Lingua Franca's Real Guide to Grad School
Edward Batchelder, editor

In 2001, the academic journal LinguaFranca released the second edition of its Real Guide to Grad School. Based on hundreds of interviews with administrators, professors, and graduate students, the Real Guide offered an insider's look at disciplines in the humanities and social sciences—from how each discipline developed, to how it is organized today, to some of the questions you should ask before you consider graduate school.

In the years since the book was published, LinguaFranca has gone out of business, students have graduated, professors have relocated, and academic departments have risen and fallen. Inevitably, much of the specific information on the disciplines is out of date. However, in the hope that at least some of the general advice about grad school in the opening chapters is still relevant, I've decided to make it available on my own website.

Edward Batchelder
Editor, LinguaFranca's Real Guide to Grad School, 2001-2002
(with thanks to John Palattella, editor of the first edition)

Introduction
Graduate Student Existence
The Rise of the Research Scholar
Admissions
Rankings
Teaching

In addition to the front matter, the Humanities volume contained chapters on the following disciplines:

Art History
Classics
Cognitive Science
Comparative Literature
English
Ethnic Studies
Film Studies
French
German
Museum Studies
Musicology
Performance Studies
Philosophy
Religion
Spanish
Women's Studies

The Social Sciences volume contained chapters on the following disciplines:

Anthropology
Archeology
Communications
Economics
Geography
History—American
History—European
Linguistics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology