Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies (UGIS)

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Introduces the nature of research and the research university's role in the production of knowledge. Explores differences and similarities among modes of inquiry in sciences, social sciences, and humanities by looking at UCB faculty and their various approaches to current problems. Examines challenges and rewards of doing research. Profiles undergraduate researchers. Online course for new freshmen culminates in (optional) welcome week activities.
Doing Research: Critical Inquiry at Berkeley: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Introduces the nature of research and the research university's role in the production of knowledge. Explores differences and similarities among modes of inquiry in sciences, social sciences, and humanities by looking at UCB faculty and their various approaches to current problems. Examines challenges and rewards of doing research. Profiles undergraduate researchers. Online course for new freshmen culminates in (optional) welcome week activities. This course is web-based.
Doing Research: Critical Inquiry at Berkeley: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Course covers introduction to the basis of common sight reducing visual disorders with major public health implications for society--e.g., myopia, cataracts, diabetic hypertensive eye disorders, developmental disorders (e.g., lazy eye), and environmentally induced disease and disorders (solar eye burns, cataracts). Major approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common disorders will be addressed in terms of the biological and optical sciences underlying the treatment or prevention. Impact of eye care on society and health and care delivery will be reviewed.
The Eye and Vision in a Changing Environment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
With this course, you will be able to add a new dimension to your internship experience: a reflection on global citizenship. You will be challenged to use your internship experience as an opportunity to critically explore cultural differences, modes of conduct and values. A series of audio-visual lectures, practical exercises, writing assignments, projects, and online group discussions will stimulate you to leave the comfort zone of what you are familiar with and to explore alternative views on right and wrong, good and bad and the beautiful and the ugly. The course will also encourage you to interact with locals and to engage with the city/region/country where you live during your internship.

Global Citizenship: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
This course introduces the fundamentals of K-5 science education through demonstrations, skill modeling, and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based and cooperative learning strategies; team building and management tools; and assessment techniques. Students are placed in an elementary school and are provided the support needed to successfully participate in the classroom. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
It's Elementary! Exploring Science with Young Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
This course introduces the fundamentals of K-5 math education through demonstrations, skill modelng, and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based and cooperative learning strategies; team building and management tools; and assessment techniques. Students are placed in an elementary school and are provided the support needed to successfully participate in the classroom. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
It's Elementary! Exploring Math with Young Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
This course introduces the fundamentals of sixth to eighth grade science education through demonstrations, skill modeling, and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based pedagogy, assessment techniques, empirically-based lesson revision, and adolescent development. Students are placed in a middle school and are provided the support needed to successfully participate in the classroom. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
Teaching Science with Middle School Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
This course introduces the fundamentals of sixth to eighth grade math education through demonstrations, skill modeling, and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based pedagogy, assessment techniques, empirically-based lesson revision, and adolescent development. Students are placed in a middle school and are provided the support needed to successfully participate in the classroom. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
Teaching Math with Middle School Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
This course surveys basic approaches to K-8 science and math teaching through modeling inquiry-based teaching and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based pedagogy, assessment techniques, lesson plan design and revision, and child development. Students are placed in science and math learning environments with upper elementary and middle school children to practice teaching. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
K-8 Teaching and Inquiry-Based Lesson Design in the Science and Mathematics Classroom: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course surveys basic approaches to K-8 math teaching through modeling inquiry-based teaching and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based pedagogy, assessment techniques, lesson plan design and revision, and child development. Students are placed in math learning environments with upper elementary and middle school children to practice teaching. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
K-8 Teaching in the Mathematics Classroom: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015
This course surveys basic approaches to K-8 science teaching through modeling inquiry-based teaching and discussion. Topics include inquiry-based pedagogy, assessment techniques, lesson plan design and revision, and child development. Students are placed in science learning environments with upper elementary and middle school children to practice teaching. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students.
K-8 Teaching in the Science Classroom: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020
This course surveys basic approaches to K-12 science, computer science, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) tutoring through modeling inquiry-based teaching approaches. Topics include effective STEM pedagogy, assessment, lesson plan design and revision, attention to equity in underserved schools, and child development. Students are placed with K-12 students for STEM enrichment and tutoring experiences. This seminar offers an opportunity to explore K-12 teaching, foster children's natural curiosity, and inspire local students to engage in STEM learning.
K-12 Tutoring in Science and Mathematics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Seminars for the group study of topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics may vary from semester to semester.
Directed Group Study for Lower Division Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Fall 2023
This course focuses on the social and personal meaning of disability and chronic illness. We will explore definitions and conceptual models for the study of disability, the history of disabled people, bio-ethical perspectives, the depiction of disability in literature and the arts, public attitudes, and legal and social policies. The course will investigate the interaction of disability with social factors such as gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and class. The course is for students with and without disabilities, and may be of special interest to students preparing for careers in the health professions, education, law, architecture, social work, or gerontology.
Introduction to Disability Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course will explore the intersection of women's experience and disability issues, emphasizing the social and personal impact of disability and chronic illness on relationships, identity, employment, health, body image, sexuality, reproduction, motherhood, and aging. Through real stories of women's lives which reached the media in the last decade and before, students will move toward a dynamic understanding of the impact of a range of physical, emotional, and mental disabilities in the context of current social forces and public policy. We will explore historic perspectives as well as current trends in medicine, independent living, care-giving, insurance, public benefits, law, and community activism as they affect and are affected by disabled women and girls and their families. We will discuss controversial ethical issues such as prenatal screening, wrongful birth law suits, and physician-assisted suicide. Course readings will draw on the rich literature of disabled women's anthologies, biography and autobiograhpy, scholarly and popular literature of disability, feminist analyses, creative writing, women's art, film, and theatre.
Women and Disability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2009
A graded service-learning internship course in disability studies. Students will draw lessons from working in collaboration with major disability rights and independent living organizations. Each student will do an internship at one of these organizations for six hours a week. In an additional one-hour a week seminar together, students will first prepare for the internships, setting objectives for skills to be learned and planning effective projects, and then analyze and reflect on the work done, both in order to create greater understanding of each intern's individual experiences and in order to think critically about how "service" and "organizing" can address the needs and goals of the disability community. Students must apply in advance for admission into this course.
Disability Studies in Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
This course is an introduction to the study of language as applied to real world problems in specific situations in which people use and learn languages, e.g., language learning and teaching, language socialization, bilingualism and multilingualism, language policy and planning, computer-mediated communication, stylistics, translation, intercultural communication, language and symbolic power, political and commercial rhetoric. Fieldwork consists of observation and analysis of language-related real world problems.
Introduction to Applied Language Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2005, Fall 2002
This course will study the end of life--dying and death--from the perspective of medicine and history. It seeks to confront the humanist with the quotidian dilemmas of modern clinical practice and medicine's deep engagement with death more generally. It invites pre-med, pre-law, and public policy students to understand these matters in light of the historical and, more broadly, literary and artistic perspectives of the humanities.
Death, Dying, and Modern Medicine: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
Since visual and literary studies have historically been viewed as separate disciplines, we will use theories from both to study those forms of self-representation that defy disciplinary boundaries, or what we call "visual autobiography." The course aims to help students become conversant with the elements of alphabetic literacy (reading and writing) and visual literacy (observing and making) in order to develop a third distinctive textual/visual literacy.
Visual Autobiography: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2007, Fall 2004
The American forest will be examined in terms of its ecology, history, and representations in paintings, photographs, and literary essays. This examination seeks to understand the American forest in its scientific and economic parameters, as well as the historic, social, and ideological dimensions which have contributed to the evolution of our present attitudes toward the forest.
The American Forest: Its Ecology, History, and Representation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
The "Hand-Printed Book" is a studio course taught in the Bancroft press room. Using antique presses and 19th century type, each class produces by hand a rare first edition of a work from the Bancroft collections that has never been published before. As students learn how hand-produced books have been made in the west for the last 500 years, they are also taught about the history of the book, using examples from Bancroft's rare books and manuscripts collection.
The Hand-Printed Book in Its Historical Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2023 10 Week Session, Summer 2022 10 Week Session, Summer 2021 10 Week Session
The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, case studies, class discussions, and lectures.
Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
This is the fourth course in a four-course sequence in the history of Jewish culture and civilization. It explores the major themes in Jewish history from 1750 to the present, with special attention paid to the transformation of Jewish communal and individual identity in the modern world. Topics to be treated include the breakdown of traditional society, enlightenment and emancipation, assimilation, Hasidism, racial anti-Semitism, colonialism, Zionism, and contemporary Jewish life in Europe, North America, and Israel. The multicultural nature of Jewish history will be highlighted throughout the course through the treatment of non-European Jewish narratives alongside the more familiar Ashkenazi perspective.
Jewish Civilization: Modern Period: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
The HRI Capstone Workshop structures the process of turning research projects into conference papers in preparation for the HRI conference. The course allows students to tackle common research and writing problems together in a series of group advising sessions.
Human Rights Interdisciplinary Minor Capstone Workshop: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2019 10 Week Session, Summer 2018 10 Week Session, Summer 2017 10 Week Session
This course facilitates your learning and self-reflection about various types of organizational contexts, structures, and cultures and about the development of practical strategies to promote successful internship experiences. A series of audio-visual lectures, practical exercises, writing assignments, projects, and online group discussions will guide you through all stages of your internship experience. The course will also present a range of theories, methods, and real-world example for examining management and organizational theory and practice.
Experiential Learning: Context, Self-Reflection and Professional Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 10 Week Session, Fall 2023
With this course, you will be able to add a new dimension to your internship experience: a reflection on global citizenship. You will be challenged to use your internship experience as an opportunity to critically explore cultural differences, modes of conduct and values. A series of audio-visual lectures, practical exercises, writing assignments, projects, and online group discussions will stimulate you to leave the comfort zone of what you are familiar with and to explore alternative views on right and wrong, good and bad and the beautiful and the ugly. The course will also encourage you to interact with locals and to engage with the city/region/country where you live during your internship.

Global Citizenship: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
This course delves into various facets of the Arts in Washington, D.C., whether involving public arts through museums such as the Smithsonian, or performance venues such as theatres; art history and public issues involving arts sponsorship and presentation.
The Arts in Washington DC: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2011, Fall 2009
This course will examine the social, economic, and political causes and consequences of global mobility, while considering whether changes brought by the pandemic, resurgent nationalism, or other factors might bring enduring changes to the global migration regime. We will draw on social scientific research on migration to answer questions about why people migrate, how states respond, and how these movements change politics and society in home, host, and transit countries, and to thus facilitate more informed policy choices.

Still a World in Motion? Migration and Displacement in Times of Pandemic and Nationalism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2015, Fall 2009
This course will introduce students to the study of security in international relations. The course will begin by considering international conflict drawing from prominent theories of international relations. The course will then explore more specific conceptual approaches to studying the behavior of actors involved in, affected by, or in positions to potentially avert conflict. The concepts introduced in this course will be paired with recent (or still ongoing) case studies that will assist students in applying them to the study of contemporary international security affairs.
International Security: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2010
The purpose of this seminar is to equip students to think deeply and critically about racial politics in the American city in general--and about racial politics in the American city of Washington, D.C. in particular. The seminar will begin with an introduction to a set of concepts fundamental to our subject--race, consciousness, racism, political action - and then move on to central features of city politics with race prominently in mind.
Race and Politics in the American City: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2021
How does social and political change happen in Washington? This class will explore the history of grassroots mobilization and advocacy on the national stage. By observing advocacy events and interacting with guest speakers, students will learn about the successes and failures of social groups’ efforts to make lasting change in American politics and society. The class will cover agenda setting and messaging, as well as techniques used to influence public debate such as protests, advocacy campaigns, petitions, and electoral lobbying. Students will learn about and discuss which types of groups and leaders engage in which strategies, and at what stage of the policy process they are most likely to be effective.
Activism, Protest, and the Politics of Change: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011
World leaders at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen this past December announced that they reached "a meaningful agreement" that will lead to a global treaty to address climate change. Many observers see the politics of the Copenhagen Accord as a glimpse into the new world order in which international diplomatic power will increasingly be shared by the United States (U.S.) and emerging powers, such as China. Climate change policy also offers a lens through which the U.S. domestic environmental policymaking process can be viewed and its evolution better understood. This course will examine the dynamics of global environmental treaty-making after first studying the development of U.S. environmental protection efforts. Students will then analyze the international and domestic efforts that led up to the Copenhagen Accord and assess what is needed and likely to result from the next UNFCCC meeting to be held in Mexico City in 2010.
Political Science: Environmental Policymaking and the Politics of Climate Change: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2011, Fall 2010
This course examines contemporary issues in U.S. immigration policy, one of the highest profile policy issues in recent years. The course will introduce students to the structure of the US legal immigration and immigration enforcement policies, and will ground current policy debates in historical context. It will also provide an overview of current immigration trends and how they are shaped by policy and how they fit into the demographics of the contemporary United States.
Current Issues in US Immigration Policy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019
This course explores the history, politics, and recent literature on the formation of nations and the development of nationalism. Theories of the nation have moved from ideas of their essential, primordial quality through a moment of social construction featuring the processes of modernization to a more cultural, discursive approach emphasizing the role of imagination and invention. We will both develop a narrative of the emergence of nations and explore some of the ways in which social science has employed and developed the body of theory on nationalism, looking at paradigms taken from international relations, identity theory, anthropology, and various psychological theories.

Nations and Nationalism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011
This course takes a sophisticated look at how polarization emerged, took hold and affects the operations of American politics. We will critically examine the antidemocratic design of the Constitution, how each of the three branches are a product of and contributor to polarization, and how institutions such as the media and lobbyists facilitate the dysfunction. We will talk extensively about processes such as the filibuster, budgeting, gerrymandering, and others are part of the current political environment. Importantly, we will discuss how American politics might recover from hyperpolarization. Students will work independently and in groups to explore these topics.
Democracy in Peril? The U.S. Government in a Hyperpolarized Era: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
This course will be an intense examination of lobbying in Washington with particular attention given to the role of money and campaign finance in the operation of what has become a highly sophisticated and poorly understood network of advocacy and influence. The approach of the instructor is to provide a basic understanding of three different but interrelated knowledge sets: the Congress, political money, and lobbying by interest groups.
Political Science: Lobbying, Money, and Influence in Washington: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
What are the United States' interests in the Middle East? Who and what determine those interests? And how are those interests pursued? This course addresses these questions in two parts. Students should leave this class with a strong understanding of the challenges that the U.S. faces in the Middle East, as well as an informed viewpoint regarding how well America is meeting those challenges.
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
This class will explore the relationships among politics, news media, and government. It will do so by focusing on particular news events in which the role of the media becomes an integral part of the story.
American Political Journalism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
This class will teach you how to better understand the fundamental factors that drive elections in America and to learn some of the skills employed by political professionals. Many of your assignments will require you to apply the lessons of this class to real time events. Our goal in this class is to go beyond the spin and hyperbole of many election commentators and understand how voters decide and how strategists persuade.
The Science of Politics: Campaigns and Elections: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Digital technologies and online social networks play an increasingly important role in the political, social and economic development of all societies. In the Global North and South, it is largely the young generation of men and women (24 years old and under) who experiment with and embrace these technologies in creative, innovative and unanticipated ways. This course focuses on the creative energies of youth and the enabling powers of digital/ networked technologies to solve some of the enduring development challenges.
Youth, Social Media and Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course combines two areas of continual fascination in Washington and beyond - US foreign policy and policies regarding national security. The course provides students with a framework to understand policy analysis, development, and implementation while introducing them to a range of the most pressing substantive policy issues the US is currently facing. The course will alternate between foreign policy issues and functional organizational tools used to address these issues.
Looking at the World: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will focus on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy toward Africa from African independence until present day. Specific themes include economic development, China's economic expansion, foreign aid, democracy, and human rights. Specific attention will focus on the role of race and ethnic politics and their influence on U.S. policy.
U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The purpose of this course is to give students a comprehensive overview of the major issues facing U.S. fiscal policy, with special emphasis on structural issues, such as the problems facing the major entitlement programs: social security, and Medicare/Medicaid. The course will emphasize the economic aspects of fiscal issues, but will also address their historical roots and political aspects.
Economics of Public Policy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
This course will examine the fundamental theories of race and representation as it applies to the lived
experiences and quest for freedom, justice, and equality on part of African Americans, Latinos, Asian
Americans, Native Americans and other groups. Given the racial and ethnic demographic shifts over the
past two decades, particular attention will focus on race, representation, and racial discrimination
from President Obama to President Trump. Moreover, the election of the first black president has
transformed the political landscape in ways that have challenged traditional notions of descriptive and
substantive representation.
Race and Ethnic Politics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
This course is for the bold and the brave, for the student who wants to examine effective communication methods that influence public opinion and public policy in today's political environment and experientially test those methods. Students will leave this class smarter on how Congress works in a digital age and on theories of political representation, advocacy, legislative behavior, and the American voter. Additionally, students will learn strategies and tips from guest speakers and experts on Capitol Hill as well as those attempting to influence Capitol Hill; the applied component of the course will inevitably build public speaking and leadership skills aimed at influencing public policy.
"All I Need is One Mic!": Political Advocacy and Public Opinion in a Digital Age: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
The federal government effects policy (e.g., enhancing public safety, protecting the environment, promoting a viable and growing economy, etc.) primarily in three ways: taxing, spending, and regulating. This course will explore how regulations -- an important instrument of government and one of the easiest ways for a President to make his/her mark -- are developed, amended, or repealed, with an emphasis on how the various institutions of the federal government are involved in the process and how they interact with the other interested entities.
A Window Into How Washington Works: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
The course is space for writing and discussing poems in the nation's capital. The course is as much about reading poems as writing (and revising) them. Students will attend at least one live literary event as well as visit a museum or gallery to use the visual or plastic arts as a springboard for their poetry. Finally, students will acquire and hone the vocabulary necessary to offer constructive feedback on one another's work.
Politics and Poems: Writing Verse in D.C.: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009
This course explores museums as dynamic sites of intellectual and cultural debate, and as institutions vested with the authority to define aesthetics, history, heritage, and even citizenship. Now more than ever, as the process of globalization raises questions about the fluidity, preservation, and "authenticity" of culture, museums of all kinds are attracting great interest both as places to visit and as a subject of critical analysis in their own right. As places defined by the collection, display, and interpretation of objects, museums are bound up in questions of permanence and transience, difference and identity, equity and privilege--issues that lie at the heart of what is termed the "new museology." But as institutional repositories of community memory or indigenous knowledge, they are also bound up in questions of representation, access and ownership--issues that move the debate over museum collections squarely into the politics of local, state, and national control over heritage. If ownership and control are the new realities of international heritage policy (and law), museums have quickly emerged as important sites on which and through which these claims are being made.
Museums and Society: The Power of Display in Washington DC: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2010 10 Week Session, Summer 2010 8 Week Session
This course explores the history, theory, and practice of public attempts to reform electoral and political processes at the national level. Emphasis will be on key players and institutions in Washington, D.C., and key theories underlying our conceptions of good government and politics.
Washington Ethics: Crisis, Reform, and Reaction: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The course offers students an opportunity to gain insights into how the knowledge and expertise they acquire during their university studies can be applied to facilitating or enhancing efforts by public health agencies (local, state, national, and international) and by food producers, food manufacturers, food distributors, and other pertinent industry, to ensure food safety.
Ensuring Food Safety: Role of Producers, Consumers, and Public Health Agencies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012
This course will serve to teach and discuss the topic "Negotiating with Terrorists." The focus will be on negotiations with collective terrorist movements, not on bargaining with hostage takers in the course of single-event hostage taking incidences. The course will be organized in four thematic blocks with three classes each. All of the classes will be based on working on analytic themes. During classes, case studies will be equally discussed to foster understanding of these matters.
Negotiating with Terrorists: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
How do we create a sustainable world? What is the role of energy and environmental policy? Will technical innovation lead to better solutions? What is the role of the consumer? Should business climate change planning be under government mandate or voluntary? Will market-based solutions work? What metrics should we use to determine the relative effectiveness of various policies? These are the sorts of questions we will ask in this course.
Green Governance: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Students will study the ways power and politics affect and are affected by such issues as reform and innovation, centralization and decentralization within federal systems of governance, privatization and school choice, race and ethnicity, poverty and inequality, professionalism and bureaucratization, and testing and accountability.
The Politics of Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Framed around the topic of sustainability, the course engages students from different math, science, and engineering majors in the process of applying the content knowledge from their discipline to build project-based curricula for presentation as part of a 45-hour field placement in a local high school classroom. Students develop pedagogical content knowledge and relate teaching theory to practice through readings, classroom activities, discussion, lesson planning, and field observations.
Project-Based Instruction: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2020 8 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session
This course is designed to provide connections between research methods and science and math content learned in a research lab with teaching in the K-12 classroom. Hands-on inquiry-based science and math lessons are modeled and discussed. Students write research proposals, create posters demonstrating their research accomplishments, develop K-12 lesson plans that align with their research, and assemble digital portfolios on standards-based teaching and assessment.
Integrating Research Methods into K-12 Teaching in Mathematics and Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2020 10 Week Session, Summer 2019 10 Week Session, Summer 2018 10 Week Session
Students enrolled will develop an independent research project under the supervision of a research mentor. Students will submit a formal research proposal and a final research paper, guided by the instructor.
Independent Study - Research Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). Directed individual research on topics connected to faculty scholarship.
Supervised Research: Humanities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). Directed individual research on topics connected to faculty scholarship.
Supervised Research: Social Sciences: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). Directed individual research on topics connected to faculty scholarship.
Supervised Research: Biological Sciences: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). Directed individual research on topics connected to faculty scholarship.
Supervised Research: Physical Sciences: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). Directed individual research on topics connected to faculty scholarship.
Supervised Research: Interdisciplinary Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
This course is the UCDC letter-graded core seminar for 4 units that complements the P/NP credited internship course UGIS C196B. Core seminars are designed to enhance the experience of and provide an intellectual framework for the student's internship. UCDC core seminars are taught in sections that cover various tracks such as the Congress, media, bureaucratic organizations and the Executive Branch, international relations, public policy and general un-themed original research.
UCDC Core Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
This course provides a credited internship for all students enrolled in the UCDC and Cal in the Capital Programs. It must be taken in conjunction with the required academic core course C196A. C196B requires that students work 3-4 days per week as interns in settings selected to provide them with exposure to and experienc in government, public policy, international affairs, media, the arts or other areas or relevance to their major fields of study.
UCDC Internship: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
Students work in selected internship programs approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as well as a final paper for the course consisting of at least 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser.
Special Field Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course provides a credited internship for all students enrolled in the Cal-in-the-Capital/UCDC summer program. 196N requires that students work 3-4 days per week as interns in settings selected to provide them with exposure to and experience in government, public policy, international affairs, media, the arts, or other areas of relevance to their major fields of study.
UCDC Summer Internship: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Seminars for group study of topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics may vary from semester to semester. Students must have completed 60 units to be eligible to enroll.
Directed Group Study for Upper Division Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
The course is designed to support new science and mathematics teachers in earning a credential for teaching in California secondary schools. Students demonstrate that they have developed the skills to meet the state credentialing requirements by undertaking an inquiry project on their own teaching practice. Effective teaching methods for the science and mathematics classrooms are emphasized, including strategies for lesson planning, assessment, and English language learner support.
Apprentice Teaching in Science and Mathematics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Fieldwork for Cal Teach single subject math or science teaching credential.
Supervised Teaching in Mathematics and Science for Secondary Schools: Read More [+]