LALS News
Spring Quarter 2021
LALS Students in the News!
Big congrats on making it through this unpredictable and difficult year!! I am really looking forward to sitting down across from you next year (don't worry, I won't abandon online meetings, they are super convenient sometimes!).
If you're still in the midst of figuring out enrollment plans for summer and fall, or you want some support or advice during finals, your advisors are here! Find us on Slug Success or email lalsadvising@ucsc.edu or lalspeer@ucsc.edu.
Good luck with everything going on this week, and please reach out if you need anything.
Advising, Mentoring & Support
LALS Advising Available
- Summer or Fall enrollment plans
- How to find resources on campus
- Making or changing your academic plan
- Next steps after graduation
- + whatever else you can think of!
Find our contact info at the LALS Advising Online Hub.
EOP Advising and Support
At EOP, our Peer Advisors provide holistic advising to facilitate EOP students' academic, social, and personal transitions/adjustments to college. We are here to listen to your story and build upon your strengths and goals to promote success.
Our Peer Advisors offer a variety of knowledge and expertise to assist students in navigating the University:
Peer Advising Leaders (PALs): Support students as they transition and adjust to college and offer advising on class selection. Schedule an appointment here.
Undocumented Student Services (USS) Interns: Provide personal support, community, and assistance navigating the University. Schedule an appointment here.
Graduate Information Program (GIP) Assistants: Specialize in supporting students with applying to graduate school and transitioning to life after college. Schedule an appointment here.
STEM Hub Peer Advisors: Offer drop-in advising for STEM students Schedule an appointment here.
Academic Opportunies
Fall and Summer Enrollment Options
2021-2022 Tentative Course Schedule
Summer 2021 LALS and Outside Electives
If you have questions about your schedule or the classes offered, make an advising appointment through Slug Success.
Corre la Voz Course and Internship for Fall 2021 - submit application now!
A message from Leslie Lopez, Corre la Voz instructor:
Corre la Voz still has mentor positions open for Fall! Applications will stay open until positions are filled--apply asap!
We are so excited to be returning to work in person with the kids (5th graders and middle schoolers) in Fall and hope you can join us!
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We are welcoming new applicants to the Corre la Voz Internship: Restorative Education for Community Development, for Fall Quarter, 2021. Apply here.
The Corre la Voz (CLV) Program works with middle grade dual-language kids and youth in Santa Cruz; as a teaching-learning lab, our collaborative project since 2009 has been not only to serve first-generation and dual-language learners on-campus and -off, but to develop, document, and theorize teaching practices that restore and expand community cultural wealth. Upper division students interested in teaching, counseling, and organizing practices for community power, please consider joining next year's cohort as we return to in-person work in Santa Cruz!
CLV Mentors enroll in Oakes 151A/B--seminar + field study, for 5 units.
Fall Quarter Schedule: Mondays 5:20-6:55 + 7:20-8:45; and a placement, either T or Th, 3-5:30 pm.
Our program is shaped by the UC Links network https://uclinks.berkeley.edu/programs that we belong to, and is dedicated to expanding multi-modal literacies and agency in communities that are disproportionately impacted by educational inequities.
For more information on Corre la Voz, please see: https://oakescara.ucsc.edu/corre-la-voz-program/
Current & Upcoming Events
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States: Recording Available
Our final event in our “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies) and Confederate monuments in Virginia by Dr. Kate Jones (Associate Professor, History), as they weave the personal with the scholarly to explore the contested terrain of memory in the United States. Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz, will be the event’s discussant. Closed captioning and an ASL interpreter will be provided. This event is free and open to the public and co-sponsored with the Institute for Social Transformation and The Humanities Institute.
Transformational Policing Model: Bridging the Racial Divide
An event sponsored by the UCSC Police Department
The Transformational Police Model course is a historical analysis of police distrust in American society and recent conflicts between police and communities of color. It is designed to be taught with both police officers and community members in the room as it enhances interactive communication and starts the trust and healing process. This course emphasizes a “Communication Free Zone” where every attendee can respond to critical thinking discussion questions asked during the lecture process. TPM provides awareness into the sensitive issues of racism and offers an understanding leading to the path of racial social justice healing. This innovative model focuses on unity, awareness, understanding, inclusivity, and educational training, creating a strong foundation for a positive and productive police-community partnership.
Funding & Financial Aid
Summer Financial Aid
Our maximum gift aid for an eligible UCSC student who enrolled in a minimum of 10 credits is $3,400 if they enroll in five weeks and up to $5,600 if they enroll in 8 or 10 weeks.
A student can estimate their gift aid amount using the Summer Aid Calculator located on the site below. FASO is also pleased to offer newly admitted students who enroll in Edge the same grants with a 7 credit minimum (instead of 10).
Here are links for continuing students with additional details on the left side navigation, and specific information for Edge students (fall admits enrolling in courses beyond the 1-credit orientation).
Summer - Continuing Students
Summer Edge - Newly Admitted Students
As expected, if students drop credits or decrease length of sessions, their aid may be decreased.
Summer enrollment begins May 1!
Enrollment Information
Instruction, Time Conflicts, Waitlists, and Permission Numbers
To help clarify enrollment terminology, the Registrar's Office thought it would be helpful to explain the following terms: asynchronous instruction, time conflicts, waitlists, and permission numbers. Please see below for further explanation of these terms.
Procedures for waitlists and time conflicts have not changed with the addition of online/remote coursework or asynchronous classes.
Asynchronous refers to courses which have been set up for enrollment with no day/time in the schedule. Any class that has a day and time is not asynchronous. If a class has a scheduled time slot, it is assumed that students are expected to attend and participate during that time. Any class access faculty are giving for course material outside of scheduled class time would be considered a study aid, not an asynchronous class structure.
Time conflicts occur when two courses have an overlap in instruction time. Asynchronous classes will not have time conflicts, because they do not have scheduled times. Students may be able to resolve the problem by swapping to a different secondary section, lab, studio, etc. offered at another time (See How to Change a Grading Option or Secondary Section).
If students can resolve a time conflict by swapping, they should contact the instructors of both impacted classes to learn whether they will be permitted to leave class early or show up late. Finals also cannot be rescheduled. If given permission, and after confirming no scheduling issues exist with final exams, contact the Office of the Registrar via registrar@ucsc.edu or 831-459-4412. We will override any time conflict if you have worked it out with both instructors. We do not require written verification. Student schedule changes must be requested by students (except for Graduate Exceptions).
Waitlists allows students to add up to 10 credits during their waitlist appointment period. Students can see their waitlist appointment by selecting “details” under “Enrollment Dates” in their MyUCSC.
Waitlists run every half-hour during normal business hours up to the eighth day of instruction, for Spring 2021 this is today, April 6th, 2021; waitlist position numbers may not indicate the order in which a student will be enrolled in the class. For example, a waitlist position will be skipped if a student has scheduled the course with a time conflict or have attempted to enroll in more than their allotted credits. If they are still on the waitlist at the start of instruction, they should attend the first class meeting to determine if they will be able to enroll. Students may use the “drop if enrolled” option, to assign a back-up or potentially conflicting class to automatically be dropped by the waitlist to facilitate enrollment.
Waitlists will not enroll students past a time conflict. Waitlists do not hold spaces open while error issues are being resolved.
Note: Waitlist enrollment cannot be overridden without a permission number. If a student has been given a permission number to enroll in a waitlisted class, they must DROP the waitlist and enroll directly in the class.
Permission numbers are codes that allow students to override course requirements and/or a closed status of the primary (lecture) portion of a class. Permission numbers are required for all classes, except individual studies, starting the eighth day of instruction, which for Spring 2021 is April 7th. They are also now used in lieu of “add by petition” which is now “self-service” for students with a permission number for all classes including independent studies courses. Permission numbers are given at the discretion of the faculty, with assistance from the Department. The Registrar’s Office does not generate or give out permission numbers. Permission numbers do not override time conflicts or closed secondary/discussion sections.
If a student obtains a permission number, they can enter it into their enrollment request as shown in Step 10 in How to Enroll in a Class.
For more information on permission numbers, please see the Registrar’s Office Student Enrollment FAQ page.
Our availability (for colleagues and students): We have limited phone access at 831-459-4412 from 10am-4pm M-F and generally respond within a few business days to emails sent to the registrar@ucsc.edu account.
LALS Shoutouts and Congrats
"I'll be spending my time in London, England and Lima, Peru, researching the relationship between international children's rights institutions and child-led social movements. This is the first phase of a larger study that aims to illuminate the contexts and conditions that enable child-led activist organizations to have political influence in the international institutions that are charged with protecting and advocating for children's rights and well-being. It will identify the cultural, structural, and organizational barriers to children's political influence in order to better understand the transformations required to more fully realize children's political rights in child-centered institutions and beyond." Congrats, Professor Taft! We'll miss you next year.
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LALS Lead Peer Advisor Montserrat Lopez received a Weiss Family Scholarship for her work with RCA Director and LALS Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón in the Human Rights Investigations Lab. Congratulations, Montserrat, we will miss you next year!
Need some peer advising help? Check in with Montserrat via Slug Success or email lalspeer@ucsc.edu.
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UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande (Kresge '99, B.A. creative writing, film & video) has received a 2021 Latino Spirit Award from the California Latino Legislative Caucus. Grande is not technically an LALS alum, but we will be reading her memoir, A Dream Called Home, in our upcoming LALS community book group. Stay tuned for more info!
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Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature Amanda M. Smith (popular LALS Spanish-language elective instructor) has a new book out:
"By tracing the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read twentieth-century novels by José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, César Calvo, Márcio Souza, and Mário de Andrade have both represented and shaped the region long after publication."
LALS Undergraduate Advising
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Email: lalsadvising@ucsc.edu
Website: https://lals.ucsc.edu/undergraduate
Location: University of California Santa Cruz, High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone: (831) 459-2119