Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences

Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences

The Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences is the heart of the undergraduate program and grants the majority of Stanford University's degrees. The School has 28 departments and 20 interdisciplinary degree-granting programs. The School was officially created in 1948, from the merger of the Schools of Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences, most of which had existed since the Stanford University's establishment in 1891.

The school's departments are Anthropological Sciences, Applied Physics, Art and Art History, Asian Languages, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Classics, Communication, Comparative Literature, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Drama, Economics, English, French and Italian, German Studies, History, International Relations, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, and Statistics; the school's most popular areas of study are biology, economics, English, history, political science and psychology.

IHUM

Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM), the core freshman required course sequence which consists of one fall-quarter course followed by a 2-quarter pair of courses during the winter and spring quarters. Fall quarter courses are interdisciplinary while winter-spring focus on a specific disciplinary area.

List of Deans of the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences:

* Clarence H. Faust, 1948-1951
* Douglas Merritt Whitaker, 1951-1952
* Ray N. Faulkner, 1952-1956
* Philip H. Rhinelander, 1956-1961
* Robert Richardson Sears, 1961-1970
* Albert H. Hastorf III, 1970-1973
* Halsey L. Royden, 1973-1981
* Norman K. Wessells, 1981-1988
* Ewart A.C. Thomas, 1988-1993
* John B. Shoven, 1993-1998
* Malcolm R. Beasley, 1998-2001
* Sharon R. Long, 2001-present


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