Anthropology (ANLD) 1, 2, 3

ANLD 1-Cultural Anthropology-Introduction
An introduction to the anthropological approach to understanding human behavior, with an examination of data from a selection of societies and cultures.

ANLD 2-Human Origins: Human Evolution
An introduction to human evolution from the perspective of physical anthropology, including evolutionary theory and the evolution of the primates, hominids, and modern man. Emphasis is placed on evidence from fossil remains and behavioral studies of living primates.

ANLD 3-Human Origins: World Prehistory
This course examines theories and methods used by archaeologists to investigate the origin of human culture.

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Critical Gender Studies (CGS)2A, 2B, 100
(formerly Women's Studies)

CGS 2A: Introduction to Women's Studies: Feminist Theories and Methods
This course surveys varieties of feminist critiques and examines them as emerging from distinct historical and cultural conditions. It analyzes intersections of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and colonialism. Texts include case studies, ethnographies, literary and historiographic narratives and documents.

CGS 2B: Introduction to Women's Studies: Contests and Controversies in Feminist Analysis
Students analyze topics (varying yearly) relevant to current feminist debate, possibly including pornography, abortion, occupational segregation, the feminization of poverty, women and the media, and women and social movements. Particular attention is given to the construction of gender identity within individual academic disciplines.

CGS 100: Feminism in a Global Frame: Politics, Positions, Practices
An interdisciplinary course, focusing on non-western feminism and the historical, cultural, economic, and colonial struggles that shape and are shaped by them. Possible topics include comparative international feminism, women,m resistance, and revolution, gender and colonialism, the constructions of sexuality and gender in the context o global movements and migrations (of people, capital, and culture).

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Economics (ECON) 1, 2, 3
Introductory Economics

Economics is the study of how individuals, organizations, and societies deal with scarcity-the problem that available resources are not sufficient to satisfy everyone's wants.

ECON 1, 2, 3: Elements of Economics
Basic methods of economic analysis and their application to public policy and current events. Courses must be taken in 1-2-3 order.

ECON 1 concerns microeconomics: supply and demand, markets, income distribution, perfect and imperfect competition, the role of government.

ECON 2 concerns standard tools of economic analysis: mathematical foundations of marginal analysis, basis of graphical, algebraic and statistical modeling, policy analysis, discounting, and strategic interaction.

ECON 3 concerns macroeconomics: unemployment, inflation, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy.

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Ethnic Studies (ETHN)1A-B-C
Ethnic Studies is the study of the social, cultural, and historical forces that have shaped the development of America's diverse ethnic peoples over the last five hundred years and which continue to shape our future.

ETHN 1A: Population Histories of the U.S.
This course examines the comparative historical demography of what is today the United States, focusing on the arrival, growth, distribution, and redistribution of immigrants from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

ETHN 1B: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life
A history of immigration to the United States from colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the roles of ethnic and racial groups in economics, power relations between dominant and subordinate groups, and contemporary ethnic and racial consciousness.

ETHN 1C: Race and Ethnic Realities in the U.S.
This course explores the theoretical literature on race and ethnicity, focusing on issues of domination and subordination and the historical emergence of racism and ethnic conflict. Attention is given to class and gender differences within racial and ethnic groups.

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Linguistics (LIGN) 3, 4, 7, 8 (choose three)

LIGN 3: Language as a Social and Cultural Phenomenon
Introduction to the study of language: language variation, change, and loss, multilingualism, pidginization, and creolization; language planning, standardization, and prescriptivisim; writing systems; the role of language in thought, myth, ritual, advertising, politics and the law.

LIGN 4: Language as a Cognitive System
Introduction to the study of language: differences between animal communication, sign systems, and human language; origins and evolution of language; neural basis of language; language acquisition in children and adults; fundamental issues in language and cognition.

LIGN 7: Sign Language and Its Culture
Deaf history since the eighteenth century. The structure of American Sign Language and comparison with oral languages, ASL poetry and narrative and Deaf people's system of cultural knowledge. Basic questions concerning the nature of language and its relation to culture.

LIGN 8: Languages and Cultures in America
The linguistic and cultural diversity of the United States in historical and comparative perspective. The languages surveyed in the course include: English (standard and nonstandard); African-American Vernacular English; pidgins and Creoles (Gullah, Louisiana French, Mitchif, etc.); Native American languages; Spanish and Spanish-English continuum, with particular emphasis on Southern California; immigrant languages from Asia, Africa, and Europe; sign languages. The main topics surrounding these languages are as follows: the linguistic history of North America; language and ethnicity; the politics of linguistic pluralism vs. societal monolingualism, and the "English Only" movement; language and education; language loss, renewal, and preservation; code-switching, perscriptivism, and social uses of language; comparison with other multilingual societies.

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Political Science (POLI)10,11,12, 13 (choose three)

POLI 10: An Introduction to American Politics
This course surveys the processes and institutions of American politics. Among the topics discussed are individual political attitudes and values, political participation, voting, parties, interest groups, Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, the federal bureaucracy and domestic and foreign policy-making.

POLI 11: Introduction to Comparative Politics
The underlying purpose of this course is to identify and to explain differences in political life among a set of diverse states. Attention will be focused on the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the CIS, and India. Although these countries differ on a number of dimensions, special attention is paid to differences on three dimensions: (1) the basis of authority and the concentration of power, (2) the incorporation of national minorities; and (3) the nature of foreign economic policy.

POLI 12: Introduction to International Relations
This course explores alternative explanations about various central features of international relations: the explanation of war and peace, the ways in which the likelihood of war has been mitigated, the nuclear arms race, economic interdependence, and north-south relations. The course will mix theoretical and historical analyses which concentrate on the internal structure of states and the international system within which they interact.

POLI 13: Power and Justice
An exploration of the relationship between power and justice in modern society. Materials include classic and contemporary texts, films and literature.

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Psychology (PSYC) 1, 2,3,4 (choose three)
Biological, Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology This sequence will provide a general overview of the field, with emphasis on empirical and scientific rather than clinical issues.

PSYC 1

PSYC 2: Biological Foundations
One way to understand the origins of behavior and experience is to identify their physiological substrates. This course will consider the functions of the sensory systems (with emphasis on the visual system) and the brain from both neuropsychological and behavioral standpoints. Topics included are cerebral localization of function; hormones, drugs, and behavior; the control of eating and drinking; the physiological basis of memory; and visual and auditory perception.

PSYC 3: Cognitive Foundations
The goal of this course is to give students an initial understanding of the perspectives and factual basis of cognitive psychology, including cognitive development, and cognitive science in general. Emphasis will be given to aquatinting the student with the experimental, observational, and theoretical methods of science applied to human cognition. The course also deals with the empirical data base and fund of theoretical ideas developed by cognitive scientists.

PSYC 4: General Psychology: Behavioral Foundations
This course will provide a general introduction to the methods and principles of behavioral psychology. Topics covered include instincts, classical and operant conditioning, principles of learning and motivation. Emphasis will be on the laboratory study of these applications to real-world situations.

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Sociology (SOCL) 1A-B, and 20
American Society
Sociology studies the life of human groups: their composition, organization, culture, and development. It combines scientific and humanistic perspectives and methods to investigate a subject matter that is both broad and relevant.

SOCL 1A: The Study of Society
This course is an introduction to the major ideas, concepts, and methods in the study of societies, social structure, and culture; the construction and acquisition of social roles and organizations; major institutions and processes of change. The first quarter will focus on classical approaches to the study of societies.

SOCL 1B: The Study of Society
This course is an introduction to the major ideas, concepts, and methods in the study of societies, with an emphasis on modern approaches in sociological theory and analysis.

SOCL 20: Social Change in the Modern World
A survey of the major economic, political, and social forces that have shaped the contemporary world, this course will provide an introduction to theories of social change as well as prepare the student for upper-division work in comparative-historical sociology. Topics may include origins and growth of the world economic system, the formation of the nation-state and political modernization, industrialization and urbanization and their social consequences, the population explosion and the demographic transition, modern revolutions and nationalism, and prospects of social change in rich and poor nations.

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Urban Studies and Planning (USP) 1, 2, 3
The sequence provides students with a variety of perspectives for understanding the development, growth, and cultures of cities and the communities within them.

USP 1: History of U.S. Urban Communities
This course charts the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they hve played in shaping the diverse communities of America's cities.

USP 2: Urban World System
Examines the contemporary division of labor among cities and the effects of the creation of a world system on social groups, classes, and individuals.

USP 3: The City and Social Theory
An introduction to the sociological study of cities, focusing on urban society in the United States, including ethnic communities.

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