Sociology General Major Course List

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

Anthropology

ANTH 110A	Public Life and Contemporary Issues	5
ANTH 110D	Tourism Imaginaries and Encounters	5
ANTH 110G	Westside Stories: Race, Place and the California Imaginary	5
ANTH 110K	Culture Through Food	5
ANTH 110Q	Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture	5
ANTH 110T	Motherhood in American Culture	5
ANTH 110Y	Feeding California	5
ANTH 119	Indigenous Visual Culture	5
ANTH 125	Magic, Science, and Religion	5
ANTH 128	Contemporary American Evangelical Cultures	5
ANTH 130C	Politics and Culture in China	5
ANTH 130F	Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas	5
ANTH 130L	Ethnographies of Latin America	5
ANTH 130M	Inside Mexico	5
ANTH 130N	Native Peoples of North America	5
ANTH 130O	Native Feminisms, Gender, and Settler Colonialism	5
ANTH 130U	Central America	5
ANTH 130X	Special Topics in Ethnography	5
ANTH 131	Gender in Cross-Cultural Context	5
ANTH 133	Narratives of the Popular	5
ANTH 136	The Biology of Everyday Life	5
ANTH 137	Consuming Culture	5
ANTH 139	Language and Culture	5
ANTH 140	The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections	5
ANTH 143	Performance and Power	5
ANTH 144	Anthropology of Poverty and Welfare	5
ANTH 145X	Special Topics in Socio-Cultural Anthropology	5
ANTH 148	Gender and Global Development	5
ANTH 149	Anthropology of Activism	5
ANTH 158	Feminist Ethnographies	5
ANTH 159	Race and Anthropology	5
ANTH 160	Reproductive and Population Politics	5
ANTH 161	The Anthropology of Food	5
ANTH 161S	Anthropology of Food, Abroad	5
ANTH 187	Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts	5
ANTH 194S	Hearing Culture: The Anthropology of Sound	5

Applied Linguistics

APLX 112	Language and Gender	5
APLX 113	Inter-Cultural Communication	5

Biology: Ecology and Evolutionary

BIOE 118

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

Rachel Carson College

CRSN 161

Education for Sustainable Living Program

College Nine

CLNI 105

Researching Food Sovereignty

Community Studies

CMMU 101	Communities, Social Movements, and the Third Sector	5
CMMU 132	American Cities and Social Change	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 151	Sex, Race, and Globalization	5
CMMU 156	Politics of Food and Health	5
CMMU 157	Ageism and Activism	5
CMMU 160	Public Health	5
CMMU 161	Gender Health and Justice	5
CMMU 162	Community Gardens and Social Change	5
CMMU 163	Health Care Inequalities	5
CMMU 164	Health Justice in Conflict	5
CMMU 165	Community Analysis for Global Health	5
CMMU 186	Food and Agriculture Social Movements	5

Cowell College

COWL 138A	The Place of Higher Education in a Democratic Society	5
COWL 175A	Imagination	5

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

CRES 100	Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity	5
CRES 112	AsianAm Enviro Justice	5
CRES 114	Race and Disability in American Drama	5
CRES 118	Abolitionist Futures	5
CRES 121	The Struggle for K-12 Ethnic Studies	5
CRES 150	Race, Gender and Algorithms	5
CRES 185A	Race, Gender, and Science	5
CRES 188B	Topics in Black Studies	5
CRES 188T	Topics in Race, Science and Technology	5

Economics

ECON 110	Managerial Cost Accounting and Control	5
ECON 120	Development Economics	5
ECON 125	Economic History of the U.S	5
ECON 126	Why Economies Succeed or Fail: Lessons from Western and Japanese History	5
ECON 148	Latin American Economies	5
ECON 149	The Economies of East and Southeast Asia	5
ECON 164	Economics and the Telecommunications Industry	5
ECON 169	Economic Analysis of the Law	5

Education

EDUC 115	K-12 Student Assessment	5
EDUC 125	Multicultural Children's Literature for Elementary Classrooms	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 173	Seminar in Critical Pedagogy	5
EDUC 178	Special Topics in Education	5
EDUC 181	Race, Class, and Culture in Education	5

Environmental Studies

ENVS 100L	Ecology and Society Writing Laboratory	5
ENVS 130B	Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture	5
ENVS 143	Sustainable Development: Economy, Policy, and Environment	5
ENVS 147	Global Environmental Justice	5
ENVS 158	Political Ecology and Social Change	5

Film and Digital Media

FILM 132B	International Cinema, 1960 to Present	5
FILM 136B	History of Television	5
FILM 165A	Film, Video, and Gender	5
FILM 165B	Race on Screen	5
FILM 165C	Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video	5
FILM 165D	Asian Americans and Media	5
FILM 168	National Cinema and Culture	5
FILM 171S	Special Topics in Film and Digital Media Production	5

Feminist Studies

FMST 100	Feminist Theories	5
FMST 102	Feminist Critical Race Studies	5
FMST 105	Feminist Methodologies	5
FMST 112	Women and the Law	5
FMST 123	Feminism and Cultural Production	5
FMST 124	Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas	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 139	African American Women's History	5
FMST 145	Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S	5
FMST 150	Mediating Desire	5
FMST 188	Topics in Feminist Studies	5
FMST 189	Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory	5

History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 118	Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora	5
HAVC 123A	Modernity and the Arts of India	5
HAVC 123B	Religions and Visual Culture of South Asia	5
HAVC 124B	History of Photography in Southeast Asia	5
HAVC 124C	Arts and Politics in Theravada Traditions	5
HAVC 127A	Buddhist Visual Worlds	5
HAVC 127F	The Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture	5
HAVC 140B	Victorian America	5
HAVC 140C	Race and American Visual Arts	5
HAVC 140D	Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present	5
HAVC 141C	Modern Art: Pop to Present	5
HAVC 141E	Histories of Photography	5
HAVC 141H	Media History and Theory	5
HAVC 141K	Activist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism	5
HAVC 142	Contemporary Art and Ecology	5
HAVC 143A	Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debates	5
HAVC 143B	History of Urban Design	5
HAVC 143G	After Utopia: Architecture and the City, 1968-Present	5
HAVC 160A	Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico	5
HAVC 160B	Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes	5
HAVC 164A	Art and Visual Culture of Indigenous California	5
HAVC 170	Art of the Body in Oceania	5
HAVC 180A	Contemporary Art in a Globalized World	5
HAVC 185	Community Engagement Through the Arts	5
HAVC 186	Horror and Gender in Art and Visual Culture	5
HAVC 186I	Indigenous Art and Activism	5

History

HIS 101C	Oceans in World History	5
HIS 104D	Museums and the Representation of Native American History, Memory, and Culture	5
HIS 105	Nations and Nationalism	5
HIS 106B	Asian and Asian American History, 1941-Present	5
HIS 109A	Race, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South	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 110G	Strange Days: The USA and its National Security State, 1945-1991	5
HIS 110H	Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States	5
HIS 114	Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.	5
HIS 117A	From the Player Piano to Pandora	5
HIS 118	The Global Cold War, 1945-1991	5
HIS 118A	Conspiracy Planet: How Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories, and Conspiracy Scandals Shape History	5
HIS 120	W.E.B. Du Bois	5
HIS 121A	African American History to 1877	5
HIS 121B	African American History: 1877 to the Present	5
HIS 122B	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present	5
HIS 123	Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History	5
HIS 128	Chicana/Chicano History	5
HIS 130	History of Modern Cuba	5
HIS 131	Women in Colonial Latin America	5
HIS 137A	Africa to 1800	5
HIS 137B	Africa from 1800 to the Present	5
HIS 139C	Queer Pasts: A Radical Telling of LGBTQ History in the United States	5
HIS 146A	Colonial South Asia 1750-1947	5
HIS 150A	Emperors and Outcasts: Ancient Japan	5
HIS 150F	Engendering Empires: Women in Modern Japan and Korea	5
HIS 154	Post-Colonial North Africa	5
HIS 155	History of Modern Israel	5
HIS 167A	The First World War	5
HIS 172B	German Film, 1919-1945	5
HIS 176	Eastern Europe, 1848-2000	5
HIS 178C	European Intellectual History, 1870-1970	5
HIS 181B	Africa and Britain in an Imperial World	5
HIS 184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	5
HIS 185M	Zionism: An Intellectual History	5

History of Consciousness

HISC 102	Philosophy and Poetics	5
HISC 111	States, War, Capitalism	5
HISC 112	Foundations in Critical Theory	5
HISC 113	History of Capitalism	5
HISC 120	What is a State?	5
HISC 150	Radical Political Theory	5
HISC 160	Advanced Topics in History of Consciousness	5

Italian

ITAL 106

Italian Culture Through Film

John R Lewis College

JRLC 105	The Making and Influencing of Environmental Policy	5
JRLC 135	Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research	5
JRLC 191	Teaching Social Justice	5

Kresge College

KRSG 105

STARS Intensive Internship Curriculum

Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 100	Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latina/o Studies	5
LALS 100A	Social Science Analytics	5
LALS 115	Mexico-United States Migration	5
LALS 122	Media and Nationalism	5
LALS 126	Digit@l Americ@s/Digit@l Latin@s	5
LALS 128	Latino Media in the U.S	5
LALS 131	Latino Literatures: Assimilation and Assimilability	5
LALS 143	Race and Ethnicity	5
LALS 143J	Global Political Economy	5
LALS 144	Mexicana/Chicana Histories	5
LALS 149	Whiteness in Latin America	5
LALS 150	Afro-Latinos/as: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions	5
LALS 151	Race & Mobility	5
LALS 152	Consumer Cultures Between the Americas	5
LALS 155	Latin American and Latino Youth Movements	5
LALS 163	The Amazon: Cultures and Perspectives	5
LALS 165	Contemporary Peru	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
LALS 186	Field Research Methods	5
LALS 194E	Unfree Migrations	5
LALS 194G	Chile: Social and Political Change	5

Linguistics

LING 154

Language and Social Identity

Legal Studies

LGST 108	Gender, Sexuality, and Law	5
LGST 113	Gay Rights and the Law	5
LGST 114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST 125	History of the U.S. Penal Culture	5
LGST 130	Inequality and Law	5
LGST 133	Law of Democracy	5
LGST 146	Philosophy of Law	5
LGST 153	Immigration, Citizenship, and Law	5

Literature

LIT 121N	RAGE: Race and Performance	5
LIT 126A	International Cyberpunk	5
LIT 131A	Problems	5
LIT 131C	Worldings	5
LIT 131D	Literature in a Global Context	5
LIT 135E	The Historical Imaginary	5
LIT 136B	Beat Literature and the World	5
LIT 141A	Early Mediterranean Cultures	5
LIT 147A	Twain, Slavery, and the Literary Imagination	5
LIT 149C	The 1960s	5
LIT 160E	Theorizing Race and Comics	5
LIT 160F	Topics in Cultural Studies	5
LIT 161A	African American Literature	5
LIT 164C	Global Jewish Writing	5
LIT 164D	Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life	5
LIT 164G	Literature and the Holocaust	5
LIT 166A	Representations of Gender in Medieval Literature	5
LIT 166C	Early Modern Italian Women Writers	5
LIT 189C	Introducción a Spanish Studies	5
LIT 189U	Modernidad y literatura: El Boom de la novela latinoamericana	5

Oakes College

OAKS 150	Queer History and Theory in the United States	5
OAKS 151A	Corre la Voz: Community Literacies and Power Seminar	2
OAKS 151B	Community Literacies Field Study	3
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

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

Philosophy

PHIL 121	Epistemology	5
PHIL 126	Philosophy of Social Sciences	5
PHIL 144	Topics in Social and Political Philosophy	5
PHIL 153	Philosophy of Race	5

Politics

POLI 101	Introduction to Research Methods	5
POLI 103	Feminist Interventions	5
POLI 105A	Ancient Political Thought	5
POLI 105B	Early Modern Political Thought	5
POLI 105C	Modern Political Thought	5
POLI 110	Law and Social Issues	5
POLI 111A	Constitutional Law	5
POLI 118	Critical Political Thought and Critical Theory	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 125	Political Organizations in American Politics	5
POLI 128	American Elections and Voting Behavior	5
POLI 132	California Water Law and Policy	5
POLI 135	Immigration Policy and Debate in the U.S.	5
POLI 140A	European Politics	5
POLI 140C	Latin American Politics	5
POLI 140D	Politics of East Asia	5
POLI 148	Social Movements	5
POLI 149	Democratic Transitions	5
POLI 154	The Philippines and the World	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 167	Politics of International Trade	5
POLI 172	Liberalism, the State, and the War on Terror	5
POLI 174	Global Political Ecology	5
POLI 175	Human Rights	5
POLI 186	Global Health Politics	5
POLI 187	Decolonial Global Health: A View from the Middle East and Africa	5

Psychology

PSYC 112	Moral Development	5
PSYC 118A	Children and War	5
PSYC 118B	Children in Extreme Circumstances	5
PSYC 140B	African American Psychology	5
PSYC 140G	Women's Lives in Context	5
PSYC 140H	Sexual Identity and Society	5
PSYC 140Q	Social Psychology of Gender	5
PSYC 142	Psychology of Oppression and Liberation	5
PSYC 145	Social Influence	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 168	The Study of Dreams	5
PSYC 169	Community Mental Health (CMH)	5
PSYC 175	Personality, Relationships, and Emotions	5
PSYC 183	History and Systems of Psychology	5

Spanish

SPAN 156E	Spanish Culture	5
SPAN 156M	Mexico and the Southwest	5

Theater Arts

THEA 161P

Theater in the Chicano Power Movement

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.

Writing

WRIT 161

Academic Writing and Research Methods