环境研究专业的文学学士学位（BA）通过为学生提供探索与环境有关的社会，文化和科学问题所需的灵活性，解决了这些跨学科的关系。为进行专业准备，文学士学位课程的学生报名参加了各种社会科学，人文科学和自然科学入门课程。在高年级学生中，根据自己感兴趣的领域，学生可以通过从环境研究计划中选择选修课程的组合来追求特定的或多学科的环境重点。该专业的最后一部分是一个20个单元的高中外集中课程，学生可以从一个或多个UCSB部门或与他们重点相关的课程中完成课程。所有学士学位专业的环境研究中，大约有三分之一选择使用本节来完成双专
Environmental Studies (ES) trains and prepares students to be world-class leaders in multidisciplinary analysis, problem solving for environmental health and sustainability, and transformative social change in the 21st century. The program is highly interdisciplinary, and as a student in the program youll be able to explore a wide variety of environmental topics, drawing on concepts, theories, and research methods from the natural and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Youll be encouraged to generate innovative ideas through research, and youll gain the scholarly background and practical skills needed to envision solutions to pressing environmental challenges and to become an agent for change for a healthy and just environment. The B.A. degree is deeply interdisciplinary, requiring a swath of introductory courses from many disciplines and stressing the importance of comprehending basic social, cultural, and scientific theories and understanding how they interact with one another. While this degree will make you science-literate, it also offers maximum flexibility and you can select ES electives and outside concentration courses from just about every academic discipline at UCSB. Students who pursue this degree are often interested in developing a higher degree of writing proficiency and general communication skills, and they go on to seek opportunities dealing with interdisciplinary social, political, and economic issues.