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...editors: If the “wonks of the academic left” choose to answer Travis Kavulla’s call for a seminar on the Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these...
...one’s primary academic interest will be. On the other hand, those who ignore Cores freshman year are persecuted by requirements for the rest of their college career. Under pressure to take classes that will count towards a requirement, far fewer students enroll in a spring freshman seminar than do in the fall, because these seminars, which do not have letter grades, count only as elective courses. Beyond the direct effect of Core requirements, the underlying academic flaw of freshman year is that students are encouraged to take classes which do not actually represent the bulk of Harvard?...
This spring, Martin is teaching History 1531, “History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991,” History 2531, “The Soviet Union: Seminar,” and History 1958, “Islam and Ethnicity: Conference Course...
...students had won some unspoken contest, coming out on top in spite of the frown-clowns who’d dismissed their course as a naïve self-help seminar. They’d called it a group therapy circle, a class better suited for a church basement than the most prestigious lecture space at Harvard. They had said, in sum, that 1504 was not a real class...
...became a Leverett House tutor as a graduate student in organizational behavior, and it wasn’t long before he was TFing classes under Stone. Stone taught the very first positive psychology class at Harvard in 1999 as a seminar, and Ben-Shahar served as his TF for the class. After Ben-Shahar finished his graduate work, Stone told him that he should take his place and teach the course...