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...courses. All concentrators are required to take ESPP10, “Introduction to Environmental Science and Public Policy,” which features rotating lecturers and case study approaches to five large environmental problems. Some students enjoy the haphazard approach, although many complain that there seems to be no core knowledge that is learned in the class. The only other required departmental course, after junior tutorial and senior thesis seminars, is ESPP 78, “Environmental Politics,” taught by Sheila Jasanoff. However, while ESPP does not have many departmental courses, students in the concentration have found...
...lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad! As part of your newly internationalized curriculum, you get to take a core class in the exciting field of “Foreign Cultures,” a more-or-less painless category that touts some of the College’s strongest professors and a sexy lineup of courses, ranging from Foreign Cultures 67, “Popular Culture in Modern China?...
...that you have us in your hand, how can you make the most of us? Three uses come to mind: Projectile. Doorstop. Course guide. We prefer the latter, but it’s up to you. In these 28 pages, you’ll find writeups on every Core area and 21 concentrations (those of over 80% of the student body). On the web, you can also find reviews of many individual courses. We’ve also put some discussion forums, organized by concentration, on the web so that you can find out what your classmates think about that...
...those awkward moments when you fumble around for the date of D-Day (it’s June 6, 1944, you fool!). 3) Help you make that witty, bantering, sophisticated small talk that the seasoned Harvardian is expected to make. While the proclaimed purpose of the Historical Study A Core maybe be to train the uncouth species known as the Harvard science concentrator to grasp the “background and development of major issues of the contemporary world,” just remember that its dull slogan is code for empowering the socially awkward to achieve their maximum well...
...professors of Historical Studies B have reason to be teaching scared. If the planned overhaul of the Core Curriculum replaces Historical Studies B with a more flexible set of distribution requirements, they fear students won’t turn up for their antiquarian history classes. The Core currently forces much of the student body to be exposed to classical, medieval, and early modern history, while new distribution requirements would almost assuredly make it easier for students to escape the distant past, if not the study of history entirely.The declared intent of Historical Studies B is to acquaint non-concentrators with...