Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School Professor Detlev F. Vagts '48 said he generally agrees with the policy.Although he will not monitor attendance all of thetime, he said he expects students to be in classfor at least the two most important lectures,which he makes clear in the syllabus and duringwhich he will take attendance...
...questions of queerness remain under-theorized in debates around race and representation, and why are questions of race more or less disavowed in queer cinema?" the syllabus asks...
...very first class I shopped (Statistics 100) I was one of those unlucky few that didn't get a syllabus. The pile, located by the door opposite the one from which I entered, was swarmed with determined sophomores before I could even reach it. At the next class (Phil. 168), I did not even get a seat. Craning my neck to hear over the crowd that had amassed by the door to the small Emerson classroom, I caught only bits of pieces of a lecture containing a number of references to "Kant" and "very difficult." As to securing a seat...
Trying to get ahead for my next class (Gov. 1582) I arrived ten minutes early. There was one seat in the far corner of the room, which I quickly occupied. I was happy--until I saw the syllabus, which informed me that 50 percent of my grade would be based on a 30-page term paper. Had I known this fact from the start, I wouldn't have shopped the class. And now, since the path to the door had quickly filled up with bodies, the only way out involved causing a substantial ruckus...
...most student-friendly and potentially useful aspects of academic life at Harvard. But that's only true if you keep an open mind and actually take the time to look at lots of classes. Feel free to drop by a class just to pick up a syllabus or catch a few words from a famous professor--nobody cares if you don't stay long...