shopping week
How To: Get Ready for Virtual Shopping Week
Shopping week — five days of excitement for new classes, vigor from a restful summer break, and nervousness from the overwhelming course catalog. This is the first time that shopping week will be held online before the start of the semester, so here are a few tips from Flyby to make the most out of it. Extra points if you proudly wear your pajamas and eat breakfast in front of the entire class!
Harvard College to Require Pre-Registration for Fall Classes
Harvard undergraduates will pre-register for courses for the first time this fall, according to an internal email circulated to Government department faculty.
Large GenEd Course during Shopping Week
During shopping week, students are free to attend any lecture that piques their interest, often leading to overcrowding. After the novel coronavirus outbreak, exceeding occupancies of lecture halls may be a potential concern.
New Gen Ed Lottery System Marks 'Significant Improvement,' Khurana Says
Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said he thinks Harvard’s new lottery system for General Education courses marks a “significant improvement” over the previous process in a Tuesday interview.
Gened Lottery Reax
During shopping week, students overflowed into the hallways of Sever Hall, as they attempted to shop GENED 1142.
First Day of Shopping Week
Harvard Extension School class Physics I: Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion taught by Anna M. Klales meets in Science Center Hall B Tuesday, the first day of shopping week.
Walking to Class
As the sun sat low in the sky, a student walked to shop a class in Littauer Hall Tuesday evening.
Shopping Week To Stay — For Now
The Faculty also sparred over and ultimately approved a proposed Quantitative Reasoning with Data requirement for the General Education program. Students beginning with the Class of 2023 must now take a class that allows them to “think critically about data.”
Faculty to Vote on Overhauling Alcohol Policy in Student Handbook
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will review proposed updates to the College Student Handbook — including an overhaul of the College’s policies on drug and alcohol use — and decide the fate of “shopping week” at its last meeting of the semester Tuesday.
Faculty Debates Proposals to Implement Data Requirement, Establish Biotech Degree
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences debated proposals to implement a new data requirement for the General Education program, establish a new biotechnology degree, and study course registration changes at its monthly meeting Tuesday.
Faculty to Consider Proposals to Retain Shopping Week, Establish Biotechnology Business Degree
The Faculty will debate a proposal to retain shopping week until at least 2022 at its monthly meeting Tuesday, likely setting up a vote before the semester ends. The proposed legislation would establish a standing committee to review shopping week and course registration more broadly.
Faculty Council Approves Proposal to Retain Shopping Week
The Faculty Council voted to endorse a proposal to retain “shopping week” until at least 2022 at its biweekly meeting Wednesday. The committee publicly released its report Wednesday, outlining what they viewed as key benefits of the current system as well as changes that could eliminate the drawbacks of that system.
Faculty Course Registration Committee Proposes Keeping Shopping Week Until At Least 2022
The faculty committee tasked with recommending changes to undergraduate course registration proposed that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences keep “shopping week” until at least 2022 at the Faculty Council’s biweekly meeting Wednesday.
FAS Council Ponders 'In-Between' Resolution to Shopping Week Debate
Members of the Faculty Council considered potential “in-between” resolutions to the ongoing debate over shopping week. Council member David L. Howell estimated that the full faculty may not hear and vote upon a formal proposal on the subject for more than a year.
Students Battle Packed Classes and Malfunctioning ‘my.harvard’ with Start of Spring Semester
Throughout the day, students had to contend with overflowing classrooms and the sudden malfunctioning of “my.harvard.”
Undergraduate Council Leaders Outline Changes to Council Committees, Inclusion Efforts
Undergraduate Council President Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 and Vice President Julia M. Huesa ’20 said they plan to restructure the committee system within the Council.
5 Fascinating MIT Courses for Cross-Registration
Shatter the Harvard bubble this semester checking out five MIT courses which cover topics that you can't find at Harvard.
Faculty Shopping Week Committee Stakes Out Its Case, Encourages Student Input
Forty-four percent of Faculty of Arts and Sciences courses with teaching fellows last year had to add or drop discussion sections based on unexpected enrollment numbers, according to a website launched Friday by a faculty committee tasked with proposing potential changes to “shopping week.”
Shopping Week Committee to Propose Changes in January
A faculty committee tasked with reviewing potential changes to undergraduate course enrollment expects to deliver its recommendation to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in January, according to the committee’s chair.
UC Calls for Preservation of Shopping Week
The vote passed the Council 22–2 at the UC’s last meeting of the semester Sunday.
Claybaugh Invites Student Involvement in Undergraduate Education Decisions
“While listening to students discuss their experiences of shopping period, we also heard some students say that they felt excluded from decisions being made about undergraduate education more generally,” Claybaugh wrote.
UC Shopping Week Town Hall
Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 leads an Undergraduate Council Town Hall meeting to discuss the future of shopping week with students.
Admins Cancel Student-Run Forum on Shopping Week, Offer Harvard-Led Events Instead
Hours before students were supposed to meet at an Undergraduate Council town hall to discuss the possible elimination of “shopping week,” Harvard officials announced they had changed their minds.