive effects of AP Italian...
Three other classes??Literature and Arts B-78: “Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World,” Literature 10: “Writing Across Cultures: Literatures of the World (To 1750),” and Literature 11: “Writing Across Cultures: Literatures of the World (From 1750 to the Present)”—have been revamped to fulfill the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement...
...core academic program is in flux. The very organization of our undergraduate education may be overhauled. Nothing, we imagine, could possibly be more demanding of the Committee’s time. We refer, of course, to their proposal to increase the time awarded students for travel between classes??assuming, of course, that someone bothers to create more courses that actually count toward General Education. “Harvard time”—the colloquial name given our unofficial seven-minute lateness-amnesty window—is a venerable institution here. We question, then, why would anyone...
Opportune Sasha A. Rohret ’12 describes a cappella audition week—which conveniently coincides with the first official week of classes??as “the most hectic week of my life...