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Home > Quick Facts > Fact Sheets > Social Sciences SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Undergraduate and graduate education in the School of Social Sciences at UCI integrates students into an ever-changing world with a comprehensive and in-depth study of modern social science. The School of Social Sciences is the largest academic unit on campus, representing nearly 25 percent of the total student enrollment with nearly 6,500 undergraduate and graduate students and accounting for more than a third of UCI’s awarded bachelor’s degrees. The school’s faculty and students seek to understand the dynamics of individual and collective human behavior, and by understanding them, to improve them. Many of the most interesting questions in the study of human behavior cannot be posed within the traditional disciplinary boundaries. New and evolving areas crossing orthodox boundaries include cognitive neuroscience, political sociology, public policy, immigration, democracy and international studies. The school is home to departments of anthropology, Chicano/Latino studies, cognitive sciences, economics, logic and the philosophy of science, political science, and sociology, and a program in international studies. The school also hosts the Center for the Study of Democracy; Center for Asian Studies; Center for Hearing Research; Center for Organizational Research; Center for Research on International and Global Studies; Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy; Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences; Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies; Center for Citizen Peacebuilding; Center for Ethnography; Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. Dean Barbara Dosher Named dean in 2002 and reappointed in 2007, Barbara Dosher is a nationally known expert on the mechanisms of information retrieval in human memory, perceptual learning and attention. She joined the faculty in the Department of Cognitive Sciences in 1992, after serving 15 years on the faculty at Columbia University. She is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and a former president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. She has authored numerous research articles and is on the editorial boards of research journals in psychology and vision science. She also is a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and a fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Distinctions and Awards
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