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...College’s only universally required class, Expository Writing, promises to teach you to craft lucid, beautiful prose, to state your ideas with complexity and nuance, and to call your teacher a “preceptor.” It will succeed in at least one of these. The Fates predetermine the semester in which you take Expos 20 and then determine which of your preferences you’ll be assigned to. Escape is impossible and transferring sections is difficult, so your initial choice is important and you have precious little information on which to base it. Enjoy...
...Just kidding. But we may help you choose your courses or pick a concentration. Or at the very least, before you throw us away, check out the picture of Nelson Mandela shaking Barney’s hand on page 10. We think it’s kinda funny. * This write-up is based on a response rate of less than 70 percent...
...anything from cartoons to hard-core literary theory to musicals—through the context of their historical framework.But this friendly community of keen minds is a far cry from the Brady Bunch. It’s an Honors department with a capital H, meaning that you have to write a thesis to graduate, as well as pass an oral examination at the end of your senior year. Graduates tell themselves that a Hist and Lit degree provides caché, though the harsh reality is that those outside Harvard’s fold will just assume that you majored...
Most Lit and Arts A classes will require you to write a few papers that display some level of proficiency with literary criticism, close reading, and textual analysis. But don’t worry: you probably won’t be up against English or Hist and Lit concentrators who do this kind of thing all the time, and the professors and TFs will (or at least should) provide plenty of guidance for every assignment...
...different ways Enlightenment writers conceived of and depicted the “self.” Damrosch is dynamite as always—you’ll learn a lot in this course—but the grading is pretty harsh and the concepts tackled are difficult to write about. If you’re trying to get out of the Core area without any serious work, you would do better choosing a class with more straightforward texts...