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Graduate Student Resources

Graduate students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of interdisciplinary research centers and units, including the Center for the Study of Democracy , the Program in Global Peace and Conflict Studies , the Center for Organizational Research, and the Center for Law, Society & Culture, the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy, and research groups in state studies, demography, and labor studies. The Sociology Department is closely linked to Women's Studies and various Ethnic Studies programs. Research and funding opportunities are also available through UC-wide programs like Pacific Rim Studies (which is based on the Irvine campus). The journal Social Networks is edited at UCI's School of Social Sciences and specialized training in network analysis is available. State-of-the-art computing facilities, including an excellent consulting service, are available to students. The campus library system is first-rate, contains a complete collection in sociology, and, is connected with on-line access to the best composite library collection in the world through the combined resources of the UC system libraries and UC e-links.

Students in the program come from diverse educational, ethnic, and social backgrounds, and represent many geographical regions and nations.

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