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...recommend that the existing fields of concentration reconsider their present procedures of approving research projects, and of granting concentration credit, in an awareness of the difficulties experienced by students in developing Afro-American study projects. It might be appropriate, for instance, for Departments to offer undergraduate pro-seminars for academic coordination of field-study and work-study projects, or other relevant community work, of several students. Each Department ought also make a survey of its teaching resources, and the interests of its teaching faculties, so that students would be able to find Faculty members prepared to direct and supervise unusual...
...black student's desire for some continuing identification with the black community poses a particular challenge to the present structure of undergraduate life. The House system in particular works splendidly in terms of the traditional Harvard goal of "integrating" students from a variety of backgrounds. But the black students feel that the system, by its very nature, works a perhaps too thorough fragmentation of the black student community, most obviously at Radcliffe, where dispersal of black students has, at least in the past, led to the assignment of but a single black student in one residence hall...
...Present Situation at Harvard
Most departmental requirements for concentration permit students to do considerable work in Afro-American studies. Head Tutors reported that courses, tutorial and independent study dealing with Afro-American material could, under present rules, be counted for concentration and related work. The Government Department, for example, noted that "in three of the four required areas. . . it would be possible for a student with a strong interest in black studies to fulfill his Departmental requirements with work in this area." In Social Relations, the "basic policy is to encourage students with such interests by allowing them to develop a program drawing upon...
...should be noted, however, that the relative absence of middle level courses dealing entirely or primarily with Afro-American material makes it difficult for students to act on the freedom implied by these rules. Moreover, there are at present no special fields in Afro-American Studies within existing departments or committees of instruction...