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...recommend that the existing fields of concentration reconsider their present procedures of approving research projects, and of granting concentration credit, in an awareness of the difficulties experienced by students in developing Afro-American study projects. It might be appropriate, for instance, for Departments to offer undergraduate pro-seminars for academic coordination of field-study and work-study projects, or other relevant community work, of several students. Each Department ought also make a survey of its teaching resources, and the interests of its teaching faculties, so that students would be able to find Faculty members prepared to direct and supervise unusual...
...Sciences. Most of these courses treat the Afro-American experience in the context of more general aspects of American life: social, political and intellectual history, urban problems, race and ethnic group relations, to name just a few. Only one course, Social Sciences 5, and a few group tutorials for credit in Social Relations and Government, focus exclusively on the history and culture of Afro-Americans...
...growing interest in Afro-American Studies has stimulated the development of informal but carefully conceived study groups and non-credit seminars. In two Houses, for example, groups are studying black literature. Faculty members, graduate students and undergraduates have participated in planning and teaching these groups. In addition, a number of relevant seminars are offered by the Institute of Politics...
Earlier this year, the faculty senate at the University of Pennsylvania's college of Arts and Sciences voted to abolish ROTC course credit, starting in two years, with the class of 1974. The university's Engineering and Business schools are now considering how they should deal with the problem...
Committees to determine what should be done about ROTC are currently meeting at three of the other Ivy League colleges. The Cornell faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last year not to give credit for ROTC courses; however a student-faculty-administration commission is now recommending even greater university sanctions against academic credit for standardized ROTC courses...