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...want to threaten them [non-heritage students] away,” said Feng, who is also a professor of the practice of Chinese language. Feng added that he is awaiting approval for a track specifically geared to heritage students. The program is also looking to establish more preceptor positions, which are currently lacking. “We have to have individual care, but if you have so many individuals you can’t take of them,” Feng said. “Otherwise we’d have to teach them in the middle of the night...
...said Harvard Bernbaum Professor of Literature Professor Daniel Albright. “In general, if you say caliginous when you mean dark, you are off the beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb. Instead of using ‘spent more,’ they write ‘spending increased,’” she said. Oppenheimer, like...
...gods of American literature: I do not like Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” An unscientific facebook.com search tells me that the 700-page political tome is the favorite book of 123 of my peers. Preceptor Tom “Your Biggest Fan” Underwood of “Southern Writers Reconsidered” fame begged me to consider this a masterpiece of Southern literature. I think I fell asleep that day in Expos. The trajectory of the novel is simple: Jack Burden?...
...profound impact those dedicated primarily to their teaching can have on undergraduates’ educational experience.And while some introductory courses continue to languish under tenured professors, some courses thrive under the instruction of untenured lecturers, if they stick around. The Chinese program’s first-year preceptor Min Chen garnered CUE ratings of 4.7 and 4.8, but she will be plying her craft at Yale this year. And longtime economics teaching fellow Bruce Watson, who pinch-hit in 2002 for a seriously underprepared lecturer, continues to teach introductory economics at the Extension School, but not the College. One hears...
...College’s only universally required class, Expository Writing, promises to teach you to craft lucid, beautiful prose, to state your ideas with complexity and nuance, and to call your teacher a “preceptor.” It will succeed in at least one of these. The Fates predetermine the semester in which you take Expos 20 and then determine which of your preferences you’ll be assigned to. Escape is impossible and transferring sections is difficult, so your initial choice is important and you have precious little information on which to base it. Enjoy...