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...preparing their concentrators for future academic work in the field, prioritizing a compelling introduction to the subject matter instead.“We did this because we didn’t think the concentration should be pre-professional scholarly training,” says Mark J. Schiefsky, the Classics department??s director of undergraduate studies, while explaining why the department decided to eliminate its long-standing (and notoriously rigorous) general examinations.“We’re supposed to be offering something that’s of much broader appeal and utility to the students...
...taking advantage of cooked food.” At the same time, easily digestible food frees the body from the task of chewing. Chimpanzees spend half their day chewing their food, energy not spent in more constructive activities, said Daniel E. Lieberman, a fellow anthropology professor and chair of department??s biological anthropology wing. The book counters earlier hypotheses about human evolution, such as the theory that human evolution stemmed from eating meat, either raw or cooked. The transition to cooking may have had social implications as well. Wrangham argues that the control of the flame gave rise...
...junior faculty member and a female graduate student.Unlike the two incidents that came before it, students and Dominguez’ colleagues remember this case presenting a unique challenge to University officials desperately trying to assuage a hemorrhaging wound that the harassment cases had opened. Dominguez, widely considered the department??s foremost expert on Latin American politics, taught Government 2105: “Field Seminar in Comparative Politics,” a class that would be necessary for almost any government student preparing for general exams in that field.Putnam said that the Department assigned him to co-teach...
...discuss significant and recurrent questions of choice and value that arise in human experience”; one can satisfy this requirement with courses ranging from Mansfield’s Machiavelli to John Rawls and Catherine MacKinnon (as I did). My Moral Reasoning core—offered in the philosophy department??was on equality, democracy, and distributive justice, and it became one of those rare courses that changed not only what I know but also how I think. It did as much for me as anything in helping define how I approach social and political issues and teaching...
...highest student-to-faculty ratios in the Facultyof Arts and Sciences. In the past year, the department has faced a shortage of faculty, leading to the cancellation of smaller courses like Junior Seminars. Department Chair James H. Stock said that with the addition of Melitz, the department??s size “will be approximately constant for this year.” Course offerings are unlikely to see much growth because of FAS financial restrictions on visiting faculty and because some faculty members are on temporary leave to work in Washington under President Barack Obama. Melitz was offered...