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Riverside: Departments
Agronomy
Anthropology
Art
Art History
Agronomy
Through the efforts of Professor R. M. Love,
chairman of agronomy, establishment of a Department of Agronomy
at Riverside in August, 1961 filled a need for close research attention
to wildland and agronomic problems of southern California. Three
staff positions were transferred to Riverside from Davis and were
filled by Cyrus M. McKell, Charles F. Walker, and Demetrios M. Yermanos.
McKell was appointed as department vice-chairman. Walker subsequently
resigned and was replaced by J. R. Goodin, a plant physiologist.
William H. Isom joined the department in 1963 as extension agronomist
for southern California. Close liaison with the U. S. Forest Service
Fire Laboratory was recognized in 1964 by extending five associate
appointments in the Agricultural Experiment Station to cooperating
scientists of the laboratory.
The department was first housed in space made
available in the already crowded Horticulture Building. Subsequent
planning allowed for the inclusion of the department in the Agricultural
Science Building. In the new building three staff members from UCLA
would join the department to form a grasslands laboratory.
As the agronomy department's contribution to the
modern curriculum in agricultural science, two courses were offered
in 1965, Principles of Field and Forage Crop Production and Quantitative
Genetics.
Graduate student enrollment in agronomy had the
same pattern of growth as that of the other departments in the College
of Agriculture. Even with limited space and facilities, agronomy
accommodated five graduate students in 1962-63, eight in 1963-64,
and nine in 1964-65.
Grants received by the department indicated the
regard for the quality of research being conducted. Professor Yermanos
received $51,606 from the National Institutes Of Health and the
National Science Foundation for study in 1963-66 on fatty-acid composition
of oil seeds. From 1962-66, Professor McKell received grants totaling
$26,100 from the U.S. Forest Service, San Diego Farm Bureau and
UC Water Resources Center to study seedling establishment, soil
fertility and soil moisture relations of range. source
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Anthropology
Instruction in anthropology, as a subject-field
of the Division of Social Sciences, began at Riverside on opening
of the College of Letters and Science in spring, 1954, with three
courses taught by John F. Goins, then and for nearly five years
thereafter the sole representative of the field on the faculty.
As with other subjects, initial enrollments in anthropology were
small and, when viewed in contrast to the situation a decade later,
even historically remarkable. Of the first three undergraduate classes,
one consisting of two students met in the instructor's office and
one with but one student enrolled convened regularly in the original
coffee shop, then in the basement of the Physical Education Building;
the third class, with an enrollment of six, required a large lecture
room.
Increasing enrollments during the first five years,
additions of courses to the curriculum, student interest in obtaining
an anthropology major, and the chance acquisition on indefinite
loan of 300 Indian baskets for instructional use at length brought
recognition of the fact that one small office and one lone anthropologist
were insufficient for the need. In July, 1958, Alex W. Krieger,
then director of the Riverside Municipal Museum, accepted half-time
appointment in anthropology and taught courses through the year
1958-59. The following year, in July, 1959, Edgar V. Winans was
appointed to the second permanent position in anthropology. In that
year, a major in anthropology was offered for the first time. Among
the first students to be graduated in the major, two took up professional
careers in anthropology on completion of graduate training at other
campuses of the University and in 1965 held regular teaching posts,
Lydia J. Hainline at Riverside and Thomas C. Patterson at Harvard
University.
On dissolution of the Division of Social Sciences
in July, 1963, anthropology constituted a separate department, Coins
being appointed chairman, with the staff increased to five through
appointments in archaeology (Makoto Kowta, 1961), physical anthropology
(Hainline, 1962), and social anthropology (Frederick O. Gearing,
1962). In July, 1964, Martin Orans was appointed to fill a sixth
position, in social anthropology, and in July, 1965, a second physical
anthropologist, J. D. Mavalwala, became the seventh member of the
staff.
From the beginning and throughout the first decade
at Riverside, undergraduate instruction in anthropology was aimed
not toward discrete ethnographic analyses and descriptions or conventional
surveys of world cultures, but instead toward basic inquiry on the
connections between what is biological and what is social or cultural
in humanity, drawing on the various field experiences of the staff in
Alaska, Yap, India, Africa, Greece, Mexico, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
That main emphasis was extended and intensified with inauguration
in September, 1965 of a graduate studies program in anthropology,
leading to the Ph.D. degree, to which six students were admitted
initially. Departmental growth was otherwise betokened by physical
expansion from a single office in 1954 to the planned occupancy
in 1966 of most of one wing of the Social Sciences Building. source
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Art
With the opening of classes in the College
of Letters and Science in 1954, courses in art history were offered
by Jean Sutherland Boggs (1954-62). She was joined on the art staff
of the Division of Humanities by Bates Lowry (1954-57). In keeping
with the original intent of the Riverside campus' liberal arts curriculum,
the sole major offered in this field was art history, a unique situation
within the University system. Studio courses were added, however,
in 1957. Instructors were William T. Bradshaw (appointed in 1957)
and James S. Strombotne (appointed in 1961).
During the period of the departmentalization of
the Division of Humanities, Richard G. Carrott was appointed vice-chairman
for art in 1962, and first chairman of the Department of Art in
1963. Dericksen M. Brinkerhoff was named chairman in 1965.
The faculty complement included, besides the two
painters, four art historians: Brinkerhoff (appointed in 1965),
Carrott (appointed in 1961), Shirley N. Hopps (appointed in 1962),
and Henry Okun (appointed in 1965). While the studio program was
limited to courses in painting and drawing due to inadequate facilities,
the art history program was, from its inception, restricted to the
Western European tradition in the belief that a solid academic training
in the discipline could be provided in reasonable depth at the undergraduate
level. A master's degree program was contemplated for 1966.
Upon the removal of the department to the new
Humanities Building in 1963, a picture gallery was acquired. The
policy was to use it as a teaching, rather than as a public facility,
with occasional exhibitions, such as the exhibit and catalogue of
the work of Thomas Moran in 1963, which contributed to scholarship.
In 1965, there were 250 undergraduates enrolled,
including 15 majors. Twenty courses were offered by the department.
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Art History
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