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...increase comes on the heels of a report by Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz this fall that urged an increase in the number of seminars offered to first-years...
This fall, about 700 first-years applied for spots in the Freshman Seminar program but the program could accommodate only 230 students. And according to Pedersen, the Freshman Seminar program has shrunk almost by half since the 1980s...
...report urged structural changes to the program as well—such as allowing seminars to count for concentration or core credit—and Pedersen discussed the possibility of such changes at a faculty meeting yesterday, but no structural changes have been made for the coming year...
...However, Pedersen personally wrote to departments asking faculty to teach more seminars...
...Some departments made commitments to [make those increases], but others felt they were too short-staffed to be able to cover their curriculum and offer more seminars,” Pedersen said...