Departments
The school is divided into three divisions: Humanities and Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Humanities and Arts
- Art & Art History—One of the original University departments under the name Drawing (1891), Drawing and Painting (1892-1900), back to Drawing (1901–1907), Graphic Arts (1908–1910), Graphic Art (1911–1913, 1927–1947), then Art and Architecture (1948–1969), Art (1970–?) and finally its current name. [1]
- Classics—Stanford started with separate departments for Latin and Greek but these were merged in 1921
- Drama—Started as Public Speaking in 1927 became Speech and Drama in 1937 and Drama in 1971
- East Asian Languages and Cultures
- English—one of the original departments but under the name English Language and Literature
- History—one of the original departments
- Linguistics—established in 1971
- Music—established in 1936
- Philosophy—established sometime in the 1890s
- Religious Studies—started in 1941 as the department of Religion
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
- Comparative Literature
- French and Italian—one of the original departments under the name Romance Languages which became Romanic Languages. Became French and Italian in 1963.
- German Studies—one of the original departments under the name Germanic Languages
- Iberian & Latin American Cultures
- Slavic Languages and Literature—established in 1926
Natural Sciences
- Applied Physics—established in 1969
- Biology
- Chemistry—one of the original departments
- Mathematics—one of the original departments
- Physics—one of the original departments
- Statistics—established in 1936
The current Biology department was formed by merging Botany, Zoology, Entomology, and Physiology to form Biological Sciences. The name of this department was changed to Biology in 2009.
Social Sciences
- Anthropology
- Communication—established in 1927 as Journalism
- Economics—established in 1892 as Economics and Social Sciences
- Political Science
- Psychology—one of the original departments with Frank Angell serving as its first chair. From 1922 to 1942, Lewis Terman served as its chair. [2] In 2015, it was ranked as #1 in the country among all psychology graduate programs in the United States. [3]
- Science, Technology, and Society—interdisciplinary, with both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science programs [4]
- Sociology
Stanford was set up with a Political Science department but that was almost immediately renamed Economics and Social Science. The forerunner of the current Political Science department was established in 1918.
Sociology and Anthropology were originally one department established in 1948. They split in 1957. Anthropology itself was split into Anthropological Sciences and Cultural and Social Anthropology from 1999 to 2007 but merged again.
Notable faculty in these departments other than those mentioned above include:
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