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...experience in the intimate intellectual outlet of her freshman seminar.Naddaff recalls the excitement of delving into a discussion on Virgil with Zeph Stewart, the legendary Harvard classics professor and former Lowell House master, while his wife would serve tea out of a silver teapot. Naddaff’s freshman seminar brought her into the upperclassman House at a time when women still lived in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.Today, over 30 years later, the small-group experience of a freshman seminar still stands in stark contrast to first-year schedules otherwise inundated with large introductory lecture courses in a crowded Sanders Theatre...
...requirements that caters to a rather narrow set of interests. The current system requires that all concentrators complete English 10a and English 10b—two semesters of introductory courses on the English canon—as well as fulfill pre-1800 literature, American literature, and sophomore seminar requirements—along with their departmental electives. Under the new proposal students are freed from these rigid requirements. Instead, non-honors concentrators would be expected to take one course from each of the four “common-ground modules” outlined in the proposal and seven electives.This type...
...person drafting committee has been working on since March, would give students greater freedom to form their own plan of study, accompanied by more robust advising from a faculty member. English concentrators must complete 11 courses for the non-honors track: six English electives, one English 90 seminar, and one class in each of four newly-created “common-ground modules,” in the words of English professor W. James Simpson, who helped draft the proposal. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...story, "English Professors Discuss Curriculum," said that English concentrators will have to take the seminar course English 90. In fact, only concentrators in the honors track will be required to take English...
...whose focus is not gastronomy. And the classes about food are there if you kind of poke around.”It has also become increasingly less difficult to find courses relating directly to food as more specialized courses have been created in recent years, including the Anthropology research seminar “Global Food Systems,” the Social Analysis course “Food and Culture,” and the Science B core class “Feeding the World, Feeding Yourself.” History Professor Joyce Chaplin’s graduate seminar...