The UCSB Reads program provides faculty and their students the opportunity to participate in a campus and community wide conversation about important issues raised in the selected book. UCSB Reads is a program of UCSB Library, and the Library will provide free copies of the book to all students in courses that incorporate the book. For more information, please write us at ucsbreads@library.ucsb.edu.
Topics related to the book will be explored in a variety of winter and spring quarter events on campus and in the wider Santa Barbara community. Faculty can have their students engage with these events in a variety of ways including:
See below for a video in which faculty from a variety of disciplines discuss their experience incorporating the UCSB Reads book.
Hear from UCSB faculty across the disciplines who have successfully incorporated the UCSB Reads book into a course and learn how the UCSB Reads program can support your instruction.
Panelists include Tim Dewar (Gervirtz Graduate School of Education), Brian Donnelly (English), Kathy Foltz (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Behrooz Parhami (Electrical & Computer Engineering), and Kathy Patterson (Writing Program). Moderated by Elina Salminen (CITRAL).