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...Committee on Ethnic Studies (CES) took its first steps yesterday toward implementing a certificate in Latino studies—just a week after University President Lawrence H. Summers pointedly failed to support a student-initiated request for a Latino studies department...
...CES Chair and Professor of American Civilization Werner M. Sollors said the certificate, which would be in a field known in academic circles as U.S. Latino studies, would be “on the way next year...
...University distributes a booklet by the Committee on Ethnic Studies (CES) outlining over 90 courses available in ethnic studies at Harvard, from ethnic conflicts around the world to Ukrainian literature. In a booklet that is supposed to outline courses in Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, why is “Questions of Identity in Central European Modernist Fiction” listed when there is only one course focusing on Latino studies? Harvard likes to be unique, but its interpretation of ethnic studies as any course related to ethnicity only confuses students, blurring area studies and ethnic...
...small step towards a more diverse curriculum. We believed that the certificate would encourage more students to take ethnic studies courses and more Faculty to offer them. A small victory was thought to have been achieved in spring 2001 when the certificate was approved by both the CES and Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, but unfortunately, the new chair of the CES—Werner Sollors, who is also a professor of Afro-American studies—decided to review the certificate proposal again this year. As with most proposals...
Sollors said in the fall that he expects CES to come to a decision regarding the certificate proposal by the end of this school year...