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...Maybe it was because the party was “advertised” at the end of a three page “list of possible great things to do tonight,” which included everything from a Rembrandt docent tour at a museum to an all-day seminar on exports in Boston (which was over by the time the e-mail was sent). Or maybe it was the time-change announcement sent out at midnight. Whatever the reason, the Cabot “party” looked much more like a scam for a free $100 from...
...government proposal, for example, requires students to take five courses in that department. The five may include graduate courses, and students may petition to count one freshman seminar, Harvard Summer School course, or course from study abroad toward the secondary field requirement...
Alice Munro spins tales that showus, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir...
...student wants to take a conference course or seminar for Core credit, he or she should be able to; a final exam adds almost no value over a term paper. This small change would open up whole departments to students. For instance, nearly every English course would count for Literature and Arts A or C. Being more liberal with syllabus requirements and actively seeking out departmental courses would add still more departments. Such a broad expansion of the Core, for which this page has consistently petitioned, will lead to smaller courses, more options, and more satisfied students...
Appropriately, Elgin showed the film in her freshman seminar, “Skepticism and Knowledge...