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...Economics, History, and Psychology Departments have abolished nearly all joint concentrations. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Administrators from the departments defended the decision as beneficial to students and framed it as an attempt to ease the complications associated with joint concentrations. But some students are complaining that the change unnecessarily limits their academic options...
...Economics and Psychology Departments will no longer allow joint concentrations with any department, starting with the Class of 2010. The History Department said it would not accept any joint concentrators, except those who wished to combine history and East Asian studies...
...Adam G. Beaver ’00, the assistant director of undergraduate studies for history, said he hoped that the elimination of the joint concentration would help ease the overachieving habits of some Harvard students...
...were worried that students would attempt to joint-concentrate, then pursue a secondary field as well,” Beaver said. “It would be irresponsible for us to allow students to go after three fields just so it could make them ‘the best...