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• HOURS: The Dean's office is open from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday. Please call or e-mail to schedule an appointment in advance. Office hours will vary during holidays.

• OFFICE LOCATION: The Dean's office is located on the 10th floor of the Arts and Humanities Building. After exiting the elevators on the 10th floor, visitors need to ring the doorbell to gain access to the office lobby.

• BUILDING LOCATION: 
  • The Arts and Humanities Building is on the west side of campus within the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood (NTPLLN), near Sixth College. It is located on Muir College Drive across from the Jeannie Auditorium and the Craft Center.
  • It is part of the Ridge Walk Academic Complex (RWAC), which houses the Arts and Humanities Building, and the adjacent Social Sciences Public Engagement Building. The two buildings are connected by walkways on several floors, with shared access to the outdoor terrace on floor 5.
  • The Arts and Humanities Building has several restaurants on the first floor including Copa Vida Coffee Roasters, Blue Bowl Superfoods, and Fan-Fan Chinese Restaurant.

• BUILDING ADDRESS:

• • Ridge Walk Academic Building
    9625 Scholars Drive North
    La Jolla, CA 92093-0406

• • The above address goes to the Sixth College building, near Sixth Market, and the corner of Scholars Drive North and Muir College Drive. To get to the Arts and Humanities Building from this location, walk up the stairs (passing by Sixth Market) and straight across the large lawn. The Arts and Humanities Building has wood bench seating outside of it's main lobby area. 

• DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS WITHIN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES BUILDING
  • Floor 1: Lobby
  • Floor 2: Literature
  • Floor 3: Literature
  • Floor 4: Philosophy
  • Floor 5: Analytical Writing Program / Terrace
  • Floor 6: Institute of Arts and Humanities
  • Floor 7: History
  • Floor 8: History
  • Floor 9: History
  • Floor 10: School of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office

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Parking

The closest parking to the Arts and Humanities Building is in the Scholars Parking Structure, the underground parking garage desginated as the "Scholars Parking - North Entrance" on the UC San Diego campus map. The entrance to the parking garage is on the corner of Scholars Drive North and Muir College Drive.

• Scholars Parking Structure: 9500 Muir College Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093

This parking garage includes spaces for visitors, staff and students. Permits are required for parking and details can be found on the campus transportation website. Once in the parking garage, the Arts and Humanities Building can be accessed by walking up the stairs or taking elevators in the parking garage labeled "Arts and Humanities." 

Public Transit

 Several mass transit routes serve the campus and surrounding area. In 2021, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System opened the trolley route called the UC San Diego Blue Line, with a station at UC San Diego, extending trolley access from the Mexico border to campus. UC San Diego offers different programs that provide discounted transit access for faculty, staff and students.

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Arts and Humanities Building

Completed in 2020 as part of the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood (NTPLLN), the Arts and Humanities Building is part of the Ridge Walk Academic Complex (RWAC), which includes the Arts and Humanities, and the adjacent Social Sciences Public Engagement Building. The two buildings are connected by walkways on several floors with shared access to the terrace on floor five.

The Arts and Humanities Building is home to the Office of the Dean, the Analytical Writing Program, the Institute of Arts and Humanities and all three humanities departments: History, Literature and Philosophy. The building includes seating in the lobby, classroom and department meeting space on each floor and an open-air rooftop terrace on floor five.

This building marks the first time in history that all humanities departments have been housed in the same location. Buildings and facilities for the arts departments are dispersed across campus and noted in the sections below.

• About the Neighborhood: North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood Springs to Life
• Facility/Event Usage: The Arts and Humanities Building does not contain event venues or spaces available for external reservation. All conference rooms and spaces within the building are managed by the respective department, program or institute on the floor they are within.
• Inquiries: ahnews@ucsd.edu

The Department of Music

• Conrad Prebys Concert Hall: Designed by famed acoustician Cyril M. Harris, this 350-seat concert hall is a world-class venue for contemporary chamber and small ensemble music.
• Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater: 150-seat concert and theatrical space with a “black box” design, featuring a configurable room acoustic made possible by Meyer Sound’s Constellation electroacoustic architecture.
• Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall: 150-seat auditorium designed for intimate performances and lectures with the added functionality of surround sound diffusion when desired.
• Mandeville Auditorium: 800-seat hall that was fully renovated in 2018, Mandeville Auditorium is suitable for a full range of events, from dance, music, and theatrical productions to conferences, lectures, and other special events.

• Website: Department of Music Facilities
• Inquiries: facilities@music.ucsd.edu, mus-director@cloud.ucsd.edu
• Mandeville Auditorium Rental Request Form  (online version)

The Department of Theatre and Dance

Located within the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District 

• Arthur Wagner Theatre seats 99 audience members, and has a full sound/light/stage management booth and dressing rooms.
• Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building: three dance studios are arranged along a curving path, defined by a curved wall and anchored to the west by a fourth box. The complex comprises approximately 14,000 feet. One of the studios, Dance Studio 3, can be transformed into a 120-seat black-box theater.
• Galbraith Hall houses the department's main office (GH 202), faculty and graduate student offices, four large rehearsal rooms,the Arthur Wagner Theatre with dressing rooms and a stage management booth, and lab facilities for our undergraduate and graduate designers.
• Mandell Weiss Forum seats 400 audience members around a thrust stage
• Mandell Weiss Theatre is the largest of the theatre spaces in the Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts. It is a a proscenium theatre that seats 500 audience members.
• Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre is a black box theatre that seats up to 417 audience members depending on the configuration of the space.
• Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre s a black box theatre that seats 100 audience members in its current proscenium configuration.

• Website: Department of Theatre and Dance
• Inquiries: Contact list

The Department of Visual Arts

• The Mandeville Center: visual arts class and conference rooms, staff offices, student advising, an electronic lab, the Adam D. Kamil Gallery, the undergraduate wood and metal shop, as well as the Mandeville Art Gallery.
• The Visual Arts Facility: visual arts faculty and graduate student studios, a seminar room, the graduate photo lab, a computer lab, the graduate wood, metal, and machine shop, three galleries, a performance space, a sound lab and a screening room.
• The Structural and Materials Engineering building: 183,000 square foot building houses a community of artists and engineers which includes two dedicated arts studios, a gallery and a state of the art paint booth. The Envision lab, also located in SME, is an experiential teaching facility where visual arts and engineering students are empowered to think, design, make, tinker, break and build again.

• Website: Department of Visual Arts
• Inquiries: Contact list

The Mandeville Art Gallery

The Mandeville Art Gallery, previously known as the University Art Gallery, is a long-standing fixture on the UC San Diego campus, with a five-decade history of presenting innovative art in the context of a major research university.

Managed by the School of Arts and Humanities and located on the west end of the Mandeville Center for the Arts, the Mandeville Art Gallery operates as a venue for artistic exhibitions and events serving both the university and local community.

The Mandeville Art Gallery underwent renovations, opening again to the public in March 2023. With updates designed by Studio E Architects, the renovated Mandeville Art Gallery creates a landmark destination for contemporary art that sparks creativity, innovation and collaborative research.

The revitalized Mandeville Art Gallery includes a state-of-the-art 2,360 sq ft gallery, an inviting, flexible outdoor plaza, enhanced gathering spaces, a dedicated black-box video room and a wrap-around, exterior LED media mesh façade optimized for the display of digital artwork.

The gallery is part of the Ernest W. Mandeville Center for the Arts complex, originally designed by legendary Southern Californian architect A. Quincy Jones in 1975, and the construction masterfully merges old and new.

The build is part of a major redevelopment of the UC San Diego campus in conjunction with the arrival of the new light rail that routes to downtown San Diego and the greater region, a transition that will open up the university’s extensive arts and cultural offerings to the larger community, while expanding and enriching the student experience.

• Facility Usage: All inquiries shold be directed to the  Gallery Director.The School of Arts and Humanities Dean's Office does not manage the usage of The Mandeville Art Gallery. 
• Website: Mandeville Art Gallery