About CAL
In 1910, the University of the Philippines established a College of Philosophy, Science and Letters, soon renamed the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. On 30 September, 1976, the College was divided to make it more manageable into three divisions. The Humanities division evolved into the College of Arts and Letters.
The College of Arts and Letters contains the Department of English and Comparative Literature, which dates back to 1910 under the original name Department of English; the Department of European Languages, originally founded in 1910 as multiple distinct languages; the Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts (1959, then titled the Department of Speech Communication and Drama); the Department of Art Studies (1959, then the Department of Humanities); and the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature (1966).
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