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.
Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that offers students an opportunity to study one of the most exciting periods of Western European history, that time when the structures of art, literature, music, religion, and political life underwent profound change.
The Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies examines the people and cultures of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries throughout the world.
The Department of Linguistics is on the cutting edge of scholarship in a field that seeks explanations for language as a fundamental human activity.
Media Arts and Technology is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory.
The Department of Music is a leader in its field, training distinguished scholars as well as prize-winning composers and performers.
The Department of Philosophy explores the frontiers of today’s philosophical research as well as the history of philosophy, spanning thousands of years.
The Department of Religious Studies is the largest such department in the University of California system, and one of the most diverse in the world.
Workshops, performances, coaching, & scene studies for Santa Barbara County Public Schools, Grades 2 - 12. Sponsored by HFA and the Bren School in association with the Department of Theater & Dance.
The non-partisan, non-sectarian Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life promotes discussion of how ethical teachings and values relate to civic life and is committed to the principle that public dialogue and an informed and engaged citizenry are vital to democratic society.
The Carsey-Wolf Center supports research, teaching, and public programming about media, fostering informed dialogue, critical skills, historical understanding, and new forms of literacy for a global and interconnected world.
The EAC welcomes all scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, artists, writers and other people interested in East Asian cultures to exchange ideas across disciplinary boundaries and across the academy and the community.
The Environmental Humanities Initiative, composed of faculty and students from across the arts and humanities who focus on a range of environmental issues, represents our campus’s unprecedented commitment to the environmental humanities.
The Center is an interdisciplinary research and education initiative that aims to expand public understanding and discussion of important issues facing working people through an undergraduate minor, a graduate-level colloquium, conferences, and workshops.
The Early Modern Center is the English Department's locus for students and faculty working in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century studies, offering courses, conferences, and special events, and supporting collaborative on-line projects, including EBBA.
The Center promotes Taiwan-related scholarly activities in the humanities, fine arts, and other cultural areas, providing a forum for the public and faculty and students from a variety of disciplines.
CREATE is situated within the Department of Music and has strong ties to the Media Art and Technology program and the Allosphere research facility.
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History is a leading international center dedicated to the study of the Cold War era, promoting discussion and scholarship on topics related to the study of the Cold War, broadly conceived.
The Center is an association of faculty and students that promotes the study of music across academic disciplines.
The Center for Portuguese Studies promotes and develops studies about the Portuguese speaking world in California and in the United States.