The Arnhold Innovative Teaching and Learning Initiative (AITLI), led by musician and educator Cristina Pato, takes a multi-dimensional and creative approach to student learning.
Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field of medicine that uses the humanities and arts to explore the human mind and body, as well as the broader human condition.
The CPLI is an exciting, integrated, four-course program dedicated to leadership through effective communication and is linked to UCSB’s Public Speaking Initiative.
The American Indian and Indigenous Studies Minor provides students an understanding of the ideas, practices, experiences, and issues confronting native peoples of North and South America through the study of their histories, environment, cultures, languages, politics, and economies.
The Art, Design & Architecture Museum both a teaching museum, committed to the development of critical thinking and visual literacy, and a resource for the wider Santa Barbara community.
The English for Multilingual Students Program offers courses for undergraduate and international graduate students for whom English is not the first language.
The Department of Art offers a dynamic and challenging learning environment that emphasizes interdisciplinary research as well as artistic production.
The Department of Classics explores all aspects of Greek and Roman culture -- the fountainhead of the Western experience.
The Department of Comparative Literature takes a global approach to the study of literature, crossing national and cultural boundaries -- from ancient to modern times.
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies is dedicated to the study of the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea in all their richness and diversity.
The Department of English offers a curriculum that traverses historical eras and global boundaries to explore various literatures and critical approaches to them.
The Department of Film and Media Studies is the place for those with a passion for the large screen and the small screen.
The study of French or Italian is an intellectual adventure that leads to the core of Western civilization.
“As many languages as one speaks, as many times one is a human being.” ~German Philosopher Franz Rosenzweig
UC Santa Barbara defined Public History as a profession in 1976, with a Rockefeller Foundation grant to train historians for public and private sector careers beyond conventional academic employment.
History teaches a way of thinking, a way of questioning, and a way of wondering about the world -- because the past is never really fixed.
The Department of History of Art and Architecture stresses global perspectives and intercultural exchanges, augmenting its long-established strengths in European and Non-Western creative traditions.
Our Jewish Studies program is particularly strong in the study of Judaism, including the languages and literatures of the Jewish people, Holocaust, trauma and memory studies, and 20th-century Jewish critical thought.
Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary program that explores the many cultures of the European and Middle Eastern Middle Ages from the viewpoints of history, literature, religious studies, drama, art, and music.
The Public Speaking Initiative is designed to foster creative collaboration in civic dialogue, and offers courses in effective public speaking to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.