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Spanagel said that both Buck and Steven Shapin, professor of the history of science, will co-teach the revised Fall semester sophomore tutorial. Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, will be joined by newly appointed Jimena Canales, assistant professor of the history of science, to co-teach the Spring semester of the sophomore tutorial...
...better solution would be to encourage professors to teach more and to make greater professor oversight of TFs mandatory. Professors ought to receive additional compensation for teaching above their required number of courses, because currently there is a strong incentive, both in terms of monetary compensation and prestige, for professors to teach as little as possible and to devote their time to research and publishing. As for the oversight of TFs, more sections should be taped, and professors should be expected to review those tapes, meet with TFs and provide written evaluations of their TFs that other professors would have...
...Seminars mandatory will only reduce the quality of the seminars and the flexibility of first-years’ schedules. The quality of a seminar is entirely dependent on the enthusiasm of the students and the professor. Making Freshman Seminars mandatory would involve engaging faculty who are less eager to teach a Freshman Seminar and students who are less likely to get into one that they’re interested...
Among them will be the first of three large courses required of all film studies concentrators—VES 170a, currently titled “Introduction to Visual Studies & Film Analysis,” to be offered this fall. Rodowick is also slated to teach two smaller courses in the spring: VES 191, “From Cinematic to Digital Culture,” which he taught when he visited in the fall, and VES 192r, “Philosophy and Film...
...were looking for a scholar with a major international profile,” he said. “We wanted someone who was a player.”Rodowick, who served as a visiting professor in the fall 2003 term, will teach three courses in VES next year...