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Despite the bureaucracy, 80 percent of students who study abroad receive some concentration or elective credit. Upon their return to Harvard, students submit proof of successfully completed coursework from their overseas host institution to their concentration, which will fill in “credit granted for work done out of...
One of Flader’s main issues is with the difficulty of obtaining Foreign Cultures Core credit while abroad. “It’s ridiculous that they don’t automatically give you Foreign Cultures credit when the entire idea of studying abroad in any context...
WINC President Annie Wong ’02 said that although Disney has tried to incorporate stories from a variety of cultures, she is still wary that Disney’s portrayal gives children false impressions of other cultures.
“The danger is that kids will think about these cultures in a certain way,” Wong said.
Among Pakistan’s urban majority, headscarves—let alone the suffocating burqas—remain the exception. It is a society where, despite all the constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly...