Tag: Curriculum

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    Shopping week? Priceless

    During the first few days of each semester, Harvard offers “shopping week,” in which students try out a class before formally registering.

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    Classroom magic

    A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Shakespeare scholar Marjorie Garber collaborated on a fall freshman seminar titled “Theater and Magic.”

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    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 15

    At the Feb. 15 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members considered proposals for a Ph.D. program in education and to change the schedule of regular meetings of the Faculty in the rules of faculty procedure. They also met with President Drew Faust to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.

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    An artful perspective

    Museum educators are using their collections to help members of the Harvard community explore salient issues like creativity and leadership in new ways.

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    Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 30

    At the Nov. 30 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the Harvard Summer School “Courses of Instruction” for 2012. They also heard reports on advising in the College and on information technology.

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    Study locally, think globally

    A new Harvard Medical School topic helps to train future physicians in the expanding field of global health.

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    Don’t just sit there

    The first of a series of campuswide dialogues on teaching and learning called “Conversations@FAS: Redefining Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century,” featured A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus; Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology; and David Malan, lecturer on computer science.

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    Scholarship beyond words

    Harvard classes and a new journal embrace an emerging wave of doctoral learning beyond the written word that uses film, photo, audio, and other communication channels.

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    HBS faculty-authored book garners acclaim

    “Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads,” a book by two Harvard Business School faculty members, has been named one of the best business books of 2010 by Strategy + Business magazine.

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    Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 1

    A summary of the Faculty Council meeting held on Dec. 1.

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    Generally, a happy anniversary

    As Harvard’s Gen Ed curriculum expands, it’s drawing ever-widening interest from students and faculty after its first year.

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    Echoes of Tiananmen Square

    In her freshman seminar, lecturer Rowena He sheds light on the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on dissent by melding the personal with the academic.

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    Italy and Africa, entwined

    Students in Giuliana Minghelli’s new course on cultural migrations between Italy and Africa get an up-close view of the colonial era, witnessing a performance by one of the assigned authors and developing their own creative responses.

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    Bok Center honors 510

    The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ deans of undergraduate education awarded an unprecedented 510 certificates of distinction and excellence on Oct. 26 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.

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    An education, not a job

    An undergraduate explains why she majors in psychology, even though she expects her career paths will take her to other fields.

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    Melding Spanish and spirituality

    A new language course offers students at Harvard Divinity School a chance to develop a nuanced cultural approach to their ministry work.

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    Easy blend of old and new

    A group from the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement is taught Scratch, a basic programming tool, by teaching fellows and course assistants from CS50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” a popular Harvard course taught by David Malan.

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    Academy of Management awards Noam T. Wasserman

    Noam T. Wasserman, associate professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year M.B.A. elective course “Founders’ Dilemmas.”

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    Mind/Brain/Behavior awards seniors

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Mind/Brain/Behavior recognized seniors in a ceremony held at the Harvard Faculty Club on May 26.

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    Harvard Extension School to host general info session on June 15

    The Harvard Extension School will host a general information session on Tuesday, June 15, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. in Memorial Hall and the Science Center. The session is designed for anyone interested in learning more about the School and its offerings, including more than 600 courses and liberal arts and professional degree programs.

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    Two HBS professors win prize for sustainability issues in curricula

    HBS professors Forest L. Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel share the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for sustainability issues in business curricula.

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    Teaching beyond the tests

    A panel explores the effects of high-stakes testing, and suggests new measurements of achievement are needed.

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    The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University

    In this relevant release, Menand, an English professor, argues that most universities are out of touch and calls for their dire makeover. Menand touches on everything from problem solving to curriculum, to faculty and diversity, and more.

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    Web wizardry

    Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.

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    Entrance, stage left

    Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.

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    Tom Cruises into lecture at Harvard Law

    According to Harvard Law Record blogger Jessica Corsi, Cruise popped into celebrity attorney Bertram Fields’ guest lecture in professor Bruce Hay’s entertainment-law class. After announcing he had never heard his buddy lecture before, Cruise took a seat in the back of the class at Langdell South and even participated in the two-hour discussion.

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    Harvard’s Sandel Says Free Markets, Bonuses, Are Not Sacrosanct

    In his Harvard University course on moral reasoning, Michael Sandel asks students to consider a wide variety of contentious issues, ranging from the financial bailouts to affirmative action.

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    Crisis Makes Studying Economics Both More and Less Attractive

    At Harvard, a freshman seminar Greg Mankiw is teaching had 15 slots, and 200 applicants — getting into it, he notes, was about a hard as getting into Harvard all over again.

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    A Free Lesson in Justice from Harvard Professor Michael Sandel

    Is it ethical to torture a suspect to get information? Is it all right to steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Should we tax the rich to…

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    Harvard University to offer groundbreaking doctoral program for education leaders

    Harvard University today announced the launch of a new, practice-based doctoral program to prepare graduates for senior leadership roles in school districts, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector.

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