English - BA

As an English major, you’ll learn to think and to write critically and creatively about literature and culture. Your studies will take you to other historical moments, around the globe, and into fundamental questions of the meaning and value of life. Here in UCSB’s English Department, you can explore language, literature, and culture as they intersect with a wide variety of areas – the climate crisis, digital media, race and ethnicity, indigeneity, the embodied mind, literary theory, material culture, performance studies – across a range of cultures and historical periods. Our courses emphasize research and creativity, and you’ll have the opportunity to work closely in small classes with our acclaimed teachers. You’ll be encouraged to be intellectually curious, and you’ll develop media literacy and textual analysis skills as well as how to communicate ideas effectively and elegantly. The UCSB Department of English is proud to foster an inclusive, interdisciplinary culture that’ll challenge you to do your best work with the support and guidance of stellar faculty mentors.

• Media and communications

• Publishing

• Law

• Nonprofit organizations

• Education

• Literature

• Film and Media

• Public Policy

• Education

• Law

• Medicine

• Each of our eight undergraduate specializations are sponsored by one of our research centers: through specializing, you will become part of the associated center’s research community

• Comparative Literature

• Film & Media

• History

• Theater & Dance

• Spanish & Portuguese

• East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

• Environmental Humanities and environmental justice

• Anti-racism and social justice

• New media and digital humanities

• Mind and cognitive studies

• Materialism and aesthetics

• American cultures in global contexts

English Department Website: https://english.ucsb.edu/

Undergraduate Section of Department Website: https://english.ucsb.edu/undergraduate/

Current Courses, from Department Website: https://english.ucsb.edu/courses/