Get to know the Social Sciences Division Social scientists work across many sectors of society to tackle urgent global challenges, like climate change and inequality. Our division’s research can ...

Awards and scholarships administered within the UC Santa Cruz Division of Social Sciences recognize and support the exceptional achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students and help to ...

Your gift supports an endowment whose proceeds will support community studies field study staff and related field study program needs. Every community studies student embarked on a 6-month field study ...

Academic personnel policies Academic Personnel is governed by a complex set of policies and procedures at both the system-wide and campus-wide levels. The Academic Personnel Manual (APM) provides a ...

Economics Department Quantitative Economics and Finance M.S. The Master of Science in Quantitative Economics and Finance is a one-year, STEM-designated program focused on building practical experience ...

Heat: Climate Change and Human Health Watch video from the 2023 event.

Your gift will advance socially relevant research, community engagement, and public scholarship and ensuring our work is useful to society.

Through our innovative approaches to both research and education, the Social Sciences Division at UC Santa Cruz is uniquely well-positioned to produce tangible benefits for our society. Yet social ...

Research Administrator responsibilities Establish financial reports to monitor award budgets. Monitor the expenditure of funds to be consistent with the terms of the agreement and University policies.

Your gift will support the Environmental Studies Department as it prepares students to engage in the environmental challenges facing society with an interdisciplinary curriculum that combines ecology ...

A health justice coordinator for RYSE Youth Center in Richmond, California, and a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Seeyade Gizachew (Stevenson ’22, community studies and psychology) is passionate ...

Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah was a co-author on a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) that recommends a national research agenda for ...