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...wits in Social Analysis 78, “Globalization and Its Critics,” and many science and Core courses currently tout a double professor byline.Team teaching is not new to the Courses of Instruction 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...
...early phase of our review, some members of the Faculty, myself included, saw a simple distribution system as the best solution. (My one nagging doubt was that this kind of requirement is in place at Yale, the institution where “veritas” needs to be supplemented by “lux.”) In its most common form, the distributional scheme requires students to take courses in each of the three traditional divisions: the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences...
...observers of Harvard’s three-year-old curricular review, it’s déjà vu. In circumstances strikingly similar to those in which the “Gang of Five” —a group of academics who revised the recommendations of the Committee on General Education last summer—was formed, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has selected six professors to retailor a set of general education proposals that have generated little enthusiasm among faculty members.It is one of the last official acts of the deanship for Kirby...
...uphill battle in changing Harvard’s advising system.The advising structure at the College is “highly decentralized” and “difficult to navigate,” according to a student-faculty committee report issued in December.The report, part of the ongoing curricular review, found that some students do not know who their advisers are. The report stated that advisers are not held accountable for their performances—or lack thereof.The committee called for a new dean who would “help to improve the effectiveness of all our advising...
...Harvard that my most important educational moments have occurred in the extracurricular rather than the purely academic realm. Covering the law school dean search as a young, freshman reporter, I had the opportunity to talk with law professors about their fields and their academic writing. Covering the curricular review afforded me the opportunity to look back at Harvard’s tumultuous educational history and even build up an “emeritus” section in my phonebook. But my extracurricular pursuit at The Crimson not only gave me access to the professors who make this University great...