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Changes to the curriculum continue with the addition of humanities and general education courses, but take them now because they are only “transitionary” and won’t be around forever. At the top of the list is the tag team of Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, who will co-teach Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium.” The reading list provided in the course catalog makes this class sound like a 90-minute version...
...offerings will likely increase as a result of the ongoing curricular review, which has recommended the implementation of interdisciplinary “portal” courses. Come fall, an introductory humanities course will 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.Having multiple players behind the podium during a semester means less lecturing but more pre-class coordination for each professor. Despite the workload, professors say team teaching provides the kind of peer review usually only available for their research. Students say their team...
...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 by the curricular review’s other committees involve revamping the Expository Writing program to have...
...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, so as to ensure that small class size remains a signature feature of these gateway courses. We also hope...
Celebrity academics like Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt say that Harvard’s vibrant intellectual atmosphere drew them here...