Sixth College
http://sixth.ucsd.edu
Culture, Art, and Technology Courses, Curricula
and Program of Instruction
Sixth College, the newest of UCSD’s six undergraduate college
draws on its theme, Culture, Art, and Technology, to meet the lifelong
educational needs of students in the twenty-first century. New
global challenges demand new approaches to visualization, problem
solving, information handling, and communication across cultural
and disciplinary boundaries. Intellectual flexibility, creative,
critical thinking, ethical judgment, fluency in assessing and adapting
to technological change and the ability to engage effectively in
collaboration with others from a wide range of backgrounds will
be critically important to our graduates. To help prepare our students
for the future, Sixth College offers an integrated learning environment
that emphasizes collaborative learning, creative imagination, interdisciplinary
inquiry, and written, visual, kinetic and auditory investigation,
argument, and expression. Students will learn to use digital as
well as traditional communication and research tools. The college
is committed to help students develop skills necessary for lifelong
learning, including self-reflection with information technology
and the crucial ability to learn from experts.
Sixth College offers
students opportunities to explore its theme, Culture, Art, and
Technology, both within its academic program
and through non-classroom based programs that provide our students
with learning, work, and research experiences both on and off
campus.
Sixth College challenges students to examine the multidimensional
interactions between culture, art, and technology, in order to
imagine
the future and create new forms of inquiry and communication.
Teamwork, artistic expression, interdisciplinary ways of thinking
and knowing,
and multicultural awareness are core educational goals.
Sixth
College students will be encouraged to engage with the outlying
community through the practicum.
More than an ethical obligation to service, such an engagement
is integral to the process of learning to listen across cultures
and
to consider implications of diverse agencies of change. Sixth
College is committed to pioneer meaningful application of evolving
technologies
inside and outside the classroom. For example, wireless communication
technology is incorporated into the very design of this
colleges
physical infrastructure and curricular planning, allowing Sixth
College to pioneer radically new teaching, communication,
community,
and lifelong learning paradigms. On campus and off, students
will be linked in many ways—by digital media, by team-based
course and extracurricular projects and learning exercises,
by social and local community engagement (e.g., practicum project),
and by diverse cultural and intellectual events that seamlessly
connect many aspects of residential life and student affairs
programming with the college curriculum. All these linkages
help ensure that Sixth College students have the opportunity
to develop, learn, and act as integral members of a sustaining
local and larger community.
Culture, Art, and Technology
All students will take a three-quarter core sequence titled Culture,
Art, and Technology (CAT). CAT is a highly interdisciplinary sequence
integrating learning in arts and humanities, social sciences, and
science and engineering. It introduces students to thinking across
disciplines so they can identify interactions, recognize patterns,
and provide opportunities for learning by inquiry in a collaborative
environment. Exercises and instruction that develop fluency with
information technology and information literacy, as well as writing
and communication skills, will be embedded in the core sequence.
Practicum
Sixth College’s Practicum is a capstone requirement
that engages students in the creative process of our research university.
Students must initiate, plan, and execute projects that connect
classroom based experiences and knowledge to the outlying community
and that explicitly explore the interplay of culture, art, and
technology. The practicum reflects Sixth College’s commitment
to form bridges within the UCSD campus units and to San Diego’s
communities, to engage students in communal issues and to foster
students’ ethical obligation to service. Such an engagement
is an integral part of the process of learning to listen across
cultures and to consider the implications of various agencies of
change.
General-Education Requirements
The Sixth College breadth requirements have three primary goals:
(1) to produce breadth of knowledge and connections across that
breadth, (2) to encourage creative imagination, and (3) to accomplish
these activities from an ethically informed perspective. The aim
is to allow students to discover the richness of UCSD's academic
life and to see relationships among the sciences, social sciences,
engineering, arts, and the humanities. Because Sixth College emphasizes
cross-disciplinary ways of thinking, it is critical for students
to appreciate the different modes of inquiry within academic disciplines.
For information about courses available to satisfy the general-education
requirements, please visit the academic advising office in the Sixth
Administration Building or check the Web site at sixth.ucsd.edu.
- Culture, Art, and Technology: Three courses. Core Sequence
CAT 1, 2, and 3. Includes two (6 unit) quarters of intensive instruction
in university-level writing.
- Information Technology Fluency: One course. This requirement
may be satisfied with courses from a variety of departments.
- Modes of Inquiry: Seven courses. Two courses in social
sciences, two courses in humanities, two courses in natural sciences,
one course in math/logic (different options available for science
and non-science majors).
- Understanding Data: One course in statistical methods
(different options available for science and non-science majors).
- Societal and Ethical Contexts: Two courses. One course
in ethnic or gender studies AND one course in ethics.
- Art Making: Two courses in literature, music, theatre
(including dance), or visual arts.
- Practicum: Students must complete a capstone project
and an upper-division writing course in which students reflect
about their practicum experience. See the Sixth College advising
center for details.
Graduation Requirements
In order to graduate from Sixth College all students must:
- Satisfy the University of California requirements in Entry
Level Writing and American History and Institutions (See Academic
Regulations: Entry Level Writing Requirement; and American History
and Institutions).
- Satisfy the general-education requirements, including the practicum
and the practicum writing requirement.
- Successfully complete a major according to all regulations of
that department.
- Complete at least 60 units at the upper-division level.
- Pass at least 180 units for the B.A./B.S. degree. No more than
3 units in physical education (activity) courses may count toward
graduation.
- Attain a C average (2.0) or better in all work attempted at
the UC. Departmental requirements may differ. Students are responsible
for checking with the department of the major for all regulations.
- Meet the senior residence requirement. (See Academic Regulations:
Senior Residence).
Transfer Students
Transfer students may meet all or most of Sixth College’s
lower-division requirements before entering UCSD if they have followed
transfer agreements or preparation programs. Specific details regarding
appropriate general-education agreements are in the catalog section
on “Undergraduate Admissions.” Additional resources
of information for transfer students include UCSD Transfer Services,
the Sixth College Web site, and the student’s community college.
Majors and Minors
Majors: Sixth College students may pursue any of the departmental
or interdisciplinary majors offered at UCSD. The majority of the
academic departments have established lower-division prerequisites.
Generally, these prerequisites must be completed prior to entry
into upper-division major courses. Many of these courses may count
for general-education credit as well. Students are strongly encouraged
to work closely with department faculty and college advisers. For
details on the specific major departments, refer to the "Courses,
Curricula, and Programs of Instruction" section of this catalog.
Minors are optional. However, students are encouraged to
keep as many options open as possible. A minor provides an excellent
opportunity to complement the major field of study. Students are
required to complete twenty-eight units of interrelated work, of
which at least twenty units must be upper-division.
Pass/Not Pass Grading Option
Some general-education requirements may be fulfilled by courses
taken on the Pass/Not Pass basis. Sixth College students are reminded
that major requirements and prerequisites must be taken on a graded
basis. In accordance with University Academic Regulations, the total
number of Pass/Not Pass units may not exceed one-fourth of a students
total UCSD units.
Honors
In addition to the College Honors Program (see under Sixth College),
there are many types of Honors at UCSD.
- Provost Honors—awarded each quarter based on completion
of twelve graded units with a GPA of 3.5 or higher. For each
year of Provost’s Honors,
a certificate of merit is awarded.
- Departmental Honors—Outstanding students often
enroll in departmental honors programs, and they may receive
university honors at graduation.
They may also
be eligible to be invited to membership by the UCSD chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa, the nation's oldest, most respected academic honor society.
- College Honors designation at graduation—College
honors awarded include: summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and
cum laude.
Expanding Your Educational
Horizons
Chicano/a ~ Latino/a Arts and Humanities (CLAH) Minor—http://clah.ucsd.edu/
Sixth
College sponsors the CLAH minor at UCSD, which encourages students
to examine the art, literature, history, music,
theater, and language of Spanish-speaking
people in the United States, from the nineteenth century to the present.
This minor is open to all UCSD students in good standing. Two years
or equivalent
college-level Spanish language instruction (may include one lower-division
language course) are required.
Collaboration
and connectedness are central values of Sixth College. These
values are reflected in Sixth’s commitment to providing meaningful
opportunities for students to contribute to the direction and
evolution of UCSD’s youngest
college. Student leadership opportunities include serving on the
Sixth College Student Council or in campus-wide student governance
roles.
Additionally, students
assume leadership in the Sixth community through service as resident
advisers, orientation leaders, and members of the Sixth College
Executive Committee.
These opportunities and others not only contribute to shaping what
Sixth College is
and will become, but also foster in students the development of life
skills that prepare them to be effective citizens and leaders
in a world of ever increasing
complexity and diversity.
Undergraduate Research
Research opportunities for undergraduates at UCSD
UCSD encourages
all undergraduates to become involved in the research life of
the university. Every academic department
has opportunities
for undergraduates
to work with faculty on the cutting edge research projects
for which UCSD is world-renowned. Working closely with faculty,
students will
deepen their
knowledge
and skills in areas of special academic interest, while experiencing
what it means to be part of an intellectual community engaged
in research. Information
can be found through Undergraduate Research at UCSD: http://ugr.ucsd.edu;
Academic Enrichment Program: http://aep.ucsd.edu/,
and Summer Research Opportunities: http://sea.ucsd.edu/summer_research/
This undergraduate research
program provides opportunities to participate in an international
research and cultural
experience that will
prepare students for the global workplace of the twenty-first
century. Students
will live
and
work at an international host site either in Japan, Taiwan,
China,
or Australia, and gain greater cultural understanding of
a new region.
California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology (Calit2)
http://www.calit2.net/
Ensures that California maintains its leadership
in the rapidly changing telecommunications and information
technology marketplace.
The institute
encourages undergraduate
participation in its research activities and provides
undergraduate summer research scholarships.
Community Work
TIES is a new and innovative
academic program putting UCSD undergraduates and their technical
and creative
skills
to work for San Diego
non-profit organizations.
Multidisciplinary teams of UCSD students design,
build, and deploy projects that solve technology-based problems
for
community partners.
PAL is the service-learning
division of UCSD’s Teacher Education Program.
PAL classes give UCSD students meaningful
opportunities to learn about and experience issues of equity
and education in San Diego’s K–12 schools.
Through PAL, UCSD students serve as tutors and mentors in
K–12 classrooms throughout San Diego County.
Each year PAL students contribute about 20,000
hours of service to underserved schools.
Cultural Enrichment
The Center for Research in Computing and
the Arts (CRCA)
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/
CRCA is an organized research unit
of UCSD whose
mission is to
facilitate the
invention of
new art forms that
arise
out of the developments of digital technologies.
Current areas of interest include
interactive networked multimedia, virtual
reality, computer-spatialized audio, and
live performance
techniques for computer music
and graphics. Through
Sixth College’s partnership with
CRCA students have opportunities to participate
in special events, meet artists, and engage
in research.
Artpower!, administered through
the University Events Office, brings to the UCSD campus
world artists in
a wide variety
of genres, including
music,
dance,
and
the spoken word. Sixth College has
developed a partnership with ArtPower!, providing
students with opportunities
to connect to
and engage with
professional artists
in a variety of formal and informal
activities.
Through the Programs Abroad Office,
students can take advantage of a
variety of international
opportunities,
including
study, work, volunteer, and internship
programs abroad! Each year UCSD sends
about 1,000 students
overseas. Students may choose from
the University of California’s
systemwide Education Abroad Program
(EAP) that has educational opportunities
in thirty-five countries,
or from the Opportunities Abroad
Program (OAP) that links students
with worldwide opportunities sponsored
by organizations and universities
other than the University
of California.
Professional Preparation
The program offers qualified juniors
and seniors the opportunity
to acquire valuable
work experience
related
to academic
and career interests.
Although
most internships
are in the San Diego area,
the Academic Internship Program is national in
scope, including the
popular Washington,
D.C. program,
and international,
including
the London program. An extensive
library lists more than 2,000
available internships
in varied
settings
including,
but not
limited to, TV
and radio stations, law
offices, medical research labs
and clinics, government agencies, high-tech
and biotech
companies, engineering,
advertising
and public relations
firms, and financial
institutions. Students also
can work with the internship office to set
up their own positions.
Departmental
Internships
Most departments
offer internships for their majors; the courses
are numbered 197 (see
individual departments
for
additional
information). |