In past reports we have mentioned the long-standing interdisciplinary Berkeley Undergraduate Journal and the newer Berkeley Scientific, which is refereed by Berkeley faculty members. Both of these journals are published under the auspices of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies . The campus also offers more discipline-specific opportunities for undergraduates to publish their research. For instance, The Active Intellect, published under the auspices of the Association of Psychology Undergraduates, contains abstracts of senior theses as well as selected student research papers. And 1998-99 saw the publication of a new journal on campus, The Thinker , a vehicle for undergraduate research in the growing and vibrant field of Cognitive Science.
Some major programs make special research opportunities available to their students.
In order to encourage undergraduate involvement in research, the Film Studies program offers an internship with the librarian at the Pacific Film Archive. The internship includes a series of lectures on research strategies and an overview of reference resources in Film Studies, both in print and on the web. As their final project, students research and compile a bibliography on a topic of their choice. These bibliographies often become the core of an honors thesis or final course project. In addition, the bibliographies are put on file at the Archives, so that other students and researchers can make use of them.