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According to Jeffrey Wolcowitz, assistant dean for undergraduate education, section size has been a perennial concern of the Faculty, which for the first time has enough control over its budget this year to realistically discuss reducing section size...
...Even so, Wolcowitz said that using more money to reduce section sizes may not be the only way to improve sections...
According to Wolcowitz, the College's guidelines state that the average section size in humanities and social science lecture courses should be 20 students...
...Wolcowitz says science sections are smaller because of concerns about supervision in labs...
...News & World Report's infamous college guide claimed that Harvard spent more per student than nearly any other college in the country and yet had a percentage of classes with enrollment above 50 comparable to a state school system. Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz told me that last year, over half of Harvard's classes had under 20 people. He also said that U.S. News may have counted courses like Math 21a, Expository Writing 10 and Spanish A as courses with large enrollment, when they are in fact taught entirely in sections of 20 and under...