Guide to the Program in Comparative Culture Records, University of California, Irvine
AS.014
Finding aid prepared by Processed by Mary Ellen Goddard and Michelle Light; machine-readable finding aid created by Michelle
Light
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, 92623-9557
949-824-3947
spcoll@uci.edu
© 2008
Title: University of California, Irvine, Program in Comparative Culture records
Identifier/Call Number: AS.014
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.4 Linear feet
(13 boxes and 2 oversized folders)
Date (inclusive): 1968-1993
Abstract: The collection comprises the records of UCI's Program in Comparative Culture, which fostered a multi-disciplinary curriculum.
The records document its programs, courses, faculty, and students.
Physical Location: The majority of the collection is stored offsite at SRLF. Please contact Special Collections and Archives staff in advance
of your visit so we can arrange for retrieval of the materials.
Creator:
University of California, Irvine. Program in Comparative Culture..
Access
Boxes 1-7 of the collection are open for research. Boxes 8-13 are restricted for 75 years from the date of the latest record
in each box due to the presence of student and personnel records.
Publication Rights
Property rights and copyright reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the University Archivist.
Preferred Citation
Program in Comparative Culture Records, University of California, Irvine. AS-014. Special Collections and Archives, The UC
Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Transferred from the School of Social Sciences, 1995.
Processing History
Processed by Mary Ellen Goddard, 2000; revised by Michelle Light, 2008.
Historical Background
The Program in Comparative Culture at the University of California, Irvine, began within the honors program in American Studies
in 1968. By the 1969-1970 academic year, Comparative Culture was an independent program designed to study specific cultures
cross-culturally and draw upon multiple disciplines. Its aim was to "shed light on the forces and processes which have shaped
the culture of America" by comparing systematically the dominant and minority cultures of the United States and Third World.
The major was intended to prepare students to be intelligent participants in social, political and social life through, for
example, careers in law, education, community organization, mental health, or public affairs. Each student could design his
or her own program. In 1969 students could study African, American, Asian, Black, and Chicano cultures, or with other areas
by special arrangement. By 1979 the study of women and Native Americans was also recognized. In 1978 the program was merged
with the School of Social Sciences. As of September 1995, the program was not open to new students.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection comprises the records of UCI's Program in Comparative Culture, which fosters a multi-disciplinary curriculum.
The records document its programs, courses, faculty, and students. Records include proposals, program reviews, reports, correspondence,
syllabi, and budgets. Documentation of courses offered is particularly strong.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 6 series.
- Series 1. Administrative records, 1969-1987. 0.7 linear feet
- Series 2. Conferences, events, and other programs, 1970-1986. 0.4 linear feet
- Series 3. Curriculum, 1968-1993. 1.1 linear ft.
- Series 4. Faculty, 1980-1987. 0.8 linear ft.
- Series 5. Graduate and undergraduate programs, 1979-1989. 0.2 linear ft.
- Series 6. Chronological correspondence, 1978-1991. 2.2 linear ft.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California, Irvine -- Archives.
University of California, Irvine. Program in Comparative Culture -- Archives.
University of California, Irvine. Program in Comparative Culture -- Curricula .
University of California, Irvine. School of Social Sciences -- Archives..
Cross cultural studies -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- Irvine
Curricula -- 20th century.
Administrative records Series 1.
1969-1987
Physical Description:
0.7 Linear feet
General Physical Description note:
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains administrative records documenting the operations, programs, reorganization, and assessment of the Program in Comparative
Culture. Records include budgets, minutes, reports, and memoranda.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic or record format.
Box-folder 1 : 6
Program in Comparative Culture
1972-1977
Box-folder 1 : 7
School of Social Sciences
1981
Box-folder 1 : 10
Consultant's report (Leslie J. Berkes)
1978
Box-folder 1 : 15-18
Council of Scholars agendas and minutes
1979-1986
Biographical/Historical note
The Council of Scholars was composed of faculty and elected graduate and undergraduate representatives.
Box-folder 2 : 1
Director of Campus Events
1985-1986
Box-folder 2 : 2
Director of Compensation
1979-1983
Box-folder 2 : 3
Enrollment history
1979-1983
Box-folder 2 : 5
Grievance Committee report
1982
Box-folder 2 : 6
Investigation of Program
1983
Reorganization to change reporting line
Box-folder 2 : 9
Committee on Finance minutes and recommendations to Regents
1977
Box-folder 2 : 11
Evidence packet supporting complaint
1981
Box-folder 2 : 12
Opportunity Fund distribution
1978-1983
Box-folder 2 : 13
Policy on establishment of academic instructional units
1971
Box-folder 2 : 14
Social Science Executive Committee agenda and supporting documents
1981
Box-folder 13 : 4
Report on UCI's Educational Opportunity Program
1982
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2057 due to student and personnel information.
Box-folder 2 : 15
School of Social Science reorganization report (Rosovsky Committee)
1985-1986
Conferences, events, and other programs Series 2.
1970-1986
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear feet
General Physical Description note:
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents special events, conferences, colloquia, and lectures sponsored by the Program in Comparative Culture.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic.
Conferences and colloquia
Box-folder 2 : 17
Black Expressive Forms Conference
1982-1983
Box-folder 2 : 18
California Principal's Conference
1985
China's American Studies Delegation visit
1985
Box-folder 2 : 19
Brochures and catalogs from represented Chinese universities
1985-1986
Box-folder 3 : 2
Information packet for Chinese visitors
1985
Box-folder 3 : 4
Schedule and arrangements
1985
Box-folder 3 : 5
Chowdhury, G. S., Bangladeshi visit
1985
Box-folder 3 : 7
Freire, Paulo, dialogue with
1985-1986
Box-folder 3 : 8
Los Folkloristas
1982-1986
Box-folder 3 : 9
Minority Political Awareness and Survival in the 1980s
1983
Box-folder 3 : 10, FB066 : 2
Lectures, announcements for
1970-1986
Box-folder 3 : 11
Target of Opportunity Program: Epitanio San Juan
1985-1986
Curriculum Series 3.
1968-1993
Physical Description:
1.1 Linear feet
General Physical Description note:
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents courses offered within the Program in Comparative Culture. Records include course descriptions, syllabi, study questions,
correspondence, and reports.
Arrangement
Alphabetically by record type and chronologically by academic term.
Course offerings booklets, fliers, and posters
1968-1993
1978 Winter Quarter, Social Science
Box-folder 4 : 3
70V - Urban Film Making
1978
Box-folder 4 : 4
70W - Women's Oppression
1978
1978 Winter Quarter, Comparative Culture
Box-folder 4 : 5
100 - Comparing Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 6
151 - Introduction to American Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 7
153A - Japanese Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 8
155A - Women in Social Movements
1978
Box-folder 4 : 9
195D - Life in Literature of the South
1978
Box-folder 4 : 10
195E - Literature and Society
1978
Box-folder 4 : 11
195F - Comparative Social Systems
1978
Box-folder 4 : 12
195G - Economic Problems of the Minority Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 13
195H - Theories of Imperialism
1978
Box-folder 4 : 14
195J - Imperialism and Culture in Latin America
1978
Box-folder 4 : 15
195M - Minorities in Urban Setting
1978
Box-folder 4 : 16
195N - The Structures of UC Capitalism
1978
Box-folder 4 : 17
195O - Middle East, Biblical to the Present
1978
Box-folder 4 : 18
195P - Race, Sex and Class in American Education
1978
1978 Spring Quarter, Social Science
Box-folder 4 : 19
8 - Introduction to Sociology
1978
Box-folder 4 : 20
70X - The Motion Picture in Contemporary American Society
1978
Box-folder 4 : 21
73B - Adolescent Introduction to Sociology
1978
1978 Spring Quarter, Comparative Culture
Box-folder 4 : 22
105 - Scope and Problems of Inter-Disciplinary Study
1978
Box-folder 4 : 23
125 - Society and Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 24
126 - History and Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 25
127B - Comparative Religion
1978
Box-folder 4 : 26
128 - Cultural Analysis of Visual Arts
1978
Box-folder 4 : 27
154C - Introduction to Chicano Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 28
195A - Avant-Garde as Cultural Phenomenon
1978
Box-folder 4 : 29
195B - Puerto Ricans in the United States
1978
Box-folder 4 : 30
195C - Political Economy, Economic Crisis of the Cities
1978
Box-folder 4 : 31
195D - History of Education in the United States
1978
Box-folder 4 : 32
195E - Class and Strata in the United States
1978
Box-folder 4 : 33
195I - Revolutionary Theory and Dependency in Latin America
1978
Box-folder 4 : 34
195F - Political Economy, Comparative Socialist Systems
1978
Box-folder 4 : 35
195G - History of Economic Thought
1978
Box-folder 4 : 36
195H - Critique/Microeconomics
1978
Box-folder 4 : 37
195J - Politics/The Theaters of Ideas
1978
Box-folder 4 : 38
195C/Comparative Culture, 170T/Social Science - Religion in America
1978
1978 Fall Quarter, Social Science
1978 Fall Quarter, Comparative Culture
Box-folder 4 : 41
120 - Cultural Analysis of Literature
1978
Box-folder 4 : 42
123 - Economics and Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 43
124 - Politics and Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 44
150 - African Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 45
153B - Chinese Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 46
154B - Afro-American Culture
1978
Box-folder 4 : 47
195A - Chicano History
1978
Box-folder 4 : 48
195B - Politics and Social Theory
1978
Box-folder 4 : 49
195C - Buddhism in Asia
1978
Box-folder 4 : 50
195D - Race, Sex, Class in American Education
1978
Box-folder 4 : 51
195E - Women in Asia
1978
Box-folder 4 : 52
195F - Power in American Society
1978
Box-folder 4 : 53
195I - The Structure of U.S. Capitalism
1978
Box-folder 4 : 54
197D - Culture and Education
1978
1979 Winter Quarter, Comparative Culture
Box-folder 5 : 1
100 - Comparing Cultures
1979
Box-folder 5 : 2
120 Cultural Analysis of Literature
1979
Box-folder 5 : 3
122A - Introduction to Popular Culture
1979
Box-folder 5 : 4
122B - Comparative American Folklore
1979
Box-folder 5 : 5
151 - Introduction to American Culture
1979
Box-folder 5 : 6
153C - Indian Culture
1979
Box-folder 5 : 7
155B - Women in Society
1979
Box-folder 5 : 8
195A - The Great Depression and World War II
1979
Box-folder 5 : 9
195B - Issues in Social Theory
1979
Box-folder 5 : 10
195C - Religion in American History
1979
Box-folder 5 : 11
195D - American Ideologies (winter and spring quarters)
1979
Box-folder 5 : 12
195E - Chicano in Education
1979
Box-folder 5 : 13
195F -Contemporary China
1979
Box-folder 5 : 14
195G - Southern Africa and Human Rights
1979
Box-folder 5 : 15
195I - Circumpolar People
1979
Box-folder 5 : 16
195N - Political Economy of Organized Crime
1979
Box-folder 5 : 17
195O - The Family and Sex Roles in Modern Capitalism
1979
Box-folder 5 : 18
195U - Theories of Imperialism
1979
Box-folder 5 : 19
195W - Economic Problems of Minority Nationalities
1979
Box-folder 5 : 20
195X - Comparative Social Movements
1979
Box-folder 5 : 21
195Y - Comparative Economic Development
1979
Box-folder 5 : 22
197A - Field Study: Film Making
1979
1979 Winter Quarter, Social Science
Box-folder 5 : 23
74B - History of Documentary
1979
Box-folder 5 : 24
73B - Adolescent Psychology
1979
Box-folder 5 : 25
1979-1980 Fall Quarter, Social Science 172A - African Culture
1979-1980
Box-folder 5 : 26
1981-1984 Comparative Culture class listing
1981-1984
Box-folder 5 : 28
Social Science 179 - Tolstoy as Prophet, Rebel, and Mystic
1982
Box-folder 5 : 29
Asian American Psychology
1983
Box-folder 5 : 31
Course offerings
1985-1986
Box-folder 5 : 34
Partnership programs
1985-1986
Faculty Series 4.
1980-1987
Physical Description:
0.8 Linear feet
General Physical Description note:
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents faculty participation in campus committees as well as the university-wide Student Affirmative Action Committee,
which reviewed the status of affirmative action in 1980-1981 on UC campuses and made multiple recommendations. Also documents
issues of concern to faculty, including requests for new positions.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic.
Box-folder 5 : 35
Senior Advisor Committee
1982
Student Affirmative Action Committee
Box-folder 5 : 36-39
University of California
1980-1981
Box-folder 7 : 1-3
Full-time equivalent (FTE) requests
1981-1987
Box-folder 7: 6
Mentor program for minority graduate and professional students
1983
Box-folder 7: 7
Organized research unit (ORU) plans
1983
Box-folder 7: 8
Research and travel
1982-1986
Graduate and undergraduate programs Series 5.
1979-1989
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear feet
General Physical Description note:
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents undergraduate and graduate programs in the Program in Comparative Culture and the School of Social Sciences, including
external reviews, curriculum proposals, degree descriptions, and funding information.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic.
Box-folder 7 : 7
Graduate program review
1981-1985
Box-folder 7 : 8
Fellowship awards
1982-1989
Box-folder 7 : 11
Master of Arts in Teaching program
1981-1985
Box-folder 7 : 13
Ph.D. degrees granted in Comparative Culture
1979-1983
Box-folder 7 : 15
Western Name Exchange
1981
Box-folder 7 : 16
Judeo-Christian-Islamic interaction
1985
Box-folder 7 : 17
Revisions in American Studies
1982-1983
Box-folder 7 : 18
Advising brochure
1985-1986
Box-folder 7 : 19
Curriculum changes
1985-1986
Box-folder 7 : 21
George Roberts Memorial Prize
1986
Box-folder 7 : 22
Revision for CC majors
undated
Chronological correspondence Series 6.
1978-1991
Physical Description:
2.2 Linear feet
General Physical Description note:
Series Scope and Content Summary
Includes copies of outgoing correspondence from directors and other Comparative Culture professors. The files were maintained
either by the directors or office assistants. The files document a wide range of activities and concerns of Comparative Culture
directors and include documentation about the curriculum, programs and events, faculty research interests, and individual
faculty and students. A large part of the files concern confidential matters, including faculty appointment letters, faculty
and staff reviews, student recommendations, requests to correct students' status, and sabbatical and travel requests applications.
Arrangement
Arranged by the individual who maintained the files, then chronologically.
Restrictions
Each box is restricted for 75 years from the latest record in the box due to the presence of student and personnel information.
Box-folder 8 : 1-3
James Fink's files
1978-1979
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2058.
Box-folder 8 : 4-7
Gilbert Gonzalez's files
1980-1983
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2058.
Box-folder 8 : 8-9
1980-1982
1980-1982
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2058.
Box-folder 9 : 1-8
1982-1985
1982-1985
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2060.
Box-folder 9 : 9-10
1983
1983
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2060.
Box-folder 10 : 1-9
1983-1985
1983-1985
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2060
Box-folder 11 : 1-8
1985-1986
1985-1986
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2061.
Box-folder 12 : 1-8
1986-1987
1986-1987
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2062
Box-folder 13 : 1-3
1991
1991
Conditions Governing Access note
Restricted until 2066.
