Year: 2019

Spring Events for Gen Ed Teaching Fellows

Gen Ed Head TF OrientationTuesday, January 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m.Location: Isaacson Conference Room, Smith Campus Center 2nd FloorRSVP if you plan to attend. “Teaching in Gen Ed”Bok Center Winter Teaching Conference Friday, January 24, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.RSVP if you plan to attend….

New Gen Ed program in Harvard Magazine

The new Gen Ed program is featured in a Harvard Magazine article that emphasizes Gen Ed courses’ distinctive pedagogy and content.  Highlighted courses are drawn from all four Gen Ed categories and include Loss, Making Change When Change is Hard, The Science of Happiness, Tech Ethics, and Texts in Transition….

Drop-in Advising Hours

Have questions about Gen Ed?  Come to our start-of-term advising hours, 12-4pm during the first week of classes.  The Gen Ed office is located on the fourth floor of the Smith Campus Center….

Gen Ed faculty on Dean Khurana’s Instagram

The instructors for four Fall 2019 Gen Ed courses took over Dean Khurana’s Instagram to introduce their classes.  We are Leah Whittington on the left (from the English department) and Ann Blair on the right (from the History department), two profs who are very excited about our new GenEd course! We have a lot in common –…

New Gen Ed courses featured in Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette featured two Gen Ed faculty describing new courses they have developed for Gen Ed.  Kathleen Coleman’s Gen Ed course, Loss (Gen Ed 1131), prepares students for the losses they will inevitably suffer, develops empathy, and illustrates how the arts can be comforting in times of loss. Higher Education: Students, Institutions and Controversies (Gen Ed 1039), taught…

Gen Ed faculty featured in new Harvard College video

Gen Ed faculty Ju Yon Kim and Robert Reid-Pharr are featured in Harvard College’s Mission of Discovery, introducing the wealth of experiences on offer at the College.  Kim will be teaching Gen Ed 1135: Interracial Encounters in American Literature and Culture in Spring 2020. Reid-Pharr’s Gen Ed 1016: Black Radicalism will be offered in Fall 2019….

Amanda Claybaugh introduces new Gen Ed program

In an interview with the Harvard Gazette, Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh introduced the new Gen Ed program that will launch in Fall 2019.  Emphasizing how the new Gen Ed program connects to the world and stretches across disciplinary boundaries, Claybaugh describes Gen Ed as “the kind of courses faculty have always dreamed of teaching —…