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GE-C, Social Analysis

 

At a time of rapid social, economic, and cultural transformation, both in the United States and globally, the insights of social analysis take on critical significance. The social sciences seek to explain the causes and consequences of a wide range of complex phenomena, including how individual and collective human action shapes and is shaped by economic organizations, political institutions, and social and cultural settings broadly understood. These phenomena include the role of gender, sexuality, race, class and other aspects of identity across time and settings in the United States and the world. Courses in this area will introduce students to analytical approaches and methods of social sciences, quantitative and/or qualitative, and how these insights can be brought to bear to better understand our social world. The following courses have been approved to satisfy the GE-C, Social Analysis.  This list also notes any additional GE requirements the course may satisfy.

updated: 12/4/2023

Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation

  • ACAD 181g, Disruptive Innovation
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

American Studies and Ethnicity

  • AMST 101mgw, Race and Class in Los Angeles
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 135mgw, Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 140gw, Borderlands in a Global Context
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 200mg, Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 204g, Introduction to Native Studies
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 211g, Sex in America
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 215gw, Race and Mixed Race
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 220gmw, The Making of Asian America
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 230g, Introduction to African American Studies
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 250mgw, The African Diaspora
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 252mgw, Black Social Movements in the U.S.
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AMST 285mg, African American Popular Culture
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Anthropology

  • ANTH 101g, Body, Mind and Healing: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 140g, Mesoamerican Cosmovision and Culture
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 201g, Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 202g, Archaeology: Our Human Past
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 205g, Introduction to Global Studies and Cross-cultural Research
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 220g, Anthropology of the Environment
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement
    effective Fall 2023

    ANTH 235g, The Changing Pacific: History, Culture, Politics
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 250g, Race and Sexual Politics in Southeast Asia
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 263g, Exploring Culture Through Film
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 273g, Shamans, Spirits and Ancestors: Non-Western Religious Traditions
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement
    effective Fall 2023

    ANTH 301g, The Global Performance of Healing
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 314g, The Nature of Maya Civilization
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 315gw, Native North Americans
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 316mgp, Native Americans in American Public Life
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 324gw, Contemporary China: Cultural Politics and Social Realities
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 332g, Anthropology and Narrative Medicine
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 333gm, Forms of Folklore
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 338g, Food in Culture and Society
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 344g, Social Memory
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 357g, Cultures of Genocide, Cultures of Care
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 371mg, Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ANTH 377g, Archaeological Interpretation of Complex Societies
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Classics

  • CLAS 190g, History of Science:  Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    CLAS 349gp, Ancient Empires
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

East Asian Studies Center

  • EASC 150gp, East Asian Societies
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    EASC 160mgp, China and the World
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Environmental Studies

  • ENST 100g, Introduction to Environmental Studies
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ENST 150xg, Environmental Issues in Society
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • SWMS 105g, Identity Development of the Contemporary Female
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SWMS 106g, Identity Development of the Contemporary Male
    Effective Summer 2023, SWMS 106 is no longer offered.

    SWMS 210mgw, Social Analysis of Gender
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

General Education Seminars

GE Seminars are limited to freshmen.

  • GESM 130g, Seminar in Social Analysis
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    GESM 131g, Seminar in Social Analysis
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Gerontology

  • GERO 320g, Psychology of Adult Development
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

    GERO 353g, Social and Behavioral Foundations of Health and Aging
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies

  • HP 365mgw, Culture, Lifestyle, and Health
    also satisfies GE-G
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

History

  • HIST 101gp, State and Society in the Ancient World
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 110g, History of Early Africa
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 111g, African History Since 1880
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 211gp, Race in America
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 225g, Film, Power, and American History
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 237gp, Fascism
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 250g, Climate Change: Science, History and Solutions
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 251gp, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 265gw, Racism, Sexism, and the Law
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 266gp, Business and East Asian Culture, 1800-Present
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    HIST 268g, Kings, Courts, and Clerics: Foundations of East Asian Political Culture
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

International Relations

  • IR 101xgw, International Relations
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    IR 210gw, International Relations: Introductory Analysis
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors. 

Judaic Studies

  • JS 180gp, Judaism
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    JS 211gw, The Holocaust
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    JS 328gw, Blacks and Jews: Conflicts and Alliances
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    JS 379mg, Mixing and Matching: Intermarriage in 21st Century
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    JS 382g, Judaism as an American Religion
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Linguistics

  • LING 115gw, Language and Society
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Management and Organization

  • MOR 385mg, Business, Government and Society
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors. 

Middle East Studies

  • MDES 213gp, Iran: From Antiquity to Modernity
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    MDES 301g, The Global Middle East
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    MDES 340g, The United States and the Middle East
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement
    effective Spring 2024

    MDES 342g, Arab Intellectuals in Question
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    MDES 355g, Arab-Israeli Conflict
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Policy, Planning and Development

  • PPD 240g, Citizenship and Public Ethics
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors. 

    PPD 245g, The Urban Context
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors. 

Political Science

  • POSC 100g, Theory and Practice of American Democracy
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    POSC 110g, Ideology and Political Conflict
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    POSC 130g, Law, Politics and Public Policy
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    POSC 220g, Critical Issues in American Politics: Presidential Election in Real Time
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    POSC 248gw, Human Rights
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    POSC 265gw, Environmental Challenges
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Psychology

  • PSYC 353g, Close Relationships
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    PSYC 367g, Stress, Health, and the Mind-Body Connection
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

Religion

  • REL 303g, Exploring Ancient Ways of Living: Experimental Archaeology
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    REL 376g, Religion and Human Rights
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Sociology

  • SOCI 100mgw, Los Angeles and the American Dream
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 142mg, Diversity and Racial Conflict
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 150mg, Social Problems
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 155mg, Immigrant America
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 169mg, Changing Family Forms

    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 200mg, Introduction to Sociology
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 210g, Science, Technology, and Social Conflict
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 215g, Sociology of Wall Street
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 220mg, Questions of Intimacy
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 225gw, Sociology of Health and the Body
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 235g, Migration, Law and Society
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 242g, Sociology, Demography and Health
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement
    This course is restricted to juniors and seniors.

    SOCI 250mgw, Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 255g, Sociology of Globalization
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SOCI 270g, Sociological Theory
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Spatial Sciences

  • SSCI 165Lgw, Sustainability Science in the City
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SSCI 175gw, Food, Health and Place
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    SSCI 214g, Human Populations and Natural Hazards
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Thematic Option

  • CORE 104gw, Change and the Future: Thematic Option Honors Program
    also satisfies GE-G
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for students in Thematic Option.