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The College of Arts and Sciences ( CAS or A&S) is a division of Cornell University. It has been part of the university since its founding, although its name has changed over time. It grants bachelor's degrees, and masters and doctorates through affiliation with the Cornell University Graduate School. Its major academic buildings are located on ...
In 1876, eight years after its founding, Cornell University offered its first summer programs in botany, chemistry, drawing, entomology, geology, and zoology. Cornell University Summer Session, historically known as Summer Courses, the Summer Term, or the Summer School, was formally established in 1892, one of the earliest such programs in the United States.
The academic undergraduate degree of Bachelor of Social Science ( BSS, [ 1] B.Soc.Sc., or B.Soc.Sci.) requires three to four years of study in the social sciences at an institution of higher education, primarily found in the Commonwealth of Nations . It can be distinguished from other standard undergraduate degrees as the Bachelor of Social ...
The New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University[ 1] ( CALS or Ag School) is one of Cornell University's four statutory colleges, [ 2][ 3] and is the only College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Ivy League. [ 4][ 5][ 6] With enrollment of approximately 3,100 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students ...
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) traces its roots to the eve of United States entry into World War II, when the U.S. Army established a secret school at the Presidio of San Francisco with a budget of $2,000 to teach the Japanese language. Classes began 1 November 1941, with four instructors and 60 students in an ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [66] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [67] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall serves as the headquarters for the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. An MPA degree has been offered at Cornell since 1946 originally through the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. The program was renamed and became a major component of the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy when the school launched in Fall 2021.
Alice Amsden (B.A. 1965) – Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999–2012); Luc Anselin (M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1980) – one of the principal developers of the field of spatial econometrics; member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008) and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)