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Though the syllabus will certainly include major Supreme Court decisions, Tribe wrote that “the course will include much more than strictly legal sources because much of what I think sheds light on these ultimate matters takes a literary form, including both poetry and prose narrative; social and political analysis; moral philosophy; historical and anthropological study; or biomedical writing for generally educated non-specialists...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tribe To Lay Down The Law at College | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Professors should also post syllabi (or at least reading lists) earlier. This will allow students to search for cheaper alternatives online and in the used markets before classes start. Case in point: the syllabus and reading list for History 10a were posted the first day of class, leaving students scrambling to the nearest, and most expensive, book merchants to fill up their shelves. Submitting reading lists earlier could even help the Coop keep prices lower by allowing longer lead times for its staff to negotiate with distributors and to buy back books from students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Wallets in Their Hands | 9/21/2005 | See Source »

...syllabus itself recalls the campus events that influenced the new course: the third assignment, worth 20 percent of the final grade, is a “10-page Memorandum to a fictitious university president about what, in the student’s opinion, the main problem in the area of women and science is and how it might be remedied...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women in Science Class Draws Few | 9/21/2005 | See Source »

...Late Registration, the syllabus returns to Whitman's Song of Myself. There are skits ridiculing the impoverished members of a made-up black fraternity (Broke Phi Broke), while the song Gold Digger pleads with women to stand by working-class men because "He got that ambition baby look at his eyes/ This week he mopping floors next week it's the fries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Can't Ignore Kanye | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

While sections are devoted to the rudiments of theory, the dozen or so lectures per semester feature Feldstein or one of his colleagues expounding upon a field of economics of interest to them. In addition, the syllabus assigns scores of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals that both analyze economic issues and recommend policy...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Feldstein Leaves, Changes Afoot for Ec 10 | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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