The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) at the

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is home to the School of Public Policy as well as nine academic departments offering 13 undergraduate majors, 11 areas of

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and doctoral study, and a number of

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programs. The college bridges science and liberal arts, encouraging students to pursue cross-disciplinary studies, take classes outside their chosen major, and participate in research projects with faculty mentors. As of 2023, SBS enrolled 3,591 students with a student/professor ratio of 16:1.

Advising Services

Academic advising, career counseling, and internship opportunities for SBS students are provided by the SBS Pathways Center located in Thompson Hall.

SBS RISE

SBS RISE (Remedying Inequity through Student Engagement) is an SBS Pathways community providing specialized resources for SBS students who identify as first-generation, Black, Indigenous, or other Persons of Color (BIPOC), and/or come from low-income backgrounds.

Undergraduate Majors

* Anthropology * Communication * Economics * Journalism * Landscape Architecture * Legal Studies * Managerial Economics * Political Science * Public Policy * Resource Economics * Social Thought & Political Economy * Sociology * Sustainable Community Development

Certificate Programs

* Applied Economic Research on Cooperative Enterprises * Climate Change, Hazards, and Green Infrastructure Planning * Criminology and the Criminal Justice System * Cultural Landscape Management * Data Analytics and Computational Social Science * Ethnographic Research * International Relations * Journalism * Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies * Legal Studies * Media Literacy * Political Economy * Political Science * Population Studies * Public Policy and Administration * Social Research Analysis * Social Work and Social Welfare

Graduate Programs

* Anthropology (MA, PhD) * Communication (PhD) * Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (MS) * Economics (MA, PhD) * Labor Studies (MS) * Landscape Architecture (MLA) * Political Science (MA, PhD) * Regional Planning (MRP, PhD) * Resource Economics (MS, PhD) * Public Policy (MPA, MPPA) * Sociology (PhD)

References

External links

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences official site
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