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...Historical Sutdy A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations” to FC 48, “The Cultural Revolution.” See people? It’s all about choice.In poaching David Wang from Columbia, Harvard made a good choice. This plaid-clad professor will teach you all there is to know about FC 67, “Popular Culture in Modern China,” from cheesy puns (ever thought about love songs as “decadence through de-cadence”?) to cheesy flicks (try analyzing “Kung-Fu Hustle?...
...turns out, can vary depending on what you take. In its ultra-specific description, the Freshman Seminar Program states that students work with faculty members “on a variety of selected topics in a variety of ways.” So, basically, this means that Profs can teach about whatever interests them, from popular Japanese legends (see: “The Tale of Genji”) to broad, sweeping genres that attempt to cover the entirety of the space-time continuum (“Galaxies and the Universe”). You can rub elbows with Nobel Prize winners...
...senior thesis, it softens the blow with a few champagne receptions.The History of Science department has quite a few faculty superstars. After a leave of absence last year due to illness, Everett I. Mendelsohn—a History of Science fixture for 45 years—has returned to teach a junior seminar (History of Science 90w, “The Atom Bomb in History and Culture”) and a freshman seminar (43q, “Historian and the Genes–From Mendel to Human Clones”). Students can enjoy his pseudo-British accent...
...mathematicians. They aced the AP Calc exam at age 12, but may be unable to pass a Turing test. Concentrators often finish requirements in their sophomore year by taking an introductory course in algebra, analysis, and geometry, or topology. After this, many students take graduate courses. The professors who teach each course change almost every year, and many junior professors are only around for two years. This means that the CUE guide is often completely unhelpful, as a new professor means a new syllabus and often a different textbook for the same course. Tutorials—seminars in most other...
...which must be submitted before 10 a.m. on the given due date). The class description states, “Students will learn how others think about uncertainty and risk and how better to assess uncertainty in their own lives.” It sounds like something a shrink might teach you; Harvard costs about 5,000 bucks a class, which, depending on your shrink, might be a deal. Or, you could jump on the bandwagon and take QR 34, “Counting People: Demography and Human Affairs,” a massively popular QR. It?...