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...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?...
...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...
...that since she does work on Africa, teaches history, and is a woman, she will bring a different perspective to the council. She joins fellow historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is vice-chair of the council.In addition to Schmid and Elkins, the new council will include English professor Louis Menand, art historian Irene J. Winter, chemist Eric N. Jacobsen, historian of science Sarah Jansen, and scientist Ann Pearson. Menand, the Bass Professor English and American Literature, joins the council after having served on the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. A member of so-called...
...Romance languages and literature and of comparative literature, wrote that she is “very keen” to continue Tartar’s efforts to develop general education classes in the humanities, like the course on odysseys to be offered next fall by English professors Louis Menand and Stephen J. Greenblatt...