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...CUE Guide serves as an indispensable tool for Harvard students during the course selection process, but the Guide’s influence extends far beyond the undergraduate population. Administrators, professors, and Teaching Fellows all look to the Committee on Undergraduate Education’s (CUE) annual publication for evaluation of the success of a course’s curriculum and pedagogy. Accordingly, this semester the CUE is studying how it might make what is currently a student-oriented volume more informative to instructors as well. Given the insufficiency of the current CUE Guide format to satisfy the needs...
...midst of the Harvard College Curricular Review, when the entirety of the undergraduate experience is under the microscope, an overhauled CUE Guide can be an invaluable tool to evaluate everything from the proposed portal courses to any improvement in undergraduate advising. The CUE should combine the flexibility of a web-based survey with new, more probing questions and an expanded grading scale to achieve the survey’s true potential...
...survey should also seek to evaluate the teaching quality of professors and teaching fellows more precisely. As it stands, the CUE Guide prints comments concerning instructors’ teaching abilities that are sometimes trivial. For example, the fact that a professor speaks too softly in lecture does not carry nearly as much import as whether or not students are actually mastering the course material. The rewritten survey should allow students to specifically identify their instructors’ pedagogical shortcomings; the oft-repeated comment that a “professor is disorganized,” for instance, is too general...
Amidst all of these recommendations, however, a caveat must be mentioned. The points during the year at which the online CUE surveys are administered are extremely stressful for students. Accordingly, students should not be expected to complete a survey that is any longer than the current version. Rather than lengthening the current survey, the CUE should focus on eliminating the survey’s unnecessary portions. Undergraduates and teaching staffs both want data concerning two important areas: course difficulty and teaching quality. Therefore, questions that don’t explicitly supply data relating to either of these two areas should...
...risk disciplinary action, the first time our presence is ever really required on campus isn’t until the end of shopping week when we get our study card signed and turn it in. And as of last spring, at the end of term we can now write CUE guide reviews online about all the classes we never went to in person, so that the next crop of people intending to skip them will know which classes are the best ones to miss. All of this conspires towards a very difficult question. A student who carefully chose his classes...