New Harvard Extension programs

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by alarmingidea, Jul 20, 2006.

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  1. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    Harvard just released the new Extension catalog. They've added two new concentrations to the ALM in liberal arts: Middle Eastern studies and medieval studies.

    Of particular interest to some folks around here may be the new ALM in management. It's not a distance degree, but significant components may be able to be done via dl.

    Finally, this year's distance offerings have expanded a bit, and include a course from the law school.
     
  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Ah, if only they had an ALD and I lived in the Boston area....

    -=Steve=-
     
  3. Michael Nunn

    Michael Nunn New Member

    Harvard is not for the average Joe who wants an easy ticket into an Ivy league doctoral program. Their doctorates are reserved for the best and brightest so their extension school will never offer them. Even Harvard's doctorates in education are competitive.
     
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  4. SMAS

    SMAS New Member

    *OUCH*

    Steve, those finger marks on your cheek go away yet?
     
  5. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    Harvard has no ALD because the structure of the university already makes administering the ALM something like the Three Stooges upholstering a sofa with a bolt of cloth and a shotgun full of thumbtacks. And quite frankly, despite all its good points, the Extension School is not a place where I would want to pursue anything beyond a master's degree. I can't see them providing sufficient guidance to make the experience or the resulting degree worthwhile.

    There would no doubt be opposition from faculty and others who didn't want an Extension doctorate to lessen the impact of other Harvard doctoral degrees (there is certainly concern about the proposal to remove the phrase "studiorum prolatorum" (extension studies) from the names of Extension degrees), but given organizational limitations, I can't see the discussion even getting that far.
     
  6. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    :) I appreciate your concern, but I'm not affected by a comment like that from someone who doesn't know me.

    -=Steve=-
     
  7. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Fair enough. I suppose I was comparing the possibility to the Doctor of Liberal Studies program at Georgetown. However, I've more or less decided that the latter is not the best fit for me, so on reflection even were there a Harvard ALD I might not choose it. I really do want to focus pretty specifically on the intersection of international education and development studies.

    -=Steve=-
     
  8. Friendlyman

    Friendlyman New Member

    They're also for the not so bright with great contacts. Easy ticket for some....
     
  9. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    bum bum ba-bum bum ba-bum ba-bum ba-bummmm bum!

    That's odd, I just had this strange urge to start humming "Hail to the Chief"....

    -=Steve=-
     
  10. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Granted, but I don't think there are any "easy tickets" into Ivy doctoral programs. Not even at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, or Yale.
     
  11. Jonathan Liu

    Jonathan Liu Member

    Do you know whether Harvard will bring the whole ALM in Management program online in the near future? Or at least like the ALM IT, only need short residency?
     
  12. iquagmire

    iquagmire Member

    I'd love to know that as well. I'd be first in line to try that degree program online.
     
  13. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    I do not expect that Harvard will offer degrees totally online in the forseeable future, based on conversations that I have had with faculty and staff at the university.

    A semester's residency with the balance of courses being taken online is a possibility, I suppose.
     

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