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Therefore, Harvard should modify Stanford’s calendar to make each trimester earlier by a few weeks. The fall term would begin after Labor Day, with exams before Thanksgiving. (As courses?? exam groups are published in advance, students who want desperately to get home to California or otherwise spend their late Novembers away from school could choose wisely and still get a longer Thanksgiving vacation.) With a winter term just beginning, the intense pressures to study over the holidays would be gone; and, for that matter, Thanksgiving would be salvaged as well, following immediately after fall exams...
...schedule. Unless required to, few professors would care to shoulder the extra workload of a month-long class, especially if planning it cut into the teaching demands of the Fall semester. Without attracting the quality classes that the true semesters do, a J-Term would likely offer cast-off courses??filling classrooms with dispirited junior professors forced to teach out of career considerations. The certain-to-be-unpopular alternative—forcing faculty members to alternate teaching J-Term courses??could overload professors and have a negative impact on the courses in the fall and spring...
Vest’s administration also oversaw the creation of MIT’s recent OpenCourseWare initiative, which places the teaching materials for over 2,000 of its courses??including science classes that address potentially sensitive subject areas—freely available online...
...difference between women’s studies and other, traditional, departments becomes apparent when the theses, tutorials and “foundation courses?? are examined. According to its syllabus, Women’s Studies 97, the sophomore tutorial, seeks “to provide the necessary intellectual tools for critically thinking through the multiplicities, problems, and promises of feminist theory and social practice alike.” Yet for a course dedicated to examining issues critically, surprisingly the tutorial’s syllabus lacks any semblance of a critical voice—none of Mansfield?...
...film theory courses, English 164, “Literature and Visuality in America” and VES 195, “Contemporary Hollywood Cinema” strengthen the case for a concentration track. Since 2000, students have been able to obtain a brochure that lists the numerous film courses??spread across various departments—offered at Harvard. The sheer number and diversity of courses that are present in this guide to “Film Studies at Harvard” demonstrate the breadth that would be available for students in a formalized program. If the track were...