School of Social Ecology

School of Social Ecology
Social Ecology I building.
Former names
Program in Social Ecology
TypeSchool
Established1970 (as a program)
1992 (as a school)
Parent institution
University of California, Irvine
DeanJon Gould
Location, ,
United States
Websitehttp://socialecology.uci.edu/

The School of Social Ecology[1] (SSE) is a school at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) that focuses on social ecology.[2][3] Students in SSE at UCI undergo a multidisciplinary program that examines real-world social and environmental issues, involves the students in off-campus internships and[2][4] SSE offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including bachelor's, professional master's, and Ph.D.s.

The school has three departments: Criminology, Law and Society; Psychological Science (prior to Fall 2019 known as Psychology and Social Behavior); and Urban Planning and Public Policy.[3] It is also home to approximately 70 faculty, 2,500 undergraduate students, 300 graduate students, and over 20,000 alumni; it offers five undergraduate degrees and eight graduate degrees, including two professional degrees. It is the third-largest school at UCI by population.

  1. ^ "Editorial Style Guide | SCPA Apps | UCI".
  2. ^ a b Muller, Martin (October 21, 1996), "Problem-Solvers: UC Irvine School of Social Ecology Applies Research to Real-Life Issues", Los Angeles Times
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Klein, Julie Thompson (1990), Interdisciplinarity: history, theory, and practice, Wayne State University Press, pp. 174–175, ISBN 978-0-8143-2088-4