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Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, one of the instructors of Humanities 10, said yesterday that while the Humanities courses don’t fit exactly into the standard model for core courses, current undergraduates need new core options until a full replacement for the core can be established in the coming years...
...Menand is the co-chair of a six-member committee that has been meeting since June to draft a revised set of recommendations for the future of general education at the College. The committee’s preliminary report is expected to be released within weeks...
...Tale of Genji”) to broad, sweeping genres that attempt to cover the entirety of the space-time continuum (“Galaxies and the Universe”). You can rub elbows with Nobel Prize winners such as physicist Roy J. Glauber and star professors like Louis Menand in an intimate setting and, if you’re lucky, may even manage to score a Spring Break fieldtrip to Tokyo. Though these courses may officially be “freed from the usual constraints associated with a regular course offering” (i.e. letter grades and final exams), they...
...questions, then you will probably win a Hoopes prize. If not, you can always use your thesis as a doorstop. Meanwhile, just hobnobbing with the department’s gliteratti is autograph request-inducing, though, and includes New Yorker writers Jill Lepore and Larry Summers’ pal Louis Menand. Ask, and they may even advise your thesis.History and Literature is a program that is truly unique to Harvard, and is arguably the most personalized, student-oriented program here. There are no graduate students in Hist and Lit, which means the focus rests completely on the academic development...
...faculty members on the committee, appointed by former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby in May, have spent the summer working out the upcoming report. Besides Menand, the committee’s members include Professor of Philosophy and committee co-chair Alison Simmons, Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam, and Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters...