Inventors of fantastic and alien tongues, including alum David Peterson of Linguistics, discuss the art of constructing languages – Klingon for “Star Trek,” Na’vi for “Avatar” and Dothraki for “Game of Thrones.”
UC San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences is a diverse collection of outstanding departments, programs and research units that focus on some of the most pressing and important issues of our time. The division does work that matters, now and to the future.
The Division's contributions include:
- Graduating nearly 50 percent of UC San Diego’s undergraduates
- Developing one of the most effective behavioral treatments for autism
- Studying the causes and impacts of terrorism
- Connecting to the region through 500 community-based programs
- Cleaning toxic waste along San Diego’s border
- Exploring and harnessing the power of social contagion
- Changing education of the deaf
- Investigating the remarkable plasticity of the human brain
- Monitoring elections and improving governance
- Helping reduce harmful social practices
- Preserving endangered languages
- Saving world heritage sites for future generations
Departments and Programs
Departments
Interdisciplinary Programs
Other Interdisciplinary Programs and Studies
Research Centers
- African and African-American Research Center
- American Politics and Institutions Project
- Center on Global Justice
- Center for African Political Economy
- Center for the Study of Gender in the Professions
- Center for Urban Economics
- Center for Human Development
- Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
- Center for Environmental Economics
- Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
- Center for Research on Education Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence
- Center for Research in Language
- Center for US-Mexican Studies
- Institute for Applied Economics
- Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies
- Institute for Neural Computation
- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
- Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
- Project in Cognitive and Neural Development
End of men? Not even close, says Mary Blair-Loy of Sociology in new 