John Muir College

John Muir College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California at San Diego. The college is named after John Muir, the famed environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club, boasts a humanitarian emphasis focused on the "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice." Its general education requirements are more loosely structured than the other colleges, with an emphasis on "sequences" and individual study. The college opened in 1967, at the height of the American environmentalist movement triggered in part by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. John Muir College describes itself as the "Heart of UCSD," and boasts a strong and distinct character after nearly forty years of existence. The flexibility of the general education requirements often encourages a large number of students to pursue multiple bachelor degrees. Muir College's writing program incorporates college level writing over a 2 quarter period.

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Undergraduate - The University of California at San Diego - John Muir - Sierra Club - 1967 - Environmentalist - Silent Spring

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