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The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is a college within the university. It was founded in 1928 as the Division of Social Sciences after being split off from the Division of Rural and Social Science. It was renamed in 1938 as the Division of Liberal Arts, renamed in 1945 as the School of Liberal Arts, and merged in 1949 with the School of Science to form the College of Arts and Sciences. It became its own faculty in 1970 under the name Social and Behavioral Sciences, and split off to form its own college in 1993.
Departments within the college include:
Department of Anthropology
Department of Communication
Department of Economics
Department of Journalism
Department of Labor Studies
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Department of Legal Studies
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Department of Public Policy and Administration
Department of Resource Economics
Department of Social Thought and Political Economy
Department of Sociology
The college also offers certificates in the following:
African Studies
Applied Economic Research on Co-operative Enterprises
Asian and Asian American Studies
Criminal Justice
Film Studies
Journalism
International Relations
Latin American
Caribbean and Latino Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Native American Indian Studies
Population Studies
Public Policy and Administration
The college grants the following Bachelors degrees:
The college grants the following Masters degrees:
Anthropology
Communication
Economics
Labor Studies
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (including Landscape Architecture (MLA)
Regional Planning (MRP)
Dual Degree (MLA and MRP)
Planning and Law (MRP and JD))
Political Science
Public Policy and Administration
Resource Economics
Sociology
The college grants the following Doctoral degrees:
Anthropology
Communication
Economics
Regional Planning
Resource Economics
Political Science
Sociology