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...afternoons? For Ian S. Polonsky ’06, who turned in his film studies thesis in March, they are the stuff, apparently, of serious research and work. Despite high enrollment in film studies courses––208 students flocked to the Film Studies’ core offering “Literature and Arts B-11: The Art of Film,” the foundational course that used to be given through the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department––Polonsky was the only senior who wrote a senior thesis in the field...
...next year. In particular, the Yard has proven a great venue for these sorts of events, successfully bringing social life back to the University’s historic center. The aftermath of the concert found many of us enjoying the sight of long lost freshman year roommates and Core course section friends from semesters past. And indeed that was the major success of Yardfest, 2006: it brought the campus together. While many bemoan the dearth of House pride here in Cambridge, Harvard has a healthy capacity for class pride, and even College pride, which ought to be tapped into more...
...your territory,” said Skocpol, who has been mentioned as a potential candidate to replace outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby.After Skocpol’s speech, Kirby opened a scheduled discussion of the proposed general education requirements that would replace the Core Curriculum. A curricular review panel has proposed a set of broad distribution requirements to succeed the Core, but the plan has yet to garner a Faculty consensus.“If this were easy, we would be done by now,” Kirby said at the beginning of his remarks. He emphasized that...
While the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet today to discuss major reforms to the College’s system of general education that could eventually lead to the elimination of the Core Curriculum, the committee that oversees the current system is working to expand the number of departmental courses that can be taken to fulfill Core requirements. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said last week that he wrote to departments and asked them to submit lists of courses they offer that could be used as Core bypasses in the fall. The Core Standing Committee (CSC), which...
...very core of the dropout epidemic is the staggering reality that the vast majority of students who drop out of school have not learned to read above the most basic level. As you point out, early-literacy programs play an important role in preventing reading problems; however, it is never too late to teach students to read. In thousands of middle and high school classrooms across the country, teachers have made a commitment to raising the achievement of older struggling readers. The students lucky enough to have access to these intervention programs are learning to read, regaining their self-confidence...