town on Harvard Yard and blockaded a speech by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown.
In response to pressure, the university eventually reduced its South African holdings by $230 million out of a total of $400 million between 1986 and 1987.
== Academics ==
=== Teaching and learning ===
Harvard is a large, highly residential research university
offering 50 undergraduate majors,
134 graduate degrees, and 32 professional degrees. During the 2018–2019 academic year, Harvard granted 1,665 baccalaureate degrees, 1,013 graduate degrees, and 5,695 professional degrees.
Harvard College, the four-year, full-time undergraduate program, has a liberal arts and sciences focus. To graduate in the usual four years, undergraduates normally take four courses per semester.
In most majors, an honors degree requires advanced coursework and a senior thesis.
Though some introductory courses have large enrollments, the median class size is 12 students.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with an academic staff of 1,211 as of …
