Apr 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

International Studies

General Education Foundation must be completed prior to taking any upper division course except upper-division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study.

  
  • I/ST 317 - Problems in International Social Conflict


    (3 units)

    Interdisciplinary analysis of social conflict in the world. Topics may include ethnocentrism; nationalism; globalization; trade; aid; economic development; poverty; inequality; the environment; war; ideological, ethnic, gender, and religious conflict; democratization; social movements; new forms of civil society and social solidarity.

    Letter grade only (A-F). Same course as SOC 317 . Not open for credit to students with credit in SOC 317.

Religious Studies

General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper-division course except upper-division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study.

  
  • R/ST 317 - Jewish Mysticism


    (3 units)

    Explores some major trends and themes of the Jewish mystical and esoteric tradition. Included are various forms of Kabalah and Hasidism, meditation and mysticism; explanations of and responses to evil; the nature of God and the relationship between human beings and the divine being; gender dynamics, and the power of ritual.

    Both grading options.

Sociology

  
  • SOC 317 - Problems in International Social Conflict


    (3 units)

    Interdisciplinary analysis of social conflict in the world. Topics may include ethnocentrism; nationalism; globalization; trade; aid; economic development; poverty; inequality; the environment; war; ideological, ethnic, gender, and religious conflict; democratization; social movements; new forms of civil society and social solidarity.

    Letter grade only (A-F). Same course as I/ST 317 . Not open for credit to students with credit in I/ST 317.