The University of California, Santa Barbara offers the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in western and non-western fields leading to careers in teaching, research and museum professions.

The Department provides one of the largest, most diverse and most dynamic graduate programs in art history in the country. The faculty represent an extraordinary range of fields, methodologies and interests in western and non-western areas, in art and architectural history, in academic and museological emphases.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
Undergrad Program: ug_arthi@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Graduate Program: gd-arthist@humanitas.ucsb.edu

Instruction in the Department of Near Eastern Studies is concerned with the languages, literatures, and civilizations of the ancient, medieval, and modern Near East. The Department offers specialized training in Archaeology, Art History, Assyriology, Egyptology, Hittitology, Iranian Studies, and Islamic Studies, Comparative Semitics, Turkish, Arabic and Persian. For students from other disciplines, the Department offers a wide variety of courses to supplement such related fields as classics, linguistics, history, political science, comparative literature, anthropology, and art history. The Department strongly recommends that its own graduate students take advantage of courses in these fields, provided that they are relevant to their fields of study. Credit for such courses will be recognized by the Department, subject to approval of the Adviser.

Many of the Department's courses are restricted to a small number of students, thus affording an opportunity for close contact with the instructing staff. Apart from providing instruction in the languages and literatures, the lecture courses offer a comprehensive body of information on past and present Near Eastern civilizations.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
Undergraduate, and Graduate: neareast@socrates.berkeley.edu