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...Economics Department has finalized its decision to cut junior seminars from next year’s curriculum after a restriction on the hiring of new visiting faculty members as a result of the financial crisis put strain on the department’s already limited teaching staff...
...cost has been the elimination of the junior seminar program,” he said, describing it as a “trade-off?...
...Junior seminars are non-required courses “designed to introduce students to research in a particular field of economics,” according to the course catalogue. They are the only small, undergraduate courses in Economics taught by tenured and assistant faculty members...
Stock said that faculty had discussed offering two junior seminars in the next term, but ultimately concluded that it would be better to convert them to open-enrollment courses. These classes will be taught on similar course topics, but will not be restricted to the 16-student limit of junior seminars...
Demand for the small-sized courses remained high this semester. Ninety-seven of the 238 junior economics concentrators entered a lottery for 48 slots, according to Jeana Lee, an undergraduate course assistant for the department...