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...need to break a leg for his students to have a team-taught experience. He is one of four professors of the new Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution.” Along with its 1a counterpart, “Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology,” the life sciences course joins a handful of offerings where students are taught by not one but two, three, or four instructors.One recent popular offering featured University President Lawrence H. Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel matching...
...History 1121, “Vengeance, Hatred, and Law in Premodern Europe;” and History 1122, “Persons and Things in Medieval Europe.” Two departmental music courses and two film courses will count for Literature and Arts B: Music 1a, “Introduction to Music I;” Music 1b, “Introduction to Music II;” Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 71, “Silent Cinema;” and VES 72, “Sound Cinema.” Government...
...system of distributional requirements outlined by the HCCR, these courses will offer a broad introduction to a wide range of texts and ideas. They will provide students interested in the humanities with a solid starting point––much like Ec10 and Life Sciences 1a afford students of other disciplines––while also satisfying divisional requirements for students studying other fields. This flexibility must be commended. Tatar anticipates that between 15 and 20 of these courses will be developed, enabling course sizes to be small and instruction personal. The individual attention and student...
While lecture halls continue to fill for Life Sciences 1a and Social Analysis 10, Dean for the Humanities Maria Tatar envisions students flocking to a different type of course: “‘Strange Mutations’: Classical and Renaissance Representations of The Human Condition.” Because no “Humanities 10” exists at Harvard, Tatar has jump-started an initiative to create a collection of new interdisciplinary courses that will act as broad gateways into the humanities. But instead of creating a single foundational course like Life Sciences, Tatar said she wants...
...suited to a two-hour discussion in our two-hour sections,” Kline wrote in an e-mail. Lackluster attendance is not uncommon in Harvard’s large lectures. Salvador A. Pelayo ’09 said that around half of the students in Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology,” this semester attend the lectures. “Sometimes there are as many students as there are TFs sitting in lecture,” he said. Frieden said that the sophomore...