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The department of history is one of the largest in the College of Letters and Science. The undergraduate program provides students a B.A. in History upon completion of lower- and upper-division requirements. Students are also able to join Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society, or contribute to Clio's Scroll, the undergraduate history journal.
Research institutions are a subset of doctoral degree-granting institutions and conduct research. These institutions "conferred at least 20 research/scholarship doctorates in 2019-20 and reported at least $5 million in total research expenditures in FY20 were assigned to one of two categories based on a measure of research activity." [1]
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [11] [12] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California sys
Max Scherr, M.A. - journalist, founder and publisher of the Berkeley Barb; Hugo Schwyzer – author, speaker and former instructor of history and gender studies [39] Lincoln Steffens – one of the most famous practitioners of the muckraking journalistic style; Steven L. Thompson, B.A. – journalist, columnist at Cycle World
The AAU was founded on February 28, 1900, by a group of 14 Doctor of Philosophy degree-granting universities [a] in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. [1] American universities—starting with University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University in 1876—were adopting the research-intensive German model ...
Informally, the campus is called UC Berkeley, Berkeley, or Cal. More specifically, the campus uses the terms in the following ways: [62] "UC Berkeley" is the standard brand name for communications to the general public. The university's current brand identity standards call for "UC Berkeley" to be used in the first reference in any communication.
The College of Letters and Science (L&S) is the largest of the 15 colleges at the University of California, Berkeley and encompasses the liberal arts.The college was established in its present state in 1915 with the merger of the College of Letters, the College of Social Science, and the College of Natural Science.
The ASUC was founded on March 2, 1887. Prior to this, Berkeley had no residence halls, sport teams, or permanent student organizations. The original purpose of the ASUC was "to organize the Student Body in such wise that it might take effective action upon all matter relating to the general welfare of the student body and the University in general."