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...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...
...amount of time that students spend in concentrations—and jeopardizing Harvard’s tutorial system in the process—the delayed decision deadline will reduce the standard by which Harvard has traditionally measured mastery of a subject. Moreover, all of proposed solutions to salvage tutorials??shortening the tutorial, pushing the tutorial into junior year, or opening up the fall tutorial to non-concentrators—all compromise depth of exploration. Shortening of the tutorials forces departments to unnaturally condense an already rigorous curriculum. Bleeding over into junior year impacts other valuable programs such...
...like to see it happen during freshman week,” he said. Another potential concern, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge Dominguez said, is that a delay in concentration choice would require departments—especially those with year-long sophomore tutorials??to change their requirements. But Dominguez said he thought the Government department, which currently requires a full year of sophomore tutorials, could adjust.“It’s nothing particularly difficult or complicated,” he said. Chair of the History Department Andrew Gordon said some members of his department have already...
...while the phrase “senior tutor” may soon be as extinct as a dodo bird, “senior tutorials?? remain a fixture of many concentrations...