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Dates: during 2007-2007
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...Indo-Muslim languages and culture professor Ali S. Asani ’77, who teaches the popular course Foreign Cultures 70, “Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies,” described a “religious and cultural illiteracy?? about Islam at Harvard, which he said extends to segments of the faculty and administration. He said students have complained to him about discrimination and prejudice from professors...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Soul-Search for Islamic Society | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...social sciences generally, as well as the study of the past, are the two areas that don’t fit so automatically anywhere,” said Andrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the history department.‘HISTORICAL ILLITERACY??With the new curriculum subdivided according to a different philosophy emphasizing the real-world applications of academics, disciplines that were once isolated are being brought together.As a result, history and economics courses, which are separated into Historical Studies and Social Analysis in the current Core Curriculum, would fit into the same categories...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Science Profs Question Gen Ed | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

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