Word: tfs
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After leaving the Times last spring in a much-discussed shakeup, he has returned to teach his popular film course, Visual and Environmental Studies 173x, “American Film Criticism” this semester. The class offered open enrollment last year to accommodate 107 students. Based on what TFs say was overwhelmingly positive student feedback, it has swelled even further this semester. Also returning is Mitchell’s seminar, African and African American Studies 183, “The African-American Experience in Film...
...College Courses should follow the example of classes like Social Studies 10. This class does an excellent job of providing an overview of the major thinkers and ideas in social science; and the teaching style of the course could easily be replicated. Equally important is ensuring that Teaching Fellows (TFs) for Harvard College Courses are especially well-trained teachers. The committee suggests that Harvard College Courses should consist of two hour-long lectures and two hour-long sections per week. Classes will very likely be dependent on TFs, and therefore it is critical that the TFs selected to teach...
When Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan come calling, we’re ready with our stellar GPAs and glowing resumes, bloated by malleable TFs and overenrolled, steeply curved core classes. Intellectual curiosity is lost amidst a culture that encourages individual profit above all else...
...cites as evidence the myriad techniques Harvardians use to get the highest grades for the least effort: duping TFs with intentionally garbled e-mail attachments, forming study groups to avoid heavy reading, writing jargon-heavy papers that manage to avoid any empirical evidence and still snatch...
Neither Mankiw, his colleagues, nor several Ec 10 teaching fellows (TFs) said they expect to see major changes to the course, which is required for economics concentrators...