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...three years of Latin, or two of Greek, well into the second half of the twentieth century.In 2007, fewer than 40 students counted the Classics as their concentration, and expectedly only a slim number of those outside the department included any study of Greek and Latin among their coursework. This dearth of classical learning at the nation’s most prestigious university is no doubt lamentable—especially so as the current Core, with its multicultural distribution requirements, transitions into a general education program that leaves no place for dead languages in its “globalized?...
...attended public school before receiving degrees from Yale (B.A. in 1973) and M.I.T (Ph.D in 1977). In 1976 he briefly worked for the central bank of Portugal as part of his doctoral coursework • Married to economist Robin Wells
...declared her concentration.“I told the head professor, who is now my adviser, what I was interested in and she said, ‘You can definitely do that within Folk and Myth,’” Arshad said.A large part of the coursework is a “special field”, which can be from any department as long as it can be justified why taking those classes will help in writing the senior thesis.“We’re interdisciplinary on the one hand and we’re also...
...School and its peer institutions, the letter grading system provides far less in the way of usefulness. Any student capable of graduating from HLS has already demonstrated a high level of proficiency and drive simply by generating the grades and scores necessary to gain admission and completing the coursework while there. Law students are admitted as adults, not naïve adolescents, and their past records speak volumes to their capabilities. The answer to the question of which graduates possess basic competence is simple: they all do. In this rarefied context, the need for quantitative grades...
...government-run high schools in America require a certain amount of coursework in “physical education” for students to graduate. Likewise, many private schools institute a similar requirement or, in the case of traditional preparatory schools, have their students play a team sport every season...