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...concentration??s recommendation is “necessary but not sufficient” for a particular level of Latin honors, according to Social Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Anya E. Bernstein...
...contact with faculty can be achieved only by persisting energetically within a concentration??at the expense of interdisciplinary breadth—then this indicates another serious shortcoming that the curricular review has only been able to address tangentially. And even within one’s own concentration, contact with senior faculty is rare and not as frequent as one might hope. When it occurs, exchanges are often marked by formality and the seeming need, on part of the student, to impress the professor. Some faculty members, such as Kemper Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, complain that students...
Students often find the process of finding thesis advisers difficult because of the informality of the process. In most departments, students have complete independence and must take the initiative to approach faculty members themselves, with only some guidance from the concentration??s Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) or Head Tutor...
McGregor is one of only 19 undergraduates enrolled in a “special concentration?? designed individually by the student and his or her faculty adviser...
...skeptical about some of the other recommendations in the HCCR report that claim to do the same thing. The drastic reform of the concentration system that the report suggests, for example, would undermine the quality of a Harvard degree. The possible cap of 12 required courses per concentration??something that would affect all but 18 of the 40 concentrations—would limit the depth of instruction at the College. Also, in all but 11 of the concentrations, Honors and Basic requirements would be condensed into one set, making the only thing that distinguishes an Honors degree from...