School of Social Ecology
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Former names | Program in Social Ecology |
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Type | School |
Established | 1970 (as a program) 1992 (as a school) |
Parent institution | University of California, Irvine |
Dean | Jon Gould |
Location | , , United States |
Website | http://socialecology.uci.edu/ |
The School of Social Ecology
The school has three departments:
History
In 1970, SSE was founded as the first US academic unit in social ecology. Founded by Arnold Binder, the program intended to address social problems of the day by promoting research and training that crossed disciplinary boundaries and held direct relevance to public policy and social issues. The program also encouraged students to apply theory and research to the study of community issues by emphasizing hands-on, cross-disciplinary research, education, and training.[5] Since the beginning of the program in 1970, all undergraduate students in the program have been required to take field study internships with a community organization in order to graduate.[5]
In 1988, UCI began the process to accord School status to the program. In 1992, the
In the following decades, SSE continued to expand its offerings and infrastructure. In 1993, the school established the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy and began awarding master's degrees in Urban and Regional Planning. A second social ecology building on campus opened in 1996, the same year that new Ph.D. programs in Urban and Regional Planning and Environmental Health Science and Policy were approved by the Academic Senate. In 2003, the Urban and Regional planning department and Ph.D. program were renamed "Planning, Policy and Design" (PPD). In 2009, PPD inaugurated an undergraduate major, a B.A. in Urban Studies. In 2011, PPD helped launch a Master's of Public Policy degree. SSE faculty were also involved in launching UCI's public health program and law school.[6]
The
Academics
Core courses introduce B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Social Ecology students to integrative concepts and methods drawn from systems theory and ecology, while also emphasizing the value of applying multiple disciplinary perspectives to the analysis of community problems. Students are both trained in research skills and prepared for community-oriented jobs.
The School is organized into three departments. The department of
SSE's faculty include
SSE offers majors in
Research centers
SSE
See also
Notes
- ^ "Editorial Style Guide | SCPA Apps | UCI".
- ^ a b Muller, Martin (October 21, 1996), "Problem-Solvers: UC Irvine School of Social Ecology Applies Research to Real-Life Issues", Los Angeles Times
- ^ a b "Fact Sheet: School of Social Ecology", UC Irvine Today, UC Irvine, archived from the original on 2002-12-16, retrieved 2008-02-22
- ISBN 978-0-8143-2088-4
- ^ a b c "Conceptual Social Ecology", UC Irvine Social Ecology Website, UC Irvine, retrieved 2014-04-29
- ^ "History", Planning, Policy & Design Website, UC Irvine Social Ecology, retrieved 2014-06-16
- ^ http://ppd.soceco.uci.edu/pages/how-we-compare-other-school[dead link]
- ^ a b c "Departments", UC Irvine School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, retrieved 2014-05-02
- ^ Gottlieb, Jeff (December 1, 2004), "UCI Professor Wins Big Award: Elizabeth Loftus has shown memory to be malleable, thus casting doubt on sensitive cases", Los Angeles Times
- ^ "Research Centers in the School of Social Ecology", UC Irvine Social Ecology Website, UC Irvine, retrieved 2014-04-29