Civic and Community Engagement

Overview

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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.

Requirements

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.

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