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Winthrop House's new Soc Sci course, if approved by the Committee on General Education, will become the second course in the University to be given by a House, for the House's residents. Along with Nat Sci 1, which began meeting in Winthrop this Fall, the course may represent the first limited steps toward a new variety of educational experience at Harvard, combining the informality of a seminar with the academic discipline of a course for credit. There is yet little basis for evaluating the idea of House courses as either a curse or a blessing, but the experiment...
With this ideal of diversity in mind, any course which the Committee judges appropriate to General Education is an asset, because it increases the options to the student. Wilcox has pointed out that even small, restricted offerings such as Nat Sci 1 mean a few more openings in the Gen Ed program, and every opening means a new opportunity for someone. Small size may eventually prove an advantage, if professors who fear riding a tiger the size of Hum 2 can be encouraged to launch limited, less time-consuming Gen Ed courses within the Houses...
From the viewpoint of Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House and chief supporter, of the idea, the House offerings have other advantages. Chalmers (who teaches Nat Sci 1 himself) claims benefits from the courses other than the obvious conveniences of flexible meeting times and easy accessibility between teachers and students. Chalmers envisions the House courses as opening new lines of communication between tutors and students. Through the courses, a student could gain close contact with other members of the House tutorial staff and through them, the kind of extra-departmental advice his regular tutor may be unable to provide...
Wilcox said he viewed Gen Ed courses offered by individual Houses as valuable additional sources of diversity under the program, even if they are severely limited in size. Winthrop House now gives Nat Sci 1, and has proposed a Soc Sci course to be limited to ten sophomores in the House...
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