女权研究系在UCSB设有跨学科工作和学术合作的模型，在19个系中有60多名核心和附属教职员工。到2012年春季，已经有近70名学生从UCSB毕业，并完成了博士课程。目前有50多名学生参加了重点课程。女权主义研究方向的博士生需要成功完成四个研讨会，以发展对女权主义理论和教育学以及对妇女，性别和性行为的研究的批判性和分析性理解。女权主义研究作为跨学科的对话和智力问题集，也支持UCSB的多学科本科课程，鼓励博士研究生学习作为助教和助手来申请女权主义研究课程的培训。
Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary discipline that produces innovative research and fosters effective and creative teaching. Our faculty focus on the ways that relations of gender-intersecting with race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, ability, and other axes of difference-are embedded in social, political, and cultural formations. Our three broad areas of concentration are race and nation, genders and sexualities, and productive and reproductive labors. The Department is among a select group of universities offering a Ph.D. in this field for those interested in research and teaching at the university level.