printer friendly pagePUBLPOL 156: Health Care Policy and Reform
Competing health care reform proposals at the state and local levels. Focus is on California including proposals for expanding coverage for children, a single payer system, employer and individual mandates. Recent proposals in other states including Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont; their relation to national efforts. Attention to local reform efforts, including in San Francisco. Prospects for future policy.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Crane, D. (PI)
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Nation, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 184: Poverty and Policies in Developing Economies
Economic models of growth and poverty, differences in growth rates among countries, and the persistence of poverty. Models of physical and human capital accumulation, and recent theories of the importance of institutions, social capital, and political factors. The effectiveness of social policies in developing countries, emphasizing India, in the light of theories of growth and poverty, and in terms of immediate goals and long-term consequences. Policies include schooling and health, anti-poverty, banking, and political decentralization. Prerequisites:
ECON 1A,B, and
ECON 50.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Kochar, A. (PI)
RELIGST 162: Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation (URBANST 126)
A life of engagement in social transformation is often built on a foundation of spiritual and religious commitments. Case studies of nonviolent social change agents including Rosa Parks in the civil rights movement, César Chávez in the labor movement, and WIlliam Sloane Coffin in the peace movement; the religious and spiritual underpinnings of their commitments. Theory and principles of nonviolence. Films and readings. Service learning component includes placements in organizations engaged in social transformation. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
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Sanders, J. (PI)
RELIGST 188A: Issues in Liberation: El Salvador
Within the context of US intervention in Central America the course investigates the history of liberation movements in El Salvador (including ¿liberation theology¿), as well as ethical questions relating economic, social, and political issues in that country. This class will likely include immersion travel to El Salvador over spring break and consequently the size of this course is limited. Students will be given an application by email. All applications will be reviewed to determine final class enrollment.
Terms: Win
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Sheehan, T. (PI)
RELIGST 209: Priests, Prophets, and Kings: Religion and Society in Late Antique Iran (CLASSGEN 106, CLASSGEN 206, RELIGST 309)
From India to the Levant and from the Caspian Sea to the Arabian Peninsula, the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) was the dominant power in the Middle East till the advent of Islam. Diverse religious institutions and social practices of the Zoroastrians, Manicheans, Jews, and Christians in late antique Iran. Complex relationships between the Zoroastrian priesthood, the Sasanian monarchs, and these minority religions within the context of imperial rule. Profound religious and social changes that occurred with the Islamic conquests of Iran as well as examine the rich cultural continuities that survived from the Pre-Islamic past.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Vevaina, Y. (PI)
SLAVGEN 190: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Thought (COMPLIT 190, COMPLIT 290, SLAVGEN 290)
Anna Karenina, the novel as a case study in the contest between "modernity" and "tradition," their ethical order, ideology, cultural codes, and philosophies. Images of society, women and men in Tolstoy v. those of his contemporaries: Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, Durkheim, Freud. Open to juniors, seniors and graduate students. Requirements: three interpretive essays (500-1000 words each). Analysis of a passage from the novel; AK refracted through a "philosophical" prism and vice versa (30% each); class discussion and Forum (10%).
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
SOC 22N: The Roots of Social Protest
Preference to freshmen. The conditions under which social protest occurs and the emergence, success, and viability of contemporary social movements. Examples include women's civil rights, ecology, and antiwar and anti-globilization movements in the U.S. and elsewhere. Sociological theories to explain the timing, location, and causes of mobilization; how researchers evaluate these theories. Comparison of tactics, trajectories, and outcomes.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
SOC 45Q: Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society (CSRE 45Q)
Preference to sophomores. Historical overview of race in America, race and violence, race and socioeconomic well-being, and the future of race relations in America. Enrollment limited to 16.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Snipp, C. (PI)
SOC 107: China After Mao (SOC 207)
China's post-1976 recovery from the late Mao era; its reorientation toward an open market-oriented economy; the consequences of this new model and runaway economic growth for standards of living, social life, inequality, and local governance; the political conflicts that have accompanied these changes.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
SOC 108: Political & Historical Sociology (SOC 208)
The differences between historical and sociological analysis of past events. The difference between constructing sociological explanations and describing past events. Topics include: the rise of Christianity, the mafia in a Sicilian village, the trade network of the East India Company.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
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