UCSC’S SUMMARIES OF PROPOSED UCOP FIVE-YEAR LIST PROGRAM CHANGES

1999 THROUGH 2004

APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS- M.S. and PH.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

program. In There has long been much interest at UCSC in developing some form of an Applied Mathematics consultation with faculty both at UCSC and nationally, the idea of such a program has received strong support. Development of an Applied Mathematics Statistics Department (AMS) is needed at Santa Cruz, and has the potential to benefit a broad constituency of faculty and students. Initially we plan to develop a Master’s program and Ph.D. program in AMS, which would be followed by the establishment of a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics (offered jointly with the existing Mathematics Department).

The initial scientific focus will be in dynamics and mechanics, including the numerical techniques used therein, and statistics and stochastic processes. Concentrating in just two areas will allow us to reasonably provide critical mass in both. These areas were specifically chosen because of their historically broad appeal, perceived need, and potential for collaboration with other departments.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

Interest in the applications of mathematics remains high at both UCSC and the outside community. The goal of the AMS program will be to bring the disciplines closer through the development and use of common mathematical techniques, and to provide a glue between the quantitatively oriented departments that is felt to be lacking at UCSC.

The proposed program would have a strong synergy with the existing Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments, as well as with the proposed Electrical Engineering program. Dynamics and mechanics naturally tie in with the physical sciences and engineering. Additionally, there has been a long-standing need for more fluid dynamics on campus, as there are natural connections with Ocean Sciences, Earth Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, as well as the present Mathematics Department. Numerical methods similarly tie in well with many departments across campus. Planned hires in fluid dynamics would provide much needed expertise to the campus. A hire in nonlinear dynamics and/or wave dynamics would build on our reputation in nonlinear dynamics, which remains a magnet for high quality graduate students. Nonlinear dynamics has "infiltrated" many areas of science, especially those dealing with more complex systems. We may expect collaborations with the biological, economic and environmental sciences. Finally, control theory has strong links with electrical engineering. A complementary hire has been planned in the current Electrical Engineering program proposal, either in applications of control theory or a very closely related area like robotics. This will, along with existing faculty, provide an immediate critical mass in this area, to the benefit of all participating departments.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

The campus academic plan calls for the development of professionals who can address the complex problems facing us today and in the future. Such applied and professional programs are relatively rare on the Santa Cruz campus. Together with the existing programs in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and the proposed Electrical Engineering program, the AMS program will give potential students an attractive set of choices among applied and engineering programs. The development of these programs will contribute to the vision of the recently established School of Engineering.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:

There is currently a substantial number of UCSC faculty who would be able to contribute to the teaching needs of the AMS program, and/or could be affiliated with the department "below the line". A critical mass of six new faculty will be necessary to establish a full AMS program, which will include both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The current proposal is to hire faculty in phased recruitments in the following areas: two FTE in dynamics, two FTE in statistics, one FTE in fluid dynamics, and one FTE in control theory. Space needs are modest and can be met within the existing Applied Sciences Building, without the need for additional construction.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program:

The Office of the President has committed $2M in one-time forward funding to offset the initial costs associated with launching this program (and Electrical Engineering). Permanent funding will come from anticipated enrollment growth funds. The further development of partnerships with industry, business, and the community will provide additional support for graduate students. Faculty office and other space requirements will be addressed through renovations to existing space in the Applied Sciences Building.

Planned Implementation Date:

1998-99: Prepare M.S. and Ph.D. proposal, recruit additional one FTE

1999-00: Recruit for two FTE; submit proposal for campus review

2000-01: Seek systemwide approval of program

2001-02: Admit first cohort of graduate students

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

Various other UC campuses have applied mathematics or engineering science activities in one form or another, but there is little uniformity in the actual implementation, and no campus has an explicitly designated "Department of Applied (and/or Engineering) Mathematics". At universities elsewhere, the situation is similarly nonuniform, although many universities do have successful "Applied Mathematics Departments" (MIT, Brown, CalTech and Northwestern are a few examples). The absence of an applied mathematics department within the UC system coupled with the evident success of such programs elsewhere, and the continuing demand for computational scientists and engineers argues well for the establishment of an AMS program at UCSC. Such a program would indeed be filling a niche not met at other UC campuses.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

The demand for applied mathematicians and computational scientists continues to be strong. Experience at other campuses indicate that graduates trained in the application of mathematical techniques are required to address industrial problems from automobile manufacturing through aerodynamics to finance. Northwestern University reports that all graduates in Applied and Engineering Science have been able to get appropriate jobs in recent years. Dependent on their area of emphasis, graduates can be expected to obtain jobs in such diverse areas as: aerospace industry, automotive design, computer industry, environmental engineering, electrical engineering, ocean/atmospheric science, petroleum industry, telecommunications, robotics, manufacturing, government and finance.

Status of the Proposal:

The first recruitment for the AMS program was initiated in 1996-97. With completion of several recruitments underway this year, proposal development can be finalized. The completed proposals for the M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs are expected to be complete and submitted for campus review by Fall Quarter 1998.

BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING - M.S. and Ph.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

A Biomolecular Engineering program is proposed which will offer a five-year combined B.S./M.S. degree and a Ph.D. Students in the combined degree program will receive solid preparation in chemical engineering with substantial background in biochemistry, molecular biology, and biology. This balanced program of study is designed to prepare graduates for a career in the general area of biomolecular engineering. At the Ph.D. level, candidates will pursue advanced study and research in a variety of specializations, but all will demonstrate a sound foundation in engineering and the biological sciences.

The proposed program in Biomolecular Engineering is for a broad research and education program at UCSC to meet the challenges of the post-genomic era, ushered in by the completion of the Human Genome Project and the related projects for other model organisms. The driving technology in the era will be a blend of the major technological advances of the latter part of this century: computers and biotechnology. UCSC’s location, in close proximity to many of the world’s leading industrial centers in both computers and biotech, provides a unique opportunity for this program and can serve to position UCSC’s School of Engineering as a leading center of research and teaching in this area of explosive growth.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

The broad focus of the Biomolecular Engineering program would be on the interface between molecular biology, micro and computer engineering, computer science and mechanical (electromechanical) engineering. Biomolecular engineering methods are strikingly interdisciplinary. To maintain an interdisciplinary approach, the department will have strong ties with the other engineering departments and with units on the UCSC campus involved in genomics and structural biology. This includes the RNA Center and the Laboratory for the Study of Biomolecules and the departments that include them, through which course offerings and degree programs, shared equipment and laboratory space, as well as academic research collaborations can be coordinated.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

Biomolecular Engineering, along with the Software Engineering program and the Engineering Management program, serves to meet the needs of industry and the State of California. These programs will enable UCSC to attract capable students and train them to play important roles in the emerging technologies of the 21st century. Together with the other programs in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC will be in a unique position to fully exploit Santa Cruz’s location as the UC for Silicon Valley.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:

Part of the program’s uniqueness stems from the emphasis on both chemical engineering and biological science. While the biological science foundation already exists at UCSC, there will be a need to hire chemical engineering faculty. When mature, the program will contain nine faculty, including four-five chemical engineers. The Department of Biomolecular Engineering will need a full complement of staff to coordinate the graduate and undergraduate programs. A final count of three staff to support the department is anticipated.

Biotechnology is a scientific field that requires specialized laboratory space in which bioreactors, fermentors, separation equipment and control mechanisms are available for both teaching and research. A facility of 5,000-10,000 square feet is envisioned.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program:

This program has not yet been fully costed, but it appears feasible to develop this laboratory as a joint effort between the industry and the university, along the lines of the facilities developed at MIT and Penn State, which evolved with the support of an industrial consortium.

Planned Implementation Date:

1999-00: Finalize proposal and engage campus review process

2000-01: Submit program proposal for systemwide review

2000-01: First faculty recruitments

Fall 2001: First cohort of students admitted to the Ph.D. program

Fall 2002: First cohort of students admitted to B.S. and M.S. programs

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

The known biochemical and biotechnology engineering programs include the large diversified programs of MIT, Pennsylvania State, and Worcester Polytechnic, as well as smaller programs at UC campus at Berkeley, Irvine, and Riverside.

The proposed UCSC Department of Molecular Biotechnology-Engineering is unusual in two significant respects. First, the proposed combined BS/MS degree program is unique in that the great majority of institutions offer biotechnology engineering only at the graduate level. Industries needing BS or MS level engineers have usually been forced to recruit persons with degrees in chemical engineering who have not been adequately trained in the biological and biochemical disciplines. Second, the campus is in a unique situation to create a program without the restrictions imposed by rigid pre-existing curricula, permitting us to provide the mixture of engineering and biological disciplines that industry considers most desirable.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

In researching the viability of a biotechnology program at UCSC, estimates of industry demand have been formed mainly on the basis of interviews with management and engineers. A steady demand was perceived for engineers in the biomolecular field. The field is young, but has been characterized by intensive research and development resulting in a backlog of potential products. Adapting research discoveries to production levels represents an engineering challenge that is the province of biomolecular engineering. The Molecular Biotechnology-Engineering program is specifically designed to address this issue.

Status of the Proposal:

Work on initial proposal development is underway.

CLASSICAL STUDIES – B.A.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

This major aims to make Classical Studies more accessible to undergraduate students who are looking for a program that provides a strong core training in Classics yet allows the flexibility to develop varied interests and skills both within and outside the field. The proposed major is based on a core of required courses in ancient Greek and Latin that provide a rigorous introduction to Greek and Latin themselves and to related skills in language, style, and the interpretation of texts. Additional requirements are limited and flexible: limited, so that students may use a Classical Studies Major to complement other academic interests (as in art history, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, and the like); flexible, so that students may develop varied areas of interest within the major.

Classics has been a vital program at UCSC since 1970 and has been graduating Majors (usually as Individual Majors and Literature Majors) since shortly thereafter. Classics faculty early on resisted invitations to constitute themselves as a Committee of Study because we felt (and continue to feel) that one of our greatest strengths has been that we have eschewed the intellectual provinciality characterizing many academic fields, Classics in particular. However, greater rationalization and departmentalization of the campus’ academic programs have gradually combined in recent years to undermine the flexibility and visibility of our program. We do not seek to become a Committee of Study or a Department of Classics, now or in the future. Our intention in establishing Classical Studies as a Major in its own right is to increase the visibility and flexibility of our program while maintaining its tradition of close interconnectedness with other programs on campus.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

Classics is principally a service program. Core Classics faculty are members of the Departments of History and Literature. They play central roles in those Departments, regularly offering such large enrollment service classes as History 20A, B, History 101, Literature 1 and 101; they have contributed significantly to the planning and administration of undergraduate and graduate programs; they have served as Department Chairs, Undergraduate Program Coordinators, and the like. We do not expect this to change. Classics courses, whether taken in conjunction with a Classical Studies Major or as electives, enable students to explore both the origins of western civilization and the historical roots of such related areas of study as theater, history, western literature, political theory, etc. Having a healthy major is the best assurance that we will be able to continue performing our service role effectively. In particular, it means that we can continue to offer courses in the ancient languages for majors and non-majors alike and that we will come to our courses in translation with the kind of authority and engagement that depend on our own continued teaching of ancient texts in their original languages.

Proposed Faculty, Staff, and Facilities Requirements:

Our proposal calls for no new resources of any sort. It will entail some redistribution of responsibilities. The History Department will assume responsibility for processing Declarations of the Major and verifying Major requirements for graduation. At present, students major in Classics as Literature Majors or as Individual Majors; in the former case, Literature is responsible for administration, in the latter it is the Colleges. Our goal is a modest increase in the number of students majoring in Classics. Whatever new work may be entailed by increased numbers should be at least partially offset by the comparative efficiency and simplicity of a formal major over the Individual Major.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support the New Program:

None.

Planned Implementation Date:

This depends entirely upon when the proposal is approved. We are ready to institute it immediately

UC Campuses Offering Similar Programs:

All UC campuses except UCSC and UC Davis currently offer undergraduate majors in Classics. Our proposed program differs from many in that it offers greater flexibility, making it accessible both to students who want a broad introduction to Classical Antiquity and to those who want greater emphasis on language proficiency in preparation for graduate study in Classics.

Job Outlook for Graduates of the Program:

Numerous articles recently have called attention to the growing need for employees with the broad-based skills basic to a liberal education. "Computers: Waiting for the Revolution," New York Review of Books, March 1998 is typical: "[T]he principal demand [for new jobs] is for people who work in offices… More than ever before office workers are needed for innovation…The office economy may require communication skills, social ease, and basic reasoning abilities as much as if not more than technological expertise." UCSC Classics graduates have in fact been successful in a broad variety of jobs from the computer industry to curatorships at major museums; we also have been highly successful in placing our students in graduate programs in Classics, Comparative Literature, and Ancient History.

Status of Proposal:

The proposal was advanced in winter of 1999 for formal campus approval.

COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES -Ph.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

The Ph.D. program in Comparative American Studies (CAS) at UCSC is an innovative interdisciplinary, inter-departmental program drawing on the scholarly expertise of faculty from fourteen departments in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts. The program will prepare young scholars to engage in research, teaching, and public service oriented toward enhancing an interdisciplinary, multiculturally oriented, historically grounded, globally contexted, and theoretically informed understanding of the complex social and cultural dynamics of and challenges facing the United States and Latin America.

The program has several key, interrelated features: 1) Students receive an excellent grounding in the varieties of interdisciplinary theorizing, research methods, and pedagogies characteristic of American and Latin American Studies nationally and internationally while also providing students strong research and teaching preparation in a specific disciplinary or thematic field; 2) The program grounds students in global and transnational perspectives on the Latin America and the United States; 3) The program stresses multicultural perspectives and the relationship of historical and contemporary issues, and it gives particular attention to the nature of public life in the Americas; 4) The program also takes advantage, in both its research and teaching agendas, of faculty strengths in regional studies, particularly U.S. Western studies and Latin American-U.S. border studies; 5) The program offers interested students training in and opportunities for fieldwork and internships as part of their graduate research.

The UCSC program will be committed to embodying, in its student body, the social and cultural diversity that forms a central element of its subject. The program will appeal to ethnic minority students with wide-ranging interests. It will also work to attract students from a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds who are committed to a multicultural, interdisciplinary, and integrative approach to Comparative American Studies.

The need for California to generate a large group of public-minded college and university teacher-scholars who are expert in multicultural analyses of the United States and Latin America is rising steadily. The UCSC program will help fill that large and growing need. The program will also be generating a cadre of young professors specifically qualified to serve the growing number of undergraduates majoring in Latin American Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and similar programs in California and Western U.S. schools--professors not only broadly trained in interdisciplinary approaches to an integrated study of the Americas but oriented toward the specific needs of the region. The program will also prepare interested students for non-academic careers in research and writing involving interdisciplinary expertise in aspects of American life, including positions in government, K-12 administration, museums, and media.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

The CAS program will build on the strengths of several existing Ph.D. programs at UCSC, as well as on faculty research and teaching strengths in a number of existing interdisciplinary departments such as Latin American and Latino Studies, American Studies, and Community Studies whose faculty are presently focused primarily on undergraduate programs. About half of CAS students' course work will consist of CAS-sponsored courses that integrate the diverse materials characteristic of these interdisciplinary fields and that focus on theoretical and methodological issues central to the fields. They will also gain experience by serving as teaching assistants in the wide range of undergraduate courses offered by such departments.

CAS graduate students will typically take half of their courses from those offered by other graduate programs, thus enabling them to develop appropriate disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary expertise and to pursue particular areas of specialization--for example, ethnic, gender, postcolonial, or media studies--in which relevant resources are spread over several campus programs. Some two dozen graduate courses of particular relevance to CAS are presently being offered regularly by the Departments of Literature, History, History of Consciousness, Education, Sociology, Anthropology, American Studies, and Women's Studies.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

This campus has made the careful, systematic examination of global as well as intra-national human diversity an important element in preparing its students for effective contributions to state and national life and to an increasingly interconnected global society and economy. The campus presently has world-class research and curricular research strengths in multicultural studies, but activities in this area are presently scattered around campus and for the most part are quite uncoordinated. The CAS program will further strengthen the campus' contributions to this important multi-faceted area of study and will, at the same time, serve to coordinate and make more collectively visible the campus' varied work in this area.

Proposed Faculty, Staff, and Facilities Requirements:

All the necessary start-up resources for the program will be in place by the inauguration of the program. CAS will offer five or six graduate courses annually during its early years--a number sufficient to provide the core integrative curricular experiences needed by CAS students, who will be taking the remainder of their course work from other graduate programs. Of the present ladder faculty who have volunteered to serve on the program's core faculty, most are committed to teaching a CAS course at least every other year, enabling the program readily to cover its core curriculum. The core faculty will undertake the necessary advising, examining, dissertation-supervising, and other necessary administrative responsibilities for the program. This core faculty will be expanded steadily by new ladder recruitments to which the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Division have already made a commitment as a part of the campus’s present six-year plan, as well as by other ladder faculty already at UCSC. A sufficient amount of TAships, fellowships, and other forms of graduate student financial support is already in place to support the first three classes entering the program. The remainder of the graduate-student support, at full buildout of the program in 2006-07, will be generated from the program’s receipt of its appropriate share of new resources resulting from overall campus enrollment growth over the next six years. The Dean of Humanities has affirmed that such support can be provided without reducing the level of per-student support currently being provided to existing graduate programs in the Division. Because the program will be administered for the conceivable future within an existing department, start-up staff support is already fully in place. The Dean will fund a .5 FTE staffing augmentation as the program moves to full build-out. Necessary program space, computer facilities, and library resources are also already available for the start-up years.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support the Program:

The modest increase in resources requested will be provided over time as new resources come to the campus attendant with enrollment growth.

Planned Implementation Date:

1999-2000 - The first class will apply to the program, as a formal track within the present History Ph.D. program, during 1999-2000 and will matriculate in the Fall Quarter of 2000.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

No other University of California campus presently offers an M.A. or Ph.D. program in America Studies. Only one American Studies Ph.D. program presently exists in California and only two in total on the West Coast. Only one major M.A. American Studies program can be found in California. The vast majority of the thirty-two Ph.D. and twenty M.A. programs are on the East Coast or in the Midwest.

Nationally reputed Ph.D. programs in Ethnic Studies are offered at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. The only existing American Studies Ph.D. program in California is a very small one founded in 1993-94 in the Claremont Graduate School. It is a multi-departmental program administered out of the Claremont History Department. There is only one significant M.A. program in American Studies in the California State University system, that at CSU Fullerton, which is one of the strongest M.A. programs in the United States. The only other Ph.D. program in American Studies on the West Coast is at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. A small Ph.D. program in American and Ethnic Studies is presently in the planning stage at the University of Southern California. Undergraduate majors in American Studies exist at UC Davis and UC Berkeley; either or both campuses may eventually propose Ph.D. programs involving work in this area, perhaps within other frames such as Cultural Studies.

Job Outlook for Graduates of the Program:

When fully developed, the UCSC program in CAS will graduate four or five students annually. The job listings for Latin and U.S. Americanists (published by such large professional associations as the Modern Language Association, the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, the American Studies Association, and the Latin American Studies Association) clearly indicate that the outlook for teaching and research positions in colleges and universities both in and outside California for Ph.D.s is very good. This is particularly true for graduates with wide-ranging expertise in multicultural issues, notably but by no means exclusively for Ph.D.s from ethnic minority backgrounds. Over half of the advertised positions in U.S. and Latin American studies in History and English departments, for example, specify expertise in some area of multicultural studies. As both the population and ethnic diversity of both California and the rest of the nation continue to grow, that demand will steadily increase. There will also be a demand from the growing undergraduate American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women’s Studies programs around the state, in the nation at large, and in universities abroad for faculty specifically trained in a transnationally oriented and interdisciplinary American Studies rather than simply in a single discipline.

Status of the Proposal:

The proposal has undergone a steady evolution over the past five years. The earliest version of the CAS proposal, then titled "Ph.D. in American Studies," was reviewed informally by the campus' Graduate Council during 1995-96 and by the Dean of Humanities. Based on their comments, and on the recommendations of the external review committee that conducted its review of the American Studies Department during 1996-97, the proposal was revised during 1996-97 with the aim of converting it into a genuinely inter-departmental and inter-divisional program, and one that incorporated transnational perspectives more fully and systematically into its center. A drafting committee consisting of faculty from five departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences undertook a first round of proposed revisions, which were circulated for comments during the Spring of 1997 to over seventy ladder faculty in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts. A cadre of sixteen faculty indicated willingness to participate as core members of the program, and another three dozen faculty expressed willingness to serve as affiliated members. In order to take advantage of the planning momentum and strong faculty interest, the Dean of Humanities proposed that CAS begin initially as an independent track within the existing History Ph.D. program. He has appointed an initial steering committee consisting of thirteen faculty from seven departments in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Divisions to implement this track and simultaneously to continue planning for a free-standing Ph.D. program, drawing on the concrete experience gained within the track. The first class of students will enter the track in the Fall of 2000. During 1999-2000, the steering committee will transform itself into an expanded faculty governing body from the three involved divisions. That body will in turn refine the proposal and submit it during 1999-2000 for formal review by the Senate and campus administration. It is anticipated that the campus will submit the proposal for systemwide review during 2000-01.

EDUCATION - PH.D.

Description and reason for proposing it:

Graduate education must take the lead in developing programs that prepare faculty, researchers, and policy makers to meet the economic and social challenges of the 21st century. California's K-12 student population is becoming increasingly culturally diverse. In the 1993-94 school year, out of 5.2 million

K-12 students, more than 1.2 million students were limited-English proficient (LEP), representing over 130 languages and cultures. Currently, such students are underrepresented in high school advance placement classes, undergraduate and graduate programs and the professions. If allowed to continue, this situation will present serious social and economic problems into the 21st century by institutionalizing a majority-minority underclass whom have not had access to scientific and technical education. To respond to this challenge, educational leaders must have expertise in subject matter content and pedagogy and also understand the influences of language, culture and society on teaching and learning. The traditional graduate program in education does not attempt to prepare such experts, rather, they prepare specialists for example in mathematics, pedagogy, bilingual education, or educational anthropology. The UCSC Education Department intends to take a new approach and develop an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Education that prepares experts who can integrate disciplinary, pedagogical and social science knowledge in instructional and research programs.

The Ph.D. in Education will have three strands of coursework: (1) core education pro-seminars and research method classes required for all students (25 units); (2) focused education coursework in three areas of specialization which include (a) science, math and technology; (b) social and cultural foundations of education; (c) language and literacy (15 units); and (3) a disciplinary minor in a content domain related to the area of specialization (20 units). The coursework component of the program, therefore, will comprise twelve courses taken over two years. We anticipate that students could complete this doctoral program in four years.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

This will be a new program, which builds on existing coursework in Education, and other disciplines. We propose to develop a Graduate Group in Education composed of faculty from the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences divisions. Ph.D. in Education students will take courses in their areas of disciplinary specialization (e.g. mathematics, science, and linguistics) from the non-education Graduate Group faculty, who will also serve on education dissertation committees. Currently, the following non-education faculty are below the line members of the department, from Psychology and Mathematics. We are working with these individuals and faculty from Mathematics, Chemistry, Earth and Ocean Sciences to design the interdisciplinary graduate program.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

This program is a part of the long-range academic plan for the Education Department and for the Santa Cruz campus. The State of California is not now fully prepared for the influx of students and communities of diverse languages and cultures, and their impact on the public schools. The need for research, program development, and policy initiatives is immediate and imperative. Education has been targeted for expansion given the campus' role in research at the forefront of multicultural issues in education.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facilities Requirements:

The Education Department has submitted to the Social Sciences Division a proposal to recruit seven new faculty members over the next three years to bring the department back to full strength. These new faculty would have the expertise to bring together disciplinary and social science knowledge in research and instructional programs. The areas to be recruited are: cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher education, science education and instructional technology, reading, educational evaluation and policy analysis, and math and science education.

The space facilities, library acquisitions, computing and equipment required to begin the program are in place. There is good financial support available for education graduate students. Education faculty currently have almost $30 million of funded research projects over the next five years which will support fifteen to twenty academic year GSR positions. There are also twenty TAships funded to support the undergraduate minor program. Given current and projected faculty workload, the program will begin with five students. The program will build to a nominal census of twenty-five (and probable average census of thirty to thirty-five in a stabilized program.)

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Programs:

Awaits clearer definition of the costs. As noted above, graduate student support is available. New faculty lines will come from open provisions coupled with new funds from campus enrollment growth.

Planned Implementation Date:

The Ph.D. proposal will be completed by 1999-2000. The campus should review it during the fall quarter 1999 and winter quarter 2000, and submit it to UCOP in the spring of 2000. The program could admit the first cohort of students as early as fall of 2001.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

This Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Education will be unique in the UC system and throughout the United States. Ph.D. programs in education at UC on the Berkeley, Davis and Santa Barbara campuses and at Stanford University offer specializations in language, educational psychology, science, mathematics and technology but they do not attempt to integrate these disciplines.

UC Santa Cruz in unique in that it serves Central California, an area not largely served by other institutions of higher education. This geographical region serves an estimated 25,000 professional educators. Geographical barriers, such as the Santa Cruz Mountains, make it difficult for public school professionals to seek graduate education at other institutions. There is, therefore, a large pool of potential graduate students in our catchment area. In addition, the national visibility of the UCSC research and development program in cultural and linguistic diversity (including the federally funded Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE), and NSF local systemic initiative LASERS) make UCSC an attractive location for graduate education for students nationally.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

Graduates of this program will be experts in a discipline such as mathematics, science or literacy and also in theory, research and policy relating to the education of cultural and linguistic minority students. Such expertise is very rare, and our graduates will be highly competitive for positions in CSU and UC programs for teacher education, in state and national governmental policy offices, in private foundations and universities and in corporate educational centers. In California especially, but nationally and internationally as well, the current challenges of diversity find school districts, state and national policy departments, university faculties and teacher education programs woefully unprepared for effective initiatives. Our graduates will be on the leading edge of that emerging knowledge, and will readily find employment in a society just now beginning to reemphasize the importance of education for national survival.

Employment projections within UC and CSU indicate growth in the hiring of new faculty through the year 2000. Within CSU it is estimated that 4,500 - 5,000 new faculty hires will occur, primarily due to the retirement of existing faculty. It is further estimated that 14% of those new hires will be in the field of education. The UC system anticipates that twice the number of retirements as new hires will take place by the year 2000. At the minimum, 500 or more new retirements will occur each year.

Status of the Proposal:

The original Ph.D. in Education proposal was submitted to the Division of Social Sciences in March 1993. Since that time it has undergone an informal campus review and a faculty reassessment. The final document will be submitted by spring 1999.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - M.S. and PH.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

Electrical Engineering is the next logical step in the development of engineering at UCSC, an idea that has been long supported on the campus. The most recent external review of the existing Computer Engineering Department pointed out the need for Electrical Engineering to complement the vigorous research programs in Computer Engineering. An undergraduate program was approved last year and initiated this fall.

The general areas of emphasis proposed for the Electrical Engineering program are: analog electronics, communications (including signal and image processing), and control and dynamical systems. These cover a set of important areas in electrical engineering, with exciting research opportunities, expected opportunities for funding, and which match the needs of industry. They will provide focus for a strong graduate and research program.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

Research interactions of faculty in the Electrical Engineering program would be expected to be particularly strong with faculty in the Computer Engineering Department. Computer Engineering is recognized for its excellence in VSLI/CAD; both this research and graduate program are hindered by the lack of electrical engineering colleagues in the area of analog electronics and electronic devices. Similarly, the current strength CE has developed in computer communications would be significantly enhanced. It is also expected that research interactions would be strong with faculty from the proposed Applied Mathematics and Statistics program and other programs in the Natural Sciences, especially those with significant interests in electronic instrumentation and systems.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

Another engineering major would give engineering greater visibility at UCSC. This visibility and the offering of another choice of engineering major would attract more engineering students to the campus -- students whose interests and expected socio-economic background would improve campus diversity. Additionally, a cornerstone of the campus academic planning effort has been to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the local environment. The Electrical Engineering program would provide synergy with environmental programs at UCSC and in the Monterey Bay region. The topics of instrumentation, electronics and dynamical system modeling are critical to the plans for the development of UC’s presence at Fort Ord, as they are integral components of environmental measurement, monitoring and modeling.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:

Currently there are six Computer Engineering faculty who would be affiliated with the Electrical Engineering program and could contribute to teaching needs as the program develops. We propose to hire ten new faculty in phased recruitments in the following areas: four FTE in the broad area of electronics, three FTE in communications/electromagnetics, and three FTE in the areas of image processing and control and dynamical systems. The campus has recruited four faculty and is in the process of recruiting an additional five faculty in 1998-99.

Start-up and one-time costs for the ten new faculty are estimated at $1,000,000. Ongoing yearly costs are estimated at $400,000 per year. The space requirements are modest and can be met in the Applied Sciences Building, but will require remodeling estimated at $2,692,000.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program:

The Office of the President has committed $2M in one-time forward funding to offset the initial costs associated with launching this program (and AMS). Permanent funding will come from anticipated enrollment growth funding. The establishment of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering has furthered development of partnerships with industry, business, and the community, and resulted in generous gifts of support. This support will augment existing support for graduate students and facilities development. Faculty office and other space requirements will be addressed through renovations to existing space in the Applied Sciences Building.

Planned Implementation Date:

1998-99: Recruit three FTE; develop M.S. and Ph.D. proposals - submit for campus review;

1999-00: Recruit one FTE; obtain systemwide approval of program;

2000-01: Admit first cohort of graduate students.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

All schools of engineering have programs in electrical engineering; however, various UC and other studies continue to identify the need for more electrical engineers. Because electrical engineering is so impacted at other campuses, the programs are very selective and competitive. The proposed program for UCSC would be unique in that it chooses to focus in three areas: analog electronics, communications; and dynamical systems. Even more unique will be the synergy it is expected to form with existing UCSC programs and its potential to become a major component of regional collaboration related to environmental research.

Job Outlook for Graduates of the Program:

Employment prospects for graduates of the proposed Electrical Engineering program are excellent. Various job surveys show a strong demand for these graduates, and various career advisors project continued strong growth in employment opportunities in the electronics, communications and computer fields. The prospects for students with graduate degrees in electrical engineering are at least as good as for the undergraduate degree recipients. Employment opportunities for Ph.D. graduates in electrical engineering are among the best for Ph.D. recipients. Some find positions in academia, but the majority are hired by industry.

Status of the Proposal:

Proposals for the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are expected to be finalized and submitted for campus review in spring 1999.

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT - M.S. and Ph.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

Management in the environment of rapidly changing technology presents challenges to the enterprise and to the individual manager. It requires managers with technical depth in their areas of engineering specialization and with broad knowledge of business management, plus the skills and ability to lead people to meet technical and business challenges. High-tech industries require new types of managers, combining a strong technical grounding with an understanding of the economic and financial framework of the business enterprise. Communications skills and people skills, with the ability to communicate across all functions and levels within the organization, are important qualifications for these future managers.

The program in Engineering Management will offer graduate programs leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. These programs are intended for those with engineering or other technical undergraduate preparation. The Engineering Management Program will provide engineers the education necessary to be successful managers and will include courses in the management of people, finance, the management of technical projects, and in the application of information systems for operating a technical enterprise.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

The Engineering Management Program is founded on an interdisciplinary theme. The curriculum will include courses in engineering management, economics, psychology, and additional engineering courses to enrich technical backgrounds. The program will complement the growing Business Economics Program in the Social Sciences Division. The Ph.D. degree will be offered in cooperation with the departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Biotechnology Engineering, Economics, and Applied Mathematics.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

Engineering Management, along with the Molecular Biotechnology-Engineering program and the Software Engineering program, serves to meet the needs of industry and the State of California. These programs will enable UCSC to attract capable students and train them to play important roles in the emerging technologies of the 21st century. Together with the other programs in the School of Engineering, UCSC will be in a unique position to fully exploit Santa Cruz’s location as the UC for Silicon Valley.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:

Planned faculty will total four FTE. Staffing will include one program coordinator and one administrative staff FTE. Adjunct instructors will be utilized initially for instruction, allowing a phased-in approach to filling the program’s faculty FTE.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program:

The program has yet to be fully costed, but strategies to fund it are already in the planning stages. Permanent funding for faculty will most likely come from enrollment growth funding. The careful cultivation of partnerships with industry, business, and the community will yield external resources to augment graduate student support and enhance facilities.

Planned Implementation Date:

1999-00: Prepare M.S. and Ph.D. proposals and submit for campus review

2000-01: Seek systemwide approval for program; hire staff FTE

2001-02: Admit first cohort of students

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

Research is still being conducted in this area.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

Contact with industry professionals has indicated a strong need for technical employees with management training.

Status of the Proposal:

During 1998-99, a committee is formulating the Engineering Management program proposal.

INSTITUTE FOR GEOPHYSICS AND PLANETARY PHYSICS (IGPP) - MRU (branch)

Description and Reasons for Proposing Program:

A proposal to establish a branch of the IGPP multi-campus research unit (MRU) has been prepared and submitted through campus and system-wide channels for informal review. The UCSC IGPP branch will initially (Phase I) include two interdisciplinary research centers: The center for Origin, Dynamics and Evolution of Planets (CODEP) and the center for Dynamics and Evolution of the Land-Sea Interface (C.DELSI), with subsequent expansion (Phase II) to include a Center for Remote Sensing (CRS) and a Center for Massive Computing Simulations (CMS).

The IGPP charter defines a mission: to promote and coordinate basic research on the understanding of the origin, structure and evolution of Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe, and on the prediction of future changes, as they affect human life. The C. DELSI and CODEP initiatives address exciting research frontiers in areas of UCSC interest and prior development and constitute the first explicit coordination of these research activities.

The C.DELSI proposal represents the collaborative efforts of over a dozen faculty from across five departments. The initial phase of the research plan will focus on the long and short-term dynamics of the global and regional scale climate change and their impact on ocean circulation, landscapes, geochemical cycles, and marine and terrestrial ecology at the land-sea interface. The proposal builds upon existing excellence and with further development promises to place UCSC in a position of national and international prominence.

The CODEP proposal reflects the collective efforts of thirteen faculty members from the departments of Earth Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics. The research plan seeks to improve our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of both terrestrial and giant planets, and will require collaborative research among faculty in the sponsoring departments. UCSC has already developed a superb base for research in planetary sciences. Providing a coordinated research environment through the establishment of CODEP will position UCSC to assume an even greater influence in the field of Planetary Sciences.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs and Mission:

The UCSC IGPP Branch will address fundamental topics pertaining to planetary sciences, global change, and Earth’s environment that are central concerns of IGPP systemwide. Strong interactions with other IGPP branches and with UC Observatories, NASA Ames Research Center, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institution will be developed or bolstered. The new UCSC Centers are building upon related key strengths of the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Engineering Divisions programs in Anthropology, Applied Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Studies, Environmental Toxicology, Institute of Tectonics, Ocean Sciences, Marine Biology, and Physics. Thirteen current faculty and researchers are affiliated with CODEP and sixteen current faculty are affiliated with C.DELSI. Interactions with related UC activities systemwide will be greatly abetted by participation in IGPP.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

The IGPP Initiative addresses exciting research frontiers in areas of extensive UCSC interest and prior development. Both areas will attract significant new funding and student enrollments to the campus, and it is viable to establish centers of excellence with moderate additional campus investment.

In planning for growth in the Natural Sciences Division, all programs have been encouraged to explore enhances multidisciplinary coordination, targeting areas of compelling scientific excitement, societal relevance, student interest and opportunities to establish distinctive campus centers of excellence. The campus has already developed excellent core programs in Astronomy and Astrophysics, with strong linkages to UCO/Lick, in Earth Sciences and the Institute of Tectonics, in Ocean Sciences, Marine Biology and the Institute of Marine Sciences. The Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Earth Sciences departments are the two top-ranked UCSC program in the Natural Sciences Division, and there is great opportunity for expansion of the Ocean Sciences and Marine Biology programs due to the central role UCSC is playing in the development of marine research institutions around the Monterey Bay.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facilities Requirements:

Over the initial two year time frame, a campus investment of $356,200 in on-going funding and $819,200 in one-time, start-up funding is being requested to support 3 faculty positions. If the proposal is successful, this will be leveraged by $180,000 in permanent funding from IGPP/UCOP and be matched by $204,800 in one-time funds from the division.

Additional funding will be requested in the subsequent years. Prior to doing so the division plans to engage in further discussions with the faculty from the IGPP related initiatives to define the minimum resources needed. Implementation of Phase II of the IGPP proposal will leverage an additional $120,000 in UCOP funding.

During the first several years the proposed faculty positions related to IGPP activities can be accommodated within existing and modified plans for campus expansion and program development. Similarly, new post-doctoral and student positions would be accommodated within departments housing sponsoring faculty members. One-time costs of $150,000 related to facilities renovation of lab space has been identified. Minimal administrative space will be required when the centers are established, and it is expected that current space allocations will suffice. However, once the Institute is established and operating, we anticipate working closely with the UCSC administration to develop sufficient funding to support the establishment of dedicated facilities necessary for expansion into Phase II and beyond.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Programs:

The recent TOE appointment in Earth Sciences, the current recruitments in Ocean Sciences and Astronomy, and the planned 1999/00 replacement recruitments in Ocean Sciences and Environmental Toxicology all contribute to the core programmatic strength that already exists for the IGPP Centers. An initial proposal to the Hewlett Foundation to seek start-up funds for technical staff and researcher positions to support the Centers has been developed.

Planned Implementation Date:

Phase I: Fall 1999 with two Centers (CODEP and DELSI) established as focused research groups supported by seed funding from the division. Further expansion will be dependent on the outcome of the Division’s request for initiative funding.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

The new UCSC IGPP Branch will have a distinctive, but highly complementary flavor relative to existing IGPP Branches, and will bring in significant new expertise in observational and theoretical astronomy, deep planetary geophysics, and paleoclimatology to the IGPP MRU. The natural intersections with ongoing programs at other Branches will engage UCSC in heightened collaborations across the campus.

Status of the Proposal:

Formal proposals are complete for the IGPP and both Centers (CODEP and C.DELSI). A request for review and approval has been initiated at the campus level

ITALIAN STUDIES –B.A.

Description of the Program and Reason for Proposing It:

Italian Studies is designed as an interdisciplinary major that will provide students with linguistic competence in the language and a broad knowledge of Italian literature, art, history, and politics. Students will be required to take a total of 10 courses, including a minimum core unit of five courses: three Italian Literature courses, and one each in Italian History and Art History, all to be taken at UCSC only. No more than two of the ten required courses can be lower division courses, and no more than two of the major’s ten courses can come from the Italy in a European or Global Context list of courses. A minimum of five courses must be taught principally in Italian or through Italian-language texts read in the original. A course on Dante is required for the major. All students will be required to complete a senior seminar focused on Italian Literature, History or Art History. These requirements are designed to give students a solid general grounding in Italian language, literature, history, and culture and to lead them more deeply into specific aspects of Italian culture. We recommend to all students in the program that, if possible, they should spend a period of time in residence in Italy, preferably through UC’s EAP.

Italian language courses at UCSC have for the past few years been overflowing. Especially among students who participate in UC’s year-long and quarter-long EAP programs, there has been considerable demand in recent years for a UCSC major that would integrate their Italian language and cultural studies. Aside from year-long programs in five cities (Padova, Bologna, Venice, Milan, Pisa), the UC EAP offers very successful Intensive Italian Language and Culture programs in Siena in both Fall and Spring Quarters. The Siena intensive program has become the model for other short-term EAP operations in the UC system. UC Santa Cruz yearly sends many of its students to these programs in Italy. Students typically return from a quarter, semester, or year in Italy and finish a completely unrelated major. Recently, it has become apparent that many are looking for a way to integrate their EAP experience with the rest of their education, and we have had increasingly frequent requests from students for options to major or minor in Italian Studies. Since we could offer this major with no additional faculty, by merely indicating the path for students to follow, we seek to respond to this student demand.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

UCSC has a large group of strong tenured scholars whose research and teaching interests cover the relevant disciplines: Literature, History, Art History, Music, Film, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, and Gender Studies.

Proposed Faculty, Staff, and Facilities Requirements:

The core faculty for Italian Studies within this frame are two faculty from Literature (Professor Margaret Brose and Associate Professor Deanna Shemek), one from History (Associate Professor Cynthia Polecritti), and one from the History of Art (Professor Catherine Soussloff). Extremely important are also the two language lecturers in Italian, Giulia Centineo and Tonia De Chicchio. The program will also be enriched by courses from faculty who offer Italian-related courses more occasionally. The Italian Studies Major will be housed in the Literature Department; all advising will be provided by the core faculty. There are no hidden costs to the program, and no additional faculty or budgetary resources are required.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support the Program:

No new faculty or staff will be required, and the program will not require the introductions of any new courses. On the contrary, we see the program as a means of strengthening the enrollments in existing courses in all departments involved; each of which has room to grow.

Planned Implementation Date:

This program can be introduced immediately, since it draws on existing faculty and resources.

UC Campuses Offering Similar Programs:

Many universities are now offering interdisciplinary Italian Studies programs in place of or alongside traditional foreign language majors. Within the UC system, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Davis now offer majors and minors in Italian Studies; UCLA offers an interdisciplinary option within its major (UCLA does not offer minors per se). UC Berkeley, as a result of a substantial external and internal review, has recently remodeled its Italian Literature undergraduate major and graduate program along interdisciplinary lines; indeed, the UCB department is now called "Italian Studies." These programs have all responded to the demand for more interdisciplinary Italian Studies curricula, at times revising their course offering from within the traditional literature/language department.

Status of Proposal:

This program proposal is still in the departmental development stage and could be advanced for informal and formal campus review within the next year.

MUSIC - PH.D.

Description and Reasons for Proposing Program:

The proposed Ph.D. in Music is an extension of the Music M.A. program. Established in 1988, the M.A. emphasizes the interaction of performance and scholarship, whether the student is involved as a composer, a conductor, a performer, or a musicologist. The Ph.D. will focus on the application of a wide range of control structures -- algorithms, in the broadest sense, to the creation and analysis of music.

Composition and analysis explores an important new field of research representing a convergence of recent developments in music theory, composition, and computer technology. It is unique in emphasizing the application of computer technology to musical structure and in teaching approaches to computer analysis of both tonal music and 20th century styles. This new Ph.D. program in algorithmic and computer-assisted composition and analysis will be the first in the nation explicitly to undertake computer modeling of musical structure as a primary focus.

New graduate-level courses would be offered: Computer Assisted Analysis; Computer Assisted Composition; and a Current Issues Seminar. Qualified Ph.D. candidates may be offered teaching assignments for rudimentary pre-major and non-major courses thereby releasing ladder faculty to teach these new graduate courses.

Judging by the many inquiries we receive annually regarding our graduate program, the number and quality of graduate applicants would be significantly enhanced by the addition of the Ph.D. Many prospective students note that they prefer to enroll in a program where they can complete their entire graduate education rather than having to transfer to another university after the master's degree.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs and Mission:

The music M.A. and Ph.D. will interlock in several respects: 1) the Ph.D. curriculum will build on that of the master's program; 2) existing facilities and equipment will service both programs; and 3) the same faculty will teach the requirements of both curricula.

In addition, we foresee collaborative efforts with these UCSC programs: computer engineering, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, theater arts, philosophy, and foreign languages.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

Development of the Music doctoral program is a natural extension of the existing M.A. program. Its implementation will help fulfill a long-standing campus aspiration to establish a more comprehensive constellation of distinctive and high quality graduate programs that extend across a broader array of disciplines.

New Staff and Facility Requirements:

No new teaching space will be required for the Ph.D. program. Office facilities for graduate students are already included in the allocation of spaces in the Music Building. Operational costs are not expected to increase above current levels, except: (1) an additional ten hours per week of office staff time; and (2) replacement of retired faculty.

Since our composition/analysis track does not involve sound synthesis, most computing needs can be met with current levels of Arts Division support provided in the Arts Instructional Computing Lab.

We expect to provide full TAships and/or Associate In teaching positions for 13 graduate students with funding currently assigned to the Department. An additional 3 graduate students could be supported with fellowships.

For purposes of comparison, Stanford has approximately the same number of ladder faculty as UCSC and successfully sustains an undergraduate major, a master's program, and doctoral degrees in composition and musicology. UCD, with fewer ladder faculty than UCSC, offers an undergraduate major, a master's program, and a Ph.D. in composition, musicology, or conducting.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program

Resources are essentially already in place. As Ph.D. enrollment increases the M.A. enrollment will decrease and support with shift correspondingly.

Planned Implementation Date:

As soon as approval is received, the program will be announced in the hope of attracting applications for the 2000-01 academic year. The Department anticipates that some of their present M.A. students will apply to continue in this program.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

This program will join other strong composition programs throughout the state. UCLA, USC, UCSD, UCSB, UCB, and UCD all offer a Ph.D. in composition. Stanford offers a D.M.A. in composition. However, few individual faculty from these departments are known to take algorithmic and computer-assisted approaches to the creation of musical structure. The systematic approach we propose has not yet been undertaken elsewhere.

Job Outlook for Graduates of the Program:

Positions for composers with expertise in computer music are increasingly common, especially for candidates who are proven teachers. Approximately one-half of the job descriptions posted in a recent College Music Society publication indicate that knowledge of computer technologies is a requirement for application.

Status of the Proposal:

The Ph.D. proposal has undergone Office of the President review and comment. It will now have been resubmitted for final review.

PHILOSOPHY - M.A. and PH.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

The UCSC Department of Philosophy is proposing a graduate program in philosophy that will offer both the Ph.D. and the M.A. degree. The program will provide all the training necessary for students who want to teach philosophy, as well as the philosophical background requisite for other career paths. However, the program will have a research focus in "Mind & Meaning." This means that the program will be especially strong in philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and philosophical psychology. It will transcend traditional boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy as well as between investigations into facts and into values.

The program will be small and highly selective. About five Ph.D. students will be admitted each year. In addition, to attain an appropriate critical mass of graduate students three to five M.A. students will also be admitted (without being guaranteed support). The program should stabilize at 23 Ph.D. and seven M.A. students. The Ph.D. program is designed to be completed in four to five years, whereas the M.A. program can be completed in one to two years (with UCSC undergraduates being able to get both a B.A. and an M.A. in five years). Student demand is expected to be high, especially because of the recent history of large numbers of applications to related UCSC programs including History of Consciousness and Psychology.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

The program's focus on "Mind and Meaning" will attract philosophy graduate students who will want to take graduate courses in other programs, particularly Psychology and Linguistics. Similarly, students in these programs may want to take courses in philosophy (for instance, philosophy of language or philosophical psychology). There are existing connections to the History of Consciousness graduate program as well as to the proposed program in Politics.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

A graduate program in philosophy will strengthen UCSC's stature as a major research campus comparable to the other UC campuses. UCSC is the only general campus in the UC system that does not offer a Ph.D. in philosophy. Also, philosophy is the only traditional area of the Humanities at UCSC that does not offer graduate degrees. If the UCSC campus is to be a full-fledged member of the UC system, it should serve the state by offering a distinctive and distinguished graduate program in philosophy. The separate M.A. program will be the only functioning one in philosophy in the UC system.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facilities Requirements:

Five years after the graduate program starts, it should stabilize at about twenty-three Ph.D. students plus a small contingent of M.A. students. In 1998-99 the continuing nine faculty members include three assistant professors, three associate professors, and three full professors. The department started a replacement search in 1998-99 that will continue in 1999-2000. The Divisional Plan gives high priority to two additional FTE, with one senior search in 1999-2000 and an entry-level position soon thereafter. These recruitments will restore the Philosophy faculty to its earlier size. The campus will benefit from this rebuilding in that for the same number of faculty that was deemed necessary for the undergraduate program before the budget crisis; there will be a distinctive graduate program as well.

Anticipated funding strategies to support new programs:

Ph.D. students will be supported by teaching assistantships and fellowships. M.A. students will not be guaranteed support. The Humanities Division is making changes that will create more teaching assistantships for the new graduate programs. Offering teaching assistantships to Philosophy graduate students may replace some graduate students from other programs, but already there are not enough students from these other programs to supply all of Philosophy's needs. The growth of the campus and the increased use of graduate students in writing, language, and core courses should supply enough teaching assistantships to make up for this minimal displacement. The undergraduate program will be greatly improved both in quantity (because more courses will be available to undergraduates) and in quality (because there will be a steady supply of competent teaching assistants).

Planned Implementation Date:

A few fifth-year M.A. students could begin taking graduate courses in the fall quarter of 1999. Most likely, however, the first cohort of Ph.D. students will begin in the fall of 2000.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

The program's research focus will be unique in the UC system because of the faculty's distinctive ways of approaching issues in the philosophy of mind in combination with intersecting concerns about moral psychology. The combination of continental and analytic methods in accounting for both consciousness and agency is also unusual.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

Demographic projections suggest a greatly increased market for Ph.D. recipients by the time the first group will be graduating (around 2005). Philosophy doctorates have been employed in many different areas, and they have the lowest unemployment rate in the humanities: 1.1%. The primary job market is that of teaching philosophy in universities and it has been tight in recent years. But it is now starting to open up and it is expected to expand more rapidly because of a surge of retirements among older faculty and the wave of enrollments by the grandchildren of the baby-boom generation. According to the National Research Council, in 1995 32% of the philosophy doctorates were between the ages of 55 and 75, and 37% were between 45 and 54. These facts indicate that there will be a significant number of philosophers who will be retiring when our first philosophy doctorates begin to graduate. Within this expanding job market UCSC Philosophy doctorates will be very competitive candidates for the new openings.

Status of the Proposal:

After several years of careful research and wide consultation the proposal was officially submitted in October 1997 and revised both in May 1998 and in October 1998. The proposal is currently under review by the central administration and the major Academic Senate committees of the campus.

PHYSICS INSTITUTE FOR STRUCTURAL STUDIES - MRU

Description and Reasons for Proposing Program:

The study of the microscopic structure of matter can now be addressed by many powerful new techniques, some of them requiring the use of large facilities employing synchrotron radiation or neutron scattering. As a consequence, the University of California has constructed a $12 M synchrotron radiation beam line located on the site of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, which in turn is located on the site of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. This facility is open to qualified users from the nine academic campuses of the University of California and the three national laboratories (LBNL, LLNL, LANL) managed by the UC. Faculty from six of nine academic campuses use this facility regularly, as well as scientists from all three national laboratories. Although the project was completed in 1989, no systematic plan for operating it, has yet been established. It is the purpose of this MRU to provide an organizational platform for providing intellectual, material, and technical continuity for the program. Eventually the MRU could expand its activities to the neutron scattering facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs and Mission:

Many UCSC faculty have researched programs that require advanced methods to study the microscopic structure of matter. Faculty within Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth and Marine Sciences all have active programs using synchrotron radiation.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling the Campus Academic Plan:

The study of the microscopic structure of matter is fundamental to the disciplines of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth Sciences. Access to the Stanford facility gives UC (and in particular UCSC) faculty a powerful tool in furthering the research goals of these disciplines, as well as promoting interdisciplinary research between the boundaries of these disciplines.

Proposed Faculty, Staff, and Facility Requirements:

The proposed MRU would have minimal faculty, staff and facility requirements. The MRU Director would receive that appropriate course relief and stipend. Administrative support would entail a small incremental load on the existing departmental administrative staff. Facility requirements are already in place on the Stanford property, in the form of the experimental facility itself, as well as a dedicated 600 asf trailer.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program:

The proposed MRU is a completely interdisciplinary program, which prevents it from being sponsored by a single federal sponsor. Accordingly, we are seeking funding primarily from UCOP, as well as the three national laboratory partners, LBL, LLNL, and LANL.

Planned Implementation Date:

The Institute should be implemented at the earliest possible date.

UC Campuses and other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

There are no other UC Campuses or other California institutions offering similar programs. In fact, faculty from seven of the nine academic campuses, and investigators from the three national laboratories managed by UC, are eager for the establishment of such an institute to further their own research goals.

Job Outlook for Graduates of the Program:

Synchrotron radiation research has revolutionized many scientific disciplines, particularly structural biology, and to a lesser extent, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences. Although this is not a degree program, students with expertise in this subject are in high demand in the academic and industrial workplace.

Status of the Proposal:

A proposal has been submitted to the Natural Sciences Division in March, 1999.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - M.S. and Ph.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

The creation, implementation and maintenance of large software systems are major engineering challenges, and there is a clear need for more education of software engineers. The proposed UCSC program in Software Engineering would be a graduate program, offering both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. The primary emphasis will be on the M.S. degree for programmers now employed in software and system development. There is an obvious synergy between software engineering and engineering management, and many students would be expected to combine these two in their graduate education at UCSC. Topics to be addressed in both teaching and research in software engineering include: the development of software and system requirements; the creation of software and system specifications; and development and use of methodologies and tools for software design, documentation, code development and testing. Other areas to be addressed are: the software development process, modularization, and software performance.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

Software engineering would build from and be closely allied with existing UCSC programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

Software Engineering, along with the Molecular Biotechnology-Engineering program and the Engineering Management program, serves to meet the needs of industry and the State of California. These programs will enable UCSC to attract capable students and train them to play important roles in the emerging technologies of the 21st century. Together with the other programs in the School of Engineering, UCSC will be in a unique position to fully exploit Santa Cruz’s location as the UC for Silicon Valley.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:

When fully mature, the program will consist of eight faculty FTE that will be new to the School of Engineering. These faculty hires will be phased in over a five-year period. Staffing is estimated at six FTE (three technical, three support staff). Space requirements are still being explored.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support New Program:

The program has yet to be fully costed, but could be launched initially with a mix of current faculty and a few careful hires. Permanent funding for faculty will most likely come from enrollment growth funding. The careful cultivation of partnerships with industry, business, and the community will yield external resources to augment graduate student support and facility enhancements.

Planned Implementation Date:

1999-00 First Faculty Recruited, campus review of proposal;

2000-2001 Systemwide review of proposal

2001-2002 Admit first cohort of students.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

This information is currently being investigated.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

Due to the campus’ proximity to a number of companies who hire software engineers, job outlook is very positive for majors in the Software Engineering program. The School of Engineering has worked closely with industry in identifying areas of need for educated engineers. It is clear that there is a demand for software engineers with a graduate education.

Status of the Proposal:

In 1998-99 a working committee was established to develop a proposal.

VISUAL AND PERFORMATIVE STUDIES - PH.D.

Description and Reason for Proposing It:

A program of graduate study that responds to the inclusive and intersecting spheres of sound, sight, and movement as categories of critical inquiry. Historicizing the junctions between visual and performative studies brings a vital new area of study into focus, concentrating on the key theoretical aspects of these fields in conjunction with the most up-to-date artistic and ritual practices.

Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:

While this program is unique in its integration of disciplines, expertise from across campus will contribute to the overall curriculum. Faculty from Art History, Theater Arts, Literature, History, Music, Anthropology, and Film & Video have designed the foundation seminars and they will teach for this program.

Critical Role of Proposed Program in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:

Over the past six years, various groups in the UC system have addressed the need for a graduate program in the growing intellectual area of Visual Culture. None of these earlier initiatives have thus far resulted in the establishment of a degree program. CAPC has targeted visual/media culture as a future growth area for graduate development.

Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facilities Requirements:

The present proposal requests four faculty FTE in year 1, expanding to six FTE by year 2. Additionally, contractual agreements would be necessary between the divisions and the departments of participating faculty to assure their continuity in the program. Administratively, the proposal requests one full-time staff FTE in year 1 and an additional full-time staff FTE by year 3. The co-directors and full-time faculty would have full-year research assistants chosen from the graduate students in the program. Graduate students are also requested to staff a program archive. It is proposed that space at Porter College be dedicated to offices and an archive space.

Anticipated Funding Strategies to Support the Program:

The program has significant funding needs to staff this program and provide support for graduate students. Funding strategies have yet to be discussed at length.

Planned Implementation Date:

1999-00: Completion of revisions and campus review;

2000-01/02: Systemwide review;

2001-02: Approval, and recruitment of students;

Fall 2002: Admission of first cohort of students.

UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:

No other Ph.D. program in either Visual Culture or Performance Studies is offered in the UC system or on the West Coast. A graduate program in Rhetoric and Film at UC Berkeley addresses some areas covered by this program but has no anthropological emphasis nor comparable focus on performance and the visual. UC Riverside’s program in Dance History and Theory is focused discretely on dance and dance theory. The History of Consciousness program at UCSC does not deal primarily or comprehensively with visual and performative culture issues.

Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:

Graduates of the program will be able to teach in the growing disciplinary areas of performance studies, cultural studies, and visual studies (including art history, theater, dance, and literature). Furthermore, the credential is of increasing importance in institutions such as historical, anthropological, and art museums; theater and dance presenting organizations; art direction, documentary and ethnographic film making, dramaturgy, etc.

Status of the Proposal:

A revised draft of the proposal is currently in the division for preliminary review.