Word: syllabus
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...plan to profit off these courses explains another mystery from the review: What professor would ever agree to teach a course whose syllabus resembles a badly designed 6th-grade social studies class (as with the report’s example “cultures and contacts” course which will miraculously scamper through “multiple centuries and continents” by covering “significant moments…in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways”—in a semester)? The answer is not too hard to guess when that professor...
...They changed the syllabus, they changed the faculty,” explains Director of the Core program Susan W. Lewis of the reasons behind why the course this year does not fulfill a Core requirement. “[Af-Am 10] is not the course that was approved by the Core the year that Professor West taught...
...certain number of views expressed in the syllabus of this course I think are silly...are not supported by hard data,” Summers said. But he added that “it’s the glory of a university that my views are not the views that set the curriculum of the University...
...student complaints that professors don’t interact enough with students, the first lectures of shopping period—before the grind of getting through the material—provide that rare glimpse into professors as humans. In talking more informally about course expectations, going through the syllabus and setting up expectations, faculty naturally reveal far more about themselves as people than they will in the average lecture halfway through the semester. Students’ academic experience improves when they realize that the bespectacled figure lecturing to them is, remarkably enough, human...
...student shopping. There are plenty of others, though, who don’t even bother to well into the term. If they would get their acts together, professors could spare more of shopping period to provide a glimpse of course material instead of tediously going over the syllabus. Online videos, old exams and problem sets kept on course websites from past years would be even more helpful for students shopping for classes...