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Art class with students in Zoom screen.

Early responses indicate shift to online classes going well overall

Some running into minor hitches, but others finding surprising benefits

Campus|

DateMarch 26, 2020March 26, 2020

Two students stand under Sever Hall archway.

Gen Ed shopping spree

Students look, sample, and select from a menu of new course offerings

Campus|

DateSeptember 11, 2019

Robert Wood playing guitar

Recipe for a new Gen Ed course

Start with a creative, interdisciplinary approach to a provocative issue; blend theory and practice; and teach

Campus|

DateSeptember 5, 2019September 5, 2019

Matt Saunders

Photography without a camera

Matt Saunders explores art through unorthodox methods

Arts|

DateAugust 13, 2019August 13, 2019

Kathleen Coleman (left) and Eleanor Finnegan chat in front of a bookcase

Intensely personal, yet universal

Harvard’s Gen Ed curriculum encourages broad and deep examinations of Big Questions

Campus|

DateJuly 17, 2019

Amanda Claybaugh portrait

Changes coming to Gen Ed

160 courses now offered, many of them new, Dean Claybaugh explains

Campus|

DateJune 12, 2019June 13, 2019

A close-up of the Harkness Tray, designed by Walter Gropius, which was used for about two decades following 1950.

Gripes between bites

Exhibit explores student discontent in history of Harvard dining

Campus|

DateDecember 2, 2013February 28, 2019

Harvard undergraduates have a long tradition of making their own music, with new outlets for their talents and interests being added all the time. Students participate in more than 50 musical groups, ranging from the Mozart Society Orchestra to Mariachi Véritas de Harvard (pictured). The registrar’s office says that more than 20 percent of undergraduates list music as a valued extracurricular activity.

Let there be music

Harvard resonates to 'the universal language of mankind'

Arts|

DateFebruary 15, 2012May 16, 2019

Gashaw Clark ’14 (from left), K. Lanier Walker ’14, and Rebecca Ruskin ’13 prove that their jellied meat stock is stable enough to withstand direct flame without melting.

Sinking ice and hovering foams

Science & Cooking Fair gives undergrads taste of science and engineering

Science|

DateDecember 6, 2011

“This is a perfect example of the way the arts can meld into the undergraduate curriculum and serve as an important teaching tool for the big questions that archaeology and anthropology pose,” said Harvard President Drew Faust (left). In offering some background on the course, Assistant Professor Matthew J. Liebmann (right) said, “Everybody in the course has a little archaeological experience because they all took part in an excavation in Harvard Yard. So everybody has been in the dirt at least one day.”

Faust digs Gen Ed

University president visits ceramics studio for hands-on lesson in archaeology

Arts|

DateNovember 22, 2011April 2, 2019

Freshman parents turned out in droves to hear Donner Professor of Science John Huth's lecture on his course "Primitive Navigation." Huth told parents that the goals of the course were not only to teach students practical skills that could one day save their lives, but also to help open up their senses to the natural world.

Know your gnomon

Presentation gives advanced look at primitive navigation

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DateOctober 17, 2011May 8, 2019

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.

All things baseball

Lineup of Harvard professors ties pastime to art, physics, politics

Arts|

DateOctober 5, 2011May 31, 2019

“The course has given me a chance to go beyond what I would normally experience in a classroom,” said William Weingarten ’11 of Peter Der Manuelian's (pictured) Gen Ed course "Pyramid Schemes." “I've enjoyed getting the chance to travel out to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and to visit the Visualization Center here at Harvard to get a deeper intuition for what Egypt was really like thousands of years ago.”

Generally, a happy anniversary

Gen Ed curriculum expands, draws wide interest after its first year

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DateDecember 2, 2010July 19, 2019

Thomas Kelly, Harvard’s Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, addressed a crowd at the Harvard Allston Education Portal. Kelly’s talk was based on his popular course “First Nights,” where he explores the performance premieres of five seminal music works through a cultural, musical, and historical lens.

Overjoyed

Professor delights in details of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

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DateNovember 9, 2010July 19, 2019

Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and professor of environmental science and engineering, introduced the Class of 2014 to his new course via a lecture titled “Twilight of the Anthropocene? Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge and the Future of Human Civilization." The talk was held in conjunction with 2010 Opening Days events.

The speedup of climate change

Schrag gives freshmen glimpse of what's to come

Science|

DateAugust 30, 2010July 3, 2019

President Drew Faust announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, as the director of the Harvard Institute for Global Health.

Faust calls global health one of her main priorities

Appoints Sue J. Goldie director of HIGH; Paul Farmer, David Cutler to round out leadership team

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DateMay 18, 2010July 11, 2019

(Cambridge, MA. Tuesday, March 3, 2009) A performance at Memorial Church at Harvard University looked at the place of the humanities in the struggle for human rights. It featured Toni Morrison, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, Homi K. Bhabha, and a dance choreographed by Damian Woetzel. YoYo Ma warms up back stage. Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard University News Office

A march toward the arts

Silk Road Project's relocation latest indicator of the rising import of creativity on campus

Arts|

DateApril 13, 2010July 24, 2019

Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateDecember 3, 2009

Class of ’13 launches into Gen Ed

The new undergrad curriculum will connect students' academic experiences with life beyond the classroom.

Campus|

DateSeptember 2, 2009