"We don't have an Asian-American history course, or a Native-American history course," Chong said.

Even in some areas of ethnic studies where Harvard does have course offerings, students said, there are no permanent courses, only ones taught by visiting professors such as Lamadrid.

"[The visiting scholars program] is in no way sufficient," Suk said. "It's nice to take a class for the semester, but we want to go back to them, and take more advanced classes, study with them for theses."

"Of course everyone would like to see a department like the one at UC Berkeley, but we feel Harvard's not ready for that," Chong said. "At very least, though, we would like to take courses."

Chong said she hopes that someday Harvard will offer courses similar to those in Afro-American Studies, "but applied to Asian Americans, Latinos and Native Americans."

Chong added, though, that she doubts the likelihood of success in getting a stronger ethnic studies program at Harvard in the near future, considering what the administration has done in the past.

"I'm not confident that anything I've worked for in the last four years will remain after I graduate," she said