2024-25 Edition

Civic and Community Engagement, Minor

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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:
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
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
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
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.