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...seeks to be a recreational and academic presence on campus for students interested in interactive media. The group is currently working to produce a journal featuring articles by student contributors, professors from Harvard and other schools, and figures from the gaming industry. They also plan to hold a monthly colloquium of speakers and panels on topics pertaining to interactive media and to create a development group through which students can produce video games. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Even though right now we are spending a lot of time reading Dostoyevsky, many of the other readings are philosophical works,” he says. Beyond Humanities 14, a number of other new Humanities courses—Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” Humanities 12, “‘Strange Mutations’: Classical and Renaissance Representations of the Human Condition,” and Humanities 16, “Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond”—were approved this semester during...
...Core Standing Committee evidently missed their cue to act on last spring’s announcement of new Humanities divisional courses. As students thumbed through the nearly thousand-page Courses of Instruction, many were delighted to find classes such as Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” and Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” but they were left without guidance as to what general education requirement these general education courses would fulfill. The Core Committee’s failure to explicitly outline their role left Dean...
Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” Humanities 12, “‘Strange Mutations’: Classical and Renaissance Representations of the Human Condition,” and Humanities 16, “Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond” will all count for Literature and Arts A credit...
...won’t be around forever. At the top of the list is the tag team of Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, who will co-teach Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium.” The reading list provided in the course catalog makes this class sound like a 90-minute version of a moral reasoning class, but those who want to concentrate in the humanities discipline are urged to take it anyway. If nothing else, this class will give students up-close...