Sociology General Major Course List

Sociology B.A. General Major Pre-Approved Outside Courses

Anthropology

ANTH 110APublic Life and Contemporary Issues

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ANTH 110DTourism Imaginaries and Encounters

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ANTH 110GWestside Stories: Race, Place and the California Imaginary

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ANTH 110KCulture Through Food

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ANTH 110QQueer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture

5

ANTH 110TMotherhood in American Culture

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ANTH 110YFeeding California

5

ANTH 119Indigenous Visual Culture

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ANTH 125Magic, Science, and Religion

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ANTH 128Contemporary American Evangelical Cultures

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ANTH 130CPolitics and Culture in China

5

ANTH 130FBlackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas

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ANTH 130LEthnographies of Latin America

5

ANTH 130MInside Mexico

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ANTH 130NNative Peoples of North America

5

ANTH 130ONative Feminisms, Gender, and Settler Colonialism

5

ANTH 130UCentral America

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ANTH 130XSpecial Topics in Ethnography

5

ANTH 131Gender in Cross-Cultural Context

5

ANTH 133Narratives of the Popular

5

ANTH 136The Biology of Everyday Life

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ANTH 137Consuming Culture

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ANTH 139Language and Culture

5

ANTH 140The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections

5

ANTH 143Performance and Power

5

ANTH 144Anthropology of Poverty and Welfare

5

ANTH 145XSpecial Topics in Socio-Cultural Anthropology

5

ANTH 148Gender and Global Development

5

ANTH 149Anthropology of Activism

5

ANTH 158Feminist Ethnographies

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ANTH 159Race and Anthropology

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ANTH 160Reproductive and Population Politics

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ANTH 161The Anthropology of Food

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ANTH 161SAnthropology of Food, Abroad

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ANTH 187Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts

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ANTH 194SHearing Culture: The Anthropology of Sound

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Applied Linguistics

APLX 112Language and Gender

5

APLX 113Inter-Cultural Communication

5

Biology: Ecology and Evolutionary

BIOE 118Plants and Society: the Biology of Food, Shelter, and Medicine

5

Rachel Carson College

CRSN 161Education for Sustainable Living Program

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College Nine

CLNI 105Researching Food Sovereignty

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Community Studies

CMMU 101Communities, Social Movements, and the Third Sector

5

CMMU 132American Cities and Social Change

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CMMU 134No Place Like Home

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CMMU 141Economic Justice in Theory and Practice

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CMMU 145Global Capitalism: a History of the Present

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CMMU 149Political Economy of Food and Agriculture

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CMMU 151Sex, Race, and Globalization

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CMMU 156Politics of Food and Health

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CMMU 157Ageism and Activism

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CMMU 160Public Health

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CMMU 161Gender Health and Justice

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CMMU 162Community Gardens and Social Change

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CMMU 163Health Care Inequalities

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CMMU 164Health Justice in Conflict

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CMMU 165Community Analysis for Global Health

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CMMU 186Food and Agriculture Social Movements

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Cowell College

COWL 138AThe Place of Higher Education in a Democratic Society

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COWL 175AImagination

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Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

CRES 100Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity

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CRES 112AsianAm Enviro Justice

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CRES 114Race and Disability in American Drama

5

CRES 118Abolitionist Futures

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CRES 121The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies

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CRES 150Race, Gender and Algorithms

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CRES 185ARace, Gender, and Science

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CRES 188BTopics in Black Studies

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CRES 188TTopics in Race, Science and Technology

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Economics

ECON 110Managerial Cost Accounting and Control

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ECON 120Development Economics

5

ECON 125Economic History of the U.S

5

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

5

ECON 148Latin American Economies

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ECON 149The Economies of East and Southeast Asia

5

ECON 164Economics and the Telecommunications Industry

5

ECON 169Economic Analysis of the Law

5

Education

EDUC 115K-12 Student Assessment

5

EDUC 125Multicultural Children's Literature for Elementary Classrooms

5

EDUC 128Immigrants and Education

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EDUC 135Gender and Education

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EDUC 140Language, Diversity, and Learning

5

EDUC 141Bilingualism and Schooling

5

EDUC 160Issues in Educational Reform

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EDUC 164Urban Education

5

EDUC 173Seminar in Critical Pedagogy

5

EDUC 178Special Topics in Education

5

EDUC 181Race, Class, and Culture in Education

5

Environmental Studies

ENVS 100LEcology and Society Writing Laboratory

5

ENVS 130BJustice and Sustainability in Agriculture

5

ENVS 143Sustainable Development: Economy, Policy, and Environment

5

ENVS 147Global Environmental Justice

5

ENVS 158Political Ecology and Social Change

5

Film and Digital Media

FILM 132BInternational Cinema, 1960 to Present

5

FILM 136BHistory of Television

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FILM 165AFilm, Video, and Gender

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FILM 165BRace on Screen

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FILM 165CLesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video

5

FILM 165DAsian Americans and Media

5

FILM 168National Cinema and Culture

5

FILM 171SSpecial Topics in Film and Digital Media Production

5

Feminist Studies

FMST 100Feminist Theories

5

FMST 102Feminist Critical Race Studies

5

FMST 105Feminist Methodologies

5

FMST 112Women and the Law

5

FMST 123Feminism and Cultural Production

5

FMST 124Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas

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 139African American Women's History

5

FMST 145Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S

5

FMST 150Mediating Desire

5

FMST 188Topics in Feminist Studies

5

FMST 189Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory

5

History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 118Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

5

HAVC 123AModernity and the Arts of India

5

HAVC 123BReligions and Visual Culture of South Asia

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HAVC 124BHistory of Photography in Southeast Asia

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HAVC 124CArts and Politics in Theravada Traditions

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HAVC 127ABuddhist Visual Worlds

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HAVC 127FThe Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 140BVictorian America

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HAVC 140CRace and American Visual Arts

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HAVC 140DChicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present

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HAVC 141CModern Art: Pop to Present

5

HAVC 141EHistories of Photography

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HAVC 141HMedia History and Theory

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

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HAVC 142Contemporary Art and Ecology

5

HAVC 143AContemporary Architecture and Critical Debates

5

HAVC 143BHistory of Urban Design

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HAVC 143GAfter Utopia: Architecture and the City, 1968-Present

5

HAVC 160AIndigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico

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HAVC 160BIndigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes

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HAVC 164AArt and Visual Culture of Indigenous California

5

HAVC 170Art of the Body in Oceania

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HAVC 180AContemporary Art in a Globalized World

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HAVC 185Community Engagement Through the Arts

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HAVC 186Horror and Gender in Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 186IIndigenous Art and Activism

5

History

HIS 101COceans in World History

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HIS 104DMuseums and the Representation of Native American History, Memory, and Culture

5

HIS 105Nations and Nationalism

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HIS 106BAsian and Asian American History, 1941-Present

5

HIS 109ARace, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South

5

HIS 110AColonial America, 1500-1750

5

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

5

HIS 110GStrange Days: The USA and its National Security State, 1945-1991

5

HIS 110HGreater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States

5

HIS 114Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.

5

HIS 117AFrom the Player Piano to Pandora

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HIS 118The Global Cold War, 1945-1991

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HIS 118AConspiracy Planet: How Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories, and Conspiracy Scandals Shape History

5

HIS 120W.E.B. Du Bois

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HIS 121AAfrican American History to 1877

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HIS 121BAfrican American History: 1877 to the Present

5

HIS 122BJazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present

5

HIS 123Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History

5

HIS 128Chicana/Chicano History

5

HIS 130History of Modern Cuba

5

HIS 131Women in Colonial Latin America

5

HIS 137AAfrica to 1800

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HIS 137BAfrica from 1800 to the Present

5

HIS 139CQueer Pasts: A Radical Telling of LGBTQ History in the United States

5

HIS 146AColonial South Asia 1750-1947

5

HIS 150AEmperors and Outcasts: Ancient Japan

5

HIS 150FEngendering Empires: Women in Modern Japan and Korea

5

HIS 154Post-Colonial North Africa

5

HIS 155History of Modern Israel

5

HIS 167AThe First World War

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HIS 172BGerman Film, 1919-1945

5

HIS 176Eastern Europe, 1848-2000

5

HIS 178CEuropean Intellectual History, 1870-1970

5

HIS 181BAfrica and Britain in an Imperial World

5

HIS 184BRacism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present

5

HIS 185MZionism: An Intellectual History

5

History of Consciousness

HISC 102Philosophy and Poetics

5

HISC 111States, War, Capitalism

5

HISC 112Foundations in Critical Theory

5

HISC 113History of Capitalism

5

HISC 120What is a State?

5

HISC 150Radical Political Theory

5

HISC 160Advanced Topics in History of Consciousness

5

Italian

ITAL 106Italian Culture Through Film

5

John R Lewis College

JRLC 105The Making and Influencing of Environmental Policy

5

JRLC 135Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research

5

JRLC 191Teaching Social Justice

5

Kresge College

KRSG 105STARS Intensive Internship Curriculum

5

Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 100Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latina/o Studies

5

LALS 100ASocial Science Analytics

5

LALS 115Mexico-United States Migration

5

LALS 122Media and Nationalism

5

LALS 126Digit@l Americ@s/Digit@l Latin@s

5

LALS 128Latino Media in the U.S

5

LALS 131Latino Literatures: Assimilation and Assimilability

5

LALS 143Race and Ethnicity

5

LALS 143JGlobal Political Economy

5

LALS 144Mexicana/Chicana Histories

5

LALS 149Whiteness in Latin America

5

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

5

LALS 151Race & Mobility

5

LALS 152Consumer Cultures Between the Americas

5

LALS 155Latin American and Latino Youth Movements

5

LALS 163The Amazon: Cultures and Perspectives

5

LALS 165Contemporary Peru

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

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LALS 175Migration, Gender, and Health

5

LALS 178Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization

5

LALS 180Borders: Real and Imagined

5

LALS 186Field Research Methods

5

LALS 194EUnfree Migrations

5

LALS 194GChile: Social and Political Change

5

Linguistics

LING 154Language and Social Identity

5

Legal Studies

LGST 108Gender, Sexuality, and Law

5

LGST 113Gay Rights and the Law

5

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

5

LGST 125History of the U.S. Penal Culture

5

LGST 130Inequality and Law

5

LGST 133Law of Democracy

5

LGST 146Philosophy of Law

5

LGST 153Immigration, Citizenship, and Law

5

Literature

LIT 121NRAGE: Race and Performance

5

LIT 126AInternational Cyberpunk

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LIT 131AProblems

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LIT 131CWorldings

5

LIT 131DLiterature in a Global Context

5

LIT 135EThe Historical Imaginary

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LIT 136BBeat Literature and the World

5

LIT 141AEarly Mediterranean Cultures

5

LIT 147ATwain, Slavery, and the Literary Imagination

5

LIT 149CThe 1960s

5

LIT 160ETheorizing Race and Comics

5

LIT 160FTopics in Cultural Studies

5

LIT 161AAfrican American Literature

5

LIT 164CGlobal Jewish Writing

5

LIT 164DJewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life

5

LIT 164GLiterature and the Holocaust

5

LIT 166ARepresentations of Gender in Medieval Literature

5

LIT 166CEarly Modern Italian Women Writers

5

LIT 189CIntroducción a Spanish Studies

5

LIT 189UModernidad y literatura: El Boom de la novela latinoamericana

5

Oakes College

OAKS 150Queer History and Theory in the United States

5

OAKS 151ACorre la Voz: Community Literacies and Power Seminar

2

OAKS 151BCommunity Literacies Field Study

3

OAKS 152Transformative Literacies

5

OAKS 153Community Mapping

5

OAKS 155Research for Social Justice: Special Topics

5

OAKS 167Food Systems: Culture, Social Justice, Sustainability

5

OAKS 151A and OAKS 151B must be taken concurrently to count as one sociology elective

Philosophy

PHIL 121Epistemology

5

PHIL 126Philosophy of Social Sciences

5

PHIL 144Topics in Social and Political Philosophy

5

PHIL 153Philosophy of Race

5

Politics

POLI 101Introduction to Research Methods

5

POLI 103Feminist Interventions

5

POLI 105AAncient Political Thought

5

POLI 105BEarly Modern Political Thought

5

POLI 105CModern Political Thought

5

POLI 110Law and Social Issues

5

POLI 111AConstitutional Law

5

POLI 118Critical Political Thought and Critical Theory

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 125Political Organizations in American Politics

5

POLI 128American Elections and Voting Behavior

5

POLI 132California Water Law and Policy

5

POLI 135Immigration Policy and Debate in the U.S.

5

POLI 140AEuropean Politics

5

POLI 140CLatin American Politics

5

POLI 140DPolitics of East Asia

5

POLI 148Social Movements

5

POLI 149Democratic Transitions

5

POLI 154The Philippines and the World

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 167Politics of International Trade

5

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

5

POLI 174Global Political Ecology

5

POLI 175Human Rights

5

POLI 186Global Health Politics

5

POLI 187Decolonial Global Health: A View from the Middle East and Africa

5

Psychology

PSYC 112Moral Development

5

PSYC 118AChildren and War

5

PSYC 118BChildren in Extreme Circumstances

5

PSYC 140BAfrican American Psychology

5

PSYC 140GWomen's Lives in Context

5

PSYC 140HSexual Identity and Society

5

PSYC 140QSocial Psychology of Gender

5

PSYC 142Psychology of Oppression and Liberation

5

PSYC 145Social Influence

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 168The Study of Dreams

5

PSYC 169Community Mental Health (CMH)

5

PSYC 175Personality, Relationships, and Emotions

5

PSYC 183History and Systems of Psychology

5

Spanish

SPAN 156ESpanish Culture

5

SPAN 156MMexico and the Southwest

5

Theater Arts

THEA 161PTheater in the Chicano Power Movement

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.

Writing

WRIT 161Academic Writing and Research Methods

5