Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glossy brochures Harvard sends to prospective students, the College brags about section quality. Even though Harvard is known for large lectures, the intimacy of discussion sections more than compensates for this lack of student-faculty discourse, the promos claim...
...many cases, that claim is true. But Harvard has seen to it that section sizes--a key determinant of section quality--are pegged more to fiscal and administrative expediency than to grander visions of educational excellence...
This fact became all to clear to me this semester in a history course. After initially scheduling two sections for History 1332, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies John McCole had the unfortunate duty of telling the class that there might be only one big section for all 34 students...
According to Faculty of Arts and Sciences officials, a section is only created when there are 20 students to fill it. If there are more than 20 students, but less than 40, that usually results in just one big section...
Fortunately, in this particular history course, the professor succeeded in securing funds for a second section--five weeks into the semester--from a fund established to support innovative and/or small group teaching. A special fund should not be expected to take up the slack for a legitimate pedagogical aim--having small groups of students discuss the material in a larger lecture course...