<p>you’re right, themes are similar to a focus area. instead of offering the regular european, american, latam, etc. courses, ucsd recently decided to offer some rather interesting themes of focus for history majors. so far, it looks like there are only 3 “history of gender and sexuality; history of race, ethnicity, and migration; and war, revolution, and social change”. each looks interesting, but the social change theme is exactly what i wanted to focus on in studying history. </p>
<p>nice that you were offered scholars day, congrats on your likely admission!
…would be my luck that ucsd rejects me, lol. here’s a link to check out ucsd’s history dept <a href=“http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/pages/undergraduate/prospective/prospec_major.html[/url]”>http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/pages/undergraduate/prospective/prospec_major.html</a></p>