Social Sciences
View a list of departments in social sciences & global programs.
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Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. In honor of Women’s History Month, this month’s featured book: “The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World Since 1600,” edited by Karen Hagemann.
Depression and anxiety among first-year college students worsen during pandemic
Study by UNC-Chapel Hill shows the impact of social isolation and remote instruction.
Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Learn more about how one professor made his large classes feel small and another showed how topics studied in class are applied and used .
Carolina Population Center receives $38.2 million to study adult health and aging
The new grants will enable researchers to follow the original adolescent cohort into their 40s with a sixth wave of data collection and dissemination.
Tar Heels connect with Vietnamese language, culture in new program
The University’s new Vietnamese language pilot program is allowing students to enroll in introductory Vietnamese language classes at SOAS University of London.
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Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s book: “I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place and the Backbeat of Black Life” by Carolina alumnus B. Brian Foster.
The 2021 Graduate School Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Awards
Each year, The Graduate School recognizes four doctoral candidates or recent doctoral graduates for creating exceptional dissertations.