Word: curriculums
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...will stick to two very different but applicable definitions: a) college is an academic experience, or b) college is a pre-professional experience. For decades, Harvard students have complained that the College does not fulfill the former expectation. From ignorant Teaching Fellows to inaccessible professors to a dysfunctional curriculum, classroom complaints from students are well-documented and well-publicized. Often these claims are unfounded or exaggerated, but the important fact is that they—despite their abundance—have had no noticeable effect on the outside world’s perception of Harvard’s polished veneer...
...subject. Moreover, all of proposed solutions to salvage tutorials—shortening the tutorial, pushing the tutorial into junior year, or opening up the fall tutorial to non-concentrators—all compromise depth of exploration. Shortening of the tutorials forces departments to unnaturally condense an already rigorous curriculum. Bleeding over into junior year impacts other valuable programs such as study abroad and senior thesis tutorials. And open admission to these tutorials will cause class sizes to bloat, destroying the intimacy and attention that tutorials are meant to provide. None of these are tradeoffs warranted by saddling students with...
...potential for peer learning and collaboration, both at the student and student group level. First off, the new peer advising fellowships, a dramatically restructured, advising-centric reincarnation of the Freshmen Prefect Program, will offer freshmen advice from upperclassmen who have recently navigated the first years of the Harvard undergraduate curriculum themselves...
...said McCarthy.Gordon said that the group felt it was important to meet with Skocpol, as much of the Faculty’s attention recently has been focused on undergraduate matters.“I think everybody recognized for this particular period of time we put the undergraduate curriculum in the forefront,” said Gordon, referring to the Harvard College Curricular Review.Another issue that has been on the Caucus’ mind recently has been the state of FAS finances, although they say that a paucity of financial details has left them with little to talk about...
...portal courses in other areas will emulate this system of small and varied courses. While we are glad that faculty members and administrators have begun to implement the general education reforms of the HCCR ahead of schedule, we hope that these courses will be folded seamlessly into the Core Curriculum in the interim. We call upon the Core Curriculum Committee to fit these courses into the current Core by allowing students to use these courses to satisfy Core requirements broadly. This move will not only offer students greater flexibility, but it will also realize Tatar’s vision that...