University of California, Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science

UCSB College of Letters and Science
Type	Public
Established	1958
Parent institution	University of California, Santa Barbara
Location	Santa Barbara, California, USA
Website	www.college.ucsb.edu

The College of Letters and Science is the largest college at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The College, which offers 90 majors and 38 minors to over 20,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, has about 700 faculty members. ^[1]

Academics

Degrees

The college offers the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

Departments and Programs

Forty-seven academic departments and programs within the College of Letters and Science are grouped into three academic divisions: the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts; the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences; and the Division of Social Sciences. The College’s Division of Undergraduate Education offers academic services to the undergraduates and administers the Honors Program.

The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts includes 22 academic departments and programs:

Department of Art
Department of Classics
Comparative Literature Program
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Department of English
English for Multilingual Students Program
Department of Film and Media Studies
Department of French and Italian
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Department of History
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Department of Linguistics
Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology (joint with College of Engineering)
Program in Medieval Studies
Department of Music
Department of Philosophy
Department of Religious Studies
Renaissance Studies Program
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Theater and Dance
Writing Program

The Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences includes 14 academic departments and programs:

Graduate Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering (joint with College of Engineering)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department of Earth Science
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Program in Environmental Studies
Program in Financial Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Geography
Graduate Program in Marine Science
Department of Mathematics
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Department of Physics
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

The Division of Social Sciences includes 11 academic departments and programs:

Department of Anthropology
Department of Asian American Studies
Department of Black Studies
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Department of Communication
Department of Economics
Department of Feminist Studies
Global and International Studies Program
Department of Military Science
Department of Political Science
Department of Sociology

Faculty

The college has about 700 faculty members engaged in teaching and research.^[2] The L&S faculty includes four Nobel Prize laureates and 29 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Publications

Convergence is the magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UC Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the College of Engineering, the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, and the California NanoSystems Institute, Convergence was begun in early 2005 as a three-times-a-year print publication. It is available online and in print.^[3]

References

^ "The College of Letters and Science". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
^ "UCSB College of Letters and Science". UCSB College of Letters and Science. The University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
^ "About Convergence Online". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2008-10-20.