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This Thursday, the third episode of Professor Michael Sandel’s course “Moral Reasoning 22: Justice” will air on Boston’s WGBH. Though Harvard is still a latecomer to the realm of public access education—schools like MIT and Yale have offered podcast courses through Apple’s iTunes U for years—in general, media reactions to Sandel’s television series have been positive. Most laud it for supporting freedom of information and combating the exclusivity of the Ivy League education; some even...
...answer is simple, but often overlooked. What programs like WGBH cannot provide is a factor that Harvard students may well take for granted: that of other Harvard students. One big reason why “Justice” draws upward of 1000 students every semester is its interactive experience—Sandel poses ethical quandaries to his lecture audience, they respond to him and to each other, and this back-and-forth lends a crackling excitement to the proceedings. Viewers at home sitting in front of screen can’t engage in this themselves: They can only watch...
Just last year alone, 872 students enrolled in Professor Michael Sandel’s legendary course, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice.” But now that Harvard’s most popular class has been made into a public television series of 12 episodes on WGBH, there’s no telling how much larger its “enrollment” will be this season. And while the introduction of the new show “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” makes it easier to get a more...
...Sept. 11 news article "'Justice' To Make T.V. Debut" incorrectly stated that WGBH recorded lectures in Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice.” In fact, those lectures were recorded by Harvard and later provided to WGBH...
...show premiers Sept. 21 on WGBH and will appear weekly on Sundays at 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...