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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Departments Anthropology Department Economics Department Education Department Environmental Studies Department Latin American and Latino Studies Department Politics ...

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

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 ...

Building on the long history of innovation in agriculture at the campus, the AgTech Alliance will support research, education, events, and workforce development related to advancing agricultural ...