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| | French & Italian Department, UC Santa Barbara, 805.893.3111 |
 | | Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where faculty and students explore the rich history of the literature, fine arts, philosophy, and social sciences that have shaped the intellectual and artistic traditions of the Western world, from the Middle Ages through the modern period. |
 | | In collaboration with 8 affiliated faculty from other departments (Art History, Comparative Literature, English, Film Studies, Music and Sociology), our distinguished full-time faculty, comprised of 15 professors and 5 lecturers in Italian, is deeply committed to the research and teaching of the oral, written and visual cultures of France and Italy. |
 | | As a result of these wide-ranging interests, we are able to provide students with extensive training in French language and culture, literary history, theory and criticism, and Italian language and cultural studies. |
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