Word: menand
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Having taken only one art history course while at Harvard, Schuker said that interdisciplinary classes taught by Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Eric Rentschler and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand have “inspired her to study art in times of heightened politics...
...keep witnessing how slyly the market promotes our liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the grievous use of the motto of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”—“I am what I am”—to sell sneakers. Pseudo-sociological categories such as the “metrosexual man?...
...furthest from their concentration, but may choose whatever three courses they wish within a given area.“The idea is to let the market decide—both student demand and faculty supply,” said Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, a member of the Committee on General Education.The report recommends that students continue to take courses in analytic reasoning, quantitative analysis, and in moral reasoning, but does not require that they do so.The combination of these two systems of general education—broad, integrative “Courses...
...committee was really sort of two slightly incompatible mandates in terms of what the general sentiment was,” Menand said. “One was to get a system which had more student choice and freedom with the feeling that the Core was felt by some students to be too confining. The other desire was the desire to provide something that was sweeping and rigorous that would give students a foundation for knowledge...
...committee will release the document when it is happy with it, which I think will be soon because the changes are not substantive,” Menand said. “I think [the changes] will have more to do with the way the recommendations were presented...