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...Harvard, where course loads are already incredibly light for most professors, team-teaching may encourage professors to offer fewer courses if they are teaching more together. While there is no set system across all departments to evaluate the course credit a professor receives for a team-taught course, both Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and Professor Williamson say that many team-taught courses are only given half of the credit towards professors' course load. This should, in theory, prevent professors from doing half the work and getting all the teaching credit. One hopes, for instance, that...
...course, the most important thing (at least for us) is the effect this trend has on students. Co-taught classes are popular, for the most part, because they are better than other courses. They have better teaching, more varied viewpoints and provide valuable mentoring for junior faculty. However, students should not be drawn in by classes co-taught by multiple faculty "stars". These classes can be poorly prepared and poorly taught, with the professors relying simply on their star power to draw in students...
...Williamson said, co-taught classes don't, "give any Faculty member the license to slack...
...drop deadline, you find that your co-taught class, despite the high-powered professors and catchy title, isn't living up to your expectations, if you find that the professors are talking more to each other than to the audience, and that the lecture resembles one of those endless abstract discussions you have with your roommates late at night, you may want to reconsider. After all, those discussions are always more fun when you get to participate. Professors should become stars for their teaching ability, not for their publications or pontifications. Make sure you get your money's worth...
Most recently, in addition to graduate seminars, he taught Harvard's only course in modern European intellectual history. But Fleming...