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Mentioned briefly in Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles' annual letter to the Faculty was the idea of seminar-style courses for all first-years. This suggestion, however tentative, points to a potentially beneficial addition to the first-year experience, especially considering the fact that first-years frequently enroll in large introductory or Core courses...
...wary about turning them into requirements--first-years must already enroll in Expository Writing and fulfill their language requirement. One way for the majority of first-years to enroll in voluntary seminars would be to expand the existing seminar program dramatically. The seminars could also be offered as letter-graded courses, since many students are unlikely to choose the seminars if they continue to be offered as pass/fail electives that cannot count for department credit...
Harvard and Yale law schools have very different grading methodologies. HLS follows the traditional letter grade system, giving students grades ranging from A+ to F. At Yale , students are usually given grades of "honors," "pass," "low pass" and "fail." First semester students are graded solely on a pass/fail system, in which students say it is virtually impossible to fail...
...conventional wisdom is that Harvard is a 'black letter' law school where they teach you what the law is and how best to interpret and apply the law," he adds. "At Yale the institutional emphasis is somewhat more on why the law is the way it is, and how it can be improved. In essence the focus is perhaps more philosophical at Yale...
...Harvard teaching practical legal skills, certainly not," Isbell says. "None of the top tiered schools do. The mid-tier school are much better at 'black letter' law and the mechanics of writing a memo or conducting legal research...