Audience: Prospective Students

  • Learn to build AI Applications

    Explore the future of AI with Praveen Krishna Join Program Chair and AI expert Praveen Krishna for an insider’s look at the University of California’s first certificate in AI Application Development. Learn about the growing number of jobs involving AI, the skills you'll need to build a competitive resume, and the UCSC Silicon Valley classes…

  • “All the Pages Are My Days”: Print and Visual Culture of the Grateful Dead in Context

    “All the Pages Are My Days”: Print and Visual Culture of the Grateful Dead in Context

    This exhibition celebrates the art and print material generated by the Grateful Dead and their fans in the context of the printing explosion of the 1960s and ‘70s. As the Dead came into popularity and an anti-establishment counterculture spread throughout the nation, democratic print technologies were concomitantly adopted into widespread use. In the Bay Area…

  • Exhibition—”Weather and the Whale”

    Exhibition—”Weather and the Whale”

    Bringing together new research and artworks produced through a two-year collaboration between scientists at UC Santa Cruz’s Friedlaender Lab and contemporary artists, Weather and the Whale moves between land and ocean, human and nonhuman experience to tell multi-perspectival and multi-sensorial stories of climate crisis. — ADMISSION – Free and open to the public – Gallery…

  • SOLD OUT: Floral Arrangement Workshop

    This workshop is full. Join Katie Wolf, creative director of Eothen event and design floral studio, for a morning of creativity and connection. Take what you learn in this workshop and apply these design principles to your next rendezvous with market bunches, garden cuts, and foraged wonders to bring beauty from the outdoors in. We’ll…

  • Farm to Fork Benefit Dinner

    Join the Center for Agroecology for an evening at the Farm Enjoy a reception and benefit dinner on the UCSC Farm followed by dancing in the Hay Barn! This event will feature music, appetizers, tours, and local wine followed by a four-course, family-style dinner on the farm provided by Feel Good Foods. As the sun…

  • 45th Annual Dickens Universe featuring ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles…

  • Festival of Monsters 2025

    Festival of Monsters 2025

    Exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

  • 2025 Fall Move-In Weekend

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  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the…

  • Visiting Summer-Only Student Registration Open

    Anyone can take classes at UC Santa Cruz during Summer Session! Visiting students—including those from other colleges, universities, or the community—must register before enrolling. Registration is now open through July. Once registered, you can enroll in online or in-person courses, earning UC credits that transfer to your home institution. Explore hundreds of summer courses and…

Last modified: Sep 25, 2025