Thurgood Marshall College
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| University | UC San Diego |
| Coordinates | 32°52′57″N 117°14′30″W / 32.882575°N 117.241605°WCoordinates: 32°52′57″N 117°14′30″W / 32.882575°N 117.241605°W |
| Motto | Developing the Scholar and the Citizen |
| Established | 1970 (Third) |
| Status | Undergraduate, Liberal Arts |
| Provost | Dr. Leslie Carver |
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| Residents | 3,937 (15.9% of UCSD undergraduate population) |
| Core course | Dimensions of Culture (DOC) |
Thurgood Marshall College (TMC) is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego. The college, named after Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and lawyer for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, emphasizes "scholarship, social responsibility and the belief that a liberal arts education must include an understanding of [one's] role in society." Marshall College's general education requirements emphasize this culture of community involvement and multiculturalism; accordingly Marshall houses the minors in Public Service and Film Studies for the campus. Significant academic programs and departments have come out of the college over many decades: Communication, Ethnic Studies, Third World Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies & Planning, and Education Studies.
Founded as Third College in 1970 amid the student activism of the period, TMC's original aim was to help students understand their own community through a critical examination of diversity and community in the United States. Marshall College's required writing program is called Dimensions of Culture (DOC), and is a 3 quarter (1 year) sequence that explores race, identity, imagination, tradition, and the law in the United States. For the last three years in a row, the White House has honored UC San Diego and Marshall College’s Public Service minor and charter school outreach as exemplary community service institutions serving the United States.
In November 1965, the College III Preliminary Planning Committee released the first substantial report on what form UCSD's third college would take. The committee, comprising faculty members George Backus, Henry Booker, Gabriel Jackson, C.D. Keeling, and committee chair Andrew Wright, suggested that College III should focus itself on history and theory.
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