Michael J. Giordano '02 said he was particularly disappointed. Giordano said he had planned on taking both "Bible" and "Myth," in addition to "Af-Am 10."
"It's a bad string of luck for me," Giordano said. "[The cancellations have] thrown my whole schedule out of whack, and that's kind of annoying."
The cancellation of the two Core classes leaves students with eight Literature and Arts A courses and 10 C courses to choose from, a selection Lewis said was slightly lower than in past years.
But Lewis said the possible addition of two additional Literature and Arts classes next semester will give students more of a selection.
"It's unusual for two courses in a particular term to be cancelled," Lewis said. "It hasn't happened in my 15 years at the Core, but people get illnesses."