Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in Arts and Sciences 2009–2010

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Office of the Registrar Faculty of Arts and Sciences Cambridge, Massachusetts Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in Arts and Sciences 2009-10

July 1, 2009

Review of academic, financial, and other considerations leads to changes in the policies, rules, and regulations applicable to students and instructors, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, therefore, reserves the right to make changes at any time. These changes may affect such matters as tuition and all other fees, courses, degrees and programs offered (including the modification or possible elimination of degrees and programs), degree and other academic requirements, academic policies, rules pertaining to student conduct and discipline, fields or areas of concentration, and other rules and regulations applicable to students and instructors. While every effort has been made to ensure that this publication is accurate and up-to-date, it may include typographical or other errors. Changes are periodically made to this publication and will be incorporated in supplements and/or new editions.

Barry S. Kane, Registrar Lynn Dunham, Deputy Registrar Sheila F. Winborne, Manager of Courses Ron Cooper, Manager of Scheduling Catherine Roberts, Scheduling Assistant Noël Bisson, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education John (Jay) Ellison, Associate Dean of Harvard College

Official Register of Harvard University (ISSN #0199-1787) Published by the Office of the Registrar, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Contents

1 To the Faculty 24 Special Types of Courses 3 Introduction 26 Course Meeting Times 3 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences 28 Classrooms 3 The House System 29 Course Materials/Syllabi 4 The Program in General Education 30 Course Lists 4 The Core Curriculum 30 Course Fees 5 The Freshman Seminar Program 30 Student Enrollment: Drop, Add 7 Academic Calendar Withdraw 7 Fall Term 2009-2010 31 Instructor’s Signature on Study Cards and Petitions 9 Spring Term 2009-2010 31 Limiting Enrollment in Courses 11 Summer 2010 at the 100- or 1000-Level 11 Tentative Calendar for and Below 2010-2011 31 Enrollment of Non-FAS Students 13 Responsibilities of Instructors 32 Simultaneous Enrollment/ 13 Instructors’ Presence During the Courses with Overlapping Academic Year Meeting Times 13 Responsibility of Instruction 32 Undergraduates in Courses 14 Responsibility of Evaluation Designated “Primarily for Graduates” 14 Professional Conduct 33 Pass/Fail Grading Status 16 Student Privacy (Undergraduates Only) 16 Use of the FAS Computing and 33 Student Attendance Network Services 33 Storm and Emergency Conditions 16 Students Requiring Accessible Education 34 Restricting Attendance 18 Sexual Harassment 34 Date for Submission of Senior Theses and General Examinations 19 The Commission of Inquiry 34 Hour and Midterm Examinations 20 Human Subject Research 35 Papers and Other Written 20 Committee on the Use of Assignments Human Subjects 36 Late Work and Extension of Time 20 Research Involving Animal for Course Work Subjects 37 Midterm Grades for 23 Course Administration Undergraduates 23 The Course Catalog 37 Hiring, Training, and Supervision 23 Points to Consider When of Instructional Support Staff Creating or Modifying a Course 41 Q Course Evaluation

CONTENTS iii 43 Final and Midyear Examinations 60 Students Charged with Dishonesty 43 Examination Categories in Course Work 45 Examination Scheduling 61 Troubled Students 46 Examination Groups and Dates 61 Athletics and Administrative Sports Liaisons 47 Administration of Examinations 63 Teaching and Advising Resources 48 Accessible Education Office Examinations 63 Advising Programs Office of Harvard College 48 Religious Conflicts with Final/ Midyear 65 Bok Center for Teaching and Learning 48 Examinations In Absentia 65 Bureau of Study Counsel 49 Final Examination Options for Study Abroad Students 66 Departments of the Adaptive Technology Laboratory, Humanities 49 Makeup Examinations Faculty Services, Instructional 50 Publication of Past Final and Media Services, Language Resource Midyear Examinations Center, and Piano Technical Services 51 Grades 69 FAS Information Technology 51 The Grading System 69 Harvard University Library System 54 Grade Point Averages 72 Office of Career Services 55 Submission of Final and 72 Office of International Programs Midyear Grades 72 University Information Systems 55 Due Dates for Midterm Grades 73 Writing Center 2009–2010 75 Faculty of Arts and Sciences 56 Due Dates for Fall Final/Midyear Directory Grades 2009-2010 88 Department, Division, and 56 Due Dates for Spring Final Grades Committee Chairs and 2009–2010 Representatives 57 Submitting Late Grades

57 Final Grades in Full Year Courses 57 Final Grades for Degree Candidates 57 Changes in Grades 57 Posting of Grades 58 Retention of Exam Booklets and Course Records 59 Addressing Student Problems 59 The Administrative Boards 59 The Resident Deans 59 Graduate School Office of Student Affairs 59 Neglect of Academic Work by Students: Exclusion 60 Reports of Undergraduates with Unsatisfactory Records iv CONTENTS To the Faculty

Information for Faculty Offering Instruction the Administrative Board of Harvard College in Arts and Sciences is intended to serve as may instructors accept undergraduate work a convenient reference for the educational after the end of the Examination Period. policies of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Final and approved make-up examinations (FAS). In addition to a discussion of instructors’ are scheduled by the staff of the Office of responsibilities, matters related to course the Registrar and proctored by instructional administration, and problems often encountered by students, this publication includes a summary staff of the course at locations and times of teaching resources available to instructors, specified by the Registrar. Instructors may not a directory of College and Graduate School of excuse a student from the final examination Arts and Sciences (GSAS) officers, and a detailed or make special arrangements to administer academic calendar. the exam at a time other than that scheduled by the Registrar. Any student absent from a All members of the FAS are urged to regularly scheduled exam is given the grade consult this publication as issues arise in the of ABS, a failing grade. Instructors should administration of their courses and in their be in residence throughout the academic work with students. New members of the year, including the Reading and Examination FAS will, it is hoped, take time to acquaint Periods. Short absences require approval themselves with all aspects of this publication of the department chair; absences of more and especially with the various policies and than one week must be approved by the regulations that are particular to Harvard. Dean of the Faculty. Exclusion from a course, Avoiding misunderstandings before the fact grade changes, and the retention of blue can save valuable time and spare unneces- examination booklets constitute further areas sary embarrassment. to which new faculty members are urged to For example, it is important to understand give special attention. that while graduate students may receive Every effort has been made to explain these a grade of Incomplete, undergraduates matters as clearly as possible in the following cannot. In the matter of an extension of time, pages. However, should questions remain, a instructors may offer undergraduates an directory of the FAS staff members appears extension of time to complete course work at the end of the book to provide further until the end of the Examination Period; assistance. however, only with the express permission of

TO THE FACULTY 1

Introduction

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences room, a library, and a variety of activities designed to foster the easy mix of social The Faculty of Arts and Sciences includes and intellectual life that President Lowell Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts envisaged for the House system. For example, and Sciences, and the School of Engineering the Houses may offer seminars for course and Applied Sciences. As with each of the credit. (See “Course Administration”: Special nine faculties of the University, the chief Types of Courses, Freshman and House administrative officer of the FAS is its Dean. Seminars.) They routinely sponsor language The Dean oversees both financial and tables and tables where students interested academic planning for the Faculty as well as in a specific pursuit can gather to exchange its many libraries, museums, laboratories, and ideas. Every term the Houses hold faculty centers.* The Dean is advised by an eighteen- dinners to permit undergraduates to invite member Faculty Council elected by and from their instructors for an evening of relaxed the officers of the FAS. conversation and, conversely, to provide Three distinguishing features of Harvard faculty members with a means to meet their College that involve the direct participation students informally and learn more about of faculty members are the House System, their curricular and extracurricular lives. the Program in General Education, the Core Each House is overseen by a resident Master, Curriculum, and the Freshman Seminar usually a senior faculty member or senior Program. (See “Course Administration”: administrator, and is also served by an Allston Special Types of Courses, Freshman and Burr Resident Dean. The Resident Dean House Seminars.) advises students in the House on academic and personal matters and represents House The House System members at the Administrative Board. From the beginning of his presidency, (Instructors concerned for whatever reason A. Lawrence Lowell aspired to create a about the performance or well being of an residential system for Harvard College mod- undergraduate should contact the ap- eled on Oxford and Cambridge Universities. propriate Resident Dean or Resident Dean of In 1928 the generous gift of a Yale alumnus, Freshmen.**) Also integral to the life of the Edward S. Harkness, made that ambition House are the Resident Tutors, who serve as a reality. Three entirely new Houses were constructed and four others created from existing residential halls, establishing the *Services shared by all nine faculties of nucleus of the current House system. the University such as food services, health services, police, fiscal services, and facilities All Harvard upperclassmen have a House maintenance are adminstered by the Office of affiliation. (The freshmen live in dormitories the President. located within or adjacent to Harvard Yard. **For further discussion of this point see the During their first year in the College they Handbook for Students which provides are advised by the Office of the Dean of extensive discussion of the procedures of the Freshmen.) Most upperclassmen live in the Administrative Board. Houses, each of which also affords a dining

INTRODUCTION 3 social and academic advisers to the under- Culture and Belief graduate residents of the House. They may in Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning some cases serve as concentration advisers Ethical Reasoning to the undergraduates, and they also fill a Science of Living Systems variety of administrative roles in the House. Science of the Physical Universe (Graduate students from the various Faculties Societies of the World may apply to the Masters for these positions United States in the World beginning in late February.) The new Program was approved by the Faculty Faculty members, administrators, Cambridge in the spring of 2007 and will go into effect community members, and visiting scholars for the Class of 2013 (those entering in fall are eligible for affiliation with the individual of 2009). Students in the Class of 2012 and Houses and comprise the Senior Common other Classes under the Core Requirement Room. Participation in a Senior Common will be permitted to switch to the Program Room affords individuals the opportunity not in General Education after it is launched. All only to meet people from other departments General Education courses will also count for but also to make contact with undergradu- Core credit. A list of frequently asked questions ates in the casual atmosphere of the House can be found at www.generaleducation. dining rooms or at the varied House fas.harvard.edu, along with a list of courses functions. that have been approved for the new program. As more information becomes available it will The Program in be posted at the General Education website. General Education Faculty may also contact the General Education Office with questions at [email protected] As part of the Harvard College Curricular Review or (617) 495-2563. the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to replace the existing thirty-year-old Core Curriculum The Core Curriculum requirements with a new Program in General Education in order to align these requirements Students who entered Harvard College with the educational needs of Harvard College in September 2008 or earlier are ex- students at the dawn of the twenty-first century. pected to fulfill the requirements of the Core In contrast with the Core Curriculum, which Curriculum, but will be permitted to switch required that students be exposed to a number to the Program in General Education if such of different “ways of knowing,” the new a change is possible and advisable. Students Program seeks explicitly to “connect a student’s contemplating a change should complete a liberal education—that is, an education worksheet available on the General Education conducted in a spirit of free inquiry, rewarding website, and should discuss their situation in its own right—to life beyond college.” In with their Resident Dean or contact gened@ addition, the new Program in General Education fas.harvard.edu. Students must pass one seeks to provide new opportunities for students letter-graded course in seven of the eleven to learn—and faculty to teach—in ways areas of the Core Curriculum. All students that cut across traditional departmental and are exempt from four area requirements on intra-University lines. the basis of their field of concentration. The eleven areas of the Core Curriculum are: The new Program requires that students pass one letter-graded half-course in each of eight Foreign Cultures categories (one of these courses must engage Historical Study A substantially with the study of the past): Historical Study B Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding Literature and Arts A

4 INTRODUCTION Literature and Arts B Literature and Arts C Moral Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Science A Science B Social Analysis The specific definitions and guidelines of each area may be found in the Core Program section of Courses of Instruction. As of July 2008, the General Education Committee assumed responsibility for the Core Curriculum. For further information, please contact the General Education Office at [email protected].

The Freshman Seminar Program Inaugurated as an experiment in 1959, and formally established by a vote of the faculty in 1963, the Freshman Seminar Program provides a set of course offerings in which students can work in small groups with members of the faculty on topics of mutual interest. Freshman Seminars are offered by faculty from across the University on a wide range of topics. Students may elect to take a seminar in order to deepen their understanding of a subject; or they may enroll in a seminar in order to explore an unfamiliar topic or field. Admission to a seminar is by application prior to the semester in which it is offered. Enrollment is ordinarily limited to 12 students. Freshman seminars are not letter- graded, and count as a regular half-course. For more information about the Freshman Seminar Program, please consult the website: www.fas.harvard.edu/seminars.

INTRODUCTION 5

Academic Calendar

The current Faculty of Arts and Sciences September 1, Tuesday (FAS) Academic Calendar is located at Registration must be completed for all www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu. returning and continuing undergraduate students in Harvard College. Fall Term 2009–2010 Registration must be completed for all visiting August 1, Saturday undergraduate students in Harvard College. Applications for non-resident status for the fall term or academic year for graduate students are due in department offices. Academic Year Begins Applications for part-time graduate study due September 2, Wednesday in the GSAS Dean’s Office, Holyoke Academic year begins. First meeting of fall Center, 3rd floor. term classes, following a Monday schedule. Courses scheduled to meet on Mondays will August 10, Monday meet on September 2; courses that meet Graduation applications for November 2009 Wednesday only are scheduled to hold degrees (AM, SM, ME, MFS, and PhD) must class for the first time on September 9. be submitted on or before this date. Last day upon which November 2009 September 7, Monday University Holiday: Labor Day graduate degree candidates may submit a completed and signed application for a secondary field. Study Card Day September 10, Thursday August 26, Wednesday Completed study cards for upperclassmen will Registration must be completed for all be collected at the Houses and are due before graduate students in the Graduate School of 5 pm. Completed study cards for graduate Arts and Sciences. students and special students are due in Dudley House, Lehman Hall, before 5 pm. Registration must be completed for special students and visiting fellows in the GSAS. Course lists available online at www. my.harvard.edu as study cards are August 26, Wednesday, through processed. August 27, Thursday Derek Bok Center Teaching Orientation for September 11, Friday teaching fellows and faculty members. Completed study cards for freshmen are due between 9 am and 5 pm in Faculty Room, August 31, Monday 2nd Floor, University Hall. Completed study Registration must be completed for all cards for new transfer students and visiting freshmen and new transfer students in undergraduates are due between 9 am and Harvard College. 5 pm at the Lehman Hall Common Room. (September 11 continued on next page)

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 7 September 11, Friday, continued October 13, Tuesday Last day upon which undergraduates may Midterm grades (including unsatisfac- register late for the fall term. tory grade reports) due before 5 pm for undergraduates. Last day upon which undergraduates may cancel their registration for the fall term without payment of tuition. October 19, Monday Seventh Monday of the term. Last day upon Last day upon which undergraduates may which undergraduates may petition to complete cross-registration. withdraw from a fall term course. Last day upon which March 2010 degree September 18, Friday candidates (AB and SB) may submit a Undergraduate applications for November completed and signed petition for a second- 2009 degrees (AB and SB) must be submitted ary field to the Office of the Registrar. There on or before this date. are no exceptions to this deadline. Last day upon which graduate students may September 21, Monday register for or add fall term courses. After this Last day upon which undergraduates may date, graduate students may add or register drop or add any course without a fee. for TIME only.

September 23, Wednesday October 23, Friday, through Last day upon which students from other October 24, Saturday schools may complete cross-registration in Freshman Parents Weekend. Parents may the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. attend classes on Friday.

October 1, Thursday November 3, Tuesday Last day upon which graduate students may Last day upon which graduate students may cancel their registration for the fall term drop a course. without payment of tuition.

Approved graduate dissertations due for November 11, Wednesday November degree candidates. University holiday: Veterans’ Day.

October 5, Monday November 18, Wednesday Fifth Monday of the term. Last day upon Plans of Study due for class of 2012. which undergraduates may drop or add any course or change the grade status of a letter-graded or Pass/Fail course. November 23, Monday Undergraduate applications for March 2010 Makeup examinations for 2008–2009 spring degrees (AB and SB) must be submitted on or term begin. before this date. Last day to change concentration for October 12, Monday March 2010 degree candidates without University holiday: Columbus Day. Administrative Board approval.

(November 23 continued on next page)

8 ACADEMIC CALENDAR November 23, Monday, continued Fall Final/Midyear Grades Due Last day upon which March 2010 degree December 18, Friday, through candidates (AB and SB) may file for a foreign December 28, Monday language citation study plan. See page 55 for schedule of due dates. Advanced Standing eligible students planning to graduate after six or seven terms in March December 22, 2009, Tuesday through 2011, or to begin a fourth year AM program January 3, 2010, Sunday in spring term 2011, must file “Advanced Winter recess. Standing Activation Form” by this date.

January 1, Friday November 26, Thursday, through Graduate student applications for non- November 29, Sunday resident status for the spring term due in Thanksgiving recess. department offices. Applications for part-time graduate study due November 30, Monday in the GSAS Dean’s Office, Holyoke Center, Graduate applications for March 2010 3rd floor. degrees (AM, SM, ME, MFS, and PhD) must be submitted on or before this date. January 4, Monday Last day upon which March 2010 graduate Optional Winter Session begins. degree candidates may submit a completed and signed application for a secondary field. January 15, Friday Approved graduate dissertations due for March December 4, Friday degree candidates. Last day in the fall term upon which undergraduates will ordinarily be granted a leave of absence from the College. January 18, Monday University holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Reading Period January 21, Thursday December 4, Friday, through Derek Bok Center Teaching Orientation for December 11, Friday teaching fellows and faculty members.

December 11, Friday January 24, Sunday Last day in the fall term upon which graduate Last day upon which graduate students may students may petition for late withdrawal submit work for Incomplete grades from the from a course. 2008–2009 spring term. Optional Winter Session ends. Examination Period

December 12, Saturday, through Spring Term 2009–2010 December 21, Monday See the Office of the Registrar’s website, Spring Term Begins www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu for exam January 25, Monday times and locations for fall term courses. First meeting of spring term classes.

(January 25 continued on next page)

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 9 January 25, Monday, continued undergraduates may drop or add any course or change the grade status of a letter-graded or Registration must be completed for all Pass/Fail course. continuing and returning undergraduate students. Makeup examinations for 2009–2010 fall term begin. Registration must be completed for all visiting undergraduates and transfer students. Last day upon which undergraduates may divide full year courses with half-course credit. Registration must be completed for continuing and new special students, visiting fellows, and March 1, Monday all new, returning, and continuing students in Midterm grades (including unsatisfactory grade the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. reports) due before 5 pm for undergraduates.

Study Card Day March 5, Friday, through January 29, Friday March 6, Saturday Study cards are due for all students. Junior Parents Weekend. Parents may attend Last day upon which undergraduates may classes on Friday. register for the spring term. Last day upon which undergraduates may March 8, Monday cancel their registration for the spring term Seventh Monday of the term. Last day upon which undergraduates may petition to without payment of tuition. withdraw from a spring term course. Course lists available online at www. Last day upon which graduate students may my.harvard.edu as study cards are processed. register for or add spring term courses. After this date, graduate students may add or register for TIME only. February 5, Friday Last day upon which graduate students may Last day upon which undergraduate May cancel their registration for the spring term and November 2010 degree candidates may without payment of tuition. submit a completed and signed petition for a secondary field. There are no exceptions to this Last day upon which undergraduates may deadline. complete cross-registration.

March 13, Saturday, through February 12, Friday March 21, Sunday Last day upon which undergraduates may Spring recess. drop or add any course without a fee. March 23, Tuesday Last day upon which graduate students may February 15, Monday drop a course or divide a full year course with University holiday: Presidents’ Day. half-course credit. Last day upon which students from other schools may complete cross-registration in the March 26, Friday Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Graduate student applications for June 2010 degrees (AM, SM, ME, MFS, and PhD) must be submitted on or before this date. February 22, Monday Fifth Monday of the term. Last day upon which (March 26 continued on next page)

10 ACADEMIC CALENDAR March 26, Friday, continued May 11, Tuesday Last day upon which graduate May degree Departmental recommendations for honors candidates may submite a completed and for graduating seniors due at the Office of the signed application for a secondary field. Registrar.

April 2, Friday Spring Final Grades Due Undergraduate student applications for May 2010 degrees must be submitted on or before May 11, Tuesday, through this date. May 22, Saturday See page 55 for schedule of due dates. Last day to change concentration without Administrative Board approval for May and November 2010 degree candidates. May 14, Friday Last day upon which undergraduate May and Approved graduate dissertations due for May November 2010 degree candidates may file a degree candidates. foreign language citation study plan. Advanced Standing eligible students planning May 24, Monday to graduate after six or seven terms in May Degree Meeting of the Faculty at 4:30 pm. or November 2011, or to begin a fourth year AM program in fall term 2011, must file the Commencement “Advanced Standing Activation Form” by this date. May 27, Thursday Harvard University Commencement. April 29, Thursday Last day in the spring term upon which May 31, Monday undergraduates will ordinarily be granted a University holiday: Memorial Day leave of absence from the College. Summer 2010 Reading Period August 1, Sunday April 29, Thursday, through Graduate student applications for non-resident May 6, Thursday status for the 2010–2011 fall term or academic year are due in department offices. May 6, Thursday Last day in the spring term upon which August 9, Monday graduate students may petition for late Graduate student applications for November withdrawal from a course. 2010 degrees (AM, SM, ME, MFS, and PhD) must be submitted on or before this date. Examination Period Last day upon which graduate November May 7, Friday, through degree candidates may submit a completed and signed application for a secondary field. May 15, Saturday See the Office of the Registrar’s website, www. registrar.fas.harvard.edu for exam times and August 24, Tuesday locations for spring term courses. Last day upon which graduate students may submit work for Incomplete grades from the 2009–2010 fall term.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 11 Tentative Calendar for 2010-2011 Fall Term 2010-2011 Academic year begins Thu Sep 2 Study card day Fri Sep 10† Thanksgiving recess Thu Nov 25–Sun Nov 28 Reading period Sat Dec 4–Sun Dec 12 Examination period Mon Dec 13–Tue Dec 21 Winter recess Wed Dec 22–Sun Jan 2 Optional Winter Session Mon Jan 3–Sun Jan 23 Spring Term 2010-2011 Spring term begins Mon Jan 24 Study card day Fri Jan 28† Spring recess Sat Mar 12–Sun Mar 20 Reading period Thu Apr 28–Thu May 5 Examination period Fri May 6–Sat May 14 Commencement Thu May 26

*Note: The Harvard University Coordinated Academic Calendar became effective with the 2009-2010 academic year. Special attention should be paid to deadlines as many will vary from prior years.

† Study card day for all students.

12 ACADEMIC CALENDAR Responsibilities of Instructors

Instructors’ Presence During appears with the course listing in Courses of the Academic Year Instruction as the instructor of the course. If there are several instructors, the name of the Instructors are expected to be in residence course head appears first. The course head throughout the academic year, including the alone signs study cards and has access to Reading Periods and Examination Periods. course lists and grade sheets. Only an indi- However, short absences may become neces- vidual holding a teaching appointment can sary and are permissible, so long as academic be a course head. “Teaching appointment” responsibilities are met or adequately covered is understood here as any FAS appointment and the following procedures have been at the rank of Lecturer, Preceptor, or observed. Frequent short absences within a Professor (assistant, associate, or full), and term are strongly discouraged, even if teach- for undergraduate teaching only, Instructor. ing and other responsibilities are covered, as Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Assistantships, such absences significantly hamper a faculty and Course Assistantships are not teaching member’s ability to meet responsibilities to appointments in this context; persons holding students and academic programs. these ranks assist in courses or tutorials Faculty members who must be absent during under the supervision of those holding term time for a period of more than one week teaching appointments. Recommendations or for a shorter period which, nevertheless, re- for teaching appointments may be made only quires some reduction or change in scheduled by departments or committees empowered to instruction should first consult the Chair of offer courses for credit. the appropriate department(s) and/or the Only assistant, associate, or full professors in Director of the Program in General Education. other Harvard Faculties who offer courses The Chair and/or Director will determine for academic credit in that Faculty may whether all teaching responsibilities are to be teach in the FAS without an FAS teaching adequately covered. If the proposed absence appointment. All other non-FAS faculty— is for one week or less, no further approval those holding appointments below the rank is necessary. To request an absence of more of assistant professor or those who do not than one week, the faculty member should offer courses for academic credit in their apply to the Office for Faculty Affairs, stating Faculty—may teach in the FAS only if they the reason for the absence and the provisions are appointed to the rank of Lecturer in the made for meeting academic responsibilities. Faculty of Arts and Sciences under the normal “Permission to be Absent” forms are rules governing such appointments. available for this purpose from the Office for Faculty Affairs or departmental administrators The term “responsibility for and require the endorsement of the depart- instruction” includes: ment Chair. s¬2ESPONSIBILITY¬FOR¬THE¬STRUCTURE¬AND¬CONTENT¬ of the course, including any regular sections Responsibility for Instruction of the course; s¬2ESPONSIBILITY¬FOR¬THE¬CONTINUITY¬OF¬COURSE¬ Responsibility for instruction rests solely with meetings, whether these be lecture or the head of the course. This person’s name discussion groups;

RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS 13 s¬2ESPONSIBILITY¬FOR¬THE¬EVALUATION¬OF¬STUDENT¬ student work are equitable across all sections performance in the course, including the of a course, and the final responsibility performance of students who may have for each grade rests with the course been granted makeup examinations that head. This includes the evaluation of makeup take place the following term; and examinations that are administered during s¬2ESPONSIBILITY¬FOR¬THE¬SCREENING¬AND¬SELEC- the following term. tion of teaching fellows, teaching assistants, The work of graduate students, including and course assistants in accordance with those enrolled in courses open to both gradu- policies established by the Faculty of Arts ate and undergraduate students (100-level and Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts and below), should be evaluated only by and Sciences, and/or the department. individuals holding teaching appointments as

defined in the above section. “Work” refers None of the above responsibilities may be to major examinations and written exercises delegated to persons not holding teaching but not necessarily to problem sets, labora- appointments. tory work, or similar exercises. In the same Instructors who hold a teaching appointment light, while undergraduate course assistants or who assist in courses or tutorials may not may participate in the evaluation of students, give private instruction for pay to students they should not be involved in the subjective in the University without the consent of the evaluation of essays and examinations. Chair of the department concerned and the Dean of the Faculty. Under no circumstances Professional Conduct may instructors privately tutor for pay in The following text was approved by the courses in which they are employed by Faculty Council for distribution to the full the University. Faculty, not as a codification of official institutional policy but as a “discussion Responsibility for Evaluation document” to be used as a point of reference. Responsibility for evaluation rests with the An earlier version of this text was discussed individual listed in Courses of Instruction as at the Faculty Meeting of October 17, 1995. the instructor in charge (the course head). For The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. courses taught by more than one instructor, −Emerson the course head is listed in the catalog first and the others are listed alphabetically. The importance of professional conduct within the For Independent Study, responsibility rests academic community is self-evident, but what pre- with that individual holding a teaching cisely is meant by the phrase is not. For “professional conduct” covers a multitude of situations. No single appointment who has signed the petition style or method of teaching guarantees it; a teacher permitting the student to enroll. (See “Course may be appropriately professional whether meeting Administration”: Special Types of Courses, students at a café or in an office, whether by nature Independent Study.) gregarious and sociable, or shy and reserved. Yet there In some large courses or tutorials, teaching are principles underlying the concept, that allow it to be honored when present and deplored when absent. fellows, teaching assistants, or course In a university setting, professional conduct rests assistants may have a role in the evaluation upon an enduring respect for fellow human beings of the students in the course, subject to the and for the vocation of teaching, and a recognition limitations set by the Faculty Council and the that a teacher’s powers and responsibilities must Educational Policy Committee (see below). not be abused. The basic principles may be easier to Nevertheless, the course head is responsible appreciate abstractly than to apply while teaching. for ensuring that the standards for evaluating

14 RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS The list that follows is designed to bring these instructors have the right to expect that assignments principles into focus as a basis for discussion among will be thoughtfully completed on time. and between faculty, teaching fellows, and other Classroom Engagement The classroom is frequently instructional support staff. the site of intense intellectual debate—or, alterna- tively, unbearable silence. Maintaining an environment Issues for Consideration for a constructive contest between ideas and their Authority By virtue of their authority within the supporting evidence is primarily the responsibility of academic community, teachers have the power to the teacher. Teachers should be aware of any tendency influence thought and behavior, and the concomitant to favor one mode of argument over another, in which only certain students thrive; of the importance responsibility to recognize the potential weight of their verbal and nonverbal expressions. As leaders in of listening attentively and with respect; and of the the classroom, teachers have the responsibility not significance of nonverbal clues (nods, frowns, gestures, only to impart the excitement of ideas and the chal- etc.). lenge of academic debate, but also the importance of courtesy and respect in intellectual dialogue. Services

Fair Treatment of All Students Students should be Criticism of Work treated even-hand-edly. Equity is not necessarily Comments should be directed at the work, not the achieved, however, by treating all students in precisely person; and they should contribute to the refinement the same way. For example, some students respond of both thinking and presentation. Peremptory positively to hearty, well-intoned criticism while dismissiveness is not appropriate. others are discouraged by it. Some students welcome Grades public comments about their work, while others Professors are responsible for the oversight of all are embarrassed by them. Genuinely even-handed grades given by teaching fellows. treatment of students depends upon making a conscientious attempt to recognize and appreciate Letters of Recommendation such differences. Teachers (and students) should guard Students depend on instructors for letters of particularly against ethnic, religious, sexual, and other recommendation. Honesty and fairness in responding discriminatory stereotyping. to requests for recommendations are essential.

Interpersonal Relations The power teachers Advising exercise over students to penalize or reward in the Access to advising should be offered and equally form of grades and recommendations requires caution afforded to all. in interpersonal interactions, and the need to avoid the kind of familiarity that compromises objective Confidentiality and Discretion Teachers are privy to information (and opinions) about and fair evaluation of a student’s work. In particular, sexual advances towards or liaisons with one’s students that ought to remain confidential. Exceptions students are inappropriate, and violate University should be made only in cases of emergency, such as policy. Within these limits, however, intellectual threat of suicide, or other harmful behavior, when mentoring and friendly interaction are important confidentiality is secondary to a student’s welfare. elements of the learning and teaching process. Talking with colleagues or other students about confidential student information is inappropriate, as Clear Communication Because the evaluation of is any form of public embarrassment or shaming of a students partly depends on their understanding of student. the requirements of a course, course heads should be clear in their articulation of expectations, assignments, Collegial Conduct Status differences exist within and the rules of collaboration and citation. Providing the teaching staff of every university. Awareness of written explanations of assignments and requirements the relative positions of colleagues in the academic reduces the risk of misunderstanding. Students hierarchy may avoid placing them in awkward or have a right to expect prompt return of papers and compromising situations. The implications of making exams and a clear justification of evaluation, just as particular requests of one’s juniors ought to be considered before making them; the right to refuse, for reasonable cause, without consequence, ought

RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS 15 to be guaranteed every member of the community. Privacy of Information Professional and research opportunities should be The unauthorized examination of informa- awarded with equity and fairness. tion stored on a computer system or sent Other Sources of Information electronically over a network is a breach of Teaching Fellows Handbook (GSAS and the Derek Bok academic and community standards. Systems Center for Teaching and Learning). administrators, however, may gain access to users’ data or programs when it is necessary “Tips for Teachers: Sensitivity to Women in the Contemporary Classroom”; “Tips for Teachers: to maintain or prevent damage to systems or Encouraging Students in a Racially Diverse Classroom” to address other extraordinary situations. (The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning). On shared and networked computer systems “Sexual Harassment and Unprofessional Conduct: certain information about users and their Guidelines in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences” (Office activities is visible to others. Users are for Faculty Affairs). cautioned that certain accounting and directory information (for example, user Student Privacy names and email addresses), certain records of file names and executed commands, and The University has a legal obligation to information stored in public areas, are not protect the privacy of students and the confi- private. dentiality of student records. No information about a student’s academic performance can Faculty members who are using shared or be released without the student’s written networked computer systems have the legal permission. It is equally important to respect obligation to maintain the privacy of elec- students’ privacy when distributing their tronic files containing confidential student grades. Instructors should not leave papers, information such as course grades and letters projects, or examinations in unattended of recommendation. For this reason, take public areas. Similarly, grades should never extra care when sending email to confirm the be posted with the students’ names, and/ recipient’s address, as many addresses are or Harvard University Identification (HUID) similar. There are also various techniques for numbers. Such practices are a violation of protecting confidential electronic files such the Family Educational Rights and Privacy as locking or encrypting them. For advice on Act of 1974 (FERPA). Questions about the securing electronic information, consult FAS confidentiality of student records and about IT (617-495-9000). the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act may be directed to the Registrar, 20 Garden Students Requiring Street (617-495-1545). (See “Grades”: Accessible Education Posting of Grades.) Accessible Education Office Use of the FAS Computing and Louise Russell, Director Network Services (617-496-8707)/V, (617-496-3720)/V/TTY, Fax: (617-495-0815) Faculty members are provided access to Email: [email protected] University computer facilities for academic www.aeo.fas.harvard.edu use. Information about academic computing and network services offered by the FAS Harvard University is committed to providing Information Technology is described in students requiring accessible education and “Teaching and Advising Resources” and is who have documented disabilities access to available through [email protected] or the same programs and activities that are 617-495-9000. available to students without disabilities.

16 RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS The Accessible Education Office (AEO) which student who is ultimately ineligible to receive serves the College, Graduate School of Arts accommodations for final examinations. It and Sciences (GSAS) as well as the School is important that all communication with of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) students regarding accommodation issues be students, works with faculty to make this individualized and confidential. possible. Federal law defines a disability Course heads should routinely note in the as a physical or mental impairment that course syllabus and by announcing at the substantially limits or restricts the condition, first class meeting that students who need manner, or duration under which an average accommodations should contact the teaching person in the population can perform a major staff to discuss and implement satisfactory life activity, such as walking, seeing, hearing, arrangements for sectioning, course materi- speaking, breathing, learning, working, or als, and examinations. Faculty are encouraged taking care of oneself. to include the following paragraph in the Members of the Faculty best know the essen- syllabus: tial components of courses. Accommodations Any student needing academic adjustments or are not intended to compromise the central accommodations is requested to present their letter components of a course. For more informa- from the Accessible Education Office (AEO) and speak tion about essential components, visit the with the professor by the end of the second week of AEO website at the following address: the term, (specific date). Failure to do so may result www.aeo.fas.harvard.edu/essential.html. in the Course Head’s inability to respond in a timely manner. All discussions will remain confidential, The course head is responsible for all although AEO may be consulted to discuss appropriate accommodations and assistance needed for implementation. classroom instruction, midterm and hourly examinations, including finding a separate Faculty who take into account variations room for exam administration. If a student in learning for all students know that requires a scribe or similar service to write for effective strategies for instruction frequently a midterm or hourly exam, the course head is obviate the need for accommodations. Some responsible for arranging for this service and suggestions are: coordinating payment through the depart- s¬0ROVIDE¬STUDENTS¬WHO¬ARE¬VISUALLY¬IMPAIRED ¬ ment. Accommodated exams are expected blind, have learning/reading difficulties, to occur on the same day as in-class exams. or who are otherwise print-challenged Accommodations for final examinations with reformatted instructional and testing however are made directly through AEO and materials in their accessible format at the the Examinations Office (see entry below.) same time as all students. Students and Ongoing communication and collaboration AEO may notify courses that advance on the part of faculty, teaching staff, AEO, copies of materials may need to be made administrators, and students themselves available in order to reformat materials is essential. Students who request accom- appropriately. Increased reliance on modations should present instructors with and availability of digital text benefits an introductory letter from AEO giving an all students. Other formats may include overview of the approved accommodations. Braille, audio tape, or enlarged print. Students making such requests without this s¬!SSIST¬STUDENTS¬WHO¬ARE¬DEAF¬OR¬HARD¬OF¬ letter should be referred directly to AEO. hearing by ensuring seating space is Providing accommodations in the course to available in the front of the room and by students who are not registered with AEO making sure the room has appropriate can result in inconsistent performance by a lighting. If movies or slide presentations

RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS 17 occur, an alternative lighting source will arrange for an equipment loan. Arrangements be required for students who need to see for reformatted material or the loan of interpreters. Some students may use FM equipment should be made least 5 business listening devices associated with their days in advance. hearing aids that require teaching staff use a wireless (non-amplifying) microphone. Final Examinations and Attempts should be made to provide open AEO Accommodations captioned films and videos. The instructional staff will provide accommo- dations for all scheduled final examinations. s¬#ALL¬FOR¬VOLUNTEERS¬FROM¬THE¬CLASS¬AS¬SOON¬ The Registrar may consult with faculty and as the need for note taking and scribes AEO when access and equity questions for in-class exercises becomes apparent, pertaining to accommodations arise. For taking care not to disclose the student’s questions concerning the administration of name or condition. Sometimes members of final exams (e.g., dropping off/picking up the teaching staff assume the role of scribe exams, location of students, etc.) contact for examinations. the Examinations Office, fasexams@fas. s¬%NSURE¬THAT¬LECTURES ¬SECTIONS ¬REVIEW¬SES- harvard.edu, or (617-495-1542). For ques- sions, etc. are held in physically accessible tions concerning accommodations, call AEO spaces when required. The Registrar’s (617-496-8707) Voice, or (617-496-3720) Office classroom section (617-495-1541) V/TTY, or E-mail [email protected]. can assist when relocation of a course is necessary. An additional relevant resource is Making Accommodations: The Legal World of When students make course changes after Students with Disabilities, by Paul D. study card day and before the fifth Monday Grossman, published in Academe, the of the term, it is understood that significant bimonthly magazine of the American delays in the preparation of reformatted Association of University Professors, materials may result, affecting both students November–December 2001, Volume 87, and instructional staff. Number 6, available at www.aaup.org. Adaptive Technology Laboratory Harvard University Science Center 103 Sexual Harassment [email protected], (617-496-8800) The Faculty has devoted considerable www.fas.harvard.edu/~ims/ATL/index. attention to the topic of sexual harassment html and has adopted guidelines describing The Adaptive Technology Laboratory (ATL) harassment and procedures for resolving serves FAS and SEAS students registered with complaints. Both documents are available AEO and who depend on print alternatives from the Office for Faculty Affairs, 1414 to access course materials. The ATL provides Massachusetts Avenue (617-495-3612). They adaptive computing devices, voice recogni- are also available at www.fas.harvard. tion technology, text reformatting services edu/home/dean-and-administration/ and laptops for in-class exams. policies-for-faculty-and-students/sexual- harrassment-officers-and-resources.html. Faculty members requiring handouts, lecture notes, exams or other course materials The first document, entitled Sexual converted into digital text, Braille, or enlarged Harassment: Guidelines in the Faculty of Arts text can contact the ATL for assistance. If a and Sciences, is a policy statement describing student requires the use of a computer for an what constitutes sexual harassment; it accommodation, faculty may email the ATL to defines sexual harassment in the following way: 18 RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS The determination of what constitutes sexual harass- s¬THE¬#HAIR¬OF¬A¬DEPARTMENT ¬OR¬ ment will vary with the particular circumstances, s¬THE¬!SSISTANT¬$EAN¬FOR¬&ACULTY¬!FFAIRS¬IN¬THE¬ but it may be described generally as unwanted Faculty of Arts and Sciences (for faculty), or sexual behavior, such as physical contact or verbal comments, jokes, questions, or suggestions. In the s¬THE¬!SSISTANT¬$EAN¬OF¬(UMAN¬2ESOURCES¬IN¬ academic context, the fundamental element of sexual the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. harassment is ordinarily the inappropriate personal In most cases, difficulties can be resolved attention by an instructor or other officer who is in a informally. In others, one may seek disciplin- position to exercise professional power over another ary action through the Dean of the Faculty individual. [...]Such behavior is unacceptable in a university. It seriously undermines the atmosphere of or through screening and hearing panels trust essential to the academic enterprise. convened to hear charges of “grave miscon- duct,” identified in the University statutes The statement also addresses the issue of as grounds for termination of employment amorous relationships between individuals of (including deprivation of tenure). Any member different university status: of the FAS community who believes he or Amorous relationships that might be appropriate in she has been sexually harassed is encour- other circumstances always have inherent dangers aged to bring the matter to the attention when they occur between any teacher or officer of of an appropriate officer. Please note that the University for whom he or she has a professional members of the Harvard Union of Clerical responsibility (i.e. as teacher, adviser, evaluator, and Technical Workers (HUCTW) are covered supervisor). [...]Officers and other members of the by the sexual harassment policies agreed to teaching staff should be aware that any romantic in the collective bargaining agreement and involvement with their students makes them liable for described in the Personnel Manual. For union formal action against them. members these policies take precedence over The guidelines also indicate the manner the policies governing other members of the in which sexual harassment may have an University community. adverse impact in a scholarly community: The Commission of Inquiry The Faculty of Arts and Sciences seeks to maintain a learning and work environment free from sexual Any student, faculty member, or administra- harassment, including unprofessional conduct in tive officer who has an inquiry, suggestion, or faculty-student relationships and sexism in the complaint may address it to the Commission classroom. These kinds of behavior are barriers to the of Inquiry, University Hall, Ground Floor educational, scholarly, and research purposes of the (617-495-4426). The Commission will then University. direct the inquiry, suggestion, or complaint The second document, the Faculty of Arts to the appropriate agency of the Faculty of and Sciences’ Procedures for the Resolution Arts and Sciences. When such an agency does of Sexual Harassment Problems, describes not exist, the Commission will attempt to the options available to any member of the aid in resolving the matter. The Commission FAS community who believes that he or she is sometimes instrumental in establishing a has been sexually harassed. For information new agency for handling recurrent issues. about the procedures for complaints of sexual Although the Commission has no power to harassment, consult: make rulings, it can play an advocacy role in pressing for the resolution of issues. s¬THE¬$IRECTOR¬OF¬THE¬(ARVARD¬0UBLIC¬3ERVICE¬ Network (for undergraduates), or Ordinarily, the Commission reports to the s¬THE¬$EAN¬FOR¬3TUDENT¬!FFAIRS¬AT¬THE¬ community on the matters which come Graduate School (for graduate students), or before it and, in so doing, attempts to keep the community informed about factual

RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS 19 background material and the resolution of Protocol Coordinator matters of community concern. Betsy Draper (617-496-3137) Human Subject Research [email protected] University regulations and federal rules The Standing Committee on the Use of require advance review and approval, or Human Subjects in Research, the Faculty determination of exemption, of most human of Arts and Sciences’ federally mandated subject research. Any living person from or Institutional Review Board, is responsible about whom information is collected for for reviewing proposed studies. Applications a scholarly study is deemed a “research should be submitted two weeks prior to subject”—the term is not limited only Committee meetings, which are held monthly to those subjects involved in clinical or throughout the academic year. Judging from laboratory studies. Faculty and students the information provided on the application, contemplating a research project involving the Committee determines whether the pro- humans as subjects, whether or not the work posed procedures will adequately safeguard is externally funded and regardless of the the rights and welfare of the subjects. The area of academic discipline, should ascertain Committee also aims to insure the appropri- whether the project requires review. ate recruiting practices, permissions, and student time commitments. Some projects Committee on the Use may not require full Committee review; others of Human Subjects may be exempt from review altogether. Students planning research projects should 1414 Massachusetts Avenue, 2th Floor contact a Committee research officer to (617-495-2847) determine whether review is required. Forms, Email: [email protected] meeting schedule, human subjects training, http://cuhs.harvard.edu and reference material are available on the website, http://cuhs.harvard.edu. Senior Research Officer Jane Calhoun Research Involving (617-495-5459) [email protected] Animal Subjects www.fas.harvard.edu/~research/approv- Research Officers als/iacuc.html Elizabeth Bowie (617-496-6087) www.fas.harvard.edu/~research/ [email protected] greybook/animals.html Ken Carson University regulations and federal rules (617-495-9829) require advance review and approval of [email protected] all vertebrate animal research prior to its commencement. The Committee on the Rachel Krebs Use of Animals in Research and Teaching, (617-946-1185) the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ federally Emiko Saito mandated Institutional Animal Care and (617-496-2618) Use Committee (IACUC), is responsible for [email protected] reviewing proposed studies. There are no submission deadlines; applications may be submitted anytime.

20 RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS IACUC administration services are provided by staff in the office of Research Administration Services (RAS). Information and forms may be obtained from the Protocol Coordinator ([email protected]). All individuals using vertebrate animals in research and/or teaching must participate in the institution’s occupational health program to work with vertebrate animals and complete a course entitled “The Humane Care of Animals in Research/Teaching.” This course is offered four times a year and acquaints the participants with Harvard policies as well as federal, state, and city of Cambridge regulations regarding the use of animals. Information regarding the oc- cupational health program and course dates/ times may be obtained from the Training and Occupational Health Program Coordinator ([email protected]). The Office of Animal Resources (OAR) is the unit responsible for the housing, daily care, health and well-being of all vertebrate animals used on campus at the FAS. No vertebrate animals may be obtained without the permission of the Office of Animal Resources (617-496-9989). All members of the Harvard community have a responsibility to report instances of mistreatment of animals or non-compliance with animal use guidelines. To report the mis- treatment of vertebrate animals in research or teaching at Harvard, contact the Director of the Office of Animal Resources, Arthur Lage, D.V.M. (617-432-1289). Anonymity will be honored if desired.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTRUCTORS 21

Course Administration

The Course Catalog 200-299 or 2000-2999 Primarily for Graduates The course catalog for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Courses of Instruction, lists both 300-399 or 3000-3999 graduate and undergraduate courses and is Graduate Courses of Reading and Research published annually in August. An up-to-date s¬#OURSES¬MAY¬HAVE¬ONLY¬ONE¬NUMBER¬AND¬ version of the catalog is posted at www. may be listed in full by only one depart- registrar.fas.harvard.edu. ment, division, or committee. Moreover, as The Office of the Registrar compiles and part of the process of creating or modifying publishes Courses of Instruction by gathering a course, faculty members should the information from department, division, consult with the appropriate departmental and committee offices (not individual instruc- curriculum committee. tors) as well as the Dean’s office. All course s¬#OURSE¬TITLES¬APPEAR¬ON¬STUDENT¬TRANSCRIPTS ¬ changes must be brought to the attention of which have space for only 32 characters. the department’s catalog coordinator and be For this reason, course titles should be approved by the department Chair. limited to 32 characters. Overlong titles Course information published in the catalog will be shortened to 32 characters. becomes the official basis for the Registrar’s s¬#OURSE¬DESCRIPTIONS¬ARE¬LIMITED¬TO¬¬WORDS¬ records; it affects classroom assignments, for undergraduate (100-level) courses examination schedules, and the release of and to 35 words for graduate (200-level) course lists and grade sheets. For this reason courses. Overlong descriptions will be it is extremely important that departments edited. and committees notify the Office of the s¬#OURSES¬LISTED¬BUT¬NOT¬OFFERED¬IN¬THE¬CURRENT¬ Registrar of any changes—especially changes academic year are designated by enclosing of instructor or meeting time—regardless the course number and title in brackets. of when they occur in the academic year. Courses may not be bracketed for more Moreover, complete and up-to-date course than two consecutive years and must information enables the Registrar to carry out indicate when they will next be given. Faculty policy regarding simultaneous course s¬!N¬ASTERISK¬ ¬PRECEDING¬THE¬COURSE¬TITLE¬ enrollment, as well as to locate individual indicates that a student must have the students in an emergency. instructor’s approval to enroll in the course. (The student’s study card must Points to Consider When be signed by the instructor.) All tutorials Creating or Modifying a Course and 300/3000-level courses must carry an Courses are numbered according to the asterisk. following scheme: s¬!¬MEETING¬TIME¬MUST¬BE¬PRINTED¬FOR¬ each course except tutorials, laboratory 1-99 or 910-999 sessions, and section meetings. Course Primarily for Undergraduates meeting times that do not conform to the 100-199 or 1000-1999 guidelines on course meeting times will not For Undergraduates and Graduates be printed in Courses of Instruction. (See

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 23 “Course Administration”: Course Meeting programs of the concentrations with which Times.) they are affiliated. Participation may involve s¬4O¬AVOID¬PROBLEMS¬WITH¬CROSS REGISTRATION ¬ individual or group tutorials, special seminars, courses that are jointly offered with or the direction of senior theses or projects. another Harvard Faculty must carry that Although faculty-taught individual tutorials information in a Note. or group tutorials are ideal in many subject areas, departmental resources may be Special Types of Courses insufficient to accommodate these goals. When a tutorial is conducted by a teaching Seminars, Proseminars, and fellow, a designated faculty member should Conference Courses have ultimate responsibility, and that The following distinctions reflect long- faculty member should oversee reading lists, standing Harvard tradition and are offered as discussion topics, and paper topics. From time basic guidelines. to time, faculty members should participate A seminar tends to focus on more advanced in the tutorials for which they have accepted and/or specific research topics. It has few, responsibility. (See “Responsibilities of if any, lectures; usually limits enrollment to Instructors”: Responsibility for Instruction; 12 to 15 students; and emphasizes student and, Responsibility for Evaluation.) presentations, papers, and research. Supervised Reading and A proseminar is a graduate course usually Research Courses taken to obtain appropriate background in Undergraduates interested in supervised a subject or area in preparation for a more reading and research may enroll in courses advanced seminar. offered by many departments under the des- ignation of 91 or 910. Such courses are not A conference course places more emphasis Independent Study but regular courses with on discussion than research. It usually has weekly or biweekly meeting times agreed an enrollment of about 25 students (35 upon by the instructor and student. Students maximum); meets once a week for 2-3 hours; enrolled in Reading and Research courses and incorporates lectures, as well as student are expected to complete course work papers and research. under supervision and not independently. In general, seminars and conference Instructors of such courses must hold a courses are open to advanced undergradu- teaching appointment. (See “Responsibilities ates as well as graduate students. Ordinarily, of Instructors”: Responsibility for Instruction. they do not have final examinations, nor do See also, “Course Administration”: they qualify for teaching fellows. Independent Study.)

Tutorial Instruction Graduate students enrolled in Reading and (Undergraduates Only) Research courses (300-level courses) do not Tutorials are opportunities for students to receive letter grades but are graded SAT/UNS. participate in small group or one-on-one Undergraduates may not enroll in courses instruction in their concentrations. They are numbered in the 300s or 3000s. However, generally characterized by their centrality Advanced Standing students in their fourth in the concentration curriculum, by their year of residence who are candidates for the sequencing, and by their emphasis on master’s degree may enroll in such courses methodology and academic skills. with the instructor’s permission. (See “Course Administration”: Undergraduates in Courses All full-time faculty members are ordinar- Designated “Primarily for Graduates.”) ily expected to participate in the tutorial

24 COURSE ADMINISTRATION Freshman and House Seminars is the application of analytical skills to the Freshman and House Seminars are object of the Independent Study, not the offered under the general supervision of intrinsic worthiness or instructiveness of the the Committee on Freshman Seminars experience itself. (617-495-1523, www.fas.harvard. Any sophomore, junior, or senior whose edu/~seminars). Both are small, limited previous record is satisfactory may petition enrollment courses. The Freshman Seminars to undertake Independent Study for non- are designed to intensify the intellectual letter-graded credit. A student may petition experience of incoming undergraduates by to take up to a total of four half-courses allowing them to work closely with Faculty of Independent Study. Independent Study members on topics of mutual interest. courses are subject to the same rules for Freshman Seminars are graded SAT/UNS and dropping and withdrawing as any other enrollment is limited to the first two terms of course. students who enter as freshmen. A petition to undertake Independent Study, House Seminars are sponsored by the indi- obtained from a Resident Dean’s Office, vidual residential Houses and ordinarily are requires two signatures: open to undergraduates only. These Seminars bring something new to the existing cur- 1. That of a qualified adviser (ordinarily riculum either in method of instruction, range a voting member of a Harvard Faculty) and depth of subject matter, integration of who must be an officer of the University practice and theory, or special responsiveness and whose professional competence to students’ needs. The instructor of a House is appropriate for the subject area Seminar has the option of assigning letter of the Independent Study. In those grades or using SAT/UNS, with the approval exceptional cases where the adviser is of the Committee on Freshman Seminars. not a Faculty member—for example, a teaching fellow—the petition must also Independent Study be supported by an appropriate academic (Undergraduates Only) department or unit. Independent Study is designed to provide 2. That of the Allston Burr Resident Dean, credit for field research, academic study not which signifies that the proposal satisfies available in regular course work, or practice the guidelines and has been signed by or performance in the arts. It is not suitable the adviser. (Resident Deans will refer for group instruction, paid work, or questions concerning guidelines to the activities outside the competence or Office of Undergraduate Education.) concern of one of Harvard’s departments. Studying the financial accounting system The petition also requires an outline of of a business firm might be an appropriate the student’s proposed project. It must be project, but working in an accounting office submitted to the Resident Dean for approval, to gain business experience would not by it- ordinarily in the first week of the term. The self merit academic credit. Investigating child adviser will assist the student in the develop- development through observation in a day ment of a plan for Independent Study and care center could qualify, but simply tutoring provide guidance but not regular instruction. an underprivileged child would not. Analyzing Independent Study does not imply formal the organization of a political group might be instruction and should not be confused with a suitable subject, but organizing a political tutorials or House Seminars or with directed campaign would not alone suffice. In each or Supervised Reading and Research courses case what distinguishes the suitable project offered by several academic departments

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 25 and committees. (Supervised Reading and willingness to supervise. See Supervised and Research courses are generally numbered 91 Research Courses within this section. or 910 and normally receive letter grades.) A student enrolled in Independent Study Course Meeting Times must undertake to work independently. Traditionally, courses meet for three hours per Classroom work, regular instruction, and week. Hour-long FAS courses are scheduled group projects are inadmissible. Students on the hour. One-and-one-half hour FAS whose projects include interviews or research courses are scheduled for 8:30-10 am, involving human subjects should contact the 10-11:30 am, or 11:30 am-1 pm, and only on Committee on the Use of Human Subjects Tuesdays and Thursdays. No course beginning (http://cuhs.harvard.edu) before submitting before 1 pm should be longer than one hour their independent study petition. on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday or longer The adviser will submit a midterm grade than 1-1/2 hours on Tuesday or Thursday. based on a preliminary written report by Courses scheduled at non-compliant meeting the student of his or her activities. At the times must be approved by the Registrar. beginning of the Reading Period, the student Approved courses are required to meet must submit to the adviser an analytical in departmental space or in classrooms paper concerning the term’s work. A simple scheduled through offices other than the FAS description or report of the term’s activities Registrar. is not by itself adequate. In the case of Classes ordinarily begin five minutes after artistic practice or performance, evidence the announced meeting time, e.g., at 9:05 of substantial accomplishment should be or 11:35. An instructor may refuse to permit supplied in lieu of written work. students to enter the classroom after the The granting of credit will be determined class has begun. Instructors should end the by the adviser. In those cases where the course promptly at the announced meeting adviser is not a voting member of a Harvard time, leaving the blackboards clear and Faculty, the Chair, Director of Undergraduate the furniture properly configured. The five Studies, or Head Tutor of the department, or minutes allotted for transition is not reserved equivalent officer with voting membership in by either course. Instructors should exercise a Harvard Faculty, must review and approve professional conduct when entering or the petition and the grade assigned by the vacating a classroom. adviser. Independent Study is graded “Pass” By Faculty vote, no class, committee or or “Fail.” The adviser will submit a copy of departmental meeting, tutorial, conference, the student’s paper and a brief statement examination, or other academic activity may about his or her work for inclusion in the normally be scheduled for the period set student’s folder in the Resident Dean’s office, aside for regular Faculty meetings (Tuesdays, ordinarily by the first day of the Examination 4–5:30 pm). Exceptions to this rule may be Period. granted only by the Registrar. First year students may not enroll in Independent Study. They may, however, seek Holidays and Days Preceding special permission from the Freshman Dean’s and Following Holidays and Vacations Office to enroll in one Supervised Reading Classes should not be held on holidays or and Research course within the Faculty of during vacations. By vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (91r- and 910r-level course Arts and Sciences, instructors are expected category) if an appropriate member of the to hold regular classes on the days preceding Faculty of Arts and Sciences has indicated a and following holidays and vacations.

26 COURSE ADMINISTRATION Students should not be excused from class on allow students to work independently, explor- those days or allowed to transfer temporarily ing special topics or integrating the material from one section to another to accommodate covered in the course. Students often use a longer holiday or vacation. this time to complete term papers that draw on the work of the term and to re-examine Courses Meeting Away course material in order to integrate the from the University various strands of a course in preparation for Ordinarily, courses should be organized the final examination or other final exercise. to meet only in their regularly-scheduled Those courses that have approved exam times, plus the additional times scheduled at substitutions should schedule these activities the beginning of the term for sections and during the Reading Period, while being laboratories. In some cases, an instructor mindful of students’ obligations to other may wish to include a field trip or project courses, some of which may continue to meet that would take students away from the during Reading Period. All exam substitutions University on days when classes are normally are due no later than the last day of Reading held and, thereby, interfere with students’ Period. Faculty legislation on Reading Period ability to attend other courses. In such cases, emphasizes the following: the suspension permission to include activities that will take of lectures should involve no diminution students away from the University must be in the total work required in courses; new obtained before the course may be listed in reading assignments for this period may not the catalog. Instructors must consult with be excessive; and, new material introduced the Office of Undergraduate Education through Reading Period assignments should about courses below the 200-or 2000-level cover special topics for investigation or and with the Dean of the Graduate School further development rather than important about courses at the 200- or 2000-level. parts of the course as a whole. Ordinarily, instructors should plan no more than one class day away from the University Many courses continue to meet on their in any given week and never more than five regular schedules during much of the Reading class days during the term, or ten days total Period. Even in these cases, most instructors including weekends. In all cases, the students’ suspend classes during the last two weekdays obligations to other courses meeting at their of the Reading Period to allow students a regularly-scheduled times must have priority few days of uninterrupted preparation before over course requirements that take students the start of final examinations. It is generally away from the University. Instructors must expected that review sessions will take place announce at the beginning of a course any during the Reading Period. requirements that would take students away Instructors should specify their plans and from the University so that students may expectations for the Reading Period on the consider these requirements when choosing course syllabus or during the early meetings their courses. of the term, so students may take this into account as they plan their work for the term. Reading Period At the end of each term, a period of eight The Reading Period is an integral part of the days prior to the start of final examinations term whether or not a class meets during is designated as the Reading Period. During this time. Both instructors and students are this period faculty members may choose not expected to remain in the immediate vicinity to hold formal class meetings with students. of Cambridge throughout this period. Those who exercise this option often do so to

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 27 Examination Period FAS Classrooms Office Following the Reading Period at each term’s 20 Garden Street end, there is an Examination Period. No [email protected], (617-495-1541) course assignments, trips, or special events www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu should be scheduled by instructors during the The FAS Classrooms Office schedules about Examination Period. Like the Reading Period, one-third of the classrooms in the FAS room the Examination Period is considered part of inventory. The remaining classrooms are the term, and instructors as well as students scheduled by the departments, centers, and are expected to be in residence throughout. houses. At the end of the term, instructors are expected to submit grades for their course Initial classroom assignments by the FAS by the published deadline. See “Final and Classrooms Office are made after considering Midyear Examinations” chapter. a number of factors including instructional requirements, enrollment history, accessibility, Classrooms special circumstances, and room availability at the time of assignment. Faculty members Classroom assignments for courses are requesting classroom space scheduled by the coordinated between academic departments FAS Classrooms Office have the opportunity and scheduling offices. to indicate their classroom needs for their Instructors should immediately contact their courses and course-related events on forms department if the meeting time changes that are distributed in May (for the fall term) from the original listing in the Courses of and October (for the spring term). The FAS Instruction catalog or when a change in Classrooms Office encourages instructors to location occurs after the initial classroom include requests for course-related events— assignment has been determined. films, lectures, midterm examinations—at this time. If another classroom is needed for To announce course meeting times and midterm or hour exams, you may request an locations, the FAS Office of the Registrar additional room so students can be placed produces a Course Meetings Location Report. reasonably far apart and have writing tablets. This report is posted on the Registrar’s Classroom questions and requests may website (www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu) be emailed to the FAS Classrooms Office. prior to the start of each term. Departmental classroom assignments should To make audio-visual equipment or service be confirmed with departmental schedulers. requests, instructors should contact Media Courses and sections have their assigned and Technology Services. (See “Teaching and classrooms reserved from the first day of the Advising Resources”: Instructional Media term through the end of the Reading Period. Services.) During the Examination Period, all classrooms After-hour emergencies and problems are reserved for Final Exams. Classrooms are with the temperature or ventilation of not reserved during University holidays and classrooms should be referred to the recesses. University Operations Center (617-495-5560). Classroom Reassignment: Due to the Classroom maintenance or repair requests fluctuation of enrollment during the shopping should be referred to your department period, the FAS Classrooms Office typically administrator, to Harvard Yard Operations does not reassign classrooms until after (617-495-8842), or to the appropriate Study Card Day when initial enrollment building manager. figures are more accurate. However, if, after the first day of classes, there seems to be

28 COURSE ADMINISTRATION an urgent need to change room assign- the FAS Classrooms Office no later than Study ments, contact the FAS Classrooms Office Card Day. immediately (617-495-1541). As a reminder, FAS Registrar’s Office Website (www. room assignments are subject to change due registrar.fas.harvard.edu): The following to enrollment numbers or other pedagogical documents are posted to the website (Go to needs. the FAS Registrar’s website, click on Faculty/ Discussion Sections: Instructors should Administrators and then Classrooms): direct their Head Teaching Fellows to the FAS Registrar’s website www.registrar. Courses fas.harvard.edu to access “Guidelines for s¬#OURSE¬-EETINGS¬,OCATION¬2EPORT¬&!3¬ Requesting Section Space” and a blank Classroom Inventory classroom request form. Classrooms for s¬#OMPREHENSIVE¬&!3¬#LASSROOM¬)NVENTORY discussion sections are reserved on a first come, first serve basis. Classroom Request Forms s¬#LASSROOM¬2EQUEST¬3HEET¬FOR¬&!3¬ Fall/Repeat Spring and Full Year Courses: For all full year and fall/repeat spring courses that Courses and Sections have the same meeting day and time for the s¬'UIDELINES¬FOR¬2EQUESTING¬$ISCUSSION spring term as they have in the current fall Section Space term, the FAS Classrooms Office anticipates s¬/NE 4IME¬%VENT¬#LASSROOM¬2EQUEST¬&ORM being able to assign the same classroom. Departmental classroom assignments should Course Materials/Syllabi be confirmed with departmental schedulers. It is helpful to have a complete course Reading Period: A course is scheduled into syllabus posted to the course website and a classroom from the first day of the term available before the first meeting of a class through the end of Reading Period. Since so that students can make efficient use of classroom space is limited during the Reading the shopping period with minimal disruption Period, it is recommended that instructors to classes. To provide online access to your should hold review sessions in regularly- syllabus, call the Faculty and Staff Support assigned classrooms. Line at (617-496-2727) and specify that you are interested in instructional support. To Examination Period: During the Final control the escalating cost of reproducing Examination Period, all classrooms are coursepacks and sourcebooks, instructors are reserved for the Office of Final Examinations. encouraged to determine whether the course After the final examination schedule is readings they assign are available electroni- set, limited classroom space may become cally from the Harvard libraries, and if they available for review sessions. are, to link to them from course websites. For Visitor’s Guide to Larger Lectures: Each information on how to include links from your term, the FAS Office of the Registrar produces syllabus/course web page directly to readings the Visitor’s Guide to Larger Lectures. This available in electronic format, contact your guide is available to visiting prospective department’s Library Liaison or refer to students and their parents through the Office Linking to Harvard Library E-Resources (hcl. of Admissions and Financial Aid website at harvard.edu/research/guides/deeplinking) www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/ on the HCL website. The Resources for visit/visitors_guide_spring2009.pdf. Any Instructors page (hcl.harvard.edu/research/ instructor who does not wish to have his or for_instructors/index.html) contains her course listed in the guide should contact additional useful information for instructors.

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 29 The syllabus should include contact informa- edu.) Look for a box in the right-hand tion and office hours for teaching staff, a column entitled, “FAS Course Enrollment reading list, dates of hour/midterm exams, Lists.” This tool contains a list of courses that due dates for papers or other assignments, you are teaching in the current term. For each plans and expectations for Reading Period, course, there are links to view an enrollment course policy with respect to late work list, generate a printable (PDF) list, or and makeup hour exams, and the basis on download enrollment data to Microsoft Excel. which the course grade will be awarded. It You can also view the photos of each student should also include a clear statement about in your course. Note that enrollment data plagiarism and collaboration. (See “Course are protected under the Family Educational Administration”: Papers and Other Written Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 and Assignments.) (In selecting the dates for are therefore not for distribution. Information hour exams and the midterm examination, on Course iSites is available at icg.fas. as well as for papers and other assignments, harvard.edu, select Course Websites. instructors should consult the information The online course lists are continually on religious holidays at www.interfaithcal- updated. Only when a student’s name ap- endar.org.) Instructors noting the possible pears on the course list or when the Office of dates of the course’s final examination on the Registrar notifies the instructor of a late the syllabus should also note on the syllabus enrollment is a student officially enrolled in a that these dates are tentative until the final course. Instructors should report to the Office examination schedule is set later in the term. of the Registrar any student (other than In courses designed for undergraduates it auditors) who attends class, but whose name is very desirable for students to receive an does not appear on the course list. Instructors evaluation on at least one course assignment should also report any student (except those before the seventh Monday of the term, with the status of “withdrawn”) who has the last day on which undergraduates may stopped attending class, but whose name ap- withdraw from a course. Any limitations on pears on the course list. These reports should the credit earned by passing the course—e.g., be directed to the Office of the Registrar at a full year course may not be divisible at (617-495-4655) or (617-495-1519). midyear for half course credit—should be made clear as part of the presentation of the course. Course Fees No course may charge undergraduates No substantial changes in the work load or special fees for course participation or calendar of a course should be made after the required activities. Departmental budgets are Study Card Day each term. expected to cover the cost of films, laboratory equipment and other materials. The aim of Course Lists this policy is to ensure that all courses are Beginning on study card day, instructors will equally accessible to students regardless of be able to view their course lists via their their financial means. web-based portal pages at my.harvard. edu. After entering your HUID and Personal Student Enrollment: Identification Number (PIN) at the PIN Drop, Add, Withdraw authentication page, your portal page will appear. (If you have forgotten your PIN, Students are allowed five weekdays at the you can request a new one at the Harvard beginning of the term to attend courses in University PIN website at www.pin.harvard. which they are considering enrolling. After this “shopping period,” they officially enroll

30 COURSE ADMINISTRATION by filing study cards on which they have Limiting Enrollment in included their courses and gathered all the Courses at the 100- or required instructor signatures (see below). 1000-Level and Below No undergraduate may drop or add a course As a general principle, students should be or change grading status in a course after the able to study the topics they want and for fifth Monday of the term. Undergraduates which they have the appropriate background, have until the seventh Monday of the term with the exception that concentration to withdraw from a course. Any course that tutorials, including junior seminar programs, a student drops by the deadline is removed are ordinarily limited to concentrators. from the student’s transcript. If a student Nevertheless, there may be courses in which withdraws from a course, that course remains enrollment must be limited because of on the transcript with the notation “WD.” resource constraints or special instructional Deadlines for graduate students are indicated needs. The decision to limit enrollment for in the “Academic Calendar.” either or both of these reasons, as well as decisions about appropriate prerequisites, Instructor’s Signature on should be made by the instructional unit’s Study Cards and Petitions curriculum committee. The committee should be mindful of the general principle stated The Office of the Registrar will not accept any above, perhaps creating other venues where study card that lacks a required signature. The interested students can study the material in instructor’s signature must be obtained for question. all undergraduate enrollments in graduate- level courses and for those that require the When enrollment in a non-tutorial permission of the instructor, as indicated by course is to be limited, the reason for the an asterisk in Courses of Instruction. Study limitation should be reported to the Office of cards filed after the prescribed deadline must Undergraduate Education and the enroll- contain the instructor’s signature for every ment ceiling should be noted in the course course listed. catalog. The criteria for selecting among appropriately-qualified students for space in Undergraduates adding a course after the limited enrollment courses should be based study card is filed or changing grading status on the curricular needs and interests of the to Pass/Fail must obtain the signature of the students and on whether a student will course head, but the signature is not required have other opportunities to take the course. for dropping or withdrawing from a course. Selection on the basis of other criteria is For graduate students, the instructor’s permis- inappropriate. sion is required for adding or withdrawing from a course by petition and is not required for dropping a course. Enrollment of Non-FAS Students Instructors may not delegate their responsibil- Cross-Registration ity for signing study cards, change-of-course Students cross-registering from other petitions, or submitting grades. Instructors are Faculties or other institutions are allowed to therefore asked to be available to students enroll in FAS courses if they have obtained to discuss their course enrollment status the instructor’s permission and submitted a and, when necessary, to sign the required signed petition to the Office of the Registrar petitions. (20 Garden Street). Such students are subject to all of the FAS regulations and deadlines, including the examination schedule, and are

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 31 graded according to the FAS system. The Pass/ 1. When the head of the course where class Fail option is not available to cross-registered time is being missed and the person(s) students. The graduate student option to providing the instruction during the regular enroll in certain language courses on a SAT/ class meeting agree to provide hour-for- UNS basis is also not available to cross- hour direct and personal compensatory registered students. instruction. Availability during regular office hours or time with a different person Employees (Tuition Assistance Plan) does not satisfy the requirement for direct Employees of Harvard University may enroll and personal contact. in FAS courses through the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) administered by the Office of 2. When instruction in one of the courses is Human Resources. Employees are subject available on videotape, provided that (1) to all of the FAS regulations and deadlines, the course head agrees that the videotapes including the examination schedule, and may be used for this purpose; (2) the are graded according to the FAS system. lectures that are videotaped ordinarily do Employees are permitted to add or change a not provide opportunities for classroom course once TAP and enrollment forms have discussion; (3) the videotapes will be been filed with the Office of the Registrar (20 available in a timely fashion so that they Garden Street) by the appropriate deadlines. can be viewed before the next class The Pass/Fail option is not available to TAP period; (4) the student will miss attending students. part or all of no more than 1/3 of the instructional periods in the course (not Auditing including sections or labs) [N.B. if a student Auditors are allowed in courses offered by will miss any part of a day’s lecture, it is the Faculty of Arts and Sciences only with an as though he or she will miss all of it]; and instructor’s permission. The following may be (5) the instructor in the course in which admitted as auditors: students enrolled in any the lectures are videotaped agrees to offer Faculty of the University, individuals holding any hour examinations or other in-class teaching appointments in the FAS, and their exercises at a time that will not preclude spouses. No official record is maintained for the student from attending the second auditors. course. In those courses that do not use the blackboard or other visual aids, course- Simultaneous Enrollment/ provided audiotapes may be substituted Courses with Overlapping for videotapes. Meeting Times 3. When a senior can meet degree require- The Faculty believes that full participation in ments only by taking the two particular a classroom setting is essential. Therefore, a courses in question and will have no other student may not enroll in courses that meet opportunity to enroll in the courses before at the same time or overlapping times. It is graduation. In such circumstances, the the student’s responsibility to ensure that Administrative Board may approve reason- there is no overlap in the meeting times of able accommodations in consultation with his or her courses. Exceptions to this rule may the instructors of the courses involved. be granted only by the Administrative Board and will be considered only if the instructors Undergraduates in in both overlapping courses agree and only in Courses Designated one or more of the following circumstances: “Primarily for Graduates” Undergraduates may not enroll in courses

32 COURSE ADMINISTRATION numbered in the 300s or 3000s (Graduate Students should not leave the Cambridge Courses of Reading and Research). The only vicinity during Reading Periods or exceptions to the latter rule are fourth-year Examination Periods or for an extended time Advanced Standing students who are during the term without the permission of candidates for the master’s degree and who their Resident Dean. may enroll in such upper-level courses with the instructor’s permission. Incomplete (INC) Storm and cannot under any circumstances be given to Emergency Conditions undergraduates. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences rarely cancels Pass/Fail Grading Status classes due to weather. However, faculty and section leaders who commute should not (Undergraduates Only) be expected to put themselves in danger In 1967 the Faculty extended the use of Pass/ during serious storms, and may choose to Fail in order to permit students to enrich cancel their individual classes. Because the their educational experience by enrolling in Faculty rarely cancels classes, it is important courses they might otherwise avoid because that course staff inform students at the start of material that was too advanced or too of the term of the procedures for learning unfamiliar. Consequently, with an instructor’s of class meetings that will be canceled. permission and signature on the study card Similarly, it is important that the course any undergraduate may enroll in a course on staff provide students with instructions on a Pass/Fail rather than a letter-graded basis. how to inform instructional staff of planned After the fifth Monday of the term students absences. Instructors might find the following are not allowed to add Pass/Fail courses or to information helpful in establishing storm and change their grading status in courses from emergency procedures for their courses: or to Pass/Fail. Students enrolled in courses s¬¬&OR¬THE¬MOST¬PART ¬UNDERGRADUATE¬STUDENTS¬ on a Pass/Fail basis are so identified on the are in residence and are expected to course lists and grade sheets. attend classes. Undergraduate students Instructors may not request that students who decide that they cannot make it enroll in a course on a Pass/Fail basis. The to class should be able to find in their Pass/Fail option is not available to graduate, course materials instructions on how to cross-registered, or TAP students. inform the course’s instructional staff of absences from class. For example, some Student Attendance courses request that the student inform the instructor or the teaching fellow of the All students are expected to attend classes planned absence by email or by telephone. regularly. Absence from academic exercises for whatever reason, including representing s¬¬3IMILARLY ¬STUDENTS¬SHOULD¬BE¬ABLE¬TO¬lND¬ the College in extracurricular and athletic instructions in the course materials that activities, does not relieve a student from indicate how the instructional staff would responsibility for any part of the work inform students of the cancellation of a required by the course during the period of class or section meeting. For example, absence. Students who, by their classroom courses might inform students of the absence, neglect work in a course may be cancellation via an announcement posted excluded from the course. (See “Addressing at the course’s home page on the web, via Student Problems”: Neglect of Academic an e-mail to the class attendees, or by leav- Work by Students: Exclusion.) ing a message on the voice mail system of a centralized departmental telephone.

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 33 s¬¬&!3¬OFlCES¬AND¬ACADEMIC¬DEPARTMENTS¬WILL¬ senior theses and for concentration gen- be open depending on staff availability eral examinations are set by the individual and whether there are critical functions in concentrations but must be early enough to progress. Call the central number for that enable the concentration to make its degree office before going there. recommendations available to the Office of s¬¬&INAL¬EXAMINATIONS¬AND¬MAKE UP¬EXAMINA- the Registrar during the first week of the tions are rarely cancelled by the College Examination Period. and students should report to their exam The dates for required language and general rooms on time. examinations for graduate students are set by s¬¬/N¬THE¬VERY¬RARE¬OCCASION¬WHEN¬&!3¬ the departments. decides to cancel classes, an announce- Students should be informed of these dates ment of the cancellation will be posted well in advance of the examination. at the following urls: www.college. harvard.edu, my.harvard.edu, www. Hour and Midterm Examinations registrar.fas.harvard.edu/, and www. uos.harvard.edu/opscenter/emer- The administration of hour and midterm gency_management.shtml. examinations is the responsibility of the instructor; these exams should normally Restricting Attendance be scheduled during regular class meeting times. In cases where hour and midterm With the exception of classes held prior to examinations must be given outside regular the filing of study cards, when any registered class meeting times the course head must student may attend a class, ordinarily only offer a makeup examination for documented students enrolled in a course and auditors academic conflicts. Ordinarily, the Office of who have been given specific permission by the Registrar has no role in the administration the instructor may attend course meetings. of hour or midterm examinations. From time to time, instructors may permit other guests, such as colleagues, parents, Instructors are required by law to offer alumnae/i, or prospective students, to attend makeup examinations to students who are individual class meetings; however, instruc- absent from hour and midterm examinations tors are always free to restrict attendance for the observance of a religious holiday. at a class meeting or meetings to regularly Instructors are not required to offer makeup enrolled students and authorized auditors. examinations to students who are absent Each term the Registrar’s Office publishes from hour and midterm examinations for the Visitor’s Guide to Larger Lectures. Copies other reasons. of this guide are made available to visiting In cases other than absence for a religious prospective students and their parents holiday, if an instructor is satisfied that the through the Office of Admissions and absence is necessary and that omitting Financial Aid. Any instructor who does not a grade for the missed hour or midterm wish to have his or her course listed in the examination will not affect the student’s guide should contact the Classrooms Office at course grade, final evaluation of the student’s (617-495-1541) no later than Study Card Day. work in the course may be determined from the remainder of the course work. The Date for Submission instructor may also elect to give a makeup of Senior Theses and examination. The responsibility for such deci- General Examinations sions rests with the instructor only and not The dates for submission of undergraduate with the Dean’s Office or the Administrative

34 COURSE ADMINISTRATION Board. Instructors may also decide whether to prior to setting the dates for such exercises or require the attendance of graduate students examinations course heads request dates of at hour and midterm examinations. absence due to religious holiday observance from students in their classes. It is the Although instructors are obligated to offer responsibility of the students concerned to makeup examinations only in the case of provide that information promptly when absence for the observance of a religious so requested. If conflicts are unavoidable, holiday, students who have obtained proper students who are absent from hour or Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) midterm examinations for religious reasons documentation of illness may not be penal- shall be offered an opportunity to make up ized for their absence from hour and midterm the work, without penalty, unless it can be examinations. The appropriate form must be demonstrated that such an opportunity would signed by a HUHS medical professional and constitute an “unreasonable burden” on the given to the student’s Resident Dean who faculty. Information on religious holidays can will write the student a letter acknowledging be found at www.interfaithcalendar.org. receipt of the HUHS form. This letter may be presented to the instructor as certification of Papers and Other the student’s illness. Written Assignments Examination Booklets One or more papers or other written Examination booklets for hour or midterm assignments (e.g., problem sets, laboratory examinations may be obtained from reports) are often included as part of the Charles Botosh, Jr., in Science Center 125 work required of students in their courses. (617-495-5094). A Harvard officer or faculty Most students learn more effectively from identification card must be shown to receive a series of graduated writing assignments them. than from a single term paper, particularly in courses designed to introduce students to Athletic Events a new field or a particular mode of inquiry. The Department of Athletics is aware that The feedback that students receive on work midterm examinations are frequently given in completed early in the term helps to clarify the seventh or eighth weeks of the term, and what is expected in written assignments, thereby schedules few athletic contests away and later assignments provide students the from Cambridge during that time. Sometimes opportunity to demonstrate what they have the academic calendars of other institutions learned from the earlier comments. require contests to be scheduled in these periods. However, absence from academic The nature and number of written as- exercises in order to represent the College in signments and their due dates should be athletic activities does not relieve the student included on the course syllabus. All written from responsibility for any part of the work work must be due by the last day of required in the course during the period of the Reading Period, though instructors the absence. may grant individual undergraduates an extension of time for medical reasons and Absences for Religious Holidays other special circumstances up to the end A student who is absent from an hour or mid- of the Examination Period, but no later, and term examination as a consequence of his or may grant graduate students an extension her religious belief “shall be provided with an of time until the end of the next regular opportunity to make up such examination...” term. (See Late Work and Extension of Time (Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 151C, for Course Work below.) Incomplete (INC) Sec. 2B). It is therefore recommended that

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 35 cannot under any circumstances be given to the same or similar work used in a previous undergraduates. course must obtain the prior written permis- sion of the instructor. If a student wishes to Plagiarism submit the same or similar work to more than Any material submitted to meet course one course during the same term, the prior requirements—homework assignments, written permission of all of the instructors papers, projects, examinations — is expected involved must be obtained. A student who to be a student’s own work. Students are submits the same or similar work to more directed to Writing with Sources and Writing than one course without such prior permis- with Internet Sources at the beginning of sion will ordinarily be required to withdraw their first term, and in the required first-year from the College or from GSAS. writing course, Expository Writing, under- graduates are urged to take great care in Late Work and Extension distinguishing their own ideas and thoughts of Time for Course Work from information and analysis derived from printed and electronic sources. Although Undergraduates instructors are encouraged to take every Instructors have the authority to grant under- opportunity to reinforce and develop these graduates an extension of time for medical lessons, the final responsibility for knowing reasons and other special circumstances up to proper forms of citation rests with students. the end of the Examination Period. Ordinarily, In cases of suspected plagiarism by an students requesting an extension of time to undergraduate student, please contact the complete course work must have received Secretary of the Administrative Board the consent of the instructor before the ([email protected]). (See midyear or final examination or before the “Addressing Student Problems”: The final meeting of a course in which there is no Administration Boards.) In cases of suspected midyear or final examination. plagiarism by a graduate student, please In deciding the length of an extension contact the GSAS associate dean for student granted for medical reasons, the head of affairs. the course should apply the principle used by the Administrative Board when it votes Collaboration extensions beyond the Examination Period: It is essential that instructors set out carefully Extensions are granted for a period com- in writing and at the outset of a course or mensurate with the time missed during course assignment the extent of permissible an illness, without penalty. Questions student collaboration in the preparation of about an appropriate extension for an papers, computer programs, or examinations. individual undergraduate may be addressed Students must assume that collaboration in to the student’s Resident Dean. the completion of assignments is prohibited unless explicitly permitted by the instructor. If a student submits work after a grade has Students should be reminded that they are been filed with the Registrar but before expected to acknowledge any collaboration the end of the Examination Period, and and its extent in all submitted work. if acceptance of that late work results in a grade change, the instructor should Submission of the Same Work submit a grade change request to either the to More than One Course Dean of Undergraduate Education (for an Papers and other work should normally be undergraduate) or the Dean of the Graduate submitted to only one course. Any student School (for a graduate student), c/o The who wishes to submit to another course

36 COURSE ADMINISTRATION Registrar, 20 Garden Street (617-495-1545). student’s current standing for the spring term. (See “Grades”: Changes in Grades.) At the same time, instructors should report students whose cumulative grade for the An extension of time to complete course entire year is unsatisfactory. work beyond the end of the Examination Period can be granted to an undergraduate only by vote of the Administrative Board Hiring, Training, and Supervision of Harvard College and only in exceptional of Instructional Support Staff circumstances. Instructors may not accept In many courses the instruction done by work from an undergraduate after the end of supervised teaching staff is an important part the Examination Period without the explicit of the undergraduate educational process, as authorization of the Administrative Board. well as an important aspect of the training of graduate students. Departments and indi- Graduate Students vidual instructors have developed successful Instructors may grant graduate students an strategies that encourage and protect a high extension of time until the end of the next standard of teaching by supervised teachers. regular term. However, such extensions of These local strategies have been reinforced time for completion of course work must be by guidelines developed by the Committee on granted before the assignment of the course Undergraduate Education and the Committee grade. on Graduate Education and endorsed by the Faculty Council. Midterm Grades for Undergraduates Categories of Instructional Support Staff Teaching fellows are candidates for Instructors teaching an undergraduate course advanced degrees and are registered are asked to report to the Office of the as students at Harvard, ordinarily in the Registrar midterm grades based on students’ Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. They performance in the course up to that point serve as section leaders, tutors, and labora- in the term, and to comment on the perfor- tory leaders, but always under the supervision mance of undergraduates whose midterm of instructors who hold Faculty-level teaching course grade is below C-. Fall midterm grades appointments in the FAS or another Harvard are due by Tuesday, October 13; spring Faculty. (See “Responsibilities of Instructors”: midterm grades are due by Monday, March Responsibility for Evaluation for the appropri- 1. (See the Due Dates charts in the “Grades” ate role of teaching fellows in the grading of chapter.) students.) These grades are used only for advising and Teaching assistants engage in the same kinds counseling purposes and need not be letter of supervised instruction as Teaching Fellows grades (SAT/UNS may be more appropriate). but are not enrolled as candidates for an They are extremely important for identifying advanced degree in any department of the students who may be facing any of a wide University. Ordinarily, teaching assistants will range of difficulties. Instructors are also have received the AB before the appointment asked to cooperate with the Resident Deans begins. of Freshmen and the Allston Burr Resident Deans regarding inquiries that they may make Undergraduate course assistants are about the status of individual students. currently registered Harvard undergraduates who provide the same kinds of supervised March grades in full year courses extending instruction as teaching fellows and teaching from September to May should reflect the assistants. Course assistants ordinarily assist

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 37 only in mathematics, science, and computer Studies, or other designated member of the science courses. (See “Responsibilities of Department or program. Instructors”: Responsibility for Evaluation for 3. Hiring Criteria and Timetable: The the appropriate role of course assistants in criteria for appointing Teaching Fellows the grading of students.) should include preparation, English In accordance with the Faculty’s own language proficiency, student G year, policy, course heads should appoint teaching experience, and financial need. qualified GSAS students for teaching Note in this regard that GSAS; 1)--requires positions before hiring non-GSAS all incoming PhD students who are candidates. non-native speakers of English and who have received their undergraduate degrees Teaching Fellow Appointment Guidelines from non-English speaking institutions to The Committee on Graduate Education and pass English proficiency tests before they the Faculty Council have adopted the follow- can be appointed as teaching fellows, ing general guidelines for the Teaching Fellow and; 2)--prohibits graduate students appointment process in the humanities and who receive Dissertation Completion social sciences: Fellowships from teaching as well as other forms of concurrent employment. 1. Notification of Guaranteed Further details on English language and Teaching Fellow Positions: On the dissertation completion requirements for basis of enrollment histories, the Office Teaching Fellows may be found in the of Undergraduate Education in Harvard GSAS Teaching Fellows’ Handbook (www. College will designate a certain number gsas.harvard.edu/academic/teaching. of guaranteed Teaching Fellow positions html). for eligible departmental courses for both terms of the coming academic year. The Priority for Teaching Fellow appointments number of guaranteed teaching positions should be given to those qualified students will be finalized and sent to Department for whom a guarantee was offered at Chairs and Directors of Graduate Studies admission; these are usually students in in early May. Guaranteed positions will the G-3 and G-4 years. After those students be honored regardless of final course with Teaching Fellow guarantees have been enrollments. Additional appointments may accommodated, departments should consider be made after final enrollments are known. all other qualified applicants from within the Information on guaranteed positions Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who should be made available to eligible are not receiving Dissertation Completion graduate students as early in May as Fellowships. Special attention should be possible. Please note that guarantees are paid to qualified applicants from related made to individual Teaching Fellows, not to departments and disciplines before a decision a specific course (as explained below). is made. 2. Application Period: Departments should Guaranteed Teaching Fellow assignments accept applications for Teaching Fellow should be made by the end of May. Written positions for several weeks in May, to notification should be provided to each ensure the broadest possible applicant student making explicit the guaranteed pool before a decision is made. To avoid nature of the appointment (see note below), financial inequities, final decisions should as well as expectations for training and involve consultation between the course orientation. Applicants who are not chosen head and the Chair or Director of Graduate for Teaching Fellow assignments should be

38 COURSE ADMINISTRATION informed in writing at the same time so that to twenty hours per week while school is in they can make alternative arrangements for session. This is equivalent to a half-time (fifty financial support before the academic year percent) appointment, or two and a half fifths begins. teaching. A list of all Teaching Fellow appointments For additional information about Teaching should be sent to the Dean of the Graduate Fellow appointments, please refer to the School of Arts and Sciences and to the Office GSAS Teaching Fellows’ Handbook (www. of Undergraduate Education Harvard College. gsas.harvard.edu/publications/teaching- Guaranteed positions cannot be honored fellows-handbook.php). unless this list is submitted. If a student who has been offered a guaranteed position Training and Supervision receives funding from another source or of Instructional Support Staff for other reasons declines the opportunity, A number of principles have been formulated that guaranteed position may be offered to to assist departments in the training and another GSAS student after direct consulta- supervision of instructional support staff. tion with GSAS. Departments should develop regular An important note on teaching “guarantees”: procedures for screening and training As an integral part of their graduate funding instructional support staff as well as routine packages, G-3 and G-4 students in the methods of supervising and monitoring their Humanities and Social Sciences are ordinarily performance. Not only do such practices help guaranteed 2/5 teaching each term; meeting to maintain good standards, but they also this guarantee should be seen as a coopera- encourage graduate students, in particular, tive endeavor between the student and the to improve their teaching skills. Student department. The financial commitment for all teaching should be a rewarding opportunity pre-approved teaching assignments will be rather than an automatic step in graduate honored, despite final enrollments. However, education. departments should move teaching fellows The Faculty Council has adopted the following from a course that is under-enrolled to one guidelines for the training and preparation of that is over-subscribed, within certain limits. first-time instructional support staff: Reassignments should be made on the basis of the graduate student’s prior indication 1. All departments and instructional of courses or areas in which he or she is programs must develop plans for preparing prepared to teach. Departments should offer and orienting first-time instructional reassignments in ways that will minimize the support staff in the pedagogical skills that number of teaching fellows with multiple will allow them to fulfill their teaching preparations. If no reassignment is possible, obligations. Orientation in issues of the financial commitment will be honored, appropriate professional conduct should even if no instructional support is needed in also be provided. (See “Responsibilities of the course. In this case, the TF should perform Instructors”: Professional Conduct.) These meaningful work for the department or plans should be approved by the Office of committee, preferably in support of under- Undergraduate Education. graduate instruction. Such reassignment must Plans should provide for practice teaching be approved by the Office of Undergraduate or other orientation in teaching methods Education ([email protected]). Finally, at or before the start of employment of be aware that immigration regulations limit those without prior teaching experience the employment of international students and should provide for observation and

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 39 appraisal of performance, at least for the Such departmental monitoring can be used to first term of employment. In addition, reward outstanding teaching and to provide the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and a solid basis upon which to recommend Learning has developed a wide range of graduate students for future teaching jobs. instructional support and development At the same time, regular evaluation ensures programs for Harvard College’s classroom that a poor teaching performance does not instructors. Departments are encouraged go unnoticed. to have their teaching fellows and assistants at all levels of experience Special Considerations Concerning utilize these resources. (See “Teaching the Appointment of Undergraduate and Advising Resources”: Bok Center for Course Assistants Teaching and Learning.) Because special considerations enter into the appointment of undergraduates as course as- 2. Individual course heads remain responsible sistants, instructors should use the following for the orientation, preparation, oversight, procedure when screening prospective course and evaluation of assistants in the execu- assistants: tion of their specific course responsibilities. Instructional support staff should be With a candidate’s written permission, an provided with structured teaching assign- instructor should confirm with the student’s ments. Generally, section teaching is more Allston Burr Resident Dean that the proposed effective the more the instructor is involved. candidate: Regular, perhaps weekly, meetings with 1. Has attained sophomore standing and is at assistants to review course material, visits by least in the third term of residency. the instructor to sections, and the teaching 2. Is not on probation. of a section by the instructor can be helpful. In certain departments, some or all of these 3. Ordinarily, has a grade point average of forms of involvement are routinely expected. 3.33 or better in the two previous terms. Departments may adjust the teaching credit Also, as undergraduates may fail to given to Faculty members, if need be, to recognize the implications of serving in an encourage their involvement in section instructional role, instructors should take teaching. An “instructional lunch fund” to special responsibility for initiating discussions contribute to weekly luncheon meetings about professional conduct, including the with assistants is available from department impropriety of amorous relationships with administrators. The Derek Bok Center for students and the importance of both equity Teaching and Learning encourages instructors and confidentiality. and assistants to seek help in improving teaching quality. Student Compensation and Credit for Course Work By vote of the Faculty on December 17, 1995, It is inappropriate for a student to receive instructional support staff are expected course credit for the same work for which to attend lectures of the courses in which he or she is financially compensated. Thus, they are employed unless in the judgment an undergraduate course assistant may not of the course head the nature of their work receive academic credit in any form, including for the course does not depend upon their Independent Study and Supervised Reading attendance at the lectures. and Research course credit, for courses with Departments should devise a record-keeping which he or she is assisting. Research for system on instructional support staff based which a student receives a grant may inform on instructors’ reports on their performance. their academic work. Research performed

40 COURSE ADMINISTRATION for other financial compensation may inform decisions and as part of consideration academic work in subsequent semesters only, for other teaching positions. These and only with the express permission of the evaluations will be part of the graduate employer, including a laboratory head. student’s electronic teaching record and will be the basis for the Bok teaching Graduate teaching fellows should not receive awards. Finally, aggregate numerical data Reading and Research (300-level) or other and limited text results are also made course credit for the time they devote to available to students, providing them with teaching, but may receive credit by signing additional information for use in their course up for TIME-T on their study cards. TIME is selection process. Students can access the the term used by the Graduate School of Arts course evaluation results through the online and Sciences to designate independent study shopping tool at my.harvard.edu. (TIME-C), research (TIME-R), or teaching (TIME-T). Students “receive credit” for such The Office of Undergraduate Education pursuits in the sense that TIME appears on reviews the forms for any member of the the GSAS transcript, however, students are instructional support staff whose average not graded for TIME. “overall” rating raises concerns about the quality of instruction. In these very few cases, Q Course Evaluation the Dean of Undergraduate Education may send a letter to that instructor, copied to the The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the course head(s), urging him or her to seek Office of the Registrar jointly oversee a appropriate advice on how to improve his or process of course evaluation of undergradu- her teaching. If members of the instructional ate and graduate courses each term. This support staff receive such cautionary letters evaluation process serves several purposes. It a second time, they may be prohibited from provides feedback from students to the head further teaching in the Faculty of Arts and of a course about course structure, the quality Sciences. of the instruction, and the nature of assign- ments. It also provides important feedback for instructional support staff, many of whom are in their early years of teaching and benefit from the comments of students. Participation in the course evaluation process is required of all faculty. The course evaluation process itself takes place online. Summary statistics and comments submitted by students are accessed electronically by the course heads, instructors, teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and course assistants of evaluated courses after final grades for the term have been submitted. Course evaluation results are also made available to the chair of the department or committee offering the course. Both faculty and instructional sup- port staff, particularly teaching fellows, should keep this information as it will be useful later as an input for promotion

COURSE ADMINISTRATION 41

Final and Midyear Examinations

Final and Midyear examinations are three- consideration. Graduate students should be hour written tests scheduled by the staff of directed to the FAS Deputy Registrar. the Office of the Registrar and proctored by Students are entitled to complete course instructional staff of the course, at locations requirements and to take the final examina- and times specified by the Registrar. Courses tion. They must not be discouraged from ordinarily hold final examinations, and half doing so, even when previous course work and full courses that run throughout the has earned a cumulative failing grade. Only a year also hold midyear examinations. Any student whose serious and persistent neglect deviation from the scheduled three-hour of academic work has led to formal exclusion examination requires the prior approval from the course is ineligible to take the of the Office of Undergraduate Education final, midyear, or makeup examination. (See (for courses below the 200- or 2000-level) “Addressing Student Problems”: Neglect of or the Dean of the Graduate School (for Academic Work by Students: Exclusion.) courses at the 200- or 2000-level). (See below Requesting a Substitution.) Examination Examination Categories substitutions for research courses, seminars, tutorials, and other low enrollment courses At the beginning of each term, course heads (see below for definition) are automatically will receive a Final Examination Request form approved by the Office of the Registrar. (See for each course they teach and will be asked “Course Administration”: Hour and Midterm to classify their courses according to the Examinations.) following categories: To earn credit for a course or to count the A. Standard Three-hour Examination course toward fulfillment of the requirements Required (No Substitutions) for a degree, the student must have attended All students enrolled in this course the final examination (or midyear and final if are expected to write a three-hour a full year course) or an approved makeup. A examination scheduled by the Office student’s unexcused absence from a midyear of the Registrar during the exam period or final examination will ordinarily result in a and proctored by instructional staff of the failing grade for the course (ABS). The course course. head is not empowered to excuse student B. Standard Three-hour Examination absences from midyear, final, or makeup for All Undergraduates, Substitutions examinations scheduled by the Registrar. for All Graduates Furthermore, the course head may not give a All undergraduates will write a final examination at a special time to accom- three-hour examination and all modate the needs of an individual student or graduate students will submit an authorize the substitution of another exercise examination substitution (a paper, for an examination. Undergraduate students project, take-home examination, etc.). All who request special accommodations should substitutions should be completed by the be directed to their Resident Deans. The last day of Reading Period. Resident Dean will facilitate submission of the request to the Administrative Board for

FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS 43 C1. No Three-Hour Examination for be included in the final evaluation of the Any Student (Lower Enrollment students’ performance. Courses Only) Course heads who plan to petition the Low enrollment (undergraduate course appropriate dean for permission to substitute with enrollment of less than 20 students should announce their intention at the first or combined graduate/undergraduate class meeting, and on the course syllabus. course with fewer than 30 students) However, only after the petition has been or undergraduate tutorial, seminar, or formally approved by the dean should course research course primarily for graduate heads announce the cancellation of a midyear students receive automatic approval. All or final examination. Course heads may substitutions should be completed by the submit petitions for exam substitutions to the last day of Reading Period. Office of the Registrar any time before the C2. No Three-hour Examination for first meeting of class with a special request Any Student for early decision. Final exam substitution is preferable for all students. (See Requesting a Note that all students who are in the AB/AM Substitution below.) All substitutions degree program are to be treated as under- should be completed by the last day of graduates for the purposes of completing all Reading Period. of the course requirements by the end of the final exam period, for exam substitutions, D. Optional Examination Substitution and for grading. The one exception is that the for Certain Students, Standard course head may treat AB/AM students as Three-hour Examination for All graduate students, for the purpose of exam Other Students substitutions, if the student has bracketed An alternative means of evaluation the course toward the AM degree. See below offered to a certain academic grouping of Take-Home Examinations. students in lieu of the final three-hour exam. Ordinarily, substitution for an Completion of Work Assigned individual student is not allowed. (See for Substitutions Requesting a Substitution below.) All Course heads should not assign any work substitutions should be completed by the to be done during the Examination Period. last day of Reading Period. Faculty policy stipulates that this time Requesting a Substitution should be reserved for standard three-hour When petitioning for an exam substitution, exams. Any work assigned as a substitution the course head must describe the alternative for a midyear or final examination must be form of evaluation and explain why it is more completed before the end of Reading Period. appropriate than a three-hour examination. Take-Home Examinations All substitutions should be completed by Take-home examinations are considered the last day of Reading Period. In courses in substitutions and, like other substitutions, which the number of students is large (over must be due before the end of Reading 30) or where a range of different types of Period. When assigning a take home exam it work will be accepted in lieu of the examina- is imperative that the instructor be mindful of tion, the course head must indicate the steps student obligations to other courses, some of that will be taken to ensure equity in grading. which continue to meet during the Reading Course heads should also indicate the other Period. Course heads should be careful to course assignments (hour examinations, laboratory reports, papers, etc.) that will

44 FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS explain to students in writing the extent of collaboration and any source materials that may be permitted in the preparation of the examination.

Examination Scheduling For most courses an Examination Group is listed in Courses of Instruction within the course description. Examination Groups correspond to class meeting times and ordinarily change if the meeting time changes. Occasionally, however, there is a misprint in the course catalog and the Exam Group does not correspond with the meeting time. Note the Exam Group will be changed to correspond with the meeting time. Occasionally, the Office of the Registrar may need to assign an Exam Group that does not correspond to the meeting time of the course. Classes that meet for periods longer than one hour are listed in the catalog with more than one Exam Group. The Exam Group for such a course will be selected by the Registrar’s Office. Many factors must be considered when scheduling eighteen Exam Groups within an eight-day examination period, including student conflicts, room availability, and personnel resources. As a result, the Office of the Registrar is unable to accommodate individual requests to assign alternative Exam Groups to courses. Since the days and hours for courses are subject to change, official dates and times for examinations are published on the Final Examination Schedule, posted on the Registrar’s website (www.registrar.fas. harvard.edu). The Final Examination Schedule will be available mid-October for fall final/ midyear examinations and mid-March for spring final examinations.

FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS 45 Examination Groups and Dates that does not correspond to the meeting days and times of a course. All students The table below shows the dates of final are therefore advised that they should examinations associated with each of the not make any travel plans until the final Examination Groups. For most courses, official Final Examination Schedule is an Examination Group is listed in Courses published. Students are expected to be of Instruction within the course description. in residence for the duration of the Final Examination Groups correspond to course Examination Period. For the fall term, the meeting days and times and ordinarily Final Examination Period is December 12, change if the course meeting days and times 2009 through December 21, 2009 For the change. Occasionally, the Office of the spring term, the Final Examination Period is Registrar may need to assign an Exam Group May 7, 2010 through May 15, 2010.

Examination Fall Final/ Midyear Spring Final Group Examination Examination 1 Sat Dec 19 Sat May 8 2 Mon Dec 21 Fri May 7 3 Thu Dec 17 Sat May 15 4 Fri Dec 18 Thu May 13 5 Tue Dec 15 Mon May 10 6 Mon Dec 14 Wed May 12 7 Sat Dec 19 Sat May 8 8 Sat Dec 12 Tue May 11 9 Sat Dec 12 Tue May 11 10 Mon Dec 14 Wed May 12 11 Sat Dec 12 Tue May 11 12 Sat Dec 12 Tue May 11 13 Wed Dec 16 Fri May 14 14 Sat Dec 19 Sat May 8 15 Mon Dec 21 Fri May 7 16 Mon Dec 21 Fri May 7 17 Sat Dec 12 Tue May 11 18 Sat Dec 12 Tue May 11

46 FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS Administration of Examinations s¬ 4HE¬INSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬OF¬THE¬COURSE¬SHOULD¬ retrieve the following items from the Final and Midyear examinations are examination room at the time of examina- scheduled by the Office of the Registrar and tion completion: administered by instructional staff of the course. Instructional staff must follow the — completed examination booklets exam procedures that are provided by the — scrap booklets Office of the Registrar. The procedures are — all other course materials (slides, intended to protect the security of examina- audiotapes, etc.) tions and to ensure that students undertake s¬ 2EPORT¬ANY¬UNUSUAL¬CIRCUMSTANCES¬TO¬THE¬ the writing of their exams in an environment Office of the Registrar. free of distractions and disturbances. There are two exam sessions per day during the Examination Office Responsibilities during the Examination Period; morning examinations Administration of Exams: start at 9 am and afternoon examinations s¬ 3OLICIT¬FACULTY¬MEMBER¬EXAMINATION¬PREFER- start at 2 pm. ences for each course for each examination Course Head Obligations during the period via the Exam Request Form. Administration of Exams: s¬ %STABLISH¬THE¬EXAMINATION¬SCHEDULE¬FOR¬ s¬ 4HE¬INSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬OF¬THE¬COURSE¬IS¬ each examination period including date, expected to be familiar with and abide time and location. by the guidelines governing examination s¬ 3CHEDULE¬EXAMINATION¬CLASSROOM¬ASSIGN- administration in FAS. ments for each examination period. s¬ 4HE¬INSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬OF¬THE¬COURSE¬IS¬ s¬ #OORDINATE¬THE¬DISTRIBUTION¬OF¬ATTENDANCE¬ expected to proctor their own exams. slips and examination booklets. s¬ !¬MEMBER¬OF¬THE¬INSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬SHOULD¬ s¬ 2EPORT¬EXAMINATION¬ABSENCES¬FOR¬ be present in the examination room at undergraduate students to the appropriate least fifteen minutes before the start of the Resident Dean. exam. s¬ #OORDINATE¬THE¬COLLECTION¬OF¬ATTENDANCE¬ s¬ !LL¬COURSES¬ARE¬EXPECTED¬TO¬HANDLE¬THE¬ slips after examination completion. printing and photocopying of their own s¬ #OLLECTION¬SITES¬WILL¬BE¬ADVERTISED¬PRIOR¬TO¬ examinations. each examination period. s¬ !LL¬COURSES¬ARE¬EXPECTED¬TO¬MAKE¬ arrangements for the delivery, set-up Course Head Obligations after the Final and collection of any audio/visual Examination: media equipment needed to facilitate the s¬)NSTRUCTORS¬SHOULD¬TAKE¬EVERY¬PRECAUTION¬TO¬ administration of oral/aural components of prevent the accidental loss of examination the examination. booklets. For example, under no circum- s¬ 4HE¬INSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬OF¬THE¬COURSE¬ARE¬ stances should examination booklets be responsible for obtaining attendance slips removed from the neighborhood of the and if needed, examination booklets, prior University. If a course head has temporarily to the start of the examination. left the Cambridge area, only photocopies s¬ 4HE¬INSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬OF¬THE¬COURSE¬ of the booklets should be sent to the is expected to take attendance at the course head for grading. examination and to return the slips to s¬%XAMINATION¬BOOKLETS¬IF¬NOT¬RETURNED¬TO¬ collection sites after the completion of the students should be kept for one year after examination. the end of the course.

FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS 47 s¬-OST¬INSTRUCTORS¬RETURN¬EXAM¬BOOKLETS ¬ Additional information is available at www. papers, and other academic work to the fas.harvard.edu/~aeo, http://www.aeo. student enrolled in their courses. By law, fas.harvard.edu/exams.html, or (617) students have the right to review all 496-8707. materials submitted to a course, including final examination booklets and, for a Religious Conflicts with reasonable charge, may have copies of any Final/Midyear Examinations originals not returned to them, within 45 days of the date of the original request. In accordance with Massachusetts law, students who are unable to participate in a Accessible Education Office final examination as a consequence of their religious beliefs shall be provided with an Examinations opportunity to make up the examination, Final and Midyear examinations for students without penalty, provided that the makeup registered with the Accessible Education examination does not create an unreasonable Office (AEO) are scheduled and administered burden on the College. Students are expected by instructional staff of the course. AEO to anticipate any religious conflicts with determines accommodations in keeping with exams and report the conflict in writing to clinical standards and fairness to the entire the Exams Office at [email protected]. class. Exam administration is consistent edu by the last day of classes each term. with non-AEO exam procedures, with the following additional criteria to ensure Examinations In Absentia proper implementation of AEO-approved Students, who for sufficient reason cannot be accommodations: within 500 miles of Cambridge at the time s¬¬!LL¬!%/¬EXAMS¬BEGIN¬AT¬¬AM¬OR¬¬ of a final, midyear, or makeup examination, am (depending on the student’s particular may request to take the examination at accommodation) on the same day as the another location. All examinations in absentia general administration, unless there is a must be approved by the Administrative scheduling conflict with another exam. Board. Undergraduates must contact their In such instances, the course staff will Resident Dean to initiate this process. administer the exam at an appropriate Graduate students should contact the Deputy time within 24 hours of the original Registrar. A petition to take an examination schedule. in absentia will not be accepted without s¬¬4HE¬COURSE¬HEAD¬WILL¬PROVIDE¬!%/¬WITH¬A¬ the course head’s signature, acknowledging copy of all examinations which need to the requirement to provide an early copy of be reformatted no later than two weeks the examination. Student applications for before the exam. in absentia exams should be submitted by the last day of classes. Under extraordinary s¬¬)NSTRUCTIONAL¬STAFF¬WILL¬BECOME¬FAMILIAR¬ circumstances, the Administrative Board may with approved accommodations, including grant examinations in absentia after the allotted extended time and breaks (if any), deadline has passed. required technology in addition to media, and other assistance. An in absentia examination is administered s¬¬)F¬THE¬SUBJECT¬MATTER¬ANDOR¬A¬STUDENTS¬ at the same time and date as the examina- clinical condition does not lend itself to a tion in Cambridge and must be proctored student’s use of an examination booklet or by someone approved by the Office of the computer, the course head will designate Registrar. After determining that these or approve a qualified scribe or reader. conditions can be met, the Office of the

48 FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS Registrar will work with the course head the examination. Student will be given an to facilitate the administration of the exam substitution. This can take any form examination. For reasons of equity, the (take-home exam, paper, etc.). The exam examination given to the student in absentia substitution will be due no later than the must be identical to that given at the regular last day of the Reading Period. examination in Cambridge. The examination s¬Student will be given an exam substitution. should be returned to Cambridge immediately This can take any form (take-home exam, after it has been administered. paper, etc.). The exam substitution will Students are charged $100 for each examina- be due no later than the last day of the Reading Period. tion taken in absentia to cover administrative costs. The in absentia fee may be waived s¬Student will be allowed to take a three-hour for students who are participants in varsity written exam prior to leaving for winter competition where Harvard University is recess. This option is only allowable if a being officially represented. Additionally, the student and faculty member complete and in absentia fee may be waived for students submit this form at least two weeks prior who are studying abroad for Harvard degree to the last day of classes. It is expected that the exam will be administered during the credit with prior approval from the Office of final week of classes. International Programs. Makeup Examinations Final Examination Options for Study Abroad Students The Administrative Board of Harvard College has sole jurisdiction over granting makeup Students enrolled in an Office of International examinations for undergraduates. The Programs approved Study Abroad program Registrar’s Office has been authorized by the will work directly with course heads to Graduate School to approve or deny makeup resolve issues regarding midyear or final petitions for graduate students. Course examinations that may conflict with their heads may not give a makeup midyear participation in the Study Abroad programs. or final examination without notification Once a student finalizes his or her decision from the Office of the Registrar. Moreover, to enroll in a Study Abroad program, the course heads may not give a makeup exami- student, together with the course head, nation at any time or location other than that should complete a Study Abroad Final specified by the Office of the Registrar. The Examination form if a conflict with the final granting of a makeup examination by the examination administered in Cambridge is Administrative Board does not imply that the student may receive credit for any assigned anticipated. This form should be submitted work in the course not submitted by the end no later than two weeks prior to the last day of the Examination Period. of the fall term. The form can be found at the Office of the Registrar’s website. The course Makeup examinations are ordinarily granted head and student will be allowed to consider by the Administrative Board in cases of the following options: medically documented illness or extraordinary circumstances over which the student s¬ 3TUDENT¬WILL¬SIT¬FOR¬THE¬EXAM¬IN¬ABSENTIA¬ had no control, such as a death in the Student makes arrangements with a proc- family. Makeups are sometimes granted to tor approved by the Office of the Registrar undergraduate participants in intercollegiate to proctor the exam. After determining that competition, but only when examinations in these conditions can be met, the Office absentia cannot be arranged. By vote of the of the Registrar will work with the course Faculty Council, makeup examinations may head to facilitate the administration of also be granted when a student who is in

FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS 49 good standing in the course misses an exami- nation because of inadvertence, provided the petition is supported by the course head and filed on time. Undergraduate and graduate students in the FAS may be granted a makeup examination on the grounds of inadvertence only once during each tenure at Harvard. If called upon to do so, course heads must prepare appropriate makeup examinations and grade them. Makeup exams are usually administered at the beginning of the following term based on the schedule established by the Office of the Registrar. Ordinarily a makeup examination should not be a duplicate of the original exam. Course grades dependent upon makeup examina- tions should be reported to the Office of the Registrar no later than one week after the date of such examinations. Makeup midterm examinations are not granted by the Administrative Board nor the Registrar’s Office. Offering such makeup examinations or substituting other work is at the discretion of the course head, except in the case of an absence for the observation of religious holidays. (See Hour and Midterm Examinations on page 35.) The Office of the Registrar has no role in midterm examinations.

Publication of Past Final and Mid-Year Examinations Final and Midyear Examinations have traditionally been collected and made avail- able electronically on a website accessible only to Harvard account holders at www.fas. harvard.edu/~exams. However, the head of a course may request at the time of the exam that the final examination not be included in the electronic library collection.

50 FINAL AND MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS Grades

The Grading System course materials and some minimal participation in class The Registrar is authorized to obtain from activities that is worthy of course instructors reports on the performance of credit toward the degree. students in the form of the grades established by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Grade E Earned by work which is sheets for reporting grades online are unsatisfactory and unworthy of made available to instructors and must be course credit towards the degree. submitted by the indicated due dates. Grade Non-letter Grades— sheets can be found at apps2.registrar.fas. Undergraduate Students harvard.edu/onlinegrading. (See the Due Incomplete (INC) cannot under any cir- Dates charts later in this chapter.) The Faculty cumstances be given to undergraduates. of Arts and Sciences uses the following system of letter and non-letter grades to ABS Students who miss a regularly- evaluate undergraduate student work: scheduled midyear or final examination scheduled by the Letter Grades—Undergraduate Students Office of the Registrar during A, A- Earned by work whose excellent the Midyear or Final Examination quality indicates a full mastery of Period are given a failing grade the subject and, in the case of the of Absent (ABS) which will be grade of A, is of extraordinary changed only if the student is distinction. granted and takes a makeup B+, B, B- Earned by work that indicates a examination. Unexcused absences good comprehension of the course are counted as failures. (See material, a good command of the “Final and Midyear the skills needed to work with Examinations” chapter.) No other the course material, and the grade can be accepted. Exam student’s full engagement with sub-stitutions not scheduled the course requirements and by the Registrar’s Office, including activities. take-home examinations and special final projects, are not C+, C, C- Earned by work that indicates an “regularly-scheduled” examina- adequate and satisfactory tions; therefore, ABS cannot be comprehension of the course used in these cases. If, after an material and the skills needed absence from a regularly to work with the course material scheduled midyear or final and that indicates the student has examination, a student is granted met the basic requirements for a makeup examination by the completing assigned work and Administrative Board, the participating in class activities. appropriate grade is then D+, D, D- Earned by work that is submitted after completion of unsatisfactory but that indicates the examination. A special grade some minimal command of the sheet is provided for this purpose.

GRADES 51 EXLD A notation of Excluded (EXLD) Pass or Fail can be accepted by the indicates that the student was not Registrar. Independent Study is permitted to continue in the always graded PA/FL. course by vote of the SAT/UNS The grade of Satisfactory includes Administrative Board of the letter grades from A to C-; the College and received no credit. grade of Unsatisfactory represents Exclusion from a course is work below C- and is considered a equivalent in all respects to failing failing grade. No students enrolled it and in and of itself makes the in courses graded SAT/UNS may student’s record for the term receive letter grades in those unsatisfactory. courses. EXT Instructors may allow students The following junior and senior tutorials must extensions of time to complete be graded SAT/UNS: course work up to the last day of the Examination Period. After Applied Mathematics 99r that date, only the Administrative Chemistry 91r, 98r, and 99r Board may grant extensions of English 99r time for undergraduates to Folklore and Mythology 99 complete course work. (See French 99 “Course Administration”: Late German 99 Work and Extension of Time for Government 99r Course Work.) Until the date of History 99 extension set by the Board, a History and Literature 99 final grade should not be reported History of Art and Architecture 99 by the instructor; instead, the Indian Studies 99 designation EXT (Extension) Italian Studies 99 should be reported on the grade Italian 99 sheet. EXT is only a temporary Latin American Studies 99 notation. When the allowed time Linguistics 99a, 99b for late work has passed, or Literature 98a, 98b, 99a, and 99b if additional time is not granted Mathematics 60r by the Administrative Board of the Portuguese 99 College, the instructor should Psychology 985, 990, and 992 officially inform the Registrar of Religion 99 the final grade. Students who Romance Studies 99 miss a regularly scheduled Scandinavian 99 midyear or final examination Slavic 99a, 99b scheduled by the Office of the Social Studies 99 Registrar must be given an ABS Sociology 99 (Absent), not an EXT. Spanish 99 Special Concentrations 99 PA/FL The grade of Pass represents letter Studies of Women, Gender, Sexuality 99a, 99b grades of A to D-; the grade of Fail represents the letter grade of E All Freshman Seminars are graded SAT/UNS. only. Students admitted to a Certain House Seminars may also be graded course on a PA/FL basis are so SAT/UNS, provided instructors inform the identified on the grade sheet. For Standing Committee on Freshman Seminars such students, only a grade of

52 GRADES of their intentions at the time the House The minimum standard for satisfactory work Seminar proposals are submitted, and all in the Graduate School is a “B” average in students in a particular seminar are graded each academic year. A grade of “C” or “INC” on the same scale. is offset by a grade of “A” and a “D” by two “A’s”; no account is taken of plus or minus. In addition, SAT/UNS may be reported as Grades of “E” or an unexcused “ABS” are a midyear grade in any full year tutorial or failing. A grade of “UNS” is unsatisfactory. A half-course extending throughout the year course in which a student receives an “E” or which does not give a midyear examination. permanent “INC” or “ABS” may be retaken In this case only, Unsatisfactory may be used for credit at a later time, in which case both to indicate passing-but-unsatisfactory work. grades will appear on the student’s transcript. Assigning an unsatisfactory midyear grade In many departments, students are expected will make the student’s record for the term to maintain an average well above the GSAS unsatisfactory and subject to review by the minimum. Administrative Board. Letter grades are to be used in every case The instructor must obtain permission from except as follows: the Office of Undergraduate Education (for courses below the 200- or 2000-level) or Non-letter Grades—Graduate Students Dean of the Graduate School (for courses at the 200- or 2000-level) before grading SAT/ Graduate students are not allowed to UNS for any course not listed above. take courses on a Pass/Fail (PA/FL) basis. ABS The designation ABS (Absent) is Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory used in the case of a student who Undergraduate Studies is absent from a regularly Grades of C- or higher, as well as the grades scheduled midyear or final of PA and SAT, are passing and satisfactory examination scheduled by the grades. Grades of D+ through D- are passing Office of the Registrar during but unsatisfactory grades. Grades of E, ABS the Midyear or Final Examination (Absent), FL (Fail), UNS (Unsatisfactory), Period. No other grade can be and EXLD (Excluded) are failing grades. All accepted. Exam substitutions not undergraduate student records with any administered by the Registrar’s unsatisfactory or failing grade are reviewed Office, including take-home at the end of the term by the Administrative examinations and special final Board, which responds to such records in projects are not “regularly the manner described in the appropriate scheduled” examinations; sections of the Handbook for Students and in therefore, ABS cannot be used the Administrative Board Guide for Students. in courses with take-home final Responses may include a period of academic exams. If, after an absence from a probation or a requirement to withdraw from regularly scheduled midyear or the College for a year. final examination, a student is subsequently granted a makeup Letter Grades—Graduate Students examination by the Deputy The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Registrar, the appropriate grade uses the following letter grades: A, A-, B+, B, is then submitted after completion B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, E. A grade of E is a of the examination. A special failing grade. grade sheet is provided for this purpose.

GRADES 53 EXC Graduate students may be instructor. Failure to affirm to excused from a final examination the Registrar that the student or other course assignments by completed the work on time will their division, department, or render the grade unacceptable. committee Chairs on the basis of SAT/UNS For graduate students, having passed departmental Satisfactory indicates that the examinations or other require - course was passed with distinc- ments. At the written request of a tion (B- or above). Graduate Chair, the Deputy Registrar courses of Reading and Research records the grade of EXC (300-level courses) must be (Excused). If students elect to graded Satisfactory or take the final examination and Unsatisfactory. No other courses complete the course, they receive may be graded on a SAT/UNS a letter grade. basis with the exception of INC For graduate students only the designated foreign language instructor has the prerogative of courses. Graduate students must approving an extension of time petition to obtain permission from for completion of course work the instructor to take a language beyond the end of the term. The course on a SAT/UNS basis. appropriate grade in this situation Graduate students admitted to a is INC (Incomplete), not EXT course on a SAT/UNS basis are so (Extension). In order to have the identified on the grade sheet. grade of INC changed to a letter Student Request for Review or appropriate non-letter grade, of an Assigned Grade the graduate student must Both undergraduate and graduate students complete the work of the course may request that an instructor review a grade before the end of the next regular that has been received and may also ask to term. An INC which has not consult with the Chair of the department or been completed by that time committee offering the course. However, final will become a permanent grade, authority for the assignment of grades rests unless the student success with the course head. Instructors wishing to fully petitions for an extension of change a grade should submit their requests time. This petition requires the to either the Office of Undergraduate approval of the Director of Education (for an undergraduate) or the Graduate Studies and of the Dean Dean of the Graduate School (for a graduate of the Graduate School. student), c/o The Registrar, 20 Garden Street When a student has made up (617-495-1545). (See Changes in Grades later an INC within the allowable time in this chapter.) period, the instructor should immediately inform the Registrar Grade Point Averages of the grade in writing. If the The Faculty of Arts and Sciences averages its instructor reports the grade letter grades with a 4-point scale: A = 4.00, after the deadline for completing A- = 3.67, B+ = 3.33, B = 3.00, B- = 2.67, C+ the work has passed, the = 2.33, C = 2.00, C- = 1.67, D+ = 1.33, D = instructor must include the 1.00, D- = 0.67. E, ABS, UNS, EXLD = 0. The date on which the student grade point average is the numerical average submitted the work to the

54 GRADES of all grades received in courses taken under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for degree credit, including courses taken for credit in the Harvard Summer School and cross- registration courses as appropriate. Passing grades received for courses given by other Harvard Faculties or MIT will not be used in computing a student’s grade-point average except when the courses are counted toward concentration requirements or taken in the Graduate School of Education as part of UTEP. Grades received for course work done out of residence will not be used in computing the grade-point average. Grade-point averages are calculated on both a cumulative and annual basis.

Submission of Final and Midyear Grades During the midyear and final examination periods, instructors should not leave the vicinity of Cambridge until their course grades have been submitted to the Office of the Registrar. Because the course head is responsible for the grades given by his or her assistants, it is important that the course head closely supervise grading. (See “Responsibilities of Instructors: Responsibility for Evaluation.) Each grade sheet for a course must be submitted online by the course head, as soon as possible but no later than the due date noted.

Due Dates for Midterm Grades 2009-2010 Unsatisfactory midterm grades for undergraduates are due by 5 pm in the Office of the Registrar, 20 Garden Street, on or before the due date noted. (See “Course Administration”: Midterm Grades for Undergraduates.) Fall term: Tue, Oct 13 Spring term: Mon, Mar 1

GRADES 55 Due Dates for Fall Final/Midyear and courses with approved substitutions, Grades 2009-2010 final grades are due in the Registrar’s Office at 20 Garden Street on Friday, December Courses Without Examinations 18. (See “Final and Midterm Examinations”: For all fall courses without final or midyear Examination Categories, Requesting a examinations, including 300-level courses Substitution.)

Courses With Examinations

Date of Examination Examination Group All Grades Due Sat Dec 12 8, 9, 11, 12, 17, 18 Fri Dec 18 Mon Dec 14 6, 10 Mon Dec 21 Tue Dec 15 5 Tue Dec 22 Wed Dec 16 13 Wed Dec 23 Thu Dec 17 3 Thu Dec 24 Fri Dec 18 4 Thu Dec 24 Sat Dec 19 1, 7, 14 Mon Dec 28 Mon Dec 21 2, 15, 16 Mon Dec 28

Due Dates for Spring Final and courses with approved substitutions, Grades 2009-2010 final grades are due in the Registrar’s Office at 20 Garden Street on Tuesday, May 11. Courses Without Examinations (See “Final and Midterm Examinations”: For all spring courses without final examina- Examination Categories, Requesting a tions, including 300- and 3000-level courses Substitution.)

Courses With Examinations Jun Degree Non-Degree Date of Examination Examination Group Grades Due Grades Due Fri May 7 2, 15, 16 Tue May 11 Fri May 14 Sat May 8 1, 7, 14 Wed May 12 Sat May 15 Mon May 10 5 Fri May 14 Mon May 17 Tue May 11 8, 9, 11, 12, 17, 18 Sat May 15 Tue May 18 Wed May 12 6, 10 Sun May 16 Wed May 19 Thu May 13 4 Mon May 17 Thu May 20 Fri May 14 13 Tue May 18 Fri May 21 Sat May 15 3 Wed May 19 Sat May 22

56 GRADES Submitting Late Grades rules concerning the grading structure, the appropriate dean will ordinarily authorize the Grades must be submitted online to the Registrar to change the grade. In the case Office of the Registrar on or before the due of a grade change due to judgmental error, dates noted. Instructors who anticipate the instructor is expected to review the work that they will be unable to meet these of other students in the course or relevant deadlines should contact the Deputy Registrar section(s) to determine that grade equity (617-495-1545) with an appropriate explana- would be maintained if the grade change tion. Instructors will receive automated email were approved. When late work is the basis reminders if grades are not submitted by of a grade change request, it is essential that published date. If grades remain outstanding the work have been received by the deadline the matter will be referred to the appropriate set by the Faculty: the end of the Examination Dean’s office. Period for undergraduates or the end of the next regular term for graduate students. Final Grades in Full Year Courses Before authorizing any grade change, the Final grades in full year courses are always appropriate dean must be satisfied that all cumulative—that is, they represent the students in the course have been treated standing of the students from the beginning equitably. Grade Change forms are available of the first term of the course, not merely under the Faculty section of the Registrar’s during the second term. website, www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu and can also be submitted online at apps2. Final Grades for registrar.fas.harvard.edu/onlinegrading. Degree Candidates Although the grades of degree candidates are Grades for degree candidates must be reported before those of other students, these submitted online by the date specified on grades are considered final and are subject to the separate grade sheets provided for this the same regulations for changes. purpose. Usually the due date is four working days after the final examination or, for Posting of Grades courses with no final exams, within a week of It is the Faculty’s legal responsibility to the end of Reading Period. Grades submitted maintain confidentiality of student grades online are final and may not be changed and also of materials upon which evaluations except as indicated below in Changes in are made. For this reason, instructors should Grades. not post grades by student name or student identification number. Furthermore, instruc- Changes in Grades tors should never make a student’s submitted Once a grade has been reported to the work, such as problem sets, exam booklets, Registrar it can be changed only upon the or papers, accessible to anyone other than instructor’s written request to either the the student who has submitted it, unless Office of Undergraduate Education (for an specifically authorized to do so by the author. undergraduate) or the Dean of the Graduate Approximately six business days after the School (for a graduate student), c/o The end of the final examination period, students Registrar, 20 Garden Street (617-495-1545). can view their final and midyear grades on The written request should include an the student record, which is available via the explanation for the grade change. If a Registrar’s Office website (www.registrar. grade change is requested because of a fas.harvard.edu). However, students who clerical error or misunderstanding of Faculty complete online evaluations for all courses

GRADES 57 in which they were enrolled for the term will be provided early online access to their final course grades. Faculty will not be provided online access to their course evaluation results until they have submitted their online grade sheets.

Retention of Exam Booklets and Course Records Most instructors return exam booklets, papers, and other academic work to the students enrolled in their courses. Work that is not returned to students must be kept in a safe, accessible location on campus for at least one year after the end of a course. By law, students have the right to review all materials submitted to a course, and for a reasonable charge, may have copies of any originals not returned to them. Course heads should be sure to collect from section leaders and tutors any course assignments that have not been returned to students for appropriate storage. Faculty who are leaving the FAS or who will be on leave and away from the University should make appropriate arrangements for maintaining the availability of students’ work.

58 GRADES Addressing Student Problems

The Administrative Boards deans are directly responsible for the academic and personal welfare of under- The Administrative Board of Harvard College graduates. The Dean of Freshmen and the has the responsibility for reviewing all three Resident Deans of Freshmen have the unsatisfactory undergraduate records and same responsibilities for first-year students. disciplinary cases for possible action. The The Coordinator of Transfer and Visiting Board also votes on all student petitions for Student Programs fulfills such responsibilities makeup examinations as well as exceptions for visiting undergraduates. to the academic rules described in the Harvard College Handbook for Students. The Whenever instructors have a concern about Board is composed of the Dean of Harvard an undergraduate, they are urged to contact College, the Resident Deans of Freshmen and the appropriate resident dean. Students’ Resident Deans for the thirteen upperclass House affiliations or freshman status are Houses (see below), and several administra- indicated on course lists. A list of Resident tive and teaching members of the Faculty. Deans may be found in the FAS Directory at For additional information, see both the the end of this publication. Handbook for Students (webdocs.registrar. fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/ Graduate School Office current/index.html) and the Administrative of Student Affairs Board Guide for Students (www.college. harvard.edu/academics/adboard/ Instructors with concerns regarding graduate student_guide.pdf). students’ academic or personal welfare should contact the Office of Student Affairs The Administrative Board of the Graduate in Holyoke Center 350 (617-495-1816). This School of Arts and Sciences reviews and rules office is directed by the Dean for Student on all matters of discipline and unsatisfactory Affairs, who has general responsibility for the student performance as well as exceptions to welfare of graduate students and monitors the rules contained in the Graduate School students’ academic status. The Dean repre- of Arts and Sciences Handbook. The Board sents students in disciplinary cases before the is composed of the Dean of the Graduate Administrative Board of the Graduate School School, the Administrative Dean, six teaching of Arts and Sciences and advises students on members of the Faculty, the Registrar, the sexual harassment complaints. Associate Dean for Student Affairs, the Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, and the Neglect of Academic Work Student Affairs Officer. Up to four graduate by Students: Exclusion students serve on the Board when it is considering appeals of financial aid and A student who is neglecting course work teaching fellow appointment decisions. should be warned in writing that he or she risks exclusion from the course and that The Resident Deans exclusion is equivalent to a failing grade. A copy of the instructor’s warning must be sent Working with the Dean of Harvard College to the Secretrary of the Administrative Board are the thirteen Allston Burr Resident Deans, of Harvard College in the case of an under- one in each of the Houses. These resident graduate and to the Administrative Dean of

ADDRESSING STUDENT PROBLEMS 59 the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in to the Administrative Board which reviews the case of a graduate student. If the student student records. continues to neglect academic work after In addition, instructors are strongly encour- receiving this written warning, the instructor aged to communicate concerns about an should then send a second letter requesting undergraduate’s work directly to the student’s exclusion to the Secretary or Administrative Allston Burr Resident Dean or Resident Dean Dean as appropriate, who will forward it to of Freshmen as early in the term as possible. the Administrative Board for action. Upon the Board’s approval of the exclusion petition, the student is denied any right to further Students Charged with course evaluation, including final and makeup Dishonesty in Course Work examinations. Although instructors have the responsibility It is to the advantage of both the student for evaluating students’ academic perfor- and faculty member to address early a mance, the Faculty has granted jurisdiction case of gross neglect of course work. An over matters of student dishonesty to undergraduate has the option of withdrawing the Administrative Boards. Therefore, any from the course before the seventh Monday incidence of possible student dishonesty of the term. Beyond that date there remain in course work should be reported at once only a few weeks for the instructor to pursue to the Dean of Harvard College (through the process of warning and exclusion or, the Secretary of the Administrative Board conversely, for the student to recover much of Harvard College) if an undergraduate is lost ground. involved or to the Dean for Student Affairs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Faculty policy gives the Administrative Boards in the case of a graduate student. After a no choice but to grant a makeup exam to any preliminary investigation, the Dean will student who remains in a course until the end decide whether to refer the matter to the of the term and presents a medical excuse, appropriate Administrative Board. signed by an appropriate Harvard University Health Service (HUHS) staff member, for miss- Each case involving possible student dishon- ing the final examination. This policy applies esty that goes to an Administrative Board even when circumstances clearly indicate the will receive a careful hearing. Action taken by student’s gross neglect of academic work either Board can range from “scratch” (the during the term. Board decides that no disciplinary action is warranted) to requirement to withdraw or Reports of Undergraduates even a recommendation to the Faculty that the student be dismissed. In cases involving with Unsatisfactory Records undergraduates who have misused source The Office of the Registrar provides unsatis- materials in the preparation of course work, factory grade report forms with final, midyear, the Administrative Board of Harvard College and midterm grade sheets. Instructors are will often recommend and make available urged to use these forms to comment on appropriate instruction on the proper use of undergraduates who have earned unsatisfac- sources and footnotes. tory course grades. (Unsatisfactory grades Students have a right to expect that grading are: D, E, EXLD, FL, UNS, ABS.) (See “Grades”: will not be used as punishment for alleged The Grading System.) Instructors’ comments academic dishonesty that has not been on these unsatisfactory grade reports are confirmed by the Administrative Board. of great value to the students’ advisers and Students may ask the Board, through their

60 ADDRESSING STUDENT PROBLEMS Resident Dean, to investigate and resolve informal allegations of academic dishonesty that have not been brought to the Board’s attention by a faculty member.

Troubled Students Instructors are not responsible for counseling students on personal or emotional difficulties, even when those problems affect academic work. Undergraduate students who seem to be unusually upset or who are in need of special help should be referred to their Resident Dean. Instructors are encouraged to call the resident dean to discuss their concerns about a particular undergraduate. Concern about a graduate student should be referred to the Dean for Student Affairs (617-495-1814). The Mental Health Service of the Harvard University Health Services (617-495-2042) and the Bureau of Study Counsel (617-495-2581) are also available to help troubled students, both undergraduate and graduate.

Athletics and Administrative Sports Liaisons The Harvard College Dean’s Office, Administrative Board, and Department of Athletics collaborated to develop a policy that limits the number of class days and weekend days that may be missed per semester on account of athletic competition. Controls and approval processes are in place to ensure that communication between an athlete and his or her Resident Dean occurs prior to travel from campus. Athletes are ultimately responsible for resolving academic/athletic scheduling conflicts directly with academic faculty and staff. Administrative Sport Liaisons, designated by the Athletics Director and assigned to each team, are available to assist athletes with the compliance of these policies and procedures. Questions regarding these policies should be directed to Patricia Henry, Senior Associate Director of Athletics (617-495-2201), [email protected].

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Teaching and Advising Resources

Advising Programs Office and explore a wide range of questions on the of Harvard College curriculum, academic requirements, educa- tional goals, summer opportunities, career Phone: (617-496-0218) aspirations, and extra-curricular interests. Our Email: [email protected] freshman advisers work with an average of www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising 3-6 first-year students apiece and can act as both a sounding board for students’ ideas Freshman Advising and a link between students and further As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ resources. Curricular Review, the Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling (which issued Peer Advising Fellow: The PAF is a sophomore, a report in May 2005) recommended the junior, or senior at the College who has been establishment of an Advising Programs Office appointed, trained, and supported by the (APO), which began to take shape in February Advising Programs Office to offer advice and 2006. This office is charged with coordinating, assistance to first-year students. Fellows are supporting, and facilitating academic advising assigned by entryway and, together with programs for all undergraduates and, as such, the entryway proctors, are responsible for works with students, faculty, the Freshman entryway and dorm-wide programming. Dean’s Office, the Houses, and other Harvard Fellows are matched with approximately College and FAS offices on all aspects of ten freshmen in the entryway and bring a pre-concentration and concentration advising. student’s perspective to the first-year advising network. All incoming first-year students are provided a network of advisers: a proctor, a freshman Resident Dean of Freshmen: The Freshman academic adviser, a peer advising fellow, and Dean’s Office (FDO) is responsible for the a Resident Dean of Freshmen who together overall well-being of first-year students at serve as the student’s chief initial resources Harvard. There are three Resident Deans of for academic and non-academic advice. Freshmen; one for each of the clusters of dorms that comprise Ivy Yard, Crimson Yard, Proctor: The proctor is an administrator or and Elm Yard. Resident Deans also work graduate student who lives in the dorm and closely with the proctors and PAFs in their advises on personal, residential, social, and respective Yards. academic matters. In some cases, the proctor is also the academic adviser. Proctors oversee As helpful as these advisers are, we empha- an entryway of approximately 20-30 students, size to all first-year students that no adviser and along with the Peer Advising Fellows, has all of the answers, and that students they are also responsible for fostering should be proactive in making use of all entryway community. resources at their disposal at Harvard.

Freshman Adviser: Freshman advisers are Sophomore Advising faculty members, administrators, and/or proc- As a result of the May 2006 faculty legislation tors at the University who together form the that changed the timing of concentration Board of Freshman Advisers. Freshman advis- choice from the end of the second to the ers help first-year students select courses end of the third term, the Advising and

TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES 63 Counseling Committee, in collaboration with divisional fairs, panels and a Peer Advising the Masters, the Dean of the College, and Fellows study break for freshmen. In April, the the Advising Programs Office and its Student APO sponsors Advising Fortnight, a two-week Advisory Board, designed a sophomore advising event, during which first-year advising program to support sophomores students engage in at least one advising as they enter House life and concentrations. conversation with a prospective concentra- The goals of sophomore advising at Harvard tion. In the third term, sophomore and other College are to support sophomores as they academic advisers encourage students to engage in focused academic exploration and seek out information from the concentration to help them make successful transitions into advising teams before concentration choice in their Houses and their chosen concentrations. December. Sophomores, like freshmen, begin the year Once a student declares a concentration, the with a network of advisers: a sophomore concentration assumes primary academic adviser, a sophomore advising coordinator, advising responsibility for the student. The and an Allston Burr Resident Dean. Once student works with a concentration adviser they choose a concentration, they also have or with an advising team, depending on the a concentration adviser or advising team. concentration advising structure. The APO While concentration advisers serve as the also supports concentrations as they guide primary academic advisers for sophomores in students in three phases: into an appropriate the fourth term, sophomore advisers continue set of introductory courses in the field of to work with their advisees throughout the study, to advanced work in the field of study year, supporting students in their transition and, when applicable, through a final project into concentrations; addressing academic or thesis in the senior year. issues such as study abroad, secondary fields, and research opportunities; and providing Since each concentration has a somewhat individualized, holistic attention. unique advising structure and process, we en- courage all advisers to help pre-concentrators By the middle of the sophomore year, Harvard connect with concentrations. Updated contact students make the transition from exploring information for concentration advisers is all of the concentrations that might interest located under “List of Programs” on the them to selecting one concentration for Advising Programs Office web site at www. focused study. We encourage students to fas.harvard.edu/~advising. consider many factors in making this decision. These include the student’s intellectual The APO works closely with advisers in all of interests, the concentration community and the concentrations and we are always happy culture, the required coursework, availability to help students and concentration advisers of research opportunities and faculty contact, make connections. Please write to us at advising structures, class size, thesis policies, [email protected] with any questions and ways in which concentration choice may or suggestions. play a role in post-graduation paths. Advising Web Site and Concentrations are very involved in helping the Advising Network Portal students find the right program for their The Advising Programs Office has a compre- individual needs and interests and collaborate hensive website for information on advising on pre-concentration advising efforts with opportunities for all students, in the freshman the Freshman Dean’s Office and the Advising yards, in the Houses, and in the concentra- Programs Office. In September, there are tions: www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising/. The goal of this website is to bring together

64 TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES in one place a vast amount of information Bureau of Study Counsel on a large number of resources that offer 5 Linden Street academic and non-academic assistance, Phone: (617-495-2581); Fax: (617-495-7680) support, and information to Harvard College bsc.harvard.edu students. The Bureau of Study Counsel is a resource In addition to the APO website, the office has center for students’ academic and personal created (in conjunction with the Registrar’s development. It was established to help office) the Advising Network Portal, or ANP, students develop their intellectual and where students can view the photos, names, emotional potential, and to make the most and contact information for all of their of their time at college. Students come to the assigned advisers. The advisers themselves Bureau to improve their academic skills and can also access the ANP to see the photos, strategies (such as reading, note-making, names, and contact information for all of their exam-taking, time management, procrastina- advisees. Choose “Advising Network Portal” tion, memory, public speaking, writing, etc.) on the upper right-hand side of the page at and to talk about broader academic and www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising/ to access personal concerns (such as relationships, the Portal. motivation, adjusting to college, important life events, future direction, etc.). Bok Center for Teaching and Learning The Bureau’s mission is based in an educational/developmental model. Through Science Center 318 its various services, the Bureau helps students Phone: (617-495-4869); Fax: (617-495-3739) think with more complexity; develop a sense bokcenter.harvard.edu of voice and authority in their scholarship and The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and in their lives generally; approach their work Learning was created in 1975 to be a and lives with honesty, curiosity, creativity, resource for the improvement of teaching and zest; learn to set limits with self and in Harvard College. The Bok Center offers others; cultivate healthy relationships; survive, consultations for faculty and teaching fellows, and even thrive, in a stressful, competitive videotaping of classes, support for interna- academic environment; develop their capacity tional faculty and teaching fellows, classroom for critical discernment and judgment; and observations, the Faculty Lecture & Lunch make meaning of their lives. series, a program to foster writing across the Services available to students include the curriculum, a seminar on pedagogy, and a following: course on discussion leading skills, as well as orientations, conferences, workshops, and a s¬Academic and personal counseling. library of books, periodicals and videotapes Counseling helps students understand on teaching. Instructors interested in these their learning goals and styles, deal with services or any kind of consultation about the challenges of a demanding university their teaching are encouraged to call or email environment, define their motivations and the Bok Center at [email protected]. aspirations, and address the issues that edu. Further information and resources are interfere with their efforts to fully engage available on the Bok Center’s website. in their learning and their lives. Faculty members are invited to refer or recom- Wheelchair accessible. mend students to Bureau services, and a brochure called “How to Refer a Student” is available to aid with such conversations.

TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES 65 s¬Self-help materials. The Self Help section In addition to direct services for students, of the Bureau website, www.bsc.harvard. consultation services are available to faculty, edu, offers a wide range of information teaching fellows, administrators, residential and materials on topics relevant to staff, and student peer-service groups on students’ academic and personal lives, issues related to student life and learning. such as study skills, peer relationships, Professionals who work with students in and college adjustment issues. Self help these capacities are invited to contact the materials are also available in the Cranium Bureau regarding any concern they may have Corner, the Bureau’s reception area library. about a student’s academic performance, s¬Workshops and discussion groups. classroom, behavior, or personal difficulties. The Bureau offers workshops and Visit our website for information on services, discussion groups on many topics related staff, current events, confidentiality, and more, to academics and student life, such as: www.bsc.harvard.edu. procrastination, cultural transitions, study- ing for and taking exams, speaking up in Wheelchair accessible. class, perfectionism, senior thesis writing, and making good use of Reading Period. Departments of the Adaptive s¬Peer tutoring. The Bureau provides Technology Laboratory, central coordination and training/ Humanities Faculty Services, supervision of academic peer tutors in Instructional Media Services, Harvard courses. Academic peer tutoring is Language Resource Center, provided as a supplement, not a substitute, and Piano Technical Services for course instruction. Academic peer Robert G. Doyle, Associate Dean tutoring is available in any subject; most (617-495-0757/0811) tutors are undergraduates who have done honors work in the courses they The Adaptive Technology Laboratory provides tutor. Undergraduates may not accept assistance for students requiring accessible compensation for peer tutoring in Harvard education and who need technological solu- courses without the permission of the tions. Humanities Faculty Services provides Dean of the College, who has designated assistance to humanities faculty members the Bureau to select, hire, supervise, and with photocopying, transporting library employ undergraduate peer tutors (see the materials, shredding documents, and mailing Handbook for Students). packages and letters. The department of s¬The Harvard Course in Reading and Instructional Media Services consists of two Study Strategies. The Harvard Course divisions that provide instructional media in Reading and Study Strategies is a resources for graduate and undergraduate mini-course offered five times per year. FAS course instruction within the Faculty of Arts Faculty, teaching fellows, and residence and Sciences (FAS). The Language Resource staff may enroll in the course at no charge. Center supports language instruction with a The fee for FAS students is $25; all others variety of media resources. Piano Technical $150 (subject to change). The course helps Services cares for the FAS pianos. students developing a repertoire of strate- gies and approaches for improving the Adaptive Technology Laboratory speed of reading comprehension, and also Curtis Wilcox, Manager, addresses study skills such as note-making, [email protected] preparing for and taking exams, and time Science Center Room 103 management. Vanserg Hall, 113B

66 TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES Staffed: Monday–Friday 9 am–5 pm; Media and Technology Services Open: 24 hours daily Monday–Friday 8 am–5 pm Email: [email protected] (617-496-8800) (A technician is on call until 10 pm, www.fas.harvard.edu/~ims/ATL Monday–Thursday, during the academic year.) The ATL serves FAS students requiring acces- Main Office: sible education and who need technological Science Center Room B02 (617-495-9460) solutions. The lab is available to students To request equipment only, email: registered with the Accessible Education [email protected] Office (AEO). (See “Responsibilities of (service for all FAS buildings except CGIS, Instructors”: Students Requiring Accessible Northwest Labs, the Science Center, and Sever Education.) For more information, see the Hall) AEO website at www.aeo.fas.harvard.edu. CGIS Office: Wheelchair accessible. CGIS South Building Room S053 (617-495-9807) Humanities Faculty Services Email: [email protected] (service for CGIS buildings) Bill Chapman, Supervisor, [email protected] Northwest Labs Office: Email: [email protected] Northwest Labs Room B111 http://hfs.fas.harvard.edu (617-495-5775) Email: [email protected] Barker Center Office: (service for Northwest Labs) Barker Center Room 119 (617-495-0340 Monday–Friday 8 am–6 pm Sever Hall Office: Sever Hall Room 301 (617-495-9470) Boylston Hall Office: To request equipment only, that is for use in Boylston Hall Mezzanine (617-495-0510 Sever Hall, Monday–Friday 8:30 am–12 pm and Email: [email protected] 1 pm–5:30 pm (service for Sever Hall and the Extension and HFS provides assistance to Humanities Summer Schools) faculty members. Services include assisting Media and Technology Services (MTS) with overflow and urgent photocopying, provides data, film, overhead, slide and picking up and dropping off library materials, video projection; classroom computers; audio shredding documents, delivering packages recording; sound reinforcement systems; to the US Post Office and assisting with video recording/editing; video conferencing; recommendation letter mailings. film, DVD and videotape rentals for FAS Wheelchair accessible. courses, assistive listening systems; and a reservable screening room. Please call MTS Instructional Media Services a minimum of two weeks in advance to arrange for services. Some of our services Amy Thompson, include technician assistance, equipment Manager of Media & Technology Services, rental, and testing specific non-standard [email protected] software or non-commercially produced Anthony Di Bartolo, CDs or DVDs for compatibility with our Manager of Media Production Center, computer equipment or players. Training or [email protected] MTS technicians’ assistance will be required www.fas.harvard.edu/~ims for certain types of equipment. Instructors are

TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES 67 also free to request MTS assistance with any graphics and packaging. Please inquire about equipment for one, several or all of a course’s additional technical services available. class meetings. Please note that fees will be Wheelchair accessible. charged for after-hours, weekend or holiday assistance and for non-course instruction requests. Classrooms must be reserved Language Resource Center through the FAS Classrooms Office or the Thomas Hammond, Manager, appropriate departments. MTS does not [email protected] reserve or schedule classrooms. Information Lamont Library, 4th floor (617-495-9448 on permanently installed classroom equip- Phone ahead or check the website for the ment and photographs of classrooms can be most current operating hours found on the IMS website. lrc.fas.harvard.edu/ MTS supports FAS and the Extension and The LRC offers multimedia resources to Summer Schools. The MTS Main Office FAS foreign language courses and to other supports classes and events that take place in FAS courses using foreign-language media. FAS buildings except for the CGIS buildings, Our high-bandwidth media server provides the Science Center and Sever Hall. The MTS full-screen materials in forty-three languages. CGIS Office supports classes and events that Our satellite feed provides international news take place in the Center for Governments and and variety television programs. We also offer International Studies (CGIS) buildings. The CD-quality digital audio of textbook practice Northwest Labs Office supports classes and materials, as well as providing for the use of events that take place in the Northwest Labs. VHS and cassette tapes. There are two screen- The MTS Sever Hall Office supports classes ing rooms for small-group foreign-language and events that take place in Sever Hall. instruction. For assistance with classes or events in the Wheelchair accessible. Science Center, please contact Science Center Lecture Multimedia Services located at the Science Center Room B-01 (617-495-5357). Piano Technical Services Wheelchair accessible. Lewis Surdam, Manager, [email protected] Media Production Center Vanserg Hall, Piano Shop (617-495-2981) Rosovsky Hall (rear), 59 Plympton St. Monday–Friday 9 am–5 pm (617-495-9440) www.fas.harvard.edu/~pts Monday–Friday 9 am–5 pm PTS restores, repairs, tunes and maintains Email: [email protected] all FAS pianos and does some work with The MPC provides audio and video produc- harpsichords. Seven days’ notice is required tion and duplication services. Audio services for all tuning requests. Emergency requests include recording and preparation for CD, will be considered. Please phone to find out if CD-ROM and web delivery of audio content. your request can be accommodated. PTS does Recordings can be made in our MPC studio not move or rent instruments nor reserves or or on location. Video services include DVD schedules practice rooms. authoring, international standards conver- Wheelchair accessible. sion, and basic editing. Videoconferencing facilities are also available. CD, DVD, cassette tape and VHS duplication is available with

68 TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES FAS Information Technology Academic Technology Group [email protected] www.fas-it.fas.harvard.edu http://atg.fas.harvard.edu FAS Information Technology provides a The Academic Technology Group consults variety of computing services and facilities with and assists faculty in using technology to students, faculty, and staff of the Harvard to enhance teaching and learning, and University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provides tools that support academic and its affiliates. Most services are distributed workflow. Technologies include multimedia via the FAS Network, a high-speed, fiber- teaching materials; online communication optic data network that connects student and collaboration tools; visualization and residences, faculty and administrative offices, simulation; and course selection, placement, libraries, laboratories, research and public and evaluation. spaces. FAS IT has specialists dedicated to providing for the needs of instruction, student Wheelchair accessible. communication, and faculty-staff interaction. FAS IT maintains a service-oriented website. Harvard University Science Center B-13 Library System [email protected] (617-495-9000) Harvard’s library system, which dates from FAS IT provides support for network con- 1638, is the oldest library in the US and the nections, software operation, and hardware largest academic library in the world. With repair. A network of local Information more than 16 million books and a burgeoning Technology (IT) Contacts acts as liaison to number of digital objects and electronic FAS IT computer support and often serve as resources, the collections are housed in more the first line of faculty and staff computer than 70 libraries, most of which are located in support. Faculty and staff members may Cambridge and Boston. Of these collections, also participate in FAS IT training programs, more than half are in the purview of the discussion groups, and clinics, which are Faculty of Arts and Sciences, specifically in the designed to improve general computer Harvard College Library. competency and knowledge. The FAS IT support line is available to IT Contacts, faculty Harvard College Library and staff. Computer assistance for faculty www.hcl.harvard.edu and staff is available via email, phone and in person. The Harvard College Library (HCL) is actually a system of libraries that support the teaching Classrooms and Facilities and research activities of the Faculty of Arts [email protected] (617-495-9000) and Sciences, the University, and the larger www.fas-it.fas.harvard.edu/fasclass scholarly community. Librarians throughout the HCL libraries offer a variety of services to FAS IT also operates “hands-on” computer users: assistance at reference desks, indi- classrooms, computing laboratory facilities, vidual consultations by appointment, IM and a specialty multimedia room. For more reference service, and course-related research information about the computer classrooms, instruction. They compose research guides on or to schedule a reservation, please see almost every subject offered in the College the computer classrooms website. Course and make them available online at www.hcl. software is available on the FAS IT website. harvard.edu/research/guides.

TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES 69 In addition to the Harry Elkins Widener s¬3CHLESINGER¬,IBRARY¬ON¬THE¬(ISTORY¬OF¬ Memorial Library—which is the University’s Women in America—Radcliffe Institute flagship—HCL includes: www.radcliffe.edu/schles s¬#ABOT¬3CIENCE¬,IBRARY¬ s¬&INE¬!RTS¬,IBRARY¬ Additional Collections s¬&UNG¬,IBRARY Harvard’s library system also includes s¬(ARVARD¬&ILM¬!RCHIVE numerous departmental and special libraries within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a s¬(ARVARD¬-AP¬#OLLECTION number of additional and affiliated collec- s¬(ARVARD¬4HEATRE¬#OLLECTION tions, ranging from the Harvard University s¬(ARVARDn9ENCHING¬,IBRARY¬ Archives, located in the Pusey Library s¬(OUGHTON¬,IBRARY¬ building, to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, DC. For a complete s¬,AMONT¬,IBRARY¬ directory of Harvard libraries and websites, s¬,OEB¬-USIC¬,IBRARY¬ visit lib.harvard.edu/libraries. s¬1UAD¬,IBRARY¬ s¬4OZZER¬,IBRARY¬ Digital Collections Harvard offers a growing number of subject- Harvard’s Graduate specific, web-accessible collections, including and Professional Schools photographic collections, documents, musical scores, prints, drawings, historical maps, Each of Harvard’s graduate and professional books, legal transcripts, diaries, manuscripts, faculties supports additional significant and more. To survey these collections—many libraries. These include: of which were developed with support, s¬!NDOVER (ARVARD¬4HEOLOGICAL¬,IBRARYˆ infrastructure, and expertise provided by Harvard Divinity School Harvard’s Library Digital Initiative—visit www.hds.harvard.edu/library digitalcollections.harvard.edu. s¬+NOWLEDGE¬AND¬,IBRARY¬3ERVICESˆ(ARVARD¬ Business School Harvard College Library Research www.library.hbs.edu and Instructional Services s¬#OUNTWAY¬,IBRARY¬OF¬-EDICINEˆFOR¬THE¬ hcl.harvard.edu/research/for_instructors/ faculties of dentistry, medicine, and public health Librarians within each of the Harvard College www.countway.harvard.edu libraries offer a variety of services designed to help instructors assist their students in the s¬'UTMAN¬,IBRARYˆ(ARVARD¬'RADUATE¬3CHOOL¬ effective use of library resourses. In addition, of Education each FAS department is associated with a www.gse.harvard.edu/library library liaison, a reference librarian dedicated s¬(ARVARD¬,AW¬3CHOOL¬,IBRARY to assisting faculty, staff, and students with www.law.harvard.edu/library research-related matters. Library liaisons s¬*OHN¬&¬+ENNEDY¬3CHOOL¬OF¬'OVERNMENT¬ create and teach library-related classes, Library provide one-on-one consultation, write www.ksg.harvard.edu/library course research guides, assist with content s¬&RANCES¬,OEB¬,IBRARYˆ(ARVARD¬'RADUATE¬ for course websites, and provide general School of Design reference services to the department. www.gsd.harvard.edu/library

70 TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES Library Websites E-Research @ Harvard Libraries e-resarch.lib.harvard.edu Harvard Libraries E-Research @ Harvard Libraries is an lib.harvard.edu online library service that provides access A major starting point for research is the for Harvard users to over 8,000 electronic “Harvard Libraries” portal which is an resources, 49,000 journals, and 300,000 online gateway to the library resources of e-books. E-Research also allows users to store Harvard University. The site serves as an and manage their search results. important research tool for Harvard’s current s¬5SING¬% 2ESEARCH ¬USERS¬CAN students, faculty, staff, and researchers who Find and access article databases and hold HUIDs and PINs. Through E-Research indexes, encyclopedias, e-book and @ Harvard Libraries, it provides access to e-journal collections, and many other electronic resources and journals licensed electronic resources. by the Harvard libraries, as well as links to s¬&IND¬ARTICLES¬ON¬A¬TOPIC¬BY¬SEARCHING¬ACROSS¬ all of the Harvard library catalogs. It also the content of multiple e-resources with a points to research guides compiled by the single search. libraries across campus and provides practical information on each of the more than 80 s¬&IND¬AND¬ACCESS¬INDIVIDUAL¬ELECTRONIC¬ libraries that form the Harvard system. journals by title, subject, or ISSN. s¬!DD¬SELECTED¬E RESOURCES¬TO¬PERSONAL¬LISTS¬ Most of Harvard’s libraries also have for cross-searching and reference (My developed their own websites, which are full E-Resources). of valuable links and information covering their areas of specialty. s¬3AVE¬LISTS¬OF¬FAVORITE¬E JOURNALS¬FOR¬QUICK¬ reference (My E-Journals). HOLLIS Discovery System s¬3TORE¬LINKS¬TO¬ARTICLES ¬BOOKS ¬AND¬OTHER¬ discovery.lib.harvard.edu items (My Citations). HOLLIS offers users a simple, intuitive s¬6IEW¬PAST¬SEARCHES¬3AVED¬3EARCHES ¬ interface for discovering library resources in s¬3AVE¬CITATIONS¬TO¬LOCAL¬WORKSTATIONS¬OR¬TO¬ significant new ways. The new HOLLIS is “a bibliographic management software such discovery environment” and not just a cata- as EndNote or RefWorks. log. Located at http://discovery.lib.harvard. edu, HOLLIS now reflects a new generation s¬#LICK¬ON¬h&IND¬)T¬ ¬(ARVARDv¬BUTTONS¬ of creative thinking about searching on the for all search results in order to locate web as it differs from searches in traditional items online or on the shelves at Harvard library catalogs. As users experiment with libraries. the new system, the older version—dubbed In order to achieve maximum benefit from “HOLLIS Classic”—remains in place, continu- E-Research @ Harvard Libraries and to access ously providing traditional search methods at all of Harvard’s licensed e-resources, Harvard http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu. Both can users should log in, using Harvard IDs and be accessed from the Harvard Libraries portal PINs, at the beginning of each session. at http://lib.harvard.edu. Using a HUID and PIN, members of the Harvard community are hcl.harvard.edu− able to use HOLLIS to renew, hold, or recall A Research Tool for Library Users items; to view a list of items checked out; and hcl.harvard.edu to check fines online. This user-friendly site is a complement to the Harvard Libraries portal and offers quick access to a variety of research tools like

TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES 71 research guides, research contacts, online s¬#LASS¬9EAR¬AND¬/THER¬#AREER¬,ISTSERVS¬ forms, “Ask Us” IM reference service, and s¬7ORKSHOPS ¬0ANELS ¬AND¬&AIRS¬FOR¬A¬7IDE¬ information about hours, admittance and Range of Career Interests borrowing, copying and scanning services, The first floor of OCS is accessible to exhibitions and events, services for persons individuals with mobility impairments via the with disabilities, and more. 52 Dunster Street entrance. Short-term loans of library materials or other accommodations Office of Career Services can be arranged for students with other 54 Dunster Street disabilities. Phone: (617-495-2595); Fax: (617-495-3584) Wheelchair accessible. www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu The Office of Career Services (OCS) supports Office of International Programs all students and recent alumni of Harvard 77 Dunster Street College and the Graduate School of Arts and Phone: (617-496-2722); Fax: (617-496-2563 Sciences in exploring and making effective Email: [email protected] career and educational choices, and strives www.fas.harvard.edu/~oip to enhance career imagination, investigation, and realization by providing services for all The Office of International Programs is a stages of academic and career development. resource for students seeking to integrate OCS offers an extensive range of programs, international experience into their under- resources, and counseling to assist with graduate education, especially study abroad career decisions across a full range of for Harvard course credit. In partnership with potential career fields including public service, area centers, departments and programs and arts, entertainment, science and technology, the Harvard Summer School, the OIP also education, government, law, communications, advises faculty and staff in the development business, and medicine (including pre-medical of new international opportunities for advising). OCS assists students in exploring undergraduates. and planning for a wide range of domestic and international opportunities, including University Information Systems internships, summer jobs, careers after www.uis.harvard.edu graduation, graduate and professional study, and fellowships for undergraduate and University Information Systems (UIS) is post-graduate activities. Harvard University’s central information technology (IT) organization whose mission is OCS services include the following: to provide effective and efficient IT services to s¬$AILY¬$ROP )N¬#OUNSELING¬ the University community. s¬)NDIVIDUAL¬#OUNSELING¬!PPOINTMENTS¬ Technology Services Computer Product s¬/NLINE¬$OSSIER¬3ERVICE¬FOR¬'3!3¬STUDENTS¬ & Repair Center (617-495-2787) (617-495-5450) s¬5NDERGRADUATE¬&ELLOWSHIPS¬/FlCE¬ www.computers.harvard.edu (617-495-8126) Visit one of our locations listed below: s¬/N #AMPUS¬2ECRUITING¬0ROGRAM¬ (617-495-7784) Product Showroom, Sales s¬#AREER¬2ESOURCES¬2EADING¬2OOM¬ and Computer Repair s¬0REMEDICAL¬!DVISING Science Center, Room B11

72 TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES One Oxford Street, Cambridge how to access the GovConnection site visit Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs., and www.computers.harvard.edu. Fri., 9 am - 5 pm; Wed.,10 am - 5 pm Wheelchair accessible. Purchase a selection of Apple notebooks, software and accessories over-the-counter, Writing Center test drive a Mac or Lenovo and drop off your Barker Center 019 computer for repair at this campus store Phone: (617-495-1655) location. www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr Product Pick-Up and Computer Repair The Writing Center offers individual tutoring 219 Western Avenue, Allston and writing assistance to all students in the Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 am -5 pm FAS. Instructors concerned with the writing Pick up your online and telesales orders or skills of a particular student may recommend drop off your computer for repair at this to the student that he or she seek assistance location. Guest parking available. through the Writing Center. The Center also has prepared hand-outs that instructors The Technology Services group within UIS can reproduce and distribute in an effort to manages Apple, Lenovo, GovConnection, help students better understand the various Microsoft, and Adobe vendor partnerships aspects of good writing. and serves as facilitator, on behalf of the University, to ensure vendor compliance to Wheelchair accessible. contracts and timely communications about product or program changes. In-warranty and out-of-warranty hardware repair service for Apple and Lenovo computers and HP laser printers is provided by the Repair Services group. Technology Services sells Apple computers and Microsoft and Adobe software at educational pricing for faculty, students, and staff through its online store www. computers.harvard.edu, at the Computer Product & Repair Center locations, and through telephone sales at 617-495-5450. Lenovo personal computers are available direct through Lenovo at aggressive price discounts negotiated for the Harvard community; an inventory of Lenovo product is not maintained at Harvard. To access the Lenovo site for Harvard visit www.comput- ers.harvard.edu. Peripherals, accessories and other technology products are available through GovConnection, a subsidiary of PC Connection. GovConnection offers special pricing for the Harvard community, free ground shipping to personal purchasers, and a flexible return program. For information on

TEACHING AND ADVISING RESOURCES 73

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Directory

Dean of the Faculty Administration and Finance University Hall, 2nd Floor University Hall, 1st Floor Michael D. Smith, (617) 495-1566, Acting Dean for Administration [email protected] Catherine Gorodentsev [email protected] Secretary of the Faculty and to the Faculty Council Associate Dean for Research University Hall, 1st Floor Administration Susan Lively Patrick Fitzgerald (617) 495-3613 (617) 495-4083 [email protected] [email protected] Divisional Deans of the Faculty Associate Dean and Chief Information Jeremy Bloxham, Science Officer (617) 496-0289 Lawrence Levine [email protected] (617) 495-9047 [email protected] Stephen Kosslyn, Social Science (617) 495-3932 Associate Dean for Finance [email protected] Deena Giancotti Diana Sorensen, Arts and Humanities (617) 496-3127 (617) 384-7511 [email protected] [email protected] Assistant Deans for Finance Dean of the School of Engineering and Eric Kopstain Applied Sciences (617) 384-7333 Pierce Hall, 2nd Floor [email protected] Cherry A. Murray Gail M. Pisapio [email protected] (617) 496-4197 [email protected]

Accessible Education Office Interim Associate Executive Dean for 20 Garden Street Physical Resources and Planning Michael Lichten Director (617) 495-4216 Louise Russell [email protected] (617) 496-8707, (617) 496-3720 V/TTY, [email protected] Assistant Dean of Campus Design and See “Responsibilities of Instructors”: Planning Students Requiring Accessible Education. Nazneen Cooper (617) 495-8451 [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 75 Interim Associate Dean for Administrative Resources Advising Programs Office of Julie Stanley Harvard College (617) 496-1846 (617) 496-0218 [email protected] www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising Assistant Dean for Human Resources Christopher Kruegler Interim Director (617) 495-5571 Inge-Lise Ameer [email protected] Administrative Dean for the Arts and Humanities Allston Burr Resident Deans Sara Oseasohn www.orl.fas.harvard.edu (617) 496-1861 Adams House, C-18 [email protected] Sharon Howell [email protected] Administrative Dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cabot House, A-Entry Fawwaz Habbal Jill Constantino (617) 384-9355 [email protected] [email protected] Currier House, Office Administrative Dean for the Sciences Katherine Stanton Russ Porter [email protected] (617) 496-3855 Dudley House, Office, Lehman Hall [email protected] Karen Flood Administrative Dean for the Social [email protected] Sciences Dunster House, J-36 Beverly Beatty Carlos Diaz (617) 384-7774 [email protected] [email protected] Eliot House, N-22 Michael Canfield [email protected] Administrative Board of Harvard College Kirkland House, H-12 David Smith www.fas.harvard.edu/~adboard [email protected] The full membership of the Administrative Leverett House, F-5 Board and its procedures are described in Lauren Brandt the Administrative Board Guide for Students: [email protected] www.college.harvard.edu/academics/ Lowell House, A-22 adboard/student_guide.pdf. Brett Flehinger Secretary [email protected] John (Jay) Ellison Mather House, Office (617) 384-7239 Laura Schlosberg [email protected] [email protected]

76 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Pforzheimer House, Office Lisa Boes Arts, Office for the [email protected] 74 Mt. Auburn Street www.fas.harvard.edu/~ofa Quincy House, Office Judith Flynn Chapman Director [email protected] Jack Megan John Winthrop House, D-11 (617) 495-867 Gregg Peeples [email protected] [email protected]

Audiovisual Service See Instructional Media Services. Animal Research Studies 1414 Massachusetts Avenue, 2th Floor www.fas.harvard.edu/~research/approv- als/iacuc.html Blue Books / Examination Booklets IACUC Manager Ellyn Lane Charles Botosh, Jr. (617) 495-1510 Science Center 125 [email protected] (617) 495-5094 See “Responsibilities of Instructors”: [email protected] Research Involving Animal Subjects. See “Course Administration”: Hour and Midterm Examinations, Examination Booklets.

Animal Resources & Comparative Medicine, Bok Center for Teaching Center for and Learning http://arcm.med.harvard.edu/ Science Center 318 bokcenter.harvard.edu Director Dr. Arthur Lage Acting Director Harvard Medical School Terry Aladjem 665 Huntington Avenue, (617) 495-4869 Boston, MA 02115 [email protected] (617) 432-1289 [email protected]

See “Responsibilities of Instructors”: Bureau of Study Counsel Research Involving Animal Subjects. 5 Linden Street (617) 495-2581 bsc.harvard.edu

Director Abigail Lipson [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 77 Classrooms Office Course Evaluations, Q FAS Registrar Office of Research and Analysis 20 Garden Street, 12 FAS Registrar (617) 495-1541 20 Garden Street [email protected] q.fas.harvard.edu (617) 496-1098 [email protected] Communications, FAS Office of 1 Bow Street, 3rd Floor www.fas.harvard.edu/home/news-and- Development Office notices/for-the-media/what-we-do.shtml 124 Mount Auburn Street Email: [email protected] (617) 495-1636

Assistant Dean and Director Vice President for Alumni Affairs Robert Mitchell and Development (617) 496-5399 Tamara Elliott Rogers [email protected] 617-496-3069 [email protected]

Senior Associate Vice President for Computer Services, Faculty of Alumni Affairs and Development Arts and Sciences Robert Cashion See “Teaching and Advising Resources”: FAS (617) 495-3314 Information Technology. [email protected]

Senior Associate Dean and Director of Development for FAS Continuing Education, Paul T. Keenan (617) 496-6208 Division of [email protected] 51 Brattle Street www.dce.harvard.edu and www.summer. Executive Director of Harvard College harvard.edu Fund, FAS Charles W. Cardillo Dean of the Division (617) 495-4702 Michael Shinagel [email protected] (617) 495-2930 [email protected] Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Office of Resource Development Core Program Linda Fates See General Education, Program in. (617) 495-0910 [email protected]

78 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Rebecca Wassarman Engineering and Applied (617) 495-3612 Sciences, Dean of the [email protected] School of Senior Associate Dean for 29 Oxford St. Faculty Development www.seas.harvard.edu Laura Gordon Fisher (617) 496-1162 Dean laura_fi[email protected] Cherry A. Murray [email protected] Assistant Dean for Faculty Development Elizabeth Ancarana (617) 384-5920 Equal Employment, Officer for [email protected]

Rebecca Wassarman (617) 495-3612 [email protected] Faculty Aide Program Student Employment Office 86 Brattle Street (617) 495-2585 Faculty Affairs www.seo.harvard.edu/resprog/ University Hall, 1st Floor facultyaide.html (617) 496-2969 The Office for Faculty Affairs handles matters This program is designed to help members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences hire under- relating to faculty salaries, leaves, sabbaticals, and retirement, and appointment and review graduate research assistants by subsidizing policies. Instructors having concerns in these wages of students conducting research for areas may speak with their department chair faculty members. Information and application or, if they prefer, with the Office for Faculty are available at the above website. Affairs. The Office of Faculty Development within the Office for Faculty Affairs handles matters relating to the recruitment of faculty, Faculty Council both senior and junior. See Secretary of the Faculty. Dean for Faculty Affairs Nina Zipser, [email protected] Faculty Development & Assistant Deans Diversity, Office of Stephen Kargère (Sciences) Holyoke Center 877 (617) 495-5083 (617) 495-9072 [email protected] www.faculty.harvard.edu/05 Elizabeth Lambert (Social Sciences) (617) 495-3305 Senior Vice Provost for [email protected] Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer Heather Lantz (Humanities) (617) 384-5025 [email protected] [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 79 Freshman Dean’s Office Graduate Records 6 Prescott Street See Registrar, Office of the. (617) 495-1574

Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman Graduate School of Arts [email protected] and Sciences Holyoke Center, 3rd floor Resident Deans of Freshmen Sue Brown For a detailed discussion of the history, [email protected] organization, and regulations of the Graduate School, consult the Graduate School of Arts William Cooper and Sciences Handbook: www.gsas.harvard. [email protected] edu/publications/teaching-fellows- Suzanne Duke handbook.php [email protected] Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan Brandt Freshman Seminars, (617) 496-1464 House Seminars, and [email protected] Extra-Departmental Courses Administrative Dean of the Graduate 6 Prescott Street School of Arts and Sciences (617) 495-1523 Margot N. Gill www.fas.harvard.edu/~seminars (617) 495-1814 [email protected] Director Sandra Naddaff Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid (617) 495-1523 Russell E. Berg [email protected] (617) 495-1814 [email protected]

Officers for Admissions and Financial Aid General Education, Program in (617) 495-5396 Holyoke Center, 4th Floor (617) 495-2563 Humanities www.generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu Robert Lapointe Chair [email protected] Jay Harris Lisa Simpson [email protected] [email protected] Administrative Director Natural Sciences Stephanie H. Kenen [email protected] Jody Ferraro [email protected] Assistant Director, Core Program Tracey Newman Charles Ruberto [email protected] [email protected]

80 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Social Sciences Associate Deans of Harvard College Judith Mehrmann Robert Doyle [email protected] (617) 384-5980 [email protected] TBA John (Jay) Ellison Dean for Student Affairs (617) 384-7239 Garth McCavana [email protected] (617) 495-1814 [email protected] Joshua McIntosh (617) 496-4731 Assistant Dean for Student Affairs [email protected] Rise Shepsle Assistant Deans of Harvard College (617) 495-1814 Inge-Lise Ameer [email protected] (617) 496-3342 [email protected] Assistant Dean John McNally David Friedrich (617) 495-1814 (617) 495-1558 [email protected] [email protected] Patricia Harrington (617) 495-9757 Harvard College [email protected] University Hall, 1st Floor Laura K. Johnson (617) 495-1555 (617) 495-3580 Dean of Harvard College [email protected] Evelynn Hammonds Susan Marine (617) 495-1560 (617) 496-2029 [email protected] [email protected]

Dean for Administration Georgene B. Herschbach (617) 495-7897 Harvard College Writing [email protected] Program Dean for Student Life 8 Prescott Street Suzy M. Nelson www.fas.harvard.edu/~expos (617) 495-1942 Director [email protected] Thomas R. Jehn (617) 495-2566 Assistant Dean and Senior Aide [email protected] to the Dean of Harvard College Paul J. McLoughlin II (617) 495-0933 [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 81 Harvard Foundation for House Masters Intercultural and Race Relations www.orl.fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~harvfoun Adams House C-17, (617) 495-2259 Director S. Allen Counter Judy Palfrey 2 Thayer Hall [email protected] (617) 495-1527 Sean Palfrey, [email protected] [email protected] Cabot House A Entry, (617) 495-8740 Harvard Yard Operations Jay Harris Weld Hall, B1 [email protected] (617) 495-8842 Monday-Friday, 8 am–4:30 pm Cheryl Harris www.fas.harvard.edu/~yardops [email protected] Concerns about classroom maintenance Currier House and repair requests should be addressed 64 Linnaean Street, (617) 495-8100 to Harvard Yard Operations. Problems with Richard Wrangham classroom temperature or ventilation are [email protected] handled by the University Operations Center (617) 495-5560. Elizabeth Ross [email protected] Dudley House Health Services, Lehman Hall, 3rd Floor. (617) 495-2255 Harvard University James M. Hogle Holyoke Center [email protected] 75 Mt. Auburn Street Doreen M. Hogle, Esq. www.uhs.harvard.edu [email protected] Director Dunster House David S. Rosenthal, MD J-38, (617) 495-2262 (617) 495-2010 Roger B. Porter [email protected] [email protected] Extensive information on the procedures and Ann Porter service of HUHS is provided in the Handbook [email protected] for Students: webdocs.registrar.fas. harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/ Eliot House index.html. N-22, (617) 496-5615 Lino Pertile [email protected] Anna Bensted [email protected]

82 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Kirkland House Winthrop House H-13, (617) 495-2272 D-13, (617) 495-2297 Tom C. Conley Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., [email protected] [email protected] Verena A. Conley Stephanie Robinson [email protected] TBA Leverett House F-5, (617) 495-2278 Howard Georgi House Seminars [email protected] See Freshman Seminars. Ann Georgi [email protected] Lowell House Human Subjects, 1414 Massachusetts Avenue, 2th Floor A-22, (617) 495-2283 (617) 495-2847 Diana L. Eck http://cuhs.harvard.edu [email protected] For policies on research involving human subjects see “Responsibilities of Instructors”: Dorothy A. Austin, Human Subject Research. 50 Holyoke Street (Office) [email protected] Mather House Mather House Office, (617) 495-4834 Information Technology 1414 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor Sandra Naddaff [email protected] Associate Dean and Chief Information Officer Leigh Hafrey Lawrence M. Levine [email protected] (617) 495-9047 Pforzheimer House [email protected] 56 Linnaean Street (617) 495-8166 Nicholas Christakis Instructional Media Services 26 Church St., 2nd Floor [email protected] Erika Christakis Associate Dean and Director TBA Robert G. Doyle (617) 495-0757 Quincy House [email protected] 3 DeWolfe St., (617) 495-2285 See “Teaching and Advising Resources”: Bob Kirshner Instructional Media Services. [email protected] Jayne Loader [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 83 Interlibrary Loan International Office Widener Library Holyoke Center 864 Ground Floor, Room G30 (617) 495-2789 (617) 495-2972 www.hio.harvard.edu hcl.harvard.edu/info/interlibrary_loan

Director Sharon Ladd (617) 496-2812 Office of Career Services [email protected] 54 Dunster Street (617) 495-2595 www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu

International Affairs, Interim Director Weatherhead Center for Robin Mount CGIS-Knafel K-250, (617) 495-4420 For more information see “Teaching and www.wcfia.harvard.edu Advising Resources.”

Director Beth Ann Simmons (617) 495-1913 Prize Office bsimmons@wcfia.harvard.edu See Secretary of the Faculty.

International Programs, Race Relations Office of See Harvard Foundation. 77 Dunster Street (617) 496-2722 www.fas.harvard.edu/~oip Registrar, Office of the Director 20 Garden Street Catherine H. Winnie www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu (617) 384-7521 The Office of the Registrar oversees the publi- [email protected] cation of Courses of Instruction, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Handbook, Information for Faculty, and the Visitor’s Language Resource Center Guide to Larger Lectures, the scheduling and assignment of classrooms, the distribution of See Instructional Media Services. course lists, the scheduling and proctoring of all final examinations, the processing of final grades, the maintenance of student records, Library Collections and the conferring of degrees. and Services Registrar Barry S. Kane E-Reserves (617) 495-1545 hcl.harvard.edu/info/reserves/#faculty [email protected]

84 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Deputy Registrar Director of the Office of TBA Accessible Education Louise Russell Assistant Registrar of (617) 496-2786 Student Records and Requirements [email protected] Marilyn Danz (617) 496-3711 FASRO Application Help Desk [email protected] (617) 496-4372 [email protected] Transcripts/Certifications Pat Dyer (617) 496-3713 [email protected] Secretary of the Faculty and to the Faculty Council Cross Registration www.fas.harvard.edu/~secfas TBA The Office of the Secretary supports the Associate Registrar for Courses, effective governance of the Faculty of Scheduling, and Publications Arts and Sciences and assists faculty and TBA students in formulating and understanding the policies and programs of the Faculty. It Manager of Classroom Scheduling is also responsible for the administration of Ron Cooper student prizes, the appointment of Standing (617) 495-1541 Committees, and the oversight of Memorial [email protected] Minutes. Manager of Courses Susan L. Lively Sheila F. Winborne (617) 495-3613 (617) 496-5212 [email protected] [email protected]

Manager of Exams and Registration Kara Turner Sexual Assault Prevention (617) 384-9501 [email protected] and Response, Office of 731 Holyoke Center Director of Information Technology Monday-Friday, 9 am–5 pm Paige Duncan (617) 495-9100 (24 hours) (617) 496-9361 www.fas.harvard.edu/~osapr [email protected] Director Sarah Rankin Director of Research and Analysis (617) 384-9081 Karen Pearce, PhD [email protected] (617) 496-3677 [email protected]

Department Administrator Antoinette Trainor (617) 495-8770 [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 85 Sourcebook Materials, Transfer and Visiting Electronic Student Programs hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/ See Advising Programs Office. deeplinking See “Course Administration”: Course Materials/Syllabi. Undergraduate Education, Office of Dean of Undergraduate Education Sourcebook Publications Jay M. Harris (General Education and (617) 495-0829 Core courses only) [email protected] Holyoke Center, 4th Floor Associate Deans of Undergraduate (617) 495-4692 Education Noël Bisson 617-496-6976 [email protected] Office of Student Life University Hall, Ground Floor Stephanie H. Kenen www.sao.fas.harvard.edu (617) 496-0221 [email protected] Dean for Student Life Suzy M. Nelson Assistant Dean of Undergraduate (617) 495-1942 Education [email protected] Logan McCarty (617) 384-5972 Associate Dean of Harvard College for [email protected] Student Life Joshua McIntosh (617) 495-4731 [email protected] University Information Systems (UIS) See “Teaching and Advising Resources” for a Summer School, Division of description of services. Continuing Education 51 Brattle Street www.summer.harvard.edu Videotape Rentals See Instructional Media Services.

Technical Services See University Information Systems. Visiting Undergraduates See Transfer Students.

86 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Women’s Center Canaday Hall, B Entry (617) 495-4292 www.fas.harvard.edu/~hcwc Director Susan Marine (617) 496-2029 [email protected]

Writing Center Barker Center 019 (617) 495-1655 www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr

Director Jane Rosenzweig (617) 496-6861 [email protected] Additional information is available in “Teaching and Advising Resources.”

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 87 Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Department, Division, and and Urban Planning Committee Chairs and (617) 496-1240 K. Michael Hays (Co-CH, Co-DGS) Representatives Antoine Picon (Co-CH, Co-DGS) The following lists the Chairs (CH), Directors of Graduate Studies (DGS), Directors of Astronomy and Astrophysics Undergraduate Studies (DUS), Directors of (617) 495-3752 Studies (DS), Head Tutors of undergraduate James M. Moran (CH) concentrations (HT), and Undergraduate John Peter Huchra (DGS) Advisers (UA) for the departments, divisions, David Charbonneau (DUS) and committees of the Faculty of Arts and Biochemical Sciences Sciences. Advising staff for undergraduates (617) 495-4106 are listed on the Advising Programs Office Rachelle Gaudet (Co-HT) website www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising/ Richard M. Losick (Co-HT) listofprograms.html. Telephone numbers and email addresses for individual members Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine of the Faculty are available through the online (617) 432-5739 Harvard Directory: www.directory.harvard. Bjørn R. Olsen (CH, DGS) edu/phonebook. (617) 432-1874

African & African American Studies Biological Sciences in Public Health (617) 495-4113 (617) 432-2932 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (CH) Marianne Wessling-Resnik (CH) Werner Sollors (DGS) Glenda Carpio (DUS) Biology David A. Haig (HT) African Studies (617) 496-5125 (617) 495-5265 TBA (CH) Biophysics (617) 495-3360 Anthropology James M. Hogle (CH, DGS) (617) 495-5837 Theodore C. Bestor (CH) Biostatistics Noreen Tuross (DGS-Archaeology) (617) 432-1087 Peter Ellison (DGS-Biological) Victor DeGruttola (CH) Steven C. Caton (DGS-Social) David Wypij (DGS) Mary Steedly (DUS) Business Economics Applied Mathematics (617) 495-6106 (617) 495-2833 Jerry R. Green (CH) Michael Brenner (DUS) Business Studies Archaeology (617) 495-6106 Michael McCormick (CH) Mihir Desai (CH) (617) 495-2556

88 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Celtic Languages and Literatures Dramatic Arts (617) 495-1206 (617) 496-5148 Catherine McKenna (CH) Julie Peters (CH) Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (DGS) Earth and Planetary Sciences Chemical and Physical Biology (617) 495-2351 (617) 495-4076 John H. Shaw (CH) Rachelle Gaudet (Acting CH, Co-HT) Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (Co-DGS) Erin K. O’Shea (CH, Co-HT) Eli Tziperman (Co-DGS) (on leave 2009-10) Andrew Knoll (Co-HT) Daniel E. Kahne (Co-HT) Ann Pearson (Co-HT) (on leave 2009-2010) Chemical Biology Jon Clardy (Co-CH, Co-DGS) East Asian Languages and Civilizations (617) 432-2845 (617) 495-2754 David R. Liu (Co-CH, Co-DGS) Wilt L. Idema (CH) (617) 496-1067 Melissa McCormick (DGS) Wai-Yee Li (HT) Chemical Physics Eric J. Heller (Acting CH) Economics (617) 384-9489 (617) 495-2144 Eugene I. Shakhnovich (CH) John Y. Campbell (CH) (on leave 2009-10) Alberto Alesina (DGS) Matthew D. Shair (Co-DGS) Jeffrey A. Miron (DUS) Anthony R. Shaw, Jr. (Co-DGS) Engineering Sciences Chemistry and Chemical Biology (617) 495-2833 (617) 495-4076 Joost Vlassak (DUS) Andrew G. Myers (CH, Co-DGS) Marie D. Dahleh (Assistant DUS) Anthony R. Shaw, Jr. (Co-DGS) Daniel E. Kahne (Co-DUS) English Greg Tucci (Co-DUS) (617) 495-2533 James Engell (CH) Chemistry and Physics William James Simpson (DGS) Eric J. Heller (CH) Daniel G. Donoghue (DUS) (617) 496-7537 Howard Georgi (DUS) Environmental Science and Public Policy (617) 496-6995 Classics, The TBA (CH) (617) 495-4027 Michael B. McElroy (HT) John Duffy (CH) Emma Dench (DGS) European Studies (617) 495-4303 Richard Thomas (DUS) David G. Blackbourn (CH) Computer Science Expository Writing (617) 495-2833 See Harvard College Writing Program. Steven J. Gortler (DUS)

Core Program (617) 495-2563 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 89 Extra-Departmental Courses Health Policy (617) 495-1523 (617) 496-5412 Sandra Naddaff (Director) Joseph P. Newhouse (CH) B. Katherine Swartz (DGS) Film and Visual Studies Tom Conley (Acting CH, DGS) History (617) 496-6090 (617) 495-2504 TBA (CH) Lizabeth Cohen (CH) David R. Armitage (DGS) Folklore and Mythology Daniel L. Smail (DUS) (617) 495-4788 Maria Tatar (CH) History and East Asian Languages Deborah D. Foster (HT) Mark C. Elliott (CH) (617) 496-5343 Forestry (978) 724-3302 History and Literature David R. Foster (DGS) (617) 495-4029 Jill M. Lepore (CH) Freshman Seminar Program Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (DS) (617) 495-1523 Sandra Naddaff (Director) History of American Civilization (617) 495-3325 General Education, Program in John Stauffer (CH, DGS) (617) 495-2563 Stephanie H. Kenen (Administrative Director) History of Art and Architecture (617) 495-2377 Germanic Languages and Literatures Thomas B. F. Cummins (CH) (617) 495-2339 Robin Kelsey (DGS) Eric Rentschler (CH) Jennifer Roberts (DUS) Peter Burgard (DGS) Markus Wilczek History of Science (617) 495-3741 Global Health Anne Harrington (CH) (617) 495-8222 Katharine Park (DGS) David M. Cutler (Co-CH) Steven Shapin (DUS) Paul E. Farmer (Co-CH) House Seminar Program Government (617) 495-1523 (617) 495-2149 Sandra Naddaff (Director) Nancy Lipton Rosenblum (CH) James Alt (DGS) Human Development and Cheryl Brown Welch (DUS) Regenerative Biology See Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Harvard College Writing Program (617) 495-2566 Human Evolutionary Biology Thomas R. Jehn (Director) (617) 495-5837 Daniel E. Lieberman (CH) Richard Wrangham (HT)

90 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Molecular and Cellular Biology (617) 495-3777 (617) 495-2300 Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp (CH, DGS) Catherine Dulac (CH, Co-DGS) Markus Meister (Co-DGS) Latin American and Iberian Studies Richard M. Losick (HT) (617) 495-3366 TBA (CH) Music (617) 495-2791 Anne C. Shreffler (CH) Life Sciences Kay Kaufman Shelemay (DGS) (617) 495-1996 Christopher Hasty (HT) Erin K. O’Shea (CH) Near Eastern Languages Linguistics and Civilizations (617) 495-4054 (617) 495-5757 Gennaro Chierchia (CH) P. Oktor Skjaervo (CH) C.-T. James Huang (DGS) Ruth R. Wisse (DGS) Maria Polinsky (DUS) TBA (DUS)

Literature and Comparative Literature Neurobiology (617) 495-2543 John E. Dowling (CH, HT) David Damrosch (CH) (617) 495-2245 Sandra Naddaff (DS) Oceanography Mathematics (617) 495-2171 (617) 495-2351 Shing-Tung Yau (CH) Eli Tziperman (CH) Richard L. Taylor (DGS) TBA (DUS) Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (617) 495-2305 Medical Sciences, Division of Andrew A. Biewener (CH) (617) 432-2405 John R. Wakeley (DGS) Thomas M. Roberts (Dean) (on leave 2009-2010) David Golan (CH) Giribet Gonzolo (HT) David Cardozo (DGS) David A. Haig (HT) (on leave 2009-2010) Medieval Studies (617) 496-8993 Organizational Behavior Jeffrey Hamburger (CH) (617) 495-6106 Peter V. Marsden (CH) Middle Eastern Studies (617) 495-4056 Philosophy Cemal Kadafar (CH) (617) 495-2191 Susan Kahn (Acting DGS) Sean Kelly (CH) Christine Korsgaard (DGS) Mind, Brain, and Behavior Edward J. Hall (DUS) (617) 495-5913 Sean D. Kelly (Co-CH) Richard W. Wrangham (Co-CH)

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY 91 Physics Latin American Studies (617) 495-2872 Jose Rabasa (UA) Christopher Stubbs (CH) Melissa Franklin (DGS) Portuguese-Brazilian Studies Howard Georgi (DUS) Joaquim-Francisco Coelho (DGS) David Morin (Assistant DUS) Clémence Jouët-Pastré (UA) Romance Studies Political Economy and Government Mary Gaylord (UA) (617) 495-1190 Torben Iversen (CH) Spanish Kenneth A. Shepsle (DGS) Luis Girón Negrón (DGS) Johanna Damgaard Liander (UA) Psychology (617) 495-3800 Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Susan E. Carey (CH) Program (617) 495-1194 Daniel Gilbert (DGS) Terry Martin (Acting CH, DGS) Mahzarin R. Banaji (DUS) Public Health Sciences Sanskrit and Indian Studies (617) 432-1026 (617) 495-3295 TBA (CH) Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp (CH, DUS) Anne Monius (DGS) Public Policy Robert N. Stavins (CH, DGS) Science, Technology, and Management (617) 495-1820 (617) 495-6106 Stefan Thomke (Co-CH) Regional Studies-East Asia Woodward Yang (Co-CH) (617) 495-3777 Xiaofei Tan (CH) Slavic Languages and Literatures (617) 495-4065 Religion, The Study of Julie Buckler (CH) (617) 495-5781 Justin Weir (DGS) Diana Eck (CH) Joanna Nizynska (DUS) Janet Gyatso (DGS) Tamsin Jones (DUS) Social Policy (617) 496-5810 Romance Languages and Literatures Bruce Western (CH) (617) 495-2546 Kathryn Edin (Co-DGS) Virginie Greene (CH) Jennifer Hochschild (Co-DGS) Mary Gaylord (DUS) Social Studies French (617) 495-2163 Christie McDonald (DGS) Richard Tuck (CH) Mylene Priam (UA) Anya Bernstein (DS)

Italian Francesco Erspamer (DGS) (fall term) Lino Pertile (DGS) (spring term) Giuliana Minghelli (UA)

92 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DIRECTORY Sociology (617) 495-3812 Robert J. Sampson (CH) Frank Dobbin (DGS) David L. Ager (Co-DUS) Jason Beckfield (Co-DUS)

South Asian Studies (617) 384-7683 TBA (CH)

Special Concentrations (617) 495-4245 TBA (CH) Deborah D. Foster (DUS)

Statistics (617) 495-5496 Xiao-Li Meng (CH) S. C. Samuel Kou (Co-DGS) Carl N. Morris (Co-DGS) Joseph Blitzstein (Co-DUS) David Harrington (Co-DUS)

Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (617) 496-9922 David T. Scadden (Co-CH) Douglas A. Melton (Co-CH, Co-HT) Kevin C. Eggan (Co-HT)

Systems Biology (617) 432-4996 Pamela A. Silver (CH, DGS)

Ukrainian Studies (617) 495-4053 Michael S. Flier (CH)

Visual and Environmental Studies (617) 495-3251 Marjorie Garber (CH) Ruth Lingford (DUS)

Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies of (617) 495-9199 Bradley S. Epps (CH) Caroline Light (DS) Linda Schlossberg (Assistant DS)

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