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...Government concentrators, a drop from 164 concentrators in the Class of 2009 and dramatically lower than the 236 concentrators in the Class of 2008. In sum, the College’s political scientists have seen a 48 percent decrease in the students who fill their lecture halls and seminar rooms over the last three years, leaving department administrators searching for answers...
...Russell feels that undergraduates in undergraduates in particular could benefit from studying the works of Nabokov in the intimate classroom setting of a house seminar...
...you’d rather read “Lolita,” and don’t mind doing it surrounded by reinforced concrete, then you may want to consider Mather’s house seminar on Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, taught by Professor James R. Russell. The course—Mather 77: “Nabokov”—will focus on Nabokov’s life and work using his English-language autobiography and his major literary works...
...help of the College. With sufficient funding, this program could allow all students at Harvard to have an international experience by the time they graduate—regardless of financial, extracurricular, or academic constraints. On campus, the administration should encourage professors and graduate students to teach not-for-credit seminars, either academic or non-academic in nature. They could span everything from home economics and cooking to finance and accounting. These seminars would be a wonderful opportunity for students to dabble in new disciplines or subjects only of peripheral interests. Moreover, the intimate nature of such classes would encourage more...
Even if undergraduates choose the beach over their books for the mini-term, an optional seminar program is misguided. Resources from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ already-stretched budget could certainly be better directed elsewhere than to an undersubscribed quasi-academic program. And given how slow and painful the development of the General Education curriculum has been, it hardly makes sense to ask the Faculty to simultaneously create yet another set of new classes...