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Even in departments such as the classics which tend to be textbook-heavy, especially in the beginning and intermediate-level ancient Greek and Latin language classes, professors say they recognize the importance of stimulating discussion in their classes through different types of course material...
...long as texts stimulate interest and questions among students, then they are doing their job," Thomas says. "The sourcebook could simply be snapshots of a textbook; the two may not be different in kind. One is just a selection of the other...
...public finance courses, Economics 10 and all my intermediate economics courses were all textbook-oriented," says Tom N. Ambrose '72, an economics concentrator, who adds that sourcebooks were uncommon in his other related courses...
...have a lot of publishers knowing how to deal with costs from a copyright point of view--it's not a standardized textbook," Murphy says. "When they're in control of the publishing, they know how much they have to pay the author. But when they do it in piecemeal fashion, they don't know how many professors will pick that one chapter...
...think that sourcebooks tend to be very detailed and peripheral to the subject matter," said Adriana E. Abdenur '97, who says she prefers a sourcebook in addition to a textbook. "One of my biggest gripes about all of the source materials is that they are very fragmented. It was only right before the final when I went to the library and checked out a textbook that I finally got a sense of the chronology of the period...