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Irvine: Colleges and Schools
School of the Arts
College of Arts, Letters and
Science
School of Biological Sciences
School of Engineering
School of Humanities
Graduate School of
Management
College of Medicine
School of Physical Sciences
School of Social Ecology
School of Social Sciences
School of the Arts
Early in the academic planning for the Irvine
campus, fine arts were separated from the humanities and established
as a separate division including the departments of art, drama,
music, and dance. E. Clayton Garrison, professor of drama, was appointed
dean in July, 1964.
Under Garrison's leadership, the division departed
from the usual university fine arts program by emphasizing professional
commitment, studio and performance centered. The objectives were
to provide a superior liberal education for the creative and performing
artist, as well as studio and workshop experiences for the non-major.
To carry out this commitment, a faculty was recruited
with high qualifications as professional performers and artists
as well as academicians. During 1964-65, the following were named
to head the various programs: John Coplans, director of the art
gallery; Eugene Loring, chairman of dance; Mehli Mehta, conductor
of the University Orchestra; Colin Slim, chairman of music; and
Roger Wagner, conductor of the University Chorus.
Eleven faculty members were augmented by a professional
tutorial staff in vocal and instrumental music. Seventy students
declared a major in fine arts for the opening of the campus (fall
quarter, 1965) and its popularity was established among non-majors.
In addition to offering four-year curricula leading
to the bachelor of arts degree, each department planned to initiate
two-year program leading to the master of fine arts degree in 1966-67.
The Division of Fine Arts and the Department of English offered
an interdisciplinary program in playwriting leading to the master
of fine arts degree. Introductory courses in architecture and film
making were also available in the division.
The fine arts division was quartered in the classroom
segment of the humanities-social science unit I, temporarily named
the Fine Arts Building, pending scheduled completion in 1969 of
the proposed fine arts complex of five structures. These were planned to include
a 600-seat theater, a separate 300-seat music and lecture hall,
and would house theater arts, sculpture, graphic arts, and music.
source
When the College of Arts, Letters and Science
was dismantled in 1967, the Division of Fine Arts became the School
of the Arts. See also College
of Arts, Letters and Science.
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College of Arts,
Letters and Science
As first dean of the College of Arts, Letters
and Science (July, 1964) and vice-chancellor--academic affairs (October,
1964), Jack W. Peltason held responsibility for organization and
development of this college.
Five divisions--biological sciences, fine arts,
humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences--were the basic
units of the college. Several divisions had subordinate departments.
The divisional concept was designed to overcome insulation of related
disciplines and to enable better coordination of interdivisional
programs.
University and college requirements were at a
minimum and fostered interdisciplinary study on the undergraduate
level. As established in 1965, degree programs at Irvine assumed
that education was measured in terms of knowledge and competencies,
not in terms of courses or time spent on a campus. Credit for many
courses could be obtained by special examination and a pass-fail
option was offered to encourage students to venture into courses
beyond their major area. source
The College of Arts, Letters and Science was officially
abolished in 1967, in favor of five separate schools: Arts, Biological
Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
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School of Biological Sciences
Edward A. Steinhaus, professor of biological
sciences, was appointed first dean of the division in the spring
of 1963 and established a pedagogical and administrative organization
distinguished by its recognition of the levels of biology.
Four initial departments were: molecular and cell
biology; organismic biology; psychobiology; and population and environmental
biology. Curriculum for the undergraduate years was based on a core
of knowledge of all levels of biology, with specialization generally
only at the graduate level.
Laboratories were established in July, 1964 in
the Faculty Research Facility to accommodate research under various
faculty grants. Steinhaus received the first research grant at Irvine
from the U.S. Public Health Service for a five-year study of diseases
of invertebrate animals. Except for certain research work that remained
in the Faculty Research Facility, the division moved to the new
Natural Science Building in August, 1965. The first courses were
offered by the division with the opening of the campus for the fall
quarter, 1965. Seventeen faculty members offered more than 18 courses
in 1965.
The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
under the chairmanship of John J. Holland, was initiated in 1964
with the recruitment of its first five faculty members. Orientation
at the outset was toward biology and the biochemistry of bacterial
and mammalian cells, with plans for development in other areas of
biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology, and related areas such
as immunology, immunochemistry, and biochemistry of development
and differentiation. In July, 1964, Holland was named principal
investigator for a National Science Foundation grant to study virus
infection of mammalian cells. He was assisted by several postdoctoral
research fellows.
The Department of Organismic Biology was initiated
in 1964 with Grover C. Stephens as chairman. Research in the department
began in October, 1964 with a U.S. Public Health Service grant to
Stephens for study of the uptake of organic compounds by marine
invertebrates. A faculty of five began the program of instruction
in the fall of 1965, emphasizing comparative animal physiology,
symbiosis, pathobiology, and developmental biology of plants and
animals.
The Department of Population and Environmental
Biology was established in 1964 with Arthur S. Boughey as chairman.
Emphasis was on quantitative ecological and taxonomic studies, particularly
the ecological effects of human occupation. A Museum of Systematic
Biology was established in 1965 under the direction of Boughey.
Initial collections included the Sprague conchological collection;
Orange county plant, marine invertebrate, and insect collections;
representative collections from Mediterranean climate areas; and
a fish reference collection. Plans were initiated in 1965 for establishment
of a headhouse and greenhouse and for development of botanical gardens
on the Irvine campus. A faculty of three gave the first courses
in the fall of 1965.
The Department of Psychobiology was established
in 1964 with the appointment of James L. McGaugh, chairman, and
three faculty members. McGaugh received a U.S. Public Health Service
grant in June, 1964 for research on brain functions in learning
and memory. Initial research and teaching emphasis also included
neurophysiological bases of attention and hormonal bases of behavior,
with plans for early additional programs in perception, motivation,
and behavior genetics. First classes were offered in the fall of
1965. source
When the College of Arts, Letters and Science
was dismantled in 1967, the Division of Biological Sciences became
the School of Biological Sciences. It is currently organized into
four departments: Developmental and Cell Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and Neurobiology and
Behavior. See also College of
Arts, Letters and Science.
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School of Engineering
The School of Engineering at Irvine was formally
established by the Regents in June, 1965 with authorization to offer
programs leading to the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Robert M.
Saunders, who came to Irvine as assistant to the chancellor for
engineering in July, 1964 from his post as chairman of the Department
of Electrical Engineering at Berkeley, was appointed as dean in
July, 1965.
The academic plan for the School of Engineering
at Irvine equally emphasized environmental engineering and scientific
discovery engineering and anticipated appointment of faculty in
small groups according to research interests, rather than by departments,
in order to provide critical units with ability to contribute to
teaching and research almost from the date of their formation. The
undergraduate program in engineering was centered in the first two
years in the College of Arts, Letters, and Science. Students entered
the School of Engineering at the junior, or third year, level. Those
who wished to major in environmental engineering could acquire their
lower division work in the social sciences; those who wished to
major in scientific discovery engineering could acquire their lower
division work in the physical sciences. Juniors and seniors in engineering
were encouraged to acquire depth in the study of mathematics. An
unusual aspect of the undergraduate program was a course in optimization
theory, a new approach to computer-aided design and the synthesis
of engineering systems.
When the division was established, graduate instruction
did not carry specific course requirements, but rather the exact
program was left to the student and his advisor. In general, there
was a set number of graduate and undergraduate courses, with or
without theses. At the doctoral level, students were expected to
pass the usual doctoral milestones of research preparation and significant
original investigation, but in addition would have the requirement
of teaching implanted in their program. Those seeking the M.S. degree
could work toward the degree on a part-time basis, but the doctoral
candidate had to be in full-time residency.
Emphasis also was given to interaction with local
industry through continuing education opportunities, research information
exchange, and recruitment of faculty.
Students declaring a major in engineering during
the fall quarter, 1965, included 65 freshmen, four sophomores and
six graduate students, and totaled 75. source
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School of Humanities
Samuel C. McCulloch, professor of history,
was named dean of humanities in December, 1963. He established departments
of English, philosophy, history, and foreign languages, each offering
a graduate program.
Thirty-three faculty members, including department
chairmen, were appointed to teach a total of 49 courses in the initial
year of operation, 1965-66. While organization was on a departmental
basis, curriculum requirements for majors were interdisciplinary.
The Department of English, under the chairmanship
of Hazard S. Adams, stressed comparative literature and literary
criticism. The three basic programs were: criticism in literary
history, the art of writing, and comparative literature. James B.
Hall was director of creative writing. M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs
in English were approved for 1965-66.
Under the chairmanship of Seymour Menton, the
Department of Foreign Languages adopted an audio-lingual approach.
Richard Barrutia was director of the language laboratory. Instruction
was offered in French, German, Spanish, and Russian. Classics were
taught starting in 1966.
The Department of History had Henry Cord Meyer
as chairman. It offered a basic course in western traditions with
Arthur J. Marder as director. United States intellectual and social
history was offered as the basic course in American history. Upper
division and graduate courses were also offered for a balanced major.
Abraham I. Melden was chairman of the Department
of Philosophy, which offered a program in the history of philosophy,
ethics, logic, metaphysics, the theory of knowledge, aesthetics,
and the philosophies of social natural science, literature, religion,
and history. source
When the College of Arts, Letters and Science
was dismantled in 1967, the Division of Humanities became the School
of Humanities. See also College
of Arts, Letters and Science.
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Graduate School of Management
The Graduate School of Administration (renamed
the Graduate School of Management in 1981) on the Irvine campus
opened its door formally in September, 1966. The dean, Richard C.
Snyder, was appointed effective July 1, 1965. Under his leadership
a faculty was to be recruited and advanced degree programs were
to be developed during the academic year 1965-66.
The idea of a somewhat different concept for organizing
graduate training and research in administration was formulated
by Chancellor Daniel Aldrich, Jr., and Vice-Chancellor Ivan Hinderaker
(later chancellor at Riverside). Early in the planning for the new
campus, they envisaged ". . . a unique opportunity to attack
the problems of administration on fronts broader than the traditional
segment approach to public, business, educational, scientific, and
other types of administration. There is much in common to the problems
involved in all of these. . .[which] can be treated from a common
base." Such a judgment was already supported by a major study (Higher
Education for Business, by R. A. Gordon and James E. Howell)
of the situation respecting business administration: ". . . the
educational needs of business men are not radically different from
those of the administrators of other types of organizations."
During the initial year of planning, an outline
of a two-year professional training program leading to an M.S. degree
in administration and of a doctoral program for future teachers
and researchers emerged. Core disciplines, technologies, problem
areas (drawn from the social and behavioral sciences, mathematics,
statistics, and engineering), and relevant institutional knowledge
were identified as the foundation stones of both programs. Alternative
research foci in which long-term intellectual and material resources
of the Graduate School of Administration could be invested were
also being arrayed and evaluated.
In addition to being embedded firmly in the social
and behavioral sciences, the school collaborated with the School
of Engineering and University Extension in attempting to innovate
with respect to vocational and training problems, as well as providing
appropriate services to local, state, national, and international
groups. source
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College of Medicine
There is no history currently available for
this college.
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School of Physical Sciences
In 1963, W. Conway Pierce, professor of chemistry,
emeritus, at Riverside, was named assistant to the chancellor for
physical sciences to undertake advance planning of programs and
facilities. In 1965, the division moved to the new Natural Science
Building pending the 1968 completion of a 180,000-square-foot Physical
Sciences Building. The new facility would house a nuclear reactor.
Department chairmen named during 1964-65 were
F. Sherwood Rowland, chemistry; Bernard R. Gelbaum, mathematics;
and Kenneth W. Ford, physics. They spent the initial year in recruitment
of faculty and program planning. Ford was named acting dean of the
division in October, 1965; Frederick Reines was appointed dean,
effective January, 1966.
With the formal opening of the campus in the fall
quarter of 1965, each of the three departments offered a full program
of undergraduate and graduate work, with approved M.A. and Ph.D.
programs. The initial staff of the division consisted of nine professors,
four associate professors, 11 assistant professors, and 19 teaching
assistants. In the fall quarter, there were 267 declared majors
in physical sciences, including 55 at the graduate level.
With a staff of seven full-time faculty plus eight
postdoctoral researchers, the chemistry department initiated research
in the fields of physical organic chemistry, organic synthesis,
chemical kinetics, and biophysical and radiochemistry.
Beginning with ten faculty members, the Department
of Mathematics chose to concentrate its research initially in functional
analysis and closely related fields. The initial staff complement
consisted of seven functional analysts, two differential geometers,
and a topologist. Several of the staff had interests that spanned
several areas including algebra, probability, and statistics.
The physics department, with seven faculty members,
inaugurated three experimental research laboratories--in low temperature
physics, solid state physics, and atomic physics. Theorists began
research in solid physics and in high-energy phenomena. Expansion
of research efforts was planned in experimental high-energy physics
and in astrophysics.
Early grant support in the division came from
the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Public Health Service,
and the Petroleum Research Fund. source
When the College of Arts, Letters and Science
was dismantled in 1967, the Division of Physical Sciences became
the School of Physical Sciences. See also College
of Arts, Letters and Science.
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School of Social Ecology
There is no history currently available for
this school.
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School of Social Sciences
James G. March, professor of psychology and
sociology, was named dean of the division in July, 1964. Organized
on an interdisciplinary basis in the fall of 1965, a faculty of
21 members offered graduate and undergraduate instruction in anthropology,
economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Enrollment in the division that year was 287, including 13 graduate
students.
At the outset, the division emphasized quantitative
social science and the development of clusters of strength in developing
research areas such as information processing psychology, political
economy, organizational behavior, sociology of violent social change,
information and communication sciences, and the politics of planning.
The division also emphasized educational innovation, undertaking
such experiments as variable-length courses, content-indeterminate
seminars, self-instructional introductory materials, accelerated
courses in mathematics for social scientists, critical-incident
evaluation procedures, and extensive use of qualification through
competence examination.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York in June,
1965, awarded a grant to March, Julian Feldman, associate dean of
the division, and Fred M. Tonge, director of the Irvine Computer
Facility, to develop new concepts of individual student instruction
in the social sciences. source
When the College of Arts, Letters and Science
was dismantled in 1967, the Division of Social Sciences became the
School of Social Sciences. See also College
of Arts, Letters and Science.
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