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Academic Departments

Academic departments form the core of the College of Letters & Science. The college boasts nearly 50 departments and programs, as well as numerous interdisciplinary centers and research units.

Alphabetical Listing 

  • Anthropology
  • Art
  • Asian American Studies
  • Biomolecular Science & Engineering
  • Black Studies
  • Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Chicana/o Studies
  • Classics
  • Communication
  • Comparative Literature
  • Earth Science
  • East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
  • Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
  • Economics
  • English
  • English for Multilingual Students
  • Environmental Studies
  • Exercise and Sport Studies
  • Feminist Studies 
  • Film and Media Studies
  • French and Italian
  • Geography
  • Germanic, and Slavic Studies
  • Global and International Studies
  • History
  • History of Art and Architecture
  • Latin American and Iberian Studies
  • Linguistics
  • Marine Science (Interdepartmental Graduate Program)
  • Mathematics
  • Media Arts and Technology
  • Medieval Studies
  • Military Science
  • Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Political Science
  • Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Religious Studies
  • Renaissance Studies
  • Sociology 
  • Spanish and Portuguese
  • Statistics and Applied Probability
  • Theater and Dance
  • Writing Program
College of Letters & Science
Santa Barbara, California 93106-2080
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