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...instructors such as preceptors are limited to eight years at Harvard before they are forced out. (In most cases, lecturers are limited to three.) Some exceptions exist for senior lecturers who hold concurrent administrative positions. The answer to Harvard’s pedagogical woes is not to force the world??s best researchers to teach courses they have no interest in teaching. Harvard should do away with the three-year and eight-year rules to allow the best lecturers to continue to teach on a contract basis.Proponents of the current system offer two main arguments. First, they hope...
...aspiring novelists can enjoy and use. Built from the ground up by a cadre of Harvard professors hailing from a swath of “science-y” disciplines, these courses integrate the aspects of biology and chemistry that you’ll actually find in the real world??not just in a lab or a theorist’s head. Because of the courses’ interdisciplinary nature, they are taught by a group of fully-tenured faculty members (five for 1a, four for 1b) who, despite all their prestige, are actually interested in teaching...
...well-liked professor Svetlana Boym, offers Revolution-era avant-garde art, socialist realist works (including Eisenstein and the cinematic montage school), and other decidedly cool Russian stuff.Our top pick is FC 76, “Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich,” taught by the world??s reigning authority on the subject, German department chair Eric Rentschler. Rentschy, as we affectionately call him, is a fantastic professor, and this is an eye-opening course. Weekly screenings range from Leni Riefenstahl’s visually stunning propaganda pictures, “Triumph of the Will?...
...diligence, integrity, and work ethic of the typical Harvard student in any academic setting. Just kidding. What it’s really a reflection of is the fact that classes like A-84 and Historical Study A-12, “International Conflict and Cooperation, in the Modern World?? are packed with government, history, and social studies concentrators who use the class to fulfill concentration requirements. Math and science concentrators might groan that the anthropology and psychology students are frolicking in the land of core favorite “Cosmic Connections” while they?...
Summers said that the world??s developing countries currently hold at least $1.5 trillion in excess reserves beyond what they need to cover short-term debt...