News

When Professors Speak Out, Some Students Stay Quiet. Can Harvard Keep Everyone Talking?

News

Allston Residents, Elected Officials Ask for More Benefits from Harvard’s 10-Year Plan

News

Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin Warns of Federal Data Misuse at IOP Forum

News

Woman Rescued from Freezing Charles River, Transported to Hospital with Serious Injuries

News

Harvard Researchers Develop New Technology to Map Neural Connections

Freshman Concentration Guide

Semitic Languages...

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Two faculty members and two or three College concentrators make up the undergraduate component of Semitic Languages and Literatures, a field mainly designed for graduate students.

The department discourages undergraduates from concentrating in its courses, because it feels that men who want to work in this area had better get a more general grounding in the classics and history first.

However, those who do concentrate in the field--and there are exceptions to the department's rule--will find that the courses deal with the languages, the history, and the culture of the Near Eastern Moslem and Jewish countries.

The two staff members are Professor Harry A. Wolfson and Dr. Robert H. Pfeiffer, both extremely competent scholars and teachers.

The last in this series of articles appears on page six.

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags