<p>I was hoping people could compare the history programs based on the following characteristics. (Rate 1 - 10, 10 being best, and explain)</p>
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<li>Quality of Professors</li>
<li>Difficulty of the Curriculum/Professors (mainly in terms of how hard it is to get As and how time consuming the course load is)</li>
<li>Availability/Quality of Research Opportunities </li>
<li>Student Body of People in the Major i.e. are they social and friendly? super geniuses?</li>
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<p>I'd really appreciate any input. I'm most curious about quality of professors and difficulty.</p>
<p>I’m a history major tooo! And from what I hear, we can’t go wrong with either ucla or berk…and that’s all I know lol</p>
<p>i’m not a history major, but i’m at UCLA taking an upper division history course. intellectual history 142, and it’s a lot easier than some of the history courses i had at CC and the professor is generally interesting. all you have is a take home mid term and final in addition to a 7-10 page intellectual biography about yourself.</p>
<p>can’t say that’s the format for all history classes tho.</p>
<p>I’m a history major, too. Hoping for UCSD. Anyone heard anything about their history dept?</p>
<p>andrizzle - thanks for letting us know!
becky - ucsd is my second choice too! after berk/la. and i personally think that if you get great grades from any of those three, you are set for any grad school, history or law, etc. </p>
<p>i do also know that berk requires this beastly 50 page orginal research paper. that may or may not influence my choice of going if i get in lol…</p>
<p>Thanks for the comments everyone! I was looking into the research paper that UCB History students need to do at the end. One of my professors did it and he said that it was really tough and time consuming, but really rewarding. If you are planning graduate work in history it will be very pertinent. I was wondering if anyone else could comment on the structure of the History classes (like Andrizzle) and maybe give an idea of the reading load.</p>