Resources
Playing the Field
You See I Write
Crime Me a River
We Built This City
100
This office provides short-term therapy and can connect students with long-term therapy.
What is the Counseling Center?
100
A course focused on research design, this class is the primary prerequisite for Field Study.
What is SE 10?
100
These two classes are the most commonly taken classes to fulfill UCI’s Lower Division Writing Requirement.
What are WR 50 & WR 60?
100
Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do when they come for you?
What are police officers?
100
“Rural” is to “country” as “urban” is to this.
What is city?
200
If a student's struggling to make ends meet, this resource may be able to help them with food and financial resources.
What is the Basic Needs Center?
200
Students have to complete this many hours to fulfill their Field Study requirement--it averages out to around 8 hours a week.
What is 80?
200
Students who enter UCI with little experience with writing may have to take classes in this area, abbreviated AC ENG on the Schedule of Classes.
What is Academic English?
200
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
200
To declare the Urban Studies major, along with completing one lower division school class with a C or better, students also have to complete this UPPP class with a C or better.
What is UPPP 4?
300
The place to go for help figuring out what you might do after graduating.
What is DCP?
300
You better turn this in by the deadline! If a student submits this by the deadline, they should be able to get a seat in a Field Study class.
What is the CEF?
300
Students who get a B or better in WRITING 50 can take complete their Lower Div Writing requirement with WRITING 30 or 31—classes that focus on this type of writing.
What is creative writing?
300
The career most commonly associated with our Criminology program – it’s a homonym of the last name of one of the players on Purdue’s 2024 men’s basketball team.
What is a lawyer?
300
One of three lower division UPPP classes required for the Urban Studies major, this class is usually only offered in Fall.
What is UPPP 40?
400
Massage chairs anyone? A great holistic health resource with spaces where students can chill.
What is the Center for Wellness and Health Promotion?
400
Move over AC/DC! This Field Study opportunity in the nation's capital gives students a chance to work with primary players in federal politics.
What is UCDC?
400
Students who get a 4 or 5 on the AP English Literature or English Language exam get credit for this UCI Writing course.
What is WR 50?
400
“Time is a flat circle” is a well-known line from an HBO series, which focuses on this type of police officer. Whether or not the show’s stories are “true” is debatable.
What is a detective?
400
Along with the Urban Studies major, we have this minor which focuses on a particular aspect of Urban Studies
What is Urban and Regional Planning?
500
This resource is the only one that requires a counselor referral
What is the Office of the Campus Social Worker?
500
Advertised as a "3-in-1" Field Study opportunity, the class for this Field Study option not only counts for Field Study and Upper Division Writing--it also serves as the Field Study site for its students.
What is SE 106W?
500
If a student gets a C- or better in HUMAN 1AS but doesn’t want to complete Humanities Core, they can take this class instead to complete their Lower Division Writing requirement.
What is WR 60?
500
Don’t let their name fool you: these legal professionals who assist lawyers with case research don’t always come in twos.
What is a paralegal?
500
Students in the Urban Studies major can specialize in GIS, which stands for this.
What is Geographic Information System?