Tag: January Term

  • Nation & World

    One course, two weeks, lessons for life

    Harvard Kennedy School students embrace January courses, describing them as intense and a “much more immersive, engaging experience.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A break to explore

    January@GSAS offered more than 100 classes, seminars, and training sessions to students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during semester break. Students had the chance to escape the lab or library, and spend time exploring subjects that might not otherwise appear in a Harvard course catalog.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A break for exploration

    For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From impostors to chocolate

    For hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January included financial-planning seminars, classes about the history and politics of chocolate, and workshops on answering tough questions in job interviews.

    5 minutes