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Under the new policy, as outlined in an e-mail sent to all undergraduates going abroad next fall, students will be exempt from one Core requirement for each full term—or four courses??of Harvard credit they earn, with a maximum of two exemptions allowed...
...prevent the history department’s current predicament from repeating itself more severely—and so English concentrators can look forward to a decimated pool of instructors and thesis advisers. Department Chair Lawrence Buell’s cheery confidence that “a full array of courses?? will still be offered next year, despite the absence of nearly half the department’s professors for at least some time, is as unsettling as it is implausible. And though the department should be commended for kicking its hiring program into overdrive in response...
...environmental law courses??one on basic environmental law and the other on natural resources and the environment—were originally slated to be taught by HLS Professor Bruce L. Hay, who is informally “designated as the environmental law professor,” according to Giovinazzo...
...studio classes—clearly an essential aspect of any architecture and urban studies program. Just because people can do special concentrations and cross-register for classes does not mean they should have to do so. There are distinct advantages of formal concentrations—tradition, advising, specific courses??and in addition, having a concentration legitimizes a field of study, allowing professors to define approaches and methods rather than forcing students to do so. Year after year, special concentrators in architecture and urban studies are effectively asked to reinvent the wheel...
...advising for first-years struggling to chose their concentration. This should be extended to concentration advising for upperclass students. Especially in the larger concentrations, like economics and government, students could benefit greatly from the collective experience of those who have gone before them. When choosing between two similar, required courses??such as Economics 1010b and Economics 1011b (both Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory)—the advice of a senior concentrator with recent experience in the course would be of far greater use than that of Joe Grad Student...