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...only TF this year to have taken a Harvard Swahili class before teaching one. Although she is originally from Ghana, Nkyekyer’s native language, Akan, didn’t give her a leg up while studying here. Nkyekyer started from scratch, gradually acquiring the textbook skills that made her capable to teach this year. The student became the TF. Yoda would be proud.Pillsbury, who is also a Crimson photographer, also learned Swahili as a second language, but in Tanzania, not Cambridge. After graduating from high school in Los Angeles, she spent a gap year volunteering...
...case study method to BYU-Idaho undergraduates. Chair of the Business Management Department at BYU-Idaho Craig Bell said that the school is moving its entire system towards a more active learning model that encourages participation in field work, consulting projects, cases, and online tutorials. “The textbook is on its way out,” he said. Associate Dean of the College of Business and Communication at BYU-Idaho Robyn Bergstrom said that a group of BYU-Idaho faculty recently made a trip to Harvard “to learn about the case method...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) passed legislation last night outlining the details of its plan to secure cheaper textbook prices for students and allocating $1,000 of UC money towards the effort. The UC had already approved a more general version of the price-slashing proposal in February, voting to support the Harvard College Book Information System (HCBIS), a database that would compile the ISBN numbers of required textbooks on a central Web site, replacing a system that currently involves unwieldy coordination between professors, the libraries, and the Coop. But yesterday’s legislation marked “the culmination?...
...other words, it was a lesson for Bush in Latin American politics as well as general international affairs. And it was straight out of the textbook he had angrily shut five years ago - but which, to the gratification of many Latin Americans, he finally seems to have cracked again...
...movie tells a history-textbook classic: the battle of Thermopylae. Nearly all representations of this story, from Roman theater to celluloid, are based on the writings of Herodotus, allegedly the “father of history.” Back in August 480 BC, his “Histories” tell us that King Xerxes of Persia filled the Hellenic peninsula with his barbaric hordes, ready to conquer and command Greece. Vastly outnumbered and representing the alliance of Greek city-states, 300 Spartans—the movie’s namesake—held their ground for three days...