L&S News Archives - 2000
New Angles on Life's Big Questions
An overview of a cutting-edge College Course, LS 120, offered in the
fall, 2000. (December 21, 2000)
12 New Faculty on Campus in the Division
of Social Sciences
The Division of Social Sciences benefits from 18 new faculty this
year, 12 of whom are already on campus. Please join Dean Breslauer in
welcoming these new faces to the College of Letters and Science. (December
8, 2000)
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture: A New O
R U with a Vanguard Focus
on Sexuality
A new center on campus will bring together people with a common interest
in the ways in which sexuality takes on different meanings in different
cultural contexts. (November 13, 2000)
Take
a Breadth: College Courses for Spring 2001
The Spring 2001 L & S College Courses program will
offer five exciting classes designed to satisfy L & S
breadth requirements. (November 3, 2000)
Economist Daniel McFadden Wins Nobel Prize
Daniel L. McFadden, E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics, has been awarded
the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2000. He shares the prize with
James Heckman of the University of Chicago for their work in separate
areas of microeconomics. (October 11, 2000)
Homecoming 2000 Photos
Check out pictures of the "Picnic with the Profs," the L & S - sponsored
brunch during Homecoming, Reunion and Family Weekend 2000. (October
20, 2000)
The First Ever L
& S Colloquium on Undergraduate Education
The L & S Colloquium on Undergraduate Education, sponsored
by the new Undergraduate Division, examined areas of strength and concern
within undergraduate education at U C
Berkeley on October 3, 2000. (October 12, 2000)
Introducing
the L & S Faculty Forum
A new program is introduced this fall to promote collegial relations
among faculty, foster cross disciplinary collaboration, and contribute
to the sense of community within the College. (October 5, 2000)
Homecoming, Reunion, and Family Weekend 2000
Update
This year's Homecoming football game against U
C L A
kicks off at 12:30 p.m. Saturday October 14, not 3:30 p.m., as scheduled.
The L & S "Picnic with the Profs" and some Faculty Seminar
Sessions are rescheduled to earlier in the day. (October 4, 2000)
College Forms New Undergraduate Division
The College is pleased to announce the new Undergraduate Division, consisting
of the Office of Undergraduate Advising, the Office of Undergraduate
and Interdisciplinary Studies and the Office of Undergraduate Planning
and Analysis. (August 15, 2000)
College Unveils Redesigned Web Site
Whether you are a student, faculty member, staff person, alum, prospective
student, or a member of the public at large, we hope you will find the
web site fun, helpful and easy to use. (August 16, 2000)
Take a Breadth: College Courses for Fall
2000
The L & S "College Courses" are taught by outstanding teachers on the
faculty for students who are eager to take an intellectual risk and
to explore a new area of interest at a deeper level than is required
or offered by the usual introductory course. (August 15, 2000)
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