School leaders have long been under great pressure to boost test scores. That’s why they often double down on time teaching reading and while slashing science and social studies. James Kim, a ...

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Brie Tripp leads NPB 110C, a class that blends physiology lessons with examples of health disparities in underserved populations. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Rather than petri dishes or microscopes, ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

The Master of Science (MS) in environmental studies provides students with the interdisciplinary training necessary to advance careers in Environmental Science, policy and governance. Students develop ...

The Master of Arts in Ethnic Studies is designed to advance students’ knowledge and understanding of indigenous communities and communities of color through analyses and application of the theories, ...

But social-science and humanities scholars complain that they are being unnecessarily burdened by a system of supervision that was primarily designed to prevent abuses of patients involved in medical ...

Why study the social sciences? There are many reasons why a student may choose to study the social sciences. The social sciences encompass a series of subjects that help us to understand humans and ...