The Human Development & Family Studies major focuses on human development from infancy through old age. Students will examine how family and community dynamics affect the development of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds and life experiences. Through fieldwork, program evaluation, and service learning, students become prepared to work with children, youth, families, and elders in education or social service programs.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ Human Development and Family Science Content Knowledge

Students assess theories, research methods, and concepts of physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development and of family processess across the lifespan.

✔ Diversity in Human Development and Family Science

Students analyze the diversity of lifespan development and family processes within real-life settings, and across local, national, and global contexts.

✔ Human Development and Family Science Integration and Application

Students evaluate and develop solutions to real-world issues that affect children, youth, adults, and families.

✔ Human Development and Family Science Professional Application

Students evaluate and develop effective and ethical professional HDFS skills and ethical and reflective practices to serve and advocate for individuals and families in diverse, multicultural communities.

The Global Studies program will guide you in the critical analysis of complex and interdependent global systems.  Through interdisciplinary learning–including socio-cultural, political, economic, spiritual/religious, ecological topics–you will become an engaged global citizen who contributes solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

The required and elective courses, spread out over four Major Learning Outcomes, will prepare you for an integrated study of global processes, forms of knowledge, and interdisciplinary methods, including and often centering voices from the ‘Global South.’  You will explore themes such as humanitarianism, migration, development, political economy, religion, conflict and peace-making, gender, and ecology.  Finally, you will apply integrative knowledge and skills to address contemporary global problems through a Capstone project.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Understanding Global Systems and Structures

Through a transdisciplinary framework, students analyze our highly integrated world by identifying persistent patterns across time and space, recognizing the interrelated dimensions of any issue.  Students demonstrate knowledge of global political, economic, social, and geographic systems including through their interdependencies and sustainability challenges.  Attention is paid to historic and contemporary interconnections and power imbalances.  Students demonstrate competence in a problem-based approach that places global issues along a global-local continuum, recognizing the local implications of global processes, and how localized movements shape global change.

✔ MLO 2: Critical Thinking

Students demonstrate competence in flexible thinking and interrogate taken-for-granted assumptions about the workings of power and related social, legal, economic, and political concepts.  Students develop an understanding of social positioning and how it is reflected in our worldviews, ideologies, and cultural biases, and how addressing multifaceted issues in the real world calls for multiple analytical perspectives.  Students apply a global studies approach that is most valuable when deployed in the places where different political, economic, cultural, and legal elements of global systems interact.  Students understand and evaluate structural inequalities as central features of the modern world, including ongoing colonialism and imperialism.

✔ MLO 3: Personal and Social Responsibility

Students engage in ethical reasoning informed by a global studies ethos of centering marginalized voices, and a belief that analyses of global processes should always take into account the people, communities, and environments who ultimately feel the impact of those processes, even when impacts are unintended or unforeseen.  Students practice personal and professional values that can strengthen community relationships and contributions.  Students adopt a global imaginary that appreciates that what happens in one part of the world affects and influences what happens in other parts of the world. Students form research questions that engage the local-global continuum, critically challenge the status quo, reflexively account for positionality, and recognize the ethical dimensions of any issue.  Students apply knowledge and skills to practical approaches and recommendations to address global problems.

✔ MLO 4: Transdisciplinarity, Methodologies, and Diverse Ways of Knowing

Students develop competency in holistic approaches that help make sense of a complex, interconnected world through a transdisciplinary study inclusive of marginalized worldviews and histories of unequal power relations. A global transdisciplinary framework takes a critical, problem-based approach that sees across and beyond Western disciplines in order to understand the interrelated dimensions of any issue.This framework is inclusive of thematics such as: race and ethnicity, class and inequality, gender and sexuality, poststructural theory and social construction, the cultural turn, postcolonialism and cultural imperialism, nationalism and identities, and the decentering of the nation-state. Students develop competency in a range of methodologies that are deeply intersectional including feminist, critical race, postcolonial, and indigenous methodologies.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T certified student in Global Studies, you must complete the following courses for the bachelor’s degree in Global Studies. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in Geography, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

This cross-disciplinary program will prepare students to enter the music industry or transfer to a related four-year degree program. Hands-on courses provide training in electronic music composition, sound design, music business and promotion, songwriting, audio recording and engineering, and live performance. The program prepares students in both the creative and technical elements for careers and continued study.

Career Opportunities

Music producer, audio engineer, composer for video games and film, sound designer for video games and film, songwriter, audio designer, music analyst, music publicist, music distributor, independent performing artist, DJ, artist manager.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students completing this program will be able to:

🗸 Compose and produce original music and sound design using various electronic and digital technologies and techniques.
🗸 Use recording, mixing and editing digital audio to produce original creative projects.
🗸 Demonstrate understanding of the control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound as applied to music production.
🗸 Acquire marketable skills to create and compete successfully on a career path of their own design in the music industry.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AS-T-certified student in Film, Television, and Electronic Media, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Cinematic Arts & Technology at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

The Theater Arts B.A. combines drama, dance, critical studies, and theater design/technology to offer students an intensive program of theater as a unified field. The program stresses the interrelation of all disciplines as essential to the successful practice of the theater arts in the 21st century. Graduates of the University of California, Santa Cruz program typically pursue careers in professional theater and dance companies, in film and television, and in teaching at all levels—from university to high school to grade school. Many students go on to higher degrees at prestigious national programs. Others engage in careers in arts administration, dramatic writing, and related fields.

The lower-division curriculum requires a range of practical work in various areas and an interdisciplinary exposure to critical and historical studies. At the upper-division level, students are given the opportunity to focus on one or more areas of interest in limited-enrollment studios. At the same time, they are asked to expand their theoretical perspectives through confrontation with performance theory and focused coursework in critical studies. The impact of digital and new media on theater is also integrated into the curriculum.

A wealth of production opportunities is available to students. This includes major productions directed by faculty or distinguished visiting artists each quarter, productions directed or choreographed by students, and faculty-directed workshops. Undergraduate students are also given the opportunity to see their own writing, choreography, or developing concepts put into production in department-sponsored productions. Although majors are given preference in studio courses, most courses and productions welcome non-majors. Opportunities to study and perform non-Western as well as Euro-American traditions are also a significant part of the program.

The stage and studio spaces available to students of theater arts allow for a breadth of training and performance opportunities. The Theater Arts Center contains a 500-seat thrust stage; a state-of-the-art experimental theater; a 200-seat proscenium theater; acting, directing, design and dance studios; costume, scene, and properties shops; a sound recording room; and a computer lab. Also, located at the base of the campus is our 150-seat Barn Theater.

Libary holdings in theater literature and history are extensive, including journals in current theater, design/technology, and dance and a large image, audio, and video collection.

Program Learning Outcomes

Our program stresses dance, design, and drama as essential disciplines in the successful practice of theater arts in the contemporary world.

Graduates from the Theater Arts B.A. program should demonstrate the following:

✔ Foundations of Performance. Students should be able to identify and apply basic theatrical techniques in dance, design, and drama.

✔ Theatrical histories and theories. Students should be able to recognize and analyze performance works within the general culture and historical period that produced them.

✔ Performance experience. Students should be able to translate theater arts concepts into performance, participating in any theatrical endeavor with the rigor, discipline, and imagination necessary to make a meaningful contribution.

✔ Research proficiency. Students should be able to formulate personal research questions that expand their knowledge of theater arts, conducting independent research into the history and theory of at least one area of interest.

✔ Creative practice. Students should be able to use theatrical practices and performance experiences to conceive, design, realize, and reflect on new performance projects.

✔ Appreciation of diversity. Students should be able to recognize and appreciate a wide variety of approaches, cultures, and styles in both past and contemporary performance practice.

✔ Communication and critical thinking. Students should be able to use critical vocabularies to communicate clearly about theater arts in written and oral forms.

✔ Collaborative skills. Students should be able to work confidently and effectively in groups on a common project.

Technology and Information Management (TIM) is a rigorous, challenging major for those students wanting to pursue careers in the management of information and technology. TIM students will receive a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and practices of technology (in particular, computer science and computer engineering) and management, and the scientific, mathematics, and economics principles upon which they are built. In particular, they will become proficient in the following areas: strategy, planning, innovation, entrepreneurship, information technology, software design, product development, and supply-chain management.

The essence of the technology and information management major at the University of California, Santa Cruz is the integration of fundamental intellectual content from the disciplines of computer science, computer engineering, business management economics, and finance. TIM students learn how to apply the fundamentals of these diverse disciplines to solving problems that require the integration of management and technology, e.g., developing information technology systems to manage all activities and operations in a firm, e-commerce, managing and commercializing a new technology, and starting a new high-technology company.

To graduate with a B.S. in technology and information management, students normally complete 26 required courses (with two laboratories, totaling 133 quarter credits) plus three elective courses (15 quarter credits) for the technology and information management major program. Honors students are likely to find the rigorous management and leadership elements of the program of significant interest. Industrial interactions and projects are key features of this major.

Program Learning Outcomes

A technology and information management student completing the program will:

✔ learn the fundamentals of the three core areas—mathematics, economics, and engineering—necessary to analyze and solve complex problems in technology and information management.

✔ develop the ability to apply mathematics, economics, and engineering to fundamental issues and problems in TIM.

✔ develop the ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex real-world problems in the two key multi-disciplinary domains of technology and information management: management of technology (MOT) or management science and engineering (MSE); and technology of management (TOM) or information science and engineering (ISE).

✔ be able to communicate effectively in written form in papers and project reports related to TIM.

The interdisciplinary major in Spanish studies is designed to offer students advanced linguistic proficiency in Spanish as well as a broad understanding of the historical and cultural developments of the Spanish-speaking world.

The Spanish studies major at UC Santa Cruz combines the strengths of language and applied linguistics with those of literary and cultural studies. The sequence of courses first exposes students to the academic registers of Spanish, a critical component for both heritage speakers and second language learners. Students then develop academic literacy in the language while gaining familiarity with the methods of analysis in different fields. The configuration of the major affords students flexibility in following their particular interests by choosing one of two tracks: (1) literature and culture or (2) language and linguistics.

These pathways within the major prepare students for a range of career possibilities that involve working with the Spanish-speaking public in a variety of professions (e.g., law, business, public service). Students may also pursue further training in teaching Spanish as a second language at the high school or university level.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from the Spanish studies B.A. program should be able to demonstrate:

✔ Advanced-level oral proficiency in Spanish. Students will have the ability to use all the major timeframes (past, present, and future) in their speech and will be able to produce connected discourse of paragraph length. They will be able to satisfy the demands of work and/or school situations in Spanish with both accuracy and fluency.

✔ Academic language and literacy skills in Spanish. Students will be able to read and understand a wide range of authentic texts (e.g., academic articles, journalistic texts) in Spanish, including those with historical, sociological, and literary content. Students will be able to clearly explain their ideas in writing, demonstrating the ability to summarize, interpret, and substantiate an opinion or argument.

✔ Metalinguistic awareness. Students will be able to describe the main features of the Spanish language (e.g., the sound system, the structure of sentences) and will be able to identify the main regional varieties of Spanish. Students will be able to articulate some of the main differences between English and Spanish using precise terminology.

✔ Critical analysis. Students will be able to comment with critical insight on a range of topics and cultural productions (e.g., literary texts, film, music) of the U.S., Latin America, and Spain. They will be able to read closely in order to evaluate historical ideas, arguments, and points of view.

✔ Cultural and historical competency. Students will be able to compare and contrast multiple interpretations of the same phenomena in different cultures. Students will be able to recognize and reflect on the social, cultural, economic, and political changes that connect Latin America, Spain, and U.S. and Latina/o communities.

Sociology is the study of social interaction, social groups, institutions, and social structures. Sociologists examine the contexts of human action, including systems of beliefs and values, patterns of social relations, and the processes whereby social institutions are created, maintained, and transformed.

Program Learning Outcomes

The sociology curriculum prepares students graduating with a bachelor of arts degree to demonstrate the following program learning outcomes:

✔ Critical Thinking: Demonstrate critical thinking skills by analyzing and evaluating social, political, and/or cultural arguments, across a variety of areas such as inequality; social problems; and race, class, and gender.

✔ Sociological Understanding: Demonstrate sociological understandings of phenomena, for example, how individual biographies are shaped by social structures, social institutions, cultural practices, and multiple axes of difference and/or inequality.

✔ Written and Oral Communication: Formulate effective and convincing written and/or oral arguments.

✔ Social Theory: Demonstrate the ability to use several of the major classical or contemporary perspectives in social theory.

✔ Research Methodology: Demonstrate the ability to use several of the major social science research methodologies.