Very briefly, the most important information:
The main LaTeX file is Dissertation.tex and all major settings
happen in there. The \documentclass can have the following
options: a font size, oneside or twoside, and final or draft. The
10pt and 11pt options were not tested and are possibly outdated,
so use the 12pt font size for now. The "twoside,draft" version is
the fastest to compile as it uses placeholders for images and it's
the easiest to read, the "oneside,final" is what the graduate
division wants.
Copy the tarball or all the files from this directory to a local directory and you're ready to go. There's also a Makefile, but you'll probably have to adapt it to a *nix platform. Now read ucthesis.readme for all further documentation. It's pretty straight forward. In addition to what's explained in there, these are some further changes:
The default page style is headandbotcent. To change it, use \ps@x
in the Dissertation.tex, where x is headings, plain, botcent, or
headandbotcent.
A new UCSB guideline requests the approval page to be unnumbered
yet counted, this is reflected here. The "headandbotcent"
pagestyle prints page numbers centered in the footers and chapter
names in the headers. Headers have a line underneath. Headers are
typed in definable \headercase. Figure and Table captions are
bold, always flush left. Also added is an environment
"germanabstract" to include a German Zusammenfassung after the
abstract. In twoside printing, a lot of the frontmatter gets its
own doublepage.
Note that the results, particularly the margins, differ between
pdflatex (at least on the Mac) and dvips+ps2pdf. The settings in
the style file and template are for dvips and ps2pdf. You might
have to make adjustments for pdflatex.
(The files uctest.bib, uctest.tex, uc10.clo, and uc11.clo are
copied here only because they're on the CTAN web site.)