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...those who feel they can’t handle another Ec1010b lecture, the new Activity-Based Learning Project’s classes provide a way for students to get their hands dirty. But as with anything new at Harvard, the potential direction of the project has been a cause of controversy. The General Education Board’s proposed exploration of expanding the scope of activity-based learning has incurred the ire of critics who fear bureaucratization of student-run extracurricular activities...
About six weeks into Ec1010b, “Macroeconomic Theory,” Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln left the podium to write some unintelligible equation on the board...
...fair, the dreariness of Ec1010b was not entirely Fuchs-Schundeln’s fault. She probably wanted to cover the material in the assigned text, Mankiw’s Macroeconomics. The book is clear, but not geared for stimulating lectures. Most topics quickly descend into explaining the minutiae of graphs that artificially prove a theory. Little will probably change as Paola Giuliano of the International Monetary Fund takes over the course this year...
Although most students tend to do well in Ec1010b (the key is to read the assigned chapters) the class’s requirements are nerve-wracking. The midterm is worth 30 percent of the grade and the final is worth a whopping 60 percent...
Some class cancellations yesterday were only tangentially weather-related. Ec1010b: "Macroeconomic Theory" students were e-mailed 30 minutes before lecture saying that University Museum, containing the Geological Sciences Lecture Hall, was locked and class would not be held, according to Head Teaching Fellow Melvyn...
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