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Though only a meager few introductory courses (including History 10a: Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650) admit it outright in their course titles, nearly all intro courses at Harvard focus on the West. Social Studies 10, Historical Studies A-12, English 10a (and 10b), Ec 10, and Justice, to name a few, stick only to the intellectual, political, historical, and economic achievements of Eurasia and North America (plus the Near East and North Africa during ancient times...
Contrast these departmental intro courses to Core courses (true, Ec 10 and A-12 are also Cores) and youll find more than one significant difference. For one, Cores are much more focused. They purport to teach modes of thought rather than provide a broad background in the topic itself. The aforementioned History 10a, a broad introduction to Western history, counts for the same Core credit as a class on the Cuban Revolution. Additionally, many of these Cores treat non-Western subject matters. These two differences seem to pose a bit of an internal contradiction. More likely than not, your department...
KIDS CAN FISH TOO Concerned that angling might seem drab to the Xbox generation, manufacturers are designing snazzy stuff that is child friendly. The $30 JetCast 3.0, a plastic intro pole, lets even the smallest novices push a button to eject a line 30 ft. out over the water, then reel in a wriggling prize. A safety feature ensures that it doesn't launch inadvertently. This toylike tool suits tykes, not teens...
...root of this problem is excessive course backloading. Though introductory courses must necessarily reserve assigning most of the credit until the end of the semester, backloading spreads far beyond this selection of classes. For the professors of many non-intro courses, written work due during reading period can determine over 50 percent of the course grade—not even including the final. As a result, students find themselves with a Herculean workload, no time to complete it, and their grades on the line...
...April 13, Hyperion will release Young and Hungry, Lieberman's first cookbook in a two-book deal. It's an intro to entertaining for twentysomethings, organized by eating occasion, with chapters like "Lazy Mornings" (chive pancakes, mango-ginger lassis) and "Cooking for a Crowd" (beet salad with goat cheese, potato-chip-crusted salmon). And on April 16, he will hit the culinary jackpot when his new cooking show, Good Deal, premieres in the daytime lineup of the Food Network (1:30 p.m. E.T.), making him, at 25, the channel's youngest host ever...