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California State University Chico - California Studies Minor

Information on the California Studies Minor.

California State University Fullerton - California American Studies Association (CASA)

Travis Silcox, Sacramento City College, SilcoxT@scc.losrios.edu
President - California American Studies Association (CASA)

California State University Hayward - California Studies Minor

The minor in California Studies offers coursework on California with emphasis on the state's history, government, geography, ethnic diversity, and environment. Such a focus on California's diverse and sizable population, economic development, and geo-social regions will better prepare graduates to address the ongoing economic, demographic, and social evolution challenging California and its political institutions.

Humboldt State University - California Studies Minor

Students explore California from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, which is important, due to the complexity of the subject. Growth and change have forced fundamental transformations in cultural, demographic, economic, physical, political, and social patterns. This minor concentrates on these transformations and confronts the California of the 21st century.

California State University Northridge - California Studies Minor

The minor in California Studies offers courses in an interdisciplinary program that includes courses from a variety of disciplines including biology, ethnic studies, geography, geology, history, political science, and urban studies. The minor is designed to enhance faculty and study interaction in an interdisciplinary setting and assist both in exploring the connections among different perspectives on a major subject.

California State University Northridge - The Center for Southern California Studies

The Center for Southern California Studies (CSCS) was established in the Fall of 1996 to coordinate and promote faculty research, applied research and professional services, and California Studies in campus curriculum.

California State University Sacramento - The Center for California Studies

The Center for California Studies is a public service, educational support, and applied research institute of California State University, Sacramento. It is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of California's government, politics, peoples, cultures and history.

San Diego State University - Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias

The Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias (IRSC) provides San Diego State University with a forum for the investigation, discussion, and dissemination of information about the United States-Mexican border region. The Institute focuses on the border region of California and Baja California and is also concerned with important issues of the United States-Mexican interface and monitors border regions elsewhere in the world..

San Francisco State University - California Studies Minor

California Studies is a multi-disciplinary program which studies the consensus and conflict, unity and diversity, and the continuity and change that characterize the many cultures, artistic, and creative expressions, earth and geosciences, as well as social structures of past and present California.

SFSU Institute for California Studies
Lee Davis, Davislee@sfsu.edu
415-338-6583

SFSU California Studies Association
Lee Davis, Davislee@sfsu.edu
415-338-6583

Sonoma State University - California Cultural Studies Major and Minor

California Cultural Studies aims to attract a diverse group of students, representing a number of different ethnic and cultural groups as well as regions within California, into a learning community devoted to the study, preservation, and development of California's cultural life.

University of California at Irvine - Southern California Studies Association

William Norfleet, wnorflee@uci.edu,
The Southlander editorial team was formed through a collective dialogue among individuals who see a clear need for contrary perspectives to that provided by traditional Los Angeles County media.

University of California at Berkeley - California Studies Center

Dick Walker, walker@socrates.berkeley.edu, (510) 642-3901
 

University of California at Irvine - Postdoctoral Fellowship in California Studies, Humanities Research Institute

Kevin Starr, webquest@uci.edu,Telephone: (949) 824-8180, Fax: (949) 824-2115

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Private Universities

University of Southern California - The Southern California Studies Center

Michael Dear, Director, Southern California Studies Center
mdear@usc.edu, (213) 740-5303
The Southern California Studies Center is a unique, campus-wide, interdisciplinary initiative. Its principal goal is to monitor and guide the transformations in environment, politics, economics, culture and society of Southern California.

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Community Colleges

Foothill-DeAnza Community College - The California History Center and Foundation

The California History Center and California History Center Foundation are in partnership with the Foothill-De Anza Community College District to provide a holistic, hands-on approach to history and current issues for students and the larger community. The California History Center and Foundation presents exhibits, offer classes with De Anza College, publish books and a periodical, hold a yearly California Studies conference and operate a library and archives.