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Riverside: Departments
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Music
Mathematics
Mathematics was formed as an integral part
of the Division of Physical Sciences in 1954 and became a separate
department in 1961 under the chairmanship of Professor Malcolm F.
Smiley. At this time graduate courses and a master's degree program
were initiated. The Ph.D. degree program was authorized in the spring
and begun in the fall of 1962.
Mathematics was a relatively popular discipline
at Riverside, accounting for approximately ten per cent of the majors
among both graduates and undergraduates. The courses offered and
the research of the staff emphasized breadth. This was illustrated
by the fact that the first three students to complete the requirements
for the Ph.D. degree (January, 1965) pursued work in algebra, topology
and mathematical statistics. source
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Mechanical Engineering
There is no history currently available
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Music
Course work anticipating the major was offered
from the opening of the College of Letters and Science in 1954.
The first two appointments to the faculty of music, organizationally
a part of the Division of Humanities rather than a department, were
Edwin J. Simon, who began teaching in February of 1954, and William
H. Reynolds, who arrived in July of that same year.
The major in music was first 1956-57, and the
third staff member Donald C. Johns, joined the faculty in July of
1957. In 1965, the three original staff members comprised the tenure
staff of the department.
In July of 1964, Reynolds became the first chairman
of the Department of Music. Departmentalization, improved facilities
in the new Humanities Building, and special library appropriations
enabled the emergence of a program of study leading to the M.A.
degree. In 1964-65, the first year of the M.A. program, six graduate
students in music were enrolled, and the undergraduate enrollment
in music was 29. In June, 1965, two of the graduating music majors
were awarded Woodrow Wilson fellowships.
The staff in 1965 grew to seven full-time faculty
members and two full-time teaching assistants. In the spring of
1966 the internationally known music theorist Oswald Jones, was
added as Riverside's first Regents' Professor.
Musical performing groups, the Choral Society
and the Madrigal Group (formed in 1954), the Orchestra (formed in
1956), the Collegium Musicum (formed in 1957), and the UCR Concert
Band (formed in 1964), gained considerable maturity as a result
of excellent practice and rehearsal facilities of the new Humanities
Building. Enrollment in these groups in 1965 exceeded 200.
A broad educational outlook was fostered within
the department, and the staff were active in support of such interdisciplinary
programs as the original Humanities 1 and 2 courses, the more recent
Humanities 2A-2B course, and Humanities 196. source
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