The critical and creative skills you develop and hone in English classes will serve you very well throughout your personal and professional life.

The Department of Design offers a creative, challenging, and flexible approach to the study of design with emphasis on socially responsible, human-centered, and sustainable practice.  

The Media Lab broadly focuses on the effects of media and technology on individuals across a wide variety of developmental, social, and behavioral outcomes. As media and technology are integral parts of the lives of individuals of all ages around the world, we seek to understand how media and technology can be used to positively effect society, individuals, and families. Within the Media Lab, we have three primary focuses. 

Computational Social Science is about developing and applying computational tools to deepen our understanding of long–standing questions in the social sciences, as well as exploring new ones. Across its diverse departments, UC Davis offers courses that effectively make it a leader in the exploitation of current opportunities offered by computational social science. This DE creates synergies among the existing courses and research initiatives by bringing them together in a coherent way. In this sense, the DE provides new and complementary dimensions to existing graduate programs.

Our faculty, researchers, graduate students and undergraduate students pursue field, lab, experimental, and modeling studies of geological and environmental problems around the world and across the solar system.