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The program started with approximately 50 students in 7 majors: Art, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Music Composition, Literature, and Physics. The experimental program struck a chord with its students and faculty, and along with the powerful pushing of Mudrick as its provost , it secured its place at UC Santa Barbara.
During UCSB's first 50 years after joining UC, a recurring theme in its history was a pronounced lack of stability in campus leadership. The transfer of the state college to UC had been driven primarily by the Santa Barbara community and was accepted with great reluctance by the Board of Regents.
Undergraduate teaching is centered on lectures, with larger lecture classes having sections. Sections may be tutorial style, or they may be set up as seminars or discussions. For undergraduates, UCSB confers both B.A. and B.S. degrees. Music majors may pursue a Bachelor of Music degree. Graduate teaching involves seminar-style classes and an ...
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.
Joachim Remak, late Professor of History, Modern European History; W. Patrick McCray, Professor of History, History of Science; David Rock, Professor Emeritus of History, Latin American history; Jeffrey Burton Russell, Professor Emeritus of History, Medieval European history; Paul Spickard, Professor of History, 20th-century US, world, and ...
The University of California, Santa Barbara Library is the university library system of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.The library has some three million print volumes, 30,000 electronic journals, 34,450 e-books, 900,055 digitized items, five million cartographic items (including some 467,000 maps and 3.2 million satellite and aerial images), more than ...
Name Degree(s) Prize year Prize field Reason (prize citation) Additional notability David Moats: B.A. 1969: 2001: Editorial Writing "For his even-handed and influential series of editorials commenting on the divisive issues arising from civil unions for same-sex couples."
UCSB has a Santa Barbara mailing address, as do other unincorporated areas around the city. The campus is divided into four parts: the Main (East) Campus of 708 acres (287 ha), which houses all academic units plus the majority of undergraduate housing, Storke Campus, West Campus, and North Campus.