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After years of informal debate, two Harvard educators are developing plans for queer studies to become the subject of a formal academic program at Harvard. We applaud this progress towards a Faculty committee on queer studies, an emerging discipline dealing with important issues concerning sexuality and identity...
Even though the proposal does not advocate a degree-granting standing committee, this effort is an encouraging first step toward that goal. Queer studies is a viable academic discipline that deals with ideological issues surrounding questions of homosexual identity. An increasing number of universities, including Yale, Cornell and Brown have similar programs in this relatively new academic field, and Harvard’s failure to acknowledge it as a legitimate course of study lags behind the times...
...push to grant students a certificate in human rights comes as part of a larger move—groups of students and faculty have recently discussed programs in both queer and ethnic studies...
...Epps disagrees, claiming queer studies is at most an “uneasy fit” with existing programs...
...selling his proposal to administrators, Epps said he will point to the success of similar programs at other universities and to increasing student demand for guidance on queer studies...