Word: curriculums
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...many Harvard students find themselves in an agonizing situation on study card day: they have to choose between several really bad classes. Because they have to take their Core Curriculum courses and finish their concentration requirements, all while every good class seems to meet at the same time in the spring term (has anyone else noticed that it’s hard to find any good classes in the fall but that it is a struggle to pick between them in the spring?), they are compelled to take classes that are uninteresting, poorly taught, full of busy work, or some...
...books for the mini-term, an optional seminar program is misguided. Resources from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ already-stretched budget could certainly be better directed elsewhere than to an undersubscribed quasi-academic program. And given how slow and painful the development of the General Education curriculum has been, it hardly makes sense to ask the Faculty to simultaneously create yet another set of new classes...
...consistency by students in connection with the college deanship has been that of Jay M. Harris, a professor of Jewish studies and the master of Cabot House, whose credentials include the top spot on the committee that is responsible for implementing the College’s new General Education curriculum...
...maybe write an essay for The New Yorker. From Nassau.The actual business of running Harvard is frustratingly tedious. The Faculty figured out as much last spring, when several hours—hours!—of tepid discussion preceded the passage of Harvard’s latest undergraduate curriculum. It’s much more fun, after all, to nab a quote in the paper when one’s colleagues claw each other’s eyes out over something trivial. What fun it was when anthropologist J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan...
...student reactions, both through the Q guide and their own methods, professors are able to make adjustments. Ivy Livingston, a preceptor in the Classics Department, changed her Greek Aa textbooks and the timing of quizzes based on student responses.Other professors have also found ways to integrate feedback into their curriculum. Tobias Ritter, whose Chemistry 30 class received a difficulty rating of 4.5 last year, said the numbers were a wake-up call.“I realized that students have a lot of work,” Ritter said,Ritter said that this year he tried to provide...