Talk:History of Consciousness

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I'm new to Wikipedia and don't have the chops to fix the page, but this needs work.

The program was actually started in the '60s by the phenomenologists Maurice Natanson and Albert Hofstadter and was one of the very few graduate programs in the humanities on the UC Santa Cruz campus for several years. The program fell on hard times after the retirements of Natanson and Hofstadter, with allegations that academic standards had devolved to a level unacceptable even by the tolerant standards of Santa Cruz in the '70s.

Hayden White was brought in as Chair to remake the program. It may be true that James Clifford was the first new hire made after White became chair - it would have been either Clifford or Donna Haraway.

I don't have sources at hand that I can officially cite to; I just know all of this from having been a student of Hayden's, but I imagine that the HistCon website might have some of the ancient history. --Pinverarity 10:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

After checking out the removal of 'in' by another user, I realized that the 'California' at the end of the intro paragraph was redundant, insofar as the name of the university is "University of California". Also, the official naming convention for UC campuses is "University of California at ______", so this cleanup brings it into alignment with proper citation as well. --Pinverarity 05:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)