Academic Programs

To enrich students' educational experiences, the University of California, Irvine offers several academic programs that incorporate sustainable practices and ecological issues into the curriculum. Such programs are found in Interdisciplinary Studies, the College of Health Sciences, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, the School of Physical Sciences, and the School of Social Ecology.

Interdisciplinary Studies

Students who minor in Global Sustainability explore the changes that must be enacted in order for the human race to live in a sustainable relationship with the resources available on this planet.
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College of Health Sciences

Students in the Public Health program examine the following areas: health services & clinical policy research, biostatistics and quantitative/qualitative methods, clinical sciences, epidemiology, behavior/interdisciplinary sciences and environmental sciences.
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The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

The school offers an M.S. degree or Ph.D. degree in Engineering with a concentration in Environmental Engineering. Within the degree program, students choose from three areas of emphasis: Water Quality, Water Resources, or Air Quality and Combustion.
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School of Physical Sciences

The school offers a major in Earth and Environmental Sciences and an interdisciplinary minor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The major focuses attention on global reservoirs (atmospheric, terrestrial biosphere, and ocean) and on the processes that can change this system over a human lifetime.

The minor is designed primarily for students who wish to explore interdisciplinary problems and broaden their studies to include the application of their field to understanding the Earth system.
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School of Social Ecology

Degrees in the School of Social Ecology are organized around the study of contemporary problems in the social and physical environment. Faculty share their perspectives on a variety of specialties, including developmental, clinical, environmental, and health psychology; urban and regional planning, public policy, and architecture; urban sociology; law; criminology; and environmental health sciences.
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Undergraduate Education Freshman Seminars

These one-unit seminars introduce students to the research university and encourage them to become active participants in intellectual interactions with their peers and professors. In Spring 2008, two of the seminars will focus on energy and the environment. >>More information