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...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 departments—are taught by grad students in their area of research. As such, they have a high student-teacher ratio, high grading curve, and even higher esoterica index. Hardly Social Studies 10. However, economics, philosophy, and quantum...
...sleep. Picture a biology professor version of Ben Stein in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and multiply by ten. Just make sure you don't snore (another real-life occurrence). Don’t bother even buying the textbook; you only really need to read the pages on the exam outline, which is given out a week before the exam. But make sure you know the lecture slides cold. Also, try to get a chill section leader—this is critical to your success during the course...
...science concentrator in this class. The material is very biological, so those with a biological background have a huge advantage over the Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy concentrators required to take the course because they're in the Mind, Brain, and Behavior track. The Kandel textbook, written for upper level courses, is dense and chock-full of arcane jargon—don't bother buying...
...data spanning the fields of politics, business, and spirituality, but their findings are difficult to remember after an additional 100 pages on the past, present, and future of all of American society. “Applebee’s America,” reads more like a Social Analysis textbook, with its monikers, catch-phrases and broad observations, than a New York Times non-fiction bestseller. Unless you are planning a campaign this fall or trying to butter up to Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol for GSAS...
...That's not necessarily so, says Miami attorney and immigration law expert Ira Kurzban, who wrote Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook, a textbook that even the government attorneys routinely refer to when presenting their cases. If the government wants to go back and reclassify Posada as a terrorist to keep him in detention if no nation wants to take him in, it may be able to. "The real question here is will the Administration apply its views on terrorism in an evenhanded way?" Kurzban asks. "If Mr. Posada was a member of al-Qaeda, would the Bush Administration do everything...