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The Music Department may offer letter graded credit for performance in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) next year, despite the Faculty Council's decision last week to reject a similar, ungraded course, the department's chairman said yesterday.
"Grade inflation" is a fashionable topic of academic conversation these days. The term means different things to different people. To some professors it symbolizes a general tendency toward permissiveness and lax standards throughout the university. Others use the phrase to attack ungraded courses and the pass-fail system. But most...
An ungraded system would not meet Gen Ed credit requirements as they now stand. Students polled said they feared removing a Gen Ed course as popular as Nat Sci 36 from credit eligibility might signify a future crackdown on other "guts" in the Gen Ed program.
The proposal, drafted by the Faculty Council on Wednesday, recommends to the full Faculty that, for the first time in Harvard's history, an entire Gen Ed course be changed from a letter-grade basis to an ungraded system of "satisfactory-unsatisfactory."
Anyone who wrote a ten-pope paper was guaranteed a "B"--so long as it wasn't pure bullshit," Lewontin says. Those who were in the market for "A"s could write longer, 15 or 20 pages. There was some confusion about what criteria were used in awarding "A"s...