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...syllabi. And this year, he is the center of at least two courses taught by English faculty: “Beowolf and Seamus Heaney,“ offered by Daniel Donoghue through the Extension School, and “The Poetry of Seamus Heaney,” a junior seminar with Helen Vendler, author of two books about...
...next seminar will be a reading from Heaney’s works on Oct. 15 and the final seminar will be a lecture on the translation of poetry...
...faculty photographers will be teaching upper-level classes this semester. Deborah Bright, who exhibits a series of outdoor photographs of stonewalls and wooded clearings, will be teaching a contemporary photography seminar. Joel Sternfeld’s images of the urban landscape of New York City will strike a nerve with anyone who has ever strolled through the city and been amazed by the beauty within the dull and dingy urban landscape. In Looking West on 29th Street on a September Evening (2000), it seems as though Monet painted a field of flowers beneath a milky skyline and gritty buildings...
...Freshman seminars provide first-years with an invaluable opportunity. Currently, there are not enough seminars to meet the high demand—and one of the greatest steps the University could take to improve undergraduate education would be to continue to expand the seminar program to reach that demand...
When there are an adequate number of seminars, however, it would be folly not to allow them to count for concentration credit. Participants in seminars are already chosen by application. This selective process ensures that students really want to be participating in the seminars they attend. Those who are interested in broadening their horizons by taking a seminar outside their concentration area will still be able to do so, at no penalty—they will merely use an elective, as everyone does under the current system. It makes no sense to penalize students who wish to take a seminar...