Word: approached
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...means that students interested in issues of race and ethnicity can only pick and choose from a limited selection of disconnected courses in various departments. The requirements of individual departments (especially tutorial requirements) are not designed to facilitate this type of general study, and those who do take this approach (concentrating in English, say, to focus on Asian-American literature) do a disservice to both fields...
...Afro-American Studies department serves as an outstanding model of an effective way to study the subject of race and ethnicity in the United States. The department offers courses on Afro-American literature, sociology, political organization, history and philosophy. Implicit in the structure of the concentration is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the unique Afro-American experience. It recognizes that ethnicity should not be viewed only through the lens of a single academic area...
...have full departmental status to be viable, although an ethnic studies department would be welcome. Alternatively, by following the example of history and literature or social studies, the College could establish an interdisciplinary degree-granting committee on ethnic studies. Like these other concentrations, ethnic studies could utilize a comparative approach through the use of several fields of study. The committee could offer tutorials taught by professors or lecturers from different fields, enabling students to choose the rest of their concentration courses from a broad spectrum of other humanities departments...
...will remain responsible for setting the event's basic parameters and giving all expenditures final approval. When the council's size is reduced to 50 members next year, this type of cooperative approach will become even more vital...
...single program or approach is going to do this," he said at a press conference announcing the study's findings yesterday...