Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESUCLABERKELEY' DAVIS' IRVINE' LOS ANGELES' MERCED' RIVERSIDE' SAN DIEGO' SAN FRANCISCOSANTA BARBARA • SANTA CRUZDEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY341 HAINES HALLBOX 951553LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1553November 16, 2007PHONE: (310) 825-2055FAX: (310) 206-7833Professor Janice Reiff, ChairGraduate Councilwww.anthro.ucla.eduProfessor Stuart Brown, ChairUndergraduate CouncilDear Colleagues:The UCLA Department of Anthropology is a top-ten research department with a prestigiousnational and international reputation. UCLA Anthropology was ranked 8 th in the last NRCranking of graduate programs. Our faculty directs a diverse range of active field projects inmany areas of the world including the Asia-Pacific region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa,Mesoamerica, and North and South America. We also have a strong emerging focus on theAnthropology of Los Angeles, with at least 50% of our current faculty engaged in researchwithin the region.' Our faculty members are recognized as experts in their respective researchareas, and collectively we have a strong record of research, fundmg and publication. We havesought to expand the breadth of our expertise with recent hires in archaeology, linguisticanthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and we are currently engaged in a search for a newbiological anthropologist. We believe these recent hires, combined with our plans for thefuture, will help us to maintain our standing as a premier research institution.Anthropology in the United States has a long history and a complex identity, which has evolvedconsiderably over the last 120 years in terms of theories, methods, and object of study. Onecommonality has been commitment to study the full range of biological, environmental,cognitive, cultural and social phenomena that define human sociality. This commitment wasoriginally represented by the idea that anthropology departments should includearchaeologists, physical (now biological) anthropologists, linguists, and ethnologists (nowsocio-cultural anthropologists). The UCLA Department of Anthropology maintains a four-fieldcommitment to research and training while enhancing it with specializations andinterdisciplinary initiatives (i.e. research and training centers and interest groups) that build on1
and expand the most recent advancements in theories and methods for the diachronic andsynchronic study of the human condition.At UCLA, Anthropology is organized into the four subfields of: archaeology, biologicalanthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. Each of the subfieldshas a distinct focus. Archaeologists study the origins and development of societies and culturesof the past through their material remains; biological anthropologists focus on human evolutionand adaptation; linguistic anthropologists study the role of language in the reproduction ofcultural practices and organization of social institutions; sociocultural anthropologists areconcerned with the socio-economic, ethnic, cognitive, emotional, and symbolic aspects ofcontemporary societies.All four subfields are equally strong and well represented in the department's academiccurriculum. Undergraduate and graduate students are exposed to the four fields, encouraged tospecialize in one or two subfields and, in many cases, at the graduate level, to branch out intoother disciplines and research areas represented on campus (e.g. developmental and clinicalpsychology, art history, neuroscience, conversation analysis, public health, second languageacquisition, women's studies, genetics, and philosophy). Anthropologists have beeninterdisciplinary from the beginning and our program continues to build on this tradition.1. Preparation of the self-reviewThis self-review was prepared by the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Department, with inputfrom the Anthropology staff and in consultation with the Anthropology Academic, Coordination Committee and the Anthropology Executive Committee. Graduate students'opinions were solicited and documented by former Vice Chair Jeanne Arnold in the Spring of2007. Further input was elicited in meetings with the AGSA President and Vice President andfrom a student-appointed committee in the month of October 2007. All of the faculty membersof the department were asked for their input, as well as any kind of information that might berelevant for the preparation of the report (e.g. their participation in and affiliation with otherunits). A first draft of the self-review was discussed at the November 7, 2007 faculty meeting.The final draft was discussed at the faculty meeting on November 14, 2007. Twenty facultymembers endorsed the final draft, with no votes of opposition or abstention.2. Undergraduate ProgramThe undergraduate program is designed to provide majors and minors in anthropology as wellas non-majors with broad exposure to the different intellectual currents present incontemporary anthropology. We regularly teach a series of foundational lower division classes2
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