Transfer Curriculum

Kresge has long been the unofficial college for Transfer students, and now offers a scaffolded Transfer Curriculum, designed in collaboration with Services for Transfer, Re-entry, and Resilient Scholars (STARRS), to help Transfer students transition from community college to UCSC and take full advantage of the opportunities at a research university.

The curriculum begins with KRSG 1T (Introduction to Transfer Life and Learning), the 1-credit summer Orientation course for all incoming Transfer students. 

KRSG 25 (Transfer Excellence at the Research University), a 2-credit course offered in Summer, Fall, and Winter, guides Transfer students toward deeper engagement with the research university. Students work in small-scale learning communities and the course is designed as a catalyst for opportunities in undergraduate research, internships, creative projects, and experiential learning. Topics include: excelling in the quarter system and upper-division classes; centering strengths and overcoming imposter syndrome; developing research goals; financing educational goals; and planning for life after graduation, including careers and graduate school.

KRSG 102 (STARRS Internship) is an opportunity for students to intern at Services for Transfer, Re-entry, and Resilient Scholars and develop professional skills. Students dialogue about university policy; identify structural barriers faced by minoritized and other disadvantaged communities when pursuing higher education; collaboratively design projects to address them; and implement and lead civic-engagement activities. Enrollment is by instructor permission and an application is required to match student-interns' skills and interests with specific internship projects being offered. Email jrceja@ucsc.edu for application and more information.

Kresge also supports STARRS’ year-end Research and Leadership Symposium, which features STARRS / Kresge interns, the Cultivamos Excelencia Research Scholars, the EOP Pathways to Research Scholars, and the Pan African Research Scholars. 

And Kresge’s Commencement ceremony features a Transfer student-speaker (so we invite Transfer students, no matter your college, to walk at Kresge’s Commencement!)