Gen Ed
Global Classroom
As part of an innovative educational experiment titled The Global Classroom, Government Professor Michael Sandel conducts lecture before students of the University of Shangai, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New Delhi through a live, video‐linked class discussion. Harvard students in his "Justice" course had the opportunity to join this international discussion.
Most Ironic Events of 2012
2012 was an ironic year for the Earth, for more than 2012 reasons. Below is a list of 10 things that we think are actually worth mentioning to people, so pay attention, please.
Professor Apologizes for Running Over Time
Chinese history professor Michael Puett does it again. Just last month, Puett gave his Ethical Reasoning 18: "Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory" class a break from lectures, assignments, and section during the week his students had a paper due.
Chef Gives Science and Cooking Lecture
Veteran guest and James Beard Award-winning chef José Andrés returned to deliver a talk which pushed the audience to think critically about food and “find the truth behind things that you learn.”
Welcome Reprieve for Students in ER18
As midterm season began to heat up last week, a few Harvard students received a welcome dose of sympathy.
Chef Lectures on Chocolate
“What can we do with chocolate?” asked renowned chocolatier Enric Rovira of the audience packed into Science Center C on Monday night. Then he answered his own question. “Do whatever you want,” he said. “Imagination is the limit.”
Class Enrollments See Fluctuations
When Sandel announced in his first lecture that the course would introduce a Friday class this year, roughly half of the 800 students went back to their shopping lists to look at other course offerings.
Harvard Introduces First Gen Ed Curriculum, Travels to Nixon's Kitchen Debate, and Hosts Olympic Soccer
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
Ding, Dong, the Core Is Dead
With the graduation of the Class of 2012, the Core is officially dead. But students have not quite grasped how the 56 percent of the senior class that chose Gen Ed is differently educated from their peers who stuck with the old formula.
Half of Seniors Chose To Switch to Gen Ed
This spring marks the last semester of the College’s Core Curriculum, and the final numbers are in: 56 percent of this year’s seniors have chosen to graduate under the new General Education program.
GSC and Democratic Engagement
The fact that the GSC has allowed its democratic credentials to slip and its focus to narrow to that of a mere channel for funds puts it in shameful standing alongside comparable student councils in the country, and alongside the truly active organization that this month’s debate has showed it can be.
Lotteried Classes See Low Admission Rates
It is easier to gain early admission to Harvard College than get into a class with Harry Potter on the syllabus. While Harvard College admitted 18 percent of its early applicants in December, Professor Maria Tatar only admitted 10.5 percent of interested students to her class Folklore and Mythology 90i: “Fairy Tales and Fantasy Literature.”
10 Tried and True Classes
If you're still unsure about classes, take a look at some of these steadfast courses that are popular year after year. Although they may not be the easiest, without fail, these classes consistently fill up lecture halls.
Incubus Guitarist Cancels Performance
On Thursday morning, Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 will direct a string ensemble in the premiere of a piece that he composed in about three days, performing for the final lecture of the course Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 24: “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres.”
Gen Ed Must Go
With its senselessly rigid criteria the Program in General Education betrays the aims of the liberal arts.
To Un-concentrate
Without concentrations, more students would explore freely, take a wider variety of more difficult classes, and still be able to pursue recommended departmental structures, if they really wanted to.
Professors Bat Around America's Pastime
Sporting various baseball caps, six Harvard professors showed off the lighter side of the General Education Program Tuesday night by presenting different academic aspects of baseball.
Ed School Offers Gen Ed Course
For the first time this year, Graduate School of Education Professor Katherine K. Merseth is offering a Gen Ed course "Dilemmas of Equity and Excellence in American K-12 Education" to students at the College.
Ec10 Nabs Top Spot in Course Enrollment Numbers
With “Justice” out of the running this year and Life Sciences 1a coming in third, Economics 10: “Principles of Economics” took the lead as the most-enrolled course this semester.
Science of Cooking Lecture
Dave Arnold. left. and Harold McGee explain and demonstrate the properties of gelatin in the lecture "Historical Context and Demos Illustrating the Relationship of Food and Science." The public lecture series accompanies the General Education course Science of the Physical Universe 27 Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.
Shoppers Overflow Lecture Halls
Peter Chen ’13 had shopped the perennially popular Sociology 109: “Leadership and Organizations” last fall, so he expected the course to be somewhat crowded when he visited it again Wednesday on the first day of shopping period.