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During the 2000-2001 academic year, the Faculty began an expansion of the Freshman Seminar Program to increase the opportunities for first-year students to benefit from small-group instruction. The program has expanded from 36 seminars offered that year to 114 to be offered next year. To open curricular space for students to enroll in seminars, the Faculty reduced the Core requirement from 8 to 7 of the 11 areas...
...changes outlined in the report are adopted, how might a student entering Harvard College a few years from now make her way through the curriculum? In consultation with an academic adviser, she will choose a freshman seminar or another small course that provides the opportunity to work closely with a faculty member. Another course will be devoted to advancing her skills in written and oral communication. She will also take foundational courses co-taught by faculty from FAS and perhaps from across the University that introduce her to important concepts and approaches from several fields. Her other courses freshman year...
Once she has chosen a concentration—say, government with a special interest in international environmental policy—she will continue to work with an adviser to plan her academic program. She will take a junior seminar that focuses on a topic in international relations. She will also explore her interests in this area (and her secondary interest in Latin American literature) while studying for a term in Chile—and meet her language requirement by taking courses taught in Spanish during that term abroad. A smaller number of concentration requirements and greater flexibility to take related...
Gross has embraced initiatives to reform various aspects of the undergraduate experience. He saw the freshman seminar program—of which he has been a longtime advocate—grow to its greatest number yet: 115 freshmen seminars will be offered this year. The curricular review report calls for enough seminars to accommodate all first-year students—130 freshman seminars will be needed, and Gross has said he is determined to attract top professors to the 15-person classes...
...January, former freshman seminar director Elizabeth Doherty took over managing the administrative end of undergraduate education...