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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
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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