| SOC C D 204 - Freedom and Social Control | |
| Explores definitions, concepts and theories used to explain and understand central features of social power. Themes include the struggle for social justice, the history of punishment in Western society, and the legal and extralegal management and disciplining of individuals and groups. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 241 - Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies | |
| Interdisciplinary introduction to the study of gender, the influence of gender on social institutions and structures, and an examination of women's lives across the globe historically and today. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 1 Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 250 - Introduction to Global Studies | |
| Interdisciplinary introduction to basic global natural and social cycles, patterns, trends, and their interactions in past, present, and future perspectives. | |
| P: Anthro 100 or Econ 202 or 203 or Geog 102 or Ur Re St 100 or 102 or History 100 or Hum Dev 210 or Pol Sci 100 or 101 or Psych 102 or Soc C D 241 or Sociol 202. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 General Education: World Culture Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 251 - Sustainable Development | |
| Explores contradictions and possibilities resulting from incompatibilities of social and economic goals and systems with global and regional ecosystem, human and physical constraints. Case studies will include global, industrial, regional and third world issues. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 General Education: World Culture Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 275 - The Vietnam War in Historical Perspective | |
| The conflicts and upheavals in Indochina from World War II to the present, especially the Vietnam War and the role of the United States in Indochina, its effects and Indochinese context of revolution and change. | |
| P: none; REC: so st. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 302 - Portfolio in Social Change and Development | |
| Develop individual portfolio in Social Change and Development related to academic, vocational, and citizenship activities and interest. | |
| P: major/minor in Soc C D. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable to 2 credits. | |
| 1 units min / 1 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 303 - Criminal Justice Process | |
| A study of the components, relations, and processes of U.S. criminal justice. The criminal justice system is theoretically linked to larger social arrangements, including class and race-ethnic stratification. Ethical problems, such as group disparities in arrest and sentencing, are given special attention. | |
| P: Pol Sci 101 and Sociol 202. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 320 - Constitutional Law | |
| The course emphasizes the history of constitutional law in the United States through an analysis of leading Supreme Court cases that deal with government authority as well as citizen rights and civil liberties. Special attention is given to the political and historical context of major cases and the implications for public policy. | |
| P: Pol Sci 101. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 325 - Law and Society | |
| Explores how the courts can either promote or inhibit progressive social, political, and economic changes in contemporary American society. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on how to use theory to better understand the relationship between law and society. | |
| P: History 206 or Pol Sci 100 or 101 or Sociol 202. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 333 - Social Change in a Selected Area | |
| Processes and strategies of social change and development in a selected nation or set of nations. Course may be repeated for credit with different area. | |
| P: Anthro 100 or Sociol 202; and History 100, and Eng Comp 105. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable for credit. | |
| General Education: World Culture Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 340 - Women, Work and Family | |
| Explores contemporary women's work and the historical and structural factors that shape women's current working lives; analyzes such issues as women's double shift, global economy, differential wage scales, child care, and job segregation; strategies for change. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Spring Odd | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 345 - Women, Race and Culture | |
| The changing position of women in selected preindustrial, developing and industrial societies and the cultural, social, political and economic institutions which shape women's lives worldwide. | |
| P: Soc C D 241 or Anthro 100 or Sociol 202 or History 100. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 General Education: World Culture Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 348 - Gender and the Law | |
| The changing legal status of women in relationship to other social forces; major historical landmarks in the development of women's legal rights and current status of such areas as property rights, family law and employment opportunity; legal tools in the struggle for equality. | |
| P: so st. | |
| Typically offered in Fall Even | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 349 - American Political Thought | |
| The history and development of American political thought, with attention to the thinkers and themes influential to controversies, ideologies, and institutions in American politics. | |
| P: Pol Sci 101 | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 351 - Global Governance and Citizenship | |
| The course examines the interaction between global governing bodies and diverse communities of citizens in response to globalization. The course raises awareness about how globalization affects the responsibilities of democratic citizenship and the material and ethical aspects of human rights and social justice. | |
| P: Pol Sci 353 or 360 or Soc C D 360 or 361 or History 358. | |
| Typically offered in Spring Odd | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 360 - Models and Social Change | |
| The value-oriented problems of defining social change; use and construction of models as analytical tools in the study of social change. | |
| P: Anthro 100 or Econ 202 or 203 or Pol Sci 100 or Sociol 202; and Eng Comp 105 or 228. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 361 - Historical Perspectives on Social Change | |
| Examination of historical thinking in scholarly work and public life and study of the making of modern American freedom, equality and democracy, past and present. | |
| P: Eng Comp 105 or 228; REC: Anthro 100 or Sociol 202; and History 100 or Hum Stud 202. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 362 - Power and Change in America | |
| Study of the dynamic relations between political economy and social structure and the formation and impact of social movements, politics and ideologies in modern America. | |
| P: Pol Sci 101 or Sociol 202. | |
| Typically offered in Spring Odd | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 375 - Women, Politics and Social Change | |
| Differing strategies women use to affect politics and social change, the assumptions and consequences of these strategies; women's efforts to resist social change; contemporary and historical examinations of women's involvement in political issues and political structures. | |
| P: cse in women's studies. | |
| Typically offered in Spring Odd | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 437 - Feminist Theory | |
| This course is an introduction to feminist theories from a variety of disciplinary perspectives; we will examine the development of feminist theories, their practice and contrasting viewpoints. | |
| P: Soc C D 241. | |
| Typically offered in Spring Even | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 461 - Social and Political Criticism | |
| Operating as a seminar, we examine the role of the American social critic and the practice of social criticism on the political left, right and center. Then, operating as a writing workshop, we compose pieces of political, social and cultural criticism for possible publication. | |
| P: Soc C D 360 or 361 or Sociol 302 or 307. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 470 - Senior Seminar in Social Change and Development | |
| Rigorous analysis of an important social change issue or of the work of an important social change theorist. | |
| P: Soc C D 360 and 361; and Eng Comp 105 or 228. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable to 6 credits. | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| SOC C D 497 - Internship | |
| Supervised practical experience in an organization or activity appropriate to a student's career and educational interests. Internships are supervised by faculty members and require periodic student/faculty meetings. | |
| P: jr st. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable for credit. | |
| 1 units min / 12 units max, Field Experience | |
| SOC C D 498 - Independent Study | |
| Independent study is offered on an individual basis at the student's request and consists of a program of learning activities planned in consultation with a faculty member. A student wishing to study or conduct research in an area not represented in available scheduled courses should develop a preliminary proposal and seek the sponsorship of a faculty member. The student's advisor can direct him or her to instructors with appropriate interests. A written report or equivalent is required for evaluation, and a short title describing the program must be sent early inthe semester to the registrar for entry on the student's transcript. | |
| P: fr or so st with cum gpa > or = 2.50; or jr or sr st with cum gpa > or = 2.00. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable for credit. | |
| 1 units min / 4 units max, Independent Study | |