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...Science and Engineering (UPCSE). Since UPCSE issued its final report last December, progress has been swift. In January, the Corporation created a permanent University Science and Engineering Committee and created a $50 million fund for it to work with. Last April, the Harvard’s first cross-school department??€”the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology—was created based on UPCSE’s recommendation. And UPCSE’s work remains at the top of the University-wide agenda. Indeed, in a letter to the entire University community last month, Faust mentioned interdisciplinary integration...
...victims could not provide detailed descriptions of the perpetrators, the police department??€™s message stated...
...fall, effective for the Class of 2010 in an attempt to foster freer academic exploration and more informed concentration selection among undergraduates. Since then, most departments have been persuaded to modify their requirements in order to adapt to the new policy. One of the first casualties in virtually every department??€™s housecleaning was the sophomore fall tutorial: The days of the 97a’s are now but distant memories...
...English Department??€™s current concentration requirements, listed on the departmental website, call for the completion of two of 12 courses (14 for honors concentrators) on British literature and one on American literature. Further requirements, including those mandating one course in Shakespeare and two courses in other pre-1800 literature, are structured such that almost all eligible courses focus on British literature. In fact, half of the 100-level courses offered by the department this year are British literature courses while less than a third feature American literature specifically...
...revered British writers such as Shakespeare, academic readers should learn to actively critique their work—not to idolize but to continually question their cultural value, as they would when reading any book. Even this slight change in approach would prevent the canon—and the department??€”from becoming stagnant, and would encourage students to think more creatively and intelligently about what constitutes a “great work...