Word: syllabus
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...proud of my book,” Dershowitz concludes. Indeed, what Harvard professor wouldn’t be proud of a book that cites a Sony movie and a chronology appended to a high school syllabus to document casualty figures from a major conflict, and an editorial in The Orlando Sentinel to resolve the controversies regarding a crucial United Nations resolution that has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies...
...consequence of these limiting forces is a dearth of originality, creativity and academic curiosity. When all of your sources for a paper have been dissected in lecture and laid out in front of you on your syllabus (and, literally, at the Coop), there is no need to think for yourself or challenge any of the professor’s assumptions. There is no impetus to consider the merits and drawbacks of a radically different point of view. Any automaton can amass pre-processed arguments on both sides of an issue and take one side or the other while never approaching...
...participation in section. The need to reward—or punish—students based on their performance in section leads to TFs mechanically plowing through the assigned readings rather than stimulating intellectual debate. After all, testing whether students have done the work required of them by the syllabus is a fair and simple way to allocate grades. It does not, however, lend itself to dynamic discussion which is, after all, one of the central reasons for having section in the first place. Students, understandably keen to get the high grades which they feel they deserve, focus more on demonstrating...
...attain, for both undergraduate and graduate students alike. The problem, which hopefully we can all acknowledge, is that putting off the definitive staffing of courses until after the term has already started is inconsistent with that goal. Quality instruction requires preparation, often preparation that is very specific to the syllabus of the course. In humanities and social science courses, for example, this preparation often involves mastery of numerous texts or similar materials. A hastily assembled or filled out teaching staff cannot possibly have adequate or uniform preparation. At the same time, graduate students who are unable to plan their academic...
...think ‘Veritas’ is just a motto. Many don’t pursue the truth: they just pursue their own advancement,” Sulak says, adding that “the hidden syllabus here is that you must be successful, you must be great...