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...syllabi for the mandatory introductory courses for concentrators in history and social studies (the “interdisciplinary concentration in the social sciences at Harvard College”) are confined to Western authors and theorists. While no longer mandated (the history department’s current requirements are one course in pre-modern history, one course in Western history, one course in non-Western history, and six additional half-courses in the department or related fields), the traditional survey courses that are so fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent...
...student life.When students copying ISBN numbers for the textbook website Crimsonreading.org had the police called on them by the Harvard Coop, it shed light on the larger issue of the University’s unwillingness to lower textbook costs. Professors should take the trouble to put ISBN numbers on syllabi, making the Coop copiers’ “illegal” activities redundant. In addition, the administration’s reluctance to lend a hand to Crimsonreading.org must stop. The Coop exists in order to benefit the Harvard community, and students are only harmed when the administration puts...
...adapted their proposals to the committee’s first round of comments and resubmitted them,” Gen Ed committee member John M. Sheffield II ’09 wrote in an e-mailed statement. “We’ve seen a glut of revised syllabi in the last few weeks.” Students who were worried that Literature and Arts B-51: “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres” may not be taught again can now rest assured—it will count both toward the Core and Gen Ed?...
...implementation committee has not asked the professors to make radical changes to their existing syllabi...
...professors’ performance at the end of the term, an enforceable and online midterm evaluation system for professors and teaching fellows would allow students and professors to effect changes in the way that a course is taught throughout the course of the term. For example, adjustments to course syllabi based on these evaluations could be made on a more frequent basis, and section leaders could alter the tone of discussion during meetings by simply reading anonymous reports from students. Much like the present Q system, students could submit their feedback online, and the Q Guide could even be expanded...