Pharmacology
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Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy was formed
on July 1, 1963, with the appointment of Professors Richard
H. Popkin (chairman), Jason L. Saunders, and Avrum Stroll. In
1964-66, Professors Paul Henry, Herbert Marcuse, Associate Professor
William W. Bartley III, and some temporary members were added
to the staff.
Graduate instruction began in
the academic year 1963-64 with nine graduate students. In 1964-65,
there were 22 graduate students and in 1965-66, there will be
more than 40. In January, 1965, the department received authorization
for its M.A. and Ph.D. programs. In May, 1965, its first student
was advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree and in June,
1965, its first M.A. degree was awarded.
Undergraduate instruction began
in 1964-65, when the first freshman class was admitted. The
department, in cooperation with the Department of Literature,
offered the freshman humanities course to the entire freshman
class (176 students). An elective introductory course was also
offered to 16 freshmen in the spring of 1965. In 1965-66, the
department planned to participate in both the freshman and sophomore
humanities course in Revelle College, as well as offering elective
philosophy courses at the sophomore and junior levels.
The curriculum at both the undergraduate
and graduate level was designed to emphasize the history of
philosophy, political and social thought, and the widest possible
variety of philosophical approaches. It was hoped thereby to
provide students with a solid foundation and to encourage them
to do independent, imaginative, mature, and self-critical work
in philosophy.
In its first two years, the department
also sponsored a public symposium on The Relevance of Philosophy
Today, a campus-wide symposium on Marxism, a lecture series
on Galileo (in conjunction with the Department of Literature),
and a departmental colloquium on Contemporary European Philosophy.
The editorial office of the Journal of the History of Philosophy
was in the department. The department also initiated a cooperative
graduate program with the Irvine campus. source
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Physics
The physics department was formed in
1959 as part of an exclusively graduate school of science and
engineering and was the first of the new departments at San
Diego. The initial faculty complement was four and the first
students admitted in September, 1960 numbered 21. Growth was
extremely rapid, the faculty having increased a year later to
21 and the student body to 49.
By the mid-1960's, the department
had a student enrollment of 142 and a faculty of 27; in addition,
33 postdoctoral fellows participated in instruction and research.
The program of physics instruction was broad, comparable to
that at the two larger campuses, Berkeley and Los Angeles, in
all respects, save one: instruction, with the exception of a
single course, had been confined solely to graduate work. However,
preparations were under way to enroll undergraduate physics
majors and a complete program of undergraduate instruction in
physics would be offered for the academic year 1965-66.
The main areas of interest of
the faculty were described as follows: physics of elementary
particles; nuclear forces and structure; physics of the solid
and liquid state, plasma physics and magneto hydrodynamics;
hydrodynamics; and astro and space physics. The department had
experimental facilities for research in solid state physics,
including low temperature physics, space physics, plasma physics,
and high energy nuclear physics. In addition, the major fraction
of the work of the campus high speed computer was devoted to
physics research. source
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Physiology
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Political Science
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Psychiatry
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Psychology
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Public Policy Analysis
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