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Undergraduate Education
Diversity Course List
AHIS 250m | Modernity and Difference: Critical Approaches to Modern Art (4) |
AHIS 304m | Italian Renaissance Art: Old Masters and Old Mistresses (4) |
AHIS 363m | Race, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art (4) |
AHIS 364m | Myths, Arts, Realities: Visual Culture in California, 1849 to the Present (4) |
AHIS 365m | African American Art (4) |
AHIS 475m | Blackness in American Visual Culture (4) |
AMST 101gm | Race and Class in Los Angeles (4) |
AMST 135gm | Peoples and Cultures of the Americas (4) |
AMST 200m | Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity (4) |
AMST 202m | Interethnic Diversity in the West (4) |
AMST 206m | The Politics and Culture of the 1960s (4) |
AMST 220m | The Making of Asian America (4) |
AMST 274gm | Exploring Ethnicity Through Film (4) |
AMST 285m | African American Popular Culture (4) |
AMST 357m | Latino Social Movements (4) |
This course is available for Diversity credit beginning fall 2008.
AMST 377m | Legacies of Viet Nam (4) |
AMST 378m | Introduction to Asian American History (4) |
AMST 395m | African American Humor and Culture (4) |
AMST 448m | Chicano and Latino Literature (4) |
AMST 449m | Asian-American Literature (4) |
AMST 466m | The Psychology of African Americans (4) |
ANTH 240gm | Collective Identity and Political Violence: Representing 9/11 (4) |
ANTH 316gm | North American Indians in American Public Life (4) |
ANTH 328m | Culture Change and the Mexican People (4) |
ANTH 371m | Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs (4) |
ARCH 440m | Literature and the Urban Experience (4) |
ARCH 442m | Women's Spaces in History: "Hussies," "Harems" and "Housewives" (4) |
BUCO 333m | Communication in the Working World -- Managing Diversity and Conflict (4) |
CLAS 320gm | Diversity and the Classical Western Tradition (4) |
COLT 374gm | Women Writers in Europe and America (4) |
The title of this course will change to Europe and the Writing of Others beginning fall 2008.
COLT 445m | Eurocentrism (4) |
This course will be available for Diversity credit beginning fall 2007.
COMM 324m | Intercultural Communication (4) |
COMM 383m | Sports, Communication and Culture (4) |
COMM 395m | Gender, Media and Communication (4) |
COMM 458m | Race and Ethnicity in Entertainment and the Arts (4) |
COMM 465m | Gender in Media Industries and Products (4) |
CTCS 192m | Race, Class and Gender in American Film (4) |
EALC 335m | Literature of the Korean People (4) |
These courses are available for Diversity credit beginning spring 2008.
EASC 160gm | China and the World (4) |
EDCO 102xm | Human Diversity: People, Power and Politics (4) |
EDCO 324m | Asian American Psychology (4) |
ENGL 444m | Native American Literature (4) |
ENGL 445m | The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (4) |
ENGL 447m | African-American Narrative (4) |
ENGL 474m | Literature, Nationality and Otherness (4) |
ENGL 476m | Images of Women in Contemporary Culture (4) |
ENGL 478m | Sexual/Textual Diversity (4) |
FBE 428m | Principles of Employment Law (4) |
FREN 370m | Equality and Difference Around the Enlighten- ment (4) |
GEOG 100gm | Los Angeles and the American Dream (4) |
GEOG 215gm | Ethnicity and Place (4) |
GEOG 340m | Latino L.A. (4) |
GEOG 350m | Race and Environmentalism (4) |
GERO 380m | Diversity in Aging (4) |
GERO 435m | Women and Aging: Psychological, Social and Political Implications (4) |
HIST 200gm | The American Experience (4) |
HIST 245gm | Gender and Sexualities in American History (4) |
HP 400m | Culture, Lifestyle, and Health (4) |
HP 420m | Gender and Minority Health Issues (4) |
JOUR 466m | People of Color and the News Media (4) |
JOUR 468m | The American Press and Issues of Sexual Diversity (4) |
MDA 166gm | Poverty and Welfare in America (4) |
MDA 167gm | Marginal Groups in America (4) |
This course is available for Diversity credit beginning fall 2007.
MOR 385m | Business in a Diverse Society (4) |
MUJZ 100xm | Jazz: A History of America's Music (4) |
MUJZ 419m | The Jazz Experience: Myths and Culture (4) |
MUSC 400m | The Broadway Musical: Reflection of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences (4) |
MUSC 430m | Music and the Holocaust (4) |
MUSC 450m | The Music of Black Americans (4) |
This course is available for Diversity credit beginning spring 2008.
PHIL 137gm | Social Ethics for Earthlings and Others (4) |
POSC 333m | Stigma and Society: Physical Disability in America (4) |
POSC 424m | Political Participation and American Diversity (4) |
POSC 441m | Cultural Diversity and the Law (4) |
POSC 442m | The Politics of Human Differences: Diversity and Discrimination (4) |
PPD 100m | Los Angeles, The Enduring Pueblo (4) |
PPD 250m | Third World Cities (4) |
PPD 260m | Planning, Diversity and Space (4) |
PPD 300m | Design and Quality (4) |
PPD 302m | Urban Sleuths: Exploring People and Places in Cities (4) |
PPD 352am | Los Angeles Mini Semester (4) |
PPD 372m | Public Service in an Urban Setting (4) |
PPD 485m | U.S. Immigration Policy (4) |
PSYC 462m | Minority Mental Health (4) |
REL 145m | Religion in Los Angeles (4) |
This course will be available for Diversity credit beginning fall 2007.
REL 336m | Re-Viewing Religion in Asian America (4) |
SOCI 142gm | Diversity and Racial Conflict (4) |
SOCI 150gm | Social Problems (4) |
SOCI 169gm | Changing Family Forms (4) |
SOCI 200m | Introduction to Sociology (4) |
SOCI 305m | Sociology of Childhood (4) |
SOCI 342m | Race Relations (4) |
SOCI 355m | Immigrants in the United States (4) |
SOCI 356m | Mexican Immigrants in a Diverse Society (4) |
SOCI 360m | Social Inequality: Class, Status, and Power (4) |
SOCI 366m | Chicana and Latina Experiences (4) |
SOCI 375m | Asian Americans: Ethnic Identity (4) |
SOCI 376m | Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities (4) |
SOCI 432m | Racial and Ethnic Relations in a Global Society (4) |
SOCI 435m | Women in Society (4) |
SOCI 437m | Sexuality and Society (4) |
SOWK 200xm | Institutional Inequality in American Political and Social Policy (4) |
SPAN 413m | Social and Geographic Varieties of Spanish (4) |
SWMS 210gm | Social Issues in Gender (4) |
SWMS 301m | Introduction to Feminist Theory and the Women's and Men's Movements (4) |
SWMS 364m | Racial and Ethnic Women in America (4) |
SWMS 384m | Overcoming Prejudice (4) |
SWMS 385m | Men and Masculinity (4) |
SWMS 455m | Gender and Sport (4) |
THTR 393m | Cultural Identities in Performance (4) |
THTR 395m | Drama as Human Relations (4) |
THTR 476m | African American Theatre (4) |
THTR 488m | Theatre in the Community (4) |