Kresge's Core Course, Power and Representation, is offered in the fall term, and is required for all new frosh. Core sections are limited to 24 students in order to provide an opportunity for students to work closely with the instructor and each other in a seminar setting. It is designed to improve new students' writing and analytical skills, introduce students to the expectations of UCSC faculty, and help build an intellectual and creative community at the college.

Power and Representation
In Power and Representation we explore the relationships between individuals and their communities - communities as small as families and friendship, colleges and cities, and as large as nations and the world. We will examine the many ways we constitute ourselves as individuals in relation to communities, focusing on representations of class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and race in several genres - critical theory, film, art, fiction, non-fiction and theater. All students will produce a final creative project.

The course meets on Tues/Thurs at 10-11:45am, 2-3:45pm or 4-5:45pm and also meets for films and lectures on Tues 7pm-9pm.
Core Course enrollment instructions
Core Course Summer Reading Assignment

Power and Representation Lab
This year, Kresge students will have the option of enrolling in one of three two-credit labs offered in conjunction with the Core Course. Students will receive more information about the course and enrolling in the associated labs in the August Core Course mailing.

Students will choose a particular focus, such as photography, creative writing, or food systems, to explore the issues of Power and Representation raised in the Kresge core class.  This course is designed for students who wish to concentrate on developing their Kresge core final project.

Krsg 65A – Power & Representation: Food Systems – 2 credits
Explores the relationship between our individual choices as ‘eaters’ and ‘food citizens’ and how those choices effect the collective ‘food system’ on many scales – locally, statewide, nationally and internationally.

Krsg 65B – Power & Representation: Photography – 2 credits
This course is focused on creating a final project individually or in collaboration with others that engages issues of power and representation through the medium of photography.

Krsg 65C – Power & Representation: Creative Writing – 2 credits
This course is intended for students who wish to supplement their Core experience with Creative Writing; students will do in and out of class writing assignments; read and discuss texts, and work to develop their final core project.

Further Academic Opportumities
In addition to Core, Kresge offers a series of two and three unit sponsored courses—such as Service Learning, Writers Read, and Gardening—that are designed to help students extend their studies into the community and enrich their academic experience.