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Like courses themselves, course websites are only as good as the person in charge of running them. Whereas chemistry course sites include reams of old finals and gigabytes of course videos, some small humanities courses don’t even include a syllabus. The new my.Harvard portal puts these course websites at the forefront, making them easily accessible and making administrators more accountable. With course websites well integrated into a popular student portal, head TFs and professors will be more likely to keep them...
Friedman and HSA Assisant Manager Tori A. Zelt ’06 hired wine expert Kelli A. White to design the syllabus and teach the course...
...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...