Sociology Course List

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

Anthropology

ANTH 104	Human Variation and Adaptation	5
ANTH 110A	Public Life and Contemporary Issues	5
ANTH 110E	Anthropology of Global Environmental Change	5
ANTH 110I	Cultures of Sustainability and Social Justice	5
ANTH 110J	Emerging Humanity	5
ANTH 110Q	Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture	5
ANTH 110Y	Feeding California	5
ANTH 129	Beyond Borders: Other Globalizations and Histories of Interconnection	5
ANTH 130A	Anthropology of Africa.	5
ANTH 130B	Brazil	5
ANTH 130C	Politics and Culture in China	5
ANTH 130E	Culture and Politics of Island Southeast Asia	5
ANTH 130F	Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas	5
ANTH 130G	Asian Americans in Ethnography and Film	5
ANTH 130H	Ethnography of Russia and Eastern Europe	5
ANTH 130O	Native Feminisms, Gender, and Settler Colonialism	5
ANTH 130I	Cultures of India	5
ANTH 130IG	Cultures of India Abroad	5
ANTH 130J	Politics and Statemaking in Latin America	5
ANTH 130L	Ethnographies of Latin America	5
ANTH 130M	Inside Mexico	5
ANTH 130N	Native Peoples of North America	5
ANTH 130P	Ethnography of Southern Cone Chile and Argentina	5
ANTH 130S	Ethnography of Russia and Eastern Europe, Abroad	5
ANTH 130T	Religion and Politics in the Muslim World	5
ANTH 130U	Central America	5
ANTH 130V	Ethnography of Russia	5
ANTH 130W	Ethnography of Eastern Europe	5
ANTH 130X	Special Topics in Ethnography	5
ANTH 131	Gender in Cross-Cultural Context	5
ANTH 134	Medical Anthropology: An Introduction	5
ANTH 138	Political Anthropology	5
ANTH 140	The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections	5
ANTH 142	Anthropology of Law	5
ANTH 144	Anthropology of Poverty and Welfare	5
ANTH 146	Anthropology and the Environment	5
ANTH 148	Gender and Global Development	5
ANTH 158	Feminist Ethnographies	5
ANTH 159	Race and Anthropology	5

Art

ART 101	Introduction to Computer Programming for the Arts	5
ART 181	Art, Power & Politics	5

Community Studies

CMMU 101	Communities, Social Movements, and the Third Sector	5
CMMU 132	American Cities and Social Change	5
CMMU 133	Making California: Landscapes, People, Politics, Economy	5
CMMU 134	No Place Like Home	5
CMMU 141	Economic Justice in Theory and Practice	5
CMMU 145	Global Capitalism: a History of the Present	5
CMMU 149	Political Economy of Food and Agriculture	5
CMMU 160	Public Health	5
CMMU 161	Gender Health and Justice	5
CMMU 163	Health Care Inequalities	5
CMMU 186	Food and Agriculture Social Movements	5
CMMU 189	Mentoring in Community Studies	5
CMMU 193	Field Study	5

Computational Media

CMPM 131

User Experience for Interactive Media

Computer Science and Engineering

CSE 101	Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms	5
CSE 118	Mobile Applications	5

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

CRES 100	Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity	5
CRES 101	Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies	5
CRES 185	Race, Gender, and Science	5

Earth and Planetary Sciences

EART 106

Coasts in Crisis

Economics

ECON 101	Managerial Economics	5
ECON 104	Is There Truth in Numbers: The Role of Statistics in Economics	5
ECON 115	Introduction to Management Sciences	5
ECON 120	Development Economics	5
ECON 121	Economic Growth	5
ECON 126	Why Economies Succeed or Fail: Lessons from Western and Japanese History	5
ECON 128	Poverty and Public Policy	5
ECON 131	International Financial Markets	5
ECON 136	Business Strategy	5
ECON 138	The Economics and Management of Technology and Innovation	5
ECON 139A	The Economics of Electronic Commerce	5
ECON 139B	E-Commerce Strategy	5
ECON 141	International Finance	5
ECON 142	Advanced Topics in International Economics	5
ECON 143	Policy Issues in the International Economy	5
ECON 148	Latin American Economies	5
ECON 149	The Economies of East and Southeast Asia	5
ECON 156	Health Economics and Policy	5
ECON 159	The Economics of Organizations	5
ECON 160A	Industrial Organization	5
ECON 160B	Government and Industry	5
ECON 161A	Marketing	5
ECON 162	Legal Environment of Business	5
ECON 169	Economic Analysis of the Law	5
ECON 170	Environmental Economics	5
ECON 171	Natural Resource Economics	5
ECON 175	Energy Economics	5
ECON 180	Labor Economics	5
ECON 183	Women in the Economy	5

Education

EDUC 102	Education, Media, and Society	5
EDUC 104	Ethical Issues and Teaching	5
EDUC 128	Immigrants and Education	5
EDUC 135	Gender and Education	5
EDUC 140	Language, Diversity, and Learning	5
EDUC 141	Bilingualism and Schooling	5
EDUC 160	Issues in Educational Reform	5
EDUC 164	Urban Education	5
EDUC 166	Technology and Education	5
EDUC 173	Seminar in Critical Pedagogy	5
EDUC 174	Ethnographic Research in Schools and Communities	5
EDUC 177	Teaching Linguistically Diverse Students	5
EDUC 178	Special Topics in Education	5
EDUC 180	Introduction to Teaching	5
EDUC 181	Race, Class, and Culture in Education	5
EDUC 182	Social and Political Contexts of Teachers’ Work	5
EDUC 187	Cognition and Instruction	5
EDUC 198	Independent Field Study	5

Electrical & Computer Egineering

ECE 179

Decision Analysis in Management

Environmental Studies

ENVS 104A	Introduction to Environmental Field Methods	2
ENVS 110	Institutions, the Environment, and Economic Systems	5
ENVS 115A	Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Applications	5
ENVS 115B	Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS)	5
ENVS 115C	Advanced Geographic Information Systems	5
ENVS 130A	Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture	5
ENVS 130B	Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture	5
ENVS 130C	Field Experiences in Agroecology and Sustainable Food	5
ENVS 140	National Environmental Policy	5
ENVS 141	Ecological Economics	5
ENVS 142	Sustainable Energy	5
ENVS 143	The Future of Sustainable Development	5
ENVS 145	Green Cities	5
ENVS 147	Global Environmental Justice	5
ENVS 149	Environmental Law and Policy	5
ENVS 150	Coastal and Marine Policy	5
ENVS 151	Environmental Assessment	5
ENVS 154	Amazonian Cultures and Conservation	5
ENVS 156	Environmental Action Through Writing	5
ENVS 160	Restoration Ecology	5
ENVS 165	Sustainable Water Systems	5
ENVS 166	Agroecosystem Analysis and Watershed Management	5
ENVS 172	Environmental Risks and Public Policy	5
ENVS 173	An Introduction to World Environmental History	5
ENVS 176	Vulnerability, Complex Systems, and Disasters	5
ENVS 177	Teaching Environmental Education	5
ENVS 179	Environmental Interpretation	5
ENVS 183	Environmental Studies Internship	5
ENVS 194	Teaching Environmental Studies	5

Feminist Studies

FMST 102	Feminist Critical Race Studies	5
FMST 112	Women and the Law	5
FMST 115	Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas	5
FMST 120	Transnational Feminisms	5
FMST 123	Feminism and Cultural Production	5
FMST 124	Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas	5
FMST 125	Race, Sex, and Technology	5
FMST 126	Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis	5
FMST 131	The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics	5
FMST 132	Gender and Postcoloniality	5
FMST 133	Science and the Body	5
FMST 135	Topics in Science and Sexuality	5
FMST 139	African American Women's History	5
FMST 175	Gender and Sexualities in Latina/o America	5
FMST 189	Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory	5

Film and Digital Media

FILM 136C	Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media	5
FILM 136D	Documentary Film and Video	5
FILM 170A	Fundamentals of Digital Media Production	5
FILM 171S	Special Topics in Film and Digital Media Production	5
FILM 172	Narrative Video Workshop	5
FILM 173	Narrative Digital Media Workshop	5
FILM 175	Documentary Video Workshop	5
FILM 176	Experimental Video Workshop	5
FILM 177	Digital Media Workshop: Computer as Medium	5
FILM 178A	Personal Computers in Film and Video	5
FILM 178B	Advanced Personal Computers in Film and Video	5
FILM 189	Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies	5
FILM 192	Directed Student Teaching	5
FILM 194B	Electronic Media Theory Seminar	5
FILM 199	Tutorial	5

History

HIS 105	Nations and Nationalism	5
HIS 110A	Colonial America, 1500-1750	5
HIS 110E	Rise of the Machines: Technology, Inequality, and the United States, 1877 to 1914	5
HIS 114	Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.	5
HIS 117	Wired Nation: Broadcasting & Telecommunications in the US from the Telegraph to the Internet	5
HIS 166	Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict	5
HIS 185O	The Holocaust and the Arab World	5
HIS 190K	Wired Planet: Readings on the Global History of Broadcasting and Telecommunications	5

History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 127F	The Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture	5
HAVC 141H	Media History and Theory	5
HAVC 141K	Activist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism
HAVC 141P	Networks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman	5
HAVC 143E	History of Design: The Objects of Technology, 1850-The Present	5
HAVC 164A	Art and Visual Culture of Indigenous California	5

History of Consciousness

HISC 112	Foundations in Critical Theory	5
HISC 117	Making the Refugee Century: Non-Citizens and Modernity	5
HISC 150	Radical Political Theory	5
HISC 185T	Marxism and Feminism	5

Jewish Studies

John R Lewis College/College Ten

JRLC 191

Teaching Social Justice

Kresge College

Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 122	Media and Nationalism	5
LALS 128	Latino Media in the U.S	5
LALS 129	America Latina: Cine, Dictadura y Memoria	5
LALS 143J	Global Political Economy	5
LALS 145	Grassroots Social Change in Latin America	5
LALS 150	Afro-Latinos/as: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions	5
LALS 152	Consumer Cultures Between the Americas	5
LALS 155	Latin American and Latino Youth Movements	5
LALS 156	Human Rights and Transitional Justice in the Americas	5
LALS 158	Latin American Political Economy	5
LALS 168	Inter-American Solidarities	5
LALS 169	South America: History, Society, and Culture	5
LALS 170	Indigenous Struggles in the Americas	5
LALS 172	Visualizing Human Rights	5
LALS 175	Migration, Gender, and Health	5
LALS 178	Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization	5
LALS 180	Borders: Real and Imagined	5

Legal Studies

LGST 108	Gender, Sexuality, and Law	5
LGST 109	Legal Theory	5
LGST 111B	Civil Liberties	5
LGST 111C	The First Amendment	5
LGST 113	Gay Rights and the Law	5
LGST 114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST 116	Comparative Law	5
LGST 125	History of the U.S. Penal Culture	5
LGST 130	Inequality and Law	5
LGST 131	Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law	5
LGST 133	Law of Democracy	5
LGST 137	International Environmental Law and Policy	5
LGST 152	Courts and Litigation	5
LGST 159	Property and the Law	5
LGST 193	Field Study	5

Literature

LIT 120H	American Poetry Since World War II	5
LIT 138A	Culture and Nation	5
LIT 160F	Topics in Cultural Studies	5
LIT 160G	Topics in Literary Theory	5

Oakes College

OAKS 152	Transformative Literacies	5
OAKS 153	Community Mapping	5
OAKS 155	Research for Social Justice: Special Topics	5
OAKS 167	Food Systems: Culture, Social Justice, Sustainability	5

Philosophy

PHIL 126	Philosophy of Social Sciences	5
PHIL 144	Topics in Social and Political Philosophy	5

Politics

POLI 103	Feminist Interventions	5
POLI 105C	Modern Political Thought	5
POLI 110	Law and Social Issues	5
POLI 111A	Constitutional Law	5
POLI 115	Foundations of Political Economy	5
POLI 118	Critical Political Thought and Critical Theory	5
POLI 120A	Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics	5
POLI 120B	Society and Democracy in American Political Development	5
POLI 120C	State and Capitalism in American Political Development	5
POLI 121	Racism & Justice in America	5
POLI 122	Politics, Labor, and Markets	5
POLI 124	Economic Inequality in America	5
POLI 125	Political Organizations in American Politics	5
POLI 128	American Elections and Voting Behavior	5
POLI 129	Policies and Politics of American Defense	5
POLI 132	California Water Law and Policy	5
POLI 134	Congress: Representation and Legislation	5
POLI 140A	European Politics	5
POLI 140C	Latin American Politics	5
POLI 140D	Politics of East Asia	5
POLI 141	Politics of China	5
POLI 143	Comparative Post-Communist Politics	5
POLI 144	Andean Politics	5
POLI 146	The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa	5
POLI 151	Politics of Law	5
POLI 160A	Theories of International and World Politics	5
POLI 160B	International Law	5
POLI 160C	Security, Conflict, Violence, War	5
POLI 160D	International Political Economy	5
POLI 161	The Rise of China	5
POLI 165	Global Organization	5
POLI 167	Politics of International Trade	5
POLI 168	Topics in International Relations and Global Politics	5
POLI 169	Politics of Development	5
POLI 172	Liberalism, the State, and the War on Terror	5
POLI 174	Global Political Ecology	5
POLI 175	Human Rights	5
POLI 185	Political Psychology	5

Psychology

PSYC 108	Educational Psychology	5
PSYC 119P	Children and Technology	5
PSYC 119T	Media Contexts of Adolescent and Young Adult Development	5
PSYC 129	Human Learning and Memory	5
PSYC 138	Computer Programming for the Cognitive Sciences	5
PSYC 139D	Modeling Human Performance	5
PSYC 140F	Mind, Society, and Culture	5
PSYC 140M	Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy	5
PSYC 141	Privacy and Surveillance	5
PSYC 142	Psychology of Oppression and Liberation	5
PSYC 144	Latinx Psychology	5
PSYC 145	Social Influence	5
PSYC 145D	Social Psychology of Autocracy and Democracy	5
PSYC 146	The Social Context	5
PSYC 147A	Psychology and Law	5
PSYC 147B	Psychology and Law	5
PSYC 149	Community Psychology: Transforming Communities	5
PSYC 153	The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class	5
PSYC 155	Social-Community Psychology in Practice	5
PSYC 159H	Community-Based Interventions	5
PSYC 159R	Achievement Disparities: A Social Psychological Perspective	5
PSYC 159X	Psychology of Social Activism	5
PSYC 167	Clinical Psychology	5
PSYC 169	Community Mental Health (CMH)	5
PSYC 179G	Child, Youth, and Family Assistance in the Community	5

Rachel Carson College

CRSN 151A	Sustainability Praxis in the Natural and Built Environment	5
CRSN 151B	Innovation and Professionalization for Sustainability Designers, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs	5
CRSN 152	IDEASS Laboratory Practicum	3
CRSN 160	Developing Leadership to Facilitate Environmental Education	5
CRSN 161	Education 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 192

Directed Student Teaching

Technology & Information Management

TIM 172A	Introduction to Management of Technology I	5
TIM 172B	Introduction to Management of Technology II	5
TIM 173	Financial Engineering and Management in High Technology Firms	5
TIM 175	Business Strategy and Information Systems	5

UCDC

UCDC 194A	UCDC Core Seminar	5
UCDC 194B	UCDC 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.