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During his deanship, which ended a year into Summers’ presidency, Knowles also encouraged greater faculty-student interaction. He expanded the Freshman Seminar Program and pushed for smaller sections in undergraduate courses...
...Nifong worked to establish at the outset. Their efforts to sway the views of potential jurors affects the larger audience as well. They are not interested in disquisitions on the case as a parable about race or class or privilege. But they do have an interest in conducting a seminar on the rights of the accused in a democracy: we're all equal under the law, justice is blind, those accused are innocent until proven guilty, the constitution guarantees a right to a speedy trial...
...statement said. “We want to make sure that talented students from all economic backgrounds are aware that Harvard and all higher education is open to them,” Fitzsimmons said in an interview yesterday. Fitzsimmons also attributed the higher yield to an expanded Freshman Seminar Program, the growth of the Faculty, and an increase in study abroad opportunities. Since 2000, the seminar program has grown dramatically, jumping from 36 course offerings to 141 this year. “That kind of change really underscores the fact that students will have access immediately to senior faculty...
...them, Haig wrote. Members of the class of 2007 will be able to declare secondary fields in OEB if they meet the requirements.A secondary field in English and American Literature and Language might consist of six courses: three required courses, including an English 90 or 97 seminar, and three electives, Director of Undergraduate Studies Gordon Teskey wrote in an e-mail. He added that the structure of the secondary field is still uncertain, since the full department has yet to discuss the proposal.But, he wrote, “I see no reason why we will not have a secondary field...
...performance of his senior thesis—a concerto for piano and a 40-piece orchestra, which Wang has assembled himself. “Derrick is a flexible musician,” says Mason Professor of Music Carol J. Oja, who teaches Wang’s seminar on Leonard Bernstein. “He has a serious, classical side to his composition, but he also has the more free-spirited, musical theatre side.” Wang will have an opportunity to showcase his many talents at “ Leonard Bernstein: Boston to Broadway,” a conference...