Letter & Sciences

college of letters and science

With 34 academic departments and 119 major fields of study, the College of Letter and Science is the largest and most academically diverse unit in the University of California. Students and faculty in the college form an intellectual core that includes most of UCLA undergraduate instruction, as well as many of the university’s programs in faculty research and graduate-student education.

The College includes four academic divisions -- Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences -- which span research and teaching in the liberal arts and sciences. Within the academic departments are members of the National Academy of Sciences and other academic societies, Guggenheim Fellows, Fulbright Scholars and Donald Cram and Paul Boyer, the 1987and 1997 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, respectively.

Also within the College is the Division of Honors and Undergraduate Programs. The degree programs are designed to expose students to a variety of intellectual challenges by combining a wide distribution of courses and the opportunity to specialize in one particular field.

In addition, the College houses research centers and programs spanning the sciences and the liberal arts. They link faculty from many departments in their research and teaching of interdisciplinary subjects.

1999-‘00 MILESTONES INCLUDE:
Excavation began for the Physics-Astronomy Building just south of Powell Library.
   Lloyd E. Cotsen and his family foundation pledged $7 million to the UCLA Institute of Archaeology - one of the largest donations ever received by a university archaeology program, and the largest gift ever received by a social science program at UCLA. In recognition of the gift, the institute has been renamed the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
   Fundraising for the College topped the $40 million level for the first time in College history.
   Ronald W. Burkle pledged $10 million to support the Center for International Relations in the office of International Studies and Overseas Programs. In recognition of the gift, the center has been renamed the Burkle Center for International Relations.
. The College hosted the millennium conference of the American Mathematical Society.
The first endowed chair funded for the basic sciences by a member of the UCLA faculty. Leon and Joanne Knopoff endowed an assistant professorship in Physics and Geophysics to foster the work of outstanding young scholars.


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