Since the launch of the Yale India Initiative two weeks ago, the South Asian Studies program has been drawing up a wish list of additional programs and hirings in anticipation of a large-scale expansion.
Alejandro Galindo immigrated to the United States from Peru in 1984 and got a job as a storeroom clerk at the former Park Plaza Hotel on Temple Street. After it closed, he worked at a factory. Then, five years ago, his career took an unlikely twist: He was hired to teach at Yale. Galindo is a language partner at the Directed Independent Language Study Program. In...
Oblivious to the dreary rain pounding on the window, two-year-old Tyler sits, contented, among heaps of brightly-colored plastic, his eyes widening at the sight of unfamiliar toys. As he lunges for a rubber ball rolling down a yellow, plastic slide, a woman walks into the room.
Yale College faculty members voted unanimously Thursday for the creation of two new undergraduate majors: Modern Middle East Studies and Computing and the Arts.
At its meeting last Friday, the Council on African Studies, composed of faculty, staff and students, drafted specific recommendations to reinvigorate the program’s curriculum and administration. After faculty members and current students in the program read and edit the proposal, the Council will submit it to the Provost’s Office for approval as early as the third week of...
Despite piquing the interest of a handful of students on campus, Yale College’s first new major in almost a decade is still sorting through some initial growing pains.
Yale’s course catalogue has thickened in certain fields this year to accommodate increasing student demand, as the University moves forward with plans to add new majors in those areas.
