<p>BonjourGinny, go talk to KitKatz and she’ll be helpful to you I’m sure. </p>
<p>I don’t know much about specifics, but Slavic is supposed to be a very strong department here. History sounds like it’s terrific from what my friend in it says. The professors in history seem very friendly too, as she seems to get to chat plenty with them. My impression is you’ll be happy. There’s of course plenty of reading and workload, but it should be interesting if you like that stuff.</p>
<p>Very frankly, when a department at Berkeley is ranked high, there should be really good stuff in it academically. What you should enquire more is to the student culture in there, number of people in the given major, program philosophy, and other things more personally relevant to you rather than strength.</p>