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Science B-29 was restructured this semester and now features one less professor and a syllabus that emphasizes sexual behavior over less erotic hunter-gatherer history. This year, in what seems a welcome change, the first week’s section focused primarily on the female reproductive organs and the female orgasm. But though the class is designed as a sexier “Sex,” students say there is still a limited amount of heat that can be generated in the Science Center...
...current grading scheme has clouded the meaning of each individual letter grade. Accordingly, the most effective way to eliminate this problem is to detail what each grade means. As professors prepare to teach their courses, dutifully designing the syllabus, coursepack readings and problem sets, they should also design a concise rubric delineating the performance expected from students. Professors must explain these expectations at the beginning of each course, so that students will no longer have to guess what their grades signify; they will no longer feel that their work was judged so subjectively—often seemingly arbitrarily?...
...Leap. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher was one of the oral examiners of Budnitz’s thesis and this year decided to add “Dog Days,” a short story she wrote at the age of 19, to the syllabus of English 178x, “The American Novel from Dreiser to the End of the Century...
...classes are of a much lower level of knowledge,” he said, which resulted in a syllabus that was “completely different” in content from the Harvard course...
...classes are of a much lower level of knowledge,” he said, which resulted in a syllabus that was “completely different” in content from the Harvard course...