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On Making Teaching “U”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Gerald Benjamin
Gerald Benjamin*
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State University of New York at New Paltz
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , Winter 1971 , pp. 41 - 47
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1971

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On leave for military service with the USAMEDD Historical Unit, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. For their research and editorial aid in preparing this paper I would like to thank Mrs. Helise Benjamin and Mr. Ernest Elliott.

References

1 Rogow, Arnold. “A Short Note on U and Non-U in Political Science,” Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 13, p. 1064.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ross used the letter “U” simply because it was the initial one in the word upperclass.

3 op. cit., p. 1065.

4 Ibid.

5 Anon., “Profile of PhD. Recipients in Political Science, 1968,” PS, Vol. 2, p. 659.

6 Research was limited to catalogs available at the University of Maryland (College Park) graduate catalog collection. Most were 1969–70 or 1970–71 editions. Fourteen schools were excluded for lack of data. They were: The University of California at Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and San Diego, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Pennsylvania State University, Fordham University, University of Georgia, University of Hawaii, State University of New York at Buffalo, Northern Illinois University, University of Massachusetts, and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Quick, A. (ed.). A Guide to Graduate Education, Washington: American Council on Education, 1969.Google Scholar

7 Cornell University, Graduate Catalog, 1969, p. 124.Google Scholar

8 The Committee, “Obstacles to Graduate Education in Political Science,” PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. II, p. 631.Google Scholar

9 Ibid., pp. 631–632.

10 New York: Atherton, 1964.

11 Ibid., pp. 80–81.

12 See, for example, Ranney, Austin, “Political Science: The State of the Profession,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 80, p. 276 Google Scholar, and Fein, Leonard J., “Teaching Political Science,” PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 2, p. 303.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

13 It has been evident to me that most of my colleagues prepare much more assiduously for large lectures than for their regular classes. Is this because of the size of the class they will face, or because their colleagues will be in attendance?

14 op. cit., Fein, p. 303.