To complete the GSAH Major, STUDENTS TAKE 18 CREDITS IN ELECTIVE COURSES.
For the GSAH Minor, STUDENTS TAKE 9 CREDITS IN ELECTIVE COURSES. Electives include any of the courses listed below, or courses selected in consultation with the GSAH Advisor and/or Director to develop an individualized program of study.
Elective Courses in the College of Arts and Letters
AAAS 300 - Communities in Action
Thematic examination of Black peoples’ collective action in making place, community, and space as resistance.
AAAS 495 - Writing For Our Lives
Intensive writing workshop with focus on development of student voice through the power of the written and spoken word.
ARB 460 - Special Topics in Arabic Culture
Special topics in Arabic culture determined each semester by Arabic teaching faculty.
ARB 461 - Introduction to Arabic Literature
Readings of various literary genres selected from modern and pre-modern Arabic literature including different themes such as regional, diaspora, and travel literature; literature in translation. These literary works will be read and discussed in Arabic and English.
ASN 352 - Readings in Asian/Asian American/Asian Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture
Extensive reading of texts by Americans of Asian descent or by Asians in English or English translation. Attention to artistic, historical, and cultural contexts.
ATD 426 - History of Dress and Textiles
History of dress and textiles as a reflection of the cultural milieu.
ATD 430 - Dress, Culture and Human Behavior
Dress as an expression of self and reflection of society and global cultures. Effect of dress on human behavior at the personal, interpersonal, and social organizational levels.
ATD 431 - Global Context for Sustainable Design
Global patterns of apparel and textile production, distribution, and consumption. Employment practices and international trade policy. Natural resource use and its impact on sustainable design. Design process for sustainable apparel design.
CHS 360 - Chinese Film Studies
Survey of Chinese films focusing on individual expressions with cross-cultural significance. Development of higher-intermediate and advanced language skills. Taught in English and Chinese.
CHS 366 - Chinese Culture: Tradition and Modernity
Critical concepts necessary to analyze Chinese works from the past three millennia. Key topics include indigenous heritage and modern developments with cross-cultural significance, canonizations of major schools of thought (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism), interactions between elite and popular cultures, among others. Taught in English and Chinese.
CHS 466 - Modern Chinese Literature and Films
Critical concepts and tools for the analytical study of modern Chinese literature and films on the global stage. Examine major works since the turn of the 20th century. Taught in English and Chinese.
ENG 326 - Readings in Drama and Performance Studies
Extensive readings in drama from a range of centuries and traditions. Focus on a range of dramatic forms and cultural expression through performance, and specific social or historical circumstances.
ENG 350 - Readings in African, African-American, or African Diaspora Literature
Extensive readings in multiple genres drawn from the literature of Anglophone Africa, from African American writers, or from the African Diaspora.
ENG 351 - Readings in Chicano and Latino Literatures
Extensive readings in American multiethnic literatures. Focus on the syncretic experience of early and recent immigrants.
ENG 355 - Readings in Sexuality and Literature
Extensive reading in literature drawing on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer perspectives.
ENG 356 - Readings in Jewish Literature
Extensive readings in a range of genres by Jewish writers, including fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and/or film. Cultural and artistic contexts of Jewish literature.
ENG 360 - Studies in Postcolonial and Diaspora Literature
Extensive reading and research in literatures of colonialism, decolonization, neocolonialism, cultural and political independence. Texts from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and/or various diaspora communities.
ENG 426 - Seminar in Drama or Performance Studies
Advanced analysis in American, British, Continental European or World drama or in performance studies. Topics vary.
ENG 448 - Seminar in Gender and Literature
Advanced analysis in literary works within the context of sexual differences or sexuality studies. May include women writers, feminism, masculinity studies, gay, lesbian, or transgender studies. Topics vary.
ENG 449 - Seminar in Race, Ethnicity, and Literature
Advanced analysis in world literatures which reflect upon the contested categories of race, ethnicity, and culture, their histories, conceptualizations, global diffusion, and trajectories. Post-race identity formations. Topics vary.
ENG 450 - Seminar in African American Literature
Advanced analysis of a single writer, group of writers, period, or genre in the field of African American literature. Critical reception, cultural production, or cultural criticism. Topics vary.
ENG 452 - Seminar in 20th and 21st Century British Literature
Advanced analysis in literary culture of Britain, Ireland, and other countries influenced by England, exclusive of the United States, from the modern and contemporary eras. Topics vary.
ENG 460 - Seminar in Global and Postcolonial Literature
Advanced analysis in textual cultures of colonial/postcolonial societies. Theories of colonial discourse, postcolonialism, globalization. Literary or visual materials from Africa, Latin America, Asia, or diaspora. Topics vary.
ENG 462 - Seminar in Transatlantic Literature
Advanced analysis in the formation of modern literature within a transatlantic zone of cultural transfer, displacement, and movement, from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics vary.
ENG 466 - Seminar in Literatures of the Pacific Rim
Advanced analysis in Transpacific texts and cultures, confluences and clashes, including movement between America and Asia, or within each region itself. Topics vary.
ENG 473B - Law and Literature
Literature about law and legal institutions. Literary and legal theories of textual interpretation. The relation of law and legal institutions to conceptions of justice as presented in literature and in philosophical and cultural studies.
ENG 478A - Literature, Technology, and Representation
Literature in relationship to technological innovations and theories of signification and dissemination. How literature represents technology. New modes of media and their impact on literary forms.
ENG 478B - Literature and Visual Culture
Literature in relationship to theories of representation and the visual arts, which may include photography, film, painting, theater, graphic novels, and architecture.
ENG 481 - Seminar in Critical and Cultural Theory
Advanced analysis in theoretical approaches to textual studies, selected from perspectives such as formalist, narrative, hermeneutical, semiotic, Marxian, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and/or other recent critical discourses.
ENG 482 - Seminar in Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory
Advanced analysis in feminist literary, critical, and cultural theory and its implications for reading and studying literature.
FLM 300 - History of Film to Midcentury
Traditions of film and media history from cinema’s beginnings to 1945.
FLM 301 - History of Film after Midcentury
Traditions of film and media history from 1945 to the present.
FLM 311 - Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking
Introduction to documentary production using accessible and affordable digital technology.
FLM 350 - National and Transnational Cinemas
Traditions of national and transnational cinemas.
FLM 355 - Studies in Film Genres
Films studied by genre such as musicals and film noir and by movements such as the new wave and the avant-garde.
FLM 380 - Classical Film and Media Theory
Theories of film aesthetics, meaning, and spectatorship from cinema's inception to the 1970s. Film's intersection with theories of the other arts including theatre, painting, and photography.
FLM 381 - Contemporary Film and Media Theory
Theories of film aesthetics, meaning, and spectatorship from the 1970s to the present. Film's intersection with theories of new technologies and artistic forms.
FLM 400 - Seminar in the History of Film
Selected movements or traditions in film history. Silent film, studio film, New Wave, or British film.
FLM 450 - Studies in Ethnic Film
Film traditions and/or film makers studied from the perspective of a particular ethnic group, such as Native American, Chicano/a, Latina/o, Jewish, or other American ethnic groups.
FLM 451 - Studies in Postcolonial Cinema
Films of the Postcolonial World, including major directors and trends from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
FLM 452 - Studies in Film, Gender, and Sexuality
Study of films by women and about women, gender, masculinity, or sexuality.
FLM 460 - Seminar in Digital Film and Emergent Media
Study of films by women and about women, gender, masculinity, or sexuality.
FLM 480 - Seminar in Film and Media Theory
Advanced topics in theories of film aesthetics, meaning, and spectatorship. Film intersection with theories of the other arts and media, politics, and identity.
HA 101 - Western Art from the Paleolithic to Medieval Era
Introductory survey of Western Art from the Paleolithic to the Medieval era. Key works, monuments, and stylistic trends.
HA 102 - Western Art from the Renaissance to Contemporary
Introductory survey of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Contemporary era, focusing on key works, monuments, and stylistic trends.
HA 260 - Asian Art
Asian civilization viewed thematically through selected masterpieces of visual arts. Main trends of Asian arts throughout a range of time periods.
HA 271 - African Art
Survey of visual arts from the continent of Africa including ancient to contemporary architecture, sculpture, textiles, painting, photography, performance, and body decoration. Structured geographically and thematically, artworks are considered through a variety of historical, social, political, philosophical, and cultural perspectives.
HA 461 - Selected Topics in Modern Asian Art
Selected topics in Modern Asian Art which address current theoretical issues and intellectual developments in the field.
HA 462 - The Arts of China
Chinese art from the Bronze Age to the 18th century. Ancient ritual bronzes, Han funerary art, Buddhist sculpture, and painting. Aesthetic and philosophical principles.
HA 471 - Selected Topics in African Art
Selected topics in African Art which address the current theoretical issues and intellectual developments in the field.
JPN 369 - Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies I
Critical concepts and tools necessary to analyze discourses on Japanese culture and literature. Key issues in Japanese studies, including the emergence of pre-modern and modern literary genres and styles, the canonization of national literature, and the nature of translation and transformation. Taught in English and Japanese.
JPN 469 - Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies II
Critical concepts and tools for analysis of discourses on Japanese culture and literature. Re-examination of the received notion of Japanese uniqueness through focused investigation of a specific foundational literary narrative in circulation via various cultural mediums in the twenty-first century. Taught in English and Japanese.
LIN 225 - Language and Gender
Gender and language in societies around the world. Issues such as status, power and politeness in monolingual and multilingual societies. The role of gender in language development, language variation and language change.
PHL 342 - Environmental Ethics
Ethical perspectives on humanity's use of and relationship to nonhuman animals, the land, future humans, and the ecosystem itself.
PHL 350 - Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
History of social and political philosophy; problems such as obligation, power, oppression, freedom, equality, and community.
PHL 353 - Core Themes in Peace and Justice Studies
Core themes in peace and justice studies, including concepts of violence, conflict and reconciliation as informed by problems of inequality, power, and recognition. Institutional and practical approaches to nonviolence.
PHL 354 - Philosophy of Law
Legal concepts such as punishment, responsibility, rights and duties, and judicial decisions. Legal theories such as natural law, positivism and realism.
PHL 356 - Philosophical Aspects of Feminism
Conceptual and normative issues in feminist theory. Topics such as sexism, oppression, coercion, control, power, equality, personhood, respect and self-respect, rape, separatism, community, intimacy, and autonomy.
PHL 357 - Philosophy of Karl Marx
Marx's philosophical thought and its bearing on science, religion, art and politics.
PHL 440 - Central Issues in Ethics
Twentieth-century discussions of universalization, utilitarianism, nature of a moral theory, moral language, relativism, skepticism, theory and practice, weakness of will, moral education, and justification.
PHL 452 - Ethics and Development
Ethical issues such as racism, health care disparities, war, genocide, famine, agricultural intensification, economic liberalization, democratization, gender equity, globalization, and environmental degradation.
PHL 454 - Topics in Philosophy of Law
Selected topics in philosophical approaches to law such as critical race theory, constitutional theory and international law.
PHL 456 - Topics in Feminist Philosophy
Philosophical issues in a framework of feminist politics and critique. Standpoint theories, care/justice ethics, ontological status of genders/races, theories of power/domination, determinism/freedom.
PHL 460 - Epistemology
Theories and concepts of knowledge, belief, epistemic justification, certainty, and reason.
PHL 461 - Metaphysics
Basic concepts employed in trying to understand the nature of things. Concepts include universals, particulars, things, kinds, properties, events, persons, change, causality, chance, existence, possibility, necessity, space, and time.
PHL 462 - Philosophy of Mind
Modern theories of the mind, other minds, and the mind's relation to the body. Theories include dualism, behaviorism, criteriology, reductive and eliminative materialism, and functionalism.
REL 101 - Exploring Religion
Religion and religions as historical phenomena. Non-textual and textual religions. Theories of the origins and functions of religion. Exemplary voices from various traditions examined in their historical and doctrinal settings.
REL 150 - Exploring Biblical Literature
A critical survey of biblical texts, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and writings found in the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon, that combines historical and literary analysis with attention to the ancient religious context of this literature.
REL 205 - Myth, Self, and Religion
The mythic quest for meaning, identity, value, and transcendence as seen through religious biography and literary narrative. Myth in relation to religious symbols and life-cycle rituals. Cross-cultural perspective on religious world views and the interpretation of myth as sacred narrative.
REL 215 - Music and Religion
Introduction to the lived experience of world religions through investigation of their sacred songs.
REL 275 - Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Esoteric Religion
Surveys esoteric traditions in Europe, England and North America including alchemy, magic, Jewish and Christian mysticisms, and secret or semisecret groups like Freemasonry. Transdisciplinary investigation of religion, science, literature, art and history.
REL 310 - Judaism
Jewish life, thought, and institutions. Jewish calendar. Second Temple and Rabbinic periods. Talmud and Midrash. Jewish life in Europe and America. Hasidic, Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative movements. Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Holocaust. Current issues.
REL 320 - Christianity
Origins and historical development of Christianity. Rituals, institutional forms (Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant). Monastic and mendicant movements. Major doctrines and their development. Contemporary status and role.
REL 325 - East Asian Buddhism
Buddhist traditions of East Asia, including China, Tibet, Korea, and Japan, as well as Mahayana and Vajrayana.
REL 330 - Islam
Islam from the time of Muhammad to the present. Pre-modern developments. Life of Muhammad. Qur'an, Hadith, and Islamic law. Sunnis, Shiites, sects, and their rituals. Unity and diversity. Modern movements and trends.
REL 335 - East Asian Religions
Religious traditions of East Asia, including China, Korea, and Japan.
REL 355 - Southeast Asian Religions
Southeast Asia as a religious and cultural crossroads. The historic mix of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Chinese religions. Diversity of indigenous animistic religions. Past and present relations between religions and the state.
REL 360 - African Religion
Variant forms of the religions of Africa. Indigenous African religions examined through their mythology, rituals, symbols, and social consequences. Islam and Christianity. Interaction between religion and politics.
REL 411 - Modern Jewish Thought
Representative Jewish thought from the Enlightenment to the present.
REL 480 - Comparative Studies in Religion
Multidisciplinary approaches to topics such as patterns in comparative religion, comparative mysticism, or comparative mythology.
STA 112 - Art and Design: Concepts and Practices
Theme-based study of aesthetic and conceptual issues surrounding contemporary art and design practices. Art/design vocabulary, critical thinking skills, understanding of diverse social roles of the artist and designer and relationship to visual art within contemporary culture and society.
THR 304 - Topics in Acting/Directing II
Topics supplementing regular acting and directing course offerings on a group study basis.
WRA 260 - Writing, Rhetoric, Cultures, and Community
Introduction to rhetorical practices, processes, and strategies. Study of intersections of rhetorical theories and cultural engagement, with emphasis on analyzing and composing for different professional and public settings. Exploration of different knowledge-making processes and influences on writing. Reading- and discussion-intensive course.
WRA 311 - Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking
Introduction to documentary production using accessible and affordable digital technology.
WRA 415 - Digital Rhetoric
Rhetorical, social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions of digital communication, including identity, community, genre, and events. Rhetorical dynamics of communication across digital spaces such as apps, websites, software, and other experiences.
WRA 441 - Social Justice as Rhetorical Practice
Rhetorical, cultural, and historical analyses of significant texts in peace and justice movements. Production of effective texts in support of social, economic, and environmental justice and social entrepreneurship.
WS 153 - Introduction to Women Authors
Writings by women from various racial, socio-economic and historical backgrounds. Women's choices of subject matter and style. Women's redefinition of literary genres.
WS 201 - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Foundational knowledge, theories, methods in women's and gender studies and of women's experience historically and across the globe.
WS 202 - Introduction to Contemporary Feminisms and Gender Theories
Theories of feminism and gender from a variety of intellectual, political, cultural, religious, sexual, racial, ethnic, national, and global perspectives.
WS 301 - Sexual Violence Against Women and Children: Theory and Response
Sexual violence against women and children from theoretical and applied perspectives. Rape, battering, incest and sexual harassment. Intersection of race, class, gender and violence. Individual and collective strategies to prevent or deter assault, race, class, gender and violence.
WS 312 - African American Women
Black women in American history. Slavery, the work place, politics, and the Civil Rights movement.
WS 353 - Readings in Women Writers
Extensive reading in texts by women, focused within a particular national tradition or period or within a particular genre. Critical responses to these texts. Feminist approaches to literature.
WS 355 - Readings in Sexuality and Literature
Extensive reading in literature drawing on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer perspectives.
WS 356 - Philosophical Aspects of Feminism
Conceptual and normative issues in feminist theory. Topics such as sexism, oppression, coercion, control, power, equality, personhood, respect and self-respect, rape, separatism, community, intimacy, and autonomy.
WS 403 - Women and Change in Developing Countries
Effects of economic, political, and social change on women in developing countries. Interrelationships of gender, class, race, and nationality.
WS 425 - Gender, Sexuality, Crime and Justice
Theories on how gender and sexuality explain victimization and crime. How gender and sexuality shape experiences as victims, offenders, and criminal justice employees. Intersectionality with race and class. Laws and their effects on rights based on gender and sexuality in the criminal justice system.
WS 448 - Seminar in Gender and Literature
Advanced analysis in literary works within the context of sexual differences or sexuality studies. May include women writers, feminism, masculinity studies, gay, lesbian, or transgender studies. Topics vary.
WS 456 - Topics in Feminist Philosophy
Philosophical issues in a framework of feminist politics and critique. Standpoint theories, care/justice ethics, ontological status of genders/races, theories of power/domination, determinism/freedom.
WS 482 - Seminar in Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory
Advanced analysis in feminist literary, critical, and cultural theory and its implications for reading and studying literature.
Elective Global Studies Courses in Other Colleges
ANP 321 - Anthropology of Social Movements
How social movements within different cultures around the world organize, create or impede change on the basis of class, religion, race, ethnicity, language, and territory.
ANP 330 - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: Anthropological Approaches to Collective Identity
Understanding race and ethnicity. Models analyzing racial, ethnic, and national identities; boundaries; and collective identities and differentiations. Case studies from cultures worldwide.
ANP 410 - Anthropology of Latin America
Comparative analysis of significant social issues confronting contemporary Latin American countries.
ANP 426 - Urban Anthropology
The anthropological approach to urban issues. Cross-cultural perspectives on the informal economy, power, ideology, and community.
ANP 436 - Globalization and Justice: Issues in Political and Legal Anthropology
Anthropological perspectives on issues of justice linked to global forces of transnational capitalism, economic development, global governance, and international law
ANP 439 - Human Rights: Anthropological Perspectives
Cross-cultural study of human rights. Anthropological perspective on the role of law, customs, values, and politics in defining, organizing, and understanding individual and collective rights.
HST 310 - African American History to 1876
American slavery in the mainland colonies. Establishment and nature of free black communities. The impact of emancipation.
HST 311 - African American History since 1876
Blacks in America from Reconstruction to the present. Grass roots and cultural revitalization. The Civil Rights movement and black power.
HST 312 - African American Women
Black women in American history. Slavery, the work place, politics, and the Civil Rights movement.
HST 364 - South Africa: From Shaka Zulu to Mandela
Social, political, and economic history. Rise of the Zulu State. European conquest and colonization. The mineral revolution. Segregation and apartheid. The liberation struggle. Democracy after 1994.
HST 383 - The Caribbean
Political, economic, and social history. Sugar and slavery, nationalism, and relations with the United States.
JRN 265 - International Journalism and Media
Survey of media and journalism news systems around the world. Contemporary issues in international journalism. Press theory and effects on press freedom and media independence. Foreign correspondence reporting.
JRN 345 - Images and Messages
Visual communication through analytical, historical and critical views. Role and effects of imagery in storytelling, news and documentary presentations. Ethics of visual messages. Impact of technology on visual journalism. Aesthetics of imagery and cultural belief systems associated with the medium of photography.
JRN 372 - Environment, Science and Health Journalism Special Topics
Analyze and understand the context of environment, science and health events and issues for news coverage.
MC 324A - Regional Politics, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Middle East
Sources of conflict and cooperation in the Middle East through case studies such as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Intrastate, regional, and global factors.
MC 324B - Regional Politics, Cooperation, and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Domestic and international politics of sub-Saharan African countries. Conflict and cooperation among states of the region. Government policies to promote security, democracy, and growth.
MC 324C - Regional Politics, Cooperation, and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean
Domestic and international politics of Latin American or Caribbean countries. Conflict and cooperation among states of the region. Government policies to promote security, democracy, and growth.
MC 324D - Regional Politics, Cooperation, and Conflict in Asia
Sources and consequences of conflict and cooperation in Asia. Conflict and cooperation among states of the region. Government policies to promote security, democracy, and growth.
MC 337 - Global Public Health
Comprehensive, interdisciplinary and policy-orientated approach to global public health. Examination of infectious disease, as well as case studies.
MC 366 - Film, History and Nation
Relation of film and cinema to nationalism, nation building, and national identity construction. Relation of film to history and historical representation. Role of domestic and international feature films in the formation of local, national, and global identities.
MC 369 - Global Issues in Citizenship
History and political theory of citizenship, including citizenship laws and policies; classical, liberal and republican perspectives; gender and race; national, postnational, and transnational citizenship.
MC 372 - Comparative Black Political Thought
Comparative examination of the political thought of blacks in the United States, Africa, and elsewhere in the African Diaspora.
MC 377 - Culture, Politics and Post-Colonialism
International politics and power. Relations of colonialism and post-colonialism. Contemporary repercussions. History, literature, culture, and political theory.
MC 382 - Social Movements
Theories and case studies of social movements in comparative perspective. Origins, development, membership, organizational dynamics, social control, political effects.
MC 383 - African American Politics
Contemporary African American politics. National and local politics, alternative political strategies and public policies. Advancement of African-American community.
MC 385 - Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations
Advanced theories, cross national comparisons, and case studies of race and ethnic relations. Intergroup competition, conflict, dominance, accommodation, assimilation, and creolization. Prejudice, stereotypes, racism, ideologies, and political and economic processes.
MC 386 - Women and Power in Comparative Perspective
Application of feminist theory to questions of gender and power in different economic and political systems and geographic areas.
MC 387 - Jews and Anti-Semitism
Comparative history and sociology of modern Jewish experiences. Anti-Semitism and intergroup relations; the Holocaust and responses to the Holocaust; assimilation and pluralism in the U.S.
MC 388 - Sexual Politics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Sexuality and gender in nineteenth and twentieth century history and politics. Social change, social movements, and sex roles.
MC 482 - Gender and Violent Conflict
Gender consequences of a range of violent conflicts and their resolution. Theoretical contours and policy implications of gendered conflict within and between states. Contemporary case studies.
PLS 304 - Minority Politics
Minority groups and the political process in the United States. Civil rights movements, political organizations, legal decisions, political participation, and legislative politics.
PLS 320 - Judicial Politics
Analysis of the structure and functions of judicial systems. Organization, administration, and politics of judicial bureaucracies. Roles of judges, juries, counsel, litigants, and interest groups in the adjudication process.
PLS 344 - Politics of Developing Areas
Politics of modernization, democratic and authoritarian regimes, and class and ethnicity in developing countries.
PLS 351 - African Politics
Political institutions and governmental processes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
PLS 363 - International and Domestic Political Conflict
Civil war, conflict, and conflict resolution in the international system.
PLS 364 - Politics of the United Nations and International Organizations
History and evolution. League of Nations, United Nations. Growth and role of regional, specialized, and non-governmental organizations. Impact of new states. Politics, functions, and problems.
PLS 422 - Seminar in Political Science
Variable topics including legislative behavior, policy analysis, political development, human rights, international conflict, foreign policy, international political economy, and constitutionalism.
SOC 310 - Global Migration
Theory and research on the causes and consequences of human migration. Sociological, social psychological, historical, and demographic perspectives.
SOC 331 - Political Sociology
Social power theories, dynamics, and structures. The economy and the polity. Power elites and democracy. Social bases of political behavior and participation. Sociopolitical movements.
SOC 375 - Urban Sociology
Social theories and research on urban development, organization, and change. Urban social life. Sociological aspects of urban planning and redevelopment.
SOC 452 - Advanced Seminar in Environmental Sociology
Environmental conditions and social organization. Social relations and connection to resource use, pollution, energy, and risks. Growth and limits to growth. Environmental attitudes, actions, movements, and regulation.