<p>on the department redistribution initiative, see:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0301/3a.shtml[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0301/3a.shtml</a></p>
<p>“Currently, 46 percent of juniors and seniors major in these departments (in order of popularity): politics, history, eco-nomics, English and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. That leaves 54 percent of the students concentrating in the other 29 departments.”</p>
<p>and on its early results, see:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/</a> (after)
<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/2n.shtml[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/2n.shtml</a></p>
<p>Thirty-eight percent of sophomores have chosen to major in economics, politics, history, English and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, traditionally the five most popular academic departments, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel reported at a faculty meeting April 25. Those departments account for 43 percent of concentrators in the junior and senior classes.</p>
<p>The shift toward smaller departments in the class of 2007 includes a 15 percent increase in students choosing to major in the humanities and a 7 percent rise in the natural sciences. Malkiel noted that those figures may change modestly, as 10 members of the class of 2007 have not yet selected a major and some will likely change their minds by next fall.</p>
<p>Departments with the largest percentage increases in majors include: classics (100 percent); music (100 percent); Slavic languages and literature (60 percent); comparative literature (57 percent); and religion (52 percent).</p>