The UC application for Santa Cruz requires you to select a proposed major or an undeclared/undecided Advising Cluster. Please note that choosing a cluster does not indicate an actual major. While we ask that you select only one cluster, students with more than one academic interest should view more than one cluster site. General cluster information may be found under the Advising Cluster Links to the left. More in depth and enrollment specific information may be found under the "specific information" links.

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS: For students interested in economics, business management economics and global economics.

EDUCATION: If you are interested in exploring topics in education or in a teaching career you may select the Education Cluster; if you do so, you will also need to select a second area of study while at UCSC.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: For students interested in chemistry (with a concentration in environmental chemistry), earth sciences (with a concentration in environmental geology or ocean sciences), ecology and evolution, environmental studies, marine biology, plant sciences, or in combined majors between environmental studies and either biology, earth sciences, or economics.

HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY: For students interested in anthropology, community studies, legal studies, politics, psychology and sociology.

ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING: For students interested in bioengineering, bioinformatics, computer engineering, computer science, computer science game design, electrical engineering and information systems management.

LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND COMMUNICATIONS: For students interested in literature, linguistics, language studies (Chinese, French, German, modern Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Spanish), and inter-disciplinary studies with a particular focus in a language: classical studies, East Asian studies, German studies, Italian studies, or Latin American and Latino studies.

LIBERAL ARTS AND AREA STUDIES: For students interested 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. These majors focus on a particular area and include perspectives on relevant history, literature and social structures.

LIFE AND HEALTH SCIENCES: For students interested in the biological sciences or who want to begin a pre-med program.

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATH: For students interested in majors in applied physics, chemistry (general or a concentration in biochemistry or environmental chemistry), biochemistry and molecular biology, earth sciences, mathematics (concentration in pure mathematics, computational mathematics or mathematics education), physics, and physics (astrophysics).

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS AND MEDIA: For students interested in art, film and digital media, history of art and visual culture, music and theater arts.

You may update your choice of an Advising Cluster at my.ucsc.edu.

Updated for 2007-08