Sustainability Course Repository

Courses that Introductionduce students to the subjects and methods of inquiry of the social sciences by engaging in focused study of one or more particularly important questions arising from a social science discipline. These courses Introductionduce students to key concepts, knowledge, and principles of the relevant discipline as they relate to the questions being studied in the individual section. They are not intended to be survey courses or broad Introductionductions to the discipline, but s...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Constructing Postmodern Empire

This course is an anthropological Introductionduction to three social issues that have been the focus of much research, policy and popular interest in the United States: environmental sustainability, racial identity, and gender difference and inequality. In our efforts to better understand these issues (and act upon them), anthropological research offers us a wealth of empirical data and analysis drawn from the richness of our cultural and biological variety and the sweep of human history and ev...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Cross-Cultural Perspectives

A seminar-format course that is designed to explore psychological and sociological approaches to deviance and social control in contemporary society. This course Introductionduces students to topics such as: the origins and functions of deviance in society; the institutional production and categorization of deviance; the impact of deviance on personal and social identity; deviant careers; and deviance and social change. Students will explore the literature on deviance and examine portrayals of d...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Deviance & Social Control

This course examines the historical underpinnings of society's understanding of individuals with disabilities as deviant, stigmatized, incompetent and marginal. In addition to the historical perspective, students will examine contemporary views of disability in American culture. The course explores the historical development of the disability rights movement, including resulting legal protections, such as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Disabled: What's in a Name?

Courses that Introductionduce students to the subjects and methods of inquiry of the social sciences by engaging in focused study of one or more particularly important questions arising from a social science discipline. These courses Introductionduce students to key concepts, knowledge, and principles of the relevant discipline as they relate to the questions being studied in the individual section. They are not intended to be survey courses or broad Introductionductions to the discipline, but s...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Economic Booms and Busts

Courses that Introductionduce students to the subjects and methods of inquiry of the social sciences by engaging in focused study of one or more particularly important questions arising from a social science discipline. These courses Introductionduce students to key concepts, knowledge, and principles of the relevant discipline as they relate to the questions being studied in the individual section. They are not intended to be survey courses or broad Introductionductions to the discipline, but s...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Economic Mysteries

College students in the United States are approximately 10-fold more likely than the US population at large to be positively diagnosed as having HIV, with specific ethnic and demographic groups disproportionately affected. This course provides a detailed examination of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a social justice perspective as we discuss care of the whole person (cura personalis) for those afflicted and most at-risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.

Read more about UCOR-1600 : HIV/AIDS: Cura Personalis

Grounded in theoretical perspectives of International Relations, the course materials focus on the United Nations (UN) system and its evolving roles in the pursuit of security, peace, prosperity, and justice in the world.

Read more about UCOR-1600 : How Does the UN Work?

If the land beneath Seattle University could speak, what would it tell us? What account would it offer of its first inhabitants and their legacies? This course Introductionduces students to the culture, art, stories, and experiences of the Indigenous Peoples living in the areas now known as Oregon, Washington, Montana, British Columbia, and Alaska. It reveals excluded stories and brings students into contact with present-day representatives of these cultures. It seeks both to cultivate a more ca...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Indigenous Peoples of North West

This course examines law primarily from the social science perspective, which views law as a social institution that is firmly embedded in the society. The social science perspective differs from the traditional view of law which is taught in law school and focuses on the law as a system of self-contained rules and logic that are autonomous or independent of the outside social structure. The social science perspective maintains that the law is not autonomous, but rather a product of the social, ...

Read more about UCOR-1600 : Law, Society & Justice