This month at UCSC

  • Recreation Registration ONLINE - 5/16/2012

    Sign up for Recreation Activities beginning April 10 @ 9 am. Don't miss out on Adventure Outings, Rock Climbing, Classes and Workshops, Surfing, River Rafting, Kayaking, Holistic Health, Wilderness...

  • Masters Cup Distance Challenge - 5/16/2012

    Distance competition for Open, Masters, Grandmasters, Senior Grand Masters for both Men's and Women's Division. Event concludes with a 119 gram (40 and 41 mold) distance competition. Each thrower's...

  • Kate Brown: "Dismantling the Plutonium Curtain: Local Knowledge and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters" - 5/16/2012

    The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Kate Brown History Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Modern utopias and nuclear wastelands come together in Professor...

  • Resume Marathon for Graduate Students: - 5/16/2012

    Receive individual coaching from a career adviser on how to convert your academic CV (and skills) to a resume for non-academic positions. You must bring a hard copy of your CV and a copy of a job...

  • Tarlochan Singh Nahal: “Religion and Politics in Sikhism” - 5/16/2012

    Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal will speak about his new book, Religion and Politics in Sikhism, in conversation with Professor Nirvikar Singh. Dr. Nahal received his PhD in Political Science...

  • Ballroom Dance - 5/16/2012

    This class will introduce some of the most fun and useful ballroom dances, as danced socially in most ballrooms, at weddings, etc. This quarter we will cover triple-step East Coast Swing,...

  • Yoga Dance #2 - 5/16/2012

    Improvised, rhythmic dance fused with vinyasa flow yoga. For the dancer who craves expression and spirituality in their workout, and for the yogi who yearns to feel more movement and heat in...

  • Hand Drumming Circle - 5/16/2012

    This class gives you basic drumming skills, the language of rhythm and a knowledge base of drumming culture, while teaching music of the African Diaspora. In an ensemble setting, you will learn...

  • Hip Hop #1 - 5/16/2012

    Ready to get down and boogie? Come one, come all and let your soul run free with the hippest grooves in Santa Cruz. We will begin with warm-up stretches, learn a dance routine and then cool down. ...

  • Hip Hop #2 - 5/16/2012

    Ready to get down and boogie? Come one, come all and let your soul run free with the hippest grooves in Santa Cruz. We will begin with warm-up stretches, learn a dance routine and then cool down. ...

  • Life Lab Spring Workshop - 5/17/2012

    This one-day workshop will offer a process for developing science inquiries in your schoolyard or garden. Designed for K-8 teachers, you will learn strategies to encourage your students to explore...

  • Core Strengthening #4 - 5/17/2012

    Core Training is an exciting, intermediate level cardiovascular toning class which focuses on legs, glutes, and abdominals through an engaged hour of cardiovascular toning work and stretching. This...

  • Women's Self Defense #2 - 5/17/2012

    Women's self-defense is a hands-on, six week long course. Enrollment is limited to women only. Students need no prior experience and can wear regular street clothes to classes. The same class is...

  • Strawberry and Justice Festival - 5/17/2012

    Celebrate the start of strawberry season and learn about social justice and sustainable agriculture through a discussion panel, art and mural expression zone, interactive tabling, and more at this...

  • Salsa Dance Intermediate - 5/17/2012

    "Completion of a beginning level salsa class required. This class will include increased focus on technique and styling as well as introduce new advanced level patterns and combinations. You will...

  • Zumba #4 - 5/17/2012

    Zumba is the passionate fitness fusion of Latin dance themes taking the nation by storm. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance to create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness...

  • Doris Ash - 5/17/2012

    This presentation is part of the series of free public lectures in the 2012 Arts Dean's Lecture Series entitled "Reshaping the Museum: Creating New Knowledge, Engaging the Mind" (part of the course...

  • Zumba #5 - 5/17/2012

    Zumba is the passionate fitness fusion of Latin dance themes taking the nation by storm. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance to create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness...

  • Salsa Dance Beginner - 5/17/2012

    Salsa is one of the hottest dance classes around Rebecca and Mario, the instructors, offer a solid fundamentals class, working with you on the concepts that enable you to dance with other salsa...

  • American Wasteland: An evening discussion with Jonathan Bloom - 5/17/2012

    Have you ever wondered how much food goes to waste in our world every day, month or year? An estimate is that 25% of food we bring into our homes becomes waste Join us for an evening dialogue with...

  • International Playhouse XII - 5/17/2012

    For its 12th season, the Playhouse is proud to offer fully-staged short theater pieces in 8 languages, with English super-titles. Works in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian,...

  • Cardio Kickboxing #1 - 5/18/2012

    Cardiovascular hi-energy workout, a great class for EVERYONE, beginner-advanced, young-old, men-women. Class format integrates a mix of boxing, martial arts and other aerobic movements. Additional...

  • Cardio Kickboxing #2 - 5/18/2012

    Cardiovascular hi-energy workout, a great class for EVERYONE, beginner-advanced, young-old, men-women. Class format integrates a mix of boxing, martial arts and other aerobic movements. Additional...

  • Cardio Kickboxing #1 - 5/18/2012

    Cardiovascular hi-energy workout, a great class for EVERYONE, beginner-advanced, young-old, men-women. Class format integrates a mix of boxing, martial arts and other aerobic movements. Additional...

  • Academic Senate Meeting - 5/18/2012

    Regular meeting of the UCSC Academic Senate

  • Linguistics Colloquium: Lisa Davidson - 5/18/2012

    Lisa Davidson is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on...

  • CPR #3 - 5/18/2012

    Learn how to perform CPR on an adult, child, infant and know what to do if someone's airway is obstructed. Students will also acquire the skills to use an AED (automated external defibrillator) and...

  • “Almost Maine” by John Cariani - 5/18/2012

    As the Northern lights fill the sky above, the residents of the mythical town of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. The play inventively...

  • Transit in Venus Lecture Series - 5/18/2012

    The transit of Venus will be the subject of a series of lectures at UCSC that will explain the scientific and historical significance of this extraordinary event.

  • UCSC Concert Choir - 5/18/2012

    A concert of English partsongs, a capella music of Elgar, Fizi, Vaughan Williams, and others. Directed by Nathaniel Berman.

  • Life Lab Spring Workshop - 5/19/2012

    This one-day workshop gives you the opportunity to see the garden through the eyes of a young child. Learn to set up a garden space to encourage children to explore, ask questions, and connect to the...

  • Zumba #6 - 5/19/2012

    Zumba is the passionate fitness fusion of Latin dance themes taking the nation by storm. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance to create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness...

  • Cardio Boot Camp: Abs, Glutes & Legs #1 - 5/19/2012

    Cardio Boot Camp: Abs, Glutes, and Legs, is an exciting cardiovascular workout that empathizes core and lower-body strengthening through an hour of continuous aerobic movement combined with...

  • Core Strengthening #1 - 5/19/2012

    Core Training is an exciting, intermediate level cardiovascular toning class which focuses on legs, glutes, and abdominals through an engaged hour of cardiovascular toning work and stretching. This...

  • Kresge presents PRIDE 2012 - 5/19/2012

    A day of celebration for the queer community and their allies here at UCSC. A noon time campus parade is followed by an afternoon festival at Kresge College Lower St.

  • Media Offline: 3rd Annual UCSC Student Showcase - 5/19/2012

    Presented by the UCSC Film & Digital Media Department and the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Ticket info: $5 w/ valid UCSC ID; $6 non-UCSC Students and Seniors; $8 general admission

  • Music from the Ring of Fire - 5/19/2012

    Traditional & New Music From Sunda & Cirebon UCSC West Javanese Gamelans Directed by Master Drummer Undang Sumarna Traditional & New Music From South Bali UCSC Balinese Gamelans Directed by...

  • Cardio Boot Camp: Abs, Glutes & Legs #2 - 5/20/2012

    Cardio Boot Camp: Abs, Glutes, and Legs, is an exciting cardiovascular workout that empathizes core and lower-body strengthening through an hour of continuous aerobic movement combined with...

  • Life Lab Spring Benefit - 5/20/2012

    Life Lab's Annual general fund benefit event at the Garden Classroom.

  • Cardio Kickboxing #3 - 5/20/2012

    Cardiovascular hi-energy workout, a great class for EVERYONE, beginner-advanced, young-old, men-women. Class format integrates a mix of boxing, martial arts and other aerobic movements. Additional...

  • Cooking: Vietnamese Spring Roll - 5/20/2012

    Jozseph Schultz of India Joze will be doing a hands-on class on these versatile and healthy snacks, appetizers and picnic treats. Vegetarian seafood, and meat variations will be practiced, fresh and...

  • Electronic Music Concert - 5/20/2012

    Peter Elsea's students present their newest sounds from the electronic Music Studios.

  • Women's Self Defense #1 - 5/21/2012

    Women's self-defense is a hands-on, five week long course. Enrollment is limited to women only. Students need no prior experience and can wear regular street clothes to classes. The same class is...

  • Meditation & Mindfulness - 5/21/2012

    This course will introduce students to different techniques and practices of meditation and self-discovery. We will use the breath, mindfulness, kindness, self-inquiry and other ways as entry points...

  • Yoga Dance #1 - 5/21/2012

    Improvised, rhythmic dance fused with vinyasa flow yoga. For the dancer who craves expression and spirituality in their workout, and for the yogi who yearns to feel more movement and heat in...

  • Guitar I: Beginning-Mondays - 5/21/2012

    This class is geared toward students have no experience with the guitar and do not know any chords already. Topics covered will include basic chords, riffs, barre chords, movable chords, how to read...

  • Zumba #1 - 5/21/2012

    Zumba is the passionate fitness fusion of Latin dance themes taking the nation by storm. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance to create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness...

  • Spin Class #1 - 5/21/2012

    Indoor Cycling is a high energy aerobic exercise routine that uses a specially designed spinning bike where you can adjust the tension. Students will be doing sprints, races, climbs, different paced...

  • Scenes from Guitar Island - 5/21/2012

    The Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra presents “Scenes from Guitar Island,” the final concert of the 2011-12 season with an exciting program of music from Baroque and traditional South American to ragtime...

  • Zumba #2 - 5/21/2012

    Zumba is the passionate fitness fusion of Latin dance themes taking the nation by storm. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance to create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness...

  • Zumba #3 - 5/22/2012

    Zumba is the passionate fitness fusion of Latin dance themes taking the nation by storm. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance to create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness...

  • Core Strengthening #2 - 5/22/2012

    Core Training is an exciting, intermediate level cardiovascular toning class which focuses on legs, glutes, and abdominals through an engaged hour of cardiovascular toning work and stretching. This...

  • An Evening with David Talbot - 5/22/2012

    The Humanities Division and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: An Evening with David Talbot David Talbot, founder and CEO of the San Francisco based web magazine Salon, is uniquely...

  • Spin Class #2 - 5/22/2012

    Indoor Cycling is a high energy aerobic exercise routine that uses a specially designed spinning bike where you can adjust the tension. Students will be doing sprints, races, climbs, different paced...

  • Belly Dance - 5/22/2012

    Learn to express yourself through the ancient art of Middle Eastern Dance in a supportive atmosphere. We will have fun while learning to master this amazing art form that has been handed down to us...

  • Preparation for LSAT Workshop - 5/22/2012

    Indecisive about taking an LSAT prep course? Kaplan will simulate what it’s like to be in their test prep classes and offer you excellent tips on preparing for the LSAT.

  • Hoop Dance - 5/22/2012

    The Hula Hoop is back and the hoops are bigger and better than ever. These new hoops, which are larger, more colorful and slightly weighted, allow for easier movement and maneuvering around the body...

  • Guitar I Beginning Acoustic Rhythm Guitar #2 - 5/22/2012

  • Anjali Arondekar: "Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Geopolitics" - 5/23/2012

    The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Anjali Arondekar Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Histories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical difference(s) through the...

  • 9th Annual UCSC Golf Scramble - 5/24/2012

    This year the event it is taking place on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at Pasatiempo Golf Course. We take great pride in our female student-athletes who compete in Soccer, Volleyball, Tennis, Basketball,...

  • CPR #4 - 5/24/2012

    Learn how to perform CPR on an adult, child, infant and know what to do if someone's airway is obstructed. Students will also acquire the skills to use an AED (automated external defibrillator) and...

  • "I Dream of Chang and Eng" by Philip Kan Gotanda - 5/25/2012

    I Dream of Chang and Eng follows the story of the original Siamese twins as they attempt to re-mount their successful European “freak-show” tour under the watchful eye of circus impresario P.T....

  • Chautauqua - 5/25/2012

    The Theater Arts Department's long-running annual festival of theater by UCSC students. Free and open to the public.

  • Transit in Venus Lecture Series - 5/25/2012

    The transit of Venus will be the subject of a series of lectures at UCSC that will explain the scientific and historical significance of this extraordinary event.

  • Michael Ursell:“Surviving Humanism: Petrarchan Autobiography and Ecology" - 5/30/2012

    The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Michael Ursell Literature, UCSC While critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature-lover, this talk...

  • Barbara Stafford - 5/31/2012

    Barbara Stafford, Distinguished Professor and Scholar author of A Field Guide to a New Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide. This presentation is part of the series of free...

  • CPR #5 - 5/31/2012

    Learn how to perform CPR on adults, children and infants, what to do if someone’s airway is obstructed and how to use barrier devices. Students will also learn how to recognize the early warning...

  • Opera: Mark Adamo's "Little Women" - 5/31/2012

    Brian Staufenbiel, director Nicole Paiement, conductor featuring the UCSC Orchestra and singers from UCSC's voice program

  • CPR #6 - 6/1/2012

    Learn how to perform CPR on an adult, child, infant and know what to do if someone's airway is obstructed. Students will also acquire the skills to use an AED (automated external defibrillator) and...

  • Transit in Venus Lecture Series - 6/1/2012

    The transit of Venus will be the subject of a series of lectures at UCSC that will explain the scientific and historical significance of this extraordinary event.