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Guide to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Program Collection
UArch 90
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Title: University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Program Collection
Dates: ca. 1945-1976
Collection number: UArch 90
Creator:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Tutorial Program
Collection Size:
0.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The Tutorial Program collection contains files on colloquium courses from the program, flyers, memos, brochures, reports,
and other related documents.
Physical location: Del Sur, University Archives, 25A.
Languages:
English
None.
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.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Program Collection. UArch 90. Department of Special Collections, Davidson
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
"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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Tutorial Program
File on Tutorial Programs in Office of Public Information subject files, UArch 12.
Lawrence Willson papers, UArch FacP 21. Faculty Papers of professor involved with the Tutorial Program.
College of Creative Studies collection, UArch 28.