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...first-years agonize through the last few weeks of making that fateful decision, some help, at least, is on the way. Following a proposal by Undergraduate Council President Paul A. Gusmorino ’02, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and other pieces of the College administration are in the planning stages of a Web portal for concentrations. In his draft proposal, Gusmorino accurately notes that “in choosing a concentration, students are asked—perhaps for the first time ever—[to] choose between two or more deeply held interests in a serious...
...lessons to be gleaned from the impact of the traditional CUE course guide are important ones. Only slightly less difficult than picking the ideal concentration for four years is choosing the correct courses semester to semester. For many, the CUE’s guide is a godsend; it allows them to sort out energetic and responsive professors from less inspiring ones, to get a handle on a course’s workload, and to build a shopping list which will yield a pleasurable semester that balances a four-course workload with aplomb...
...clearly takes a lot of courage for professors to place their courses before such unruly evaluators as us students, but they too find rewards: instructors receive valuable advice and can even pledge in the CUE course guide’s pages to turn a course for the better after bad rankings. If ranked too easy, the course will often begin with a stern warning that requirements have been beefed up; hence CUE ratings help regulate the student-Faculty relationship and get across some more delicate feelings, amid the anonymity of aggregated responses...
...CUE course guide succeeds because of the wealth of information it provides: an aggregate evaluation of the professor, the TFs, the workload. The subject matter is used differently by each student, to their own goal. Moreover, the numbers are built on something students can trust: themselves and their peers...
...think students and Faculty would benefit most from a true concentration CUE guide—one that is built from hundreds of responses. Send each upperclass student an evaluation form through University mail. Ask them to rank their experience as a concentrator so far: overall happiness, workload and teaching quality, as well as advising, breadth of courses offered, access to tenured Faculty and ability to pursue interests. Special interests of the study’s supervisors in the College—from use of the Web to opportunities to study abroad—could also be included...