Oliver D. Hart (Department of Economics) Freshman Seminar 42C 4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
Economists have a very positive view of the role of markets. The intellectual foundations of this are the first and second theorems of welfare economics. The purpose of the seminar is to introduce the students to these results but also to their limitations. Most economists think that...
Scott Edwards (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) Freshman Seminar 21R (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
The transition of dinosaurs to birds is quickly becoming one of the most complete records of evolutionary change in the vertebrate fossil record. Additionally, it is an excellent model of science building on incremental discoveries and undergoing paradigm shifts as new data are collected. In this seminar we will...
Gordon Teskey (Department of English) Freshman Seminar 64P4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
An introductory seminar on lyric poetry, with close reading of poems from four continents: Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Poetry not in English will be translated but students with competence in foreign languages are welcome to work with the originals.
Alexander Riehle (Department of the Classics) Freshman Seminar 64W4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
One of the most controversial women of ancient and medieval history is Theodora, wife of Justinian I and empress of the Roman Empire in the 6th century CE. She has been variously portrayed as a hypersexual prostitute and power-hungry, vindictive manipulator, or as a saint,...
Julie Anne Weaver (Department of Government and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies) Freshman Seminar 72x4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
Across the world, massive street protests and growing disdain for politics not only suggest...
Carol Oja (Department of Music) Freshman Seminar 34V 4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
Note:Student musicians and actors are welcome in the course, as are students who love to watch shows but not necessarily perform in them. Ability to read...
Elie Ofek (Harvard Business School) Freshman Seminar 40D4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 15
Marketing, as you will find in this seminar, refers to the set of activities needed to form and sustain a healthy business by fostering meaningful exchanges between the organization and...
Daniel L. Schacter (Department of Psychology) Freshman Seminar 23S4 credits (spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
How do we remember and why do we forget? Can we trust our memories? How is memory affected by misinformation such as “fake news”? Do smartphones and the Internet help our memories or hurt them? Are traumatic experiences especially well remembered or are they poorly remembered? What are the best ways to study for exams? This seminar will...Read more about The Seven Sins of Memory
David C. Lamberth (Harvard Divinity School)_ Freshman Seminar 63E4 credits(spring term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
More than a 150 years after Darwin’s epochal account of evolution, over 85% of the world’s 7 billion people are still religious, and the percentage is...
