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...system will allow concentrators to choose a track during the spring of sophomore year by enrolling in a tutorial in their subfield. Both fall and spring tutorials will be taught by faculty wherever possible, Hankins said...
...interest fluctuates from year to year. As students have of late gravitated en masse towards American government, for example, faculty specialists in this field have had their hands full. Obviously, faculty hiring could never keep pace with random shifts in student interest. But if the department finds a particular subfield oversubscribed one year, excising the 25 or so lowest-ranked students--only a handful of whose theses would be in the oversubscribed field--is cruel and unusual punishment...
Everything before Bach is often lumped under the vague title of early music, a flourishing subfield. Besides Bach, well-known baroque composers include Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann...
Psychology and Social Relations concentrators will soon have the option of combining traditional department coursework with computer science under the newly created subfield of Cognitive Science...
Montgomery said that no senior faculty positions will be available for positions will be available for international relations this year, adding that when a slot does open up is one or two years "We'll certainly want to consider those two." Although the international relations subfield currently has only one junior faculty position available to replace the two being vacated. Montgomery said he has "cooked up a scheme that will hopefully give us one-and-a-half appointments rather than just...