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Context. Context. Context. But most importantly: context. As a Hist & Lit concentrator you??d better have a deep appreciation for the who, what, when, where, and why of what you??re reading. One of the great things about the concentration is that it allows you to sample many extra-departmental courses and count them for concentration credit. As the oldest Harvard concentration, Hist & Lit tends to kick it old school, with a heavy emphasis on tutorials, small classes, and personal attention for concentrators. A less fortunate aspect of the old school method: lots of hard work...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concentration Throwdown | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...enjoy some adventure in your life, you??ll like the fact that Hist & Lit has a large degree of flexibility in designing an individual plan of study. The concentration requires you to select a special field within the concentration with a focus on America, Latin America, Modern Europe, Postcolonial Studies, Early Modern Europe, Medieval Europe, or a field of your choice—pending tutor approval. In short, a Hist & Lit concentrator has to endure a fair amount of paperwork, but for someone interested in planning out a specialized field of study, the extra work is well worth...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concentration Throwdown | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...trilingual? Do you harbor a special love for all incarnations of the story of 1001 Nights? Do you consider the writings of Copernicus, the poetry of Apollinaire, the philosophical musings of Aristotle, and the narratives of Tolstoy to have equally great literary value? If so, you??ll feel right at home in the Lit concentration. It may be a smaller concentration than its peers, with about 50 concentrators in 2007, but like the other fiction concentrations it allows students to construct their own specialized field of inquiry. The emphasis in the Lit department is on cross-cultural comparisons...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concentration Throwdown | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...answer the question, “What is literature?” Lit’s flexibility allows concentrators to explore the fields of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Visual and Environmental Studies in pursuit of an answer. If you enjoy debating the merits of spoken versus written word, or if you??ve got that well-traveled, inquisitive, and black-turtleneck-with-black-jeans-with-black-shoes-with-dark-rimmed-glasses look about you, Lit is where you belong...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concentration Throwdown | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...going back into the erotic industry.”As for Harvard students who contemplate deviating from the expected “Harvard path,” Cieplak-von Baldegg encourages them to pursue their original ideas. “It’s what [you??ve] worked on and… produced that people are going to be interested in,” she said.Bezreh’s advice was more cautious. “I think that pornography/erotica is the medium, and it really depends on what you??re saying...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Gets Carnal | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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