But unlike Princeton, Stanford and Harvard, instructors are generally not tenured members of the faculty.
They are more often, says Fry, retired business professionals and former diplomats that like to "come down and tell students how to do it."
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But does it count?
Harvard's seminars are graded pass/fail. They count as electives and do not meet concentration or Core requirements.
But the courses at Princeton and Stanford can fulfill part of their distribution requirements.
"They count as regular Princeton course, have methodological approaches and content area, so there is no reason not to let them fulfill distribution requirements," Dobin says.
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