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...When the seminar was held at the office of the General Counsel, it was very well attended,” says Library spokesperson Beth Brainard. “There was a lot of misinformation and a lot of concern...
Alexander M. “Sasha” Rush ’07 said his final project for Freshman Seminar 22k, “Can Machines Think? The Turing Test and the Possibility of Natural-Language Interaction with Computers,” necessitated the use of Google, which Rush said he could not access for several hours. Rush said the project is due today...
...bright side, if adopted, the report’s solid recommendations, such as the suggested expansion of the junior seminar program, will do something to better undergraduate teaching. Junior seminars are a good way of increasing student-faculty interaction and encouraging the type of classroom experience that undergraduates ought to expect at Harvard. There is no reason why students at Harvard must necessarily be denied the kind of faculty interaction that students at small liberal arts colleges get simply because they chose to attend a research university. Other laudable proposals include requiring that all tutorial programs be headed...
Finally, the report’s recommendation to make Freshman Seminars mandatory is unnecessary. While the program is excellent on the whole, and it could surely benefit from expansion, making Freshman Seminars mandatory will only reduce the quality of the seminars and the flexibility of first-years’ schedules. The quality of a seminar is entirely dependent on the enthusiasm of the students and the professor. Making Freshman Seminars mandatory would involve engaging faculty who are less eager to teach a Freshman Seminar and students who are less likely to get into one that they’re interested...
...think that people are galvanized, excited to take a seminar with a ‘Jamaica Kincaid,’” says Acting Department Chair Lawrence D. Bobo, referring to the renowned author who is a member of the department...