Sociology Course List

Sociology B.A. GISES Concentration and GISES Minor pre-approved outside courses

Anthropology

ANTH 104Human Variation and Adaptation

5

ANTH 110APublic Life and Contemporary Issues

5

ANTH 110EAnthropology of Global Environmental Change

5

ANTH 110ICultures of Sustainability and Social Justice

5

ANTH 110JEmerging Humanity

5

ANTH 110QQueer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture

5

ANTH 110YFeeding California

5

ANTH 129Beyond Borders: Other Globalizations and Histories of Interconnection

5

ANTH 130AAnthropology of Africa.

5

ANTH 130BBrazil

5

ANTH 130CPolitics and Culture in China

5

ANTH 130ECulture and Politics of Island Southeast Asia

5

ANTH 130FBlackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas

5

ANTH 130GAsian Americans in Ethnography and Film

5

ANTH 130HEthnography of Russia and Eastern Europe

5

ANTH 130ONative Feminisms, Gender, and Settler Colonialism

5

ANTH 130ICultures of India

5

ANTH 130IGCultures of India Abroad

5

ANTH 130JPolitics and Statemaking in Latin America

5

ANTH 130LEthnographies of Latin America

5

ANTH 130MInside Mexico

5

ANTH 130NNative Peoples of North America

5

ANTH 130PEthnography of Southern Cone Chile and Argentina

5

ANTH 130SEthnography of Russia and Eastern Europe, Abroad

5

ANTH 130TReligion and Politics in the Muslim World

5

ANTH 130UCentral America

5

ANTH 130VEthnography of Russia

5

ANTH 130WEthnography of Eastern Europe

5

ANTH 130XSpecial Topics in Ethnography

5

ANTH 131Gender in Cross-Cultural Context

5

ANTH 134Medical Anthropology: An Introduction

5

ANTH 138Political Anthropology

5

ANTH 140The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections

5

ANTH 142Anthropology of Law

5

ANTH 144Anthropology of Poverty and Welfare

5

ANTH 146Anthropology and the Environment

5

ANTH 148Gender and Global Development

5

ANTH 158Feminist Ethnographies

5

ANTH 159Race and Anthropology

5

Art

ART 101Introduction to Computer Programming for the Arts

5

ART 181Art, Power & Politics

5

Community Studies

CMMU 101Communities, Social Movements, and the Third Sector

5

CMMU 132American Cities and Social Change

5

CMMU 133Making California: Landscapes, People, Politics, Economy

5

CMMU 134No Place Like Home

5

CMMU 141Economic Justice in Theory and Practice

5

CMMU 145Global Capitalism: a History of the Present

5

CMMU 149Political Economy of Food and Agriculture

5

CMMU 160Public Health

5

CMMU 161Gender Health and Justice

5

CMMU 163Health Care Inequalities

5

CMMU 186Food and Agriculture Social Movements

5

CMMU 189Mentoring in Community Studies

5

CMMU 193Field Study

5

Computational Media

CMPM 131User Experience for Interactive Media

5

Computer Science and Engineering

CSE 101Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms

5

CSE 118Mobile Applications

5

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

CRES 100Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity

5

CRES 101Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

5

CRES 185Race, Gender, and Science

5

Earth and Planetary Sciences

EART 106Coasts in Crisis

5

Economics

ECON 101Managerial Economics

5

ECON 104Is There Truth in Numbers: The Role of Statistics in Economics

5

ECON 115Introduction to Management Sciences

5

ECON 120Development Economics

5

ECON 121Economic Growth

5

ECON 126Why Economies Succeed or Fail: Lessons from Western and Japanese History

5

ECON 128Poverty and Public Policy

5

ECON 131International Financial Markets

5

ECON 136Business Strategy

5

ECON 138The Economics and Management of Technology and Innovation

5

ECON 139AThe Economics of Electronic Commerce

5

ECON 139BE-Commerce Strategy

5

ECON 141International Finance

5

ECON 142Advanced Topics in International Economics

5

ECON 143Policy Issues in the International Economy

5

ECON 148Latin American Economies

5

ECON 149The Economies of East and Southeast Asia

5

ECON 156Health Economics and Policy

5

ECON 159The Economics of Organizations

5

ECON 160AIndustrial Organization

5

ECON 160BGovernment and Industry

5

ECON 161AMarketing

5

ECON 162Legal Environment of Business

5

ECON 169Economic Analysis of the Law

5

ECON 170Environmental Economics

5

ECON 171Natural Resource Economics

5

ECON 175Energy Economics

5

ECON 180Labor Economics

5

ECON 183Women in the Economy

5

Education

EDUC 102Education, Media, and Society

5

EDUC 104Ethical Issues and Teaching

5

EDUC 128Immigrants and Education

5

EDUC 135Gender and Education

5

EDUC 140Language, Diversity, and Learning

5

EDUC 141Bilingualism and Schooling

5

EDUC 160Issues in Educational Reform

5

EDUC 164Urban Education

5

EDUC 166Technology and Education

5

EDUC 173Seminar in Critical Pedagogy

5

EDUC 174Ethnographic Research in Schools and Communities

5

EDUC 177Teaching Linguistically Diverse Students

5

EDUC 178Special Topics in Education

5

EDUC 180Introduction to Teaching

5

EDUC 181Race, Class, and Culture in Education

5

EDUC 182Social and Political Contexts of Teachers’ Work

5

EDUC 187Cognition and Instruction

5

EDUC 198Independent Field Study

5

Electrical & Computer Egineering

ECE 179Decision Analysis in Management

5

Environmental Studies

ENVS 104AIntroduction to Environmental Field Methods

2

ENVS 110Institutions, the Environment, and Economic Systems

5

ENVS 115AGeographic Information Systems and Environmental Applications

5

ENVS 115BIntermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

5

ENVS 115CAdvanced Geographic Information Systems

5

ENVS 130AAgroecology and Sustainable Agriculture

5

ENVS 130BJustice and Sustainability in Agriculture

5

ENVS 130CField Experiences in Agroecology and Sustainable Food

5

ENVS 140National Environmental Policy

5

ENVS 141Ecological Economics

5

ENVS 142Sustainable Energy

5

ENVS 143The Future of Sustainable Development

5

ENVS 145Green Cities

5

ENVS 147Global Environmental Justice

5

ENVS 149Environmental Law and Policy

5

ENVS 150Coastal and Marine Policy

5

ENVS 151Environmental Assessment

5

ENVS 154Amazonian Cultures and Conservation

5

ENVS 156Environmental Action Through Writing

5

ENVS 160Restoration Ecology

5

ENVS 165Sustainable Water Systems

5

ENVS 166Agroecosystem Analysis and Watershed Management

5

ENVS 172Environmental Risks and Public Policy

5

ENVS 173An Introduction to World Environmental History

5

ENVS 176Vulnerability, Complex Systems, and Disasters

5

ENVS 177Teaching Environmental Education

5

ENVS 179Environmental Interpretation

5

ENVS 183Environmental Studies Internship

5

ENVS 194Teaching Environmental Studies

5

Feminist Studies

FMST 102Feminist Critical Race Studies

5

FMST 112Women and the Law

5

FMST 115Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas

5

FMST 120Transnational Feminisms

5

FMST 123Feminism and Cultural Production

5

FMST 124Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas

5

FMST 125Race, Sex, and Technology

5

FMST 126Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis

5

FMST 131The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics

5

FMST 132Gender and Postcoloniality

5

FMST 133Science and the Body

5

FMST 135Topics in Science and Sexuality

5

FMST 139African American Women's History

5

FMST 175Gender and Sexualities in Latina/o America

5

FMST 189Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory

5

Film and Digital Media

FILM 136CVisual Culture and Technology: History of New Media

5

FILM 136DDocumentary Film and Video

5

FILM 170AFundamentals of Digital Media Production

5

FILM 171SSpecial Topics in Film and Digital Media Production

5

FILM 172Narrative Video Workshop

5

FILM 173Narrative Digital Media Workshop

5

FILM 175Documentary Video Workshop

5

FILM 176Experimental Video Workshop

5

FILM 177Digital Media Workshop: Computer as Medium

5

FILM 178APersonal Computers in Film and Video

5

FILM 178BAdvanced Personal Computers in Film and Video

5

FILM 189Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies

5

FILM 192Directed Student Teaching

5

FILM 194BElectronic Media Theory Seminar

5

FILM 199Tutorial

5

History

HIS 105Nations and Nationalism

5

HIS 110AColonial America, 1500-1750

5

HIS 110ERise of the Machines: Technology, Inequality, and the United States, 1877 to 1914

5

HIS 114Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.

5

HIS 117Wired Nation: Broadcasting & Telecommunications in the US from the Telegraph to the Internet

5

HIS 166Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict

5

HIS 185OThe Holocaust and the Arab World

5

HIS 190KWired Planet: Readings on the Global History of Broadcasting and Telecommunications

5

History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 127FThe Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 141HMedia History and Theory

5

HAVC 141KActivist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism

HAVC 141PNetworks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman

5

HAVC 143EHistory of Design: The Objects of Technology, 1850-The Present

5

HAVC 164AArt and Visual Culture of Indigenous California

5

History of Consciousness

HISC 112Foundations in Critical Theory

5

HISC 117Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity

5

HISC 150Radical Political Theory

5

HISC 185TMarxism and Feminism

5

Jewish Studies

John R Lewis College/College Ten

JRLC 191Teaching Social Justice

5

Kresge College

Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 122Media and Nationalism

5

LALS 128Latino Media in the U.S

5

LALS 129America Latina: Cine, Dictadura y Memoria

5

LALS 143JGlobal Political Economy

5

LALS 145Grassroots Social Change in Latin America

5

LALS 150Afro-Latinos/as: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions

5

LALS 152Consumer Cultures Between the Americas

5

LALS 155Latin American and Latino Youth Movements

5

LALS 156Human Rights and Transitional Justice in the Americas

5

LALS 158Latin American Political Economy

5

LALS 168Inter-American Solidarities

5

LALS 169South America: History, Society, and Culture

5

LALS 170Indigenous Struggles in the Americas

5

LALS 172Visualizing Human Rights

5

LALS 175Migration, Gender, and Health

5

LALS 178Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization

5

LALS 180Borders: Real and Imagined

5

Legal Studies

LGST 108Gender, Sexuality, and Law

5

LGST 109Legal Theory

5

LGST 111BCivil Liberties

5

LGST 111CThe First Amendment

5

LGST 113Gay Rights and the Law

5

LGST 114Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System

5

LGST 116Comparative Law

5

LGST 125History of the U.S. Penal Culture

5

LGST 130Inequality and Law

5

LGST 131Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law

5

LGST 133Law of Democracy

5

LGST 137International Environmental Law and Policy

5

LGST 152Courts and Litigation

5

LGST 159Property and the Law

5

LGST 193Field Study

5

Literature

LIT 120HAmerican Poetry Since World War II

5

LIT 138ACulture and Nation

5

LIT 160FTopics in Cultural Studies

5

LIT 160GTopics in Literary Theory

5

Oakes College

OAKS 152Transformative Literacies

5

OAKS 153Community Mapping

5

OAKS 155Research for Social Justice: Special Topics

5

OAKS 167Food Systems: Culture, Social Justice, Sustainability

5

Philosophy

PHIL 126Philosophy of Social Sciences

5

PHIL 144Topics in Social and Political Philosophy

5

Politics

POLI 103Feminist Interventions

5

POLI 105CModern Political Thought

5

POLI 110Law and Social Issues

5

POLI 111AConstitutional Law

5

POLI 115Foundations of Political Economy

5

POLI 118Critical Political Thought and Critical Theory

5

POLI 120ACongress, President, and the Court in American Politics

5

POLI 120BSociety and Democracy in American Political Development

5

POLI 120CState and Capitalism in American Political Development

5

POLI 121Racism & Justice in America

5

POLI 122Politics, Labor, and Markets

5

POLI 124Economic Inequality in America

5

POLI 125Political Organizations in American Politics

5

POLI 128American Elections and Voting Behavior

5

POLI 129Policies and Politics of American Defense

5

POLI 132California Water Law and Policy

5

POLI 134Congress: Representation and Legislation

5

POLI 140AEuropean Politics

5

POLI 140CLatin American Politics

5

POLI 140DPolitics of East Asia

5

POLI 141Politics of China

5

POLI 143Comparative Post-Communist Politics

5

POLI 144Andean Politics

5

POLI 146The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

5

POLI 151Politics of Law

5

POLI 160ATheories of International and World Politics

5

POLI 160BInternational Law

5

POLI 160CSecurity, Conflict, Violence, War

5

POLI 160DInternational Political Economy

5

POLI 161The Rise of China

5

POLI 165Global Organization

5

POLI 167Politics of International Trade

5

POLI 168Topics in International Relations and Global Politics

5

POLI 169Politics of Development

5

POLI 172Liberalism, the State, and the War on Terror

5

POLI 174Global Political Ecology

5

POLI 175Human Rights

5

POLI 185Political Psychology

5

Psychology

PSYC 108Educational Psychology

5

PSYC 119PChildren and Technology

5

PSYC 119TMedia Contexts of Adolescent and Young Adult Development

5

PSYC 129Human Learning and Memory

5

PSYC 138Computer Programming for the Cognitive Sciences

5

PSYC 139DModeling Human Performance

5

PSYC 140FMind, Society, and Culture

5

PSYC 140MLegitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy

5

PSYC 141Privacy and Surveillance

5

PSYC 142Psychology of Oppression and Liberation

5

PSYC 144Latinx Psychology

5

PSYC 145Social Influence

5

PSYC 145DSocial Psychology of Autocracy and Democracy

5

PSYC 146The Social Context

5

PSYC 147APsychology and Law

5

PSYC 147BPsychology and Law

5

PSYC 149Community Psychology: Transforming Communities

5

PSYC 153The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class

5

PSYC 155Social-Community Psychology in Practice

5

PSYC 159HCommunity-Based Interventions

5

PSYC 159RAchievement Disparities: A Social Psychological Perspective

5

PSYC 159XPsychology of Social Activism

5

PSYC 167Clinical Psychology

5

PSYC 169Community Mental Health (CMH)

5

PSYC 179GChild, Youth, and Family Assistance in the Community

5

Rachel Carson College

CRSN 151ASustainability Praxis in the Natural and Built Environment

5

CRSN 151BInnovation and Professionalization for Sustainability Designers, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs

5

CRSN 152IDEASS Laboratory Practicum

3

CRSN 160Developing Leadership to Facilitate Environmental Education

5

CRSN 161Education for Sustainable Living Program

5

CRSN 152 is a 2-credit course. This course may be taken three times to count as one GISES elective.

Stevenson College

STEV 192Directed Student Teaching

5

Technology & Information Management

TIM 172AIntroduction to Management of Technology I

5

TIM 172BIntroduction to Management of Technology II

5

TIM 173Financial Engineering and Management in High Technology Firms

5

TIM 175Business Strategy and Information Systems

5

UCDC

UCDC 194AUCDC Core Seminar

5

UCDC 194BUCDC Internship

7

UC Online and Global Learning

Courses outside the above list of approved courses may also be approved, such as courses from Global Learning and UC Online. For more information about approved Global Learning and UC online courses, or to petition for a new course, please visit the Sociology Department page.