Two faculty members and two or three College concentrators make up the undergraduate component of Semitic Languages and Literatures, a field mainly designed for graduate students.
The department discourages undergraduates from concentrating in its courses, because it feels that men who want to work in this area had better get a more general grounding in the classics and history first.
However, those who do concentrate in the field--and there are exceptions to the department's rule--will find that the courses deal with the languages, the history, and the culture of the Near Eastern Moslem and Jewish countries.
The two staff members are Professor Harry A. Wolfson and Dr. Robert H. Pfeiffer, both extremely competent scholars and teachers.
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