宗教系犹太研究的重点领域包括：从古代到现在的诠释学和文本解释，中世纪和近代的哲学和神秘主义以及文化研究，政治思想和性别理论。尽管对犹太教的研究被视为一个分散的重点领域，但预计进入该计划的学生将在本系内探索比较的研究途径。除了宗教研究的核心教职员工外，UCSB的犹太研究计划还包括17名附属教职员工，他们代表校园其他9个系的各种学科方法，包括历史，日耳曼和斯拉夫研究，比较文学，英语，法文和意大利文，经典，艺术与建筑史，电影和媒体研究以及政治学。我们鼓励学生在大学中探索其他资源，以构建多学科的方法来追求自己的研
The primary areas of focus in Jewish studies with the Department of Religion include hermeneutics and textual interpretation from late antiquity to the present, philosophy and mysticism in the medieval and modern periods, and cultural studies, political thought, and gender theory. Although the study of Judaism is treated as a discrete area of concentration, it is expected that students who enter the program will explore comparative avenues of research within the department. In addition to the core faculty members in Religious Studies, the Jewish Studies program at UCSB includes seventeen affiliated faculty members, who represent a variety of disciplinary approaches in nine other departments on campus, including History, Germanic and Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature, English, French and Italian, Classics, History of Art and Architecture, Film and Media Studies, and Political Science. We would encourage students to explore these other resources at the university in the effort to construct a multidisciplinary approach in pursuit of their graduate degree. It is expected that students admitted to do graduate work in the study of Judaism demonstrate mastery over Hebrew and at least one other research language pertinent to the chosen area of study or subfield, for example, Greek Latin, Arabic, or Yiddish.