Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

(­Student Degree Objective:PHDFactors which Factors which The nature of work as ahelp your hinder your TA and/or GSR at UCLA, The reasons why some The overallprogress progress its value as part of your students have left our intellectualtoward your toward your education, and the quality graduate program before quality ofdegree degree of the training you received completing their degrees your program,"n'------is The classes that are I've been verytremendously required to meet happy with myknowledgable and core requirements coursework thushelpful. Being for the master's far and with theassigned multiple degree were all faculty I've met.advisors as an offered during the I've beenincoming student winter quarter, disappointed withhas also been making it impossible the "intellectualhelpful. to get them out of quality" of manythe way in one year.The biologyrequirement, with itscombinedundergraduatelecture and seminar,is especially onerous.of my graduatestudentcollegues, manyof whom seemeither frightfullypre-professionaland/or not verygenuinelyinterested inanthropology_They are not avery diverse lot,socioeconomicallyor otherwiseandI would urgethe admissionscommittee toaddress thisissue in the future.Theappropriateness ofcourse and otherdegreerequirements inregard to yourcareer aspirationsAny questions you believethe review team shouldraise and/or areas theyshould examineWednesday, May 02, 2007 Anthropology, Open· Ended Comments:C:;raduate Council Survey Winter 2007 Page80f14