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...collection of new interdisciplinary courses that will act as broad gateways into the humanities. But instead of creating a single foundational course like Life Sciences, Tatar said she wants to create “multiple pathways” into the humanities. A total of 15 to 20 new gateway courses??most beginning in the 2007-2008 school year—will be offered through the initiative, including Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Christopher D. Johnson’s “Strange Mutations.” “They are really magnet courses designed to bring people...
...adults who wish to continue their education. Of the 600 course offerings this year at HES, 75 are available via the Internet. Although the Distance Program does not confer degrees, two certificate programs—Environmental Management and Applied Science—can be completed online. Several DEP courses??including CSCI E-2, “Bits,” and GOVT E-1045, “Justice”—are the same classes that students sit (or sleep) through in the Science Center or Sanders Theater. Online students take the same exams, write...
...Creating more integrative introductory courses??the so-called “portal” courses??such as the newly-launched Life Sciences sequence...
...problems anew. Furthermore, it would incentiveize professors to manipulate and build their curricula around this requirement, creating contrived courses.Instead of forcing a requirement upon students, faculty should create exciting courses that attract students without being required. Under such a system, we have no doubt that the great Moral Reasoning courses??like Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—will still attract students. Additionally, it would be hard for a student to get through the new general education system without addressing moral issues. Indeed, a student would have...
Early recommendations for delaying concentration choice were criticized by some science and engineering professors, who were concerned that students in their fields—where concentrations often require a fairly rigid sequence of courses??would be ill-served by a later concentration choice deadline if there was not an increase in advising for those students...