Course Highlights Summer Edge 2024
UCSC Academic Advisors recommend these options for Slugs taking their first courses at UCSC. Most have no prerequisites or enrollment restrictions. See the Schedule of Classes for a complete listing of course offerings for the quarter.
Please note: The days/times listed in this document are the scheduled lecture times. Discussion section information, as well as modes of instruction may not be indicated on this document. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for more detailed and current class information. Course information is subject to change.
Math Courses:
Math courses require placement into the appropriate level; more information about math placement can be found at https://mathplacement.ucsc.edu/.
You can also visit our website for additional information at https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html.
Session | Class | Class Title | Credits | GE | Notes |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ANTH 1 | Intro Biolog Anth | 5 | SI | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ANTH 2 | Intr Culturl Anthro | 5 | CC | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ANTH 3 | Intro Archaeology | 5 | SI | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ART 20G | Intro Print/Draw | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ART 20K | Intro New Media | 5 | PR-C | |
10-Week: June 24 - Aug. 30 | ART 80T | Digital Tools Art | 5 | PE-T | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ARTG 40 | Designing Experiences | 5 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ARTG 50 | Play Radical Endeavor | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ARTG 91 | Intro Game Art Prod | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | CHEM 3A | General Chemistry | 5 | SI | Prerequisite(s): previous or concurrent enrollment in MATH 2 or higher, or a math placement (MP) score of 200 or higher. Students cannot enroll in CHEM 3A after receiving a 'C' or better in CHEM 1B. |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | CMMU 30 | NumbersSocialJustice | 5 | SR | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | CMPM 80H | Human-Centered AI | 5 | PE-T | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | CMPM 80K | FoundationsGameDesgn | 5 | IM | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | CMPM 80K | FoundationsGameDesgn | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | COWL 52 | Personal Finance | 5 | - | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | COWL 52 | Personal Finance | 5 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | CRES 10 | Intro to CRES | 5 | ER | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | CRES 70S | Intro to the Sikhs | 2 | - | |
8-Week: June 24 - Aug. 16 | CRWN 70B | Broadcast Med./Podcast | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | CRWN 80F | Science Fiction | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | DANM 51 | QueerTransArtHistory | 5 | IM | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | DANM 52 | Altering Digital Image | 5 | IM | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | EART 3 | Geology Natl Parks | 5 | SI | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | EART 5 | California Geology | 5 | SI | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ECON 1 | Intro Microeconomic | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ECON 1 | Intro Microeconomic | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ECON 2 | Intro Macroeconomic | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ECON 20 | Economics for Non-Majors | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ECON 50 | Econ of Climate Change | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | EDUC 10 | Introduction to Learning | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ENVS 18 | NatHist Illustration | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ENVS 23 | Physcl & Chem Envir | 5 | SI | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ENVS 23 | Physcl & Chem Envir | 5 | SI | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ENVS 25 | Enviro Pol/Econ/Just | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | ENVS 65 | Fresh Water Process | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ENVS 80E | Climate Justice | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | ESCI 30 | Bio Princip Env Sci | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | FILM 20A | Intro Film Studies | 5 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | FILM 20P | Productn Technique | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | FILM 80V | Video Games/Culture | 5 | PE-T | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | GCH 1 | Fdns4Global&CommHealth | 5 | SI | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HAVC 28 | Ghosts in Asian Films | 5 | CC | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HIS 10A | U.S. History To 1877 | 5 | ER | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | HIS 10B | US Hist 1877-1977 | 5 | ER | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HIS 39F | Christian Missions | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | HIS 39G | Oral Hist in Practice | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HIS 39H | U.S. Bases in Asia Pac | 5 | PR-E | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | HISC 80S | War and the Media | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | HISC 82 | Another Brick | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | HUMN 15 | Ethics and Technology | 5 | TA | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HUMN 25 | Humans & Machines | 5 | TA | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HUMN 35 | Language Technology | 5 | CC | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | HUMN 45 | Race and Technology | 5 | ER | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | HUMN 55 | Tech of Representation | 5 | IM | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | KRSG 2 | Power of Filmmaking | 3 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LALS 1 | Intro Latin Amer St | 5 | ER | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LALS 15 | TruthJusticeStatistics | 5 | SR | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LALS 39 | Queer Indigenous Hist | 5 | CC | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LALS 45 | Race, Class, Gender | 5 | ER | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LALS 56 | The Right to Health | 5 | CC | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LALS 75 | Art/Soc Change LatAm | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LALS 78 | Dancing in theAmericas | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LGST 10 | Intro Legal Process | 5 | - | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LING 50 | Intr To Linguistics | 5 | SI | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LING 53 | Semantics I | 5 | MF | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LING 80K | Invented Languages | 5 | TA | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LING 80K | Invented Languages | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LIT 61K | Intro to Fairy Tale | 5 | TA | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | LIT 61L | The Graphic Novel: Memoirs | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | LIT 61U | Speculative Fiction | 5 | PE-T | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MATH 11A | Calculus with Applications | 5 | MF | Prerequisite(s): MATH 3 or AM 3; or mathematics placement (MP) score of 300 or higher; or AP Calculus AB exam score of 3 or higher.If you meet prerequisities, see next steps here: https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MATH 11A | Calculus with Applications | 5 | MF | Prerequisite(s): MATH 3 or AM 3; or mathematics placement (MP) score of 300 or higher; or AP Calculus AB exam score of 3 or higher.If you meet prerequisities, see next steps here: https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MATH 19A | Calculus for Sci,Engin,Math | 5 | MF | Prerequisite(s): MATH 3; or mathematics placement (MP) score of 400 or higher; or AP Calculus AB exam score of 3 or higher.If you meet prerequisities, see next steps here: https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MATH 2 | Col Algbra/Calculus | 5 | - | Prerequisite(s): mathematics placement (MP) score of 100 or higher. Students may not enroll in or receive credit for MATH 2 after receiving credit with a 'C' or better in AM 3, MATH 3, AM 11A, MATH 11A, MATH 19A, MATH 20A or equivalents.If you meet prerequisities, see next steps here: https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MATH 3 | Precalculus | 5 | MF | Prerequisite(s): MATH 2 or mathematics placement (MP) score of 200 or higher. Students may not enroll in or receive credit for MATH 3 after receiving credit with a 'C' or better in AM 11A, ECON 11A, MATH 11A, MATH 19A, MATH 20A or equivalents.If you meet prerequisities, see next steps here: https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MATH 3 | Precalculus | 5 | MF | Prerequisite(s): MATH 2 or mathematics placement (MP) score of 200 or higher. Students may not enroll in or receive credit for MATH 3 after receiving credit with a 'C' or better in AM 11A, ECON 11A, MATH 11A, MATH 19A, MATH 20A or equivalents.If you meet prerequisities, see next steps here: https://summer.ucsc.edu/summer-edge/choosing-courses/summer-math.html |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MERR 60 | Fake News | 5 | TA | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MERR 60 | Fake News | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 11A | Western Classical | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 53A | Beginning Ghanaian Ens | 2 | PR-C | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 58 | Songwriting Craft | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MUSC 5A | Beg W Java Gamelan | 2 | PR-C | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 80K | Sound in Art/Science | 5 | PE-E | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 80O | Music Polit Protest | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | MUSC 80V | The Beatles Music | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 80X | Musics of South Asia | 5 | CC | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | MUSC 81D | Music and Empire | 3 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | OCEA 1 | The Oceans | 5 | SI | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | OCEA 90 | ClimateFundamentals | 5 | SR | |
10-Week: June 24 - Aug. 30 | PHIL 11 | Intro To Philosophy | 5 | TA | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | PHIL 23 | Phil Cognitive Sci | 5 | PE-H | |
10-Week: June 24 - Aug. 30 | PHIL 9 | Intro Symbolic Logic | 5 | MF | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | PSYC 1 | Intro Psychology | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | PSYC 1 | Intro Psychology | 5 | PE-H | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | PSYC 20 | Cogn: Fund Theories | 5 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | SOCY 1 | Intro Sociology | 5 | - | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | SOCY 10 | Issues/Prblms In Am | 5 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | SOCY 15 | World Society | 5 | CC | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | SOCY 3A | Evaluation/Evidence | 5 | - | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | STAT 5 | Statistics | 5 | SR | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | STEV 26 | Navigate University | 2 | - | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | THEA 10 | Intro to Design | 5 | IM | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | THEA 14 | Drawing | 5 | PR-C | |
Session 1: June 24 - July 26 | THEA 20 | Intr Studies Acting | 5 | IM | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | THEA 20 | Intr Studies Acting | 5 | IM | |
Session 2: July 29 - Aug. 30 | THEA 30 | Intr Modern Dance | 5 | PR-C |