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Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis—one of Gen Ed’s most vocal critics—expressed his wariness of a normative curricular discussion...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Hopeful at Faculty Meeting | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...dangerous combination that threatens to impoverish the undergraduate educational experience. FAS is limiting the number of visiting professors next year; the economics department will have only two or three, compared to the 15 it has in the current year. Visiting professors often patch up a department’s curricular weaknesses, and their relative absence will likely deplete the College’s course offerings for undergraduates. Given the comparative lack of faculty, students will be faced with the dismaying prospect of fewer seminars and bigger Core and Gen Ed classes next year...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: No Applications Necessary | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...event’s focus is on the career possibilities in the arts and humanities, Greenblatt notes that the development of course offerings is tied to career choice. “The first goal of the Task Force is to move art-making from the extracurricular sphere to the curricular sphere,” Greenblatt says. “The purpose of doing that is connected to many things, including the careers of students.”Students will also have the opportunity to learn more about student groups that are involved in the arts and humanities after Saturday?...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Notables Passionate for Arts | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...endeavors.The Task Force, comprised of faculty, students, and professional artists associated with the Harvard community, released a report last December emphasizing the value of the arts in research institutions such as Harvard. According to Faust, the findings called for an end to the “‘curricular banishment of the arts,” and has generated much anticipation for a greater presence of the arts in academic offerings.However, the Freshman Seminar Program—which is entering its 50th year—had already begun to broaden arts-oriented curricular opportunities for freshman. These seminars, which...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seminars Offer Freshmen Time in Studio | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...increasingly important. THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ELITE EDUCATIONInstead of solely focusing on the mechanics of the trade, students at the College are forced to divide their time between the application of their art and the books. Many current filmmakers, however, elected to focus on Harvard’s other curricular resources during their undergraduate years, even when they knew that cinema was the next step.“I knew coming in that I was going to spend my whole life doing film, and I wanted to spend my time at college doing something else,” said screenwriter...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Reel World | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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