Harvard's Undergraduate Concentration Distribution

Continuing on the thought that the study of World Canonical Texts may be best encompassed in a field like World Humanities or World Area Studies, academically it needs to be represented in a University's curriculum as either course(s), undergraduate minor or major, and Ph.D. programs. For this reason, I started to look at Harvard's undergraduate program - they call major "field of concentration," and minor "secondary field."

In Harvard College's (that is their undergraduate school) Student Handbook online, they show how many concentrators there are. I pick the last year where data is available (2012) to compile the following table:

* The groupings here are my own, not Harvard's official classifications. In fact, Harvard puts History as Social Science.

There should be no double-counting here - and data is as of Dec, 2012. Students I think declare concentrations by then in the beginning of the Sophomore year. So we are talking about roughly 3 classes (Sophomore, Junior, Senior) each class with roughly 1,600~1,650 students.

Also note that the "concentrators + other fields" means joint concentrations, which is not double-major and also not "secondary fields.

This is more data-entry than I originally thought, but it highlights the prominence of Social Science (like Economics and Government) in the mix (which is conducive to doing a secondary field in something like "World Humanities"). Also, for students concentrating on History, or History of Art & Architecture, "World Humanities" would also likely to be a good secondary field.