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School of Engineering
The hallmarks of UC Merced’s School of
Engineering are innovation, diversity, sus-
tainability and personal interaction be-
tween world-class faculty and students.
Together, they seek to have transforma-
tional impacts on society and the world
by creating new ideas and transforming
them into products and services that im-
prove people’s lives. At UC Merced, this
problem solving and creativity take place
in a highly dynamic learning environment
that focuses on future technologies and
enterprise.
Students and faculty delve into such in-
novative topics as examining the effects
of climate change both near far, from the
Sierra Nevada to Palau; and connecting
eye-tracking hardware with a robotic exo-
skeletal arm to further understand the
mind-body connection and, someday, to
help people with disabilities have better
use of their limbs.
School of Natural Sciences
A top priority in the School of Natu-
ral Sciences at UCMerced is tomeet
the increasing need for well-trained
scientists, scientifically trained de-
cision-makers and a scientifically lit-
erate public to meet the global and
technological challenges of the 21st
century. At UC Merced, a passion
for scientific excellence inspires
research that has far-reaching im-
plications to advance the health
and well-being of humans and the
environment, while making funda-
mental discoveries about the world
in which we all live.
Faculty and students in the school
are doing this by tracking resistant
infections to show that hospitals are
important in stopping the evolution
of resistant bacteria, and studying
how blood stem cells are established
during fetal development and how
they give rise to the cells that make
up our immune system.
Each of UC Merced’s three schools has its own transfer requirements to be considered for
admission. Inside this pocket, you’ll find comprehensive lists of courses that are required
and strongly recommended for every major in all three schools, as well as a useful resource
for information and requirements for the Transfer Admission Guarantee.
School of Social Sciences,
Humanities and Arts (SSHA)
Students in SSHA explore the current
and historical dimensions of human ex-
istence, from artistic and literary expres-
sion, the acquisition and the functions
of language, the nature of the mind, the
principles of economics and manage-
ment, and the improvement of public
health. Though SSHA students don’t
necessarily major in technology related
fields, the knowledge about the world
that they acquire allows them to have a
role in those fields – and any field, really
– in understanding the human dimen-
sions of the application of technology.
Student and faculty research includes
taking an in-depth look at deception
from the perspective of how the act of ly-
ing affects a person’s facial expressions,
body language and other fine-grained
motor behaviors; and using innovative
eye-tracking and motion-tracking equip-
ment to study how humans perceive and
respond to what they hear and see.