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When it comes to sketching Jewish tradition, and the life of New Walden’s Hasidim, however, Goldstein’s understanding is slightly weaker. She gets the names of Hasidic customs wrong—dubbing the mystical Hasidic custom of waiting to cut a boy’s...
The proposal has prompted hesitation among some SEAS faculty and course TFs due to concerns that the new grading scheme may be incompatible with course credit policies and may weaken the academic rigor of the class, which drew more than 300 students when it was offered last fall.
Six teaching fellows contacted for this article declined to speak on the record, with several citing an e-mail from A. Cansu Aydede ’11, the head TF for CS50, asking all inquiries to be directed to herself and Malan. Malan declined to comment until final decisions have...
Aydede said she had spoken to Malan about the plan before it was announced last Friday, and that she believes it will ultimately create a more accessible class with a broader appeal for Harvard students.
But one CS50 TF, who wished to remain anonymous in order to preserve his relationship with the course staff, said that while he believes “the motivation behind [the change] is good,” he strongly disagrees with altering the CS50 grading scheme.