MIT Reports to the President 1998-99

ENROLLMENT IN HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBJECTS, 1998—1999

Field	Elective Subjects			HASS-Distribution			Total Enrollment
	#Subjects	(#Sections)	#Students	#Subjects	(#Sections)	#Students	#Subjects	(#Sections)	#Students
Anthropology	12	(12)	158	5	(5)	199	17	(17)	357
Archaeology	7	(7)	86	1	(1)	36	8	(8)	122
Economics	20	(38)	1,732	3	(3)	63	23	(41)	1,795
Foreign Languages and Literatures	59	(85)	805	25	(37)	519	84	(122)	1,324
History	33	(33)	396	14	(14)	298	47	(47)	694
History of Art
& Architecture	1	(1)	1	4	(4)	126	5	(5)	127
Linguistics	8	(8)	140	0	(0)	0	8	(8)	140
Literature	37	(37)	355	19	(26)	593	56	(63)	948
Music*	27	(31)	390	8	(13)	409	35	(44)	799
Philosophy	16	(16)	217	6	(6)	349	22	(22)	566
Political Science	25	(25)	248	8	(8)	226	33	(33)	474
Psychology	9	(9)	304	1	(1)	354	10	(10)	658
STS	9	(9)	59	5	(5)	192	14	(14)	251
Theater Arts*	19	(25)	235	3	(3)	38	22	(28)	273
Urban Studies	14	(14)	201	2	(2)	23	16	(16)	224
Visual Arts	8	(8)	87	2	(5)	92	10	(13)	179
Women's Studies	11	(11)	24	4	(4)	28	15	(15)	52
Writing	36	(59)	850	5	(7)	135	41	(66)	985
Other Subjects	8	(8)	50	2	(2)	73	10	(10)	123
Totals	359	(436)	6,338	117	(146)	3,753	476	(582)	10,091

Notes:

Figures were obtained from the MITSIS system, which shows the final tally for each class.
The numbers shown are for undergraduate subjects which normally satisfy the HASS Requirement; they do not include subjects allowed by petition.
(#Sections) refers to the number of autonomous class sections; it does not apply to subjects which meet in a single lecture and divide into discussion sections.
For joint subjects, figures are given for the subject number under which students enrolled.
HASS-D Language Option subjects (Level III or IV languages) are included in the HASS-D figures.

* Music and Theater Arts 6-unit performance subjects are not included in these statistics.

CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL THE FIELDS OF HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE*, JUNE 1999

Fields of Concentration	Class of 2002		Class of 2001		Class of 2000		Class of 1999		Totals in Fields
American Studies	(0)	0	(2)	0	(2)	0	(4)	4	(8)	4
Ancient & Medieval Studies	(0)	0	(3)	0	(4)	1	(9)	9	(16)	10
Anthropology	(0)	0	(9)	0	(23)	5	(24)	23	(56)	28
Archaeology	(0)	0	(2)	0	(2)	0	(4)	3	(8)	3
Black Studies	(0)	0	(1)	0	(1)	0	(2)	2	(4)	2
Constitutional Tradition	(0)	0	(0)	0	(1)	0	(1)	0	(2)	0
East Asian Studies	(0)	0	(9)	0	(19)	5	(33)	30	(61)	35
Economics	(0)	0	(120)	7	(184)	49	(330)	301	(634)	357
Ethnic Studies	(0)	0	(0)	0	(0)	0	(1)	1	(1)	1
Film & Media Studies	(0)	0	(5)	1	(7)	1	(15)	13	(27)	15
Foreign Languages**	(10)	0	(88)	6	(127)	39	(197)	175	(422)	220
History	(0)	0	(14)	0	(31)	5	(40)	37	(85)	42
History of Art and Architecture	(0)	0	(1)	0	(3)	0	(11)	10	(15)	10
Labor in Industrial Society	(0)	0	(1)	0	(0)	0	(0)	0	(1)	0
Latin American Studies	(0)	0	(3)	0	(2)	0	(11)	11	(16)	11
Linguistics	(0)	0	(6)	0	(9)	3	(6)	5	(21)	8
Literature	(0)	0	(25)	0	(24)	7	(62)	60	(111)	67
Middle Eastern Studies	(0)	0	(1)	0	(1)	0	(0)	0	(2)	0
Music	(0)	0	(40)	1	(63)	11	(102)	92	(205)	104
Philosophy	(0)	0	(21)	2	(17)	4	(46)	43	(84)	49
Political Science	(1)	0	(10)	0	(24)	5	(55)	49	(90)	54
Psychology	(0)	0	(22)	5	(32)	8	(89)	87	(143)	100
Religion	(0)	0	(1)	0	(2)	0	(2)	1	(5)	1
Russian Studies	(0)	0	(0)	0	(1)	1	(0)	0	(1)	1
Science, Technology, & Society	(0)	0	(5)	0	(8)	0	(31)	28	(44)	28
Theater Arts	(0)	0	(9)	0	(10)	2	(25)	22	(44)	24
Urban Studies	(0)	0	(8)	0	(13)	4	(14)	11	(35)	15
Visual Arts & Design	(0)	0	(4)	0	(8)	0	(11)	9	(23)	9
Women's Studies	(0)	0	(6)	0	(3)	1	(16)	16	(25)	17
Writing	(0)	0	(14)	0	(30)	4	(57)	54	(101)	58
Special Concentrations	(0)	0	(2)	0	(0)	0	(1)	1	(3)	1
TOTALS	(11)	0	(432)	22	(651)	155	(1199)	1097	(2293)	1274

* The parenthetic figure is the number of proposed concentrations in the given class and field; the figure to its right is the number of these concentrations that have been completed.

** Figures for subfields of Foreign Languages and Literatures are below:

Theory of Language	(0)	(0)	0	(1)	0	(1)	1	(2)	1
Chinese	(2)	(14)	1	(19)	5	(17)	15	(52)	21
ESL	(1)	(0)	0	(1)	0	(4)	4	(6)	4
French	(0)	(13)	0	(34)	13	(41)	38	(88)	51
German	(6)	(11)	2	(14)	6	(29)	23	(60)	31
Japanese	(0)	(19)	0	(16)	2	(47)	44	(82)	46
Other Languages	(0)	(2)	0	(3)	0	(9)	8	(14)	8
Spanish	(1)	(27)	2	(34)	11	(45)	38	(107)	51
SILC	(0)	(2)	1	(5)	2	(4)	4	(11)	7
Totals	(10)	(88)	6	(127)	39	(197)	175	(422)	220

HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS

Year	Economics	Humanities*	Philosophy	Political Science	Total
1989-90	111	51	13	54	229
1990-91	115	64	13	44	236
1991-92	81	75	12	35	203
1992-93	75	64	5	41	185
1993-94	79	58	5	38	180
1994-95	81	56	8	40	185
1995-96	101	49	6	19	175
1996-97	99	31	8	31	169
1997-98	111	41	12	30	194
1998-99	91	55	6	18	170

*These figures do not include double majors who registered first in a course other than Humanities. (Including double majors, the figure is 65.)

HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE GRADUATE STUDENTS

Year	Economics	History and Social Study of Sci/Tech	Linguistics and Philosophy	Political Science	Total
1989-90	132	9	77	154	372
1990-91	134	13	61	154	362
1991-92	139	17	53	160	369
1992-93	149	21	57	154	381
1993-94	143	24	50	138	355
1994-95	130	29	65	122	346
1995-96	138	27	63	107	335
1996-97	132	28	68	123	351
1997-98	122	31	65	120	338
1998-99	121	33	69	116	339

HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE MINOR APPLICANTS FOR CLASSES OF 1999-2002

FIELD	TOTAL APPLICATIONS
Anthropology	5
Economics	133
Film and Media Studies	12
Foreign Languages
French	23
German	21
Spanish	20
History	15
History of Art & Architecture	2
Linguistics	12
Literature	20
Music	67
Philosophy	8
Political Science	31
Psychology	29
Regional Studies Minor Programs
African & African Diaspora	2
East Asian Studies	16
European Studies
Latin American Studies	4
Middle Eastern Studies	1
Russian Studies	1
Science, Technology & Society	3
Theater Arts	8
Urban Studies and Planning	6
Women's Studies	8
Writing	28
Total Minor Applications	475

MIT Reports to the President 1998-99