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When Spivak asked if the subaltern could speak, she should have asked if the subaltern could speak for itself—or better yet, themselves. At Harvard, the answer is still “no.” Harvard can take pride in its status as a progressive university when...
The General Education Standing Committee approved six classes in their last meeting of the year, bringing the total number of Gen Ed courses to 45. Sixteen of these classes will be taught in Fall 2008, and 20 will be taught in Spring 2009. Gen Ed committee chair Jay M. Harris...
Between concentration requirements, secondary fields, citations, and the Core, Harvard students are lucky if they can manage to have one genuine elective per semester. But even after navigating all those requirements, another obstacle remains to choosing just any interesting class: the pressure to do well. Not everyone appreciates how intimidating...
Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges...
Now more than ever, people employ data-backed arguments, even to tackle the problems once addressed by the other fields. Just 100 years ago, the mystery of human happiness was a question for poets and theorists, but today, we take heed of empirical studies correlating happiness to job security and...