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GISES Approved List of Electives

 

Classes not on this list may be taken with pre-approval from your faculty advisor or the GISES director.

Sociology

SOCY 116 Communication and Mass Media
SOCY 131 Culture, Economy & Power
SOCY 163 Global Corporations and National States
SOCY 166 Economics for Non-Economists
SOCY 168 Social Justice
SOCY 173 Water
SOCY 179 Nature, Poverty and Progress
SOCY 177G Global Cities
SOCY 185 Environmental Inequality
SOCY 186 Globalization, Information and Social Change

Politics

POLI 120C State and Capitalism in American Political Development
POLI 124 Politics, Poverty and Inequality in America
POLI 126 The Politics of Social Policy in the USA
POLI 129 Policies and Politics of American Defense
POLI 140D The Politics of East Asia
POLI 156 Asian Women in Politics
POLI 160A International Politics
POLI 160B Global Organization
POLI 173 International Law
POLI 174 Global Environmental Politics
POLI 176 International Political Economy
POLI 190J Politics and Inequality
POLI 196 Political Economy of Welfare States

Anthropology

ANTH 120 Culture in Film
ANTH130 G Asian Americans in Ethnography and Film
ANTH 150 Communicating Anthropology
ANTH 131 Photography and Anthropology

Community Studies

CMMU 180 Video Production of the Social Documentary
CMMU 180L Video Lab

Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 100 A Politics and Society: Concepts and Methods
LALS 126A Global Capitalism and Community Restructuring
LALS 126B Voices from the Watsonville Community
LALS 140 Rural Mexico in Crisis
LALS 142A Central America: Revolution, Intervention and Social Change
LALS 143 J. Global Political Economy
LALS 169 Latin American Industrialization in a Global Perspective
LALS 165 Political Economy of Crisis and Transition in LA
LALS 173 Latin American Immigration to the US
LALS 175 Migration, Gender and Health

Environmental Studies

ENVS 115 A Geographical Information Systems and Environmental Applications
ENVS 115L Exercises in Geographical Information Systems
ENVS 130A Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture
ENVS 130L Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory
ENVS 141 Natural Resource Economics
ENVS 143 Sustainable Development: Economy, Policy and the Environment

Economics

ECON 107 Economic Justice
ECON 120 Economic Development
ECON 139A The Economics of Electronic Commerce
ECON 139B E-Commerce Strategy
ECON 180 Labor Economics
ECON 183 Women in the Economy