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Interdisciplinary courses are difficult to teach, and in many instances they do not work well on an introductory level. There is a certain amount of risk here that cannot be underestimated. Some students find co-taught courses stimulating, but others find them confusing. For the moment, the courses are proposed as optional rather than mandatory. We need to see what kinds of courses are proposed and how well they function within the rest of the undergraduate curriculum. Still, in the best of circumstances, we might ultimately require that every student take an interdisciplinary course. We need to think carefully about...
...that the Faculty craft 15 to 20 interdisciplinary foundational courses in general education. These classes would not be compulsory, but would be available to students interested in a solid introduction to their disciplines as well as satisfying divisional requirements. One enticing example is a course on odysseys to be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt. We look forward to portal courses such as these and, more broadly, the reforms proposed by the Committee of General Education.Some of the reforms suggested...
...personal. The individual attention and student-professor interaction such courses are likely to foster will be a welcome change from the overwhelming size of many foundational courses. While many of these proposed courses are sure to be enticing––a class on odysseys to be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt is a promising example––we can only hope that a sufficient number of similarly exciting courses will be offered concurrently...
Shleifer, who was on leave this year, confirmed in an e-mail Thursday that he will be back to teaching Economics 1030, “Psychology and Economics,” his popular course co-taught with Professor of Economics David I. Laibson, as well as a junior economics seminar and a graduate course on law and economics at Harvard Law School...
...Fallon, who taught with Gerken last year, called her departure a “terrible loss” for the Law School. “[Gerken] is a stunningly gifted teacher,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “A year ago, she and I co-taught a year-long seminar called the Public Law Workshop [and] it was the best pedagogical experience that I have had in over 20 years of law teaching.”“Heather has a remarkable capacity to inspire students both collectively and individually...