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...Center for Government and International Studies. According to Harvard’s Medieval Studies committee member and Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick, the lecture was an opportunity for Harvard to further cultivate its medieval archaeology studies. The first course in this subject at Harvard was taught last fall. “Medieval archaeology doesn’t really exist in America,” McCormick said, “Harvard’s led the world and the nation in so many disciplines, why not lead the nation in the study of medieval archeology...
...between their private culture and the one outside. There seems to be two ways to approach the problem. The first is low-key: to simply model the values and behavior you believe in, and hope for the best. The premise here is that kids are too young to be taught moral shades of gray, and can grow up most naturally if allowed to absorb the intricacies of Iranian society slowly, without too much instruction by tense parents. The benefit of this is style is that you don't actively teach your kids to lie. My friend, the one with...
...needs no designated category in the first place. Understanding and analyzing cultures are requisite components of a general education, but undergraduates will necessarily be exposed to different cultures simply by completing the rest of the proposed general education program. It seems inconceivable, for example, for a course to be taught under the proposed “The United States and the World” category without a component of cultural exploration in one, if not both, of that category’s required courses. The same could be said of courses in both Literature and Arts...
...course it failed. The kindly philosopher-king quickly turned into a petty bureaucratic dictator, and a period of darkness fell over the realm of Harvard College. Students were imprisoned in hyper-specific studies of obscure topics. Cramped in overpopulated and under-taught classes, wails of bondage arose from the people. Finally, University Hall lent a kindly ear to the cries of the oppressed. And after years of internal debate, they released a grand plan to usurp the tyrant. “Let them have civics,” they cried, in a tone befitting Marie Antoinette...
Farmer, who currently teaches at the Harvard Medical School and who co-taught an undergraduate freshman seminar on AIDS in the Caribbean in the spring of 2005, said the change at Harvard is due mainly to the varied projects students are involved...