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...incredibly inefficient. The registrar seems to have a knack for wrongly guessing a given class’s enrollment, leading to a complex room reshuffle during the first week. In addition, many classes must scramble to find extra Teaching Fellows, a slow process that can delay sectioning and the syllabus. These TFs are also frequently underqualified, drawn from a subdiscipline barely relevant to the class. The current pre-registration plan hopes to cut down on this initial chaos—which cost Harvard one million dollars last year—but eliminating shopping would end it definitively...
Instead, shopping encourages students to show up to a class uninformed and ask such questions, whose answers are plainly available on the syllabus. Like shopping week as a whole, it’s a waste of teachers’ time and ours—except unlike shopping week, at least it doesn’t actually harm us in the process. Shopping period may once have been useful, it’s true—back in the days before syllabi could be posted online or that questioner could e-mail the professor instead. But today, much more information beyond...
Since ballroom competitions can have up to 20 couples on the floor at one time, the syllabus ensures a safe environment. “If you have people who are lifting their partners, it could get dangerous very fast,” says Madison J. Shelton ’11, the HBDT competitions chair. The first HBDT rehearsals of any given year involve around 200 members on a small floor, so tricky moves like lifts are not only prohibited, but impossible...
...history concentrator, I spend my days studying the artistic greats, trying to understand what it is that makes them great. When I encounter them, they have already been sanctified by the academy and the museum, elevated to the pantheon of figures on the art history syllabus. But in a desperate attempt to build up my mental database of important artists, it’s easy to forget that there are artists beginning their careers today who will become the master artists of tomorrow. So recently, I decided to discover the work of young emerging artists from the School...
...this end, we encourage professors to post syllabi and other relevant class information early, in order to help students make truly educated decisions during the pre-registration process. Presently, many classes do not have an updated syllabus posted on their course website until shopping period begins. Harris has said that pre-registration will tentatively occur in November, which is a full two months before students usually begin researching courses. Since many decide on a class because of the workload, number of major assignments, or the dates on which they fall, there is no way students can pre-register properly without...