All courses for the major must be taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

Students are responsible for meeting all departmental pre-requisite courses.

Anthropology

ANTH 101. Foundations of Social Complexity

ANTH 102. Humans are Cultural Animals

ANTH 103. Sociocultural Anthropology

Students may also choose any four-unit, upper-division, non-language course from the following categories:

Anthropology: Archaeology (ANAR)

Anthropology: Sociocultural (ANSC)

Chinese Studies

CHIN 182A. Intro to Classical Chinese-Advanced I*

CHIN 185A. Readings in Chinese Culture and Society*

CHIN 185B. Readings in Chinese Culture and Society*

Communication

COMM 104G. Comparative Media Systems: Latin America and the Caribbean

COMM 106G. Cultural Industries: Tourism: Global Industry and Cultural Form

COMM 112G. Interaction and Mediation: Language and Globalization

COMM 114E. Communication and Social Institutions: Gender, Labor, and Culture in the Global Economy

COMM 131. Communication, Dissent, and the Formation of Social Movements

COMM 138. Black Women, Feminism, and Media

COMM 140. Cinema in Latin America

COMM 158. Representations of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

COMM 160. Political Economy and International Communication

COMM 177. Culture, Domination and Resistance

Economics:

ECON 101. International Trade

ECON 102. Globalization

ECON 103. International Monetary Relations

ECON 116. Economic Development

ECON 117. Economic Growth

ECON 125. Demographic Analysis and Forecasting

ECON 129. Cities, Inequality, Innovation*

ECON 130. Public Policy*

ECON 131. Economics of the Environment

ECON 132. Energy Economics

ECON 138. Economics of Discrimination*

ECON 140. Economics of Health Producers*

ECON 144. Economics of Conservation

ECON 145. Economics of Ocean Resources

ECON 161. Global Integration of Latin America

ECON 164. The Indian Economy

ECON 165. Middle East Economics

ECON 168. Economics of Modern Israel*

Ethnic Studies:

ETHN 163E. Decolonial Theory*

Global Health:

GLBH 101. Aging: Culture and Health in Late Life Human Development*

GLBH 102. Global Health Epidemiology*

GLBH 103. Global Health Disparities*

GLBH 105. Global Health and Inequality

GLBH 106. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Global Health*

GLBH 107. Refugee Health*

GLBH 111. Health Frontiers in Tijuana*

GLBH 113. Women’s Health in Global Perspective

GLBH 114. Latin American Health & Healing*

GLBH 147. Global Health and the Environment

GLBH 148. Global Health and Cultural Diversity 

GLBH 150. Culture and Mental Health

GLBH 181. Essentials of Global Health*

History:

Any four-unit, upper-division, non-language course from the following categories:

History of Africa (HIAF)

History of Europe (HIEU)

History of East Asia (HIEA)

History of the Near East (HINE)

History of Latin America (HILA)

History of Science (HISC)

History Topics (HITO), except HITO 194–199

HIGL 114. History of Modern Vietnam*

HIGL 127. Sport in the Modern World*

Latin American Studies

LATI 140. Decolonial Thought and Practice in Latin America*

LATI 150. Digital Oral History*

LATI 170. Social Science Research in Latin America*

LATI 180. Special Topics in Latin American Studies

Linguistics:

LIGN 105. Law and Language

LIGN 108. Languages of Africa

LIGN 143. Structure of Spanish

LIGN 150. Historical Linguistics

LIGN 152. Indigenous Languages of the Americas

LIGN 155. Evolution of Language

LIGN 174. Gender and Language in Society

LIGN 175. Sociolinguistics

LIGN 176. Language of Politics and Advertising

LIGN 177. Multilingualism

LIGN 178. Spanish Sociolinguistics

Literature:

Literatures in English (LTEN)

LTEN 142. British Novel: 1830-1890*

LTEN 144. British Novel: 1890-present*

LTEN 189. Twentieth-Century Postcolonial Literatures

Literatures of the World (LTWL)

LTWL 140. Novel and History in the Third World

LTWL 150. Modernity and Literature

LTWL 157. Iranian Film

LTWL 160. Women and Literature* (Rotating topic – by Petition)

Literatures of the Americas (LTAM)

LTAM 110. Latin American Literature in Translation

LTAM 111. Comparative Caribbean Discourse

LTAM 130. Reading North by South

Literature/Cultural Studies (LTCS)

LTCS 130. Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Culture* (Rotating topic – by Petition)

LTCS 131. Topics in Queer Cultures/Queer Subcultures* (Rotating topic – by Petition)

LTCS 133. Globalization and Culture

LTCS 134. Culture and Revolution

LTCS 141. Special Topics in Race and Empire

LTCS 165. Spec Topics: Politics of Food* (Rotating topic – by Petition)

Students may also choose any four-unit, upper-division, non-language course from the following categories:

African Literatures (LTAF)

Literatures in Chinese (LTCH)

East Asian Literatures (LTEA)

European and Eurasian Literature (LTEU)

Literatures in French (LTFR)

Greek Literature (LTGK)

Literatures in German (LTGM)

Literatures in Italian (LTIT)

Korean Literature (LTKO)

Latin Literature (LTLA)

Russian Literature (LTRU) with exception of LTRU 104 A, B, C

Literatures in Spanish (LTSP) with exception of LTSP 151, 154, 160, 162, 166

Music:

MUS 111. Topics/World Music Traditions (ONLY when not on the US)  *student must submit petition and syllabus to ISP Advisors

Philosophy:

PHIL 100. Plato

PHIL 101. Aristotle

PHIL 102. Hellenistic Philosophy

PHIL 107. Hegel

PHIL 110. History of Philosophy: Ancient (Plato, Aristotle)

PHIL 111. History of Philosophy: Early Modern (Descartes, Locke, Hume)

PHIL 112. History of Philosophy: Late Modern (Kant, Hegel)

PHIL 120. Symbolic Logic I

PHIL 122.  Advanced Topics in Logic

PHIL 123.  Philosophy of Logic

PHIL 132. Epistemology*

PHIL 134. Philosophy of Language

PHIL 136. Philosophy of Mind*

PHIL 137. Moral Psychology*

PHIL 138. Responsibility*

PHIL 139. Global Justice

PHIL 148. Philosophy and the Environment

PHIL 155. Mexican Philosophy - DEI Course!

PHIL 156. Latinx Philosophy (Formerly Topics in Asian Philosophy) - DEI Course!

PHIL 158. Topics in Chinese Philosophy*

PHIL 160.  Ethical Theory

PHIL 161. Topics in the History of Ethics (Confucius, Aristotle, Mill)

PHIL 162. Contemporary Moral Issues

PHIL 163.  Biomedical Ethics

PHIL 164.  Technology and Human Values

PHIL 165.  Freedom, Equality, and the Law - DEI Course!

PHIL 166. Classics in Political Philosophy (Plato, Marx, Arendt)

PHIL 167. Contemporary Political Philosophy

PHIL 169. Feminism and Philosophy*

PHIL 170. Philosophy and Race - DEI Course!

PHIL 173.  Topics in Bioethics

PHIL 180. Phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty)

Political Science:

POLI 113BR. Chinese and Japanese Political Thought I*

POLI 114BR. Marxist Political Thought*

Comparative Politics:

POLI 120 – POLI 138D*

International Relations

POLI 140A – POLI 154ª

*POLI 120A and POLI 136 will not be accepted prior to Fall 2022.
ªPOLI 142K will not be accepted prior to Fall 2022. 

Sociology:

SOCI 106M. Holocaust Diaries

SOCI 121. Economy and Society

SOCI 123. Japanese Culture Inside/Out: A Transnational Perspective

SOCI 125. Sociology of Immigration

SOCI 133. Immigration in Comparative Perspective

SOCI 134. The Making of Modern Medicine

SOCI 136E. Sociology of Mental Illness: A Historical Approach

SOCI 136F. Sociology of Mental Illness in Contemporary Society

SOCI 148. Political Sociology

SOCI 152. Social Inequality and Public Policy

SOCI 156. Sociology of Religion

SOCI 157. Religion in Contemporary Society

SOCI 158. Islam in the Modern World

SOCI 163. Migration and the Law

SOCI 169. Citizenship, Community, and Culture

SOCI 175. Nationality and Citizenship

SOCI 176. Transnational Japan Research

SOCI 177. International Terrorism

SOCI 178. The Holocaust

SOCI 179. Social Change

SOCI 180. Social Movements and Social Protest

SOCI 181. Modern Western Society

SOCI 182. Ethnicity and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

SOCI 185. Globalization and Social Development

SOCI 187. African Societies through Films

SOCI 188D. Latin America: Society and Politics

SOCI 188E. Community and Social Change in Africa

SOCI 188F. Modern Jewish Societies and Israeli Society

SOCI 188G. Chinese Society

SOCI 188I. The Israeli-Palestinan Conflict

SOCI 188J. Change in Modern South Africa

SOCI 188M. Social Movements in Latin America

SOCI 188O. Settlements and Peacemaking in Israel

SOCI 189. Special Topics in Comparative-Historical Sociology (must be preapproved by program adviser)

Urban Studies and Planning:

USP 171. Sustainable Development*

USP 173. History of Urban Planning and Design

USP 176. International Planning and Development: U.S.-Mexico Border*

USP 189. Special Topics: High-Tech Innovation and the Society: Learning from the Israeli Case

Visual Arts:

VIS 102. Democratizing the City

VIS 103A. Contemporary Arts in South Korea

VIS 103B. Architecture and Urbanism of Korea

VIS 103C. Silk Roads: A Critical Study*

VIS 105D. Art Forms and of Chinese Calligraphy

VIS 105E. Chinese Calligraphy as Installation*

VIS 117I. Western and Non-Western Rituals and Ceremonies

VIS 120A. Greek Art

VIS 120B. Roman Art

VIS 121AN. Art Experience in Middle Ages*

VIS 121B. Church and Mosque: Medieval Art and Architecture between Christianity and Islam

VIS 121C. Art & Bible in Middle Ages*

VIS 121H. Medieval Multiculturalism

VIS122AN. Renaissance Art

VIS 122B. Baroque*

VIS 122CN. Leonardo da Vinci in Context

VIS 122D. Michelangelo

VIS123AN. Between Spirit and Flesh

VIS 124D. Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century

VIS 124E. The Production of Nature*

VIS 125E. Faces and Powers*

VIS 126AN. Pre-Columbian Art of the Ancient Mexico and Central America

VIS 126BN. Art and Civilization of the Ancient Maya

VIS 126C. Problems in Meso-American Art History

VIS 126D. Problems in Ancient Maya Iconography and Inscriptions

VIS 126J. African and Afro-American Art

VIS 126K. Oceanic Art

VIS 126P. Latin American Art: Modern to Postmodern 1890–1950

VIS 126Q. Latin American Art: Modern to Postmodern 1950–Present

VIS 127B. Arts of China

VIS 127C. Arts of Modern China

VIS 127D. Early Chinese Painting

VIS 127E. Later Chinese Painting

VIS 127F. Japanese Buddhist Art

VIS 127I. Architecture and Urbanism of Korea

VIS 127N. Twentieth-Century Art in China and Japan

VIS 127P. Arts of Japan

VIS 127Q. Japanese Painting and Prints

VIS 128D. Topics in Art History of the Americas

VIS 128E. Topics in Art History of Asia

VIS 129D. Seminar in Art History of the Americas*

VIS 152. Film in the Social Context (when International in content)

VIS 156. Latino American Cinema