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The attacks spawned new courses and increased enrollments in religion and Arabic classes at Harvard. Sept. 11 has manifested itself in the academic interests and career decisions of many members of this year’s graduating class. For others in the Class of 9/11, it was just a day...
Like the committee on religion, the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NELC) grew more popular in the wake of the attacks. NELC has nine concentrators in the Class of 2005. This is a notable increase from past years for a concentration that usually attracts only joint-concentrators and...
Three of these seniors, he says, have taken four years of Arabic, an unprecedented number given that the concentration, which includes Arabic, Islamic, Jewish, Turkish, and Persian studies, only requires two years of a primary language.
The growth in NELC enrollment can be attributed to the popularity of Arabic classes that swelled in the months and years after Sept. 11. A year after the attacks, enrollment in introductory Arabic nearly doubled. According to the Registrar, 74 students enrolled in Arabic A, an introductory language course, in...
Thomas I.D. Odell ’04-’05 took his first Arabic class on Sept. 12, 2001 and he calls the attacks “quite a backdrop” for the beginning of his studies. The summer before the attacks, Odell decided to concentrate in NELC...