UCSB电影和媒体研究系提供美国历史最悠久，最成功的本科批评研究专业之一。电影与媒体研究学院成立于1973年，是一个跨学科的小型计划，目前在多学科人文课程中招收约500名本科专业，涵盖了全球电影和媒体实践的历史和理论。我们杰出教师的研究帮助定义了电影研究，电视研究以及文化和媒体研究的领域，并且处于数字和新兴媒体新工作的最前沿。电影和媒体研究系以各种方式支持追求高学术成就。对于已被接受大学荣誉计划的学生，我们在大多数核心讲座课程中都提供荣誉部分。即将毕业的本科专业也可能会申请与教师导师紧密合作，完成最高荣誉
The Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara is the academic home to roughly 600 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate students. As an undergraduate in the program, youll receive a liberal arts education on the history and theory of film and media practices around the world, fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, video games, interactive, and web-based digital media production, screenwriting, archival and curatorial practice, and more. The Department of Film and Media Studies is a vibrant, rapidly growing department whose faculty members include specialists from across the field of contemporary media studies. The department's strengths are fiction and nonfiction film history and theory, television and broadcasting, digital media, the Internet, video art and activism, cultural studies, political economies, and media globalization. Interdisciplinarity is encouraged by coordinating courses and program research projects with other departments such as Art, Communication, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Black Studies, Feminist studies, and Anthropology, History, History of Art and Architecture, Comparative Literature. Production is not emphasized, but all majors become familiar with the basic tools of filmmaking. Interested students may also take courses in screenwriting and advanced film production.