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...Department, said yesterday. His department, which currently offers a strongly-recommended year-long tutorial, is still considering how it may restructure its tutorial.The Philosophy Department, meanwhile, has a year-long required sophomore tutorial that will likely be condensed into one spring-term course, according to Professor of Philosophy Warren Goldfarb ’69.“This is a major change for us, even a disruption of a system that has worked exceedingly well,” Mahzarin R. Banaji, the Psychology Department’s director of undergraduate studies, wrote in an e-mail...
...approved the legislation overwhelmingly by voice vote.The first bill bars departments from restricting sophomore fall courses to would-be concentrators. But it allows them to declare certain courses as prerequisites for entering a concentration.Social Studies, for instance, may leave its year-long sophomore tutorial in place, philosopher Warren Goldfarb said at the meeting. The first half of Social Studies 10 could become open to all students, but required of those who choose to declare Social Studies at the end of their sophomore fall.Nevertheless, Goldfarb said the new legislation would take “pressure off the freshman year to free...
Tonight, the Faculty of Arts and Science will consider a motion from Professor Warren Goldfarb (on behalf of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee) to push concentration choice back a semester. The reasons for the switch seem fairly logical—a slew of first-year requirements and opportunities makes it difficult for freshmen to explore new academic areas in a meaningful way—and the change would bring the College in line with many of its peer institutions...
...other motion, presented by Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren Goldfarb ’69, moves to delay concentration choice until after the third term while requiring students to meet with at least one concentration advisor by the end of freshman year...
...essential thing is that the students and some potential concentrations are in touch” during freshman year, Goldfarb said...