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Division of Social Sciences
 

The social sciences curriculum at UC Santa Cruz includes the study of global issues, the social impacts of technological and environmental change, and human development, cultures, and power.

 

Patricia Zavella
Professor and Chair, Latin American and Latino Studies

Professor Zavella is a well known scholar of Chicana/o-Latina/o studies. She has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in Hispanic Business magazine and received the 2002-03 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar Award. She also co-authored, with the Latina Feminist Group, the award-winning Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. In 2007, she co-edited the new book Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader.

 

 


Social Sciences Student

Name: Josh Karrasch
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Bradford, Pennsylvania
Transferred from: Sacramento City College
Meet Josh

 


Majors in the Division of Social Sciences include:

Anthropology
Business Management Economics
Community Studies
Economics
Environmental Studies
Global Economics
Latin American and Latino Studies
Legal Studies
Politics
Psychology
Sociology


 

Major Sheets *
American Studies
Anthropology
Applied Physics
Art
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Bioengineering
Bioinformatics
Biology
Business Management Economics
Chemistry
Classical Studies
Community Studies
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Computer Science: Computer Game Design
Earth Sciences
Ecology and Evolution
Economics
Education and Teaching
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Studies
Feminist Studies
Field and Exchange Programs
Film and Digital Media
German Studies
Global Economics
Health Sciences
History
History of Art and Visual Culture
Individual Study
Information Systems Management
Italian Studies
Language Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
Legal Studies
Linguistics
Literature
Marine Biology
Mathematics
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Music
Neuroscience and Behavior
Philosophy
Physics
Physics (Astrophysics)
Physics Education
Plant Sciences
Politics
Prelaw
Premedicine
Psychology
Sociology
Theater Arts
Writing

*This information covers areas of study. Not all of the items in the above list are majors at UC Santa Cruz.

options for undeclared students