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...while the registrar's computer counted the numbers of undergrads enrolled in Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics," and General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," other profs and teaching fellows were opening the doors to the seminar rooms of Sever and Emerson Halls...
...Freshman Seminar Program, for example, which is the crown jewel of Harvard's effort at making the College a real liberal arts school, went through the unpleasant rituals of rejecting eager first-year applicants this week...
...spring, Bois will be teaching a seminar on axonometry, or the mode of representing solids. The class--Fine Arts 275s, "Axonometry as a Cipher of Modernity"--will examine the invention of axonometry in the 19th century and its rebirth in the 20th century. The course will draw extensively from research he has already done for an upcoming book on the history of axonometry...
Bois says the way Barthes, his mentor, taught was to write a book before the eyes of his students. As a student, he saw Barthes' In the Seminar emerging from its earliest stages. "He was very amazing because basically he was writing in front of his students," Bois says. "We literally watched him writing a book...
Bois says he also plans to fully utilize Harvard's numerous museums by organizing classes to attend exhibits. What drew him to Harvard was the potential to work closely with the museums, he says. In the fall, Bois will be teaching a seminar, called Fine Arts 273, "Europe-America: Problems of the 1950s," which will explore the anticompositional and antitheoretical strategies of European and American artists after World...