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...General Education Standing Committee approved 13 classes at its meeting last Thursday, bringing the total of courses approved for the new Gen Ed curriculum to 39. Among the new inductees is the popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” taught by Government professor Michael J. Sandel. Routinely one of the largest courses at the College, “Justice” received approval as part of the new “Ethical Reasoning” course category. The once-empty “Science of the Physical Universe” category now contains one class: Science...
...possibly faculty members) is an increase in responsibility, power, and respect. Students have already recognized that the Empire of the Central Administration has maligned them—will the Faculty come around as well? We have some preeminent professors here that write about democracy and its discontents (hi, Professor Sandel). I only hope that their research gets applied to Harvard before everyone forgets the opportunities that a College community provides for experimenting with its governance...
...Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” government professor Michael Sandel asks undergraduates the “big questions.” Outside of this class, however, few Harvard students are ever asked to ponder the personal implications of the answers to life’s toughest and most general queries. Following studies by education professor Richard J. Light, it seems that now Harvard undergraduates—at least those from the Class of 2011—will have another chance to tackle these “big questions.” Following many interviews and surveys...
...happy the publisher makes profit, but simply as a personal judgment, I donate my personal royalties to charity.”Similarly, the professor who introduces thousands of Harvard undergraduates to what is just finds it unjust to profit from textbook sales.Michael J. Sandel, a professor of government, notes on the syllabus for his class, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” that all proceeds from textbook sales will go to charity.Sandel said that he compiled the mandatory “Justice: A Reader” to bring down the costs of the required course materials from...
...someone to finish a thought should be understood as common courtesy. You wouldn’t stand up and leave a friend in mid-sentence, nor make a break for the door in response to a TF’s question. Why should Tal Ben-Shahar (or Michael Sandel, or Steven Pinker) have to watch dozens of students decide his final thoughts are worth less than a first look at the lunch offerings? Classes like Positive Psych are impersonal—as is much of the learning process at Harvard—but if students are going to clamor...