course descriptions

On the benefits of academic exploration

Exploring different courses and pushing yourself to understand that which is outside of your current frame of reference can help you ultimately understand people that are different from yourself.

Lauren Alley | Senior Forum Editor

More extensive course descriptions would benefit professors and students alike

The only official pieces of information available to all students when choosing classes are a short course description that rarely changes from year to year and numerical course evaluation scores. Other information comes from unreliable sources such as friends who have taken a class (sometimes from a totally different professor) and websites like ratemyprofessor.com.

| Staff Columnist

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