Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Legend has it, Herschbach adds, that Kirkland once offered a seminar on football--for credit. "You have to understand, I'm not vouching for it," he says...
...Before a seminar is approved by Harvard, it has to receive the approval of a house committee on instruction. As a result, says Susan W. Lewis, who directs the seminar program, the seminars are often exceptionaly well-structured...
Unlikely to be found in any other part of the course catalogue, seminar titles over the years have included the fantastic "Travel Through Time," the esoteric "Western European Musical Instruments, 1350-1700," and the strictly practical "How to Read a Research Paper in Animal Behavior...
Many students say, however, that the house seminars offer a distinct advantage over departmental seminars.. "House seminars don't have to fall into any departmental criteria. That frees you up to teach exactly what you like," says Matthew Snyder '88, who took Nicholi's seminar on Freud...
...total of 27 students took the two house seminars offered last fall, and 123 students took the eight spring seminars, according to the House Seminar Office. But some professors say they have to choose from as many as 100 applicants. Instructors say they do not give preference to house residents but they often do give preference to seniors, who will not have another chance to take a seminar...