Biology - BA College of Creative Studies

The CCS Biology major provides intensive study for students preparing for a career in research in the life sciences and associated fields. From the first year, you’ll have the opportunity to pursue independent research under the guidance of an individual faculty advisor in areas such as aquatic biology, ecology, molecular biology, biopsychology, paleontology, biological anthropology, and microbiology. Because research is an integral part of the program, our faculty consider CCS Biology students as junior colleagues. The flexibility of the CCS Biology major combined with the resources of a research-intensive university will provide you the ideal opportunity to develop as a biologist.

• Academia

• Federal agencies

• Nonprofit organizations

• Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Ecology and Evolution

• Marine Biology

• Johns Hopkins University

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Most of our students get involved with research in their first year

• Carol Greider, who graduated from CCS with a BA in Biology in 1983, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009

• Biology research takes place in many different departments and institutes on campus and CCS students are not limited to the labs in the two biology departments

• CCS Marine Science

• L&S Environmental Studies

• L&S Earth Sciences

• L&S Biology

• L&S Psychological and Brian Sciences

• Climate change

• Sustainability

• Conservation

• Neuroscience

• Systems biology

• Biomedical sciences

https://ccs.ucsb.edu/majors/biology