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East Asian Studies
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Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
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Economics
Instruction in economics on the Santa Barbara
campus antedates the establishment of the Department of Economics.
Before 1960, the faculty in economics were members of the Department
of Social Sciences, which included the faculties of history, political
science, sociology, geography, anthropology, and philosophy. Ultimately,
however, because of the size of the department and specialization
among faculty members, the individual disciplines split off from
the Department of Social Sciences to become departments in their
own right.
In the fall of 1954, the economics faculty offered
a curriculum leading to the degree of master of arts in economics.
Under this curriculum the first M.A. degree in economics was awarded
in the spring of 1956. On July 1, 1960, the Department of Economics
was established with its own departmental structure and chairman.
The department accelerated plans for offering graduate courses and
degrees. Beginning in 1963, the department announced offerings leading
to the Ph.D. degree in economics.
In the fall of 1965, 45 graduate students, most
of whom were working for the Ph.D. degree, were enrolled in the
department. The department had six National Defense Education Act
fellowships. In addition, there were numerous general scholarships
and fellowships awarded to graduate students.
The faculty in economics grew from one full-time
economist in 1944 to 15 full-time members, five part-time members,
and six graduate teaching assistants in the fall of 1965. Enrollment
grew over the years and in the fall of 1965, there were 450 undergraduate
students majoring in economics. source
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Education
From its beginning, the educational institution
at Santa Barbara has been engaged in the preparation of teachers.
Originally, its focus was limited to the schools of Santa Barbara
and its curriculum restricted to industrial arts and home economics.
In 1909, when the legislature made the institution a state normal
school, its purpose was enlarged to satisfy a growing statewide
demand for elementary and secondary teachers in industrial arts
and home economics.
During its 12 years' existence (1909-21) as a
state normal school, professional education courses began to be
developed as sequential and related courses and also increased in
number. In 1916, the following professional courses were offered:
History of Education, Psychology, Principles of Teaching, School
Law and Administration, Teaching Methods, and Practice Teaching.
With the advent of the state teachers college
in 1921, a Department of Education was established with J. Leroy
Stockton as its first head. Within five years, Laura S. Price, Elsie
A. Pond, and Edith Leonard were added to the faculty which then
totaled seven members. Charles L. Jacobs had become the department
head, a new campus laboratory school had been started, and 28 courses
in education and psychology were offered. By 1950, the number of
courses increased to 68 and the faculty to 15, 12 of whom held doctorates.
The college became a part of the University in
1944. The next marked change in the department occurred in the years
1962-65, when a School of Education was established with Gordon
S. Watkins as the acting dean. The three majors in the department,
early childhood, elementary, and junior high school, were dropped
in favor of academic majors for the A.B. degree. Graduate work leading
to a master of arts degree in education was also approved during
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Electrical and
Computer Engineering
In the spring of 1961, the School of Engineering
at Santa Barbara was established by the Regents. That fall 90 students
were enrolled in freshman engineering. In September, 1961, Albert
G. Conrad, head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale
University, was appointed as the first dean and professor. In October,
Philip F. Ordung, professor of electrical engineering at Yale, received
an appointment as professor. In the beginning there was a single
Department of Engineering with Ordung as its chairman. His responsibility
was to develop a Department of Electrical Engineering. Conrad and
Ordung, although their appointments were not effective until July
1, 1962, were active during 1961-62 in organizing programs, recommending
courses, acquiring equipment, and recommending appointments to the
school and to the department. On New Year's Day, 1962, Ordung, in
his study in Branford, Connecticut, drew room plans for a building
proposed for the future Department of Electrical Engineering at
Santa Barbara.
The first staff (1962-63) included two acting
assistant professors, a secretary and two laboratory mechanicians.
The new school was housed in the quarters of the Department of Industrial
Arts, and was helped by the faculty of that department, then in
the process of being dissolved.
In July, 1964, the Department of Engineering was
replaced by the newly created Departments of Electrical Engineering
with Ordung as chairman and of Mechanical Engineering with Otto
W. Witzell as chairman. In June, 1965, the first graduates, 16 electrical
engineers, received the bachelor of science degree. The master of
science degree was offered by the department beginning in the fall
of 1965 and by the fall of 1966, a new laboratory for electrical
engineering was completed. source
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English
Instruction in English composition and literature
was offered sporadically during the last three years in the life
of the state normal school at Santa Barbara. When the Santa Barbara
State Teachers College was created in 1921, a Department of English
was established under the chairmanship of William Ashworth. Among
the ten courses in its curriculum were Shakespeare, Modern Drama,
American Literature, and European Literature. Professor Ashworth's
chairmanship extended over most of the institution's various transformations
until his retirement in 1949. His tenure in office saw the establishment
of a major in English in 1929 (by which time 26 courses were being
taught), and the formation of a Division of Speech which remained
a part of the English department until 1947, when a separate Department
of Speech and Drama was formed.
At the time of the state college's evolution into
Santa Barbara College of the University in 1944, the department
had a staff of 11 faculty members and was offering 34 courses. At
this time the department assumed responsibility for the administration
of the Subject A requirement--a responsibility it retained until
the establishment of an Office of Subject A in 1962. A program of
graduate study leading to the master of arts degree began in 1958.
In 1960, instruction in Greek and Latin was instituted under the
department's auspices, and a sequence of courses was developed leading
to the creation of a Department of Classics in 1962. In 1964, the
department admitted the first candidates to a newly established
graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree.
The department offered a two-semester course in
literature and composition required of all freshmen, a variety of
upper and lower division courses designed to advance the purposes
of the general education program, an undergraduate major curriculum
in which 540 students were enrolled in the spring of 1965, and a
graduate curriculum in which 74 students were enrolled. More than
70 courses were taught by the department's faculty. source
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English as a Second Language
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Environmental Studies
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