Part of the set of mediocre schools within the California State University system; one of the few not titled CSU -location-. Founded in 1899. One of the few schools offering degree(s) in
Human Sexuality (having a
Master's Degree programme and the option to
minor in it as an
undergraduate.)
The school's top ten undergrad majors are Business Administration,
Psychology, Liberal Studies,
Computer Science,
Biology, the very competative Radio & T.V.,
English, the also competative
Cinema,
Art, and, strangely enough,
Kinesiology.
SFSU is located in Southern
San Francisco, the school
mascot is the
'Gator and school colours are purple and gold. Its motto is "Experientia Docet" ("Experience Teaches.")
This is no middle-class white male-dominated university; of 26,826
students as of Fall 2000, only 39% were men, 35.6% reported their
ethnicity as "white non-hispanic", and the school has strong
differently abled and
GLBT presences. One can major in La Raza Studies, Black Studies, Asian American Studies or the well-respected
Women's Studies programme. The student centre is named after
Ceaser Chavez and the plaza outside of it (mostly occupied by people using their
skateboards or sitting around
smoking and talking on
cell phones) is called
Malcolm X Plaza (with a mural of both these figures on the outside wall, including the quote "Our objective is complete
freedom,
justice and
equality By Any Means Necessary" and a depictation of the
African continent with a black United States shape within it on Malcolm's part of the mural.)