<p>What can people tell me about the department and the PhD program them have. Where do graduates generally wind up working? Also, when they say I need to show proficiency in a language related to demography… what languages are those?</p>
<p>Any information you guys could provide would be helpful. Thanks</p>
<p>Anybody? Somebody has to know about this department.</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask the department? (They may not even care. Berkeley’s Graduate Division has a blanket requirement that all PhD students need to demonstrate reading proficiency in a foreign language relevant to their discipline.)</p>
<p>I’m guessing it’s probably a language that’s going to be relevant to what you’re studying - so if you are studying Mexican immigration you probably need Spanish; if you’re studying family practices in second-generation Russians you may need Russian. I know at some places statistical proficiency can be substituted for language requirements (like here; our interdisciplinary program requires reading knowledge in one or two languages, depending on the secondary field but psychologists and sociologists can substitute stats for that language because no other language is really required for reading the lit in psych).</p>