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...amusement before putting down the paper to go to your small, well-taught Core section or interdisciplinary seminar. Of course, we all know the reality behind the rhetoric. Consider Harvard's latest opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to undergraduate education: the "review" of the Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP) concentration and the almost unnoticed demise of its most lauded tutorial, Conservation Biology and Biodiversity...
Rest says one improvement he would like to see in the future is the creation of more classes which are designed specifically for the ESPP discipline to unite its many parts...
...thing I felt was discouraging was that the ESPP concentration didn't help enough with thesis preparation," Kanter said. "There's nothing unified for the department in terms of advising, particularly for the thesis. They could learn from the Social Studies Department who puts together a seminar on how to prepare for a thesis. I don't entirely blame the ESPP committee though because they are borrowing faculty from other departments...
Although the debate over the biodiversity seminar remains to be resolved, McCarthy said the ESPP concentration as a whole has been a success...
Although curriculum questions remain, ESPP has shown in its five years that it is here to stay. For the near future, McCarthy says, the concentration has one thing at the top of its wish list: a permanent home...