MIT Reports to the President 1996-97

CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL FIELDS OF THE HUMANITIES, ARTS,
AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SUBJECTS* JUNE 1997

Fields of Concentration

Class of 2000
Class of 1999
Class of 1998
Class of 1997
Total in Fields

American Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(3)

0

(8)

8

(12)

8

Ancient & Medieval

(0)

0

(3)

1

(6)

2

(5)

5

(14)

8

Anthropology

(0)

0

(10)

0

(36)

11

(41)

37

(87)

48

Black Studies

(0)

0

(0)

0

(3)

2

(1)

1

(4)

3

Constitutional Tradition

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

East Asian Studies

(0)

0

(14)

1

(14)

4

(30)

30

(58)

35

Economics

(0)

0

(122)

3

(134)

45

(300)

272

(556)

320

Ethnic Studies

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

Film & Media Studies

(0)

0

(5)

0

(16)

2

(11)

11

(32)

13

Foreign Languages**

(7)

0

(90)

6

(125)

43

(195)

173

(417)

222

History

(1)

0

(12)

1

(14)

5

(54)

48

(81)

54

History of Art & Architecture

(0)

0

(0)

0

(5)

1

(2)

2

(7)

3

Labor In Industrial Society

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

1

(1)

1

Latin American Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(1)

0

(7)

5

(9)

5

Linguistics

(1)

0

(2)

1

(8)

4

(4)

4

(15)

9

Literature

(0)

0

(21)

0

(40)

8

(47)

43

(108)

51

Middle Eastern Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

Music

(1)

0

(43)

1

(56)

10

(110)

99

(210)

110

Philosophy

(0)

0

(15)

1

(11)

2

(36)

35

(62)

38

Political Science

(2)

0

(26)

0

(22)

4

(41)

36

(91)

40

Psychology

(1)

0

(29)

2

(39)

18

(76)

75

(145)

95

Religion

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(2)

1

(3)

1

Russian Studies

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

Science, Technology & Society

(1)

0

(9)

0

(8)

1

(23)

21

(41)

22

Theater Arts

(0)

0

(5)

0

(19)

5

(25)

22

(49)

27

Urban Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(9)

4

(12)

10

(22)

14

Visual Arts & Design

(0)

0

(3)

0

(4)

0

(7)

7

(14)

7

Women's Studies

(0)

0

(4)

2

(8)

2

(11)

11

(23)

15

Writing

(0)

0

(17)

0

(29)

3

(79)

68

(125)

71

Special Concentrations

(0)

0

(0)

0

(4)

0

(2)

2

(6)

2












Totals

(14)

0

(436)

19

(615)

176

(1,130)

1,027

(2,195)

1,222

*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:












Chinese

(0)

0

(10)

0

(12)

4

(9)

7

(31)

11

ESL

(0)

0

(0)

0

(3)

1

(2)

2

(5)

3

French

(3)

0

(23)

3

(36)

16

(48)

44

(110)

63

German

(2)

0

(21)

2

(21)

4

(22)

19

(66)

25

Japanese

(1)

0

(20

1

(22)

8

(57)

54

(100)

63

Other Languages

(0)

0

(2)

0

(2)

0

(1)

0

(5)

0

Spanish

(1)

0

(14)

0

(28)

10

(54)

45

(97)

55

SILC

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

(2)

2

(3)

2












Totals

(7)

0

(90)

6

(125)

43

(195)

173

(417)

222

 

MIT Reports to the President 1996-97