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Chemical Engineering
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Chemistry and Biochemistry
The first courses in chemistry were taught
as service courses for students of home economics by Nell A. Miller
in 1911 when the institution was known as the Santa Barbara State
Normal School of Manual Arts and Home Economics. The subjects taught
were general inorganic and organic chemistry. In 1914, most of the
teaching of chemistry courses was assumed by Hazel W. Severy, who
in 1920 became head of the science department, a title retained
until 1948. In 1945, a year after Santa Barbara State College had
become a part of the University, the Department of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics was established with Professor Severy as chairman.
The major in chemistry was then authorized with
a staff of five teaching the courses. In 1947, this department was
split with chemistry remaining as a part of the Department of Physical
Sciences and Mathematics, which in the fall of 1948 became the Department
of Physical Sciences with Willard L. McRary as chairman. Granting
of the M.A. degree was authorized in 1958, and the staff consisted
of seven regular members with two associates to help with laboratory
sections.
In 1960, the Department of Chemistry was
established with Glenn H. Miller appointed as chairman. In 1963,
with a staff of ten full-time members, some associates and teaching
assistants to help with laboratories, awarding of the Ph.D. degree
was authorized. Ernest L. Bickerdike was acting chairman of the
department in 1963-64. In 1964 Frederick T. Wall joined the faculty
and assumed the chairmanship. In 1965, with a staff of 13 offering
over 30 courses, there were enrolled 79 undergraduates majoring
in chemistry and 45 graduate students, of whom 29 were working toward
the Ph.D. degree. source
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Chicano Studies
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Classics
There had been occasional offerings of elementary
Latin or Greek in earlier years, but classics as a discipline came
into sudden bloom with a full four-year curriculum in the fall of
1962. Keith Aldrich, who had joined the Santa Barbara faculty in
1961 as associate professor of classics (although budgetarily identified
with the English department), succeeded in creating and having approved
majors in both classical philology and Latin, and minors in Greek
and Latin. The following year (1963), the Department of Classics
was established with three faculty members. In 1965, five teaching
members and a visiting professor, Humphrey D. F. Kitto, former professor
of Greek at the University of Bristol, were on the department's
staff. source
Communication
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Comparative Literature
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Computer Science
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