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New depts. bolster academic life

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, May 17, 2001

As the class of 2001 has changed and grown at Yale, so has the Blue Book.

Reflecting an emerging emphasis on racial studies and a continuing drive to improve undergraduate science education, several new academic programs and departments have been created over the last four years.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was granted departmental status in 1998, and African American Studies was promoted to a department in 2000, making them the only two new departments in the last 30 years. Academic offerings have also been expanded in recent years by the creation of the Ethnicity,...

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