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Anthropology

• 102 Activist Anthropology
• 103 Human-Wildlife Interactions 
• 104 Risk & Inequality 
• 109 Human Universals 
• 111 The Anthropology of Food
• 113 Indigenous People and the Nation State in the Americas
• 115 Language, Culture, and Place 
• 116B Anthropological Approaches to Religion 
• 117 Borders and Borderlands 
• 121 Human Evolution 
• 123MG Data Analysis for the Social Sciences with R
• 124 Anthropological Political Economy
• 129MG Behavioral Ecology of Hunter Gatherers 
• 130 International Development and Population Health 
• 131 North American Indians 
• 131CA California Indigenous Peoples 
• 133 Cultural Development in Mesoamerica 
• 134 Cultural Anthropology of Latin America    
• 135 Cultural Anthropology of Mexico 
• 138 Anthropology of Environmental Health
• 139 Indigeneity and Sovereignty 
• 141 Agriculture and Society in Mexico: Past and Present 
• 142 Cultural Anthropology of South Asia
• 145 Anthropological Demography and Life History
• 146 Anthropology of Development
• 147 Water and Society
• 148 Ecological Anthropology
• 152 Environmental Anthropology
• 155 Prehistory of California and the Great Basin
• 156 The Anthropology of Africa
• 157AAZZ Ethnographic Field Methods
• 162 Prehistoric Food Production 
• 164 The Origins of Complex Societies 
• 167 People of the Ice Age 
• 172 Colonialism and Power
• 174 Amazonia
• 184 Settlement Pattern Analysis in Archaeology
• 188 The Seacoast in Prehistory

Asian American Studies

• 130 Colonialism and Migration

Black Studies

• 100 Africa and United States Policy 
• 124 Housing, Inheritance, and Race 
• 128 The Black Experience in Southern California 
• 129 Black Cities: Spatial Politics of Violence, Power and Resistance 
• 154 Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

Chemistry and Biochemistry

• 123 Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry

Chicana and Chicano Studies

• 118 The Scientific Revolution and Non-Western Epistemologies
• 141 Central Americans in the United States 
• 144 The Chicano Community (same as SOC 144) 
• 189 Immigration and the U.S. Border

Communication

• 102 Understanding Mass Communication Theory 
• 109 Language and Social Identity 
• 114 Media Effects on Society and Institutions 
• 128 Language and Intergroup Communication 
• 131 Organizational Communication: A Global Perspective 
• 136 Collaborative Technologies and the Dynamics of Organization 
• 137 Global Communication, International Relations and the Media 
• 147 Immigration and Communication 
• 148 Risk Communication 
• 150 Group Communication in Multiple Contexts 
• 153 Communication and Global Advocacy Networks 
• 160DS Data Science in Communication
• 163 Diffusion of Innovations 
• 169 Social Networks

Comparative Literature

• 107 Voyages to the Unknown (Same as FR 154A)
• 153 Border Narratives

Computer Science

• 111 Introduction to Computational Science 
• 165A Artificial Intelligence 
• 174A Fundamentals of Database Systems 
• 174B Design and Implementation Techniques of Database Systems 
• 174N Introduction to Databases 
• 180 Computer Graphics 
• 185 Human-Computer Interaction

Earth Science

• 100 Introduction to Geophysics 
• 103 Fundamentals of Structural Geology 
• 104A Field Studies in Geological Methods 
• 104B Field Methods 
• 105 Earth’s Climate: Past and Present 
• 106 Introduction to Climate Modeling 
• 107 Climate Change: Lessons from the Past
• 108 Clastic Depositional Environments 
• 109 Geology of California 
• 113 Engineering and Environmental Geology 
• 114 Geomaterials 
• 117 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 
• 118 Summer Field Geology 
• 119 Field Investigations in Geology 
• 122 Sedimentation and Stratigraphy: Processes and Products 
• 124G Geochronology 
• 124I Biogeochemistry of Stable and Cosmogenic Isotopes 
• 124IG Introduction to Geochemistry 
• 125 Field Methods in Hydrology 
• 126 Chemical Thermodynamics for Geoscientists 
• 127 Field Petrology
• 130 Global Warming - Science and Society
• 131 Geophysical Time-Series Analysis 
• 133 Plate tectonics and mantle dynamics 
• 134 Introduction to Geological and Geophysical Data Analysis 
• 135 Principles of Geophysics 
• 136 Geophysics (Seismology) 
• 143 The Early Evolution of Life and its Environmental Context 
• 157 Plate Tectonics 
• 158 Advanced Structural Geology 
• 159 Origin of the Earth 
• 161 Earth Resources, Energy and the Environment
• 163 Organic Matters
• 164B Earth System Ocean-Atmosphere 
• 164C Earth System History 
• 168 Aqueous Transport of Pollutants (same as ENV S 168) 
• 169 Tracer and Contaminant Hydrology (same as ENV S 169) 
• 176 Geological Applications of GIS 
• 182A Field Studies in Marine Bio/Geochemistry 
• 183 Advanced Field Mapping and Geologic Investigations 
• 185 Physical Volcanology 
• 186 Cordilleran Tectonics

Cross-listed Earth Science (Geological Sciences)

• 137 Quantitative Geomorphology (same as GEOG 137)
• 173 Groundwater Hydrology (same as GEOG 116)

Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

• 103A Flora and Vegetation of California 
• 103B Vegetation and Flora of California 
• 119 Ecology and Management of California Wildlands (same as ENV S 119) 
• 120 Introduction to Ecology 
• 120AL-BL Field and Laboratory Studies in Ecology 
• 127 Plant Biology and Biodiversity 
• 127L Plant Biology and Biodiversity Laboratory 
• 128 Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration (same as ENV S 128) 
• 133 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology (same as ENV S 133) 
• 140 General Plant Ecology 
• 140L General Plant Ecology Lab 
• 142A Aquatic Communities 
• 142AL Methods of Aquatic Community Ecology 
• 142B Environmental Processes in Oceans and Lakes 
• 142BL Chemical and Physical Methods of Aquatic Environments 
• 142C Environmental Processes in Oceans and Lakes 
• 148 Ecology of Running Waters 
• 152 Applied Marine Ecology (same as ENV S 152) 
• 153 Ecology of Lakes and Wetlands 
• 155CC Global Change Biology
• 158 Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
• 159 Tropical Ecology 
• 166 Field Approaches to Terrestrial Plant and Ecosystem Ecology 
• 167 Applied Freshwater Ecology 
• 168 Conservation Ecology 
• 170 Biology of the Marine-Land Interface 
• 171 Ecosystem Processes (same as ENV S 171) 
• 172 Theoretical Population Ecology
• 179 Ecological Modeling 
• 185 Field Work in Oceanography

Economics

• 114A Economic Development 
• 114B Economic Development 
• 115 Environmental Economics (same as ENV S 175)
• 120 Urban and Regional Economics 
• 122 Natural Resources Economics 
• 127 Climate Change 
• 180 International Trade 
• 181 International Finance 
• 184 Decisions Under Uncertainty

Environmental Studies

• 101 Ecosystems Services and Biodiversity
• 102 Qualitative Methods for Environmental Studies
• 103A Flora and Vegetation of California 
• 105 Renewable Energy Systems
• 108O History of the Oceans (same as HIST 108O) 
• 108W People and Wildlife 
•  112 World Population, Policies, and the Environment 
• 115 Energy and the Environment 
• 116 Sustainable Communities 
• 117 Transition to a Low Carbon Society 
• 118 Industrial Ecology: Designing for the Environment 
• 119 Ecology and Management of California Wildlands (same as EEMB 119) 
• 120A Introduction to Environmental Toxicology 
• 120B Advanced Environmental Toxicology 
• 122CC Cultural Representations - The Rhetoric of Climate Change 
• 122LE Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment (same as ENGL 122LE)
• 122NE Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment (same as ENGL 122NE) 
• 125A Principles of Environmental Law 
• 125B Climate Change Law and Policy 
• 128 Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration (same as EEMB 128) 
• 129 Ecopsychology 
• 130A Un-naturalizing Disasters: Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience 
• 130B Global Tourism and Environmental Conservation 
• 130C Aquatic Food & Resource Management 
• 130SD The World in 2050: Systemic Alternatives
• 131 International Environmental Law and Politics 
• 132 Human Behavior and Global Environment 
• 133 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology 
• 134 Coastal Processes and Management 
• 134EC Earth in Crisis
• 135A Principles of Environmental Planning 
• 135B Advanced Environmental Planning 
• 137 Conservation Planning
• 141 Chemistry of Global Change 
• 145 Climate Change Mitigation Strategies
• 147 Air Quality and the Environment 
• 148 Transforming Food Systems
• 150 Agroecology
• 151 Environmental Anthropology 
• 152 Applied Marine Ecology (same as EEMB 152) 
• 154 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Environmental Applications 
• 155 The Built World: Infrastructure and Environmental Change 
• 160 American Environmental Literature 
• 163A Global Water Resources Water Supply and Demand
• 163B Global Water Resources Water Management and Policy
• 165A Environmental Impact Analysis 
• 165B Advanced Environmental Impact Analysis 
• 168 Aqueous Transport of Pollutants (same as EARTH 168) 
• 169 Tracer and Contaminant Hydrology (same as EARTH 169) 
• 171 Ecosystem Processes (same as EEMB 171) 
• 172 Waste Management: Product Stewardship, Recycling, and Renewable Energy
• 173 American Environmental History (same as HIST 173T) 
• 174 Environmental Policy and Economics 
• 175 Environmental Economics (same as ECON 115) 
• 176A Water Policy in the West: Linking Science with Environmental and Economic Values 
• 176B Advanced Study of Water Policy 
• 178 Politics of the Environment (same as POL S 175) 
• 179 Natural Resource Economics 
• 180 Global Environmental Movements 
• 182 Seminar in Community and Personal Resilience
• 184 Gender and the Environment 
• 186 Development, Displacement, and Environmental Justice
• 187 Green Building Design & Operations
• 188 Ethics in the Anthropocene 
• 189 Religion and Ecology in the Americas (same as RG ST 193) 
• 193CB Consumer Behavior and the Environment
• 193DS Statistics for Environmental Science 
• 193EB Ethnobotany and Economic Botany: Human Uses of Plant
• 193FE Fire in Western USA Ecosystems
• 193PL America’s Public Lands and Waters - Law and Policy
• 193ST Sea Turtle Conservation Science and Management
• 193TK Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Honoring All Our Relations 
• 193TW Introduction to Transboundary Water Sharing

Cross-listed Environmental Studies

• 111 The California Channel Islands (same as GEOG 149) 
• 114A Principles of Soil Science (same as GEOG 114A) 
• 114B Soils of California: Formation, Morphology, and Management (same as GEOG 114B) 
• 144 Form, Process, and Human Use of Rivers (same as GEOG 144) 
• 149 World Agriculture, Food, and Population (same as GEOG 161) 
• 162 Environmental Water Quality (same as GEOG 162) 
• 167 Biogeography: The Study of Plant and Animal Distributions (same as GEOG 167)

French and Italian

• 154A Voyages to the Unknown (same as C LIT 107)

Global Studies

• 102 Global Religion (same as RG ST 108) 
• 104 Global Diasporas and Cultural Change 
• 110 Global Culture and Ethics 
• 112 Global Refugee Migration
• 120 Global Ideologies and World Order 
• 123 Introduction to International Political Economy (same as POL S 186) 
• 124 Peace, Conflict, and Violence in Global Perspective (same as SOC 138G) 
• 125 Politics of Development
• 130 Global Economy and Development 
• 136 Global Economic Imbalances 
• 138 Global Health 
• 140 Global Racial Justice
• 155 Ethnographies of Globalization 
• 157 Global Media 
• 159 Globalization and Culture 
• 161 Global Environmental Policy and Politics 
• 163 Global Cultures from 17th C to Present 
• 165 Colonialism, Neocolonialism and Globalization 
• 171 Global Environmental Law & Policy 
• 172 International Organizations and Global Governance 
• 173 Energy in Global Societies 
• 174 Global Perspectives on Environment and Society 
• 175 Technology, Inequality, and Globalization
• 180A Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development (same as SOC 156A)

History

• 108O History of the Oceans (same as ENV S 108O) 
• 117A Towns, Trade, and Urban Culture in the Middle Ages 
• 117E Society and Nature in the Middle Ages 
• 124C Sex, Gender and Settler Colonialism
• 136CA Central American Migration to Mexico and the United States 
• 136M History of U.S.-Mexican Relations 
• 141C The British Empire: Past and Present
• 144B Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico Border 
• 144C Chicanas and Latinas in U.S. History
• 144F A History of the U.S.-Mexico Border Through Film
• 147D History of Development in Africa 
• 148AU African Urban History: From the Ancient City State to the Contemporary Metropolis 
• 149AD Blackness in Latin America, An Introduction (same as LAIS 149AD)
• 149IA Islam in Africa
• 150CL Colonialism and Language
• 151G Latin America and Globalization 
• 164IA American Immigration 
• 171C The United States and the World, 1898-1945 
• 171D The United States and the World Since 1945 
• 171ME The United States and the Middle East Since 1900 
• 173T American Environmental History (same as ENV S 173) 
• 176A-B The American West
• 178A American Urban History 
• 193F Food in World History

History of Art and Architecture

• 105O The Global Middle Ages: Visual and Cultural Encounters in the Medieval Mediterranean 
• 130F Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica
• 130G Art and Architecture of the North Coast of Peru
• 132A Mediterranean Cities 
• 136C Architecture of the United States 
• 136E Food Space 
• 136H Housing American Cultures 
• 136I The City in History 
• 136J Landscape of Colonialism 
• 136O Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics 
• 136R Architecture of the Americas 
• 136T Building California: Architecture and the Creation of California’s Environment 
• 136W Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture 
• 136X Culture of Architecture: Perception and Analysis of the Built Environment 
• 148C Art in California

Linguistics

• 115 Introduction to Historical Comparative Linguistics 
• 117 Regional Dialects and Varieties of English Around the World 
• 122 History of the English Language 
• 180 Language, Race and Ethnicity 
• 181 Languages of the World

Mathematics

• 102A-B Modern Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry 
• 104A Introduction into Numerical Analysis 
• 104B Numerical Analysis 
• 104C Advanced topics in Numerical Analysis 
• 108A–B Introduction to Linear Algebra 
• 113 Non-Euclidean Geometry 
• 116 Combinatorial Analysis 
• 132A Optimization
• 132B Operations Research 
• 137A Graph and Network Theory 
• 137B Spectral Graph Theory
• 145 Introduction to Topology

Mechanical Engineering

• 152A Fluid Mechanics

Physics

• 120 Physics of California: Waves, Weather, Quakes and Fires

Political Science

• 121 International Politics 
• 124 International Organizations 
• 134 Relations Between the United States and Mexico 
• 137 Politics of Economic Development 
• 146 Globalization and Politics 
• 162 Urban Government and Politics 
• 166 US Immigration Politics and Policy 
• 175 Politics of the Environment (same as ENV S 178) 
• 177 Comparative Environmental Politics 
• 186 Introduction to International Political Economy (same as GLOBL 123)

Psychological and Brain Sciences

• 108 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Religious Studies

• 108 Global Religion (same as GL ST 102) 
• 128C The Sacred Geography of the Ancient Mediterranean World 
• 140B Religion, Politics and Society in the Persian Gulf Region 
• 150B Religion and Tourism in Modern America 
• 156EE Environmental Ethics 
• 193 Religion and Ecology in the Americas (same as ENV S 189)

Sociology

• 105E Environmental Sociology 
• 108 Methods of Sociological Research 
• 108C Methods of Cultural Analysis
• 108F Studying People at Firsthand--Observational Methods in Social Science Research 
• 108G Methods and Research in Global and International Sociology 
• 118C Sociology of Culture
• 118CW Consumption, Waste, and the Environment 
• 122GI Global Inequalities 
• 124 Sociology of Immigration 
• 126 Urban Society 
• 130A Development and Social Change in Africa
• 130GC The Global City
• 130GR Globalization and Resistance 
• 130LA Development and Social Change in Latin America 
• 130ME Development and Social Change in the Middle East 
• 130SD The World in 2050: Systemic Alternatives (same as ENV S 130SD) 
• 130SG Sociology of Globalization 
• 134EC Earth in Crisis (same as ENV ST 134EC) 
• 144 The Chicano Community (same as CH ST 144) 
• 156A Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development (same as GLOBL 180A) 
• 176A Sociology of Global Health, HIV/AIDS & other Infectious Diseases 
• 185C Cultural Theory 
• 185DG Theories of Globalization and Development 
• 185E Introduction to Ethnomethodology

Statistics and Applied Probability

• 120A-B-C Probability and Statistics 
• 122 Design and Analysis of Experiments 
• 123 Sampling Techniques 
• 126 Regression Analysis 
• 127 Advanced Statistical Models 
• 131 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning 
• 132 Database Management for Data Analysis 
• 135 Big Data Analytics 
• 160A-B Applied Stochastic Processes 
• 174 Time Series 
• 175 Survival Analysis