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...want people who have expressed an interest in gen ed—and there are a lot of them—to feel in the loop," said co-chair of the committee Louis Menand, the Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "We don't want to produce a report in secret and then kind of spring it on the faculty...
...handbook, but offerings will likely increase as a result of the ongoing curricular review, which has recommended the implementation of interdisciplinary “portal” courses. Come fall, an introductory humanities course will be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt.Having multiple players behind the podium during a semester means less lecturing but more pre-class coordination for each professor. Despite the workload, professors say team teaching provides the kind of peer review usually only available for their research. Students...
Next fall, Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Menand will team up to offer an introductory humanities colloquium that will be listed in next year’s catalog along with over a dozen new divisional courses in the humanities. Students will also have the opportunity to travel along the “Silk Road” with Mark Elliott from East Asian Languages and Civilizations and with Richard Wolf from the Music Department as their guides. Michael Puett of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Roberto Mangabeira Unger from the Law School will reflect on the contrast between two attitudes?...
...creation of optional interdisciplinary general education courses that many faculty members say have yet to be clearly defined.The new summer committee will be “recasting” some of the proposals currently on the table, according to Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, a member of the Gang of Five and a co-chair of this summer’s committee.“Bill wants to have a group of faculty, some involved on the old general education committee, some not, to meet for some length of time to try to look...
...These classes would not be compulsory, but would be available to students interested in a solid introduction to their disciplines as well as satisfying divisional requirements. One enticing example is a course on odysseys to be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt. We look forward to portal courses such as these and, more broadly, the reforms proposed by the Committee of General Education.Some of the reforms suggested by the curricular review’s other committees involve revamping the Expository Writing program...