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Earth and Space Sciences
East Asian Languages and Cultures
East Asian Studies
Economics
Education
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
English
English as a Second Language
Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental Science and Engineering
Epidemiology
Ethnomusicology
European Studies
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
Formal instruction was first offered in Chinese
and Japanese at the Los Angeles campus in the fall of 1947, when
a Department of Oriental Languages was organized by Richard C. Rudolph,
chairman, with the assistance of Ensho Ashikaga and Yong C. Chu.
The movement for such a department was initiated by Peter A. Boodberg,
chairman of the parallel department at Berkeley. The curriculum
in the fall of 1947 consisted of eight courses in language, literature
and civilization; a total of 52 students were enrolled for this
initial offering. Ten years later, in the fall of 1957, course offerings
had risen to 21, including several in Arabic; the staff, including
two members in Arabic, totaled seven. By this time enrollment had
risen to 157 students. Arabic courses were later transferred to
the Department of Near Eastern Languages.
In the fall of 1964, undergraduate and graduate
courses totaled 39 and the staff, with Ashikaga as chairman, totaled
11. Students enrolled for courses in the department totaled 362;
there were 22 majors in Oriental languages, of whom 15 were graduate
students.
A master's degree program was started in 1958,
and a Ph.D. program was being planned in the mid-1960s. Instruction in the
Mongolian language was offered in the fall of 1965, and Vietnamese
was offered the following year.
There were no Chinese or Japanese books in the
campus library when instruction was first offered in these languages.
Large-scale purchasing in China in 1948-49, just before the country
was closed to Americans, provided a firm foundation for the Chinese
side. The Japanese collection was gradually built up, regular additions
were made to the Chinese collection, and the combined total amounts
to about 80,000 volumes. These library facilities were significantly
enriched in 1964 with the moving of the Monumenta Serica Sinological
Research Institute to the Los Angeles campus from Japan. The institute
brought its library, formerly in Fu Jen University, Peking, also
numbering about 80,000 volumes, and placed it on long-term loan
in the Oriental Library where it may be used by qualified faculty
and students, although the title remained with the institute. The institute
was responsible for the editing and publishing of the well-known
journal of Chinese studies, Monumenta Serica. This work was done
in association with the department and was published under the UCLA
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East Asian Studies
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Economics
The Department of Economics had its origins
in the establishment of the Southern Branch of the University on
July 24, 1919. It was then known as the Department of Commercial
Practice, offering only lower division courses, one of which was
a year course in elementary economics; the others pertained to commercial
practices. The staff consisted of three members.
In 1920, the name was changed to the Department
of Commerce. Additional courses in commerce, such as accounting
and transportation were added in 1921, and in 1923, the Regents
authorized the department to offer upper division work for the junior
year. In 1924, the name was changed to the Department of Economics
which was then authorized to give instruction in the fourth year
leading to the A.B. degree. The first class graduated in 1925, with
12 students receiving the bachelor's degree.
The department took on more of the characteristics
of a department of economics in 1925, when it added courses in history
of economic doctrine, labor, social reform and public finance. Its
composite nature, however, was emphasized by the addition of courses
in accounting, business organization and administration and personnel
management. Instruction was offered for majors in economics, and
teaching credentials; particular emphasis was laid on preparation
for professional accounting, for which the department gained an
enviable reputation.
With the establishment of the College of Business
Administration, economics became a separate department in the College
of Letters and Science in 1936. It was left with the lower division
course in Principles of Economics and 11 upper division courses,
including two in sociology. The staff was reduced to seven members.
In 1937, a separate curriculum in sociology was added and the staff
expanded to nine members. In 1940, sociology was transferred to
anthropology and the department became a Department of Economics
only, for the first time.
The department embarked on its program of graduate
work in 1933, with graduate courses in the history of economic doctrine,
economic theory, monetary theory, and accounting. In June, 1934,
five candidates received the M.A. degree. Significant expansion
in the graduate program had to await the end of World War II. In
1946, the department was authorized to offer work leading to the
Ph.D. degree. The first Ph.D. in economics was conferred in June,
1948.
After 1948, the department expanded rapidly. The
curriculum was broadened to cover almost every phase of economic
instruction at both the upper division and graduate levels. The
teaching staff expanded from eight members in 1946 to 34 members
in 1965, of whom 23 were full-time instructors. There were also
19 teaching assistants. The lower division enrollment for the fall
semester of 1964 was 885 students: 1,366 upper division, 127 graduate.
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Electrical Engineering
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English
When the Los Angeles State Normal School
opened its doors in 1882, a required three-year program in English
awaited all students with instruction in writing, reading, spelling,
grammar, composition, and literature. By the turn of the century,
the English staff had grown from one to a total of five members.
Two literary societies were founded, the Normal Literary Society
(coeducational) and the Webster Society ("composed of young
gentlemen only"); the latter group founded the first campus
paper, The Normal Exponent, in a four-page issue of January, 1894,
which was rapidly expanded to 20 pages with faculty encouragement.
In 1905, the Department of English was formally
created and grew to a staff of 13 before the Los Angeles State Normal
School became the Southern Branch of the University. The work of
the department was organized under the subject headings of grammar,
composition, and literature, with a special staff for reading (with
recitals) out of which the Departments of Theatre Arts and of Speech
grew. Instruction in librarianship was also offered at one period.
The transfer to the Southern Branch entailed the
recruitment of a faculty with graduate degrees and the development
first of an English major and later of graduate programs, which
began in 1935, the first doctorate being awarded in 1943. National
and international scholarly recognition came to the department through
the distinguished books of Lily Bess Campbell, the founding of the
Augustan Society Reprints (1946), The Trollopian (1945) which became
the Journal of Nineteenth Century Fiction (1949), and the University
of California edition of the Works of John Dryden, beginning in
1956. Further recognition came from the establishment in 1956 of
the Ewing Lectures to bring British and American men and women of
distinguished achievement in the world of letters to the Los Angeles
campus, and from the creation in 1957 of a special program for specialist
teachers of English as a second language with overseas operations
in the Philippines, Colombia, and Japan and with a joint degree
program (one of the first established between a British and an American
university) with the department of English Language and Literature
at the University of Leeds. In 1950, the English Reading Room was
opened for undergraduate students, and in 1960, the departmental
Honors Program began.
During these years of development, the enrollments
in English increased steadily. By the mid-1960s, the department
enrolled more than 19,000 students annually (not including summer
sessions), and had over 13,000 undergraduate majors and nearly 400
graduate students. Thus it was the largest department in the College
of Letters and Science on the Los Angeles campus and one of the
largest English departments in the country in the number of its
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English as a Second Language
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Environmental Health Sciences
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Environmental Science and Engineering
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Epidemiology
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Ethnomusicology
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European Studies
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