The Colleges

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Cowell College

Cowell College inaugurated the Santa Cruz campus when it opened with a pioneer class of 600 students in 1965. The founding faculty shaped an educational program that challenged and enriched students through wide-ranging inquiry and disciplined study. Today, Cowell has nearly 1,500 affiliated students and 80 faculty fellows. Its motto—The Pursuit of Truth in the Company of Friends— expresses a continuing commitment to create a serious academic environment within a humane and broadly inclusive community. The college is named for the S. H. Cowell Foundation, which endowed the college at its founding.

Academic Emphases

The academic theme of the college encourages students to pursue their general and disciplinary study with attention to the values of liberal arts education: understanding one’s individual perspective by exploration of its historical background and world context. Students affiliated with the college pursue majors from all departments on campus.

The faculty fellows affiliated with the college represent all academic divisions (arts, engineering, humanities, physical and biological sciences, and social sciences). The faculty fellows guide the college academic programs and serve as academic mentors to the students, supplementing the advising provided by the college academic advisers and departmental advising.

In satisfying their general education requirements, first-year Cowell students are required to take the Cowell Core Course in the fall term. The core course (Cowell 80), taught in small seminar sections, seeks to develop critical reading, analytical writing, and seminar discussion skills by reading a selection of classic and contemporary texts. In addition, Cowell students are required to raise their level of proficiency in information technology during their UCSC career.

The college academic buildings house humanities faculty, with notable concentrations in philosophy, classics (study of ancient Greek and Latin language and civilization), and modern foreign languages, especially Chinese, French, Italian, and Japanese. The interdisciplinary faculty group in pre- and early modern studies is centered at Cowell College.

Students who develop ideas for research, creative projects, community service, or internship experiences may apply to the college provost for financial support. The college sponsors prizes for outstanding academic work and acknowledges students who graduate with overall academic excellence in a breadth of study with College Honors.

The college enriches the intellectual and cultural life of the campus by sponsoring events of various kinds: lectures and presentations by local faculty and visiting scholars, theatrical and musical performances, and forums and debates on topics of current interest.

College Community and Facilities

Cowell’s seven residence halls and three apartment buildings are arranged in three quadrangles on a hillside overlooking the city of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. About 650 students are housed in the college. Each residence hall houses from 40 to 60 students and is divided into two wings, with seven to 11 residents on each floor. Most floors are coed, with men and women sharing common lounges and other facilities, but single-gender floors are provided for those who prefer this arrangement. Apartments house 185 continuing students in six-person units. The residential staff facilitate diverse educational, social, and recreational programming to enhance the living and learning environment.

Arranged around the college’s central plaza are the dining hall, Page Smith study library, the fireside lounge, the coffee shop, and conference rooms and classrooms. Unique to Cowell College are the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, which regularly mounts exhibits, and the Cowell Press, where students can learn the fine techniques of hand printing. The college is also home to a French-speaking living-learning community, Maison Francophone, which studies French-speaking communities around the world and plans events for the college.

Since the college’s founding, regularly scheduled College Nights in the dining hall have offered students, staff, and faculty a special meal and a rich mix of after-dinner programs presented by students and professional artists. Community life is enlivened by many other scheduled and impromptu intellectual, cultural, and social events.

The Student Senate meets weekly to discuss campus issues and student government. The Senate advises the college on the allocation of funds for student activities and programs. Members of the Senate are selected each year by lot, but any student may become a voting member by steady attendance at meetings. The college’s multicultural advisory board works with staff to create a supportive community for students of color affiliated with the college and to increase awareness of the many dimensions of diversity in the community.

For more information on the college, see www2.ucsc.edu/cowell or call (831) 459-2253.

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Stevenson College

We are Stevensonians; we are free agents of history and masters of our own destinies. Every one of us is important, and we cherish our differences as much as we cherish our shared values of love, chivalry, honesty, hard work, and responsibility.
   — Seung Kyun Joseph Mok, Stevenson Alumnus/Regents Scholar

Stevenson College is named after former statesman and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson. Our faculty, students, and staff take pride in intellectual critical inquiry, academic and civic leadership, and respect for students’ concerns about shared student governance, human rights, and social justice.

Stevenson College has a long-standing reputation for excellence in liberal education. The college strives to provide an academically, culturally, and socially supportive environment for all its members, emphasizing accessibility and fostering social responsibility and academic achievement. Students who seek an interdisciplinary learning environment will appreciate the college’s emphasis on intellectual rigor. As part of the college’s academic and cultural life, the Stevenson Fellows-in-Residence Program has brought to the campus distinguished individuals such as Senator George McGovern, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Chief of the Miwok Tribe Greg Sarris, Producer Lourdes Portillo, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Associate Director-Counsel Theodore M. Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The college’s faculty and academic and administrative staff offer professional and personal service for the diverse needs of students. These individuals, among the most accessible, friendly, and diverse staff at the university, assist students in all areas of their academic and social experience at Stevenson College. Most important, these individuals are committed to instilling respect for the college’s diverse ethnic, racial, religious, and sexual backgrounds.

Academic Emphases

• Faculty drawn from social sciences, humanities, natural sciences
• Yearlong frosh writing seminar
• Tutors and Advisers Program
• Academic Support Center
• Junior Fellows Program

Stevenson College distinguishes itself as the only college with a two-quarter frosh seminar intended to provide all first-year students with a common academic experience. The seminar allows for more rigorous development of students’ critical, written, and analytical skills, the fostering of a unique learning environment, and a supportive intellectual community. It is not unusual to find Stevenson alumni in the legal, political, engineering, medical, computer and information sciences, business, and public administration fields.

The faculty at Stevenson, drawn from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and physical and biological sciences, share a common concern for the study of social processes that shape modern society and determine the quality of our individual lives throughout various global regions and periods of world history. Linguistics, sociology, history, politics, psychology, biology, chemistry, and computer science are strongly represented in the college.

Self and Society is intended to provide intellectual and research preparation for students’ future academic endeavors. The seminar addresses the college’s intellectual and pedagogical aims through a holistic inquiry into academic research that explores the question: What is the relationship between “self and society?” In addition, the course fosters an intellectual commitment to the general philosophy which has helped to define Stevenson College since its inception (articulated in the idea of the preservation of human dignity, the social cultivation of individual creativity and citizenship, and a belief in ethical responsibility). The seminar reflects the college’s long-standing commitment to interdisciplinary and culturally diverse readings, while at the same time it affords students an opportunity to develop research interests, to acquire greater understanding of the role of research universities in contemporary societies, and to acquire the requisite skills to engage in increasingly more sophisticated intellectual work while at UCSC.

Because of a conviction on the part of both faculty and students that such a sequence is fundamental to any university education, both quarters are required of all beginning Stevenson students. Students transferring to UCSC with the equivalent of nine courses (45 quarter credits) or more are exempt from the core course.

The Stevenson College Junior Fellows Program offers juniors and seniors an opportunity to serve as teaching and research assistants for Self and Society. Junior fellows, who must have completed outstanding work in Self and Society during their freshman year, undergo a rigorous application and selection process. Junior fellows (enrolled in Stevenson 120, Teaching Practicum) earn 5 course credits.

Stevenson provides writing and math tutoring for all of its students. Stevenson academic tutors are paid student positions open to juniors and seniors with excellent academic records.

College Community

• College Nights
• Stevenson Student Council
• Multicultural Advisory Council
• Fellows-in-Residence Program
• Multicultural Programs/Activities

Stevenson holds regular College Nights, when a served dinner presents an opportunity for Stevenson fellows and students to get together in a purely social situation. College Nights—Cinco de Mayo, Chinese New Year, Vietnamese College Night—provide the opportunity to celebrate many different cultures. Dinner is followed by entertainment.

The Stevenson Student Council meets on Thursday evenings. This group of 16 elected representatives (eight resident students, eight living off campus) is responsible for allocating college membership fees to student activities. The council also serves as a forum for the discussion of college and campuswide issues and appoints student representatives to college and campuswide committees.

Facilities

• Eight small residence halls
• Three apartment buildings
• Theme floors: Substance Free, Multicultural
• Coffee house
• Wagstaff Fireside Lounge
• Writers’ Center
• Stevenson Library
• Art gallery
• Silverman Conference Room
• The Knoll
• Recreation room

Stevenson College has a wide variety of facilities and activities to appeal to many tastes. The college, designed by San Francisco architect Joseph Esherick, has won many architectural awards. The buildings are situated amid redwood trees and sprawling lawns, and the main quad overlooks Monterey Bay. There are eight small residence houses at the college providing a choice of single-sex or coed floors; each house accommodates about 60 undergraduates. The apartments provide space for 132 continuing students. Nearby are a picnic area, playing fields, and a garden.

The Stevenson Coffee House, which has become the gathering place in the college, is a friendly and inviting spot to enjoy lunch or an espresso and pastry—indoors or out on the patio. It is the scene of lively conversation, occasional musical entertainment, and chess matches. Adjoining the coffee house is a recreational wing, with Ping-Pong, foosball, pool tables, and color television. This area is also the site of much socializing and spontaneous group activity.

In contrast, the Stevenson Library is a striking building designed for quiet reading and study. The Wagstaff Fireside Lounge, a retreat for relaxed discussion, is also used for recitals, special lectures, meetings, and residence house activities. Art exhibits (both student and professional) are on display throughout the year in the lounge, library, and coffee house.

For more information, call (831) 459-4930 or visit the web site: stevenson.ucsc.edu/.

Crown College

Crown College faculty (the college fellows) and students represent a wide variety of academic disciplines. The majority of fellows are in the physical and biological sciences and the social sciences. There are more science and engineering students at Crown than at any other college. However, the majority of Crown students major in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. This diversity of interests and thinking enriches our intellectual environment.

An important goal of the college is to foster an appreciation for the contributions of diverse cultural groups and to provide an atmosphere in which issues of both diversity and common social purpose are integrated into a wide range of programs and discussions.

From the time of its founding in 1967, issues pertaining to the role of science and technology in society have been a focus of special interest at Crown College. Recently, we have approached these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the influence of social and cultural factors on scientific enterprise, as well as the ways in which science and technology influence society.

Crown is located on a hilltop surrounded by a redwood forest. The core buildings consist of an administration office, dining commons, lounge spaces, recreation facilities, study spaces, faculty offices, and classrooms built around a large patio and central fountain. The award-winning architecture with its white walls and high-pitched tiled roofs suggests a hillside Mediterranean village. The college’s residential facilities are made up of eight traditional residence hall buildings and eight apartment buildings housing approximately 700 students. The facilities at Crown College were built through a partnership of public funds and a gift from the Crown Zellerbach Foundation.

Academic Emphases

Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies: Transgenics, Clones, Cyborgs, and Artificial Intelligence is an interdisciplinary seminar concerning the effects of these world-changing technologies and encourages students to develop decision-making strategies to ethically steer these technologies. The course examines these debates using a variety of disciplinary approaches that engage the perspectives of both humanists and scientists. The fall-quarter core course is required of all first-year students with fewer than 45 transferable quarter credits. (see the Crown College Course Descriptions section for a full description.)

The Crown-Merrill Science and Technology Learning Community is an innovative program to support first-year students who are interested in pursuing a major in the sciences. Students enrolled in this program live together, forming a supportive community that promotes collaborative learning and group problem solving. To facilitate this process, students are placed in a special section of Chemistry 1A and participate in a residentially based study group. The program is designed especially for students who have a strong interest in the sciences but feel slightly underprepared for university-level course work. It often acts as a bridge to the ACE Program in the physical and biological sciences and engineering (see the Academic Excellence Program section). Participation—limited to first-year students at Crown and Merrill Colleges—requires a commitment to succeed, a willingness to work hard, and a positive attitude.

The Crown Undergraduate Seminar in Science, Technology, and Society provides highly motivated students the opportunity to work closely with ladder-rank research faculty in a small seminar environment. Topics have included California Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future; Food Matters: Science, Technology, and Society; and an honors seminar on introductory computer architecture.

Juniors and seniors can participate in the college’s new Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, which awards $800 fellowships to student-faculty teams and encourages their interaction through undergraduate research.

College Community and Facilities

Crown sponsors a wide variety of cocurricular events spanning cultural, educational, and social areas of interest. One popular series is the Science/Public Affairs Tables, informal dinners at the Provost’s House that offer students an opportunity to socalize with a faculty member outside the classroom and hear about his or her research.

Students become involved in Crown life by both initiating and participating in a wide range of activities. Social activities vary each year according to the interests of students. At the monthly College Night in the dining commons, a special dinner is followed by entertainment, both often sharing a common cultural theme. Some major events have become traditional. For example: Karaoke College Night; Hypnotist; Crown Formal; and Regression Night. Crown activities and dances draw students from all over campus. Outdoor activities organized by the student government, College Programs Office, or residential staff range from whale watching on the Monterey Bay to atomic bowling, and from backpacking to stargazing.

The Crown Student Senate (CSS), the elected student government at Crown, holds open weekly meetings to recommend fund allocations for student activities and to discuss issues of concern to students and the college. CSS also sponsors events to enhance the college experience, including the very popular pelagic shark lecture and Casino Night.

Crown offers two types of residential facilities: residence halls and apartments. Eight traditional residence halls each house 60 students in single, double, and triple rooms in a coed environment (single-sex bedrooms with unisex bathrooms) or on all-female floors. For students particularly interested in living with and learning about a special-interest environment, Crown provides transfer floors, Substance-Free Houses, and a Science and Technology Learning Community.

In addition, the college has apartments for 230 students above the first-year level. Like the residence halls, the apartments are built on a small scale. Each three-story building has two or three apartments per floor that house four or five students in a combination of single, double, and triple rooms and include a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and outside deck.

Other facilities in the college include the Crown Library study space; a modern computer laboratory housing Sun workstations, which provides students with access to several kinds of systems and an array of applications and instructional software selected to support academic course work; the Fireside Lounge with widescreen television; the Music Practice Room; and the Crown-Merrill Community Room, which has a television, pool table, foosball, and ping-pong table, and provides an informal place to study, hold meetings, or just visit with friends. Recently renovated dining facilities boast continuous dining, late-night dining, and Banana Joe’s coffee shop.

For general information, call the college assistant at (831) 459-2665 or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/crown/. For residential or college programs information, call the Student Life Office manager at (831) 459-4656.

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Merrill College

Merrill College seeks to expand its students’ awareness of their own heritage and of the diversity of cultures around the world, past and present. Drawn largely from history as well as the social sciences, literature, and foreign languages, many Merrill faculty specialize in social theory, international affairs, and social change. The college makes a special effort to be a home for students from different cultural backgrounds and for international students; it presents unusual opportunities to those who value multicultural perspectives. Merrill is a center for Spanish language and Latin American and Latino studies and has been active in sponsoring American Indian cultural and academic activities.

Academic Emphases

Merrill College has as its theme Cultural Identities and Global Consciousness. In Merrill’s core course, with this same title, students read books by Alexie, Hayslip, Hochschild, Hurston, Rodriguez, and Isbister. These histories, novels, and autobiographies increase students’ awareness of cultural and ethnic diversity and of women’s concerns in different cultural settings. More specifically, these volumes deepen students’ appreciation of the complexities involved in cultural struggles for the right to live, with respect, in peace and harmony in one’s own community. In addition, the course presents the crisis of world poverty and proposes theoretical solutions, while also investigating the fundamental international forces of imperialism and nationalism. (For the course description, see the Merrill College Course Descriptions section) Transfer students with fewer than 45 transferable quarter credits are required to take the core course.

Merrill is in the seventh year of its Freshman Scholars Program, in which students take a course together in each of the three quarters: a section of the core course in the fall, a seminar on “First Peoples” (Indigenous cultures) in the winter, and a seminar on ethics in the spring. Interested high school seniors apply by writing directly to the Merrill provost, after admission.

Now in its third year, the winter Merrill American Indian Colloquium Series hosts public and class presentations by noted American Indian professionals and cultural practitioners, from a variety of tribes and pursuits.

Merrill also sponsors a variety of 2- and 5- credit courses on topics that change from year to year, recently ranging from the benefits of reevaluation counseling, to personal empowerment, to white racial identity in a multicultural society. All are kept to a size that facilitates discussion, and many are designed for first-year students. In addition, students can participate in a variety of service-learning opportunities in the surrounding community. Students may volunteer in local elementary school classrooms, mentor high school students, help in an adult literacy program, or work in a Santa Cruz Public Library–sponsored project, assisting children from migrant camps to compile their family stories for publication.

Recognizing the increasingly rigorous requirements for science majors, Merrill—in collaboration with Crown—has developed the Science and Technology Learning Community, to support students majoring in the sciences. Students participating in the program live in close proximity to each other and are encouraged to develop a collaborative learning approach.

Merrill is the home of Casa Latina, which houses the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, the Chicano/Latino Research Center, La Galería, and the CineMedia Project. The Ming Ong Computer Center houses 40 modern personal computers; there is also a new wireless computing zone with laptop computer checkout.

Merrill serves as the administrative home for the Departments of History and Politics, in addition to Latin American and Latino Studies. Merrill is also the home of a Peace Corps Satellite Office. The office helps the many UCSC students who are interested in working overseas with the Peace Corps after graduation.

College Community and Facilities

Located on a hilltop, Merrill’s dramatic and award-winning buildings thread upward through the edge of a redwood forest. The brick patios, gardens, outdoor café, and mission bell tower suggest California’s Latino heritage, while the striking architecture of the residence halls is modern.

Merrill has four residence halls offering students both coed and single-sex floors. Two high-rise structures house 361 students, and two smaller buildings provide housing for about 70 students. In the residence halls, small groups of about 14 students share common bathroom and lounge facilities. Residents eat their meals in the Crown-Merrill Dining Hall.

Apartments, which are located a short distance from the central part of the college, house 160 continuing Merrill students. Grouped amid winding pathways and redwood trees, these three-story buildings have three apartments per floor. Each apartment houses six students and comes fully equipped with kitchen and bath, large living area, and outside deck. Facilities at the apartment complex include common lounges, a large multipurpose room, and a laundry room.

With the help of the Merrill coordinators for residential education, an enthusiastic residential staff plans recreational activities that include potluck dinners, intramural sports competitions, dances, musical events, film series, and a yearly outdoor mural-painting party. Many of these social and residential activities focus on building a multicultural community. Informal discussions, to which faculty are invited, take place throughout the year. In addition to the dining hall, the college has an attractive outdoor/ indoor taqueria. For the artistically inclined, Merrill is the only college which has a student-run pottery co-op. Students can throw, fire, and glaze their works in the workshop space, which is open to Merrill students on a first-come first-served basis. The entire college is online electronically. Students can bring computers from home and connect directly into the Internet from their rooms without the use of a modem.

The physical facilities of Merrill College were provided through a partnership of public funds and gifts from the Charles E. Merrill Trust and the family of Ming Ong. Charles E. Merrill also funds the Chicano Scholarship Program, which makes awards to promising high school and junior college students entering Merrill. Other Merrill scholarships include the Joel Frankel Fund, which supports students pursuing fieldwork in Latin America.

For more information, call (831) 459-2144 or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/merrill/.

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Porter College

The Porter College theme, Arts in a Multicultural Society, reflects the consensus among Porter College fellows that the creative process is an inseparable aspect of a broad-minded and rigorous education. The seminars, cocurricular activities, and cultural environment at Porter encourage creativity in all fields—from composition, to community studies, to computer programming.

Academic Emphases

Porter’s faculty includes most of the campus’s practicing artists and art scholars, though some of the college’s faculty (and half of its students) specialize in the humanities or in the physical and biological or social sciences. The college is the administrative home of the Division of the Arts and the History of Art and Visual Culture Department. The Institute for Humanities Research also has offices here.

The Porter core course (see the Porter College Course Descriptions section) focuses on arts in a multicultural society, with concentration on literature and arts of California and the Pacific Rim. Students who enter the college with fewer than 30 quarter credits (or the equivalent) are required to participate in the core course. Students meet with their faculty member in a seminar, attend regular lecture/performances, and participate in writing groups, advising, and other sessions that introduce some of the academic issues they will confront at the university. The course emphasizes critical reading, writing, and close intellectual contact with faculty and other students.

In their second quarter of residency, students are encouraged to take the next course in the core sequence, which focuses on ways of knowing. Students are introduced to the ways in which different disciplines define “literacy” in their own terms: visual literacy, musical literacy, and the scientific method will be introduced as alternative ways of understanding.

The college also offers 2-credit courses in a variety of areas connected to the arts. These are small classes in the practice or theory of the arts; they may include investigation of a particular style of music or dance, visits to Bay Area theaters and museums, working in the arts, or creation of a show in one of the college galleries. These diverse offerings allow Porter students to understand the significance of creativity in a university education.

In addition to faculty advising, writing assistants have regular office hours in the college to offer help to on- and off-campus students. Special lectures give students the opportunity to meet with important artists and thinkers in an informal environment.

The college provides fellowship funds each year to talented students pursuing original research and creative projects.

College Community and Facilities

The residence halls play an important role in bringing the college community together. Students are encouraged to spend their beginning years in residence in the college, where housing is available for 610 students. The residence halls are divided into smaller units, with from 14 to 40 students sharing common lounges and other facilities. Theme halls include Performing Arts, Film and Digital Media, Visual Arts, and Outdoors Experiences. Porter students have established a Multicultural Lounge, a Lavender Lounge, and a Women’s Hall, with affiliating student organizations offering thematic support. Students also have a choice of smokefree or substance-free halls.

In addition to traditional classrooms, Porter has many specialized facilities such as a fireside lounge, darkroom, galleries, and a dining hall that converts to a theater space.

Instructional Computing Laboratories, located at Porter College, consist of two high-end labs oriented toward the arts (see the Arts Instructional Computing Laboratories section). Porter also has a Study Center with an adjoining Computer Lab for Porter students only. This lab has six workstations for word processing, graphics production, Internet capabilities, and printing.

Adjacent to the college are the campus’s Theater Arts Center (see the Theater Arts Program Description section), the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center (see the Art Program Description section), and the Music Center (see the Music Program Description section).

Porter provides constructive opportunities for relaxation and recreation to balance the intellectual demands of a university education. The Student Activities Office, in conjunction with the Porter Student Senate, organizes formal and informal events, including dances, recreational activities, and field trips, which augment campuswide activities in these areas. For relaxing, Porter students and faculty gather at the college’s coffeehouse—the Hungry Slug.

Many students and faculty perform or exhibit their work at Porter, and cultural events are a constant feature of life at the college. The dining commons has been the site of performances by artists such as El Teatro Campesino, readings by contemporary authors such as Andrew X. Pham and Alice McGrath, and speakers such as Auschwitz survivor Renee Firestone.

Porter College facilities were constructed through a partnership of public funds and a gift from the Porter-Sesnon family of Santa Cruz. Part of the gift was used to establish an endowment for the college.

For more information, call (831) 459-2273 or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/porter.

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Kresge College

Kresge is an experience that will allow you to learn a lot about yourself, be independent and learn to take responsibility for yourself.
— Yvette Keller, Psychology and Modern Literature (double major)

Academic Emphases

Kresge faculty are primarily from the humanities, but they include anthropologists, artists, writers, dramatists, journalists, and political theorists. The college houses the Departments of Literature and Women’s Studies, the Writing Program, the journalism minor, and the Dickens Project.

Kresge’s core course, Power and Representation (see the Kresge College Course Descriptions section), invites active participation in the creation of new social possibilities. The Kresge core course is an examination of key moments at the middle and end of the 20th century. The class focuses on Hiroshima and the dawn of the atomic age; and the social movements of the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, including civil rights, the Vietnam War, the women’s movement, and the gay and lesbian movement. Each instructor has a special two-week period to examine topics the instuctor is well versed in, and which reflect the overall focus of the core curriculum. The last part of the course deals with the economic downturn of the 1990s. In addition to section meetings, on several nights all students come together to watch core-related films or listen to lectures.

The core course is a time where as a first-year student, you have a small class where your voice counts. It is a place to challenge your ideas and the way you think about things [by] introducing new ideas in a very open atmosphere that is safe and comfortable.
— Angela Phipps, Literature

The core course seeks to open avenues to new ways of thinking and to various academic disciplines at the university, as it integrates the student’s intellectual, social, and personal lives in a stimulating and supportive environment. The core course develops critical writing and thinking skills that prepare students for the rapidly changing multicultural world of the year 2000 and beyond. Special sections of the core course are designed specifically for transfer students, who can enroll in this course as an elective. These sections emphasize the same issues and skills development within a context that explores a transfer student’s particular concerns on entering the university.

In addition to the core course, Kresge offers a series of courses taught by faculty affiliated with the college. These courses give students a chance to study in small groups with faculty on topics close to faculty research interests and provide training in skills helpful to students as they begin their majors. A new array of classes is offered each year. Some of the courses in the past have been taught by senior faculty in mathematics, anthropology, history, literature, and journalism.

Advising

Academic advising at Kresge is done by two professional academic advisers and staff through a well-developed peer advising system that is designed to support four-year undergraduate programs as well as the concerns of transfer students. Student peer advisers, writing tutors, and a mathematics computer tutor offer students extensive individual academic guidance and support as a resource provided by the college without additional charge.

I see a lot of new frosh and new transfer students who aren’t sure about where the process starts. I can talk with them and together we can solve their problems and suddenly the university doesn’t seem so big.
— Kevin Tresham, Politics; Student Peer Adviser

Residential Life

Kresge was the sixth college to be built on the UCSC campus. The college was founded on the principle of participatory democracy as a means of encouraging a strong sense of community. Architecturally renowned, Kresge has apartments rather than residence halls.

The Kresge apartments attract students with a strong sense of independence and community participation. Distinctively designed, the apartments are configured for four or seven people. Kitchen and living areas look out onto the street, with other rooms facing the surrounding redwood forest. At Kresge East, apartments are folded into the forest for greater quiet. These apartments with four single bedrooms are typically reserved for continuing upper-division students.

The residential life staff at Kresge work to bring students of similar interests and diverse backgrounds together academically and socially by designing special programming based on student interest. The programs focus on celebrating the diversity of the residential community, on multicultural community-building, and on enhancing academic success, through film series, music events, career and graduate school advising, mural painting, food-centered events, field trips, and other creative programming ideas.

[Living at Kresge] takes a person who is confident with who they are . . . someone who is independent. You cook your own meals, live in a house environment with others who don’t necessarily share the same view as you. It is a lot of work, but it has a big payoff. The people I lived with are still my best friends today.
— Samantha Vincent, Psychology

Community Life

There are a wide variety of events and activities at the college that shape community life: Lectures, workshops, trips, plays, dances, concerts, and films are a regular part of student life at the college. The nature and tenor of these events are a reflection of the interests and dedication of students and staff, who are committed to providing voice and opportunity for all community members.

Students actively shape the college community through participation in Kresge Parliament, an openly structured student organization responsible for voting the allocation of all college membership fees in support of activities and events. Parliament and monthly Town Meetings also serve as a forum for the discussion of college and campuswide issues with college staff and faculty.

Transfer Students
In recognition of the wealth of diversity that transfer students bring to the community—in terms of culture and experience—Kresge is the home of the Transfer Center for campuswide transfer students regardless of college affiliation. This is a staffed facility where students can gather to relax, socialize, hold meetings, and obtain campus information and resource support in a central location. The resource center offers workshops, social evenings, and special events that are tailored to meet the needs of transfer students.

Kresge has provided a place for me, as a transfer student, where my questions and concerns have been addressed. As a Peer Adviser, it has become my commitment to work with the Kresge community to provide students with an environment where they can experience the richness of university life.
— Julie Taylor, Literature; Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program

Kresge also offers special advising workshops and 2- and 3-credit courses designed to help transfers in the process of entering the university and moving forward in their careers from here.

Facilities

Kresge’s unique style is also evident in its physical structures. At the entrance to the college is the restful Piazetta with its “un-fountain.” Spinning off from the Piazetta are the Transfer Center, the Commuter Lounge, and the Student Lounge, equipped with television and VCR. In addition to the Transfer Center, as a unique facility on the campus, the Commuter Lounge is a place for off-campus students who want to use a kitchen, shower, or lockers while on campus. The Photo Lab Co-op is above the Piazetta and offers 24-hour accessibility to darkroom equipment. Adjacent to the nearby meadow are the Recreation Room, a racquetball court, and an outdoor basketball court. The center of the college includes the beautiful Study Center with its soaring ceilings and walls of glass overlooking the forest. College facilities include a computer lab equipped with PCs for student use. Kresge also has the student-run Food Co-op, where healthful and organic produce is sold and working memberships are available. At the top of the college are the Town Hall performance facility, the Music Co-op, and a restaurant.

If people are looking for an atmosphere that is accepting to different personalities and mind frames, and want the independence to work with other students, Kresge offers that. Kresge really strives to have a community of people, but leaves space to assert your independence.
   — Diem Do, Community Studies

For more information, call (831) 459-2071 or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/kresge.

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Oakes College

Oakes was founded in 1972 to provide high-quality education to students from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Students, staff, and faculty associated with the college believe that learning takes place not only in the classroom but also in residential settings. For that reason, they work hard to create a multicultural community whose members strive together toward certain universal goals—including equal access to educational opportunity and freedom from oppression—while simultaneously affirming and celebrating some of the distinctive aspects of the different backgrounds from which they come.

Academic Emphases

Oakes faculty members represent a variety of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences. Since its founding, Oakes has made a special effort to provide academic programs and experiences for underrepresented groups, including women. These programs and experiences are enriched by the presence of core faculty from disciplines housed in the college: American studies, American literature, writing, world literature, and history of consciousness. Oakes graduates have gone on to successful careers in fields such as medicine, law, education, medical research, and community service.

The Oakes core course, Values and Change in a Diverse Society, is required of all first-year students. The course is writing intensive and examines individual and collective responses to issues of culture, gender, sexuality, race, and class. (See the Oakes College Course Descriptions section for a description of the course.) Transfer students with fewer than 45 transferable quarter credits are required to take the core course.

Students at Oakes are challenged in many ways. Not only do they have the opportunity to live and work with people from different backgrounds, but they are also expected to demonstrate academic excellence in their chosen fields of study. To enable all students to do well— regardless of their level of high school preparation —a variety of services are available:

• The Learning Center at Oakes College offers a study center as well as tutoring and advising. Special assistance in writing and tutoring in a variety of subjects are offered to Oakes students and EOP students.
• The Oakes Computer Lab provides access to 20 PC computers for Oakes students.
• Oakes Community Service provides students with information about and assistance in making contact with a wide variety of community service organizations. All Oakes students are encouraged to contribute service to public agencies, schools, and community organizations in the city of Santa Cruz and in economically deprived areas of Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Oakes students serve as tutors, teachers, mentors, and community builders. Academic credit is available through the Oakes Community Service course.
• Academic and psychological counselors work with students to help them overcome obstacles to learning and realize their full potential.

College Community and Facilities

Oakes College, located on the west side of the UCSC campus, commands a sweeping view of Monterey Bay. Students may choose between apartment and residence hall living. The residence halls have lounges on each floor, attractive courtyards, and views of the ocean and the city of Santa Cruz. The college’s residence halls and apartments are arranged into “blocks.” Five students share an apartment, along with the responsibilities for maintaining it and cooking their own meals. Residence halls are coed and provide space for students in double and single rooms. Rest-room facilities for each gender are located on each floor.

Full-time coordinators for residential education and neighborhood assistants help residents develop cooperative ways of living together. As one student put it, “Oakes is a community where people of many different colors, backgrounds, interests, and goals form a friendly neighborhood. We share our cultures and adapt to the different lifestyles of our neighbors.” The residential program is designed to assist all students in integrating their academic and social needs. The residential staff hosts activities such as brunches, study breaks, and block dinners, each with a different theme and often reflecting the various cultures represented by Oakes students. Other events include once-a-month College Night programs in the dining hall, weekend videos, TGIFs, celebrations of cultural traditions such as Kwanzaa and Dia de los Muertos, an annual Harvest Dinner for the Oakes community, a Valentine’s Day party, and a spring block party.

The college staff seeks to nurture and sustain a community in which mutual respect, understanding, and concern for others are the norm. Within that atmosphere of community expectations, students are also supported and encouraged to find room for their own creative personal expression.

The other physical facilities at Oakes further support the special programs of the college and provide recreational opportunities for the students. College facilities include the Learning Center, administered by the Academic Resources Center, with computers and seminar rooms; a multipurpose room for lectures, movies, and small theater productions; a college library; a lounge used for college dinners and meetings; a dining facility shared with College Eight; TV lounges in the residences and adjacent to the coffee shop; and a small basketball court, the “Underdome.” Additional recreational facilities located close to the college include tennis courts, a large soccer field, and an indoor basketball court.

A grant from the San Francisco Foundation —from Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Foundation funds—was used in partnership with public funds for the construction of Oakes. Part of the grant was used to establish an endowed fund for the college.

For further information, call (831) 459-2558 or visit the web site: oakes.ucsc.edu.

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College Eight

The theme of College Eight—Environment and Society—is concern for social, political, scientific, and ethical issues, recognizing the essential interconnections among human beings and between humans and all other forms of life. College Eight faculty are drawn primarily from the Environmental Studies, Sociology, and Community Studies Departments, but also include faculty from other disciplines, such as Biology, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.

The students who come to College Eight bring with them a wide variety of life, work, and educational experiences. They represent all the disciplines in their choices of major. They also represent a rich diversity of cultural backgrounds. A large number of transfer students attend College Eight and tend to have a clear sense of their educational and professional objectives. For first-year students, the college fosters an exciting, interdisciplinary intellectual atmosphere in which to explore their academic interests and potential. This mix of ages and backgrounds creates a refreshingly easy fellowship among faculty, staff, and students.

Academic Emphases

The College Eight core course, Environment and Society, examines different perspectives on environment and community in the contemporary world. (See the College Eight Course Descriptions section for the course description.) Through a series of lectures, films, readings, and small-group discussions, the course provides an opportunity for first-year students to study issues of vital importance, to share their diverse backgrounds, cultural heritage, and points of view. The course, which is required of all first-year students, features guidance and practice in the critical reading and writing skills necessary for successful study at the university level.

College Eight students and faculty are encouraged to develop courses, conferences, and field projects. Internships and field studies offer an opportunity to link classroom theory with action in the community.

College Community and Facilities

College Eight is located on a sunny, terraced hillside on the west side of the UCSC campus, a site that offers a spectacular view of Monterey Bay and the California coastline. The college is designed to encourage interaction among resident and commuter students, faculty, and staff. Outdoor spaces allow for relaxing, informal opportunities to converse and socialize; they include small residence hall patios, grass quadrangles, and a large plaza—the heart of the college —where pedestrian traffic converges. Adjacent to the college are recreational facilities including the West Field House, tennis courts, basketball and sand volleyball courts, and playing fields. The Theater Arts and Music Centers, McHenry Library, and Porter and Oakes Colleges are a short distance from the college.

College Eight’s facilities include an academic building that accommodates the college office, the Sociology and Community Studies Departments and associated research centers, a computer lab with printers, five classrooms, and faculty offices.

Approximately 390 students live in a community of two- and three-story residence halls with single and double rooms and suites. The residence halls include designated study lounges, laundry facilities, and lobbies that serve as living rooms—favorite places where residents gather to relax, watch television, and catch up on the news of the day. Another 260 students are housed in College Eight’s two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments, which are generally reserved for students at the sophomore level and above.

The college’s enthusiastic residential staff is composed of coordinators for residential education, who are full-time live-in professionals, along with undergraduate resident assistants. The residential staff plans a variety of educational and recreational events including community barbecues, outdoor movies, and a quarterly cultural festival celebrating the diversity of our community. More intimate gatherings include study breaks, coffee talks, brunches, and potlucks. The residential staff is available to ease the transition to college life, making the college a comfortable new home for our residents.

The Student Commons building contains the office of College Eight’s college programs coordinator as well as two conference rooms and a study center for student use. The lively College Eight Café features a pool table and a quiet, comfortable corner with couches. The café is a favorite haven and gathering place for students, faculty, staff, and other members of the campus community.

The College Eight Student Programs Office, in conjunction with the student government and student organizations, plans social, multicultural, and educational events for the college community. Weekly Café Nights—featuring open mikes, music, art shows, and guest speakers —accommodate the diverse spectra of cultural and artistic interests of the students. College Night, a monthly cultural event, provides an opportunity for students to learn about a variety of cultures through entertainment and delicious cuisine. In addition, the College Eight Student Programs Office works closely with the Student Environmental Center to bring programs that educate and build long-lasting networks, which aim to address the environmental issues affecting our world today.

Above all, College Eight seeks to create a community of inclusion, in which each person is encouraged to share and explore beliefs, worldviews, values, and ideas in an atmosphere of mutual support and trust.

For more information, contact the college at (831) 459-2361, e-mail 8housing@ucsc.edu or crmeusel@ucsc.edu, or visit the web site: www2.ucsc.edu/eight/.

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College Nine

At College Nine, we introduce students to our increasingly interconnected world. Students can learn about the impact of economic globalization. We also expect them to come to appreciate the diversity of cultural traditions.
   — Campbell Leaper, College Nine Provost

Academic Emphases

College Nine’s theme of International and Global Perspectives emphasizes the importance of both diversity and unity in understanding individuals and societies. The academic and cocurricular programs are designed to explore the wide diversity found in the world based on people’s economic opportunities, political power, and cultural traditions. At the same time, we consider how people across the world are becoming interconnected through global economies, education, mass media, jet travel, and computers. Students interested in these issues either as their major focus or as part of their general education are invited to join the College Nine community.

Writing Seminar

In the first-quarter frosh course, International and Global Perspectives: A Writing and Discussion Seminar (see the College Nine Course Descriptions section), students examine current issues pertinent to the college’s intellectual theme. Topics address issues such as globalization, inequities in wealth and poverty across the world, human rights, and regional conflicts.

The seminar emphasizes the development of students’ writing skills. Being able to write well is a valuable asset for success in college and later in most careers. Students write several reflective and analytical papers during the quarter. Each paper undergoes at least one revision after the student receives constructive feedback from the instructor. Thus, the instructors work closely with each student throughout the quarter.

Special Academic Programs

Optional programs are available to involve College Nine students in academic and cocurricular activities beyond the first-quarter course. They are designed to promote students’ academic achievement and success by connecting them with faculty mentors and helping them pursue leadership experiences in particular contexts.

Exploring A World of Possibilities Workshop
College Nine students have the option of enrolling in Exploring A World of Possibilities Workshop. This 2-credit course meets once per week and can be taken in addition to the regular 15-credit academic load. The workshop emphasizes small-group experiential learning. Students examine social, cultural, political, and environmental issues. These explorations involve examining one’s own life experiences and identity development in relation to multicultural and global perspectives. The course includes discussions, group activities, film presentations, and guest speakers.

Service Learning
Students can extend their learning beyond the classroom by getting practical experience and course credit working as an intern for a community or business organization. This type of practical experience is known as service learning or field study. Examples include assisting in a classroom or at a homeless shelter. College Nine has its own service-learning program. In addition, there are a variety of service-learning programs in the academic Departments in the social sciences, including Community Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Psychology. Whether through their major or College Nine, students enrolled in one of these programs work with both a field supervisor and a faculty sponsor. The field supervisor guides the student at the practicum site, while the faculty sponsor helps the student develop a reading list and paper topic related to the placement. The College Nine advisers will help direct students to possible practicum programs at the college or in academic departments.

Students as Teachers and Mentors
College Nine students have special opportunities to become course assistants, tutors, and student mentors. By enrolling in Teaching a World of Possibilities, students gain independent experience as teachers leading their own discussion sections of a College Nine course. They receive close supervision that emphasizes a collaborative approach to developing and enhancing teaching, communication, and leadership skills. The College Nine academic advisers can also direct students to other opportunities for student-teaching and peer-mentoring programs on campus. These are excellent opportunities to work closely with a faculty member and to develop one’s own skills as a teacher and a leader.

Education Abroad
The UC Education Abroad Program (see Education Abroad Program section) places students at a university in another country for one or more quarters. Studying abroad can be a valuable way to expand one’s understanding of the world. Given the international focus at College Nine, students are encouraged (but not required) to develop a second language or to study abroad.

Global Information Internship Program
The Global Information Internship Program (GIIP) places highly motivated students— trained in social science and information technology —in internships with nongovernmental organizations and community groups. Students in GIIP help these organizations and groups in the use of Internet-based information and communications technologies. Interns acquire leadership and organizational skills through the “learning-by-doing” method. For more information, see the Global Information Internship Program section and visit the web site at www2.ucsc.edu/giip/.

Research Opportunities
The faculty at UC Santa Cruz are ranked high in their quality of research. College Nine students are encouraged to take advantage of the many excellent opportunities available to work closely with faculty as research apprentices. Students will find many internship, independent study, or senior thesis programs in the departments of most majors. The College Nine academic advisers will help link students with these programs. College Nine students will also have connections to faculty affiliated with various research institutes concerned with international and global issues. They include the following:

• The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (go here for more information)
• The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (go here for more information)
• The Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (go here for more information)
• The Chicano/Latino Research Center (go here for more information)
• The Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (go here for more information)

College Nine Scholars Program
Eligible College Nine frosh may apply to the Scholars Program. This includes enrolling in an honors section of the frosh writing seminar in the fall quarter, the 2-credit workshop in the winter, and a special seminar in the spring.

College Nine Pathways to Distinction
Another feature of College Nine is that qualified students may graduate with College Nine Distinction. This recognition is intended to serve as an incentive for students to pursue activities that are especially apt to help them succeed in college and beyond. Two pathways are possible:

Research and scholarship. In this pathway, students pursue research with faculty by completing three quarters (15 credits) of work on a senior thesis or a research internship. Students may be recognized with College Nine Distinction if they do a thesis or a research internship in their major on a topic related to international or global issues.

Language and culture. Students who enroll in at least three quarters (15 credits) in either Education Abroad or a foreign language (or a combination) may qualify for College Nine Distinction.

College Community and Facilities

Founded in fall 2000, College Nine is one of the newest colleges at UCSC. Consistent with UCSC’s founding vision, College Nine creates an integrated living and learning environment through engaging academic and extracurricular programs. The college motto, “Celebrating A World of Possibilities,” describes exciting cocurricular opportunities to learn more about the world in which we live.

Theme Programming
The College Nine theme of International and Global Perspectives forms a central foundation of our programming. Each month, students and staff work together to develop programs and provide opportunities to learn about and enjoy different aspects of the world around us. Festivals of food and dance, hands-on arts programs, faculty presentations, field trips, film series, and other programs are offered. Some past programs have included European Craft Workshop, Exploring Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Rhythm and Soul Food Café, and Field Trips to Chinatown, Japantown, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

College Nights
Each month, the college community comes together to plan a College Night, which is a large-scale community celebration, held in the dining commons and open to all College Nine students whether or not they live on campus. These events are planned by students and focus on particular regions of the world. College Nights include food, entertainment, and educational materials related to the theme. Some past College Nights have been Winter Holidays from Around the World, Carnival, and Asian Traditions.

Intercultural Communication Retreat
This two-day retreat provides international and American students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to explore various components of intercultural communication. Through a series of structured exercises and small-group discussions, students share perspectives on issues such as multiculturalism, values orientation, and diversity. The goal of the workshop is to build community and friendship among international and American students as well as to increase students’ understanding of the complexity of communicating across cultures. The Intercultural Communication Retreat is optional; students apply for this opportunity in the fall.

International Living Center
The International Living Center (ILC) at College Nine offers a unique living environment fostering understanding, cooperation, and friendship among upper-division students from different nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Half of the residents are students from the United States, and the other half are students from various countries around the world. Students reside in the College Nine Apartments.

Model United Nations
Students have the opportunity to explore a multitude of international issues through interactive methods that include role playing, a mock UN session, and faculty presentations.

Intergroup Dialogue
Through this program, students are given opportunities to learn, experience, and work constructively with one another through structured dialogues and experimental activities across social-group boundaries and through social conflict. The Intergroup Dialogue program initiates links between formal academic course work and students’ individual experiences of intergroup conflict and relations.

CREATE
CREATE (Cultural Resources to Educate and to Empower) offers a community at College Nine for students of color to find support and empowerment through mentorship and friendship.

Rainbow Club
The Rainbow Club provides opportunities for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning students and their allies to join together for self-awareness and social activities in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

Fall Leadership Institute
Student leadership and involvement are key to successfully building the new College Nine community. The Fall Leadership Institute offers students the opportunity to develop leadership skills and to develop efficacy as world citizens and leaders at College Nine. The institute meets weekly throughout fall quarter, providing a wide range of exercises, guest speakers, discussions, and debates.

Other Cocurricular Opportunities
Getting involved in cocurricular activities is a predictor of college success. Not only do college activities help students make friends, they foster leadership and group cooperation skills. There are many opportunities at College Nine for student involvement, including the College Nine Student Government Association and Programming International Events (PIE). These organizations are responsible for many of the programs previously described. Additionally, there are social and recreational programs such as dances, ski trips, and intramural sports. There are also specialized groups such as Cloud Nine (the a cappella singing group) and the Book Club.

Physical Surroundings
College Nine is situated in a redwood grove next to the Social Sciences 1 and 2 Buildings near the heart of campus. Peabody’s Coffee Cart, located on the ground floor of Social Sciences 2, serves espresso drinks, pastries, and sandwiches. Also, one of the campus’s Instructional Computing Labs is conveniently located in the Social Sciences 2 Building.

A nature preserve serves as College Nine’s “backyard.” College Nine students have immediate access to hiking, running, and mountain bike trails in the adjacent forest.

Newly constructed residence halls with 400 single and double bedrooms opened in fall 2002. These fully furnished residence halls include student lounges, recreational spaces, and Internet connections. In addition, a state-of- the-art dining hall with an adjoining game room and student lounge for both Colleges Nine and Ten opened in fall 2002.

Colleges Nine and Ten also house approximately 300 upper-division students in newly 90 CAMPUS LIFE constructed apartments, with 190 students in single bedrooms and the balance in double and triple rooms. All apartments have full kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, and Internet connections. Ground-floor apartments have decks, and most upper apartments have private balconies.

For more information about academic or general college programs, call (831) 459-5034, e-mail dslater@ucsc.edu, or visit the web site: collegenine.ucsc.edu.

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College Ten

Our goal at College Ten is to foster students’ concerns for social justice and their respect for diversity. This appreciation develops through both understanding and practice. Students can study the roots of social problems such as prejudice, ethnic hatreds, poverty, and political oppression. Another form of learning can occur through involvement in community organizations and other agencies. In these ways, we hope our students can contribute to the makings of a better world.
— Campbell Leaper, College Ten Provost

Academic Emphases

College Ten’s theme of Social Justice and Community addresses a range of social problems and their impact on all members of society. In particular, the academic and cocurricular programs consider the injustices that many people confront in their lives. Possible community and governmental policies for addressing social, political, and economic inequalities are also examined. In addition, the college provides students with opportunities to make their own positive contributions to social change through community involvement or scholarly research.

The college curriculum will explore the causes and consequences of social injustice in several ways. Students will examine the roots of prejudice, discrimination, and violence directed toward groups based on their ethnicity, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political views. They will also consider the causes and consequences of poverty both within the United States and across the world.

Writing Seminar

In the first-quarter frosh course, Social Justice and Community: A Writing and Discussion Seminar (see the College Ten Course Descriptions section), students examine current issues pertinent to the college’s intellectual theme. Topics address issues such as poverty, discrimination, and economic injustice. Ways that communities, governments, and businesses can address inequities in society are also examined.

The seminar emphasizes the development of students’ writing skills. Being able to write well is a valuable asset for success in college and later in most careers. Students write several reflective and analytical papers during the quarter. Each paper undergoes at least one revision after the student receives constructive feedback from the instructor. Thus, the instructors work closely with each student throughout the quarter.

Special Academic Programs

Optional programs are available to involve College Ten students in academic and cocurricular activities beyond the first-quarter core course. They are designed to promote students’ academic achievement and success by connecting them with faculty mentors and helping them pursue leadership experiences in particular contexts.

Social Justice Issues Workshop
College Ten students have the option of enrolling in the Social Justice Issues Workshop in winter quarter. This 2-credit course meets once per week and can be taken in addition to a regular 15-credit academic load. The workshop offers a small, dynamic learning community in which members explore important issues of personal and cultural identity; social, political, and environmental concerns; and community-mindedness. The class emphasizes small-group experiential learning through structured exercises and group activities, and also includes discussions, film presentations, and guest speakers. The course is offered to both first-year and upper-division students.

Service Learning
Students can extend their learning beyond the classroom by getting practical experience and course credit working as an intern for a community organization or a school. This type of practical experience is known as service learning or field study. Examples include assisting in a classroom or a homeless shelter. College Ten has its own service-learning program. In addition, there are a variety of service- learning programs in the academic Departments in the social sciences, including Community Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Psychology, and Sociology. Whether through College Ten or their major, students enrolled in one of these programs work with both a field supervisor and a faculty sponsor. The field supervisor guides the student at the practicum site, while the faculty sponsor helps the student develop a reading list and paper topic related to the placement. The College Ten advising staff will help students find possible practicum programs at the college or in academic departments.

Practical Activism: Lessons in Local and Global Change
This annual one-day conference focuses on international social justice concerns in the local context. Students gain valuable leadership skills in developing and implementing this exceptional program, which involves collaboration among faculty, staff, and the local community.

Students as Teachers and Mentors
College Ten students have special opportunities to become course assistants, tutors, and student mentors. By enrolling in Teaching Social Justice, students gain experience as teachers leading their own discussion sections of a College Ten course. They receive close supervision that emphasizes a collaborative approach to developing and enhancing teaching, communication, and leadership skills. The College Ten academic advisers can also direct students to other opportunities for student- teaching and peer-mentoring programs on campus. These are excellent opportunities to work closely with a faculty member and to develop one’s own skills as a teacher and a leader.

Research Opportunities
The UC Santa Cruz faculty are ranked high in their quality of research. College Ten students are encouraged to take advantage of the many excellent opportunities available to work closely with faculty as research apprentices. Students will find many internship, independent study, or senior thesis programs in the departments of most majors. The College Ten academic advisers will help link students with these programs. College Ten students will also have connections to faculty affiliated with various research institutes concerned with international and global issues. These institutes are affiliated with the Social Sciences Division and include the following:

• The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (go here for more information)
• The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (go here for more information)
• The Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (go here for more information)
• The Chicano/Latino Research Center (go here for more information)
• The Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (go here for more information)

College Ten Scholars Program
Eligible College Ten frosh may apply to the Scholars Program. This includes enrolling in an honors section of the frosh writing seminar in the fall, the 2-credit workshop in the winter, and a special seminar in the spring.

College Ten Pathways to Distinction
Another feature of College Ten is that qualified students may graduate with College Ten Distinction. This recognition is intended to serve as an incentive for students to pursue activities that are especially apt to help them succeed in college and beyond. Two pathways are possible:

Research and scholarship. In the first pathway, students are encouraged to pursue research opportunities with faculty by completing three quarters (15 credits) of work on a senior thesis or a research internship. Students may be recognized with College Ten Distinction if they do a thesis or a research internship in their major on a topic related to the theme of social justice and community.

Service and leadership. The second route to graduating with College Ten Distinction is through completing three quarters (15 credits) of service-learning internships, teaching, or other forms of community service.

College Community and Facilities

Founded in fall 2002, College Ten is the newest college at UCSC. Consistent with UCSC’s founding vision, College Ten creates an integrated living and learning environment through engaging academic and extracurricular programs focusing on the theme of Social Justice and Community.

Monthly Theme Programming
The College Ten theme of Social Justice and Community forms a central foundation of our programming. Each month, we focus on a different aspect of social justice, and students and staff work together to develop programs, providing opportunities to learn about and enjoy different aspects of the topic. Theme events may include faculty presentations, open microphones, field trips, film series, and hands-on arts programs.

College Nights
Every quarter, students and staff work together to plan College Nights, which are large-scale community celebrations, held in the dining commons and open to all College Ten students whether or not they live on campus. College Nights include food, entertainment, and educational materials related to a theme.

Multicultural Community Weekend
This two-day retreat provides students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to explore various components of multicultural communication. Through a series of structured exercises and small-group discussions, students share perspectives on issues such as multiculturalism, values orientation, and diversity. The goal of the workshop is to build community and friendship among students as well as to increase students’ understanding of the complexity of communicating across diverse backgrounds. The Multicultural Community Weekend is optional; students apply for this opportunity in the fall.

CREATE
The purpose of CREATE (Cultural Resources to Educate and to Empower) is to facilitate the ongoing discussion of diversity issues at College Ten and in our living communities, learn about and promote multiculturalism, plan activities, and help students and staff have a resource for inclusiveness and training.

Rainbow Club
The Rainbow Club provides opportunities for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning students and their allies to join together for self-awareness and social activities in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

ENGAGE
(Explore New Growth and Gain Experience) ENGAGE offers students the opportunity to explore and develop their own beliefs, values, and feelings about current issues and social concerns through a wide range of exercises, guest speakers, discussions, and debates. Participants develop leadership skills and increase their efficacy as world citizens and leaders at College Ten. ENGAGE meets weekly throughout fall quarter.

Other Cocurricular Opportunities
Getting involved in cocurricular activities is a predictor of college success. Not only do college activities help students make friends, they foster leadership and group cooperation skills. There are opportunities at College Ten for student involvement, including the College Ten Student Government Association. These organizations are responsible for many of the programs previously described. Additionally, there are social and recreational opportunities such as dances, ski trips, and intramural sports for College Ten students. There are more specialized groups, such as Cloud Nine (the a cappella singing group), the Praxis Student Volunteer Community, and the Book Club.

Physical Surroundings
College Ten is situated in a redwood grove next to the Social Sciences 1 and 2 Buildings near the heart of campus. Peabody’s Coffee Cart, located on the ground floor of Social Sciences 2, serves espresso drinks, pastries, and sandwiches. Also, one of the campus’s Instructional Computing Labs is conveniently located in Social Sciences 2.

A nature preserve serves as College Ten’s “backyard.” College Ten students have immediate access to hiking, running, and mountain bike trails in the adjacent forest.

Newly constructed residence halls with 400 single and double bedrooms opened in fall 2002. These fully furnished residence halls include student lounges, recreational spaces, and Internet connections. In addition, a state-of- the-art dining hall with an adjoining game room and student lounge for both Colleges Nine and Ten opened in fall 2002.

Colleges Ten and Nine also house approximately 300 upper-division students in newly constructed apartments, with 190 students in single bedrooms and the balance in double and triple rooms. All apartments have full kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, and Internet connections. Ground-floor apartments have decks, and most upper apartments have private balconies.

For more information about academic or general college programs, call (831) 459-5034, e-mail dslater@cats.ucsc.edu, or visit the College Ten web site: collegeten.ucsc.edu

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