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Junior seminars are non-required undergraduate courses “designed to introduce students to research in a particular field of economics,” according to the course catalogue.
The junior seminar program had been cut for the 2009 to 2010 academic year as a result of cuts in the budget portioned for visiting faculty members in the economics department. The downsizing had forced the department to use its professors to teach larger lecture courses.
The program’s return, which will be officially announced to concentrators later this week, was additionally facilitated by students’ ability to count Harvard Kennedy School courses as economics electives.
The addition of HKS courses, which act as a “supplement to our direct elective offerings,” permits concentrators to practice greater flexibility in their elective choices, beyond the options offered within the economics department, according to Jeffrey Miron, director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer...
“If I were a sophomore and I had a chance to switch, I’d definitely switch,” Shiv M. Gaglani ’10 said. “The fact that Harvard didn’t have its own bioengineering concentration with interdisciplinary...