Word: westernness
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...have taken a departmental class studying these authors in the original language are given the opportunity to explore new cultures and ideas.But classes like this are slim pickings, and even those that blur specific national distinctions like Fisher’s remain regionally focused. Though multiple survey courses on Western (meaning European) history, intellectual thought, and art are offered, an equivalent for other parts of the world is nowhere to be found. Despite research centers as far as Mumbai and Harvard’s claims to be an international institution, an odd whiff of Eurocentrism still wafts through the Cambridge...
...evolution of the undergraduate program of general education has reflected and intensified this expansion of curiosity and knowledge. The postwar Red Book was profoundly and proudly “Western,” and emphasized the humanities more than the sciences. The Core, set up in the 1970s, asserted that it focused on different modes of thinking (something on which a divided faculty could agree), but it also introduced Harvard undergraduates to different cultures, to ethical reasoning, and to more scientific knowledge. The new general education program adopted last year (in a country in which anything that is 30 years...
...past five decades but has not disappeared. Although the academic left scored a victory in the latter half of the 20th century by making “ethnic” and “regional” studies mainstream, the creation of venues of study for non-Western disciplines or topics is only half the battle. While the 1957 establishment of the Center for East Asian Studies surely led to a greater understanding of East Asian cultures on Harvard’s campus, it is impossible to escape the exoticism the region was subject to by the College?...
...academic offerings is the opportunity to study these fields as integrated pieces of history, literature, and social theory. While it is possible to be a history major and devote much of your studies to the history of Africa, for example, the introductory courses in history are exclusively Western. A deep investigation of African history necessitates dipping heavily into the anthropology and African and African American studies departments. It is worth pausing and asking why the histories of non-white regions are still largely relegated to the arena of ethnic studies when French and German are as much categories of ethnicity...
...think [our season] went really well, but if I wanted one match to come out differently, it would have been Yale,” DiSesa said. Hoping for a chance at redemption, the Crimson headed to the CSA National Team Championships. Harvard started the tournament impressively, crushing Western Ontario in the first round with a score of 6-3. But history repeated itself when the Crimson faced No. 1 Trinity for the second time, as Harvard was swept 9-0 once again. The Crimson played Yale for third place in the final round and lost, 6-3, leaving Harvard fourth...