Word: syllabi
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...worried that I won’t be able to save my damsel in time and write my thesis.’” The question of exceptions for thesis writers is routine during shopping period and an official policy on some syllabi. And many professors are willing to be flexible about the dates of midterms and papers. “I don’t think it does any harm to the rest of the students to give those people a bit of a break,” said Professor of Semitic Philology John Huehnergard, who teaches Social...
...With 300 concentrators, the economics department’s advising resources are already spread thin, and reviewing syllabi from classes taught elsewhere would be an added burden, Undergraduate Program Administrator Emily R. Neill said...
Despite questions about its accuracy and criticism on other college campuses, some Harvard professors and teaching fellows have incorporated Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia, into their syllabi. “I believe Wikipedia is an excellent resource because of how low-cost it makes the process of looking for information,” wrote economics graduate student Reinier A. Schliesser in an e-mail. “When I was looking for readily available materials for our discussion-focused class, I found some of the articles in Wikipedia quite useful.” Schliesser, who teaches the sophomore economics tutorial...
...system would include four data collection strategies: “self-reporting” allowing instructors to add information through an HCBIS account; “bulk upload,” permitting departments to upload textbook information for multiple courses at once; “data mining from syllabi,” requiring the manual input of information from course syllabi; and simple student reporting...
...Harvard syllabi often feature the same name under “Course Head” and “Required Reading,” but what goes into the decision to assign one’s own book to unsuspecting students? FM took a look at two different philosophies behind this age-old practice...