Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year - see every catalog year on file for this program.
Also Offered at SDSU Imperial Valley
No course list published for this category.
California
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| AMIND 420 - Indian Peoples of California 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| CCS 355 - The United States-Mexico International Border 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| LATAM 355 - The United States-Mexico International Border 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| GEOG 320 - California 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 445 - California History 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| HIST 539 - Topics in the History of the American West 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| POL S 321 - State Politics 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| REL S 382 - California Religion and Spirituality (B) 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Clusters
18 unitsNo course list published for this category.
Complete 15 Units
15 unitsElectives
6 unitsFamilies, Children and Society
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| AFRAS 331 - The Black Family 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ANTH 537 - Anthropology of Childhood 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| CCS 320 - Chicana and Chicano Lifestyles 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ECON 382 - Economics of Work, Marriage, and Family 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 421 - American Families 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 444 - Juvenile Delinquency 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement
No course list published for this category.
Health and Well-being
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 402 - Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: The Transformational Partnership of Nature and Nurture 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ANTH 508 - Medical Anthropology 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ECON 403 - Health Economics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| LATAM 425 - Illness, Health, and Healing in Latin America 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| PSY 353 - Stress, Trauma, and the Psychological Experience of Combat 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 436 - Sociology of Health and Illness 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 441 - Sociology of Mental Illness 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| WGSS 565 - Women: Health, Healing, and Medicine 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Immigration
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| LATAM 430 - Immigration and Border Politics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| POL S 430 - Immigration and Border Politics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 555 - Immigrants and Refugees in Contemporary American Society 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| WGSS 581 - Women's Experiences of Migration 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| AAS 422 - Asian American Experiences 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| CCS 306 - Mexican Immigration 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ECON 381 - Economics of Immigration 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| HIST 422 - Asian American Experiences 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Impacted Program
No course list published for this category.
Language Requirement
No course list published for this category.
Leisure and Entertainment as Social Phenomena
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| AMIND 370 - Tribal Gaming: Cultural and Political Context 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ANTH 445 - Culture, Gender, and Race in Sports 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ECON 406 - Economics of Sports 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| EUROP 320 - Food Culture in Europe 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 435 - History Through Film 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| HIST 537 - Star Trek, Culture, and History 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 330 - Cultural and Historical Origins of Surfing 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 331 - Modern Surfing and Globalized Society 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 335 - Sociology of Popular Culture 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
Lower Division Methods
3 units| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 201 - Statistical Methods 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| GEOG 104 - Geographic Information Science and Spatial Reasoning 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| LING 270 - Elementary Statistics for Language Studies 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| POL S 201 - Statistics and Politics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 201 - Elementary Social Statistics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| STAT 119 - Elementary Statistics for Business 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
Major
No course list published for this category.
Political Economy
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| AFRAS 320 - Political Economy of African Diaspora 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| CCS 301 - Political Economy of the Chicano People 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ECON 330 - Comparative Economic Systems 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ECON 401 - Public Finance 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| GEOG 353 - Economic Geography 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ISCOR 300 - Global Systems 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| LATAM 325 - Political Economy of Brazil 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| LATAM 350 - Globalization and the Americas 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| POL S 435 - Power and Poverty in the United States 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| POL S 507 - Marx and Marxism 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 433 - Wealth, Status, and Power 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
Preparation for the Major
18 unitsNo course list published for this category.
Required Course
3 units| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| SOCSI 300 - Social Science Approaches and Concepts 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Social Movements
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| AFRAS 422 - Modern Civil Rights Movement 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 585 - History of the Sixties 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ISCOR 324 - Politics of Global Resistance and Solidarity 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 457 - Protests, Reforms, and Revolutions 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 458 - Nonviolence, Peace, and Social Change 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 459 - The American Labor Movement 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| WGSS 530 - Women’s Movements and Activism 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| WGSS 585 - Local Feminist Activism and Organizations 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Social Science, B.A. - Roadmap
No course list published for this category.
Social Science Theory
3 unitsTeaching and Learning
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| AMIND 480 - Issues in American Indian Education 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| CCS 580 - Chicanas and Chicanos and the Schools 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| CCS 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| AMIND 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ECON 349 - Economics for Teachers 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 410 - United States History for Teachers 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| HIST 412 - Modern World History for Teachers 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| LING 454 - Second Language Acquisition 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| LING 550 - Theory and Practice of English as a Second Language 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 539 - Sociology of Education 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
Upper-division Methods
3 units| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 520 - Ethnographic Field Methods 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ANTH 531 - Methods in Applied Anthropology 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| CCS 402 - Humanizing and Decolonizing Approaches to Theory and Research Methods 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ECON 301 - Introduction to Applied Econometrics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ECON 441 - Introduction to Econometrics 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| GEOG 380 - Map Investigation 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| GEOG 381 - Computerized Map Design 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| GEOG 385 - Spatial Data Analysis 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| GEOG 586 - Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 301 - Social Research Methods 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 406 - Intermediate Social Statistics 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 407 - Survey and Experimental Research Methods 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 408 - Qualitative Research Methods 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
Violence and Society
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 443 - Crime and Society 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 445 - Sociology of Deviance 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 446 - Sociology of Criminal Organizations 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| SOC 543 - Police, Courts, and Corrections: The Sociology of Crime and Punishment 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| WGSS 572 - Women and Violence 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ANTH 443 - Anthropology of Violence and Kindness 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 440 - The Holocaust and Western Civilization 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| POL S 370 - Political Violence 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| SOC 442 - Homicide in America 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
War and Society
| Course | Units | This term |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 425 - The Vietnam War 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 486 - World War II 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| HIST 512A - The Great War: A Turning Point in European History 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| HIST 534 - Civil War and Reconstruction 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| HIST 580 - Topics in the History of War and Violence 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| ISCOR 301 - Conflict and Conflict Resolution 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| ISCOR 320 - International Security in the Nuclear Age 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
| POL S 479 - National Security Policy 3 unitsOpen seats | 3 | Open seats |
| POL S 372 - Politics and Conflict 3 unitsNot offered | 3 | Not offered |
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2026-27 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.