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San Diego: Departments
La Jolla Interfaces in Science
Latin American Studies
Law and Society
Linguistics
Literature
La Jolla Interfaces in Science
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Latin American Studies
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Law and Society
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Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics on the San
Diego campus was formed in April, 1964. In 1964-65, the department
administered the basic language training program for the pilot
freshman class and began its program of graduate instruction and
research in linguistics. Beginning with a single member at its
formation, the department planned to grow to 13 professors, plus
a large staff of native speakers of foreign languages who would
conduct the tutorial program in the basic language program.
In its graduate program in linguistics, the
primary emphasis of the department during its early years was
planned to be on linguistic theory and the psycholinguistics of
language acquisition, but it planned to soon initiate a program of
research and instruction in anthropological linguistics as well.
The basic language training program for undergraduates offered
the department a unique experimental laboratory for the study
of language acquisition. The department also offered a well-stocked
phonetics laboratory and a large Language Learning Center for
the scientific and practical study of foreign languages. The central
library holdings in linguistics increased explosively since the
establishment of the department and were already quite strong
in the fields of modern linguistics, which the department would
stress. source
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Literature
The Department of Literature was established
in 1963 with Roy Harvey Pearce as its first chairman. Graduate
instruction began in fall, 1964; at the same time the department,
jointly with the Departments of Philosophy and (fall, 1965) of
History, set up and offered instruction in the basic humanities
course required of all freshmen and sophomores. In the fall of
1965, the department began a full program of instruction, its
Ph.D. program in English and American literature having been approved
in the preceding spring and its Ph.D. program for Spanish being
readied for approval. Still in the process of development were
its programs in comparative, French, German, Italian and classical
literatures. source
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