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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The amount of lecturing at these schools in the humanities seems quite bad though I realize that this has been known for a while.  There are a few bright spots.  I will, for example,  give Duke some credit for offering a surprising number of seminar courses to even freshman, including, surprisingly, in their lit department, which is perennially filled with celebrity hotshot professors.  Columbia has their core curriculum, which I believe is delivered in seminar format. But overall, the situation is far from ideal.  Harvard has always been known for having this problem, but I was surprised by the extent to which Yale seems intent on delivering humanities classes in the form of an old professor droning on and on (perhaps with a weekly section led by a TF).  Is this a recent development or was this always the case?   [/quote]

I have two kids at different ivies and all humanities classes have been discussion based seminars and a couple of stem classes have had a lot of discussion too. Some taught by old, well known professors . There are lectures of course but the majority of class time is discussion for humanities, and they are small, even first year. They’ve had the same or more discussion based classes as their friends at W&L and Bowdoin[/quote]

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