Course offerings posted on the Registrar's website Thursday included a new listing of courses on "race, ethnicity and cross-cultural encounter."
Though a listing of cross-cultural courses has been included in the paper catalog in previous semesters, the Registrar's Office posted the information online in response to a request from USG officers, who said they wanted to give the courses a higher profile.
"We wanted to emphasize the importance of courses dealing with civic engagement and we also wanted to emphasize the cross-cultural courses, especially given the results of the race survey," said USG president Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06.
University administrators said that, despite the heightened visibility, they have no plans to introduce a cross-cultural distribution requirement.
"Last time the University reconsidered general requirements . . . a decision was made not to make these courses a requirement, based on evidence that almost all students, of their own choice, took courses that considered race and culture," Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin said.
Dobin said the primary objective of the change was to correct an oversight, not emphasize cross-cultural courses.
"We're simply trying to make the online course offerings more friendly and useful," Dobin said. Administrators have made this a priority because students seem to prefer the course offerings website to the paper catalog, he said.
A list of community-based learning initiative (CBLI) courses, which are not listed in the paper catalog, will also be posted online once the courses for next semester have been finalized.
The USG plans to discuss the possibility of a cultural studies requirement in a future Senate meeting and a meeting of the committee on race and the campus community.
Dobin and Joseph both declined to predict whether the online postings will generate increased enrollment.
"I think some students take these courses naturally," Dobin said. "Most students select courses not because they consulted this list but because they seemed interesting."
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