Harvard Opens Secondary Fields Option

Students graduating from Harvard this spring will be the first class in the University's history with the option of listing a 'secondary field,' or minor, on their diplomas.

To graduate with a secondary field, a student will have to take a sequential set of four to six courses approved by the University. To date, 49 secondary field programs have been approved, ranging from Anthropology to Celtic Languages to East Asian Studies to Evolutionary Biology.

Additional secondary field programs in global health, archaeology, and other disciplines are under review.

Source: "Secondary Fields Open to Seniors," by Johannah S. Cornblatt, the Harvard Crimson, January 31, 2007