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Picking concentrations is often most successful through the process of elimination. Hist 10a is as ancient as the gray-haired profs who run the department. You’re afraid of heights, so William James Hall and anthropology are out (wimp). “Complex Fourier Analysis?” Nice try, Linguistics. Decision-making causes migraines and impairs all sense of judgment, so you head to the Kong, have a scorpion bowl, and surmise Seoul might be a good place to live (those OCS emails about teaching SAT’s in South Korea will finally have some purpose...
...indefinite fourth-person referent “one” to get the full pompous effect that you’re going for. Not only will you be able to kick it with your lab partner while you two calculate relativistic momentum, spend long enough in the Hist A core and you may find yourself feigning the role of a humanities buff without realizing it. It helps to think of the tedious reading as a slightly more intellectual Harry Potter book you read as background so that you won’t be awkwardly left out of conversations on whether...
Like all worthwhile things in life—college, employment, gun ownership—your Hist and Lit career begins with an application. It sounds intimidating at first, but once you are accepted into the fold and its cozy nook in the Barker Center, you are joining an old family (seriously old—it’s celebrating its centennial this year).Like the Grape Nuts phenomenon, History and Literature is neither History nor Literature—at least not exclusively. Rather, it uses history to contextualize and draw conclusions about literature, and vice versa. Daily Hist...
Most Lit and Arts A classes will require you to write a few papers that display some level of proficiency with literary criticism, close reading, and textual analysis. But don’t worry: you probably won’t be up against English or Hist and Lit concentrators who do this kind of thing all the time, and the professors and TFs will (or at least should) provide plenty of guidance for every assignment...
...able to pursue a secondary field in Social Studies or History and Literature, two interdisciplinary concentrations, according to the director of studies from each concentration. Students who concentrate in these two areas, however, will be able to pursue a secondary field in another discipline.“Since Hist and Lit is already an interdisciplinary concentration...and since all concentrators are required to write a thesis, it makes more sense for Hist and Lit to be the primary field and to welcome concentrators who choose other secondary fields,” Director of Studies in the History and Literature program...