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...concentration,” “comp,” “intersession” and “proctor:” the “secondary field.” We commend the Faculty—and particularly the Educational Policy Committee (EPC)—for quickly implementing the Harvard equivalent of minors, which have the potential to become integral parts of the curriculum. We hope, however, that students will not treat secondary fields as a de facto requirement...
...effort to cater to the broad interests of Harvard’s students, last spring, the Faculty approved secondary fields, optional programs of four to six half-year courses that will appear on a student’s transcript (but not diploma) after graduation. The EPC, empowered to implement these mini-concentrations, last week announced 24 secondary fields had been approved for the spring term. They will apply retroactively so that the Class of 2007 will be able to have secondary fields on their transcripts...
...speedy efforts of the EPC are commendable, and their product is practical; the approved fields will reward and provide flexibility to students curious about a subject far removed from their own concentration. They are also an improvement for students who wish to pursue two somewhat-related fields, but who are not sufficiently interested in their intersection to write a joint thesis. To top it off, the EPC has allocated a generous amount of resources to the nascent program, ensuring that even in pursuit of these minor concentrations, students will be advised and assisted well...
These concerns aside, the EPC deserves kudos for their success and the speed with which they achieved it. The rapid progress of the secondary field program demonstrates what can be accomplished at Harvard with resources, focus, and a concerted effort toward a concrete goal. We hope that other programs in the future can demonstrate such success just a few months after their initial approval...
...enrollment this year can be attributed to students interested in economics as a secondary, but not primary, concentration, according to Stock.The Faculty’s Educational Policy Committee has yet to examine non-departmental proposals, including ones for archaeology, global health, health policy, and mind, brain, and behavior. The EPC will begin reviewing these proposals in early February, but secondary fields in those areas will not be available for June 2007 graduates.“We don’t necessarily want students to be planning their lives around this,” Kenen said of secondary fields...