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...teaching the seminars, and we are by no means convinced that the so-far lukewarm response from members of the Harvard Faculty can be surmounted. To be fair, there are members of the Faculty who are thrilled with the prospect of new opportunities for developing small, dynamic and engaging courses??the kinds of pedagogical endeavors which are sometimes precluded by the traditional semester format. But a handful of professors will not fill a catalogue of mandatory J-Term offerings for the entire student body—especially not if the College is committed to keeping J-Term class...
...keeping with a move towards more interdisciplinary teaching, Conley says faculty will be invited to collaborate with each other—and with students. “We are going to have faculty and student taught courses??or a course where students teach faculty,” he says. “I know one area where students can teach faculty—web construction and electronic design. Of course, students will also get credit for that...
...faculty have mixed feelings about it,” he says. “Many students don’t put as much effort into the Winter Study courses??it’s been discussed as to whether the courses should be graded...
...Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris said that the two arguments for Harvard College Courses??that study has become increasingly interdisciplinary and that the College must pull professors out of their disciplines—are contradictory...
...courses?? reading lists are inflated—taking a regular course load implies upwards of a few hundred pages of reading a week, and part of our self-definition and pride as overachieving students stems from our ability to plough through an entire Henry James novel or Freud treatise in one night. Occasionally professors admit that we are not really expected to read all of the material; and some teaching fellows suggest that the trick is to read one part of the assignment very carefully, and skim the rest. But the assignments remain, and as we rush through...