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Occidental College is a small, private
Private university

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, coeducational liberal arts college
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 located in Los Angeles, California
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. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or Oxy as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast
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. Occidental is noted for its combination of rigorous academic programs, a small yet diverse student body, and the resources of one of the world's major cities. It has recently gained greater attention through U.S. President
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 Barack Obama
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, who attended the college for two years before transferring to Columbia University
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.
The Birth of Occidental College Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen.






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Occidental College is a small, private
Private university

Private universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding . Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation....
, coeducational liberal arts college
Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclop?dia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contras...
 located in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or Oxy as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast
West Coast of the United States

The "West Coast", "Western Seaboard", or "Pacific Coastline" are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States. It most often comprises California, Oregon and Washington....
. Occidental is noted for its combination of rigorous academic programs, a small yet diverse student body, and the resources of one of the world's major cities. It has recently gained greater attention through U.S. President
President

President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
 Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
, who attended the college for two years before transferring to Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
.

History


The Birth of Occidental College

Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen. The college’s first term began a year later with 27 men and 13 women students, and tuition of $50 a year. Initially located in Boyle Heights, the college moved to a new campus in Los Angeles’ Highland Park
Highland Park, Los Angeles, California

Highland Park is a district of North East Los Angeles, California....
 neighborhood in 1898. Despite a strong Presbyterian presence on its campus, Occidental cut ties to the church in 1910. In 1912, the school began construction of a new campus located in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California

Eagle Rock is an artistic and affluent hilly neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California, California, United States. It is bordered by the city of Glendale, California on the north and west, Highland Park, Los Angeles, California on the south, and the cities of Pasadena, California and South Pasadena on the east....
 neighborhood. The Eagle Rock campus was to be designed by noted California Architect Myron Hunt
Myron Hunt

Myron Hunt was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California. Hunt was elected a FAIA in the American Institute of Architects in 1908....
. That same year, Occidental President John Willis Baer announced the trustees’ decision to convert Oxy into an all-men’s institution. However, students protested, and the idea was abandoned.

On to Eagle Rock

Two weeks after Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death....
 came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914 — the school’s 25th anniversary, Swan, Fowler, and Johnson halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock

Eagle Rock can refer to one of the following:Places in the United States*Eagle Rock, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina, west of Zebulon...
 campus. The Eagle Rock campus covers over 120 acres (0.5 km), much of which is undeveloped land on a hill known as “Mt. Fiji.” In April 1917, the college formed an Army Corps to aid the war effort. The college opened its Hillside Theatre in 1925, and a student union in 1928. During World War II
World War II

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, many students left Occidental to fight the war. In July 1943, 53 students established a Navy V-12 unit on campus and left for active duty.

A Little Giant

In 1962, Time Magazine described Occidental as a little giant in a story about the college’s rise to national prominence. Indeed, this moniker was characteristic of the college’s growth.

During the late 1960s, a strong anti-war sentiment made its presence felt at Occidental. The students’ activism was characteristic of a rise of liberalism
Liberalism

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 across campus. In 1969, the school opened its first two co-ed dormitories, and two more followed a year later. On May 6, 1970, the faculty voted to suspend classes in the wake of the Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings

The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio Army National Guard on Monday, May 4 1970....
 and America’s invasion of Cambodia. Subsequently, Oxy students wrote 7,000 letters to Washington D.C., protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia.

In 1979, Occidental installed Water Forms II (see image below), a kinetic fountain designed by professor George Baker. The fountain is a campus landmark and was featured prominently in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

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. During the 1984 Olympic Games, some track events were held at Occidental’s Patterson Field. By 1986, for the first time since World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, women students outnumbered men. Today, the college is approximately 60 percent female and 40 percent male; roughly equivalent to the national average. On July 1, 2006, Susan Prager became Occidental’s first female president. She then left her position in 2007 during the fall term.. On January 30, 2009, it was announced that Jonathan Veitch, formerly dean of of Eugene Lang College, would become Occidental's 15th president beginning in the summer of 2009.

Academics, resources, and rankings


Student profile
  • 1,825 students from 46 states, the District of Columbia and 21 foreign countries
  • 56 percent women, 44 percent men
  • 6.8 percent African American
  • 14.9 percent Asian American
  • 55.6 percent Caucasian
  • 2.7 percent international
  • 15.2 percent Latino/a
  • 1 percent Native American
  • 8 percent declined to state


Faculty profile
  • 150 full-time faculty
  • 6.7 percent African American
  • 12.6 percent Asian American
  • 13.3 percent Latino/a
  • 45 percent women, 55 percent men

Core Program

Johnson Hall
Divided in three parts, the Core Program was designed by the faculty of Occidental to unify and enhance the liberal arts education offered by the school. The Core Program requires students to achieve the following: (1) complete two first-year writing seminars; (2) complete a set number of courses in geographical areas, languages, and the arts; and, (3) pass a senior-year comprehensive examination within the student’s chosen major.

First-year seminars (8 course hours in total) are the centerpiece of the Core Program. Students are given a variety of class choices to fulfill the seminar requirement, and to satisfy the first-year writing requirement. While the classes range in topic, each is based on a curriculum of cultural studies. The classes are designed to expose students to the rigor of college academics and to the four principles of the college mission—Excellence, Equity, Community, and Service.

The Core Program’s emphasis on global literacy requires students to take a minimum of three courses that touch on at least three of the following geographical areas: Africa and the Middle East; Asia and the Pacific; Europe; Latin America; the United States; and Intercultural. Students are also require to demonstrate proficiency in writing and in a foreign language and take courses in the fine arts and in the sciences, mathematics, or other courses that address formal methods of reasoning.

The final portion of the Core Program requires students to pass a senior comprehensive examination in their chosen field. Comprehensive examinations may include seminars, creative projects, fieldwork, oral exams, theses, or field research projects.

Student research

Occidental provides its students unique opportunities to research in their chosen field. Many students collaborate on research with their professors in the lab, at other local institutions, including the City of Hope National Cancer Research Center, and overseas. Research fellowships are provided to students in all fields of study. Over the past five years, more than 280 students received funding to undertake joint research with faculty—research that often results in co-authored publication in peer-reviewed journals.

International programs

Many Occidental students participate in off-campus programs in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and in Europe
Europe

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, Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, the Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
, Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
, and Oceania
Oceania

Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....
. Annually, nearly one third of the junior class partakes in a semester abroad.

Occidental offers a unique Occidental-at-the-United Nations
United Nations

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 Program in New York
New York

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. When selected, students intern in the United Nations Secretariat or with a related institution, such as the US State Department or an international NGO. Some students also study in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 through American University
American University

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.

Occidental is among a handful of American colleges that participates in the Richter Summer Research Program, in which students compete for a chance to pursue independent research or creative work anywhere in the world. Exchange students also are welcomed to Occidental. The school maintains exchange agreements with the University of Bristol, Cambridge University, University of East Anglia, University of Sussex, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Reputation

In U.S. News and World Reports 2009 rankings of American liberal arts colleges, Occidental is 37th. The 2007 Princeton Review describes Occidental as having a “rising star quality” and notes that Occidental’s professors have been called “top quality.” The 2006 edition of America's Best Value Colleges by the Princeton Review noted that the college “is committed to recruiting top students regardless of their financial background.” The College Prowler says that people “look at Occidental degrees very highly,” but that Occidental often does not receive the attention it deserves.

Campus

Architect Myron Hunt
Myron Hunt

Myron Hunt was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California. Hunt was elected a FAIA in the American Institute of Architects in 1908....
, who also designed the Rose Bowl Stadium, designed Oxy's original buildings in a Mediterranean style, with covered walkways and tile roofs. Currently, there are 12 on-campus residence halls. The three original buildings of the 1914 campus still stand today, although seismic concerns have limited them to classrooms and academic offices. Most of the rest of the buildings match the original style with a few exceptions. The Arthur G. Coons Administration Building has been dubbed "the Chrysler Showroom" by campus wags — a reference to its boxy glass lobby. As the seat of power, Coons has also been compared to Foucault's "panopticon." The most notable aberration, however, is Stearns Hall, which has been described as "Barbie meets Escher
Escher

Escher may refer to:*M. C. Escher , a Dutch graphic artist**Escher Museum, containing the work of M.C. Escher**4444 Escher, an asteroid named after M....
" for its angular, post-modern style and its shrunken scale (it is supposedly built at 90% of scale, an idea supported by the feeling of claustrophobia
Claustrophobia

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 often encountered there). The Hameetman Science Center, designed by the firm of Anshen+Allen and built in 2003 to provide new research facilities for Occidental's geology and physics departments also deviates from the original architecture with its large glass windows and metal balconies. Its lobby also houses a large Foucault pendulum
Foucault pendulum

The Foucault pendulum , or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist L?on Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation....
. Occidental's newest building, the 278 bed Rangeview Residence Hall, opened in January 2008 at a cost of a reported 38.8 million dollars and is the first residence hall built in 25 years. Rangeview features dormitories with private bathrooms, lounges, study rooms, classrooms, a 24-hour gym and an underground garage, making it Occidental's only hybrid building.

Athletics

Johnson Student Center and Freeman College Union
Occidental is one of the five schools that founded the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1915 and is currently a member of the SCIAC and NCAA Division III. Occidental features 19 varsity sports teams and a program of club sports and intramural competition. Approximately 25 per cent of the student body participates in a varsity sports program.

During the 2006–2007 athletic season, the Tiger’s cross country
Cross country running

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, American football
American football

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 and basketball
Basketball

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 teams were Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

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 champions. The school’s Blackshirts Rugby union
Rugby union

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 team was also league champion for the first time in five years. In addition the college boasts a competitive and growing elite dance team that also performs at every home football and basketball game.

Notable faculty

Herrick Memorial Chapel N Fountain
Several Occidental professors have received awards in recent years and some have held prominent positions in government and the private sector:
  • Larry Caldwell, Professor of Politics, has served in the Office of Soviet Analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency
    Central Intelligence Agency

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    , as Director of European Studies at the National War College
    National War College

    The National War College of the United States is a school in the National Defense University. It is housed in Roosevelt Hall on Fort Lesley J....
     in Washington D.C., and as Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
    International Institute for Strategic Studies

    The International Institute for Strategic Studies is a United Kingdom research institute in the area of International relations. It describes itself as "the world?s leading authority on political-military conflict"....
     in London
  • Martha Ronk, Price Professor of English Literature, is a 2005 PEN American Center
    PEN American Center

    PEN American Center , founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship....
     Literary Award winner in poetry.
  • Derek Shearer, Stuart Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, was U.S. Ambassador
    Ambassador

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     to Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
     from 1994 to 1997 and was formerly an aide to Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton

    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
    .
  • James Sadd, Educational science video host.
  • Bob Sipchen, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Writing, teaches journalism
    Journalism

    Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
     classes at Oxy. He is currently the editor of Sierra
    Sierra

    Mountains and mountain ranges *Sierra mountains*Sierra Ju?rez, mountain range in Baja California, Mexico*Sierra Madre, various mountain ranges...
    , the Sierra club's magazine as well as a novelist. In 2002, he and colleague Alex Raksin were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
    Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

    The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction....
     for their piece on the mentally-ill homeless living in Los Angeles.
  • John Hirsch, Adjunct Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, was the former U.S. Ambassador
    Ambassador

    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents their country. They are usually accredited to a Sovereignty or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of their country....
     to Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea in the northeast, Liberia in the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest....
     and Vice President of the International Peace Academy.
  • Robby Moore, Elbridge Amos Stuart Professor of Economics, was the originating editor of the Teaching Tools Section of Economic Inquiry and has taught Bill Gates
    Bill Gates

    William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an United States business magnate, philanthropist, author, the List of the 100 wealthiest people , and chairman of the board of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen....
    .
  • Constance Perkins, Professor of Art History; worked with Richard Neutra
    Richard Neutra

    Richard Joseph Neutra is considered one of modernism's most important architects....
     on The Constance Perkins House
    The Constance Perkins House

    The Constance Perkins House is a house designed by Richard Neutra and built in Pasadena, California, California, 1952-55.Constance Perkins was born in Denver in 1913....
     and contributed with many art critiques


Notable alumni

Jack Kemp
Luke Wilson
*Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck is an United Statesn actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s, after his involvement in the film Mallrats , and has since become an Academy Award winner for his screenplay in Good Will Hunting in 1997....
 (actor; did not graduate)
  • David G. Armstrong
    David G. Armstrong

    David G. Armstrong is an American podiatric surgeon and researcher most widely known for his work in amputation prevention, the diabetic foot, and wound healing....
     (U.S. Physician/Medical Researcher; did not graduate)
  • Kathy Augustine (U.S. politician from Nevada)
  • Howard Ahmanson, Jr (influential philanthropist for fundamentalist Christian causes)
  • Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr.
    Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr.

    Alphonzo Bell, Jr. was an eight-term United States Representative from California, who represented Los Angeles, California's influential West Los Angeles ....
     (U.S. Congressman)
  • Ron Botchan
    Ron Botchan

    Ronald Leslie "Ron" Botchan was an American football linebacker in the American Football League from 1960 AFL season to 1962 AFL season and later as American football official in the National Football League from 1980 to 2002....
     (five-time Super Bowl
    Super Bowl

    In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League . The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday....
     National Football League
    National Football League

    The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
     official from 1980 to 2002)
  • Olin Browne
    Olin Browne

    Olin Douglas Browne is an United States professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Browne was born in Washington, D.C. He graduated from The Holderness School in 1977....
     (PGA Tour winner)
  • Norton Clapp
    Norton Clapp

    Matthew Norton Clapp was a Weyerhaeuser chairman who was among the private investors who built and owned the Seattle Space Needle.Clapp was active in various philanthropies including the Boy Scouts of America and was to donate 10,098 acres including the summit of Baldy Mountain for use at Philmont Scout Ranch....
     (1928) (an original owner of Space Needle
    Space Needle

    The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle....
    )
  • Steve Coll
    Steve Coll

    Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States journalist and writer. Coll is currently president and CEO of the New America Foundation. Prior to assuming that post on September 17, 2007, Coll was a staff writer for The New Yorker, and served as managing editor of The Washington Post from 1998 to 2004....
     (former     Washington Post Managing Editor, Pulitzer Prize winner)
  • Glenn Corbett
    Glenn Corbett

    Glenn Corbett was an United States actor best known for his role on Columbia Broadcasting System's adventure drama Route 66 ....
     (television actor)
  • W. Don Cornwell
    W. Don Cornwell

    W. Don Cornwell is CEO, Chairman, and co-founder of Granite Broadcasting .Granite declared bankruptcy in December 2006 and while negotiating on behalf of Granite stockholders Cornwell secured for himself among other things: forgiveness of a $3.3 million loan from Granite, a $2.6 million ?gross up? bonus payment, options to purchase 375,0...
     (CEO of Granite Broadcasting)
  • Brent Dalrymple
    Brent Dalrymple

    G. Brent Dalrymple is an United States geologist, author of The Age of the Earth and Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies, and National Medal of Science winner....
     (prominent Geologist and National Medal of Science winner)
  • Sharon Delmendo
    Sharon Delmendo

    Sharon Delmendo is an English professor at St. John Fisher College.An alumnus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Professor Delmendo received her PhD in English in 1993 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, finishing her dissertation, "Engendering the American Domestic," in Amherst, MA, on a Five College Minor...
     (professor of English and Author)
  • Mark Dery
    Mark Dery

    Mark Alexander Dery is an United States author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture" and has taught media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University....
     (author and cultural critic)
  • Glenn S. Dumke
    Glenn S. Dumke

    Glenn S. Dumke was an historian and chancellor of the California State University system from 1962 to 1982 – most of its first twenty years....
     (history professor and chancellor of the California State University)
  • Richard Falkenrath (former deputy homeland security advisor)
  • Mesh Flinders
    Mesh Flinders

    Ramesh Flinders is an American screenwriter who, along with Miles Beckett, created the lonelygirl15 video series.According to journalist Joshua Davis, who knew Flinders as a child, he grew up in a spiritual community outside of San Francisco, and attended St....
     (filmmaker, creator of lonelygirl15
    Lonelygirl15

    lonelygirl15 was an interactive web-based video series which began in June 2006, and ended on August 1, 2008.The show focuses on the life of a fictional teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous "lonelygirl15", but the show does not reveal its fictional nature to its audience....
    )
  • Will Friedle
    Will Friedle

    William Alan "Will" Friedle is an United States actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for his comedic roles, most notably the underachieving elder brother Eric Matthews on the long-running TV sitcom Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000....
     (actor)
  • Kathryn Funk (costume designer)
  • Eddie Galan
    Eddie Galan

    Eddie Galan is a Los Angeles born singer/musician, 4 time #1 Hit Billboard songwriter and record producer, with 17x Platinum status. He is the oldest of four children to Edward and Teresa Galan....
     (songwriter, music producer, Billboard Music Award winner, American Music Award Nominee, 4 Time Billboard #1)
  • Terry Gilliam
    Terry Gilliam

    Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Brazil , Twelve Monkeys , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....
     (actor and director)
  • Joanna Gleason
    Joanna Gleason

    Joanna Gleason is a Canada actress and singer. She is a Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles....
     (actor)
  • Robinson Jeffers
    Robinson Jeffers

    John Robinson Jeffers was an United States poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and Epic poetry form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmentalism movement....
     (poet)
  • U. Alexis Johnson
    U. Alexis Johnson

    Ural Alexis Johnson was a United States diplomat, born in Saline County, Kansas, Kansas.He graduated Occidental College in 1931 and entered the United States Foreign Service in 1935....
     (U.S. diplomat)
  • Howard Judd
    Howard Judd

    Howard Lund Judd was an United States physician and biomedical research. He specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology, and contributed significant research to the field of women's health, in particular about menopause and hormone replacement therapy....
     (medical researcher)
  • Jack Kemp
    Jack Kemp

    Jack French Kemp, is an American politician and former professional American football player. In the U.S. presidential election, 1996, he was Republican Party presidential nominee Bob Dole running mate for Vice President of the United States....
     (athlete and politician)
  • Paul Kim, PK (Founder, Exec. Director - Kollaboration - International Talent Show)
  • Terry Kitchen
    Terry Kitchen

    Terry Kitchen is an American folk music singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Easton, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Findlay, Ohio and attended college at Occidental College and the Guitar Institute of Technology....
     (musician)
  • Dr. Sammy Lee
    Sammy Lee (diver)

    Dr. Samuel Lee is the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving....
     (Two time Olympic Gold Medalist in Diving)
  • Nicholas Braun
    Nicholas Braun

    Nicholas Braun is an United States actor from Long Island, New York born in 1988.He attended St. Mark's School in Massachusetts through 2006 and now attends Occidental College He is 6'5" tall....
     (actor)
  • Loren Lester
    Loren Lester

    Loren Lester is an United States actor of stage, screen, and voice actor, best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Robin and Nightwing in the numerous Batman: The Animated Series animated series and features in the DC Animated Universe....
     (actor)
  • Linda A. Malcor
    Linda A. Malcor

    Linda Ann Malcor Ph.D is an United States scholar of King Arthur. She is one of the proponents of the theory that states that the historical basis for King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were a second-century Roman Empire officer named Lucius Artorius Castus and Sarmatians Auxiliaries , which Artorius supposedly commanded in Roma...
     (author)
  • J. P. Mallory (archaeologist)
  • Pete McCloskey
    Pete McCloskey

    Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983....
     (politician)
  • Adam J. Miller (President of Lodging & Gaming Management Association)
  • Jim Mora, Sr.
    Jim E. Mora

    James Earnest Mora is the former head coach of the USFL's Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars and the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts....
     (football coach)
  • Patt Morrison
    Patt Morrison

    Patt Morrison is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, host of the 2-hour weekday talk program Patt Morrison on and frequent commentator on National Public Radio....
     (NPR radio personality and columnist for the     Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times

    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
    )
  • Barack Obama
    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
     (President of the United States; transferred to Columbia University
    Columbia University

    Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
     after two years)
  • Marcel Ophüls (filmmaker; did not graduate)
  • Sam Rubin (KTLA
    KTLA

    KTLA, channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of The CW Television Network....
     entertainment anchor)
  • Lewis Sargentich
    Lewis Sargentich

    Lewis Daniel "Lew" Sargentich , frequently referred to simply as "Sarge," has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1973 where he teaches courses tort law and jurisprudence....
     Legal scholar at Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School

    Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
  • Jake Shears
    Jake Shears

    Jake Shears is the male lead vocalist for the United States music group Scissor Sisters....
     (lead singer of Scissor Sisters; did not graduate)
  • Dan Slott
    Dan Slott

    Dan Slott is an American comic book writer best known for Avengers: The Initiative and She-Hulk. He is also one of the four writers of Amazing Spider-Man and is the current writer of The Mighty Avengers....
    , comic book writer
  • Anna Slotky
    Anna Slotky

    'Anna Slotky' is an United States Actor perhaps best known for her role as Ruth Ann in the television sitcom The Torkelsons/Almost Home. She also had a recurring role as Denise on Sister, Sister , guest starred in 3rd Rock From The Sun, Doctor Doctor and Step by Step , and played Brooke, one of the McCallister children in Hom...
     (actress)
  • Roger Guenveur Smith
    Roger Guenveur Smith

    Roger Guenveur Smith is an American writer, director, and actor.Smith was born in Berkeley, California, the son of Helen, a dentist, and Sherman Smith, a judge....
     (actor)
  • Tui St. George Tucker
    Tui St. George Tucker

    Tui St. George Tucker was an United States composer and recorder player.She was born in Fullerton, Orange County, California and attended Eagle Rock High School in northeast Los Angeles, California, graduating in 1941....
    , composer
  • Jim Tunney (American football official)
    Jim Tunney (American football official)

    Dr. Jim Tunney was an American football official in the National Football League from 1960 to 1991. In his 31 years as an NFL official, Jim Tunney received a record 29 post-season assignments, including ten Championship games and Super Bowls Super Bowl VI, Super Bowl XI, and Super Bowl XII and named as an alternate in Super Bowl XVIII....
     (NFL official from 1960 - 1991)
  • Carrie Vaughn
    Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn is an American author who writes the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 30 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines....
    , writer
  • Rex Weyler
    Rex Weyler

    Rex Weyler is an American / Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher at newspapers and magazines, and occasionally as a commentator on Canadian television....
    , author, journalist, ecologist and co-founder of Greenpeace International; did not graduate
  • Fred Lawrence Whipple
    Fred Lawrence Whipple

    Fred Lawrence Whipple was an United States astronomer.He is best known for writing an influential paper in which he proposed the "icy conglomerate" hypothesis of comet composition ....
     (astronomer)
  • Luke Wilson
    Luke Wilson

    Luke Cunningham Wilson is an United States film actor. He is the younger brother of Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson , and is considered a member of the Frat Pack....
     (actor, transferred to Texas Christian University
    Texas Christian University

    Texas Christian University is a private university, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, Texas. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Christian Church ....
    )
  • Rosalind Wiseman
    Rosalind Wiseman

    Rosalind Wiseman founded the Empower Program, a national violence-prevention program, in 1992. Since then, she has gone on to work with tens of thousands of students, educators, parents, counselors, coaches, and administrators to create communities based on the belief that each person has a responsibility to treat themselves and others with d...
    , writer, noted expert on relational aggression.


Film and television at Occidental

Occidental’s campus, architecture, and proximity to Hollywood have made it a desired location for a number of film and television shots. Credits include:

  • The Cup of Fury (1920)
  • Horse Feathers
    Horse Feathers

    Horse Feathers was the fourth Marx Brothers film. It stars the four Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, as well as Thelma Todd as Connie Bailey, and was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S....
      (1932) with the Marx Brothers
    Marx Brothers

    The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
  • Pigskin Parade (1936) with Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
     and Betty Grable
    Betty Grable

    Betty Grable was an American dancer, singer, and actress.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era....
  • Second Chorus
    Second Chorus

    Second Chorus is a Hollywood musical film comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, and Charles Butterworth , with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen, Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer....
      (1941) with Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire

    Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
  • That Hagen Girl
    That Hagen Girl

    That Hagen Girl was an American film released in 1947. It starred Shirley Temple and Ronald Reagan. It was produced by Warner Bros..The plot revolves around the small town of Jordan* and a local teenager named Mary Hagen who gossips believe is an illegitimate daughter of former resident and lawyer Tom Bates ....
      (1947) with Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple

    Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
     and Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
  • Goodbye, My Fancy
    Goodbye, My Fancy

    Goodbye, My Fancy is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young , and Frank Lovejoy in a light tale about a woman and her old flame....
      (1951) with Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
     and Robert Young
    Robert Young (actor)

    Robert George Young was an Emmy Award winning United States actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. ....
  • That's My Boy
    That's My Boy

    That's My Boy is a United Kingdom Situation comedy that aired on ITV from 1981 to 1986. Starring Mollie Sugden, it was written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton, who later wrote My Husband and I, which also starred Mollie Sugden....
      (1951) with Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  • Pat and Mike
    Pat and Mike

    Pat and Mike is a 1952 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The movie was directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib....
      (1952) with Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
     and Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy

    Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
  • Tall Story
    Tall Story

    Tall Story is a 1960 in film USA sports film comedy film directed by Joshua Logan and starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda. Future star Robert Redford made his screen debut as a basketball player.IMDB...
      (1960) with Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
     and Anthony Perkins
    Anthony Perkins

    Anthony Perkins was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels....
  • Take Her, She’s Mine (1963) with James Stewart
    James Stewart (actor)

    James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
  • The Impossible Years
    The Impossible Years

    The Impossible Years is a 1965 comedy play by Robert Fisher and Arthur Marx, son of famed comedian Groucho Marx.The comedy revolves around Jonathan Kingsley, a teaching psychiatrist at the local university, his wife, and their two teenaged daughters....
      (1968) with David Niven
    David Niven

    James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
  • The One and Only (1978) with Henry Winkler
    Henry Winkler

    Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, film director, Film producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom, Happy Days....
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
      (1984) featuring the Gilman Fountain as part of the Palace of Vulcan
  • Real Genius
    Real Genius

    Real Genius is a 1985 comedy film starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. The movie is set on the campus of "Pacific Tech," a fictitious technical university in the US based on Caltech....
      (1985) with Val Kilmer
    Val Kilmer

    Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor and possible candidate for Governor of New Mexico. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun ...
  • Sneakers
    Sneakers (film)

    Sneakers is a 1992 caper story film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992....
      (1992) with Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
    Beverly Hills, 90210

    'Beverly Hills, 90210' is a prime time television drama series that aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world....
     (1993)
  • Clueless
    Clueless

    Clueless is a 1995 in film comedy film based on Emma by Jane Austen and set in a Beverly Hills high school. It was written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin....
      (1995) with Alicia Silverstone
    Alicia Silverstone

    Alicia Silverstone is an United States film and theater actor and former model . She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl#Adaptations in other media in Batman & Robin ....
  • Kicking and Screaming
    Kicking and Screaming

    Kicking and Screaming is a film by Noah Baumbach about a group of college graduates who refuse to move on with their lives, each in his own peculiar way....
      (1995) with Josh Hamilton
    Josh Hamilton (actor)

    Josh C. Hamilton is an United States actor.Hamilton was born in New York City, New York. His Broadway theatre credits include Proof and The Coast of Utopia ....
  • Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
    Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    'Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood' is a 1996 in film film. Similar to the Wayans brothers' previous effort I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, the film spoofs a number of African American, coming-of-age, 'hood films' such as Juice , Jungle Fever , South Central , Higher Learning, Do The Ri...
      (1996) with the Wayans Brothers
  • Boys and Girls
    Boys and Girls (2000 film)

    Boys and Girls is a romantic comedy film that was released in 2000, directed by Robert Iscove. It has been said to be a new generation version of the movie When Harry Met Sally.......
      (2000) with Freddie Prinze Jr.
  • Jurassic Park III
    Jurassic Park III

    Jurassic Park III is the 2001 in film sequel to the 1997 in film film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and is the first in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg....
      (2001) with Sam Neill
    Sam Neill

    Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of British Empire is a New Zealand actor.He has had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin , the executive officer, Capt 2nd Class Vasily Borodin...
  • Orange County
    Orange County (film)

    Orange County is an United States Film that was released on February 14, 2002 in film. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin....
      (2002) with Colin Hanks
    Colin Hanks

    Colin Lewes Hanks is an American actor....
     and Jack Black
    Jack Black

    Jack Black , is an American actor and musician, notably of Tenacious D.Jack Black may also refer to:* Jack Black , late 19th - early 20th Century author and hobo...
  • The Holiday
    The Holiday

    The Holiday is a 2006 in film USA romantic comedy film distributed by Columbia Pictures in the US and Universal Studios outside the US, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black....
      (2006) with Cameron Diaz
    Cameron Diaz

    Cameron Michelle Diaz is an United States actress. In August 2008, Forbes listed Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
    , Kate Winslet
    Kate Winslet

    'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
    , Jude Law
    Jude Law

    Jude Law is an England actor, film producer and film director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first TV role in 1989....
    , and Jack Black
    Jack Black

    Jack Black , is an American actor and musician, notably of Tenacious D.Jack Black may also refer to:* Jack Black , late 19th - early 20th Century author and hobo...
  • Made of Honor
    Made of Honor

    Made of Honor is a 2008 in film United States comedy film directed by Paul Weiland and written by Adam Sztykiel. It was produced by Neal H....
     (2008) with Patrick Dempsey
    Patrick Dempsey

    Patrick Galen Dempsey is an actor.Who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr....
     and Michelle Monaghan
    Michelle Monaghan

    Michelle Monaghan is an United States actor, known for her roles in Mission: Impossible III, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gone Baby Gone and Eagle Eye....
  • Fired Up
    Fired Up

    Fired Up may refer to:*Fired Up , a music album by Alesha Dixon*Fired Up , a 2009 comedy film*"Fired Up", a song by Jessica Simpson from her 2006 album A Public Affair...
      (2009) with Nicholas D'Agosto
    Nicholas D'Agosto

    Nicholas D'Agosto is an American television and film actor....
    , Eric Christian Olsen
    Eric Christian Olsen

    Eric Christian Olsen is an United States actor....
    , and Sarah Roemer
    Sarah Roemer

    Sarah Christin Roemer is an United States Actor and Model . She recently starred as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character in 2007's thriller, Disturbia ....
TV credits include Dragnet
Dragnet

Dragnet may refer to:*A type of fishing net also known as a Seine fishing*Dragnet , any system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects...
, The West Wing (2002), Monk (TV Series)
Monk (TV series)

Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....
, Charmed
Charmed

Charmed is an award-winning, Television in the United States cult television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998 until May 21, 2006, when its network, The WB Television Network, ceased operation....
, The L Word
The L Word

The L Word was an American television drama series on Showtime that portrays the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender men and women and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles Area city of West Hollywood, California....
, Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. The show is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television....
, Beverly Hills 90210 (1993-97), Greek
Greek (TV series)

Greek is an United States teen comedy-drama television series which airs on the ABC Family network, the UK BBC Three network, the Australian pay-TV network FOX8, and on the TV2 channel in New Zealand....
 and a host of other shows and made-for-TV movies, including Lou Grant
Lou Grant

Lou Grant may refer to:* Lou Grant a spinoff from the Mary Tyler Moore series* Lou Grant a character in both of these series...
, Remington Steele
Remington Steele

Remington Steele is an United States television series, produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 in television to 1987 in television....
, and Cannon
Cannon

A cannon is any tubular piece of artillery, that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile over a distance....
.

Occidental in literature

  • Aldous Huxley
    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963....
     was close friends with college president Remsen Bird during Huxley's time living in Southern California. He spent much time at the college during this period and the college is portrayed under the name of Tarzana College in his 1939 satirical novel     After Many a Summer
    After Many a Summer

    After Many a Summer is a novel by Aldous Huxley which tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire fearing his impending death. The novel was retitled After Many a Summer Dies the Swan when published in the USA....
    . Huxley also incorporated Bird into the novel.
  • Gary Shteyngart
    Gary Shteyngart

    Gary Shteyngart is an United States writer born in Saint Petersburg, USSR . Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times....
    's novel,     Absurdistan, is partly set at the apocryphal "Accidental College," which is clearly a riff on Occidental's name, though its Midwestern setting is more akin to Shteyngart's alma mater, Oberlin
    Oberlin College

    Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1833 by Presbyterian ministers, and is home to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, making it the only top-ranked Liberal arts colleges in the United States with a top-ranked conservatory....
    .
  • Barack Obama
    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
    's memoir, "Dreams from My Father
    Dreams from My Father

    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began....
    " he talks about his and several other African American students' campus activism.


Academic majors

Arts
ARts

aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is most famous for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
 & Humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
  • Art History
    Art history

    Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e.genre, design, format, and look.This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects....
     and the Visual Arts
    Visual arts

    The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
  • Critical Theory and Social Justice
    Critical race theory

    Critical Race Theory began as a response to critical legal studies. CRT is concerned with racism, racial subordination and discrimination. It emphasizes the socially constructed and discursive nature of Race , considers judicial conclusions to be the result of the workings of the intersection of race with other social phenomena but sees race...
  • English
    English studies

    English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics , and English sociolinguistics ....
     and Comparative Literary Studies
    Comparative literature

    Comparative literature is literary criticism dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups. While most frequently practiced with works of different languages, it may also be performed on works of the same language if the works originate from different nations or cultures among which that languag...
  • French
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
     Literary Studies
  • Group Language
  • Music
    Music

    Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
  • Philosophy
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
  • Religious Studies
    Religious studies

    Religious studies, or Religious education, is the academia field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion beliefs, behaviors, and institutions....
  • Spanish
    Spanish language

    Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
     Literary Studies
  • Theater


Social Sciences
Social sciences

The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
  • Economics
    Economics

    File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
  • History
    HIStory

    HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
  • Politics
    Politics

    Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
  • Sociology
    Sociology

    Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....


Natural Sciences
  • Biology
    Biology

    Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
  • Chemistry
    Chemistry

    Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
  • Geology
    Geology

    Geology is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitute the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition, structural geology, physical properties, dynamics, and History of the Earth of Earth materials, and the processes by which they are formed, moved, and changed....
  • Mathematics
    Mathematics

    Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
  • Physics
    Physics

    Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
  • Psychology
    Psychology

    Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
Interdepartmental Majors
  • American Studies
    American studies

    American studies or American civilization is an Interdisciplinarity dealing with the study of the United States. It incorporates the study of Economy of the United States, History of the United States, American literature, art of the United States, Mass media, American cinema, urban studies, women's studies, and culture of the United St...
  • Asian Studies
    Asian studies

    Asian studies, a term that has largely replaced the older Oriental studies, is concerned with the Asian peoples, their cultures, languages, history and politics....
  • Biochemistry
    Biochemistry

    Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
  • Cognitive Science
    Cognitive science

    Cognitive science may be concisely defined as the study of the nature of intelligence. It draws on multiple empirical disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, computer science, sociology and biology....
  • Diplomacy
    Diplomacy

    Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
     and World Affairs
  • Geophysics
    Geophysics

    Geophysics, a major discipline of the Earth sciences, is the study of the Earth by the quantitative observation of its physical properties, especially by Seismology, Electromagnetism, Radioactive decay, galvanic and potential field methods....
  • Kinesiology
    Kinesiology

    Kinesiology, also known as Human Kinetics, is the science of human movement. It focuses on how the body functions and moves. A kinesiological approach applies scientific based medical principles towards the analysis, preservation and enhancement of human movement in all settings and populations....
  • Psychobiology
  • Urban
    Urban area

    An urban area is an area with an increased Population density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be city, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlet ....
     and Environmental policy
    Environmental policy

    Environmental policy is any action deliberately taken to manage human activities with a view to prevent, reduce or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources, and ensuring that man-made changes to the environment do not have harmful effects on humans....
  • Women's Studies
    Women's studies

    Women's studies is an interdisciplinary List of academic disciplines devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender identity, and politics....
    /Gender Studies


Academic Minors
  • Chinese Language and Literature
    Chinese language

    Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
  • Classical Studies
  • Education
    Education

    File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
     - with an optional credentialing program
  • German Studies
    German studies

    German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and German literature in both its historic and present forms....
  • Japanese Language and Literature
    Japanese Language and Literature

    Japanese Language and Literature is a journal published twice yearly by the Association of Teachers of Japanese . Published continuously since the founding of the ATJ in 1963, JLL covers material on Japanese pedagogy , Japanese linguistics and Japanese literature....
  • Latin American Studies
    Latin American Studies

    Latin American studies is an academic discipline dealing with the study of Latin America and Latin Americans....
  • Linguistics
    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
  • Russian Studies
    Russian Studies

    Russian Studies is a field of study first developed during the Cold War. It is an interdisciplinary field crossing history and language studies....


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