UCSC Five-Year
List of Proposed Changes in Academic Programs and Research Units
2000-2005
Each year the campus receives a request from the University of California Office of the President’s (UCOP) for a list of academic programs and research units that the campus plans to implement within the next five years. Each spring the AVC - Programs and Planning, solicits from each of the divisions, submission of one-page program summaries for each initiative
proposed for establishment within the five-year time frame. These summaries are then forwarded to CPB, CEP, and the Graduate Council for review, prior to transmittal to UCOP.
Programs appearing on this list but not yet reviewed on campus will undergo a formal campus review when the relevant dean endorses and transmits a full proposal. At that time, your committee will be asked to advise the administration on the desirability of the program (with the exception that the Graduate Council does not advise on undergraduate degree programs). Some degree programs on this list have already progressed through the formal on-campus review process. Others are in more preliminary stages of development. The Philosophy Ph.D. and the Music Ph.D. have already been approved at the campus level, and currently are under consideration by the systemwide Coordinating Council on Graduate Affairs (CCGA), UCOP, and the California Post-secondary Education Commission (CPEC).
In previous years, UCOP has preapproved specific undergraduate programs based on summaries included in the five-year list. However, this preliminary authorization was always contingent on final approval at the campus level, following normal processes that secured the endorsement of both the relevant academic senate committees and the administration. Last year, after considerable systemwide consultation with campus constituencies, UCOP delegated full authority to approve baccalaureate degrees to the campus so the preapproval process is no longer necessary. Inclusion of undergraduate programs serves to keep UCOP informed of campus development.
Changes From Last
Year
From last year’s submission, the B.A. degree programs in Classical Studies and Italian Studies were approved along with the Ph.D. degree program in Politics and the M.S./Ph.D. degree program in Environmental Toxicology. Also receiving formal approval was the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics – MRU (branch). It has been decided that formal MRU status for the Institute of Structural Studies will not be pursued at this time. As a result, these programs no longer appear on our UCOP submittal. Note there are now two baccalaureate degrees that have received systemwide pre-approval, yet have not yet undergone formal campus review. Projected start dates for these two programs (Biomolecular Engineering, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics) have been included in Table 1 below.
This Year’s Proposal
As indicated below, proposals for two new baccalaureate programs, one graduate program, and a Multicampus Research Unit (MRU) emerged from the divisions’ transmittals this year. The Ecology and Evolution B.S. degree program is currently under campus review and the proposal to establish an undergraduate major in East Asian Studies was forwarded for informal campus review in early November, 1999. Sorted by academic division, the program summaries that make up this year’s submittal are:
Arts Division
Visual and Performative Studies Ph.D.
Jack Baskin School of
Engineering
Applied Mathematics and Statistics M.S./Ph.D.
Biomolecular Engineering M.S./Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering M.S./Ph.D.
Engineering Management M.S./Ph.D.
Software Engineering M.S./Ph.D.
Center for Biomolecuar Science and Engineering ORU (NEW)
Bioinformatics M.S. (NEW)
Humanities Division
Comparative American Studies Ph.D.
Philosophy
M.A./Ph.D.
East Asian Studies B.A. (NEW)
Natural Sciences Division
Ecology and Evolution B.S. (NEW)
Social Sciences Division
Table 1:
Implementation Time Frame for Proposed Programs in Five-Year List
|
2000-01 |
2001-02 |
2002-03 |
2003-05 |
|
Music Ph.D. |
Electrical
Engineering M.S./Ph.D. |
Applied/Engineering
Mathematics B.S.* |
Biomolecular
Engineering B.S.*/ M.S. |
|
East Asian Studies
B.A. |
Philosophy
M.A./Ph.D. |
Applied Mathematics
& Statistics M.S./Ph.D. |
Education Ph.D. |
|
Ecology and
Evolution B.S. |
|
Visual and
Performative Studies Ph.D. |
Biomolecular
Science and Engineering ORU |
|
|
|
Biomolecular
Engineering Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
Comparative
American Studies Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
Engineering
Management M.S./Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
Software
Engineering M.S./Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
Bioinformatics M.S. |
|
* Preapproved by UCOP, has not yet undergone campus review.
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 is undergoing systemwide review and comment.
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:
2000-01: Completion of revisions and campus review
2001-02: Systemwide review
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.
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:
1999-00: Prepare M.S. and Ph.D. proposal
2000-01: Submit proposal for campus review
2001-02: Seek systemwide approval of program
2002-03: 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:
2000-01: Finalize proposal and engage campus
review process
2001-02: Submit program proposal for systemwide
review
Fall
2002: First cohort of students
admitted to the Ph.D. program
Fall
2003: 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.
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:
1999-00: Campus review of proposal
2000-01: Obtain systemwide approval of program
2001-02: 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 were submitted for campus review in Winter 2000.
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:
2000-01: Prepare M.S. and Ph.D. proposals and submit
for campus review
2001-02: Seek systemwide approval for program; hire
staff FTE
2002: 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 1999-00, a committee is formulating the Engineering Management program proposal.
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:
2000-01: Campus review of proposal;
2001-02: Systemwide review of proposal
2002-03: 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.
CENTER FOR BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING - ORU
Description and Reason
for Proposing It:
This is a joint ORU proposal being developed by the School
of Engineering and the Division of Natural Sciences. The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) will
be the umbrella organization for an interdisciplinary research and education
program at UCSC. This program is intended to meet the challenges of the
post-genomic era, ushered in by the completion of the Human Genome Project,
which was first conceptualized at UCSC. The Human Genome Project presents a
unique opportunity to establish new scientific disciplines and academic
departments at research universities.
The development and application of technologies that enable an in depth
analysis of the human genome requires a new blend of computational analysis,
micromechanical robotics, microfluidics, bioelectronic chips, imaging, and new
structural and functional genomics methods.
The proposed interdisciplinary Center emphasizes these and supporting
basic science areas, and will enable UCSC to make major contributions to the
post-genomic effort, building on the vision of the UCSC scientists who first
recognized the power of sequencing the human genome.
Relationship to
Existing Campus Programs:
This is possibly the most inclusive interdisciplinary undertaking UCSC has ever considered. Several programs contribute to the overall program of research and study: Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Environmental Toxicology, and Applied Math and Statistics.
Formal campus affiliates of the program include the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, and the Department of Environmental Toxicology. The RNA Center researches how RNA molecules carry out their diverse functions. It fosters an interdisciplinary environment in which the molecular structures and biological functions of RNA are explored. Collaborative projects between the CBSE and the RNA Center will lead to an understanding of the function of many newly identified genes. Substantial inroads in environmental health are likely through the affiliation of UCSC’s Department of Environmental Toxicology. The potential benefits of evaluating patterns of changes in gene expression in response to treatments, such as toxicant exposures, may yield important insights into cellular responses to exposures, including elucidation of mechanisms of toxicity and/or compensation. This may in turn lead to a better understanding of sensitive populations, and the important roles that environmental agents play in the etiology of disease.
Critical Role of
Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:
The CBSE is a logical and timely addition to the UCSC campus for several reasons. First, UCSC has recently been invited to join the international public Human Genome Project by applying our computational methods to locate the genes in the first draft of the genome. With the impending completion of the human genome, the CBSE’s involvement in the project will bring to the campus the excitement of this great project and the deserved recognition of our research and educational accomplishments. Second, UCSC scientists possess a wealth of expertise in relevant research areas. Third, the biotechnology industry is experiencing a need for scientists in the areas of computer science/engineering and the biological/biochemical sciences. Finally, our proximity to Silicon Valley will allow the campus to foster important industrial ties and contribute to the high demand for our academic programs.
Proposed Faculty,
Staff and Facility Requirements:
There are currently 38 UCSC faculty from several departments who are members of the CBSE. The proposal seeks to establish a core of faculty (including existing and new faculty) whose expertise will lead to the development of new technologies for understanding the genome. A combination of strengths in the underlying technical aspects is critical: this means outstanding new faculty and facilities devoted to the methods of structural biology, functional genomics, micro-engineering and computation.
The addition of 16 new faculty over a period of 4 years is proposed; 8 will be hired into the School of Engineering and 8 into the Division of Natural Sciences. Many faculty will obtain joint appointments with the Department of Biomolecular Engineering once it has been established, in keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the program.
Biomolecular engineering requires specialized laboratory space for both teaching and research. Two types of laboratory space are necessary – wet/dry lab space for the Natural Sciences and engineering faculty hires, and dry computer labs for the computational faculty hires. Space in the Physical Sciences Building, Sinsheimer Labs, and released space in Baskin Engineering (Environmental Toxicology and Science Communications) are requested for the new program.
Planned
Implementation Date:
It is expected that the proposal to establish the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering will be submitted to the campus for review by Fall 2000, with formal implementation to proceed upon approval.
UC Campuses and
Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs:
A number of institutions in California offer programs in Biotechnology/Bioengineering: Caltech, Claremont College, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco, and USC. Locally, the approach at UC Santa Cruz differs from that being taken by UCSF and UCB in that they are building on an existing joint department of Bioengineering. While the UCSF/Berkeley program has an historical focus on large-scale medical engineering applications such as MRI imaging, UCSC strengths are in key post-genomic disciplines such as bioinformatics and others. The focus of Stanford’s program is less clear; they will be working to establish a new interdisciplinary program from a broad array of existing disciplines within medicine, science, and engineering. The timing of this proposal, right after the creation of the new engineering school, and UCSC’s excellent track record for interdisciplinary work provide the foundation to build a strong and unique program at Santa Cruz.
Job Outlooks for
Graduates of the Program:
Sixty-five leaders of biotechnology firms in the Silicon Valley were surveyed to solicit their assessments of the job market for graduates of the proposed program. These discussions have yielded numerous expressions of support for the Center and for the proposed masters degree program in bioinformatics. Without exception, the respondents described a strong current job market for graduates of the proposed program, and projected a strong market for the foreseeable future. This confirms the exceptionally high demand for personnel with solid academic preparation in biomolecular engineering, as is also evident from the many inquiries we receive from human resources people, and the multiple job offers our student receive.
Status of the
Proposal:
The proposal to establish the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering is currently in development and will be submitted to the campus for review by Fall 2000.
Description and Reason for Proposing It:
Currently, many students who are obtaining degrees in computer science, computer engineering, biology, chemistry and biochemistry, physics, and applied mathematics and statistics do not have the necessary breadth to function immediately in the genomics and biomolecular engineering field. This means that they must undergo substantial new training upon accepting a job in industry. The bioinformatics degree seeks to “cross-train” biomolecular engineers and provide a skilled intellectual resource for the biotechnology industry, and academicians to train future scientists.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:
This is possibly the most inclusive interdisciplinary undertaking UCSC has ever considered. Several programs contribute to the overall program of study: Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Applied Math and Statistics. Graduate seminar course electives can also include courses in Computer Engineering.
Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus
Academic Plan:
The professional master’s degree program, followed by a bachelor’s and a doctorate degree program, will later form the Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department. BME is included in the School of Engineering’s mid-range academic plan for immediate implementation. The field of biomolecular study has a major concentration in San Francisco (“Biotech Bay”), and high industry demand for scientists with the comprehensive background offered by this program.
Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:
The program proposes the addition of 16 new faculty over a period of 4 years; 8 will be hired into the School of Engineering (the same 8 faculty planned for Biomolecular Engineering) and 8 into the Division of Natural Sciences. Many faculty hired early on will obtain joint appointments with the Department of Biomolecular Engineering once it has been established, in keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the program. A combination of strengths in the underlying technical aspects is critical: this means outstanding new faculty and facilities devoted to the methods of structural biology, functional genomics, micro-engineering and computation.
Biomolecular engineering is a scientific field that requires specialized laboratory space for both teaching and research. We will need two types of laboratory space – wet/dry lab space for the Natural Sciences and engineering faculty hires, and dry computer labs for the computational faculty hires. Space in the Physical Sciences Building, Sinsheimer Labs, and released space in Baskin Engineering (Etox and Science Communications) are requested for the new program.
Planned Implementation Date:
The first faculty recruitments are planned for 2000-01 with the first cohort of students admitted to the Ph.D. program in fall 2002. The BS and PhD programs will follow.
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.
Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:
Sixty-five leaders of biotechnology firms in the Silicon Valley were surveyed to solicit their assessments of the job market for graduates of the proposed professional master’s degree in bioinformatics. We also invited comments regarding the quality of the proposed program. Without exception, the respondents described a strong current job market for graduates of the proposed program, and projected a strong market for the foreseeable future. This confirms the exceptionally high demand for personnel with solid academic preparation in biomolecular engineering, as is also evident from the many inquiries we receive from human resources people, and the multiple job offers our student receive. There was overwhelming approval of the proposed bioinformatics program.
Status of the Proposal:
A joint proposal between the School of Engineering and the Division of Natural Sciences will forwarded via the campus initiative process in Spring of 2000. A draft program proposal is included in that document.
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:
Fall 2002.
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 draft proposal is under development. It is anticipated that the campus will submit the proposal for systemwide review during 2001-02.
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 2000. Most likely, however, the first cohort of Ph.D. students will begin in the fall of 2001.
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 at the systemwide level.
Description and Reason for Proposing It:
The East Asian Studies major, a version of which exists at every UC campus except UCSC as well as at all comparable institutions, is primarily aimed at students who combine intensive and advanced language study in Chinese or Japanese with coure-work in the relevant areas across a range of the disciplines. California’s large Asian-American population, and California’s cultural, educational, and business ties with East Asia, makes the lack of this major particular acute. The major is centered on fluency-level coursework in language, a substantial history component, and opportunity for focused work in established disciplines such as art history, history, literature, or anthropology. It requires comparative work, as well as a substantial number of courses (3) in pre-twentieth-century subject matter, the latter being one of the major’s distinctive features.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:
There East Asian Studies Committee has existed for 25 years. There has been a minor for many years. The major was regularized in 1995 for students wanting an East Asian Studies independent major. For the last few years, five to eight students a year have elected the EAS independent major. Since advanced language study constitutes the core of the major, we feel it is appropriate that staff support continue to be located in the Language Program, as it has been for some years. Primary departments with courses in the major are history, literature, art history, and anthropology, with additional offerings in politics, history of consciousness, sociology, and american studies. UCSC’s faculty in Chinese and Japanese area studies are internationally known, both in their respective disciplines and as area studies scholars. The recently established track in East Asian History in the History Department’s graduate program--one in which several off-board faculty participate—has been singularly successful in attracting excellent students.
Critical Role of Proposed Program in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan:
This would serve students, diversity aims, and the cross-disciplinary curricula as advocated in the Millenium Committee report.
Proposed Faculty Saff and Facilities Requirements/ Anticipated Funding Strategies:
No additional needs envisioned. We estimate that the major will grow to about 15 students per year over the next 3 or 4 years.
Planned Implementation Date:
Fall 2000
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering
Similar Programs:
As stated above, every UC campus has either an East Asian Studies major, or separate Japanese and Chinese studies majors. For California at the present time, to NOT have this major sends a certain signal to the students.
Status of Proposal
The proposal is currently undergoing campus review.
Description and Reason for Proposing It:
This proposal formalizes the Ecology and Evolution Pathway within Biology, which has been a guide for many undergraduates for over 10 years. Recent hires in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department have provided sufficient breadth and depth to consider offering a formal, rigorous program that represents the department’s strengths in ecology, evolution, behavior and physiology. The department anticipates that the formal establishment of this major will improve student recruitment and retention, will expand curricular offerings in allied fields, and will support the continued development of rigorous interdisciplinary research and teaching activities.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs:
The Environmental Studies major has the closest relationship to the proposed Ecology and Evolution program. While offering ecological courses, the ES major is not designed to provide the comprehensive curriculum that the Ecology and Evolution major will offer. The Ecology and Evolution major has a primary commitment to a strong biology curriculum that will provide all students with critical courses in Ecology and Evolution, fieldwork experience, and the opportunity to develop strong quantitative skills. The new major will complement the continuing Marine Biology major by providing students with options to study terrestrial plants, vertebrates or insects.
Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus
Academic Plan:
Campus planning efforts have emphasized leveraging the opportunities afforded to us by the local environment, and responding to the state and public need for the development of graduates who can address the complex problems with which we are faced today. This degree program will be uniquely placed to take advantage of the coastal location of the campus, the close access to Natural Reserve lands, and the Fort Ord property. Graduates of the proposed program will help address the state’s urgent need to resolve environmental problems.
Proposed Faculty, Staff and Facility Requirements:
As this is planned as one of the primary majors of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department, no additional resources are required to administer the program or deliver the curriculum. The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology faculty have developed a strong strategic plan that includes an initiative in Integrative Coastal Ecology that proposes the addition of several new faculty over the next ten years. These positions would add to the quantitative strengths of the major. However, as detailed in the proposal, a full curriculum can be offered by the current faculty.
Planned Implementation Date:
Fall Quarter, 2000
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar
Programs:
Most of the other UC campuses have a similar major within their biology programs. The establishment of this major at UCSC brings our program in line with the other campuses and provides students interested in the biological field with a full range of options.
The UCSC program will differ from similar programs in two distinct ways: The UCSC program will include a strong field component as part of the undergraduate experience – students will be required to take at least one methods course with a field orientation. The program will also provide a curriculum that develops quantitative approaches to Ecology and Evolution.
Job Outlooks for Graduates of the Program:
This program will prepare students for careers in the environmental industry, government and research, as well as producing an educated citizenry for issues that are critical to ecosystem health and related concerns for human health.
Status of the Proposal:
The proposal is currently being reviewed by the campus.
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:
2001-02: Submit proposal for
campus review
2002-03: Seek systemwide
approval of program
2003: Admit first cohort
of graduate students
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:
A direct proposal is
under development.