AREA B: Social Science, Arts and Humanities

You must take three courses in the area of Social Science, Arts and Humanities. At least one course must be from Social Science and one course must be from Arts and Humanities.

Social Science, Arts and Humanities Co-Curricular Experiences

UC Center in Sacramento: Completion POLI 195 or POLI 196E
UC Merced Washington Program (UCDC): Completion of UCDC 19X: Elective

Social Science Courses

ANTH 001: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH 003: Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology
ANTH 005: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 100: History of Anthropological Thought and Practice
ANTH 110: Migration, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging
ANTH 111: The Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 112: Political Anthropology
ANTH 113: Urban Anthropology
ANTH 114: Social Memory
ANTH 116: Indigenous Activism in the Americas
ANTH 117: The Anthropology of Citizenship
ANTH 120: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
ANTH 121: Ethnomedicine
ANTH 122: Anthropological Perspectives on Religion and Healing
ANTH 124: Ethnopsychology
ANTH 126: Anthropological Approaches to Gender
ANTH 130: Material Culture
ANTH 134: Dynamics of Small-scale Societies
ANTH 140: Cultural Heritage Policy and Practice
ANTH 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology
ANTH 142: Archaeology of Colonialism
ANTH 144: Archaeology of Religion
ANTH 146: Topics in Small-Scale Societies
ANTH 148: Topics in Complex Societies
ANTH 150: Race and Human Variation
ANTH 151: Human Adaptability
ANTH 152: Dying, Death, and Dead Persons
ANTH 155: Paleodemography
ANTH 160: Human Origins
ANTH 162: Growth, Development, and Human Evolution
ANTH 170: Ethnographic Methods
ANTH 172: Ethnohistory
ANTH 174: Lithic Artifact Analysis
ANTH 179: Bioarchaeology
CCST 113: Latino and Immigrant Health
COGS 001: Introduction to Cognitive Science
COGS 005: Introduction to Language and Linguistics
COGS 101: Mind, Brain, and Computation
COGS 103: Introduction to Neural Networks in Cognitive Science
COGS 104: Complex Adaptive Systems
COGS 110: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
COGS 122: Agent-Based Modeling
COGS 149: Music, Language, and Cognition
COGS 159: Metaphor and Thought
COGS 160: Free Will in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
COGS 161: Experimental Philosophy
COGS 170: Judgment and Decision Making
COGS 177: Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
COGS 182: Service Science
CRES 100: Theories in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
CRES 110: Interdisciplinary Methods in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
CRES 121: Critical Refugee Studies
CRES 150: Asians in the Americas
ECON 010: Statistical Inference
ECON 100: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECON 101: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
ECON 108: Marketing and Consumer Behavior
ECON 110: Econometrics
ECON 111: American Economic History
ECON 115: Economics of Industrial Organization
ECON 116: Organizational Strategy
ECON 140: Labor Economics
ECON 145: Health Economics
ECON 147: Introduction to Economic Growth
ECON 151: The Economics of Government and Business
ECON 153: Judgment and Decision Making
ECON 156: Urban and Regional Economics
ECON 164: Economics of Emerging Markets
ECON 172: Experimental Economics
GASP 070A: Music of the Pacific World
GASP 070B: Music of the Atlantic World
GASP 070C: Music of the Caribbean World
GASP 103T: Music, Language, and Cognition
GASP 164A: Advanced Topics in Film and Video
GASP 173A: Theory and Method of Ethnomusicology
HIST 181: Historical Geography of North America
MATH 160: Mathematical Logic
MGMT 118: Women in Executive Leadership
MGMT 122: Teams and Organizations
MGMT 124: Organizational Behavior and Leadership
MGMT 135: Business Law
MGMT 150: Service Science
MGMT 153: Judgment and Decision Making
MGMT 164: Operations Management
MIST 050: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
MIST 131: Data Governance for Analytics Projects
MIST 134: Methods of Data and Network Science
MIST 136: Retailing Management
MIST 137: Managing Teamwork
PH 001: Introduction to Public Health
PH 005: Global and International Public Health
PH 100: Introduction to Epidemiology
PH 102: Health Promotion
PH 103: Health Communication
PH 105: Introduction to US Health Care System
PH 111: Social Epidemiology
PH 113: Latino and Immigrant Health
PHIL 102: Epistemology
PHIL 110: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
PHIL 160: Mathematical Logic
PHIL 171: Free Will in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
PHIL 172: Experimental Philosophy
PHIL 173: Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
POLI 001: Introduction to American Politics
POLI 002: Controversies in American Politics
POLI 003: Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 005: Introduction to International Relations
POLI 006: Global Issues
POLI 009: Community Mobilization and Politics
POLI 010: Understanding Political Controversies
POLI 100: Congressional Politics
POLI 101: The Presidency
POLI 102: Judicial Politics
POLI 105: Interest Groups and Political Parties
POLI 106: Urban Politics
POLI 107: California Politics
POLI 108: Direct Democracy
POLI 110: Governmental Power and the Constitution
POLI 111: Liberty, Equality and the Constitution
POLI 120: Voting Behavior, Campaigns, and Elections
POLI 123: Political Psychology
POLI 125: Public Opinion
POLI 127: Race, Gender, and Politics
POLI 130: Institutions of Democracy
POLI 135: Political Behavior Around the World
POLI 140: Transitions to Democracy
POLI 142: Contemporary Chinese Politics
POLI 145: Political Violence
POLI 150: Causes of International Conflict
POLI 153: Judgment and Decision Making
POLI 155: International Political Economy
POLI 158: Politics of Human Rights
POLI 160: US Foreign Policy
POLI 165: International Organizations & Regimes
POLI 170: Theoretical Models of Politics
POLI 171: Politics and Film
POLI 172: Games and Human Behavior
POLI 175: Advanced Analysis of Political Data
PSY 001: Introduction to Psychology
PSY 010: Analysis of Psychological Data
PSY 015: Research Methods in Psychology
PSY 105: Advanced Research Methods in Psychology
PSY 120: Health Psychology
PSY 123: Alcohol, Drugs, and Behavior
PSY 124: Health Disparities
PSY 125: Cognition, Affect, and Health
PSY 130: Developmental Psychology
PSY 133: Neurodevelopmental Cognitive, Language and Learning Disorders
PSY 134: Adolescent Development
PSY 136: Cognitive Development
PSY 138: Development of the Social Mind
PSY 140: Clinical Psychology
PSY 142: Abnormal Psychology
PSY 143: Abnormal Child Psychology
PSY 145: Human Sexuality
PSY 151: The Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice
PSY 152: Psychological Perspectives on Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Diversity
PSY 155: Emotion
PSY 156: Social Psychology
PSY 158: Positive Psychology
PSY 159: Personality Psychology
PSY 161: Perceptual Psychology
PSY 162: Psychology of Visual Perception
PSY 170: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
PSY 171: Psychological Tests and Measurement
PSY 180: Physiological Psychology
PSY 181: Clinical Neuropsychology
PSY 182: Evolutionary Psychology
PSY 183: Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics
SOC 001: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 009: Community Mobilization and Politics
SOC 010: Statistics for Sociology
SOC 015: Sociological Research Methods
SOC 020: Social Problems
SOC 030: Social Inequality
SOC 035: Introduction to Political Sociology
SOC 060: Introduction to Sociology of Gender
SOC 070: Introduction to Crime and Deviance
SOC 107: Law and Society
SOC 108: Advanced Topics in Criminology
SOC 110: Social Movements, Protest and Collective Action
SOC 111: Environmental Sociology
SOC 115: Political Sociology
SOC 116: Inequality & Public Policy
SOC 118: Hate Crime
SOC 120: Sociology of Culture
SOC 130: Social Stratification
SOC 131: Urban Inequality
SOC 132: Sociology of Education
SOC 134: Sports and Society
SOC 135: Sociology of Work
SOC 136: Globalization
SOC 140: Organizational Behavior
SOC 145: Sociology of Health
SOC 150: Self and Society
SOC 155: Sociology of the Family
SOC 160: Gender and Society
SOC 161: Sociology of Sexuality
SOC 170: Qualitative Research Methods
SOC 175: Topics in Advanced Sociological Research Methods
SOC 180: Advanced Issues in Race and Ethnicity
SOC 181: Chicanos in U.S. Society
SPAN 050: Introduction to Hispanic Literatures
SPAN 144: Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
SPAN 145: Novel of the Latin American Dictator
SPAN 146: Latin American Film and Fiction
SPAN 147: Latin American Boom
SPAN 148: The Narrative World of Mario Vargas Llosa
SPAN 150: Asians in the Americas
WH 140: Cultural Heritage Policy and Practice
WH 160: Methods in Digital Heritage
WH 181: Historical Geography of North America
WH 183: The Cultural Landscape
WH 185: Ethnic Geography
WRI 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology

Arts and Humanities Courses

ANTH 110: Migration, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging
ANTH 111: The Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 112: Political Anthropology
ANTH 113: Urban Anthropology
ANTH 114: Social Memory
ANTH 116: Indigenous Activism in the Americas
ANTH 117: The Anthropology of Citizenship
ANTH 120: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
ANTH 121: Ethnomedicine
ANTH 122: Anthropological Perspectives on Religion and Healing
ANTH 124: Ethnopsychology
ANTH 126: Anthropological Approaches to Gender
ANTH 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology
ANTH 142: Archaeology of Colonialism
CCST 060: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences
CHN 003: Intermediate Chinese I
CHN 004: Intermediate Chinese II
COGS 005: Introduction to Language and Linguistics
COGS 149: Music, Language, and Cognition
COGS 159: Metaphor and Thought
COGS 161: Experimental Philosophy
CRES 001: Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
CRES 100: Theories in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
CRES 101: Race and the Media
CRES 110: Interdisciplinary Methods in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
CRES 120: Race, Law and Civil Rights
CRES 121: Critical Refugee Studies
CRES 150: Asians in the Americas
ENG 010: Foundations of Literary Studies
ENG 018: Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture
ENG 020: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG 021: Jane Austen and Popular Culture
ENG 030: Literature of Childhood
ENG 032: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences
ENG 033: Literature and Sexuality
ENG 056: Introduction to World Drama
ENG 057: Introduction to Poetry
ENG 062: Literature and Gender
ENG 066: Literary Romance
ENG 067: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables
ENG 090: Topics in Literature
ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice
ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660
ENG 102: Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830
ENG 103: British and American Literature, 1830-1940
ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present
ENG 107: “The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long Eighteenth Century
ENG 109: Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
ENG 113: U.S. Latino/a Literature
ENG 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film
ENG 115: Chicano/a Literature
ENG 116: Literature and History of the 1960s
ENG 151: Advanced Shakespeare
ENG 153: Robert Louis Stevenson
ENG 156: Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity
ENG 185: Reading from the Margin
ENG 190: Senior Thesis
ENG 194H: Honors Thesis
ENGR 040: History of Technology in Society I
ENGR 041: History of Technology in Society II
FRE 003: Intermediate French I
FRE 004: Intermediate French II
FRE 103: French Composition and Conversation
GASP 006: Global Art History
GASP 010: Drawing I
GASP 011: Painting I
GASP 012A: Sculpture I
GASP 013A: Design I
GASP 014: Photography I
GASP 015A: Multimedia I
GASP 020: Video I
GASP 030A: Latin Music Ensemble
GASP 030B: South Asian Music Ensemble
GASP 030C: Swing Band
GASP 030D: Nordic Music Ensemble
GASP 031A: Latin Dance Ensemble
GASP 031B: South Asian Dance Ensemble
GASP 031C: Swing Dance Ensemble
GASP 031D: Nordic Dance Ensemble
GASP 034A: Songwriting
GASP 036A: Making Electronic Music
GASP 041A: Performative Storytelling
GASP 055B: Arts of the Islamic World
GASP 055C: History of European Art and Architecture
GASP 056: Contemporary Art
GASP 057: History and Practice of Photography
GASP 059: Topics in Visual Culture
GASP 060: Introduction to Film Analysis
GASP 060A: Anime and Animation
GASP 064A: Topics in Film and Video
GASP 065A: Bollywood
GASP 066A: The American Musical
GASP 070A: Music of the Pacific World
GASP 070B: Music of the Atlantic World
GASP 070C: Music of the Caribbean World
GASP 072A: Popular Musics
GASP 075A: Meaning in Music
GASP 075B: Love Songs
GASP 076A: Social Dance
GASP 079A: Topics in Music
GASP 079B: Topics in Dance
GASP 089A: Topics in Theater
GASP 103S: Advanced Shakespeare
GASP 103T: Music, Language, and Cognition
GASP 109: Image and Sound
GASP 110: Drawing II: Figure
GASP 112A: Sculpture II
GASP 114A: Photography II
GASP 115A: Multimedia II
GASP 120: Video II
GASP 130A: Advanced Latin Music Ensemble
GASP 130B: Advanced South Asian Music Ensemble
GASP 130C: Advanced Swing Band
GASP 130D: Advanced Nordic Music Ensemble
GASP 131A: Advanced Latin Dance Ensemble
GASP 131B: Advanced South Asian Dance Ensemble
GASP 131C: Advanced Swing Dance Ensemble
GASP 131D: Advanced Nordic Dance Ensemble
GASP 144A: Art for Social Change
GASP 156A: Visual Arts of the 20th Century
GASP 156B: South Asia After Europe: Visual Cultures of Colonialism & Post-colonialism
GASP 156D: History of Ancient Roman Art and Architecture
GASP 156E: History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
GASP 157: Critical Photography
GASP 158B: Women, Gender, and Art in Islamic Cultures
GASP 159: Topics in Visual Culture
GASP 160: Film Theory and Criticism
GASP 171: Museums as Contested Sites
GASP 172: Curatorial Methods and Practices
GASP 172A: Critical Popular Music Studies
GASP 172B: Global Popular Music
GASP 173A: Theory and Method of Ethnomusicology
GASP 174A: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
GASP 179A: Advanced Topics in Music
GASP 179B: Advanced Topics in Dance
GASP 189A: Advanced Topics in Theater
GASP 190: Theories of Expressive Culture
GASP 191: Senior Thesis
HIST 008: Topics in World History
HIST 010: Introduction to World History to 1500
HIST 011: Introduction to World History Since 1500
HIST 016: Forging of the United States, 1607-1877
HIST 017: Twentieth-Century America
HIST 025: Introduction to Environmental History
HIST 027: History of Food
HIST 030A: Medieval Europe
HIST 030B: Early Modern Europe
HIST 031: Modern European History
HIST 039: Topics in U.S. History
HIST 040: History of Technology in Society I
HIST 041: History of Technology in Society II
HIST 042: The Body in Health and Disease - An Introduction to the History of Medicine
HIST 055: Arts of the Islamic World
HIST 060: The Silk Road
HIST 070: History of the Middle East to 1500
HIST 071: History of the Middle East since 1500
HIST 080: History of China Through the Mongol Conquest
HIST 081: History of China Since the Mongol Conquest
HIST 100: The Historian’s Craft
HIST 106: Topics in the History of Women and Gender
HIST 107: Topics in Urban History
HIST 108: Topics in World History
HIST 109: Topics in the History of Science and Technology
HIST 110: Environmental History of the World
HIST 111: The Legacy of Genghis Khan
HIST 113: History of the Gunpowder Empires
HIST 115: Topics in African History
HIST 116: History of Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
HIST 117R: Topics in Regional or State History: Research
HIST 120: Essence of Decision: Case Studies in History
HIST 123: Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the United States
HIST 124A: African American History to 1877
HIST 124B: African American History 1877 to Present
HIST 128: The United States and the Vietnam War
HIST 130: The Cold War, 1941-1991
HIST 132: Intelligence and National Security, 1945-2000
HIST 133: Topics in Nineteenth Century U.S. History
HIST 135: Literature and History of the 1960s
HIST 137: Gender, Race, and Slavery in American History
HIST 138: Topics in Visual Culture
HIST 139: Topics in United States History
HIST 141: The African Diaspora
HIST 142: Topics in Latin American History
HIST 143: West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World
HIST 156B: South Asia After Europe: Visual Cultures of Colonialism & Post-colonialism
HIST 158: Topics in Middle Eastern History
HIST 158R: Topics in Middle Eastern History: Research
HIST 159: History of Iran
HIST 165A: China in the Ancient World
HIST 165B: From Tang to Song: China in the Medieval World
HIST 165C: Late Imperial China
HIST 165D: China in the Modern World
HIST 169: History and Heritage of Tibet
HIST 170: Law and Society in Early Modern England
HIST 170R: Law and Society in Early Modern England: Research
HIST 171: Modern European Intellectual History
HIST 172: Europe and the Early Modern Atlantic World
HIST 173: History of Ancient Roman Art and Architecture
HIST 174: History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
HIST 179: Topics in European History
HIST 180: The Silk Road
HIST 181: Historical Geography of North America
HIST 187R: White Supremacy and White Violence in the US: Research
HIST 191: History Capstone Seminar
JPN 003: Intermediate Japanese I
JPN 004: Intermediate Japanese II
JPN 103: Advanced Japanese I
JPN 104: Advanced Japanese II
PHIL 001: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 002: Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 003: Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL 004: Critical Reasoning
PHIL 009: Phenomenology and Existentialism
PHIL 101: Metaphysics
PHIL 102: Epistemology
PHIL 104: Ethical Theory
PHIL 105: Philosophy of Language
PHIL 106: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 107: Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 108: Political Philosophy
PHIL 109: Philosophy of Law
PHIL 130: Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 131: Topics in Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 134: Modern Philosophy
PHIL 150: Topics in Phenomenology
PHIL 157: Philosophy of Love and Friendship
PHIL 170: Philosophy, Politics and Economics
PHIL 172: Experimental Philosophy
PSY 162: Psychology of Visual Perception
SPAN 003: Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 004: Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 010: Spanish for Heritage Speakers I
SPAN 011: Spanish for Heritage Speakers II
SPAN 050: Introduction to Hispanic Literatures
SPAN 060: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences
SPAN 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice
SPAN 103: Spanish Composition and Conversation
SPAN 105: Hispanic Cultures I
SPAN 106: Hispanic Cultures II
SPAN 107: Spanish for Health Professionals
SPAN 108: Spanish for Business and Management
SPAN 111: Empire, The Postcolonial, and Representation: Reading East & West
SPAN 112: Chicano/a Literature Written in Spanish
SPAN 113: U.S. Latino/a Literature
SPAN 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film
SPAN 115: Chicano/a Literature
SPAN 122: Spanish (Peninsular) 18-19 Centuries
SPAN 123: Spanish (Peninsular) 20-21 Centuries
SPAN 130: The Transatlantic Baroque
SPAN 131: Transatlantic Modernismo
SPAN 140: Latin American Colonial Literature
SPAN 143: Latin American Literature since Independence
SPAN 144: Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
SPAN 145: Novel of the Latin American Dictator
SPAN 146: Latin American Film and Fiction
SPAN 147: Latin American Boom
SPAN 148: The Narrative World of Mario Vargas Llosa
SPAN 150: Asians in the Americas
SPAN 153: Bilingualism and Borders in Hispanic Literatures
SPAN 154: Hispanic Drama and Performing
SPAN 170: Spanish Linguistics
SPAN 172: History of the Spanish Language
SPAN 173: Erotic Novel and Film
SPAN 175: Spanish in the U.S.
SPAN 177: Sociolinguistics and Latino Health
SPAN 180: Topics in Hispanic Languages and Cultures
SPAN 181: Topics in Literature and Culture
WH 169: History and Heritage of Tibet
WH 181: Historical Geography of North America
WH 185: Ethnic Geography
WRI 025: Introduction to Creative Writing
WRI 030: Introduction to Professional Writing
WRI 040: Humanities Writing
WRI 100: Advanced Writing
WRI 104: Personal Style and Formal Writing
WRI 105: Grammar and Style
WRI 112: Writing in the Arts
WRI 117: Writing for the Social Sciences and Humanities
WRI 125A: Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry
WRI 125B: Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
WRI 125C: Topics in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
WRI 125D: Topics in Creative Writing: Drama
WRI 130: Topics in Professional Writing
WRI 131A: Journal Production: Technical Writing and Editing
WRI 131B: Journal Production: Vernal Pool
WRI 131C: Journal Production: Undergraduate Research Journal (URJ)
WRI 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology

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AREA B: Social Science, Arts and Humanities

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