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Interviews with students who switched to the social sciences or humanities reveal that the disillusionment is driven by a number of problems in the University’s science curriculum—from large, impersonal introductory courses to the time-intensive nature of the disciplines and the highly competitive peers...
In their first semesters at Harvard, many students are daunted by introductory classes that are “bigger than [their] entire high school,” says Robert A. Lue, a professor of molecular and cellular biology who teaches the massive course Life Sciences 1a, which boasted an enrollment...
These large introductory courses, which were first offered in the fall of 2005, may account for a part of the attrition in the biological sciences. The Class of 2009 saw a drop from 382 intended concentrators to 244 currently, and the Class of 2010 saw such a drop from 360...
Lue says that professors in the life sciences are cognizant of the scale of their courses and that he and the other professors make concerted efforts to make themselves readily available to students and create more opportunities for student-faculty interaction outside of lecture.
In response to concerns over the sizes of their concentrations, the life sciences faculty pushed in the spring of 2006 for the creation of five new, smaller concentrations.