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...that earns tenure, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James Russell is a curious person to lead the charge for general education.Nonetheless, in a two-semester survey of “Literature Humanities,” Russell has carved out a place in the battery of freshmen seminars (usually a portal to Harvard at its most myopic) to provide a semblance of well-rounded, broad education to eager newcomers.It has long been supposed that no one—neither professors nor students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise most of any Great Books curriculum...
...study so that already today more than half of our students pursue a significant international experience before graduation. To promote a deeper level of scientific literacy, we are not only planning, but we have also begun to teach parts of a fundamentally new science curriculum, the first of our 'portal' courses. To mentor and support our students more effectively, we are overhauling completely the structures of academic advising in the College. And of course we have continued to talk, argue, and engage with one another, ever more deeply, about the importance of undergraduate education...
Formfitting Inventor: Rikiya Fukuda Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: snipurl.com/jp3h (Japanese only) A door that fits like a glove? This one does. Fukuda's Automatic Door, designed in Japan, opens just enough to match the shape of the person or object passing through. The nifty motion-detecting portal saves energy by keeping a door from having to repeatedly open all the way. That helps maintain a stable temperature in a room and can prevent dirt and other materials from being swept inside. In addition to people, the new system can be used for small objects, like packages dropped...
...their concentration, will be complemented by effort on behalf of departments to make some of their content-heavy courses more accessible to those outside of the concentration. Second, the committee also envisions a robust array of “Courses in General Education”—yearlong portal courses that would cover a swath of subject matter in an interdisciplinary way.Both of these proposals stand to make Harvard students better educated. Though students can still get away with fulfilling their “Study of Societies” requirement with three very specific courses, it is likely that...
...midst of the Harvard College Curricular Review, when the entirety of the undergraduate experience is under the microscope, an overhauled CUE Guide can be an invaluable tool to evaluate everything from the proposed portal courses to any improvement in undergraduate advising. The CUE should combine the flexibility of a web-based survey with new, more probing questions and an expanded grading scale to achieve the survey’s true potential...