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...gateway to concentration, introducing students early to the basic language of the life sciences. The English department revised its junior tutorial program two years ago to strengthen its intellectual content and to bring small groups of undergraduates together with one graduate student for each group to explore a topic of mutual interest, with emphasis on research and writing. With greater faculty strength and more courses in film studies, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies will offer a new concentration track in this area next year. And last year, the Department of Afro-American Studies reconfigured itself as African...
Once she has chosen a concentration—say, government with a special interest in international environmental policy—she will continue to work with an adviser to plan her academic program. She will take a junior seminar that focuses on a topic in international relations. She will also explore her interests in this area (and her secondary interest in Latin American literature) while studying for a term in Chile—and meet her language requirement by taking courses taught in Spanish during that term abroad. A smaller number of concentration requirements and greater flexibility to take related...
...over a council meeting on May 9, never officially informed the council. Angered at having been left in the dark, council members complained over UC-general. By the time of the Faculty Council meeting, the list had seen 18 heated messages, including three defenses from Mahan, exchanged on the topic...
These e-mails were always satisfying to me, because I thought I had done my job. I had made someone think about a topic that was not related to the war in Iraq, problems with their families and friends, getting into graduate school...
...course, is all of the above. A sports column should offer something to everyone. Making a column accessible is not as easy as it sounds. You can do it by either writing on an issue with wide appeal or making a column funny. Everyone likes to laugh, regardless of topic...