Word: syllabi
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Frustrated students attempting to find course syllabi and lecture videos online may have brighter days on the horizon. A new measure from the Presidential Technology Initiative aims to give professors the tools they need to improve the often inadequate course websites. The support will come in the form of grants between $2,000 and $10,000 to professors, as well as stipends for undergraduates and teaching fellows who help Faculty develop and implement technological tools. While it remains to be seen how effective or worthwhile this new spending will be, it is nonetheless encouraging that Harvard has recognized the problem...
...recent study of syllabi in West Coast colleges indicates that the average student parts with a whopping $900 every year due to the cost of textbooks. To many students at Harvard, this figure probably seems like a rather low estimate. But an encouraging movement underway—which has picked up support from several members of Congress—may soon lead to reform...
Burgard says that Core courses—whose syllabi must be approved by the Committee on the Core Program—are some of the most carefully designed courses in the University...
...also true of many other projects that have received much less money? Cinematic provides a useful example. The impact it has had on campus has proven in the last year to be unique for a first-year publication: professors are using articles in their class syllabi and students are still referring to it months after it was published. The magazine already has groundings on the web, within the International Standard Serial Number administration and international recognition including a permanent subscription from a Belgian publisher. Cinematic has featured student-written articles next to submissions by people ranging from the producer...
Preparing for the imminent rush of midterms and papers—students’ first brush with academic accountability—mid-semester is the time when Harvard students finally get into their groove. We’ve critically shopped our classes, poured over syllabi and now we’re just settling into our sections. Of course, it wouldn’t be too bold to say that our sections are the most significant aspect of our Harvard learning experience. Most of us desperately try to get into a “good section?...