Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most students seem more interested inmeeting the professors who teach them than theones assigned to their house...
BECAUSE OF the courses I have taken, I have had graduate student section leaders that know how to teach good writing, filling in the gap left by Expos. That seems, though, a little late in the process...
Vilmure, who wrote for both The Crimson and the Advocate, credited Harvard with improving his literary background. But he said he did not know "howeffectively creative writing can be taught." Headded, "You can write a lot, and quantity can meanquality, but you really can't teach...
...fact that Harvard does not teach its history concentrators social theory. The school's educational philosophy, as embodied in the Core Curriculum, is meant to teach modes of inquiry as opposed to a set body of knowledge. But in the History department, one aspect of historical inquiry--its theoretical basis--is left a mystery...
...while the Department's failure to teach social theory may simply be a result of history itself, the incorporation of such thinkers as Geertz into the History Curriculum would not be difficult. In some Sophomore tutorials Gramsci is taught as part of the unit on Historiography. That unit could easily be changed to one on how historians use social theory. Or, as a less drastic measure, a course on historiographical uses of social theory could be made a departmental elective...