A CCS student standing at the entrance of the building.

The College of Creative Studies (CCS) is a college within the University of California, Santa Barbara, founded as an experiment in alternative education by Marvin Mudrick in 1967. CCS specializes in independent study in the arts and sciences and has programs in art, biology, chemistry, computer science, literature, mathematics, music composition and physics. All of its programs and faculty teachers are considered world-class and CCS has educated a host of distinguished alumni. The Dean of the College is Bruce Tiffney. Image File history File links 13232. ... University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. ... In education, the phrase alternative school usually refers to a school based on a non-traditional, new, or non-standard educational philosophy. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France. ... Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ... Multicolored chemicals are frequent hallmarks of chemistry. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction... Euclid, detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ... A musical composition is a piece of original music designed for repeated performance (as opposed to strictly improvisational music, in which each performance is unique). ... Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φύσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. ...

CCS is a small college; there are only a few hundred students and classes are generally small and seminar-style. Each student has a faculty advisor who she or he meets with at least once a quarter. The general education requirements for CCS students are very flexible and allow for a customized plan of study.

External links

• CCS Homepage: http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/

The student pictured is physics major, Ryan Steinberg