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(4 of 4) Close-up views of the “local student feed,” “instructor feed,” and a shared screen during Henry Leitner’s hybrid computer-science class.
Courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/ Office of Undergraduate Education.
On the first Wednesday afternoon in April, Daniel Lord Smail divides the students in General Education 1044, “Deep History,” into pairs, to brainstorm about the characteristics of their families’ traditional meals. It’s a perfectly routine exercise for this highly participatory course, focused today on the rituals associated with celebratory feasts throughout human history. But when Smail, who is Baird professor of history, and Matt Liebmann, Peabody professor of American archaeology and ethnology, match “Roomies” with “Zoomies” for the exercise, it becomes clear how far from routine this class is, near the end of an extraordinary academic year (and part of the prior spring semester) tau