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Riverside: Departments
Hispanic Studies
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History
For eight and one-half years following the
creation of the letters and science college at Riverside the discipline
of history was administered within the Division of Humanities; the
larger unit, however, was chaired successively by two historians:
John W. Olmsted, one of the founders of the college, and Mack E.
Thompson (divisional chairman, 1960-62). Within the history staff
as such preparations for departmentalization were directed, first,
by Theodore H. Von Lane, acting as vice-chairman of the division,
and then by Robert V. Hine, as departmental chairman after July
1, 1962.
Over time, the history staff increasingly assumed
major responsibility for the graduation requirement in western civilization,
originally a two-year inter-disciplinary course organized by Professor
John L. Beatty. One of the first formal lectures in that course
was given by James B. Parsons, historian of the Far East, to a total
course enrollment of 35 students in the first spring of 1954.
Some ten years later, 18 regular faculty members
offered work in all the major areas of history. The undergraduate
program was characterized by a requirement of study in at least
three of these principal fields plus a course in historiography
at the junior level followed by a year's senior thesis. The major
remained popular, numbering 175 undergraduates in the spring of
1965, a figure exceeded on this campus only in English, mathematics,
and political science.
Graduate students seeking master's degrees in
history were admitted for the first time in the fall of 1961, and
those intending to receive the doctorate in 1963. The number of
such graduate students rose from seven at the outset to over 50
after the third year; in the spring of 1965, five of these 50 had
completed qualifying examinations and were embarked on doctoral
dissertations. source
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Horticultural Science
The origin of the Department of Horticultural
Science dates back to the formation, sometime between 1913 and 1917,
of the Divisions of Orchard Management with Roland S. Vaile in charge,
Plant Breeding with Leon D. Batchelor in charge, and Plant Physiology
with Howard S. Reed in charge.
The program in the early years consisted primarily
of instruction in the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, and
citrus and walnut research on mottle leaf (zinc deficiency), fertilization,
systems of culture, rootstocks, varieties, and breeding.
From 1939 until his death in 1952, Edwin R. Parker
was chairman of the Division of Orchard Management. James W. Lesley
was chairman of the Division of Plant Breeding from 1943-51.
In 1953, the Divisions of Orchard Management and
Plant Breeding were consolidated into the Department of Horticulture
under the chairmanship of William S. Stewart. In this consolidation
three members from the former Division of Plant Physiology were
transferred to the new department. Also in 1953, an interdepartmental
citrus grove rejuvenation project was initiated, and this ultimately
resulted in the addition of three permanent staff members to the
department.
In 1954, a joint interdepartmental
project was initiated. This led to the eventual establishment of
the Air Pollution Research
Center. Professor Walter Reuther became chairman of the department
in 1956. The name was changed to the Department of Horticultural
Science in 1962.
As of July, 1965, the department consisted of
26 full-time academic staff members, including 19 with teaching
titles, three emeriti, two associates, 31 full-time nonacademic
staff members, and 28 graduate students.
From the time when the new College of Agriculture
at Riverside was authorized by the Regents in 1960, to July, 1965,
two Ph.D. and 14 M.S. degrees were awarded in the department.
By the mid-1960's, the research program was centered
around, but not restricted to, citrus, avocado, and minor subtropicals
in the following fields of interest: biosystematics, climatology,
fertilization, growth regulators, herbicides, horticultural aspects
of air pollution, irrigation, mechanical harvesting, nutrition,
plant breeding and genetics, rootstocks, tissue culture, and varieties.
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