Additional Leadership Training

The A.S. Media Center is a fully student-funded creative space available to UCSB undergraduate and graduate students. The Media Center is equipped to help you with everything from creating a simple flyer to producing a documentary about something that makes you passionate.   The Center has tools for your creative process, including still and video cameras, computers, and a space to meet and view your finished work. Equipment can be checked out and the center’s computers come equipped with the software you need to edit both image and audio-based projects. The Center also offers various training workshops.

CESP fosters ideals of active citizenship among students, engaging the next generation of leaders on issues that are of import to our campus and to the surrounding communities of Isla Vista, Goleta, and Santa Barbara. CESP creates alliances with leaders and organizations in those communities to provide students with opportunities to develop their leadership and organizing skills and to affect measurable, positive change. Each year, students are enrolled in a three-quarter-long course, Seminar in Civic Engagement and Deliberative Democracy (RS 188ABC), which begins in Fall Quarter. During the first quarter of the course, students study the theoretical framework and historical background of civic engagement in the American university. While doing so, they engage in leadership development, learn skills for deliberative discourse, and design workshops incorporating these issues and skills. In the Winter and Spring, students deliver their designed workshops to the campus and to the Isla Vista, Goleta, and Santa Barbara communities.

Student Engagement & Leadership staff serve as consultants to the campus community. In addition to one-on-one leadership consultations, SEAL offers free, customized training sessions to groups of 10 or more students. Individual students, informally organized groups, and recognized campus organizations are all encouraged to seek consultation with the trained staff.

SEAL’s comprehensive workshop series includes a personal 360-degree leadership assessment, one-on-one coaching, and engaging training to improve your leadership with research-based methods. The Leadership Challenge® Workshop is offered every fall, winter, and spring. Workshop series are usually offered over the course of six weeks, beginning week three of the quarter.
 

The Incubator serves startup businesses at UCSB with mentorship and educational programs, co-working and meeting space, and access to a network of business and financial resources. It is designed to improve startup success, enhance UCSB’s technology transfer productivity, provide support for entrepreneurial students, faculty, and alumni, create jobs, and encourage philanthropy.  The Incubator serves as the hub for a wide range of experiential programming, providing a valuable extension to the world-class interdisciplinary research and strong entrepreneurial programs at UCSB. One of the foundational programs of the Incubator is the G2 Summer Launchpad, a startup accelerator designed to facilitate the transition from ideation and business model development, to product commercialization and business launch. The Incubator occupies 1,500 square feet on the first floor of the Alumni Association’s Mosher House at UCSB.

The Professional Writing Minor is an opportunity for undergraduates to expand their communication skills through two capstone courses and a writing internship during their senior year. Students considering the minor should think of it as an apprenticeship in the world of professional writing, not simply as a set of courses in which someone will tell you what to do.

The Professional Writing Minor is separated into distinct tracks: Professional Editing, Multimedia Communication, Business Communication, Writing and Civic Engagement, Science Communication, and Journalism. Each track includes two capstone courses and an internship.