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History Professor Charles S. Maier ’60, who teaches Ethical Reasoning 12: “Political Justice and Political Trials,” said that having small Gen Ed classes may not be possible when syllabi are so expansive...
...even if they should not be required. They provide necessary background knowledge for concentrators interested in a traditional British and American track, and also attract non-concentrators interested in English survey courses. Although the same sort of criticism as the department leveled at itself should be applied to the syllabi of individual courses like English 10a and 10b, these introductory courses should continue to be staple offerings of the department.Moving forward, it will be a challenge for humanities concentrations like English to continue to attract students also lured by more conventional pre-professional tracks. Yet the study of the humanities...
...Although these courses would share common themes, the syllabi could vary extensively...
...There’s no way we can go through the online syllabi course by course in the first week of term,” said Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis...
Other experts think b-schools should go even further, by not only increasing the number of courses they offer but also revising their syllabi, which currently focus heavily on mathematical modeling (a forecasting technique that uses historical data and assumptions). "People shouldn't bury themselves in the mathematics, because the mathematics are only tools," says Kenneth Froot, a professor at Harvard Business School who teaches courses in risk management. "One needs to have a wide and robust vocabulary to talk about risk, simply because no single mathematical formula is going to capture all of what risk...