The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara
offers a diverse and innovative curriculum that seeks to foster a
critical understanding of the production of art and the built
environment. With a faculty of seventeen full-time professors, two
non-senate faculty and five affiliated faculty, the department offers
both broad coverage and individualized programs tailored to student
interests at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Although committed
to sound historical research, we work beyond the traditional boundaries
of art history to open those new perspectives that arise from
interdisciplinary and theoretical approaches. We are one of the only
history of art and architecture departments whose faculty evenly divide
as specialists of art and architecture. In the undergraduate curriculum a new emphasis on global perspectives and intercultural exchanges joins the department’s long-established strengths in European and
Non-Western traditions. The department also offers an undergraduate
emphasis in Architecture and the Environment, a program that promotes an
interdisciplinary understanding of architecture within a complex matrix
of social, geographical, and political factors. The department’s graduate program for the Ph.D. degree balances maximum flexibility with rigorous training in order to foster the creativity that is essential to the development of a vital discipline. Students are encouraged to utilize individual and collective faculty expertise to create specific fields of art historical inquiry. Feminist art history and gender studies, text-image relationships, art theory, technology and art, the epistemology of collecting and displaying objects, the study of urbanism
and the cultural landscapeare some noteworthy faculty interests. For those interested in museum careers, there are ample opportunities to work through our internship program with area institutions, including the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Huntington Library and Art Collections; the department also enjoys a
close working relationship with J. Paul Getty Museum. We also have an exchange program for faculty and students with Leiden University in the Netherlands that maintains an English-based curriculum.
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The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara
offers a diverse and innovative curriculum that seeks to foster a
critical understanding of the production of art and the built
environment. With a faculty of seventeen full-time professors, two
non-senate faculty and five affiliated faculty, the department offers
both broad coverage and individualized programs tailored to student
interests at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Although committed
to sound historical research, we work beyond the traditional boundaries
of art history to open those new perspectives that arise from
interdisciplinary and theoretical approaches. We are one of the only
history of art and architecture departments whose faculty evenly divide
as specialists of art and architecture. In the undergraduate curriculum a new emphasis on global perspectives and intercultural exchanges joins the department’s long-established strengths in European and
Non-Western traditions. The department also offers an undergraduate
emphasis in Architecture and the Environment, a program that promotes an
interdisciplinary understanding of architecture within a complex matrix
of social, geographical, and political factors. The department’s graduate program for the Ph.D. degree balances maximum flexibility with rigorous training in order to foster the creativity that is essential to the development of a vital discipline. Students are encouraged to utilize individual and collective faculty expertise to create specific fields of art historical inquiry. Feminist art history and gender studies, text-image relationships, art theory, technology and art, the epistemology of collecting and displaying objects, the study of urbanism
and the cultural landscapeare some noteworthy faculty interests. For those interested in museum careers, there are ample opportunities to work through our internship program with area institutions, including the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Huntington Library and Art Collections; the department also enjoys a
close working relationship with J. Paul Getty Museum. We also have an exchange program for faculty and students with Leiden University in the Netherlands that maintains an English-based curriculum.