Comparative Studies in Language, Society, and Culture
Department of Music
OFFICE: 111 Mandeville Center for the Arts
(858) 534-6722/(858) 534-3279
http://music.ucsd.edu
Department of Literature
OFFICE: 3354 Literature Building
(858) 534-3826/(858) 534-3217
http://www.literature.ucsd.edu
Program Faculty
Nancy Caciola, Ph.D., Department of History
Jann C. Pasler, Ph.D., Department of Music, Chair
Don E. Wayne, Ph.D., Department of Literature, Co-Chair
Kathryn A. Woolard, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology
Graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and arts
in this program are provided the opportunity to design curricula,
conduct research, and write dissertations under the guidance of
interdepartmental and/or intercampus Ph.D. committees. The student
who participates in the program must be admitted, satisfy all
requirements for advancement to candidacy, and pass the qualifying
examination in one department. The student must also undertake
advanced study in an integrally related area of research specialization.
The student advances to candidacy in the program upon successfully
defending a written dissertation proposal before the interdepartment
and/or intercampus Ph.D. committee. In the instance of some departments
and programs, the defense will be identical with completion of
the departmental qualifying examination.
Application to the program in Comparative Studies may be made
at the earliest during the students third quarter of residency
in his or her primary department. From the point of acceptance
into the program, the students preparation for dissertation
research will be under the supervision of the interdepartment
or intercampus Ph.D. committee. The degree granted may indicate
in its title the precise nature of the students studies
and research when appropriate and desirablee.g., Ph.D. in
comparative literature and ethnopoetics, in linguistics and literary
studies, in economics and Chinese studies, in philosophy and the
history of ideas. When an additional degree title is contemplated,
the students Ph.D. committee must forward a program of study
and research, as well as the dissertation proposal, to the supervising
committee for initial approval and to the Graduate Council for
final approval.
Students applying for admission to UCSD and interested in applying
for admission to the program should direct their inquiries to
a primary department. Students already admitted to a primary department
should, after the required quarters of residence and with the
advice of a department adviser, direct inquiries to the chairperson
of the program.
Faculty Research Groups
Beginning with the academic year 19971998, the program
sponsors a series of faculty research groups. These groups consist
of faculty who have announced their intention to supervise graduate
students wishing to work on topics involving the comparative study
of language, society, and culture. Each faculty research group
is expected to be composed of faculty in the humanities, social
sciences, and arts from different departments and/or campuses.
For a list of current faculty research groups and the topics which
they support, contact the chairperson of the program.
The Anthropology of Modern Society
The Anthropology of Modern Society is a project of graduate
training and research dedicated to the study of modernity and
its counterpoints in the late twentieth century. The group sees
the social life of cities as making manifest this problem in issues
of citizenship and democracy, social formations in tension with
the nation-state, modern subjectivities, social and religious
movements, transnational markets and migrations, and relations
of local to global processes. Participants are committed to reorienting
anthropological theory and ethnographic practice towards such
contemporary social and political problems.
Director: James Holston, Department of Anthropology, (858) 534-0111
Co-Director: Martha Lampland, Department of Sociology, (858)
534-5640
Ph.D. Time Limit Policies
A student admitted to this interdisciplinary program is subject
to the same time limit policies as those of the students
primary department.
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