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...members all genuinely seem to care about students. The BSC also likes to herald its 60+-year-old Course in Reading and Study Strategies (“the longest continuously running course at Harvard,” it boasts on its web site). The course is 14 sessions of speed-reading exercises and presentations on pseudo-topics such as “morality and reading.” Copious handouts are also given out, perhaps to compensate for the course’s $25 fee. The course isn’t as helpful as it’s cracked...
...seminars. Thus, it might be worthy to note that the workload varies significantly by course. The more masochistic Harvardians might like Professor James Russell’s two-semester “Literature Humanities,” a survey of the Western canon that will teach you how to speed-read the Bible. If you’re feeling a little gutsier, check out Professor James Hanken’s “Museums,” where the weekly class is often replaced by outings to a new exhibit. Perhaps the program’s greatest plus is that...
...essentially “Physics-lite,” though if you haven’t taken physics before you will have significant catch-up work to do. The course goes quite in-depth at seemingly random times, and the weekly problem set will keep you up to speed but could cramp your style. Science A-50, “Invisible Worlds: Micro- and Nanothings, Science, Technology, and Public Policy,” covers a broad smattering of small things—from microwaves to atomic particles to stem cells. You’ll talk about the Alice-in-Wonderland...
...come to Science B expecting QR 34, “Counting People”-esque pseudo-science—in other words, a total gut that requires you to learn little to nothing–will be disappointed. What you’re getting instead is a warp-speed tour of one area of actual science. And unlike most cores, if you skip too many lectures or don’t do your reading scrupulously, you’re actually a little bit screwed. It’s almost like taking a real class...
...Indeed, it was lightning speed that helped to quickly "stop the problem," Delorme said...