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Students take a break under the archway of Sever Hall on the first day of classes. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
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Gen Ed shopping spree
Students look, sample, and select from a menu of new course offerings
Students popped in and out of classrooms, labs, and lecture halls in the first days of the semester, hunting for just the right Gen Ed class — the one that both fit their interests and their schedules. Courses in the redesigned program move between theory and practice and across disciplines in the areas of Aesthetics and Culture; Ethics and Civics; Histories, Societies, Individuals; and Science and Technology in Society.
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Assistant Professor Durba Mitra gives shoppers a taste of “Global Feminisms.”
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Madeline Murphy (from right), Amanda Westort, and Chloe Li, take in Durba Mitra’s lecture. At right, Phoebe Suh ’22 (center) speaks up in class.
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Students flow through Sever Hall during shopping week.
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Professors Michael Sandel and Douglas Melton’s “Tech Ethics,” a University-wide course open to all Harvard students, was the first to be held in Klarman Hall’s new, visually striking auditorium.
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Xander University Professor Douglas Melton speaks about forms of reproduction, including cloning as he and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel kick off “Tech Ethics.” At right, Sandel poses a moral dilemma to the audience.
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Karen Thornber lectures on “Disease, Illness, and Health.”
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Prince Jenkins ’22 listens as Jacob Olupona teaches “Wakanda Revisited.”
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James Herring ’22 (from left), Moaz Selim ’22, Clair Fu ’23, and Sophie Hirst ’22 help Elaine Kristant, the senior mechanical and systems lab engineer at the SEAS Active Learning Labs, teach a stair-stepping exercise to get students thinking about the connections between metabolism and energy. The exercise is part of Scott Martin’s “Energy Bodyworks” class.
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Margaret Hylton ’22 (left) and Chidera Ejikeme ’23 walk downstairs in Pierce Hall.
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Pia Sörensen, senior preceptor in chemical engineering and applied materials, conducts a class on science and cooking at the Science Center with David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics (not pictured). At right, first-years Hannah Gardner (from left), Angela Caloia, and Brian Baltazar discuss a question posed by Weitz.
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The campus buzzes during the first week of classes.
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Janet Browne and Andrew Berry’s “Understanding Darwinism” drew a crowd in Boylston Hall.
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Students listen to the lecture in “Understanding Darwinism.”
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Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures Ali Asani gives a lecture in “Multisensory Religion: Rethinking Islam Through the Arts” during shopping week.
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The Class of ’22’s Spencer Frome (left) and Jiho Lee listen during “Multisensory Religion: Rethinking Islam Through the Arts.” At right, Vivian Tian ’21 (left) and Ben Freeman, a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, chat after class.
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A student walks into Sever Hall.
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