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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

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

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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