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They may be the intellectual elite, but Harvard students could graduate without reading a work of fiction during their time at America’s oldest university.
Chastising her fellow 25,000 students at the college dating back to 1636, Claire Miller has claimed that the university should require them to at least pick up a book.
Writing in The Harvard Crimson, the college newspaper, Ms Miller has called for the university to make an English course compulsory for students, who pay more than $56,000 (£44,350) a year for their tuition.
Posing a question to her peers, she asked: “When was the last time you read a book cover to cover?
“For me, a prospective English concentrator, it was last week. But ask my peers in other concentrations and you’re more likely to get a shrug. “Harvard students complain about readings constantly.
“They lament any assignments requiring they conquer more than 25 pages as tedious or overwhelming (if they aren’t passing the work off to ChatGPT). It’s far too rare that we’re assigned a full book to read and rarer still that we actually finish them.” It was a withering condemnation of students at a university which in recent years has become better known for political activism than rigorous study.
However, Ms Miller adds, the blame rests with the university.
“A number of expository writing courses don’t require students to read whole novels. The same is true for many classes that satisfy the arts and humanities requirement.
They may be the intellectual elite, but Harvard students could graduate without reading a work of fiction during their time at America’s oldest university.
Chastising her fellow 25,000 students at the college dating back to 1636, Claire Miller has claimed that the university should require them to at least pick up a book.
Writing in The Harvard Crimson, the college newspaper, Ms Miller has called for the university to make an English course compulsory for students, who pay more than $56,000 (£44,350) a year for their tuition.
Posing a question to her peers, she asked: “When was the last time you read a book cover to cover?
“For me, a prospective English concentrator, it was last week. But ask my peers in other concentrations and you’re more likely to get a shrug. “Harvard students complain about readings constantly.
“They lament any assignments requiring they conquer more than 25 pages as tedious or overwhelming (if they aren’t passing the work off to ChatGPT). It’s far too rare that we’re assigned a full book to read and rarer still that we actually finish them.” It was a withering condemnation of students at a university which in recent years has become better known for political activism than rigorous study.
However, Ms Miller adds, the blame rests with the university.
“A number of expository writing courses don’t require students to read whole novels. The same is true for many classes that satisfy the arts and humanities requirement.