Word: curricular
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...reading material, the Registrar’s Office recently released a 1,000-plus page course guide for the 2006-2007 school year. Many are old favorites (or perennially-dreaded prerequisites), but the 15 courses here were eye-catching enough for their slightly wacky names, notable professors, or significant curricular changes to make them most worthy of your shopping basket next year...
Undergraduates will be involved in this summer’s work to revise the Harvard College Curricular Review’s General Education recommendations, though no definite time frame for when official student input will begin has been set, according to the co-chairs of the faculty committee in charge of the work. The committee’s co-chair, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, said yesterday that he anticipates students will be involved in discussing General Education changes “sooner rather than later.” He also said that...
...past six years—will focus on first-year advising and oversee the peer advising program. Established this spring, the program was designed to “replace and augment” the 20-year-old Prefect Program as a part of the College’s comprehensive curricular review. Mancall’s advising role will also extend to advanced standing, visiting, and transfer students, Gross said. “The new position will allow me to consider first-year advising issues more globally,” Mancall wrote in an e-mail, adding that there will...
...Waters and Kosslyn have not previously served on any of the curricular review committees. But Liu taught one of this year’s new Life Sciences introductory courses, which have been suggested as possible models for the new general education courses...
Bok—who has written widely on curricular reform and was at the University’s helm when the current Core curriculum was adopted—has said that he will offer his thoughts on general education to the committee if asked, but stressed that he will not impose himself on the process...