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Student Resources

Please review the handbook for up-to-date information, including many commonly used petitions, an outline of overall degree requirements, rules and regulations and other resources. 

The College of Creative Studies considers our advising system to be an extra-special strength of our program. From the beginning, CCS students benefit from having two kinds of advisors from the moment they set foot on campus. College-level staff advising assist with learning about the college's and the university's resources and systems. We answer questions from prospective students, host Orientation, and advise students about graduation requirements up until the capstone celebration of our annual Commencement ceremony.

Major-specific faculty advisors are involved right away in reading our students' admissions applications, being a key part of our recruitment, and introducing students to the coursework and opportunities available to their specific major. Students are required to meet with their faculty advisors quarterly to check in on their progress in completing major requirements, and also to talk about potential new projects or how to get involved in research at UCSB. 

 

Quick Reference Guide:

  • Accessing the CCS Building
     
  • Advising Offices - UCSB  has a variety of different advising offices. Most are not a one-stop-shop. You may need to use multiple offices while at UCSB, depending on what you’re trying to accomplish. 
    • CCS Advising
      • Scheduling a meeting
      • Other advising offices on campus:
    • L&S Advising
    • CoE Advising
    • Department Advising
       
  • Important Info for Seniors (Please Read)
    • Don’t Panic if you get a scary email!
    • Graduation Processing
    • Ordering a Finalized Transcript
       
  • How to do Common Things
    • Quarterly Advising Meetings and GOLD Blocks
    • Crashing Courses
    • Transfer Coursework from Outside UCSB
    • Taking Time Off
      • Withdrawing from the Current Quarter
      • Canceling a Future Quarter
    • Readmission (Returning to UCSB)
       
  • Petitions and Forms
    • CCS Dean’s Signature
    • Graduate Course Petitions
    • Record Adjustments (Retroactive Adds, Drops, Withdrawals, etc.)
    • Independent Study (199's)
    • Dual College: Adding a Major or Minor
    • Change-of-College/Change of Major Process
    • Deficit Loads

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Shoreline Meeting Schedulers

Nicholas Washington, See Shoreline, or email nwashington@umail.ucsb.edu 

https://shoreline.ucsb.edu/meetings/4221459/advisingmeeting

 

Peer Advisors - Amanda, Eva and Lakshmi, email info@ccs.ucsb.edu

https://shoreline.ucsb.edu/meetings/4229510/peeradvising

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Accessing the CCS Building

CCS students can access the building using your Access Card. Your individual Access Card will be activated for CCS after you submit this Google Form. If you are not a CCS student, you can request building access only if you are enrolled in a CCS class.

The front doors of the CCS building are unlocked from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Entry to the building between the hours of 7:30 am - 10 pm will only be via the electronic locks on the side entrances and the OLT entrance.

Room schedules are posted near each entrance, be mindful of schedule classes or events when using a room

With faculty permission or advisement, students can reserve rooms in CCS for clubs and academic-related activities. Email your request to info@ccs.ucsb.edu and include the club or event information and the faculty advising/sponsoring.

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Advising at UCSB

CCS Advising

Our general availability is M-F between 9-12 and 1-4. For visitors, to book an appointment in advance, please go online to ccs.ucsb.edu/visiting. Current CCS students are encouraged to stop by the Advising Office for drop-in questions during the hours listed above.

Scheduling a meeting

If you would like to schedule an appointment (zoom or in-person), please reserve a time through the links listed below. Default appointments are currently 15 minutes. Be sure to include how you would prefer to be contacted for your appointment. If none of the times on Shoreline are convenient for you, please reach out to us via email! 

Other advising offices on campus:

More often than not, if you need advising that is related to another college or department, you’ll need to visit their advising offices. CCS may be able to provide you with general information, but you’re encouraged to talk to the experts.

Click on the department you’re looking for, a link to the department website will be included at the top and can help you find the department's advisor.

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Graduating Seniors (Please Read)

Please make sure that your faculty advisor is filling out your Green Sheet in Google. If you have any questions about your graduation requirements and are not able to contact your faculty advisor, please request an appointment with the Student Affairs Manager. This is the sheet that will be used to finalize your degree requirements after your last quarter

You should also plan to run your Degree Progress Check in Gold. Note, General Education Requirements, Major Requirements and CCS Residency Requirement may not be checked off yet (see below for explanation). However, everything else should be IP or checked off during your last quarter. If you see any red “x”s (other than the three mentioned above), make an appointment with an advisor immediately to investigate why and make a plan if needed.

You must declare candidacy on GOLD in order for your degree to be finalized and awarded. Step-by-step instructions are posted on the Registrar’s website. The deadline to declare candidacy for a quarter is usually within the first two weeks of that quarter.

Students do not need to be registered in order to declare candidacy. In other words, if a student has completed all their degree requirements, they can declare candidacy on GOLD and choose to cancel or withdraw for their declared quarter.

󠁼Don’t Panic if you get a scary email!

When students declare candidacy on GOLD, the Registrar’s Office will send automated emails to notify students if their progress checks on GOLD do not seem cleared with “work in progress.” This notification  is all entirely automated. Because CCS student clearances happen manually once work is finished, all CCS graduates will receive these automated warnings.

Students should check their Progress Check on GOLD to make sure they are meeting the minimum University requirements to graduate (180 units, ELWR, American History, and Ethnicity requirements, and a minimum 2.0 UC GPA.) If the only remaining requirements are the three outlined above, students can contact CCS staff or faculty advisors for any questions about their remaining requirements.

󠁼Graduation Processing 

When CCS students look at their Major Progress Check (Audit) on GOLD for a CCS degree objective, they will see three fields that are controlled by the College:

  • General Education Requirements
  • Major Requirements
  • CCS Residency Requirement

Note: When readmission deadlines have passed, late petitions may be submitted, but students may miss the first registration pass time.

 

Ordering a Finalized Transcript

Graduates can double check if their official transcript will be considered “finalized” by looking at their unofficial transcript on GOLD. If your degree status says “Awarded,” you can go ahead and order your official transcript for its final destination.

Registrar’s Instructions: How to Order a Transcript

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How to do Common Things

Quarterly Advising Meetings and GOLD Blocks

All CCS students are required to meet with their assigned faculty advisor each quarter to discuss their academic programs and to get approval of their proposed courses of study for the following quarter. It is the student’s responsibility to contact their faculty advisor each quarter to schedule this advising meeting. 

Students must have a quarterly advising meeting and provide the advising office (Room 104 of the CCS building or via email) with proof of their faculty advisors approval. 

Crashing Courses

We encourage you to be in touch with the instructor of the class regarding any instructions about crashing classes. Many departments post policies about asking for add codes on their own website as a default recommendation. Many faculty may require you to attend class before asking for an approval code.

Some instructors also include important information about how to request approval codes in their CCS Course Descriptions on our website: https://ccs.ucsb.edu/courses

Transfer Coursework from Outside UCSB

If you complete coursework outside of UCSB, you will need to submit your transcripts for review and processing to the UCSB Admissions Office. For more information see: https://catalog.ucsb.edu/pages/OavlgVkkMA6DDckd3dVL

If you are already attending UCSB before you start a course elsewhere, while you can review a course with an Advisor prior to enrolling in a course, the final decision about whether or not the course will transfer into UCSB rests with the Office of Admissions after your official transcript is received and processed. In other words, you cannot have complete assurance that your outside coursework will transfer. Please review the transfer credit guidelines for current students if you are considering taking a course outside of UCSB. The Office of Admissions only determines if a course is transferable to UCSB, but does not determine if a course meets major requirements or GE requirements. Please refer to the CCS advising office for assistance in determining whether a course may meet a specific degree requirement after the Office of Admissions determines transfer eligibility.

While assist.org is not an exhaustive list of what may transfer into UCSB, courses marked in assist.org as "UC transferable" courses are likely to transfer into UCSB.

 

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Petitions and Forms

Students are responsible for submitting necessary paperwork properly.

CCS Dean’s Signature

If you need the Dean’s signature for a petition, DO NOT send the petition directly to the Dean. Please send your ready-to-go paperwork to the CCS Staff Advisors for processing. We will present your petition to the Dean for his review, and then process it accordingly.  If in docusign route to the “CCS Dean’s Signing Group” or to Heidi - hdinnogen@ucsb.edu, or Nick - nwashington@ucsb.edu directly. If in person or by email, route to Heidi or Nick.

Graduate Course Petitions

  • Contact the instructor of the course, and see if adding the course is possible. 
  • Note: ADD CODES DO NOT WORK FOR GRAD COURSES
  • See the Undergraduate Advisor in the department teaching the course and ask what the process to add the course is.
  • DO NOT SEND COLLEGE SIGNATURE REQUESTS DIRECTLY TO THE DEAN. They will be voided. If in docusign route to the “CCS Dean’s Signing Group” or to Heidi - hdinnogen@ucsb.edu, or Nick - nwashington@ucsb.edu directly. If in person or by email, route to Heidi or Nick. 

Independent Study Request Forms

Other Forms

Students are expected to submit college-specific forms based on the college in which they are enrolled. CCS students should not complete forms from the College of Letters and Science or the College of Engineering unless they are enrolled in a double major. Many CCS forms are available online, using the links. You must be logged into your UCSB email to see many of the following:

For forms that apply to all students at UCSB, you can find the following forms online from the Registrar’s Office 

 

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Help!

Resources to help you handle emergencies and other tough situations.

If you or someone you know is in danger or needs immediate help, call 911.

If you have experienced sexual violence, sexual harassment, sex discrimination, or other Title IX-related prohibited behavior, resources are available to you. Please see the Full List of Campus & Community Resources for more information.

Bias Incident Reporting

It is an unfortunate fact that some individuals become targets of hateful acts simply because others are intolerant of differences based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, age, or disability. The Bias Incident Response Team serves at the campus reporting point and can work with the impacted parties in coordinating a response.

Confidential Resources

What does confidential mean? See it outlined here.

  • Counseling and Psychological Services
    CAPS is a confidential service meaning mental health clinicians protect your privacy by not revealing what is talked about in sessions.  All information disclosed within counseling sessions is confidential and may not be released to anyone other than health care providers at CAPS and Student Health Services (SHS)  without your written permission except in certain situations.
  • Office of the Ombuds
    The Office of the Ombuds is a confidential resource for students to discuss any University-related concern. Talking with the ombuds is informal and "off the record," meaning by disclosing something to the office, a student is not officially notifying the University of the issue. The ombuds will listen to concerns, help clarify goals and interests, and help develop options to move forward. The ombuds may also make referrals to different offices on campus, coach a student on how to prepare for a difficult conversation, or help clarify UCSB procedures and policies.
  • Campus, Advocacy, Resources, and Education 
    CARE is the Confidential advocacy and education office for interpersonal violence (sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking). We offer free and confidential services for students, staff, faculty, alumni, community members, and friends/loved ones impacted by interpersonal and gender-based violence and we provide violence prevention education for the entire UCSB campus.

Dean of Student Life Student-Parent Liaison

The Student and Parent Liaison, located in the Dean of Students unit of the Office of Student Life, provides assistance to students and their families in emergencies or in times of crisis. Please contact the Student Parent Liaison by sending an email to sa-studentparentliaison@ucsb.edu or call 805-893-4521

Basic Needs

At UCSB, we know getting connected to the right resources isn't always easy. To help out, the Calfresh Advocates and Basic Needs Peer Advisors are ready to assist you with all aspects of your basic needs, including (but not limited to) food, finances, and housing. Got a question? Just ask an Advocate!

Office of Student Conduct

If you have received a notification from OSC, please follow the instructions denoted in your letter closely in order to schedule a meeting. The Office of Student Conduct is located in the Student Resource Building (SRB), on the second floor. 

 

Resources available to you (not exhaustive):

Financial Resources (Aid, Scholarships, Fellowships, etc.)

Student Services