<p>Can anyone tell me about CCS? I'm particularly interested in the physics program.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone have experience with the scholars dorms? I'm not a big partier so I kind of want a quiet dorm.</p>
<p>UCSB is made up of 3 main departments - College of Letters and Sciences (L&S), College of Engineering (COE), and College of Creative Studies (CCS). CCS has 8 majors - each one of them is a joint program with a department in L&S or COE. CCS has about 300 total students - so pretty small, which means they get a lot of personal attention. And CCS is really selective about who they let into the program. The program is designed to get students actively involved in their field of study really early on. This means that usually by sophomore year, phys/chem/bio students are doing research in the lab, art students are holding exhibitions, etc.</p>
<p>CCS Physics has about 60-70 students, probably one of the top physics programs in the country (although I may be a little biased since I work in the program). During freshman and sophomore year, students take a class where for 2 hours each week, they take turns going up to the board and working problems in front of the prof and the rest of the class. They take a lab class sophomore year where they get to work on a project in a lab on campus. Most take 1 or 2 grad classes by senior year. Over 70% go on to grad school.</p>
<p>If you want more info, call or send an email to Leslie in the CCS office (her info is at <a href="http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/admin_staff/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/admin_staff/</a>). She is super friendly, she can answer your questions and can probably put you in touch with profs and students in the program.</p>
<p>Any out-of-state kids in this program? OOS for most UC's is around 2%.</p>