Humanities at UCSD?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>The great UCSD's reputation in the engineering and science fields is widely known. But is there anything worthy at UCSD for a humanities person? What is known about languages and linguistics departments? Are any of them strong? From the quick look at the school's web-site I couldn't make any conclusions about the highest levels the foreign languages taught there at; I also hadn't seen there much of the foreign literatures courses offered. Which is unfortunate, because my languages and literature-loving D really liked the UCSD campus when visited it. ;) (We visited on Sat. (couldn't find any other time), so didn't have an opportunity to see anything beyond what was shown to us on the the campus tour and info session (which somehow gave our D the feeling that she might easily belong there). All the classes were closed and professors were absent, nobody to talk to about any specific fields of study.) </p>

<p>Also, any information about UCSD's music department would be appreciated.</p>

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<p>Our Ethnic Studies department is pretty impressive, be sure to take a class or two. There are intro to ethnic studies classes offered every quarter.</p>

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<p>I've been wondering this as well and almost decided against applying to UCSD because it seemed like there was an overemphasis on science/engineering.</p>

<p>So is that the only strong humanities department? o.O</p>

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<p>Econ department is great as well.</p>

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<p>The Political Science department is also supposed to be great here!</p>

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<p>Poli sci is top 5 and econ is top 5 or 10. History is also quite good, and they have particular strengths in East Asian studies like history and language.</p>

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<p>Besides science and engineering(where UCSD is seriously like one of the best in the nation) UCSD is very strong in econ, political science, Urban studies and planning, languages, international relations, and communication. This is to my knowledge, we probably have more excellent humanities departments than I mentioned.</p>

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<p>Which language departments are strongest? BTW, how you define the "strentgth" of the departments?</p>

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<p>Ask the professors. They'll usually be honest with you. Chinese and Japanese are both good from what I hear.</p>

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<p>What about European languages and linguistics?</p>

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<p>myau,</p>

<p>Yes, they will. My professors at UCLA told me more than once to go to UCSD instead of UCLA, simply because of better resources. If you are worried that you're getting too rosy of a picture, ask professors at other schools as well. They'll often be more impartial toward a peer institution than their own.</p>

<p>I don't know much about Euro stuff, simply because it's way out of my field. Sorry.</p>