Harvard will offer a new freshman intro course to the Arts and Humanities, Human Sciences 15, next spring as part of an ongoing push to rethink its humanities curriculum. Human Sciences 15, which will ...

One of Sean D. Kelly’s first promises as Harvard’s new Dean of Arts and Humanities was that he would facilitate the creation of new introductory courses for the division, which he felt lacked its ...

The Freshman Seminar (FRS) program has been a cornerstone tradition for first-year student experiences since 1986. Initially proposed as a “Freshman Seminar program centered in the Residential ...

When Dane Johnson was a high school senior, he had no idea what he wanted to study in college or what career he might want to pursue. But he was a good student, and he didn’t need to know what came ...

Gilbert, a musician and varsity baseball player, said he frequently questioned the point of the class because so many students looked up the answers to assignments and quizzes online. “It makes ...