<p>I have some concerns about Harvard's curriculum. Classes appear (based on what I've seen on the website and heard from an alum) to reflect the faculty research interests more than they should-- the freshman English courses, for example, are on fairly specialized topics, and Shakespeare isn't taught that I could find until the sophomore year. That I could find, the idea of the survey course is more or less nonexistent at Harvard. Are these impressions accurate?</p>