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...Harvard. The college now offers, for example, fewer of the kind of survey courses many undergraduates want and need—the sort of connect-the-dot overviews of the arts and sciences that form the foundation of a liberal education. Understandably, most Harvard faculty members want to teach their specialties. The core curriculum tried to bridge the gap by emphasizing methods of study rather than content, but it doesn’t seem to have truly satisfied anyone...
Faculty members prefer to teach courses in their field of speciality rather than broad survey courses, Kishlansky said...
...People do it with a sense of volunteerism,” Kishlansky said. “There is no one in the department who stands up and says, ‘I want to teach this until the day I die.’ Our lives would be a lot easier without...
...fill gaps in its curriculum. But the department’s refusal to view its mission in terms of providing full exposure to a field is indicative of a deeply ingrained and problematic mindset both at Harvard and at other research universities; it is unquestioned law that faculty teach the courses they want to teach, regardless of whether those are the courses students need or want. In determining what courses to offer, departments and professors must bear in mind that the primary goal of courses is to educate students, not simply replicate the research interests of faculty. Departments, therefore, must...
...Harvard undergraduates. An institutionalized feedback mechanism is vital if the College is to succeed in providing its students with more complete exposure to a particular field. We do not believe that students should have anywhere near full control over a department’s decisions of which courses to teach; rather, when there is consistent and reasonable student demand for additional course offerings, departments must listen...