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Liberal Arts and Area Studies
UC Santa Cruz offers a wide range of majors focused on liberal arts and area studies. The following information is for majors in American studies, classical studies, feminist studies, German studies, history, history of art and visual culture, Italian studies, Latin American and Latino studies, and philosophy. In addition to the college core course or first year seminar, first quarter UCSC students choose two lower-division courses (1-99) most of which satisfy a general education requirement.
Initial placement examinations:
Students must take the following placement examinations (unless you have satisfied the prerequisite with a college-level course or AP exam).
Language - if you plan to study a language, or if the major requires you to have a second language, you must take an appropriate language placement examination (previous courses or AP exams will not serve as prerequisites).
Mathematics (LALS/global economics only) – indicates the mathematics or economics course where you should begin: MATH 2 or MATH 3 or ECON 11A.
American Studies
First year courses:
AMST 10: Introduction to American Studies
Contact Information:
Program Advisor, amst@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-4658,
209 Humanities 1
http://americanstudies.ucsc.edu
Classical Studies
First year courses:
HIS 62A or 62B, or LIT 61M
Feminist Studies
Students select a concentration within the major:
representations; U.S. race, class, and ethnicity; nations and cultures; movements, institutions, policy and legal studies; or theory.
First year courses:
FMST 1: Introduction to Feminisms.
FMST 80F: Feminisms of/and the Global South.
Contact information:
Program Advisor, fmst@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-2461
Feminist Studies, 315 Humanities 1
http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu
German Studies
First year courses:
GERM 1, or HIS 70A, 70B, or 70C
History
First year courses:
The major has three areas of concentration
HIS 10A, 10B, 11A, 11B or 30 (The Americas and Africa)
HIS 65A, 65B, 70A, 70B, or 70C (Europe)
HIS 40A, 40B, 41 or 43 (Asia and the Islamic World)
Contact information
Classical studies
German studies
History
Program Advisor, historyundergrad@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-2982,
201 Humanities 1
http://history.ucsc.edu
History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC)
The major also has a Religion and Visual Culture concentration.
First year courses:
HAVC 10D: Presence and Power in the Visual Cultures of Asia
HAVC 10E: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
HAVC 10F: The Nude in the Western Tradition or HAVC 10G: Europe
Contact information:
Program Advisor, havc@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-4564,
D-201 Porter College
http://havc.ucsc.edu
Italian Studies
First year courses:
Italian language study
One lower division course (consult the department for list of course choices).
Contact information:
Program Advisor, please@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-4126
Literature, Kresge College
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/Lit/index.html
Latin American and Latino Studies
Initial placement:
Since all Latin American and Latino studies majors are expected to learn to read, speak and write Spanish or Portuguese, you should take the Spanish, Spanish for Spanish Speakers or Portuguese placement exam(s).
First year courses:
LALS 1: Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
Two courses from: CMMU 80A, 80H, 80Q; HIS 23, 34A, 34B; any LALS 80 course;
LIT 80P; or MUSC 4A-B (three quarters maximum) or MUSC 80F
Spanish, Spanish for Spanish Speakers or Portuguese strongly recommended
Latin American and Latino Studies Combined Majors:
Latin American and Latino Studies/Global Economics
Initial placement:
Students must take the following placement examinations, unless you have satisfied the prerequisite with a college-level course or AP exam:
Language - Spanish or Portuguese (required regardless of AP or college-level course)
Mathematics - indicates the mathematics or economics course you should begin with.
First year courses in addition to Latin American and Latino Studies major courses:
MATH 2, MATH 3 or ECON 11A
Additional first and second year courses:
ECON 1: Introductory Microeconomics: Resource Allocation and Market Structure
ECON 2: Introductory Macroeconomics: Aggregate Economic Activity
Latin American and Latino Studies/Politics
Other than Latin American and Latino Studies major requirements, no additional first and second year courses are needed; however, a background in politics is recommended.
Latin American and Latino Studies/Sociology
Other than Latin American and Latino Studies major requirements, no additional first and second year courses are needed; however, a background in sociology is recommended.
Contact information:
Program Advisor, lals@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-2119
Latin American and Latino Studies, Casa Latina, lower level, Merrill College
http://lals.ucsc.edu
Philosophy
The major also has a concentration in religious thought.
First year courses:
PHIL 9: Introduction to Logic
PHIL 11: Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 22: Introduction to Ethical Theory, PHIL 28: Environmental Ethics, or PHIL 80 (Any)
Contact information:
Program Advisor, krudd@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-2070
Philosophy, 235 Stevenson College
http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/
Last updated on 8/2009.
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