The College of Letters and Science is the largest college at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

. The college, which offers 90 majors and 38 minors to over 20,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, has about 700 faculty members.

Academics

Degrees

The college offers the

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students pursuing a professional education in the visual arts, Fine art, or performing arts. In some instances, it is also called a Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA). Background ...

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

Master of Science A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medici ...

, and

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of Postgraduate education, graduate study and original resear ...

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 *

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* 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. The L&S faculty includes four

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

laureates and 29 members of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

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.

References

External links

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