In response to growing demand for the major, the Program of Environmental Studies announced last week that the application deadline for the 7-year-old environmental studies major will be moved up from May 15 to March 27 and that the major may be capped due to limited faculty availability.
Yale College faculty members voted unanimously Thursday for the creation of two new undergraduate majors: Modern Middle East Studies and Computing and the Arts.
Professors and students might not be talking about the academic effects of expansion at the residential college forums, but across the University, they are thinking.
Enthusiastic about the offerings and applications of the ethnicity, race and migration major, a group of students is pushing for ER&M to become a stand-alone major, citing its importance in a multi-cultural, globalized society.
Despite the growing support of hundreds of Yalies for a new undergraduate major in health studies, administrators said it will be at least a year before such a program can become a reality at Yale.
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.
