Winter 26 Schedule Updates

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Nov 26, 2025, 1:34:44 PM11/26/25

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IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:

12/1/25 Winter Quarter Class Scheduling Pass #3 opens

Click here to see UCSB’s 2025-26 Registration Pass Times.

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INDEX:

1) There are several ES Winter Courses that still have open seats, including:

- ENVS 40: Critical Thinking and Reasoning (required of all ES majors)
- ENVS 70: Intro to Env. Ethics (only ES course fulfills ES Ethics & Justice req.)
- ENVS 108W: People and Wildlife (Area B ES elective)
- ENVS 118: Industria Ecology (taught by former Patagonia Chief of Sustainability)
- ENVS 135A: Prin Env Planning (fulfills the Area A-3 requirement for ES)
- ENVS 147: Into to Air Quality (applies to Area B-1 course for ES B.S. majors)
- ENVS 163A: Water Supply and Demand (fulfills the Area A-2 requirement for ES)
- ENVS 187: Into to Green Buildings (Area B ES elective)
- ENVS 190: Current Topics in ES (“Exploring Env. Careers and Pathways”)

2) ENVS 190 OFFERED IN WINTER 2026 (not Spring): Theme is “Exploring
Environmental Careers and Pathways”

3) ENVS 70 – Intro to Environmental Ethics, is being offered in Winter.
This is a great option to fulfill the ES “Ethics and Justice” requirement
as other options are not offered regularly (i.e. BLST 4, FEMST 50 or LING 50)

4) Many ES classes are full and using Watilists can be a good tool to try to get in.
But be sure to register for a BACK-UP course during Pass #3 in case you don’t
succeed. Review how to find and add yourself to a course waitlist, including
Linking a Waitlist to an Enrolled Course, here!

5) W’26 Open seats: Global Studies 178: Global Politics of Climate Change

6) UPDATED!! Proposed ES Courses for Spring 2026! Designed to help
with your short and long-term class planning. Download the list here or see attached.

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CONTENT:

1) There are several ES Winter Courses that still have open seats, including:

- ENVS 40: Critical Thinking and Reasoning (required of all ES majors)
- ENVS 70: Intro to Env. Ethics (only ES course fulfills the ES Ethics & Justice req.)
- ENVS 108W: People and Wildlife (Area B ES elective)
- ENVS 118: Industria Ecology (taught by former Patagonia Chief of Sustainability)
- ENVS 135A: Prin Env Planning (fulfills the Area A-3 requirement for ES)
- ENVS 147: Into to Air Quality (applies to Area B-1 course for ES B.S. majors)
- ENVS 163A: Water Supply and Demand (fulfills the Area A-2 requirement for ES)
- ENVS 187: Into to Green Buildings (Area B ES elective)
- ENVS 190: Current Topics in ES (“Exploring Env. Careers and Pathways”)

Check out these courses on GOLD!

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2) ENVS 190 OFFERED IN WINTER 2026 (not Spring): Theme is “Exploring Environmental Careers and Pathways”

NOTE: ENVS 190 will NOT be offered in Spring 2026. The next time it will be taught is Fall 2026. And remember, ENVS 190 can be taken up to three times for academic credit!

Wondering how to turn your passion for the planet into a meaningful career? This course helps you explore the wide range of professional paths in the environmental field and chart your own course. Through guest speakers, hands-on activities, and real-world case studies, you’ll discover how people across sectors are addressing today’s most pressing environmental challenges—and where your skills and values can make a difference.

You’ll identify your strengths, clarify your goals, and develop practical career tools, including networking strategies, informational interviewing techniques, and resume-building tips. Learn directly from UCSB experts, alumni, and environmental professionals who are shaping the future of sustainability.

Environmental careers discussed in Winter 2026 may include environmental law, consulting and planning, environmental writing and communication, and regenerative economics. By the end of the course, you’ll have expanded your network, honed your professional toolkit, and gained a clearer sense of your place in the global movement for a more sustainable future.

This class is ideal for students from any major who are interested in exploring environmental career options after graduation. Offered by the Greti U. Croft Center for Undergraduate Environmental Leadership (CUEL) in collaboration with the UCSB Environmental Studies Program.

Time and Location: Fridays 11-12:15, ILP 1302
Professor: Dr. Erika Zollett
Credit and Grading: 1 credit; Pass/No Pass

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3) ENVS 70 – Intro to Environmental Ethics, is being offered in Winter. This is a great option to fulfill the ES “Ethics and Justice” requirement as other options are not offered regularly (i.e. BLST 4, FEMST 50 or LING 50)

Unfortunately, some of the other options for the “Ethics and Justice” requirement have not been offered for a number of quarters, and some are not scheduled to be offered at all in 2025-26. One of these is BLST 4, which has not been offered for going on two years. Please check your class schedules carefully and don’t pass up the opportunity to complete this requirement if ENV 70 or PHIL 4 or POL SCI 1 fit your schedule.

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4) Many ES classes are full and using Watilists can be a good tool to try to get in. But be sure to register for a BACK-UP course during Pass #3 in case you don’t succeed. Review how to find and add yourself to a course waitlist, including Linking a Waitlist to an Enrolled Course, here!

Remember, the units of waitlisted coursework WILL count toward the student's unit maximum for the current registration pass, unless the student has opted to link the waitlist to one of their enrolled courses.

If you have issues or questions about how to use a course waitlist, contact the Office of the Registrar at Regist...@sa.ucsb.edu

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5) W’26 Open seats: Global Studies 178: Global Politics of Climate Change

We have some open seats to share in one of our upper division courses - please pass word along to your students!

Global Studies 178: Global Politics of Climate Change, Thursdays, 2-4:50 pm

Course description: How do societies understand and transform their environments? How do we evaluate whether societies are sustainable? What will it take for us to achieve sustainable development? This course approaches these questions during a difficult time—the Anthropocene—an era in which human activities are reshaping the global physical-environmental basis of human civilization and the survival of thousands of non-human species.

Students can contact global-...@ucsb.edu with enrollment questions.

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6) UPDATED!! Proposed ES Courses for Spring 2026! Designed to help with your short and long-term class planning. Download the list here or see attached.

Every year Environmental Studies provides a Proposed Schedule of ES Courses we plan to offer over the entire academic year as a tool to help students plan their course selection over the entire year. This list is made available for download on the ES Courses webpage here. As Schedule changes may still occur prior to the start of each quarter regular updates to the list of courses is made. The current list was last updated this week!

NOTE: ES course descriptions and prerequisites, along with a list of all cross-listed ES courses with a second department, and old course syllabi can also be found on the ES Courses webpage at: www.es.ucsb.edu/courses

-- 
Eric D. Zimmerman  (he/him)
Student Services Manager, Lecturer
Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara

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