Core Faculty

Stanley Bassin, Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology)

Jeanett Castellanos, Director, Academic Resource Center, and Lecturer, Social Sciences

William J. Cooper, Director of the Urban Water Research Center (UWRC) and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Planning, Policy, and Design

Kristen Day, Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design

Gillian Hayes, Assistant Professor of Informatics

Carrie J. Noland, Professor of French

Ellen F. Olshansky, Director of the Program in Nursing Science and Professor, Program in Nursing Science

James S. Nowick, Professor of Chemistry

Linda Trinh Võ, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies

Affiliated Faculty

Molly Lynch, Assistant Professor of Dance

Joseph Mahoney, Associate Professor of Education

Grace McLaughlin, Lecturer, The Paul Merage School of Business

Michael J. Montoya, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chicano/Latino Studies

Bill Tomlinson, Assistant Professor of Informatics

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Assistant Professor of African American Studies

Maria Estela Zarate, Assistant Professor of Education

The minor in Civic and Community Engagement is an interdisciplinary program that seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to engage as citizens and active community members in the twenty-first century. The minor is distinguished both by what students learn, and by how they learn it.

Teaching and learning. The minor introduces students from majors across the campus to the traditions and public movements of service and their historical and contemporary philosophical underpinnings. The minor provides a theoretical and empirical framework to increase students' understanding of public problems (environmental, social, educational, and other) from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students learn about systemic 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 is intended to help students build on their major programs of study to make connections between public problems and issues of equity and social justice.

Research. The minor increases students' knowledge of the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of community-based research as a strategy for understanding and addressing public problems.

Service. The minor helps students to ground their understanding of public problems by participating in engaged learning opportunities and by reflecting critically on those experiences.

The minor is open to all UCI students. Course descriptions are available in the academic department sections of the Catalogue.

More information about the minor in Civic and Community Engagement is available from the Division of Undergraduate Education, at (949) 824-3291 or at cceminor@uci.edu.

Requirements for the Minor

Completion of eight courses, including one two-unit course (30 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.   University Studies 10.

B.   University Studies 100.

C.   Four upper-division elective courses related to public problems and civic and community engagement, from the following:

   Environmental Stewardship: Biological Sciences E150, E181, E189, 191A-B, 191C, Earth System Science 180, 182, 190A-B, 190C, Economics 145E, International Studies 120, Planning, Policy, and Design 131, 132, 136, 138, 139, Political Science 141A, 143D, Public Health 145, 160, 164, 173, Social Ecology 186A-B, 186C, Women's Studies 165A.

   Educational Equity: Asian American Studies 139, Chicano/Latino Studies 182, Economics 158, Education 104E, 121, 124, 128, 132, 139, 150, 160, 182, Informatics 165, Political Science 126E, Social Ecology 181, Studio Art 149.

   Health and Communities: Anthropology 128B, 134D, 134G, Asian American Studies 134, Chicano/Latino Studies 172, 176, Environmental Analysis and Design E127, E191C, History 136B, Informatics 171, International Studies 122, Nursing Science 170, Philosophy 131C, Planning, Policy, and Design 111, 112, 170, Public Health 122, 143, 147, 167, 168, 173, Social Ecology 131, Women's Studies 165B.

   Public History and Public Art: African American Studies 111A, 111B, 133A, 133B, 138, Art History 140A, 140B, 140C, 163, 164A, 164B, 164C, Asian American Studies 137, Chicano/Latino Studies 132A, 132B, 134, 135, Classics 175, Comparative Literature 100A, 105, 107, 130, 140, Dance 110, Drama 103, 122, English 105, History 130B, 142A, 148B, 150, 150A, 150B, 151A, 151B, 151C, 152, Music 148, Religious Studies 106, 120, 130, Spanish 100E, 110C, Studio Art 116, 116A, 118, 121, 122, 123A.

   Global Citizenship: Anthropology 125X, 136D, Asian American Studies 101, Chicano/Latino Studies 161, 163, Environmental Analysis and Design E113, International Studies 121, Planning, Policy, and Design 140, Political Science 126C, 146A, 153E, 154G, 172A, Social Science 177A, 184D.

   Social Justice: African American Studies 115, 117, 124, 128, 132A, 132B, Anthropology 121D, Asian American Studies 138, 161, 167, Chicano/Latino Studies 148, Comparative Literature 130, Criminology, Law and Society C120, Film and Media Studies 130, History 146, 152B, Philosophy 131A, Planning, Policy, and Design 102, 113, Psychology 127G, Psychology and Social Behavior P117D, Social Science 175B, Women's Studies 110A, 110B, 156A, 157B, 158B.

   Leadership and Public Policy: African American Studies 151, 162, Anthropology 136D, Asian American Studies 132, 136, 140, Chicano/Latino Studies 143, 152, International Studies 152A, Planning, Policy, and Design 166, 167, 169, 176, Political Science 121D, 121E, 124A, 124C, 124D, 126A, 126D, 132B-C, 134A, 154G, Social Science 181, 184A, 184B.

   Additional elective courses may be substituted by petition.

D.   One hundred hours of internship working on a specific project related to civic and community engagement. Internships will typically be completed over two or more quarters, for a total of eight units toward the minor. If the internship is completed in one quarter, an additional elective course should be completed. Internships must be approved for credit toward the minor.

   The internship can be completed through the following courses: Anthropology 197, Arts 199, Biological Sciences 14, 101, 102, E175, Chemistry 191, Chicano/Latino Studies 191A-B-C, Education 100, 141A-B-C, 160L, 181B, Engineering 197A, Humanities 195, Informatics 117, 132, 163, 191A-B-C, Mathematics 192, Nursing Science 170L, Physical Sciences 5, 105, 106, Physics 191, Psychology 141J-K-L, 144 A-B-C, 145P-Q-R, Public Health 195, Social Ecology 195, Social Science 186A-B-C, 193A-B-C, 194A, 194B, 195A-B-C, 196, 197, University Studies 175, 181, 185, 192, 195.

E.   University Studies 191.

Residence Requirement for the Minor: Students must complete at least four of the required courses for the minor in residence at UCI.

COURSES

University Studies 10 Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement (4). Provides a foundation for understanding the role of public scholarship, civic engagement, and social action, and the relationship between service learning and engaged citizenship. Introduces key theoretical and research methodologies on the traditions and innovations of civic and community engagement.

University Studies 100 Doing Research in the Community (4). Critically reimagines the research endeavor and its players and products. Grapples with information and engages in discussions that regard the current state of research as problematic and explores alternative conceptions of research, focusing on the community-based model. Prerequisite: University Studies 10.

University Studies 181 Internship in Civic and Community Engagement (2). Provides an opportunity to extend learning into a community-based setting addressing important social, environmental, and public issues. The internship project has a creative and scholarly component where students initiate their own action or inquiry experience. Prerequisite: University Studies 10.

University Studies 191 Seminar in Civic and Community Engagement (2). Capstone course for students in the minor in Civic and Community Engagement. Students work in teams to apply their learning about community engagement to a pressing issue. Prerequisites: University Studies 10; completion of or concurrent enrollment in University Studies 181 or equivalent.