Affiliated Departments
Binational Association of Schools of Communication of the Californias
The Binational Association or Binacom brings together communication students and scholars from most of the colleges and Universities in the San Diego County/Baja California Norte border region. Binacom is more than ten years old, and as far as we know it is represents the most extensive effort at U.S./Mexican academic cooperation in the field of Communication. Its main activity is to organize an annual conference at which students--both graduate and undergraduate--and faculty from the member institutions present their work and discuss themes of common interest.Critical Gender Studies
Human Development
The primary mission of the Human Development Program is to foster the understanding of human development as seen from biological, psychological, and socio-cultural perspectives. The program recognizes and addresses the central role of culturally diverse and interdependent communities in the process of human development, promotes research and practice in the service of individuals and society.LCHC - The Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
LCHC's theoretical and empirical work has focused on the role of culture in shaping human development and human nature. LCHC members have describe culture as a system of human artifacts that coevolved biologically with our species and that has coevolved with human action both historically and in the present day. Within psychology, this approach is variously referred to as cultural-historical psychology, cultural psychology, or a cultural context approach to psychology. It treats mind as something distributed among people and their artifacts, including language and social institutionsLCM - La Clase Mágica
La Clase Mágica a bilingual/bicultural manifestation of the "Fifth Dimension," is an after-school computer-mediated activity en el norte de San Diego County. Tres veces a la semana, approximately 20 niños de seis a doce años se juntan con sus padres and university students para jugar computer games. El programa es una colaboración entre residentes de la communidad de Eden Gardens, and a research group headed by Olga Vásquez de la University of California, San Diego.MCA - Mind, Culture and Activity
MCA is an interactive forum for a community of interdisciplinary scholars who share an interest in the study of human mind in its cultural and historical contexts. Our emphasis is research that seeks to resolve methodological problems associated with the analysis of human cognition and theoretical approaches that place culture and activity at the center of attempts to understand human nature. LCHC publishes the Mind, Culture, and Activity journal and sponsors XMCA, an e-mail discussion group.Research Program in Language and Literacy
The Research Program in Language & Literacy spans the development of literacy in young deaf children; the study of minority deaf children, their families, and their language socialization and literacy development; studies of reading and writing instruction in different school settings for deaf children; links between sign language competence and reading development; and reading development from childhood to young adulthood in deaf individuals.UCSD Science Studies Program
The Science Studies Program at UCSD brings together faculty and students from communication, history, philosophy and sociology to work toward a deeper understanding of the development of scientific and technical knowledge. Program faculty work in a wide range of intellectual venues, such as the historical and philosophical studies of the development of scientific knowledge, social organization of science and science policy, theoretical and practical analysis of science and infrastructure. Communication is now an official affiliate department to the program; Comm graduate students can now receive their Ph.D. with an emphasis in Science Studies if they choose.
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