Inside Harvard Baseball IV
A question, in the hope that somebody on the interwebs knows the answer. In my day, the typical Harvard core curriculum course was three hours of lecture and one hour of section a week. In my brother's day, the typical Harvard core curriculum course was three hours of lecture and one hour of section a week.
Now it appears that the typical Harvard core curriculum course is two hours of lecture and one hour of section a week.
When did this change occur, and how, and why?
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is this meant to be a joke? sadly, it's impossible to insult a Harvard graduate because they will always secretly or not so secretly harbor the response, "Well, they only say X because i went to harvard and they didn't"
please stop talking about harvard as if it's important. this is a politics site, but it seems to have a blind spot with regard to harvard.
please stop, your fixation is untreatable, but it doesn't need to be flaunted in public
March 2, 2006 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why don't you just call Harvard? I'd bet someone there knows. Sheesh.
March 2, 2006 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Couldn’t you just email some old-timer there and find out?
I know Brad DeLong is eager to find some measurable way of proving the “near total withdrawal” of Harvard faculty from undergraduate education, an impression that doesn’t seem to resonate with anyone who is actually a student there. And I’m still unclear on what the larger argument is, be it in regards to Harvard or to undergraduate education more generally. For a list of pending questions, please see this post.
I can confirm that Harvard courses do meet, for the most part, for 2 hours a week with 1 hour of discussion section. That includes the Core as well as the vast majority of departmental courses. I don’t know how long this has been the case, nor do I know if it is really all that unusual. I do think that of all the ways you could work to improve undergraduate education this must be one of the least important and most trivial issues.
The Cranky Historian
March 2, 2006 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why do you assume that anyone cares?
March 2, 2006 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please do this stuff on a Harvard alumni site or something. We really don't care.
March 2, 2006 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am not Professor DeLong's greatest fan, but he is quite right to be making this point. As long as we allow the Ivy League schools to dominate our elite recruitment system, what they do actually does matter.
What Professor DeLong is saying is also relevant because of the way in which Dr. Lawrence Summers was attacked for his various decisions by interest groups that are within our general orbit. If (for the sake of argmuent-I am not saying this is true) those actions were improper, then we need to know that so that the liberal activism machine is not misued in the future.
March 2, 2006 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like someone needs to provide us yet another reminded that he went to Hahvard.
March 2, 2006 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
jalrin
that argument makes no sense. if harvard's importance is such as you contend, then each news segment on the cable channels should be an in-depth feature on the present state of Harvard...
"CNN, proud to be bringing you news of the people who will run America in 2035, today! We leave the war in Iraq now to address the issue of what Harvard Undergraduates are going to be doing on Spring Break. and later we'll have our fashion segment, is nautical chic making a comeback on the Harvard campus? and don't miss our sports interview with the Harvard Chess Team..."
you are once again placing Harvard at the centre of the universe. it isn't. and the people who cluster around every Harvard alumni on here to swap rubbish, it's no better or more informative than listening to ex-cons reminisce over their time in San Quentin.
March 3, 2006 6:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
From another ex-con: when I was at Harvard, I'd guess it was about half-and-half for core courses, and for most departmental courses outside the sciences (or foreign languages) as well. On the other hand, at the school where I teach now, the economics department has made by far the most radical inroads into eliminating Friday lectures from the MWF course slots...
March 3, 2006 8:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Off-topic, but only slightly:
I've always found that there are two types of Harvard graduates. There are those, like Professor DeLong, who need to mention it whenever and wherever possible. You sometimes see them work it into even the most unlikely of sentences. "Really, you drive a BMW? Back when I was at Harvard, I had a date with someone who drove a BMW."
Then there are those, like my wife, who never mention it at all and go to absurd lengths to avoid mentioning it. On our first date, I asked her where she had gone to college. She replied, "I went to school in Boston." She was also reluctant to include her Harvard diploma on our joint "ego wall" of diplomas and awards in the study.
I can't decide which of the two groups is more neurotic.
March 3, 2006 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
If this post were titled something like "Inside Rutgers Baseball IV," all of y'all would not have bothered to read it, let alone comment on it. Why work so hard to insist you don't care?
March 3, 2006 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cause I'm trying to avoid doing any work!
March 3, 2006 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
OK, then. Carry on.
March 3, 2006 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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