2008-09 Catalog

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Society, Politics, Behavior and Change

The Society, Politics, Behavior and Change planning unit weaves together the various social science disciplines that enable us to better understand society and the way in which society operates in local, regional, national and international arenas. Learn more...

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NEW! Advanced Foundations of Successful and Sustainable Businesses
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Art and Women: Masquerade and Metaphor
Revised: 05/18/2009
Sophomore to Senior Fall    
Behavioral Medicine
Revised: 05/18/2009
Sophomore to Senior Fall    
Beyond the News: Media, Theory and Global History Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Building Communities and Managing Organizations
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Changing China
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
All level Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Civic Intelligence: Will We Be Smart Enough, Soon Enough? Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Decolonizing the Mind
Revised: 06/23/2009
All level Fall Winter  
NEW! Developmental Psychology and Educational Practice
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Junior/Senior   Winter Spring
East-West Integrated Psychology
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Economic Crisis? OMG! Sophomore to Senior   Winter  
NEW! The Economics of the Wine Industry
Revised: 05/18/2009
Sophomore to Senior Fall    
The End of Prosperity
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior   Winter  
Environmental Health: Science, Policy and Social Justice
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Gateways: Popular Education & Political Economy
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Health and Human Development
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Holism and Our Healthcare System: Personal Wellness, Healthy Communities and Healthy Organizations
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Imagining the Body
Revised: 05/18/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Lower Division Fall Winter  
NEW! Immigrant Voices: Writing, Labor and Community Stories Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Immigration: History, Law and Controversy
Revised: 05/18/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Individual Study: Economics, Political Science, Third World, US Foreign Policy
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Individual Study: Fall Quarter Internships, Study Abroad and Individual Contracts in Anthropology, Human Services, Education
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall    
NEW! Individual Study: Latin American Studies, International Studies and Political Economy
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Individual Study: Management, Business, Maritime Studies, Non-profit Development and International Trade.
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Individual Study: Multicultural Perspectives on U.S. History
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Individual Study: Psychology
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior   Winter Spring
Integral Psychology
Revised: 05/18/2009
All level     Spring
Interdisciplinary Psychology: From Science to Society
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Looking Backward: America in the Twentieth Century
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
All level Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Marx and Marxisms Sophomore to Senior     Spring
NEW! Money, Finance and Power All level     Spring
Multicultural Counseling: An Innovative Model
Faculty Signature Required
Senior Fall Winter Spring
Native Studies: Indigenous Americans Before and After Columbus
Revised: 06/23/2009
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Persistence: A Study of Inspired Work
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
All level Fall Winter Spring
Political Economy of the Media: U.S. Historical & Contemporary Realities All level   Winter Spring
"Race" in the United States: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall    
(Re)Imagining the Middle East
Revised: 06/15/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Reproduction, Birth, and Power Sophomore to Senior     Spring
NEW! Sight and Incite: Art and Activism
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior   Winter Spring
So You Want to be a Psychologist All level     Spring
Spain and the Americas: Cultural Crossings
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level Fall Winter  
Student Originated Studies: Community-Based Learning
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall    
NEW! Student-Originated Studies: Social Services and Social Justice
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
CANCELLED Survey of the Wine Industry Across the Americas All level Fall Winter  
CANCELLED The Wisdom of a Sailor
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Toward a Sustainable Puget Sound: Place, People and Policy
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level Fall Winter Spring
CANCELLED Turning Eastward: Explorations in East/West Psychology Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Venezuela: Building Economic and Social Justice
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! What Are Families For?
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Lower Division Fall Winter  
NEW! What Unions Do
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Why Businesses Succeed: Designing a Sustainable Company
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Work and the Human Condition
Revised: 05/18/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
All level Fall Winter Spring