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...matching wits in Social Analysis 78, “Globalization and Its Critics,” and many science and Core courses currently tout a double professor byline.Team teaching is not new to the Courses of Instruction handbook, but offerings will likely increase as a result of the ongoing curricular review, which has recommended the implementation of interdisciplinary “portal” courses. Come fall, an introductory humanities course will be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt.Having multiple players behind...
...call for curricular renewal was sounded by the Faculty before the arrival of Lawrence H. Summers as president of Harvard, and our steady work toward this goal will not be dropped with his departure from that position. This semester, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) implemented several important changes. We delayed the date by which students must select their concentration until the end of their third semester, we established secondary fields (minors), and we revised the writing requirement to make it more unified, to provide opportunities for advanced courses in writing, and to include a component in oral communication...
...however, that the time is not yet ripe for the radically new paradigm I think we ultimately need. The Copernicus of curricular science seems not to have appeared. Still, it is clear that undergraduate education is at a crossroads. As a faculty, we are committed to finding a new way. We continue to move forward energetically...
...observers of Harvard’s three-year-old curricular review, it’s déjà vu. In circumstances strikingly similar to those in which the “Gang of Five” —a group of academics who revised the recommendations of the Committee on General Education last summer—was formed, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has selected six professors to retailor a set of general education proposals that have generated little enthusiasm among faculty members.It is one of the last official acts of the deanship for Kirby...
...uphill battle in changing Harvard’s advising system.The advising structure at the College is “highly decentralized” and “difficult to navigate,” according to a student-faculty committee report issued in December.The report, part of the ongoing curricular review, found that some students do not know who their advisers are. The report stated that advisers are not held accountable for their performances—or lack thereof.The committee called for a new dean who would “help to improve the effectiveness of all our advising...