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Fitzsimmons said the growing reputation of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences caused more students to apply to Harvard this year, and 12.2 percent of the admitted students listed engineering as their intended concentration??up 2 percent from last year...
...Tocqueville had been born a black woman, what would she have said about America? Social studies concentrators will never know. Those who have taken the concentration??s much-feared introductory social theory course, Social Studies 10, know that the syllabus is comprised almost exclusively of white, European, heterosexual male theorists. The strikingly homogenous syllabus speaks to the existence of a social studies ideology that we—all Harvard students—should not accept...
...secondary field program was initiated in 2006 to offer students the chance to “pursue focused study in one area outside of the concentration?? by taking four to six courses in a particular area, according to the College’s secondary fields Web site...
...year for the first time by Music and African and African-American Studies Professor Kay K. Shelemay.FLEXIBILITY BUILT ON A ‘COMMON GROUND’This year’s concentration changes also reflect a desire to give students leeway to pave their own path within their concentration??but not before they take classes that ground them in the framework of the field.The English department has slashed most of its requirements—including its “Major British Writers” series, English 10a and 10b—in favor of granting its concentrators...
...academic at an ivy league institution.”“It was a sign of the times. Most of us generally accepted the discrimination that existed,” she said.McNeal, who studied biochemical sciences as an undergraduate, said that in the male dominated department, the concentration??s women missed out on a camaraderie shared by the men. In some classes, there were three or four girls in a class of over 200. McNeal’s thesis adviser, Carroll Williams, regularly held afternoon teas often frequented by noted scientists such as James Watson. However McNeal...