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Accompanying the general trend, math and science offerings under the freshman seminar program have also proliferated. Whereas in past years these fields were underrepresented, now first-years interested in math and science fields will have a wider range of relevant topics to explore...
...first-years, freshman seminars are Harvard’s most valuable academic treasures. They create an intimate setting of about 12 students, close interaction with a faculty member and in-depth investigation into a topic of choice. Freshman seminar offerings considerably increased this year, which should be celebrated as a concrete improvement for the undergraduate academic curriculum...
Ever since the faculty discussed revamping the freshman seminar program two years ago, the number of freshman seminars has dramatically increased. This year, first-years could choose from a record-breaking number of 88 courses, up from last year’s 61 and 36 the year before that. The number of applicants has also substantially increased—some 1054 applied for just this fall semester’s offerings. Fortunately, the increase in numbers signals that this program is reaching a greater number of first-year students and enhancing their academic careers...
...each department picked out several seminars that would count for departmental credit, first-years planning to concentrate in a specific department might feel coerced to take seminars that would count for credit—making them less eager to explore new unfamiliar fields, which is one of the seminar program’s greatest strengths. Freshman seminars allow students to branch out from the field they’ll be studying for the next three years, and sometimes even cause students to change their intended plan of study. Any move that would discourage students from diversifying their academic experience would...
...Thomas H. Sander, executive director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Saguaro Seminar, who is in the process of measuring the impact of Sept. 11 on civic engagement, said disasters have historically caused temporary increases in civil engagement, but “how long these surges last depends on the severity of what happened...