"Sandel manages to have a conversation with 800 people. That's talent!" Jessica R. Stannard-Friel '04 said.
"Michael Sandel just blew me away," said Michael W. Nitsch '04, who initially shied away from the course's large lecture format. "The feeling and the excitement of the lecture hall were so wonderful that I couldn't think of giving it up."
Harvard College Professor and Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel echoed his students' enthusiasm, describing the course as a "great joy."
"Despite the size of the class, students have a chance to argue back--with me and with each other--about hard moral and philosophical questions," Sandel wrote in an e-mail message. "This gives the course its energy and spontaneity."
Over the last four years, Ec 10 and Justice have been among the top choices for undergraduates, with enrollment consistently ranging between 700 and 1,000.
But another course in the top 10 has seen its enrollment double over last year's total.
Government 1540, "The American Presidency" increased from 152 students in 1999 to 298 students in 2000, catapulting it into ninth place.
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