University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Program Collection, ca. 1945-1976

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Summary

Creators:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Tutorial Program
Abstract:
The Tutorial Program collection contains files on colloquium courses from the program, flyers, memos, brochures, reports, and other related documents.
Extent:
0.4 linear feet (1 document box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Program Collection. UArch 90. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

"In 1949 the Division of Letters and Science, motivated by a profound belief in the values of liberal education, especially for the superior student who has not yet defined his professional goal, and uneasy over the growing tendency toward specialization in undergraduate work, inaugurated the Tutorial Program, a program unique to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Tutorial Program was designed for students who wish to acquire a broadly liberal education, to explore beyond the limits of conventional curricula and traditional 'majors.' To the able and curious student it offers a chance to range as widely as the limitations of time, his own intellectual capacities – and those of the faculty available for his instruction – can carry him. He is encourage to follow lines of inquiry which have interested him but which he cannot pursue further in the regular curriculum; he can exercise his ingenuity in discovering new vistas by inventing courses to satisfy his intellectual curiosity; he has the chance, dependent on his own power, to develop a sturdy independence of thought. In the pursuit of his education, he is permitted to choose those teachers who have especially fired his imagination, and to work individually under their direction. The Tutorial Program thus offers him the ideal possibilities of freedom and independence in his college work. In it he many find the comparatively serene point of contemplation which is threatened nowadays by the burgeoning growth of the student population."

From text in "Brochures," box 1, folder 1.

The collection contains files on colloquium courses from the program, flyers, memos, brochures, reports, and other related documents. The Tutorial major was cut in 1976.

Acquisition information:
Undetermined.
Physical location:
Del Sur, University Archives, 25A.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Program Collection. UArch 90. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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