Davis.
Diana Strazdes: So that's my. So that's my brief and I've been undergraduate advisor for a long time years right so lucky to work with Julie to kill rate and lucky to know Elaine Fon who's been the, the staff and the the the the
Diana Strazdes: student assistant and undergraduate it for Undergraduate Advising for a couple years. Is that enough Julie. Does that work. Thank
Julie Mcgilvray: You thank you for the great introduction. So you can find more information about Professor Diane is just as on our website.
Julie Mcgilvray: Arts at UC davis.edu and click on the art history backs and see all over. You can see the backgrounds of all of our all of our great art history faculty Elaine, tell us what you love briefly about our history.
Elaine Fong: Oh, well, I'm our history. Well, other students. So who's graduating majoring our history, something I really love our history is the fact that it connects with so many other different
Elaine Fong: Like aspects of our life like because I feel like something that's like a common misconception about history is the fact that, like, people think it only relates to like looking at pictures are looking at paintings or pieces of art.
Elaine Fong: But in reality, it's like we take our history class you learn an entirely new like language entirely an entirely new way to, like, look at the world.
Elaine Fong: That you find, like, oh, like this, like what I can learn our history relates to, you know, my everyday life, like how I talk though, the way I eat. You know how I look at things, I think, like the whole this new sort perspective.
Elaine Fong: Is something I really value within the major and taking all these classes.
Elaine Fong: And the art is wonderful, as well. Well, I always love looking at art so
Elaine Fong: Yeah, I can definitely go on and on and on about why I love our history and the department, but we don't have all day so
Elaine Fong: Yeah.
Diana Strazdes: Lane, you've been involved with I
Diana Strazdes: Doing stuff with the the art studio students
Diana Strazdes: Who are
Diana Strazdes: Who we also share a department with this is the Department of Art and Art History and you've also been involved with using the the campus Museum, the
Diana Strazdes: Museum. Do you want to
Diana Strazdes: Say anything about them.
Elaine Fong: Um, well, our history department. We're what I think is really nice is that we're starting to really become like this inner disciplinary department so engaging, we are offering a lot more courses now about like not not only like
Elaine Fong: Looking at art from historical historical perspective, but also engaging with
Elaine Fong: Something really valuable, which is like the student community of artists, because they all they offer.
Elaine Fong: This input or like a perspective that sometimes isn't
Elaine Fong: Natural or like afforded to our historian and so. So for example, we have a
Elaine Fong: Program or like a gallery on campus underneath actually are building called the basement gallery that you know engages with a lot of our classes.
Elaine Fong: I've written entirely student run. So the art of speech in there is entirely made by students. It's for students and it. It's like a great way to express like sort of these issues or like sort of
Elaine Fong: See these like problems and and ideas that you've like this. I've learned in the history classes.
Elaine Fong: Played out and like actual spaces that you can physically see. And so there's a lot of like different types of programs and interactions like that between the artistry art department that really sort of like bolster
Elaine Fong: Or like enrich like your experience within the department itself. And that's, like, and that presents itself in like
Elaine Fong: A bunch of different ways, like, you know, the assignments, you turn in like the interactions you have with other students like who are also like like our history and art studio associated even like other majors like outside of like JUST LIKE THE ARTS ADMINISTRATION department.
Elaine Fong: So yes, it's really valuable.
Elaine Fong: Julie. I think you're muted. Oh.
Julie Mcgilvray: Great. Thank you so much. Elaine, I had to mute because of truck going by. But thank you so much. There's so many different ways that soon as can engage in learning about our history, beyond the classroom that you see the this offers
Julie Mcgilvray: For example, we have, we're hoping next year to re engage in the study abroad programs.
Julie Mcgilvray: You see AP, we have the Templeton collectively and that happens in the spring quarter we have visiting
Julie Mcgilvray: Art History lectures for the Templeton quote lamb. We have the men any shrimp Art Museum on campus for courses are held and opportunities for students to participate. There
Julie Mcgilvray: You know, for work event to work and we have other numerous Art Museum art museums on campus and Elaine participated in the administration of the basement gallery on campus, you get some experience their lane with promoting
Julie Mcgilvray: Exhibitions for art students in the art major
Julie Mcgilvray: So different ways to engage in art history outside the classroom.
Julie Mcgilvray: I want to open up this webinar to questions for any questions specific questions you may have about UC Davis about their history program or about transferring and of course requirements and everything like that. So feel free to unmute and go ahead and ask us questions.
Diana Strazdes: would especially like to know, like where you're coming from, you know, and I am and what kind of, you know, what kind of background or sort of what sort of career expectation to
Diana Strazdes: Have you know, just so we can select that.
Emma Sarkissian: For you and
Diana Strazdes: Say it again. Emma, please.
Emma Sarkissian: Okay, so let me apologize, a little bit. I'm actually Emma's mother. She's right in the middle of a three hour online exam.
Emma Sarkissian: Oh my gosh.
Emma Sarkissian: And like
Emma Sarkissian: But she didn't want to miss out. So
Emma Sarkissian: I was just asking, what was her question. She, she was interested in the architectural emphasis and how what is exactly what does that involve and also if you know how do you choose that, like, how do you get into that.
Diana Strazdes: If you start taking courses in it and and the, the reason that we have an architectural emphasis is that it is unusual for a
Diana Strazdes: For a faculty of our size to have as many faculty as we do, who are who are either trained architects, we've got to I trained architects who went on to get their PhDs in art history.
Diana Strazdes: Or who have had us who who have continuing interest in in architecture. And so all of us we have, we realized that all of us have been
Diana Strazdes: Teaching offering and teaching courses that have to do with the built environment and and so what we decided to do a few years ago, is to package that so is to allow students to
Diana Strazdes: To to claim an emphasis if they take six of these upper division courses and and that's that's actually something that lots of students end up doing anyway because the because of the
Diana Strazdes: The profusion of these courses within our curriculum, but it's also true that students who are interested in going to
Diana Strazdes: Going to architecture school or having a careers that have to do with architecture. One of the things that we can do is, and that we do do is to advise how
Diana Strazdes: How you can supplement these courses in our history which architectural history which are expected if you go into architecture.
Diana Strazdes: To further study architecture, how you can combine them with other other courses and other areas of study that that people who
Diana Strazdes: Go into the architectural professions, who have are who are in the architectural Professions Want to see as background, such as, you know, modern languages ability to draw that kind of thing. So
Emma Sarkissian: That a common pathway for students.
Diana Strazdes: I'm not a, not a huge one, uh, but I, there are. And I think that
Diana Strazdes: Quite frankly, that there are more students who are interested in studying the built environment then actually go on to careers as as architects.
Diana Strazdes: And that's something that that's something that we can certainly that's something that we can certainly offer. And then there are all kinds of sort of
Diana Strazdes: A connected
Diana Strazdes: professions that have that benefit from a knowledge of architecture. So for example, in
Diana Strazdes: Working in state parks working in working in museums in the part of the museum operation that has to do with on with with buildings and facilities on having getting jobs are they have to do with the the facility planning and that kind of stuff. Does that make sense.
Emma Sarkissian: Yes, it does.
Emma Sarkissian: Are there other people or am I the only one.
Diana Strazdes: Going
Diana Strazdes: Okay. Can I ask what I which Community College, Emma.
Emma Sarkissian: She attended the Peralta.
Emma Sarkissian: Colleges and the Oakland vicinity
Diana Strazdes: Oh well.
Emma Sarkissian: Laney college Berkeley City College. She, she actually went to a merit college. She did all three courses, you know, and that was a really good experience for her.
Emma Sarkissian: Mom, and she finally made the decision. Let's make the leap and go, she's been doing it for a little while. So she decided to to go ahead and explore, you know, getting her full BA and she's ready. She's ready to do it, but it's certainly a very strange time that in the fall. Right.
Emma Sarkissian: Like you know where she's trying to make her decision about what to attend. She did visit Davis, she really loved the community.
Yeah.
Emma Sarkissian: It's just, you know, what does it mean to study art or to take courses. When you're doing it virtually and
Emma Sarkissian: And it was lane you were talking about, you know, collaborating or, you know, working with people into disciplinary and how do you, is that possible, it seems like it's going to be a very strange way to how do you implement that in the new the new age.
Elaine Fong: It definitely is a a different city situation. It takes some adopting
Elaine Fong: What I guess like lack there isn't like physical interaction. I think professors have begun to like really figure out like a
Elaine Fong: Great way to promote like interaction like digitally I'm especially considering, you know, nowadays, like digital already is sort of like proliferating like as a means of communication and the ways to adapt like according to like
Elaine Fong: Like certain like psychological practices and stuff like that.
Elaine Fong: I think the professors are like done a really great way of like still like kind of facilitating that interaction.
Elaine Fong: Something that I think is really important to remember is that like even
Elaine Fong: In like a in person lecture when studying like certain like types are areas for history.
Elaine Fong: It still is like looking at a screen us early the art itself, which
Elaine Fong: Would just always like it would be a different experience to like physically look at our, um, so, in a way, there's like similarities to, you know, watching a video or like having an online zoom lecture.
Elaine Fong: To versus like
Elaine Fong: Having like a actual like human life lecture. Like that's being taught
Elaine Fong: Which like this type of interaction. But like I said, like I think
Elaine Fong: These new like ways of sort of like promoting like
Elaine Fong: Action where it seems that
Elaine Fong: Like isolation, obviously, is like our main priority right now.
Elaine Fong: It's still I think definitely possible like
Elaine Fong: I keep referring back to this like the basic ours, just like, for example, these are social media.
Elaine Fong: Has allowed us to still continue to
Elaine Fong: To sort of like allow students to express themselves. And I guess, give us like it gives us like our history majors, the chance to still like engage in like practices that we enjoy as well.
Elaine Fong: You know, for example, and another example would be like lemonade SRAM, I know in regards to like the the the graduate students.
Elaine Fong: Are also like they're hosting their own graduate seminars to present their master's thesis of theses and I think that's like a really still a great way to remind everybody that
Elaine Fong: You know, the promotion of like knowledge isn't lost in this kind of atmosphere. There's still ways to engage with others and ask questions. So it just is is just a little bit different.
Emma Sarkissian: I was wondering how the school was trying, you know exactly what you're saying and Lane is like, you know, finding that those means
Emma Sarkissian: And social networking and I know so I'm just remembering what Emma has shared with me some of her, you know, concerns, and one of them, of course, is that importance of engagement with
Emma Sarkissian: Her Peers, or with the experts in that conversation is such an important piece of your learning and how what what is the school or professors. What are you thinking about how do you, you know, encourage that environment.
Diana Strazdes: Yeah, one of the things that I could tell you I it's being discussed now they're having there haven't been
Diana Strazdes: Any final decisions about what fall quarter is going to look like. But I can tell you what's on the table. And one of the
Diana Strazdes: Main direction. That looks like our chancellor is is wanting to take is to have
Diana Strazdes: The largest classes be online and in virtual in the fall and then the smaller classes, too. I can meet in person and I, and that would mean that the
Diana Strazdes: Student such as Emma who's, who would be concerned about this. This business of like meeting her peers and getting to know real people instead of just on an online.
Diana Strazdes: In an online format. What she probably do is to is to look at the the smaller courses and to sign up for them and what we always offer every quarter is that we always offer
Diana Strazdes: We're always offering seminars as undergraduate seminars, as well as on as as as well as a larger upper division courses and it looks like those smaller seminars will be able to be taught in
Diana Strazdes: In a classroom setting with like real people. You get to know the people in the class, and so forth. And basically what it looks like they're going to do is that
Diana Strazdes: The largest classrooms are going to be vacated because they'll be online and then the smaller classes can take can take place in these larger classrooms with, you know, everybody appropriately spread out, but with live
Diana Strazdes: With live classes and then in addition, the courses that are these lab style courses and so that would include the art studio
Diana Strazdes: Courses that we have here would be able I those those, the plan is is that those would be taught in person. So that's kind of the logistical plan for the for the fall and
Diana Strazdes: In our end, we would be participating in that in that smaller class setting I every quarter with at least two courses. So my, my advice would be, if, if this is
Diana Strazdes: A concern. I certainly what you can do is to cherry pick toward these two these smaller classes. And then if I and then if your interests.
Diana Strazdes: If you're going towards your interest, probably, you're going to have a combination of a smaller class with a with a larger course. And because we are a relatively small faculty on you get to know the professors in no matter what.
Diana Strazdes: Environment you you're in. So, you know, because you you will, you'll see them over and over again. So I think that that allows for exactly what you're asking about
Emma Sarkissian: Absolutely also was
Emma Sarkissian: Curious about internships, because
Emma Sarkissian: I know in the light of the, you know, this doesn't you know separation all that but like it. What have you had with regards to providing or providing opportunities for internships or what, how does that play out.
Diana Strazdes: Yeah, well, we're well we we do provide a we do guide students toward toward internships and fortunately, there are lots of places on campus where students can
Diana Strazdes: I the students can work students can actually have paid jobs that are related to I
Diana Strazdes: To careers in the arts and I and will also have also have internships and like my suspicion is that those opportunities that we're going to particularly
Diana Strazdes: Comb those opportunities. Just because we have a lock on them, you know, whereas we don't have any. We don't have a whole lot of say in whether say historical sites or museums are going to open and offer internships.
Diana Strazdes: We have much more of a say as to whether the internship, you know, whether our campus entities, our campus museums or, you know, our campus galleries.
Diana Strazdes: Can offer will be able to offer internships. So that's something that you know will will will definitely do and and Alexandra. So for Anya, who is our classicist and also one of the main faculty in the coming museum studies.
Diana Strazdes: Emphasis I she is very she is. She's very keen on to be making contacts all across campus to make sure that our students can find, you know, sort of interesting and related
Diana Strazdes: Interesting and related interests to their for their, you know, future careers. So it's something that we're that we definitely have in mind as a as something that we want to
Diana Strazdes: That we want to work on. And then, you know, one of the great advantages of UC Davis is its Internship and Career Center. It is one of the country's very best i i internship centers within a university and
Diana Strazdes: They will have and they are always off on the lookout, you know, getting in, you know, internship opportunities for
Diana Strazdes: Students offering have a place where students can get advising about careers and that sort of thing. And they're very good. I mean, they're almost a reason in themselves to come to see Davis, apart from apart from anything else, so
Julie Mcgilvray: Yeah. In addition, in addition on our website, you know, arts, UC davis.edu and click on the art history box on the homepage. The front page. If you scroll down
Julie Mcgilvray: There is a pod. We call it called years in art history. And there we have an art history guide that Dan and I put together. History career guide and gives it alumni lists. What are some of our alumni go. And then I also added
Julie Mcgilvray: My career guide that I created some of its duplicated with a career guide Diana and I created. So the work of our is a career series that
Julie Mcgilvray: I host for students in the arts and so work about career series assist students with
Julie Mcgilvray: You know, discovering what can I do this major and in the career guide I actually list internships students have completed for course credit. So this gives students the opportunity to look and see where in campus. Can I get an internship or where
Diana Strazdes: Are we going to have meetings for the work of art series next year.
Julie Mcgilvray: Yes, for sure. I just hosted one online recently called, What can I do this major and I went over the career guide as to, you know, what are popular websites to look for internships and careers.
Julie Mcgilvray: Yeah. What are popular associations related graduate school programs. So alumni, things like that.
Emma Sarkissian: So regular podcasts that you subscribe to, or you just how would she know don't to
Emma Sarkissian: Join into something like that.
Julie Mcgilvray: So all students admitted to this, the meta, who are some incoming students are added to a list or we have a department.
Julie Mcgilvray: surfer advising and so I sent out I send out those notices to the listserv. Students can also subscribe to the liberal arts and business Lister at The Internship and Career Center.
Julie Mcgilvray: And that will give them information as to, you know, a new job postings. And I had the website called handshake.
Julie Mcgilvray: And handshake is really awesome because students can create a profile and it's kind of like having their own little, you know, social profile for internship and job search
Julie Mcgilvray: And they can search and they can actually have a setting to receive notices of upcoming jobs or internships related to particular majors.
Diana Strazdes: That's great. In addition, we have a we have a visual resources of facility with to visual resources librarians who are very keen on
Diana Strazdes: Tapping our alumni network to I to come and I give talks about, you know how I found my career as a you know as an architectural planner or as how I found my career as a as a dealer in
Diana Strazdes: Princeton drawings and that's something that I think we adapt pretty well to this online version and also allows you to allow students to connect to.
Diana Strazdes: To alumni our alumni who are doing the kinds of jobs that would be of interest to students and to get to know them, you know, and to have some contact with them on not only during the, the actual
Diana Strazdes: You know, the, the actual
Diana Strazdes: Series or the actual
Diana Strazdes: Meeting, but to afterwards as real people. So
Emma Sarkissian: They could I ask you what you studied what was sure I, are you just is it hard history. Is there an emphasis or
Elaine Fong: Well i i don't i did i don't have an emphasis in our history. But one of the things I think is
Diana Strazdes: Suitable nature.
Elaine Fong: Aren't you. Yeah, I am. So it's like. So one of the things I'm most valuable to major about that is like is smaller. So allows room. So you learn isolate principles that are released one allows you also to take up like another major or like another minor
Elaine Fong: And like the interaction of those two like different studies. I think that is where if I like to don't have an emphasis in our history itself like the skills. I've learned their history interacting with these other fields really like bolster I guess like
Elaine Fong: My learning and like what is my decisions of what I want to do later so yeah I don't necessarily have an emphasis in our history, but I am also an East Asian Studies
Elaine Fong: Major
Elaine Fong: Major
Diana Strazdes: I mean, in our history and east. East Asian Studies
Elaine Fong: Yes, yes.
Emma Sarkissian: I actually am I was considering she's interested in mathematics. So that's like the architectural components you studying
Emma Sarkissian: Now,
Diana Strazdes: As well.
Emma Sarkissian: Yeah, so a little bit of a blend there. I'm not sure how that would play out for her but I Elaine, if you were to sell Davis. Like why would you choose that over one of the other UCS or what do you have a thought on that.
Elaine Fong: Um, I would choose Davis, just because our department.
Elaine Fong: So like I said, it was mentioned earlier that like it is a little smaller by find that extremely useful and like a for an extremely advantageous, just because
Elaine Fong: Because they have a smaller department, you get to know everybody really well of the professor, you get to know your professors really well you to build like this really
Elaine Fong: Nice and like a friendly like working relationship like professors will know you by name, which is something that I think is like really compared to like
Elaine Fong: Maybe like like Berkeley, where
Elaine Fong: It might be more competitive.
Elaine Fong: Davis. The divas or history program is really helpful and like actually caring about
Elaine Fong: Like how assisting you like pursue you like your research interests are like
Elaine Fong: Helping you to figure out what career path. You want to get the future and then really providing opportunities and all the resources available.
Elaine Fong: That can get you there. Like I know for me personally like coming into Davis. I didn't know I wanted to do. And then once I entered the history department. I was able to interact with so many like
Elaine Fong: Amazing people. Like I've gained like a really nice community.
Elaine Fong: Of like fellow our story. And just by the nature of like see them more like being in the same classes with them. You get to know people very, very well.
Elaine Fong: And then with the professor is because we have like a smaller group professors, you get to know them very well.
Elaine Fong: You also get to know them very well.
Elaine Fong: I honestly would say that like I just think like that. The fact that the artists different really feels more like a
Elaine Fong: Community.
Elaine Fong: Is one of my biggest selling points.
Elaine Fong: You will you won't ever usually feel like even like left like in like out in the cold, you know,
Elaine Fong: If you like ever need assistance, like there's always going to be someone there to help you figure it out, whether it be like in advising or academics or just like having like a student
Elaine Fong: Companion like either for you. And so that would be my my selling point again. Yes.
Emma Sarkissian: Thank you.
Diana Strazdes: One of the things that if I could just add on that i that is important to a number of many students who end up as our majors, lots of them are double majors in much larger nature's such as
Diana Strazdes: Such as psychology, for example, and you know, so why would you want to be a double major in psychology and art history and it was like
Diana Strazdes: Well, I want you know it's our history from our history is going to be the source of my letters of recommendation because nobody in psychology knows who I am. There are
Diana Strazdes: There, there is, there are 1400 psychology majors. I went to a college that didn't have much more than 1400 total population.
Diana Strazdes: And so it's very easy if you pick a big major to feel that you fall into this
Diana Strazdes: Anonymity you know who is who's going to know me and who's going to know me well enough to be able to say at the end of your academic road, you know, I'm I highly recommend a student, I know her well
Diana Strazdes: On. Not very many. If you were just one person in a very, very large lecture class I, year after year quarter after quarter. That's the kind of benefit that that our history, our history offers. We also have a very high
Diana Strazdes: We also have a very high percentage have had a very high percentage over the years of students who graduate with honors
Diana Strazdes: Students who graduate Phi Beta Kappa students who graduate, as with as members of the honor societies and that's because I think
Diana Strazdes: That they have been able to get this kind of personal attention that really helps them blossom intellectually and academically and it's one of the real practical benefits.
Diana Strazdes: To your, you know, to your later career of a smaller major and we're not the only smaller major on campus on but we're good one and I envy.
Diana Strazdes: And that there are, aside from having all of these nice features that Elaine just mentioned about, you know, getting to know people and so forth. There are these really practical benefits that have to do with a higher GPA, you know better college performance having, you know,
Emma Sarkissian: Absolutely.
Diana Strazdes: You know, getting letters of recommendation that are much stronger because people really know you and can speak to your assets. So that's the, you know, I think that's the short end of
Diana Strazdes: The you know what we can offer to in terms of our size. Yeah.
Emma Sarkissian: I think Emma works very well in an environment where she can get to know the people or
Emma Sarkissian: You know, I'd like that collaborative model of that discussion and the smaller community environment. It really, I think, is a good eye on her mom but
Emma Sarkissian: I think it's a good fit for her but I totally get that I went to UC Santa Cruz and
Emma Sarkissian: We had very small classes or I was a math major and so very small
Emma Sarkissian: Department and I really got to know my professors
Emma Sarkissian: So I can totally attest to the importance or how valuable that experience is
Diana Strazdes: It's interesting that you mentioned Santa Cruz, because that that that is a big competitor in terms of undergraduate education and I think it says something about UC Davis.
Diana Strazdes: Lots of students feel that even though UC Davis is like a much bigger campus then Santa Cruz. It's also filled with students who care about other people, and that there's a good kind of
Diana Strazdes: Humanistic environment at at UC Davis that attracts a lot of students and I can say that, you know, I think.
Diana Strazdes: The your average UC Davis Student is like really nice, you know, like a good person and you know, good to know. And sort friend. There's a friendliness on campus and openness on campus. This
Diana Strazdes: Thing is really remarkable considering that it's not a, it's a big school. I mean, it has tons of options academically but it does have that atmosphere which is which is pretty darn nice, I think. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Julie Mcgilvray: I think one thing that ties students together to the the opportunity to find various clubs on campus when he was clubs.
Julie Mcgilvray: Mason all different kinds of interests and I met a student last week was started club just for students that own dogs that have dogs, you know, at their apartments and we have the art history club and Lane in lanes been leading their history club and coming up with, you know, ideas for
Julie Mcgilvray: For engagements of getting students together now to get to know each other, but also explore different aspects of our history.
Julie Mcgilvray: Of years ago we
Julie Mcgilvray: We set up or did you do it last year. Did you have the docent tour of the museum in Sacramento.
Elaine Fong: Yeah. That was last area.
Elaine Fong: Was last
Year we
Elaine Fong: Went to we went to the Crocker. Last year we had like a docent tour of one of the exhibits.
Elaine Fong: And I was. It was a really great time because it was interesting because we saw one of the paintings and the Crocker was at the ministry on this year. So it was really it was a fun time to revisit it, we also
Elaine Fong: We also participate picnic day last year and the picnic parade. And so we all dressed up as like different paintings. It was a really great way to sort of like
Elaine Fong: Everyone knows our estimators also here and the art is really, it's really cool. And so we also do like fun things like that engaging with the rest of campus. So we're not also we're not like just isolated to
Elaine Fong: Like we're not sanctioned off between
Elaine Fong: Humanities and stem, which I think is also something that I really value like being able to sort of not have that divide between the two. Which I feel like is is definitely like
Elaine Fong: A common like idea about humanities and send that there. They have to be opposition to each other, but
Elaine Fong: Our department is really
Elaine Fong: Is really good. I actually like deconstructing that and be like, Oh, no, it's like, like for example the architectural emphasis, like, oh no, like, you can also be involved with not just like the arts, you can get involved with like
Elaine Fong: Hard Science or or social science like business stuff like that.
Elaine Fong: So, yeah.
Emma Sarkissian: I like that interdisciplinary component that's
Emma Sarkissian: You know, that's a really interesting take a sip. Just take step GETTING ARE YOU to study it from multiple perspectives. So yeah, there's
Diana Strazdes: There's, there's a huge interest across the campus in interdisciplinary and and interdisciplinary areas of study, lots of these interdisciplinary areas offer a
Diana Strazdes: Offer minors and you basically, I mean, basically they make you be either a double major or minor
Diana Strazdes: You know when you come to a minor in something at UC Davis and there are lots of really interesting I interdisciplinary
Diana Strazdes: Interdisciplinary miners that connect to our to our history, just trying to think of just to think of one off hand.
Diana Strazdes: We've got a very successful human rights minor, for example, and and that there are courses in in history and literature and languages in our history. We have of course our human rights that fits into that fits into that minor. We've got all kinds of areas studies miners.
Diana Strazdes: And that's something that that that were the nature of the curriculum actually connect it draws you into this interdisciplinary stuff aside from the fact that you can, you know, take courses and all kinds of different departments, but this phone this interdisciplinary focuses is
Emma Sarkissian: Well, if
Emma Sarkissian: So as a new incoming student will they have Smith vice meant through about the coursework that they should choose or do we
Julie Mcgilvray: Ask this in my role is students come in, Professor.
Julie Mcgilvray: Straw says, and I will assess what courses have been completed the community college that we could apply to the major and we take a look at, you know, even though that class doesn't
Julie Mcgilvray: Equal UC Davis class, we still count it a lot of classes are still counted to meet the lower division requirements we want students coming into have met as many lower division requirements of the major as possible so they can focus on the upper division. I'm courses.
Julie Mcgilvray: I we will students are welcome to come meet with me and we will have a welcome session at the beginning of the quarter during the orientation, where we will go over the major requirements, see if they have questions.
Julie Mcgilvray: Or we can meet one to one. I'll be meeting with students, one to one, the zoom over the summer transfer students can meet with me.
Julie Mcgilvray: So we can discuss what courses to choose for the fall quarter and go over the major requirements. To clarify, also for students who are interested in
Julie Mcgilvray: double majoring or minor. We can also actually build an academic plan that's viewable by the student by myself or the major advisor.
Julie Mcgilvray: Into look at, you know, if you want to do a double major. You know, probably take an additional year at UC Davis or
Julie Mcgilvray: You know what courses could overlap between a double major. If I choose a minor
Julie Mcgilvray: What you know how many more units will I need to to complete a minor, it's pretty easy to finish the major and complete a minor that that's pretty much done in years. No problem. It's a double major. We have to look at unit restrictions, possibly, and then
Julie Mcgilvray: And then, you know, time to degree. This a student, you know, have the resources do they want to see an extra you see this
Diana Strazdes: Oh, sorry. I do.
Julie Mcgilvray: Have one more minute.
Julie Mcgilvray: So we have to we have to end our session soon. I apologize for getting started. Later, we have a problem. We had a problem logging in, because there was another department that was using this webinar platforms that were able to start on time.
Julie Mcgilvray: We had to wait for them to end. So I want to be respectful of possibly the next
Julie Mcgilvray: That's coming in at I don't you have the Nexus starting now. But I would assume I take one more minute. Ashley or Lauren, do you have any questions, and if you do
Julie Mcgilvray: You're welcome to email me and you can find my contact information on our website or we can set up a one to one zoom meeting or you can reach out to a later refresh distress does as well. Feel free to contact us.
Julie Mcgilvray: You know with questions. But right now, do you have any questions.
Diana Strazdes: You have a Julie, you have the emails for Ashley and and Lauren and Emma right so I could do. Would you want to just give my email in an email that you send them and that they could. I mean, they're more than happy to continue a conversation
Diana Strazdes: With you know with you by email and I imagine that you might to Elaine, you wouldn't mind.
Julie Mcgilvray: Yeah, I'll send that over email addresses or contact information. You can also put in our website. But I'll send me an email.
Julie Mcgilvray: Okay, well, sounds great. Thank you.
Diana Strazdes: Yeah, was nice to. It's nice to meet you all. I hope, I hope, Emma did well it on her online.
Emma Sarkissian: It's still going on but
Emma Sarkissian: Thank you.
Diana Strazdes: Oh my god. Okay.
Diana Strazdes: And I, it's going to be the Wave, the Wave of the present for a while and and Ashley, I would be delighted to to communicate with you.
Diana Strazdes: About any of your, you know, sort of needs or desires is coming up.
Yeah.
Diana Strazdes: Terrific.
Julie Mcgilvray: All right, thank you for joining us. Thank
Emma Sarkissian: You
Diana Strazdes: And yeah, look forward to seeing you all at UC Davis, gosh.
Emma Sarkissian: Okay care.
Emma Sarkissian: Bye bye.
See you later.
