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Academic Program Updates

Undergraduate programs that are new for fall 2003, have been discontinued or have been modified are listed below by campus. For more information, contact the campus Office of Admissions or Relations with Schools.

Berkeley | Davis | Irvine | Los Angeles | Riverside | San Diego | Santa Barbara | Santa Cruz


UC Berkeley

BIOENGINEERING/MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
New B.S. program in the College of Engineering; double major open to junior transfers only

OPTOMETRY
Changed to graduate level program only

UC Davis

APPLIED MATHEMATICS

New major

COMPUTATIONAL APPLIED SCIENCE
New major

EXPLORATORY SCIENCE
Open only to first-time freshman and lower division transfer applicants

FERMENTAITON SCIENCE AND FOOD BIOCHEMISTRY
Majors discontinued; apply in Food Science

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Apply in Pre-Landscape Architecture

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Apply in Pre-Managerial Economics

MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
New major

UC Irvine

ARTS INTERDISCIPLINARY
B.A. program discontinued

COMPUTER SCIENCE
New major

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
New major offered with Schools of Engineering, and Information and Computer Science

INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

New school; formerly Department of Information and Computer Science

LINGUISTICS
Admission to B.A. program not available in 2004–05

UC Los Angeles

ART HISTORY

New minor

BIOENGINEERING
New B.S. major

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND SOCIETY

New minor

LABOR AND WORKPLACE STUDIES

New minor

PUBLIC HEALTH
New minor

UC Riverside


CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
New Bioengineering option

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
New B.S. major, UCR/CSU Fresno Joint Program in Environmental Sciences

GEOLOGY
New Geophysics option

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
All courses and activities discontinued

UC San Diego

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Remains a B.S. major in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department but not under the Structural
Engineering Department

BIOINFORMATICS
Biology with specialization in Bioinformatics, B.S.; Bioengineering (Bioinformatics), B.S.; Chemistry: Bioinformatics, B.S.; and Computer Science with specialization in Bioinformatics, B.S. are not open to entering students. Students must select a major from the specific discipline above then apply for the Bioinformatics major after enrolling at UCSD.

COGNITIVE SCIENCE
New B.S. majors with specializations in Neuroscience, Computation, Clinical Aspects of Cognition, Human Cognition and Human Computer Interaction

EARTH SCIENCES — CHEMISTRY
New B.S. major

EARTH SCIENCES — PHYSICS
New B.S. major

HUMAN BIOLOGY
New B.S. major

LINGUISTICS
New B.A. specializations in Cognition and Language, Language and Society, and Individual Language

MATHEMATICS
New B.A. in Scientific Computation

PHYSICS
New B.S. with specialization in Astrophysics

UC Santa Barbara

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
New B.S. major (admitted to pre-major status until prerequisites are satisfied)

ITALIAN STUDIES
New name, formerly Italian Cultural Studies

LAW AND SOCIETY
Emphasis in Criminal Justice discontinued

UC Santa Cruz

HEALTH SCIENCES
New B.S. major

HISTORY
Asian/Islamic/African/Latin American/
World History concentration name changed to Asian/Islamic/World History
History of the Americas concentration name changed to History of the Americas and Africa

HISTORY OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE
New name; formerly Art History

LANGUAGE STUDIES
New B.A. concentration and minor concentration in Modern Hebrew
New B.A. concentration and minor concentration in Russian
B.A. concentrations in Ancient Greek and Latin discontinued

PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
New division name; formerly Division of Natural Sciences

PHYSICS (ASTROPHYSICS)
New name; formerly Astrophysics

SOCIAL SCIENCES
New combined major in Latin American and Latino Studies/Sociology


also in ucnotes/counselor conference:
Fall 2003 Admission Report
Academic Program Updates
Fall 2003 Preview Events
2003-2004 Student Budgets
Housing Policies
Directory of Campus Offices


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