Critical Review (Brown University)

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The Critical Review
The cover of the 30th anniversary edition of The Critical Review, published in April, 2006, consisted of a collage of cover artwork from previous editions.
Categories	Brown University
Frequency	Semiannual
First issue	1976
Company	student organization
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	The Critical Review

This article is about the Brown University student publication. For other uses, see Critical Review.

The Critical Review is a student publication that produces reviews of course offerings at Brown University. The student group that produces it is also called the Critical Review. The reviews are written by Brown students from course evaluation questionnaires distributed to class members in the final days of the academic semester. Its purpose is to help students make informed course choices and to help instructors improve pedagogical techniques by supplementing the information in The Brown Course Announcement with real student experiences.

[edit] History

In 1976, just seven years after Brown's "New Curriculum" had been announced, The Other View: A Consumer's Guide to Courses at Brown was started by a group of Brown undergraduates as a publication of the Undergraduate Council of Students. In this annual magazine, students wrote reviews of courses based on responses to both the organization's own questionnaires and also based on departmental questionnaires which were made available by several departments. Sometime between 1978 and 1981, the name was changed to The Critical Review: A Consumer's Guide to Courses at Brown, and then to simply The Critical Review a few years later .