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...purchase the 14 additional required books for the course). The price of this coursepack is especially maddening considering many articles it contains, like Jessica Stern’s “The Protean Enemy,” are available for free through Harvard’s e-resources. Another Core, Historical Studies B-64, has a coursepack which will cost students $172. The cost of the coursepack and the next two most expensive books, when bought at the Coop, is $302. Most distressing, though, has to be the Ec 10 “package deal” that the Coop...
...have elected as my kin, the fabled territory of Romance Languages returns to mind. Reputedly Harvards stylish females congregate there, although they have also been observed in enclaves such as Foreign Cultures 22: La critique sociale and English 10b: Major British Writers. In a similar anomaly, there are Core classes whose ratio of athletes to meager physiques is much more advantageous than usual. A casual visitor might be deluded into believing that Harvard students actually keep in shape. No one can explain why each semester Roman Games and Shakespearean Genres are so well-attended by varsity players, though whispers about...
...course, History 10a: Introduction to Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures. Elsewhere known as “Western Civilization,” History 10a, still taken at Harvard by a few hundred students each year, is a remnant of the post-World War II liberal arts curriculum. It survived the Core Curriculum innovations of the 1970s and now cowers in a corner of the course catalogue, hoping to avoid the axe of the current curricular review...
Although a requirement for history concentrators as well as a Historical Studies B Core course, History 10a lacks an audience, a theoretical underpinning, and a function. The class presumes to cover well over two thousand years of Western history, scrambling to rush from archaic Greece to late antiquity in one month of lectures, the Middle Ages in another month, and the early modern period in what remains. Its only exciting aspect, that it is co-taught by three specialists, proves not to be enough: lecturers, rather than offering original arguments, simply attempt to give centuries the coverage they deserve. This...
Schultz—who had two tackles for a loss—and fellow freshman Sean Hayes added depth to the linebacker core and helped keep the Crusaders star running back, Steve Silva, in check...