Experience the
Art of Change
A justice-focused online- and hybrid-modality major in arts, media, and design
Creative Technologies emphasizes the study of creativity in digital environments. Digital arts/design environments are powerful and exciting spaces for the pursuit of justice, freedom of inquiry and imagination, and for the cultivation of knowledge, democracy, and stronger communities. The first online undergraduate major program in the UC system, our curriculum is designed to frame media literacy and interdisciplinary arts spaces in the environment of digital and web communication, while mitigating some of the residency-based barriers that UCSC Arts students experience in their educational paths. It also combines courses from many arts genres and arts disciplines, allowing its students to pursue arts and design training without being stuck “in the box” of traditional arts genres or disciplines—instead, they move freely between those practices to gain more contemporary, collaborative, and multimedia arts experience.
Interested in Creative Technologies? Take a summer class!
UCSC Summer Session is offering two CT courses in Session 1 (June 23 – July 25): CT 10 and CT 11. Both of these courses are offered fully online, and fulfill GE requirements (CT 10: PE-T; CT 11: IM). Whether you are interested in CT and want to try out a course before committing, or are looking for a fun way to fulfill your GEs, these summer courses are great options! Feel free to contact the CT advisor at creative@ucsc.edu if you have any questions.
Enrollment for Summer Session opens May 1, 2025.
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Justice, access, equity, diversity, and inclusion
Admissions
Creative Technologies is a non-screening major. Therefore, students can apply regularly via the UC application and choose “Creative Technologies” as their primary major choice for UC Santa Cruz.
News & events
Creative Technologies, new online major in Arts Division, first of its kind on any UC campus
UC Santa Cruz Music Professor Ben Leeds Carson said he’s been interested in the possibilities of online education for an “embarrassingly long time.” He taught his first online course — at a community college in Southern California — in 1999, so long ago that he needed to send the students DVDs because the web then didn’t have the capacity to stream music.
Questions?
Email creative@ucsc.edu
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