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The cover of this year's course catalog shows first-year students dining in Annenberg Hall - and, a blur in the background, the bald-headed, hyperkinetic Mike Berry, former director of dining services.



With all of Harvard's course catalogs fully accessible by computer, the printed version of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) publication-787 pages long this year-seems destined to become just another nostalgia-inducing relic, recalling for alumni the sobering, frustrating, or exhilarating endeavor of course selection. For current undergraduates, the actual task of finding the perfect course has never been easier.

Two popular aids exist on the World Wide Web: the undergraduate-run Digitas Technology's Course Decision Assistant and Harvard's own website. The Digitas site is more user-friendly, especially for that pocket of undergraduates who choose courses based on exam groups or meeting times, but it is limited to the FAS catalog. Harvard's official website allows you to search all the course catalogs at the graduate schools as well, but you can't effectively narrow searches: the more words you put in your search string, the greater the number of courses you will find. You'll also find, among the words most likely to turn up in the titles of the 591 new FAS courses offered this academic year, the standards "history" and "literature," but also "race," "culture," "society," and "gender." Most popular of all, naturally, in a presidential election year, is "politics." Following is a selection of newly available FAS courses - some uncannily topical.

New Courses
Afro-American Studies 113, "The Debates Over Affirmative Action"
English 185, "The Seven Deadly Sins"
English 288, "Versions of Moses"
Fine Arts 174s, "Body Image in French Visual Culture (Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century)"
Fine Arts 277, "Queer Theory and Visuality"
Government 1335, "The Role of the Jury in a Democratic Society"
Government 1361, "Analyzing American Elections"
Government 2726, "The Use of Force: Political and Moral Criteria"
History 1649, "The American West: Mexican Cession to Sagebrush Rebellion"
History 1653, "Baseball and American Society, 1840-1996"
Literature 124, "Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought"
Mathematics 217, "Representations of Reductive Lie Groups"

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