Tag: Gen Ed

  • Nation & World

    A week of firsts, and the first of a last

    Classrooms across Harvard College came back to life last week with the start of the new academic year.

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    Professor Katherine Merseth.
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    Earth’s most excellent mixtape

    Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.

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    Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Alex Rehding speaks about a new book he co-authored on the Golden Record and a new approach to music theory. He is pictured outside the acoustically-designed archway of Sever Hall in Harvard Yard at Harvard University.
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    Early responses indicate shift to online classes going well overall

    Harvard professors offer early responses to teaching online, with some finding hitches tempered by surprising benefits.

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    Art class with students in Zoom screen.
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    Gen Ed shopping spree

    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…

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    Two students stand under Sever Hall archway.
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    Recipe for a new Gen Ed course

    Harvard’s new Gen Ed courses tackle subjects from racial justice and philosophy to music and engineering.

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    Robert Wood playing guitar
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    Photography without a camera

    Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

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    Matt Saunders
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    Intensely personal, yet universal

    A total of 160 classes comprise the College’s new program in General Education, which launches this fall.

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    Kathleen Coleman (left) and Eleanor Finnegan chat in front of a bookcase
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    Changes coming to Gen Ed

    This fall, Harvard College will launch a new General Education program for undergraduates, which now offers a total of 160 courses.

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    Amanda Claybaugh portrait
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    Gripes between bites

    A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.

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    Let there be music

    As a liberal arts college, Harvard trains its students broadly so they can adapt nimbly to a rapidly changing world. Increasingly, appreciating and participating in music are integral parts of student life.

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    Sinking ice and hovering foams

    The annual Science & Cooking Fair shows off students’ final projects from the undergraduate General Education course “Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.”

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    Faust digs Gen Ed

    President Drew Faust paid a visit Nov. 17 to the popular undergraduate course anthropology 1010: “The Fundamentals of Archaeological Methods and Reasoning.” Faust’s attendance was inspired by a special meeting of the course at the Harvard Ceramics Studio, where students learned how pottery is made, and got to try their hands at making their own…

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    Know your gnomon

    Professor John Huth of Harvard’s Department of Physics gave a one-hour overview of his popular General Education course, “Primitive Navigation,” to freshmen and their families on Oct. 14. The talk was part of the annual Freshman Parents Weekend program of lectures, tours, and open houses.

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    All things baseball

    Harvard Professor Jill Lepore led off a murderers’ row lineup of six Harvard professors for “GenEd at Bat: A Discussion of America’s Favorite Pastime with the Faculty of Gen Ed” at Science Center A on Tuesday.

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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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    Overjoyed

    Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.

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    The speedup of climate change

    Scientist discusses growing effects of global climate change with members of Harvard’s Class of 2014.

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    Faust calls global health one of her main priorities

    Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…

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    A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

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    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Harvard College has launched a new online Plan of Study tool to help undergraduates outline the courses they will take throughout their four years at Harvard.

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    Class of ’13 launches into Gen Ed

    As the newly arrived Class of 2013 settles into the brick dormitories of Harvard Yard, they are already distinguished as the first matriculating class to study exclusively under the new requirements of Harvard College’s Program in General Education.

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