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Many first-years choose to start off their careers making "safe" course choices, usually large lecture classes with little to no personal contact with a member of the faculty. Freshman Seminars offer a way to draw first-years into small classes where they can have direct contact with professors. The courses are dynamic and academically rigorous, but they are packaged in a way that makes them comfortable choices for first-years (notably though admission being limited to first-years only and through their pass-fail grading). Unfortunately, the number of seminars offered today is inadequate: two thirds...
Thiemann offered three courses last semester: a seminar on "The Public Intellectual," "Religion and Society Colloquium" and "Colloquium in Technology." Despite the controversy surrounding his departure, students at HDS seem to be taking his return in stride. According to the Registrar's Office, Thiemann's classes have each attracted about seven to nine students, an average enrollment figure for seminars and colloquiums...
Both employees and their employers need to know what the law says. gmhc gives its new employees a seminar on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. The forum helps people understand the intricacies of the law and informs them in advance, rather than in the thick of a crisis situation. "Remember what work represents to people," says Sloan-Kettering's Zampini. "It's mastery and control over one's life. Work brings an enormous sense of personal fulfillment and self-worth." And productive workers--even those with chronic illnesses--more often than not give...
...leads the class from the blackboard, Rachel Ismerio, a 20-year-old psychology major at UCSD, serves as tutor, floating from desk to desk to make sure no one falls behind. And if plotting axis points begins to get dry, the class can turn into a 3-D graphics seminar, with the students using the UCSD supercomputers to create complex designs. Eliana Rucobo, 14, a precocious child of Mexican immigrants, says, "When I first came here, I had doubts about myself. Now I have gained confidence to go after what I want"--which is to become an architect...
...serious academic attention. Vance Smith, an assistant professor of English at Princeton University who is spending this year as a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein's old bailiwick, has just delivered a lecture called "Harry Potter and This Ever-Changing Medieval World" to an alumni seminar. He praises, among other things, Rowling's clever use of Latin and her "important and rigorous medieval agenda...