Thurgood Marshall College
Find out more about Thurgood Marshall College.
The legacy of Marshall College's namesake lives on through its involvement with the creation of the Preuss School – a charter public school on the UCSD campus – and UCSD's partnership with Gompers Charter Middle School in Southeast San Diego.
Thurgood Marshall College is committed to revitalizing a humanitarian idea of higher education and the principle that a university must take as its first duty the education of citizens for public involvement and community responsibility.
Thurgood Marshall College sponsors the Public Service minor (academic credit for service), the African-American Studies minor, the UCSD Morehouse/Spelman Student Exchange Program, and Partners at Learning which prepares students to serve as tutors and mentors at selected public schools, including the Preuss School.
General education at Marshall
Marshall’s general education program promotes education that includes an understanding of one’s role within a diverse cultural and economic range and encourages students to participate in community and public service programs.
Marshall’s general education program requires:
- A 3-quarter (1-year) core sequence called Dimensions of Culture (DOC) which explores the American experience through the complex and controversial issues regarding the social and political implications of inequality and the asymmetries of power associated with historical and contemporary racial, ethnic, gender, and class hierarchies. Dimensions of Culture includes instruction in university-level writing.
- 2 courses in the humanities
- 1 course in the fine arts
- 1 course each in biology, chemistry, and physics (courses available for both science and non-science majors)
- 2 courses in mathematics and logic
- 4 disciplinary breadth requirements (non-contiguous to the student’s major)
- Public service – optional
- Minor – optional