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Provost, Eleanor Roosevelt College
ERC Administration Building
http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu

All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

The Making of the Modern World/Writing Program

Eleanor Roosevelt College MMW Program ERC Administration Building

See “The Making of the Modern World” for Eleanor Roosevelt College writing.

Eleanor Roosevelt College Programs

Provost, Eleanor Roosevelt College
ERC Administration Building

There are two main components to the honors program at ERC: the First-year Student Honors Program and the Sophomore Honors Research Project. The First-year Student and Sophomore Honors programs at ERC have been established to provide exception­ally motivated and capable students with enhanced educational experiences in association with faculty and other honors students.

Selected new students are invited to enroll in the First-year Student Honors Seminar, ERC 20, for one unit of credit each quarter. During fall quarter, students meet with the college provost to discuss a wide variety of international and domestic issues as well as research and other enrichment opportunities for students on campus. In the winter quarter, students in the seminar meet with faculty speakers who showcase their work and illustrate the impressive range of research that takes place at UC San Diego.

Sophomores who have earned a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 or higher have opportunities to pursue independent study with individual faculty for credit (ERC 92), a two-unit course offered in fall, winter, and spring.

At the upper-division level, students may qualify to enroll in honors programs offered by their major departments. These programs usually include research under the direction of a faculty mentor and the writing and presentation of an honors thesis.

UC San Diego’s reputation for excellence is also reflected in the numbers of students who enroll in departmental senior honors programs and who earn college or university honors or election to Phi Beta Kappa.

Eleanor Roosevelt College Experiential Learning and Other Innovative Programs

Students may contact the Making of the Modern World (MMW) program in fall quarter to learn about upcoming experiential learning opportunities, including MMW Serves (offered during winter term and spring break) and MMW’s summer programs, MMW California Seminars, and Global Seminars abroad. MMW also offers other innovative learning formats, including MMW collaborative online international learning (COIL) courses, in which ERC students work collaboratively with students in partner institutions in other countries through the remote learning environment.