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...undergraduate non-credit course focusing on contemporary human rights issues or “an ongoing seminar to which all members of the university community would be invited” are also possibilities, the staff member said...
...report; the proposal suggests that each school should develop its own offerings to best suit its students’ needs and interests. The four Harvard schools with January free offer few clues to finding the right solution. The School of Public Health offers a variety of non-credit enrichment activities as well as electives and chances to do field research. The Kennedy School of Government often uses January as an extension of fall term—assigning research papers or take-home exams that are due that month. The Medical School and Law School, in contrast, offer full-fledged classes...
...opportunity for us to offer types of instruction that we don’t offer during the semester.” Indeed, the idea of a J-term has much going for it. At other schools with J-terms, the month does provide students with non-credit and for-credit activities that could not be offered in any other environment. With wide participation from faculty and student clubs, MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) allows students to do lab work, learn topology, shoot a bow-and-arrow, weld aluminum and watch imported anime—literally everyday. Middlebury?...
...offered, the month of January—once filled with a quiescent reading period and intersession—will turn into another avenue for over-stressed students to “get ahead.” On the other hand, if J-term consists of nothing but non-traditional, non-credit electives, then the very academic value of J-term will be suspect. Middlebury’s non-credit, mandatory J-term may provide students with unique travel opportunities, but many students and faculty there describe it as little more than a chance to slack off. And while many Harvard...
Gore will serve as a visiting professor, teaching a non-credit course entitled "Covering National Affairs in the Information Age" with Columbia professors Richard Wald and Craig Wolff. He is expected to lecture six to eight times over the course of the spring semester, and may continue teaching through the fall...