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Quarterly Enrollment Updates

Winter 2025 ENROLLMENT UPDATES

Last Updated 11/07/2024

Fall Enrollment Schedule (At-a-Glance): 

  • Enrollment Prep Week Begins November 7th, 2024 to November 14th, 2024
  • First Pass Appointments:November 14th, 2024 to November 20th, 2024
    • Credit Limits:
      • Senior Standing: 19-credit limit
      • Junior, Sophomore, and Frosh Standing: 14-credit limit
    • Appointments every half hour - 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
    • First-pass enrollment remains open during your assigned appointment window
  • Second Pass Appointments and Waitlist: Begin November 22nd, 2024 
    • Credit limits: 
      • Enrolled: 19-credit limit
      • Waitlist: 14-credit limit
      • Appointments every half hour - 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
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Enrollment Reminders:

  • Courses located in “CoastBio” rooms are held at the Coastal Biology Building. 
  • Courses located in “Lg Discovery” rooms are held at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
  • Courses located in “Ocean Health” rooms are held at the Ocean Health Building. 
  • These facilities are located at UCSC’s Coastal Science Campus. They are not located on the main campus. Please carefully check the location of your courses when planning your schedule.
  • Student Responsibility: You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of your enrollments. Be sure to verify your classes, modes of instruction (in person, online, or hybrid), classroom location, and grade options prior to the enrollment deadlines listed in the Academic and Administrative Calendar.

 

Special Course Information & Applications: 

BIOE 20F: Field Biology in Practice (2 units)

Enrollment by application. Introduction to the practice of field biology. Includes implementing the scientific process from formulating and testing hypotheses, sampling, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Grounded in the natural ecosystems surrounding the UCSC campus, this course incorporates field and lab techniques, natural history of flora and fauna, and both observational and experimental biology.

BIOE 151 A,B,C,D: Ecology and Conservation in Practice Supercourse (SPRING 2025 applications open now) (19 units) 

Enrollment by interview only.

Prerequisites:  BIOL 20A, BIOE 20B, BIOE 20C or ENVS 23, 24, 100; and STAT 7 and 7L.  Enrollment by application and interview two quarters in advance. 

Ecology and Conservation in Practice Supercourse is designed to provide hands on research experience for undergrads. The course is intensive quarter long endeavor that consists of 19 units. Approximately half of the quarter is spent in the field at various UC Natural Reserves implementing field projects. The remainder of the course is spent at UCSC where students attend lectures, design research projects, and provide oral presentations to their peers.
How it applies to your major:
Students enroll in BIOE 151 A,B,C, and D.
Provides equivalency* of BIOE 150, BIOE 150L and one EEB General Elective.
Successful completion of BIOE 151B fulfills one DC Requirement course for students in EEB Department majors.

Information Session (in person preferred):
Thursday, November 7th, 5pm
Ocean Health Building Room 201 (on the Coastal Science Campus)
The meeting Zoom link is here if you're unable to attend in person.
How to apply:
Use the Google form located here. Applications are due Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 11:59 pm.
*Course equivalency listed above is for the purposes of tracking number of major courses completed only.

 

Undergraduate Research Courses

EEB Undergraduate research courses provide students with academic credit for undergraduate research work done in an EEB faculty laboratory. Courses are offered Fall, Winter, and Spring only. Learn how to get started in undergraduate research and enroll in research courses here.

The following research courses are not visible in the Schedule of Classes. Click here for enrollment instructions for these courses:

  • BIOE 182F Exploring Research in EEB, 2 units
  • BIOE 193F Independent Research in EEB, 2 units (Prerequisite: BIOE 183W)
  • BIOE 193 Independent Research in EEB, 5 units (Prerequisite: BIOE 183W)
  • BIOE 195 Senior Thesis in EEB, 5 units (Prerequisite: BIOE 183W)

BIOE 183W Undergraduate Research in EEB - Writing:  Students may enroll directly but must have faculty sponsor arranged and completed undergraduate research contract on file with the department by first class meeting.  Please note the department does not plan to offer BIOE 183W in Spring 2025.

Other Course Information

Is BIOL 105 full? Please waitlist the class during your second enrollment appointment to seek a seat in the course in Winter 2025. More information about BIOL courses is available here.

How to enroll in an upper division ENVS course: All upper division ENVS courses require ENVS 100/L as a prerequisite. To petition to take an ENVS upper division class without the ENVS 100/L pre-requisite, please fill out this petition. If successful, students will receive a permission code to enroll during second pass enrollment. For more information about enrolling in ENVS courses as an EEB student please contact ENVS Advising at envsugpc@ucsc.edu.

 

Want to get a jump on Spring course planning in order to know what to enroll in for Winter? 

Visit the EEB Department's Proposed Curriculum website.  Please note that the courses listed here are planned, not guaranteed to be offered.

 

Did you receive a P grade in a major requirement course in Spring 2020? Please note that while your P grade is accepted by the department, it will not show as completed in your Degree Progress Report (DPR) automatically. Your DPR does not inform the enrollment system of your prerequisites, so there is no consequence to not having your P grade reflected in your DPR.

 

Have More Enrollment Questions? Please visit the registar website for more FAQs and Enrollment Information.