MIT Reports to the President 1997-98

CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL THE FIELDS OF HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE*, JUNE 1998

Fields of Concentration

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

American Studies

(0)

0

(0)

0

(2)

0

(6)

6

(8)

6

Ancient & Medieval

(0)

0

(2)

0

(4)

1

(9)

6

(15)

7

Anthropology

(0)

0

(7)

0

(17)

5

(46)

41

(70)

46

Archaeology

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

Black Studies

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

0

(2)

2

(3)

2

Constitutional Tradition

(0)

0

(1)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(2)

0

East Asian Studies

(0)

0

(14)

0

(17)

1

(45)

41

(76)

42

Economics

(2)

0

(119)

3

(189)

47

(327)

306

(637)

356

Ethnic Studies

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

Film & Media Studies

(0)

0

(3)

0

(9)

0

(19)

17

(31)

17

Foreign Languages**

(6)

0

(94)

11

(137)

25

(199)

184

(436)

220

History

(0)

0

(19)

2

(28)

7

(35)

35

(82)

44

History of Art and Architecture

(0)

0

(2)

0

(8)

2

(5)

2

(15)

4

Labor in Industrial Society

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

Latin American Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(9)

1

(5)

5

(15)

6

Linguistics

(0)

0

(5)

0

(3)

1

(7)

7

(15)

8

Literature

(0)

0

(14)

1

(41)

7

(66)

60

(121)

68

Middle Eastern Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(1)

1

(2)

1

Music

(1)

0

(38)

1

(65)

15

(103)

97

(207)

113

Philosophy

(0)

0

(7)

0

(25)

7

(38)

34

(70)

41

Political Science

(0)

0

(16)

1

(43)

6

(37)

35

(96)

42

Psychology

(2)

1

(23)

0

(53)

20

(72)

69

(150)

90

Religion

(0)

0

(1)

0

(1)

0

(1)

1

(3)

1

Russian Studies

(0)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(3)

3

(4)

3

Science, Technology, & Society

(0)

0

(6)

0

(13)

1

(19)

17

(38)

18

Theater Arts

(1)

0

(9)

0

(16)

2

(30)

30

(56)

32

Urban Studies

(0)

0

(7)

0

(4)

2

(18)

18

(29)

20

Visual Arts & Design

(0)

0

(4)

0

(7)

0

(14)

13

(25)

13

Women's Studies

(0)

0

(2)

0

(14)

5

(10)

9

(26)

14

Writing

(1)

0

(18)

0

(32)

3

(64)

61

(115)

64

Special Concentrations

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(3)

3

(3)

3

TOTALS

(13)

1

(414)

19

(740)

158

(1184)

1103

(2351)

1281

* 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)

1

(15)

3

(15)

14

(40)

18

ESL

(0)

0

(0)

0

(1)

1

(4)

4

(5)

5

French

(1)

0

(32)

5

(34)

7

(53)

49

(120)

61

German

(3)

0

(15)

2

(24)

4

(28)

25

(70)

31

Japanese

(0)

0

(12)

1

(26)

7

(43)

41

(81)

49

Other Languages

(0)

0

(1)

0

(4)

0

(8)

7

(13)

7

Spanish

(2)

0

(21)

2

(29)

3

(45)

41

(97)

46

SILC

(0)

0

(3)

0

(4)

0

(3)

3

(10)

3

Totals

(6)

0

(94)

11

(137)

25

(199)

184

(436)

220

MIT Reports to the President 1997-98