Academics
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Departments & Programs
Phone: 310-206-6905 |Building on a long tradition of intellectual innovation, the Department of Art History at UCLA provides a rigorous program of undergraduate and graduate study that endorses an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to art history of all periods and places.
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Email: alcgen@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-206-8235 |The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is dedicated to the study of the civilizations of the Asian region, in all their diversity. The rich cultural heritages of the region are covered in courses ranging from language, to literature, religion, thought, archaeology, and other aspects of culture.
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ChineseFilipino / TagalogHindi-UrduIndonesianJapaneseKoreanPali &PrakritSanskritThaiVietnamese
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- Visit the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
Email: c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-206-8552 |The Center, which administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in West Adams, supports research related to the seventeenth and long-eighteenth centuries as well as Oscar Wilde and the fin-de-siècle aesthetics movement. Through its robust program of fellowships, conferences, and institutes, the Center serves as a forum for students, professors, and independent scholars to collaborate and commune.
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- Visit the Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
The Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions is an interdisciplinary center created in 2009 as part of the UCLA division of Humanities.
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- Visit the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
Email: cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-1880 |The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) supports interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from Late Antiquity to the middle of the seventeenth century through a program of lectures, seminars, conferences, and fellowships for visiting professors, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and researchers. Additionally, we publish the academic journals Viator and Comitatus as well as a book series called Cursor Mundi.
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- Visit the Center for the Study of Religion Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
Email: csr@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-206-8799 |The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion coordinates and promotes the academic study of religion at the University for members of the campus community as well as for a wider public. In addition to housing an undergraduate major, the Center sponsors seminars, lectures, and conferences as well as films and artistic performances that explore the role of religious ideas, practices and institutions within human societies, both historical and contemporary and throughout the regions of the world.
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- Visit the Classics Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Phone: 310-825-4171 |UCLA’s highly-ranked Department of Classics hosts a diverse faculty of scholars and teachers dedicated to bringing the foundational cultures of ancient Greece and Rome to life for the contemporary student. Our courses range widely over areas such as Greek and Roman literature, Mediterranean archaeology, Indo-European linguistics, ancient philosophy and political thought, as well as ancient sexuality and gender studies.
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Ancient GreekLatin
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- Visit the Comparative Literature Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs
Email: uclacomplit@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-7650 |Standing at the forefront of innovative literary, theoretical, and cultural studies, comparative literature is one of the most exciting fields in the Humanities. The discipline demands exceptional linguistic ability, advanced critical tools, and high intellectual caliber.
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Phone: 310.825.4173 |English at UCLA long has been known for its innovative research and excellence in teaching. Today, the English Department maintains its strong commitment to traditional areas of study, while also supporting groundbreaking research and teaching in new and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.
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Old English
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Phone: 310-825-1145 |The Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA offers an international curriculum, providing competence in language proficiency and cultural, political, and social analysis, skills that are valued and recognized by employers and graduate schools.
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French
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Phone: 310.825.3955 |The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages offers cutting-edge scholarship and teaching in several languages of northern Europe (Dutch, German, and Yiddish), as well as in Afrikaans. It focuses on the linguistics, literature, and culture of those languages, and on the many interdisciplinary humanistic fields they illuminate.
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DutchGermanYiddish
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- Visit the Indo-European Studies Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs | Languages
UCLA offers an interdepartmental graduate program in Indo-European Studies (the only such program in the US), leading to the degree of Ph.D. The program’s primary focus is historical linguistics, in particular the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European (the ancestor of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, English, and many other languages) as well as the culture of its speakers.
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AvestanHittite/Luwian/PalaicLycianLydianOld PersianTocharian
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Email: allen@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-1940 |The Italian Department at UCLA offers a unique combination of literary, linguistic and cultural experience at both the undergraduate and graduate level, making it one of the most prestigious programs for Italian Studies in North America.
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Italian
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- Visit the Law and Philosophy Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs
Email: matthews@law.ucla.edu | Phone: (310) 267-47 |The Law and Philosophy Program is a unique collaboration between the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Philosophy Department. We offer many academic events, including a workshop series and public lectures, as well as curricula throughout the year that focus on the many intersections between legal and philosophical issues. We also offer opportunities to earn specializations in law and philosophy to law students and to philosophy graduate students, as well as a joint J.D./PhD.
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Departments & Programs
Email: robbin@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-7650 |The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies Program at UCLA is an interdisciplinary program that supports teaching and research on the historical and contemporary experience of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people. It provides an academic home for those who wish to study the intellectual and cultural traditions that have shaped our current understanding of sexuality and gender, as well as for those who wish to challenge such traditions and generate new theoretical paradigms.
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- Visit the Linguistics Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Email: linguist@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310 825-0634 |The UCLA Linguistics Department is one of the world’s leading centers for the scientific study of language.
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American Sign LanguageSwahili
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- Visit the Musicology Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs
Phone: 310-206-5187 |In 2016, the first school of music in the UC system was created at UCLA, the Herb Alpert School of Music. The three departments under this school include Music, Ethnomusicology and Musicology. The department of Musicology remains strongly tied to the Division of Humanities with the faculty and student's scholarly work encompassing the core values of humanistic study. The mission of the UCLA Musicology department is to foster transformative critical thinking about music and musical practices. It defines its subject as broadly as possible, and seeks to integrate musical analysis,...
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- Visit the Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Email: nreast@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-4165 |The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures has excellent degree programs in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (including Arabic and Islamics, Armenian, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Iranian, Turkish) and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations (including Assyriology and Sumerology, Biblical Studies, Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology).
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AkkadianArabicAramaicArmenianCopticDemoticEgyptianHebrewMiddle IranianPersianSumerianTurkishUgaritic
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Departments & Programs
Phone: 310-825-4641 |The principal goal of the Department of Philosophy is to produce philosophers of high quality, thinkers informed by the great historical traditions of Western philosophers who can apply the methods of philosophical analysis to a broad range of current philosophical problems.
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- Visit the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
Email: info@pourdavoud.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-206-6042 |The Pourdavoud Center intends to be a disciplinary home to stimulating intellectual encounters and exchanges for scholars working on ancient Iran and the ancient world, and will contribute to the development of collaborative research projects in such diverse areas as Assyriology, Biblical Studies, Central Asian studies, Classics, Egyptology, ancient History, Indology, Sinology, and the Study of Religion.
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Email: allen@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-6828 |Since its inception in 1972, the Scandinavian Section has been one of the premiere programs in the country for the study of Nordic languages and literatures on the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Old NorseSwedish/ Norwegian/ Danish /Finnish /Icelandic
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- Visit the Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures Website (opens in new window)
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Departments & Programs | Languages
Email: slavic@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-3856 |Founded in 1948, the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures is one of the oldest and most prominent programs in its field in the United States. The program, which offers undergraduate and graduate studies, provides students with a comprehensive education in the languages, literatures, cultures, and history of Eastern and Central Europe and Eurasia.
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CzechHungarianLithuianianPolishRomanianRussianSerbian / Croatian / BosnianUkrainian
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Departments & Programs | Languages
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers a rich and diverse program dedicated to the study of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking diasporas of Europe, North, Central and South America. Along with notable traditional strengths in Spanish, Spanish American, and Portuguese literature, departmental offerings include courses in U.S. Latino Studies and language instruction in Quechua and Catalan.
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BasqueCatalanNahuatl (Indigenous Languages of the Americas)PortugueseQuechua (Indigenous Languages of the Americas)Spanish
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Departments & Programs
Phone: 310-825-4165 |The undergraduate major in the Study of Religion equips students to understand and compare creatively the worldwide varieties of core convictions, stories, texts, rituals, and practices known collectively as religion.
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- Visit the The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
Email: cjs@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-825-5387 |The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies is dedicated to advancing scholarship in all areas of Jewish culture and history, educating the next generation about the role of Judaism in world civilization, and serving as an exceptional public resource for Jewish life and learning.
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- Visit the The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture Website (opens in new window)
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Research Centers
Email: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310-206-8981 |The Center promotes interdisciplinary studies of Hellenic Culture, from the ancient world through the modern day. The Center also serves as a vibrant cultural hub for the Southern California Hellenic community, presenting innovative programs, often in collaboration with local Hellenic organizations, and generating interest in Greece’s historical and ongoing contributions to modern culture.
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Departments & Programs
Email: marissa@humnet.ucla.edu | Phone: 310.206.1145 |UCLA Writing Center and Writing Programs encourages students to use language as a means of discovery, understanding, analysis, inspiration, community building, and diplomacy.
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