Publicizing Your Course

Start now:

75% of Summer Session enrollments happen between May 1 – 7. The best time to promote your class is in the winter quarter when summer plans are made.

Do it Through Established Communication Channels:

Course announcements, adviser recommendations, and word of mouth are the most powerful way to promote your class.

Outreach:

Students on waitlists for winter and spring courses can be referred to Summer Session’s course list.
Students struggling in winter or spring classes, or failing to make minimum GPA or units/credit degree Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) can be referred to summer courses as well.

Poster Creation:

Download department materials via your Google drive folder (email summer@ucsc.edu for link).
For an individual course flyer – fill out this form.

Faculty Highlights:

Share your latest accomplishments on our Google form so we can highlight them to potential students.

Social Media:

You can find social media assets in your Google drive folder or fill out a request for custom creation.

Instructors’ Guide

Image Usage:

Only use images where UCSC or your department has a copyright license (no Google search images). We also recommend UnSplash for freely-usable images.

If you create your own graphics, we strongly encourage you to use a free design service like www.canva.com.

Be sure to include the following:

Course name / code
Session
Gen Ed
summer.ucsc.edu
Enrollment opens May 1

Work with our office:

We’ve compiled our best bets for promoting the summer course you’re teaching and our office is ready to help.

Summer dates and deadlines

Stay on top of key academic dates.

Academic Calendar

Annual timeline

Find out the important dates for instructions during Summer Session (2024-2025).

Annual timeline

Summer Session general inquiries

Contact for any and all information, including course/sections scheduling, room reservations, increasing enrollment capacity, instructor and TA evaluations, policies and exceptions, marketing and promotion of Summer Session courses (like course flyers, social media posts) and year round events (like Info Sessions in the Colleges, or tabling at the Summer Opportunities Fair).

summer@ucsc.edu

Undergraduate Education Academic HR

Contact for all contract, payroll, paycheck, and appointment questions.

ue-ahr@ucsc.edu