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...like small departments with tiny, discussion-based seminars? Or do you like to be that one student who always speaks up during large auditorium lectures? While all concentrations will have required tutorials??smaller, narrow-topic classes that can end up being one-on-one by the time you are a senior—tutorials in larger concentrations take more of a lecture-and-section format. You won’t find much in the way of small seminars in government or economics (especially with Harvard’s budget cutting...
...newsletter also said that sophomore tutorials??mandatory, small-sized courses which are taught by teaching assistants—will be offered in the fall as well as the spring. According to Director of Undergraduate Studies Jeffrey A. Miron, the addition of fall tutorials is intended to “give students a little more flexibility,” and is not an expansion of the program...
Since the move to give students an extra semester to declare concentrations, departments have shuffled requirements and abbreviated tutorials??intense, introductory seminars that have long defined undergraduate study at Harvard. But in spite of the condensed curriculum, department administrators stress that their course offerings have not been watered down. The majority of humanities and social science concentrations—including African and African American studies, government, and history and literature—will offer a one-semester sophomore tutorial in the spring, instead of the traditional class spanning sophomore year. “We have...
...Educational flexibility has slowly withered and died at the hands of the all-powerful Core Standing Committee, which at times seems to exist solely to deny exemptions. One particularly troubling rule is that the Core has minimum requirements for amounts of reading, exams, and papers that prevents classes like tutorials??often the best taught and most valuable classes—from counting. We applaud the Task Force for making it clear that this will not be the case in the future.The limited menu of courses in the proposed system, however, will cause headaches. Specifically, students will be forced...
...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 mechanics classes all count toward...