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...least not exclusively. Rather, it uses history to contextualize and draw conclusions about literature, and vice versa. Daily Hist and Lit work involves understanding various primary and secondary source “texts”—which can be anything from cartoons to hard-core literary theory to musicals—through the context of their historical framework.But this friendly community of keen minds is a far cry from the Brady Bunch. It’s an Honors department with a capital H, meaning that you have to write a thesis to graduate, as well as pass...
...sharpest teachers around. Be sure to shop her class, History of Science 177, “Stories Under the Skin: The Mind-Body Connection in Modern Medicine.”And this year, Darwin will make a triumphant return to Harvard: Mendelsohn used to teach a Darwin Core class, but professor Janet Browne, a new (female!) hire who somehow managed to survive a Summers-era tenure process—will teach Historical Study B-45, “The Darwinian Revolution” in the spring. It turns out she was more fit for the Harvard environment than Larry.Potential concentrators...
...modern art professor who came to Harvard last year and is a world-renowned art historian. His fame comes from incredible intelligence as well as uncanny incoherence and a remarkable ability to invent words. You’ll also meet professor Neil Levine, who last year taught the core course, Lit and Arts B-34, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb.” Professor Levine is exceptionally anal about letting his students out exactly on time, which is great, and almost begins to make up for his extreme outbursts of anger...
Hardly anyone denies it: any Core area can come around to bite you in the ass if you aren’t careful. Some take a lot of planning to make them manageable (Lit and Arts C is full of landmines that’ll have you tackling the genesis of the archetypical peasant in Russian literature for a semester), but a few Core areas aren?...
...texts and literary analysis—falls into the second category. While you’re sure to find some Lit and Arts A classes that don’t appeal to you, a large selection of relatively straightforward courses takes a lot of the sting out of this Core area...