College of Creative Studies
Dean: Timothy Sherwood
Website: ccs.ucsb.edu
Telephone: (805) 893-4146
The College of Creative Studies at UCSB is unique in the University of California. The adjective “creative” is not intended to suggest that students create their own majors, although there is a great deal of flexibility in the Creative Studies programs. Rather, the Creative Studies major is for passionate students who are committed to advanced and independent work in one of the disciplines represented in the college. Each of the approximately 400 students enrolled in the college enjoys close individual advising and conscientious academic attention from a faculty advisor committed to undergraduate teaching. Courses offered by the college are designed to allow students to rigorously explore or even modify a field of knowledge rather than merely expose them to a predetermined quantity of fixed subject matter. Through intense creative work and research projects typically reserved for graduate school, students acquire a thorough comprehension of their discipline and are encouraged to begin making original contributions to the field. Most classes in the college are tutorials and small seminars.
In addition to taking courses within the College of Creative Studies, students are guided and encouraged to work within academic departments in the Colleges of Letters and Science and Engineering, taking full advantage of the many courses, extensive research equipment, facilities, and expertise available at UCSB.
Students choose one of the nine majors offered by the College of Creative Studies when they apply for admission. The flexibility in curricular design, however, allows considerable latitude. Ambitious students occasionally complete two majors. When appropriate to their educational goals, students may choose to complete both a CCS major and a major in either the College of Letters and Science or the College of Engineering. Students also have the option to complete one of the many minors now available through the College of Letters and Science.
Most Creative Studies courses are open to students from other UCSB colleges, although CCS students normally have priority. Permission of the instructor is required to remain enrolled in the course. To find more detailed course descriptions of Creative Studies course offerings than can be found on GOLD, please refer to ccs.ucsb.edu/courses.
For more detailed information about the College of Creative Studies and instructions on how to apply, please refer to our website: ccs.ucsb.edu.
Faculty
Adebisi Agboola, PhD, Columbia University, Professor (number theory, arithmetic geometry) Joint appointment with: MATH
Tengiz Bibilashvili, PhD, Tbilisi State University, Senior Lecturer SOE (Theoretical physics) Joint appointment with: PHYS
Maribel Bueno Cachadina, PhD, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Senior Lecturer SOE (linear algebra, numerical linear algebra, combinatorial matrix theory) Joint appointment with: MATH
Alison Butler, PhD, UC San Diego, Professor (bio-inorganic and bioorganic chemistry, metallobiochemistry and chemical biology) Joint appointment with: CHEM
Jane Callister, MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Professor (critical studies/contemporary culture, impact of new bodies of knowledge on contemporary art practice and theory, painting and drawing, inter-media) Joint appointment with: ART
Phill Conrad, PhD, University of Delaware, Senior Lecturer SOE (computer science education, software engineering education) Joint appointment with: CMPSC
Daryl Cooper, PhD, Warwick University, Professor (geometric topology; hyperbolic geometry; group theory; projective geometry; non-standard analysis) Joint appointment with: MATH
Tony de Tomaso, PhD, Washington University, Professor (cell biology, developmental biology, immunology, transplantation biology, stem cell biology, regeneration, genetics, genomics) Joint appointment with: MCDB
Stu Feinstein, PhD, UC San Francisco, Professor (molecular cell biology and neurobiology) Joint appointment with: MCDB
Carlos Garcia-Cervera, PhD, New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Professor (calculus of variations, materials science, complex fluids, quantum chemistry, density functional theory) Joint appointment with: MATH
Sathya Guruswamy, PhD, University of Rochester, Senior Lecturer SOE (theoretical condensed matter physics) Joint appointment with: PHYS
Birge Huisgen-Zimmerman, PhD, Ludwig Maximilians University, Professor (algebra; representation theory) Joint appointment with: MATH
Armand Kuris, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (parasite ecology, marine ecology, role of infectious processes in ecosystems, control of human schistosomiasis, crustacean biology) Joint appointment with: EEMB
John Latto, PhD, Imperial College, Senior Lecturer SOE (population and community ecology) Joint appointment with: EEMB
Leroy Laverman, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Senior Lecturer SOE (inorganic and analytical chemistry) Joint appointment with: CHEM
Everett Lipman, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (experimental biological physics) Joint appointment with: PHYS
D. D. Long, PhD, Cambridge University, Professor (low-dimensional topology) Joint appointment with: MATH
Michael Ludkovski, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (stochastic control, optimal stopping, stochastic filtering, Monte Carlo methods. Applications in financial and insurance mathematics, decision theory and risk management.) Joint appointment with: STATS
John Martinis, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (experimental condensed matter physics) Joint appointment with: PHYS
Jon McCammond, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (geometric group theory and geometric combinatorics) Joint appointment with: MATH
David Morrison, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (algebraic geometry and mathematical physics) Joint appointment with: MATH PHYS
Jane Mulfinger, MA, Royal College of Art, London, Professor (site-specific art, sculpture and spatial studies in art, interactive art) Joint appointment with: ART
Marko Peljhan, Diploma, University of Ljublijana, Slovenia, Professor (interdisciplinary studies, systemics, tactical media, digital media, performance) Joint appointment with: MAT
Henry Pitcher, BA, UC Santa Barbara, Senior Lecturer SOE (art)
Stephen Proulx, PhD, University of Utah, Professor (evolutionary theory) Joint appointment with: EEMB
Mihai Putinar, PhD, University of Bucharest, Professor (operator theory, complex analysis) Joint appointment with: MATH
Curtis Roads, PhD, University of Paris VIII, Professor (music composition, microsound synthesis, graphical synthesis, sound analysis and transformation, sound spatialization, history of electronic music) Joint appointment with: MAT
Ram Seshadri, PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Professor (inorganic materials, preparation and magnetism of bulk solids and nonoparticles, patterned materials) Joint appointment with: MATRL CHEM
Joan-Emma Shea, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor (theoretical biophysical chemistry) Joint appointment with: CHEM PHYS
Timothy Sherwood, PhD, UC San Diego, Professor (computer architecture, secure hardware, superconducting accelerators, embedded systems, program analysis and characterization) Joint appointment with: CMPSC
Dave Valentine, PhD, UC Irvine, Professor (interactions between microbes and the Earth system, biogeochemical cycles, ecology of Archaea) Joint appointment with: ERTSC
Guofang Wei, PhD, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Professor (differential geometry) Joint appointment with: MATH
Leslie A. Hogan, DMA, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Continuing Senior Lecturer (music composition)
James H. Donelan, PhD, Yale University, Continuing Lecturer (interdisciplinary humanities writing, Romanticism, aesthetics, literature and music, philosophical approaches to writing and literature) Joint appointment with: WRIT,ENGL
Murat Karaorman, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (computer science)
Robert Krut, MA, Arizona University, Continuing Lecturer (Creative Writing, Composition, Outreach, Professional Writing, Popular Culture, Film Studies) Joint appointment with: WRIT
Jervey Tervalon, Continuing Lecturer
Claudia Tyler, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Biology)
Ellen Whittet, Continuing Lecturer Joint appointment with: WRIT
Emeriti Faculty
Steven Allaback, PhD, University of Washington Joint appointment with: ENGL
William Ashby, PhD, University of Michigan (linguistics) Joint appointment with: FR&IT
Donald Aue, PhD, Cornell University Joint appointment with: CHEM
Clarence Barlow, LTCL, Trinity College of Music London Joint appointment with: MUSIC
Robyn M. Bell, PhD, UC Santa Barbara
Gary Brown, MFA, University of Wisconsin, Madison Joint appointment with: ART
David Cannell, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (experimental condensed matter physics) Joint appointment with: PHYS
Peter Cappello, PhD, Princeton University Joint appointment with: CMPSC
Omer Egecioglu, PhD, UC San Diego Joint appointment with: CMPSC
Kathy Foltz, PhD, Purdue University Joint appointment with: MCDB
L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, PhD, University of Virginia Joint appointment with: ENGL
Jeremy J. Haladyna, PhD, UC Santa Barbara
Bill Jacob, PhD, Princeton University Joint appointment with: MATH
William Kraft, MA, Columbia University (composition) Joint appointment with: MUSIC
Suzanne Levine, PhD, New York University (Latin American Literature, Literary Translation, Translation Studies) Joint appointment with: SP&PT
Shirley Lim, PhD, Brandeis University Joint appointment with: ENGL
David Low, PhD, UC Irvine Joint appointment with: MCDB BMSE
Michael W. O'Connell, PhD, Yale University Joint appointment with: ENGL
Harry Reese, MFA, Brown University Joint appointment with: ART
Francesc Roig, PhD, University of Massachusetts (mathematical physics) Joint appointment with: PHYS
Charles A. Ryavec, PhD, University of Michigan
Earl Stewart, DMA, University of Texas Joint appointment with: BLKST
Bruce Tiffney, PhD, Harvard University Joint appointment with: ERTSC
Bob Warner, PhD, UC San Diego, Scripps Joint appointment with: EEMB
Adrian Wenner