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...certainly fitting that the proposed new curriculum describes its categories in terms of the meaningless jibber-jabber that can easily turn a section into purgatory. “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” sounds like the kind of filler one uses to impress a typically disinterested teaching fellow (TF) when one hasn’t done any of the assigned reading. Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.” This is, of course, highly distinct from...
Asking students to work across disciplines might be fairly straightforward; our malleable intellects lend themselves to mixing academic media, sometimes even by design. But demanding the same flexibility from a graduate student TF writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum...
Henrietta Harrison, the professor of the popular core Historical Studies A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations” responded to the issue by having a teaching fellow (TF) deduct participation points from students caught checking their e-mail in lecture...
...find that students are more engaged with each other and less focused on taking notes when they don’t have a computer screen in front of them,” said Courtney E. Bucher, a TF for Historical Studies A-85 “The United States since World...
...assisting in facilitating tactful, creative means for students to be heard on these matters. These “tactful means” include a general understanding that student concerns be expressed first to the professor or course head (with the anonymity that we provide), rather than to the TF, and that they be presented by students actually enrolled in the course, who can speak from their own experience...