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Earth Sciences
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Economics
Economics on the Riverside campus began in
1954 with the establishment of the College of Letters and Science.
There were at that time three full-time faculty members in economics,
all of junior rank, in addition to the provost of the campus, Gordon
S. Watkins. Administratively, the faculty in economics were part
of the Division of Social Sciences, under the chairmanship of Arthur
C. Turner.
The original curriculum In economics comprised
a minimal list of "core" courses leading to an undergraduate major.
New courses were added as the faculty in economics increased in
number, but, in accordance with the philosophy and purpose of the
campus at that time, no attempt was made to offer highly specialized
instruction nor to introduce graduate programs. In 1959, however,
when the Riverside campus was designated a general campus of the
University, authorization was given to introduce graduate instruction
as faculty resources permitted. Shortly thereafter, in July, 1963,
the Division of Social Sciences, of which the chairman was then
Hugh G. J. Aitken, was reorganized into seven individual departments.
The Department of Economics, as an administrative unit, therefore
dates from July, 1963. At the time of its establishment it included
six full-time faculty members.
The first graduate program in economics, leading
to the master's degree, was established in the fall of 1962; a specialized
program in economic history leading to the Ph.D. degree in economics
was authorized in 1962-63. Graduate seminars in the major fields
of economic theory, history and policy were introduced at the same
time. By 1964-65 the department had nine students enrolled in its
master's program and six in its doctoral program. There were approximately
45 declared economics majors in the College of Letters and Science,
and a total of 28 courses and seminars were taught by the seven-man
faculty. source
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Education
A very limited number of education courses
were offered at Riverside in the mid-1950's as a consequence of
the emphasis being placed on the liberal arts at that time. The
program was expanded in the fall of 1958 and student teaching in
the elementary school was offered for the first time. In June of
1959, Riverside's first five candidates were recommended for the
general elementary credential through the School of Education on
the Los Angeles campus.
In the spring of 1960, the State Department of
Education accredited the elementary credential program, the first
paid teaching internship program to be accredited in California.
Further expansion was required in 1960 to initiate the general secondary
credential program. In the same year, recognition of the campuswide
nature of teacher education responsibilities resulted in the formation
(in the Academic Senate) of the Advisory Committee on Credential
Programs, which reports to the Committee on Educational Policy and
Courses.
On July 1, 1963, the Division of Sciences was
departmentalized and the Department of Education, with seven staff
members, was formed. In the same year the junior college credential
program was begun. Each of the credential programs emphasized experience
in the public schools and the paid teaching internship. Approximately
100 students completed their credentials each year. In the fall
semester, 1964, the new credential programs modified to meet the
requirements of the Certificated Personnel Law of 1961 were put
into effect. Each credential program then required a full five years
of University work, including professional programs.
In 1965, there were 285 students enrolled in the
three credential programs. Sixteen courses were taught by the department's
13 faculty members. source
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Electrical Engineering
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English
English began as an integral part of the
Division of Humanities in February, 1954, and did not assume separate
existence as a department until after the institution of graduate
work in English in 1962.
During the early years of the
campus the English staff, under the direction of M. R. Proctor,
attempted a number of curricular experiments in undergraduate instruction.
Experiments in teaching the required freshman course, for example,
included a course designed around the reading of world literature,
a course of writing on simple epistemological problems (the so-called
Amherst method), and a course which combined the close reading of
literary texts with the writing of analytical papers.
On the upper-division level
the curriculum placed special stress on the use of contemporary
literary-critical techniques and included honors seminars and senior
theses. Work toward the M.A. degree was instituted in 1961 under
the leadership of Frederick J. Hoffman, who became chairman of the
department in 1962, at which time the doctoral program was started.
Staffing and curriculum were designed
to include a broad spectrum of scholarly approaches current in the
field. In 1965, under the chairmanship of Robert F. Gleckner, the
department had an enrollment of 235 undergraduate and 50 graduate
students, and more than 40 courses were taught by the department's
18 regular faculty members. An interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum
in comparative literature functioned since 1957 and an M.A. program
in this area was added in 1965. By the 1960's, comparative literature
was directed by an interdepartmental committee. source
Entomology
The University inaugurated entomological
research in southern California in 1906 when Henry J. Quayle was
appointed to the staff of the Southern California Pathological Laboratory
at Whittier. In 1915, Quayle became the first chairman of the Department
of Entomology at the Citrus Experimental Station, then located at
the Mt. Rubidoux site. He continued as chairman until his retirement
in 1943. The department occupied a part of the main building on
the present campus site from the time it was completed in 1917 until
1932 when separate quarters were provided in the newly constructed
Entomology Building. Under Quayle's leadership much of the basic
knowledge concerning the biology and control of citrus and other
subtropical fruit pests was developed.
In 1932, Alfred M. Boyce taught the first formal
university courses in entomology in southern California at Los Angeles.
Boyce became chairman of the Riverside department in 1943. During
the next eight years, the research staff was greatly enlarged and
the research program expanded. The Entomology Annex Building was
completed in 1949.
In 1951, Robert L. Metcalf was named chairman.
During the 12 years of his leadership, important contributions were
made to the development of new pest control techniques. In 1961,
a teaching program leading to a bachelor of science degree in agricultural
sciences with a field of interest in entomology was established.
At the same time, a graduate program in entomology, in which nine
students were enrolled, was inaugurated. Added to the entomology
complex of buildings were the Insecticide Compounding Building in
1954, the Stored Products Laboratory in 1958, and the North Wing
of the Entomology Building in 1960.
Glenn E. Carman was appointed chairman of the
department in 1963. There were 27 full-time staff members on the
Riverside campus by the mid-1960's. In 1963, three new classrooms
were added to the second floor of the Entomology Building. There
were 44 graduate students enrolled in the department's graduate
program during the spring semester, 1965. source
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Environmental
Sciences
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Environmental
Toxicology
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Ethnic Studies
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