Civic and Community Engagement, Minor
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civicengagement@uci.edu
The minor in Civic and Community Engagement is an interdisciplinary program that provides students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to engage as citizens and active community members in the 21st century. It provides a theoretical and empirical framework to increase students’ understanding of public problems (environmental, social, and other) from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students learn about strategies to address public problems, including through public policy; through the involvement of community-based and nonprofit organizations; and through the cultivation of leadership. The minor helps students build on their major programs of study to make connections between public problems and issues of equity and social justice. The minor also empowers students through knowledge about meanings and roles of leadership in society, and provides students opportunities to cultivate leadership in public and private settings.
It is open to students of all majors and is distinguished both by what students learn, and by how they learn it: through a combination of coursework, research, and service.
Completion of seven courses (28 units total). A maximum of two courses for the minor may overlap with courses required for a student’s major or for another minor.
| A. Complete: | |
| UNI STU 10 | Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement and Community Research |
| B. For students choosing the Poverty track, complete: | |
| UPPP 115 | Global Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century |
| C. For students choosing the Leadership track, complete: | |
| UNI STU 85A | Leading from Within |
| UNI STU 85B | Leading Others |
| D. For students in the Poverty track, select four of the following. For students in the Leadership track, select three elective courses from the Leadership and Public Policy theme. For all other students, select five elective courses related to public problems and civic and community engagement from the following: | |
| Environmental Stewardship: | |
| Conservation Biology | |
| Environmental Ethics | |
| Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability I and Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability II | |
| Marine Conservation, Policy, and Society | |
| Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability I and Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability II | |
| Economics of the Environment | |
| Water Resource Policy | |
| Environmental Hazards in an Urbanizing World | |
| Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability I and Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability II | |
| Writing/Senior Seminar on Global Sustainability III | |
| People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability | |
| Educational Equity: | |
| Economics of Education | |
| Multimedia and the Arts in the Multicultural Classroom | |
| Multicultural Education in K-12 Schools | |
| Exceptional Learners | |
| Reading and Writing Enrichment for After-School Programs | |
| Changing the High School Experience | |
| Foundations of Out-of-School Learning | |
| Health and Communities: | |
| Race, Gender, and Science | |
| Race, Gender, and Science | |
| Introduction to Health Informatics | |
| Nuclear Environments | |
| Community-Based Health Care | |
| Medical Ethics | |
| Foundations of Community Health | |
| Health Policy | |
| Health Policy | |
| Drug Abuse and its Prevention | |
| Air Pollution, Climate, and Health | |
| Nuclear Environments | |
| Health and Global Environmental Change | |
| Nuclear Environments | |
| Environmental Quality and Health | |
| The Politics of Health and Medicine | |
| Natural Disasters | |
| Foundations of Community Health | |
| Public History and Public Art: | |
| Topics in African American History | |
| History of Contemporary Art | |
| Topics in Contemporary Art | |
| Asian American Art, Contemporary | |
| Modern African American Art | |
| Contemporary African American Art | |
| Asian American Labor | |
| Chicana/Chicano History: Twentieth Century | |
| U.S. Latino Literature and Cultures | |
| Latinas in the Twentieth Century U.S. | |
| Nations, Regions, and Beyond | |
| Topics in Comparative Multiculturalism | |
| Colonialisms and Postcolonialisms | |
| Critical Cultural Studies | |
| World Dance | |
| Topics in Dramatic Literature | |
| Asian American Theatre | |
| Multicultural Topics in Literatures in English | |
| California Dreaming: Conquest, Conflict, and Globalization in the Golden State | |
| Topics in Multicultural U.S. History | |
| Topics in African American History | |
| Chicana/Chicano History: Twentieth Century | |
| Latinas in the Twentieth Century U.S. | |
| Topics in Asian-American History | |
| Studies in Ethnomusicology | |
| Topics in Asian Religious Traditions | |
| Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Religious Traditions | |
| U.S. Latino Literature and Cultures | |
| Global Citizenship: | |
| Transnational Migration | |
| Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
| Transnational Migration | |
| U.S. Immigration Policy | |
| Senior Seminar:Topics in Global Cultures | |
| American Public Policy | |
| U.S. Immigration Policy | |
| Human Rights | |
| Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
| International Law | |
| Immigration and Social Policy | |
| Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective | |
| Social Justice: | |
| Race and Visual Representation | |
| Topics in Gender/Sexuality | |
| Cross-Cultural Studies of Gender | |
| Race and Urban Space | |
| Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States | |
| Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class | |
| Law and Inequality | |
| Multicultural Topics in the Media | |
| Topics in Women and Gender Relations in the United States | |
| Applied Ethics | |
| Urban Inequality | |
| Poverty and Change in Developing Countries | |
| Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States | |
| Gender, State, and Nation | |
| Money, Sex, and Power | |
| Queer Knowledges | |
| Global Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century | |
| Community Context of Crime | |
| Miscarriages of Justice | |
| Hate Crimes | |
| Leadership and Public Policy: | |
| Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
| Comparative Minority Politics | |
| The Politics of Protest | |
| Comparative Minority Politics | |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Social Control | |
| Non-Government Organization (NGO) Fundamentals | |
| Housing and Urban Development Policy | |
| Urban Economic Development Policy | |
| American Public Policy | |
| Environmental Law and Policy | |
| Environmental Governance | |
| Urban Politics and Policy | |
| Public Policy and Governance | |
| The Politics of Protest | |
| Comparative Minority Politics | |
| Urban Politics and Policy | |
| Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
| American Public Policy | |
| The Science and Practice of Compassion | |
| Nutrition and Global Health | |
| American Public Policy | |
| Introduction to Global Health | |
| American Public Policy | |
| Ethical Leadership | |
| Sage Leader Research I | |
| Sage Leader Research II | |
| Gender and Social Control | |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Social Control | |
| Environmental Law and Policy | |
| Leadership | |
| Leadership and Management in Health Care | |
| Leading from Within | |
| Leading Others | |
| Leading Change | |
| Philanthropy in the Community | |
| Additional elective courses may be substituted by petition. | |
| E. Select four units of an approved internship related to civic and community engagement. Internships will typically be completed over one or more quarters. | |
| The internship can be completed through the following courses (or by petition to the faculty director of the minor): | |
| Field Study | |
| Independent Study | |
| California Teach 1: Introduction to Science and Mathematics Teaching | |
| California Teach 2: Middle School Science and Mathematics Teaching | |
| Educational Strategies for Tutoring and Teacher Aiding | |
| Humanities Out There (H.O.T.) Practicum | |
| Project in Software System Design | |
| Project in Human-Computer Interaction Requirements and Evaluation | |
| Project in the Social and Organizational Impacts of Computing | |
| Senior Design Project and Senior Design Project | |
| Studies in the Learning and Teaching of Secondary Mathematics | |
| California Teach 1: Introduction to Science and Mathematics Teaching | |
| California Teach 2: Middle School Science and Mathematics Teaching | |
| Field Experience in Physics Education | |
| Public Health Practicum and Culminating Experience | |
| Field Study | |
| Field Studies in Social Policy and Public Service and Field Studies in Social Policy and Public Service | |
| Public Service Internship | |
| SOC SCI 195A-195B-195C | |
| Global Connect | |
| Professional Internship | |
| Washington DC Internship | |
| Directed Studies in Undergraduate Education | |
Residence Requirement for the Minor: Students must complete at least four of the required courses for the minor in residence at UCI.