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Prefrosh: would you like to have some idea of what classes you'll be required to take in the next four years? If you're going by the Harvard viewbook, you may not know that Harvard is undergoing its first curricular overhaul in over 30 years, and you'll be the first class to fall under Harvard's new General Education program. The viewbook's vague and contradictory information follows after the jump...
...assigns each junior to a faculty advising session, said Donoghue. Under the new system students will have a choice: they can decide whether to seek an “advising conversation” with a faculty member, either self-selected or matched by the department. Next year with the curricular changes in the English department(http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525707), however, will come further changes in advising. Donoghue said that the department is in the process of designing a distribution system in which advising will still involve faculty-student interactions.“We want students to get guidance from faculty members...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who spoke to the Faculty before the final Gen Ed vote about his concern that students would not have enough room for electives, blamed the administrative upheaval during the curricular review for the number of categories, adding that there was a need for someone to “put limitations on the aggregate and shape it somehow...
...modifications to the concentration currently called “Astronomy and Astrophysics” were approved by the Educational Policy Committee earlier this month without revisions, said Stephanie H. Kenen, the associate dean of undergraduate education. The changes come as part of a string of curricular reconsiderations this year. The English department had an overhaul of its concentration requirements approved by the EPC in February, and the Classics department—also citing a desire to remove its course of study from an emphasis on graduate-level rigor—voted to approve wide-ranging changes early this month. Astronomy...
...amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration, calendar reform fell by the wayside. In spring 2007, Undergraduate Council resumed the discussion, calling for an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform and proposing a plan that deviated from the Verba report in omitting a J-Term...