Introduces techniques of modeling, transformation, and rendering for computer-generated imagery. Topics: 2D/3D primitives, projections, matrix composition, and shading algorithms. Programming assignments and major project required. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and CSE 260 in quarters when they are offered concurrently. Mastery of materials in the prerequisite courses will be verified with a quiz or assignment during the first two weeks of the course. Lab component will help with gaining additional competence with a number of important software development tools, graphics libraries, and graphical user interfaces. Topics include OpenGL, WebGL, rubberbanding, picking, sliders, buttons, dialog, event handling, double buffering, lighting, shading, materials, and textures. The topic list may be updated to reflect technological changes. (Formerly Computer Science 160.)

• Days: M & W
• Time: 5:20 – 6:55 PM
• Format: Synchronous Online
• Instructor: Davis, J.E.
• Contact for Approval: davisje@ucsc.edu
• Units: 7

Overview of the financial responsibilities that young adults take on after college. Topics include: taxes, budgeting, student loans, credit, and investing in the stock market. Ubiquitous terms, such as 401(k), are defined, and financial principles are used to develop a framework for personal financial decision-making.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Kelly, P.M.
• Contact for Approval: pmkelly@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Do you ever think, "I want to make a difference!" but don't know where to start? In this class, students learn design thinking theory and methods and apply them to their lives, specifically to the question of what to do after college. Students build deeper awareness of their values and goals, define areas of life and work they want to grow in, ideate multiple life paths, prototype elements of careers of interest, and take small steps to try these out. This is an experiential class that asks students to try new ways of thinking and step outside comfort zones as they learn a creative problem-solving approach applicable in many contexts. (Formerly offered as CLNI 140.)

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Stinneford, C.M.
• Contact for Approval: cstinnef@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Community service-oriented class provides a supervised learning experience for students who deliver real solutions to local businesses while gaining valuable practical skills and an opportunity to integrate their academic coursework with community involvement. Teams are formed and businesses assigned while students are trained to do interviews, write proposals, project-manage, design websites, and marketing campaigns. No prerequisites are required and familiarity in the following areas is preferred: the lean startup method, the business model canvas, and customer discovery.

• Days: T & Th
• Time: 9:50–11:25 AM
• Format: Synchronous Online
• Instructor: Staff
• Contact for approval: NEED AN EMAIL HERE
• Units: 5

Touches on the main operational facets of starting and scaling an organization. Students from all disciplines are welcome and encouraged to approach this class within the framework of their own career and business goals. For those who wish to start and scale companies, or those who desire to work in fast-paced and high-growth industries, this course hopes to illustrate the fundamental systems and practices that underpin the creation of new organizations, products and services. Satisfies the Core requirement of the planned Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate.

• Days: T & Th
• Time: 1:30–3:05 PM
• Format: Online | Synchronous
• Instructor: Vroomen, P.H.
• Email for Approval: pvroomen@ucsc.edu
• Units: 3

Examines real-world case studies of eco-entrepreneurship across various sectors through the lens of the Lean Startup method. Topics include market research, value propositions, cost structures, and revenue models, equipping students with the tools to create and improve sustainable business practices. Students analyze business strategies, engage with owners, and explore sustainable practices. Building on these foundations, students are encouraged to develop innovative solutions, propose new ventures, or identify opportunities for optimization.

• Days: T & Th
• Time: 1:30–3:05 PM
• Format: Synchronous Online
• Instructor: Miljkovic, N.
• Contact for Approval: nada@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Broadly explores how components of the water cycle (precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow, groundwater) influence the structure of different environments as well as the communities, cultures, and people within these environments.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Weiss, P.S.
• Contact for Approval: pweiss@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

A placement assessment is required for any student that has had previous language instruction in German. Please contact Lecturer Sarah Schuchard, sschucha@ucsc.edu with your student ID number and their cruz ID for a placement assessment. If you place in GERM 1B, the department is happy to have you enroll in the course. If students don't have previous instruction, they would be eligible to enroll in the online GERM 1A in Winter quarter, 2026.

Accelerated course part 2 covers part of GERM 2 and all of GERM 3. In this course, students who have successfully completed GERM 1A (or its equivalent) continue to develop competence in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding real-life German.

• Days: M, W, F
• Time: 8– 9:05 AM
• Format: Synchronous Online
• Instructor: Schuchard, S.T.
• Contact for Approval: nada@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Considers invented languages, including Elvish and Klingon, as well as lesser-known ones that tackle ethical, social, or cognitive concerns. Students learn tools from contemporary linguistics to analyze language structures and understand how they relate to creator intentions.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Angeles, A.E.
• Contact for Approval: aeangele@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Online course using literary and artistic texts to investigate the history and engineering of California, and to imagine a virtual, material, and cultural infrastructure for California's future. Course begins and ends with the Internet, and includes topics such as cyberspace, the Gold Rush, Spanish/Mexican missions, wartime development, and early cybernetics. See instructor's video introduction to LIT 81I.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Zimmer, Z.A.
• Contact for Approval: zaazimme@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

The limit of a function, calculating limits, continuity, tangents, velocities, and other instantaneous rates of change. Derivatives, the chain rule, implicit differentiation, higher derivatives. Exponential functions, inverse functions, and their derivatives. The mean value theorem, monotonic functions, concavity, and points of inflection. Applied maximum and minimum problems. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and MATH 11A, or AM 11A, or AM 15A, or ECON 11A.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Bauerle, F.
• Contact for Approval: bauerle@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

The definite integral and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Areas, volumes. Integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, and partial fractions methods. Improper integrals. Sequences, series, absolute convergence and convergence tests. Power series, Taylor and Maclaurin series. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and MATH 11B, or AM 11B, or AM 15B, or ECON 11B.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Bauerle, F.
• Contact for Approval: bauerle@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Vectors in n-dimensional Euclidean space. The inner and cross products. The derivative of functions from n-dimensional to m-dimensional Euclidean space is studied as a linear transformation having matrix representation. Paths in 3-dimensions, arc length, vector differential calculus, Taylor's theorem in several variables, extrema of real-valued functions, constrained extrema and Lagrange multipliers, the implicit function theorem, some applications. Students cannot receive credit for this course and MATH 22 or AM 30.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Bauerle, F.
• Contact for Approval: bauerle@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Double integral, changing the order of integration. Triple integrals, maps of the plane, change of variables theorem, improper double integrals. Path integrals, line integrals, parametrized surfaces, area of a surface, surface integrals. Green's theorem, Stokes' theorem, conservative fields, Gauss' theorem. Applications to physics and differential equations, differential forms.

• Days: To Be Arranged
• Time: To Be Arranged
• Format: Asynchronous Online
• Instructor: Bauerle, F.
• Contact for Approval: bauerle@ucsc.edu
• Units: 5

Uses weekly talks by leading industry practitioners and university researchers to provide in-depth exposure to the management of technology. Topics covered include product development, operations, strategy, finance, and marketing for technologies such as software and information systems.

• Days: Th
• Time: 3:20–4:55 PM
• Format: Synchronous Online
• Instructor: Desa, S.
• Contact for Approval: sdesa@ucsc.edu
• Units: 2