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...proposal also cited the urgent need for this particularly field of study. “The growing diversity of our campus, coupled with incidents of racially motivated intolerance in recent years, is evidence that more resources that help students understand different perspectives and life experience are sorely needed,” the proposal stated...
...number of General Education courses would count towards the secondary field. Many departmental courses—including government, sociology, and music—would also count...
Lecturer on History Denise Khor, a member of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, said the new field will allow students “to ask questions that might not get asked in a particular discipline...
...establishment of Ethnic Studies as a secondary field is the culmination of much struggle and heated debate between concerned student groups including the Asian American Association and Native Americans at Harvard College and the administration...
...midst of the recession, the new field represents an attempt by Harvard “to do, within the financial constraints, whatever we can to create more of an intellectual vibrancy,” said Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors, who is also the chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies...