UCSB英语系鼓励具有特殊文学/批评兴趣的高年级学生，通过选择该专业的新专业之一来正式追求他们。信息文学与文化专业（由Transcriptions监督）将人文学科的视角带入“信息”概念，即许多学生将一生与职业和个人互动。LCI特别将“信息革命”的形式，媒体，机构和美学与过去类似的革命（例如印刷革命）进行了比较。目的是要问“读得好”提供什么“消息灵通”，反之亦然。口头或读写项目及其文学作品中什么是美丽，启迪或残酷的？信息项目如何进行比较？过去的语言见识如何用于改善我们的当代时代？文学和文学专业提供的课程信息
The UCSB English Department encourages upper-division students with particular interests in literature to pursue them formally by selecting one of the specializations in the major. The specialization in Literature & Culture of Information brings the perspective of the humanities to the concept of information that many students will engage with professionally and personally all their lives. LCI courses encourage students to think about the information revolution as a problem that is equally technological, social, and most importantly aesthetic. Compare today's revolution to similar one's in the past, for example, the printing press. What did it mean to be well-read or well-informed prior to the rise of print What was beautiful, enlightening, or cruel in the project of literacy that followed How about now Courses offered by the specialization in Literature and the Culture of Information hybridize the theory, practice, and literature of contemporary information culture with studies of the earlier information media of oral discourse, manuscripts, and print and the literature they embodied.