Social Science, B.A.: this term's offerings for each requirement
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. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Also Offered at SDSU Imperial Valley
No course list published for this category.
California
- AMIND 420 - Indian Peoples of California
- CCS 355 - The United States-Mexico International Border
- LATAM 355 - The United States-Mexico International Border
- GEOG 320 - California
- HIST 445 - California History
- HIST 539 - Topics in the History of the American West
- POL S 321 - State Politics
- REL S 382 - California Religion and Spirituality (B)
Clusters
18 unitsNo course list published for this category.
Complete 15 Units
15 units- AFRAS 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
- ANTH 102 - Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- ASIAN 100 - State and Society in the Asia Pacific
- ECON 101 - Principles of Economics
- ECON 102 - Principles of Economics
- GEOG 102 - People, Places, and Environments
- GEOG 106 - World Regional Geography
- GEOG 170 - Sustainable Places and Practices
- HIST 109 - American History to Reconstruction
- HIST 110 - American History Since the Civil War
- LATAM 101 - Introduction to Latin American Studies
- LING 101 - Introduction to Language
- POL S 101 - Introduction to American Politics in Global Perspective
- POL S 102 - Introduction to American and California Government and Politics
- POL S 103 - Introduction to Comparative Politics
- POL S 104 - Introduction to Global Politics
- PSY 101 - Introductory Psychology
- SOC 101 - Introductory Sociology: The Study of Society
- SOC 102 - Introduction to Social Problems
- WGSS 103 - Women and Global Justice
Electives
6 units- AFRAS 321 - Black Political Participation in America
- AFRAS 341 - Cultural Patterns and African American Identity
- AFRAS 380 - African Americans and the US Justice System
- AFRAS 421 - Black Urban Experience
- AFRAS 455 - Africana Class, Gender, and Sexualities
- AFRAS 473 - Women in Africa
- AMIND 380 - Indigenous Museology
- AMIND 451 - American Indian Identity
- AMIND 460 - American Indian Languages
- ANTH 333 - Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Americas
- ANTH 348 - Historical Archaeology
- ANTH 350 - Exploring Cultural Diversity Around the World
- ANTH 353 - Sustainability and Culture
- ANTH 404 - Evolution of Human Behavior
- ANTH 410 - Language in Culture
- ANTH 439 - Cultural Comparisons Through Film
- ANTH 440 - Mesoamerican Civilization Before the Europeans
- ANTH 442 - Cultures of South America
- ANTH 451 - American Indian Identity
- ANTH 460 - American Indian Languages
- ASIAN 300 - Asia’s Global Future
- ASIAN 320 - Asian Environmental Issues
- ASIAN 353 - Language and Social Interaction in China
- AAS 460 - Contemporary Issues in Filipino-American Communities
- CCS 303 - Chicana and Chicano Community Studies
- CHIN 353 - Language and Social Interaction in China
- ECON 464 - Economic Problems of Latin America
- FILIP 460 - Contemporary Issues in Filipino-American Communities
- GEOG 312 - Culture Worlds
- GEOG 321 - United States
- GEOG 324 - Latin America
- GEOG 336 - Europe
- GEOG 341 - Feeding the World
- GEOG 342 - Food, Place, and Culture
- GEOG 354 - Geography of Cities
- GEOG 370 - Conservation Science and Policy
- HIST 404 - History of Human Rights
- ISCOR 310 - Our Global Future: Environment, Climate, and the Prospects of Survival
- LATAM 333 - Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Americas
- LGBT 321 - LGBT Identities in the Modern World
- LING 350 - Language and Politics
- LING 354 - Language and Computers
- LING 420 - Linguistics and English
- LING 452 - Language Acquisition
- LING 460 - American Indian Languages
- POL S 320 - The U.S. Constitution
- POL S 334 - Politics of the Environment
- POL S 336 - Gender and Public Policy
- POL S 345 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Powers and Constraints
- POL S 347 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties
- POL S 353 - Islam and Politics
- POL S 356 - European Politics
- POL S 359 - Government and Politics in Russia and Eurasia
- POL S 361 - Governments and Politics of the Developing Areas
- POL S 362 - Governments and Politics of East Asia
- POL S 363 - Governments and Politics of the Middle East
- POL S 365 - Chinese Politics
- POL S 422 - Urban Politics
- PSY 340 - Social Psychology
- PSY 351 - Psychology of Personality
- REL S 343 - Sociology of Religion (C)
- REL S 390A - Religion and Revolution
- REL S 390B - Religion and Revolution
- SOC 320 - Sex and Gender in Contemporary Society
- SOC 338 - Sociology of Religion
- SOC 350 - Population and Contemporary Issues
- SOC 352 - Global Social Problems
- SOC 355 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- SOC 430 - Social Organization
- SOC 450 - Social Change
- SOC 460 - Technology and Society
- SOCSI 499 - Special Study
- SPAN 462 - Language Variation in the Spanish-Speaking World
- SUSTN 334 - Politics of the Environment
- SUSTN 353 - Sustainability and Culture
- WGSS 310 - Global Cultures and Women's Lives
- WGSS 325 - Psychology of Women
- WGSS 341A - Gender and US History
- WGSS 341B - Gender and US History
- WGSS 370 - Women, Law, and Policy
- WGSS 375 - Sex, Power, and Politics
- WGSS 385 - Precarious Work: Gender, Labor, and Inequality
Families, Children and Society
Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement
No course list published for this category.
Health and Well-being
- ANTH 402 - Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: The Transformational Partnership of Nature and Nurture
- ANTH 508 - Medical Anthropology
- ECON 403 - Health Economics
- LATAM 425 - Illness, Health, and Healing in Latin America
- PSY 353 - Stress, Trauma, and the Psychological Experience of Combat
- SOC 436 - Sociology of Health and Illness
- SOC 441 - Sociology of Mental Illness
- WGSS 565 - Women: Health, Healing, and Medicine
Immigration
- LATAM 430 - Immigration and Border Politics
- POL S 430 - Immigration and Border Politics
- SOC 555 - Immigrants and Refugees in Contemporary American Society
- WGSS 581 - Women's Experiences of Migration
- AAS 422 - Asian American Experiences
- CCS 306 - Mexican Immigration
- ECON 381 - Economics of Immigration
- HIST 422 - Asian American Experiences
Impacted Program
No course list published for this category.
Language Requirement
No course list published for this category.
Leisure and Entertainment as Social Phenomena
- AMIND 370 - Tribal Gaming: Cultural and Political Context
- ANTH 445 - Culture, Gender, and Race in Sports
- ECON 406 - Economics of Sports
- EUROP 320 - Food Culture in Europe
- HIST 435 - History Through Film
- HIST 537 - Star Trek, Culture, and History
- SOC 330 - Cultural and Historical Origins of Surfing
- SOC 331 - Modern Surfing and Globalized Society
- SOC 335 - Sociology of Popular Culture
Lower Division Methods
3 unitsMajor
No course list published for this category.
Political Economy
- AFRAS 320 - Political Economy of African Diaspora
- CCS 301 - Political Economy of the Chicano People
- ECON 330 - Comparative Economic Systems
- ECON 401 - Public Finance
- GEOG 353 - Economic Geography
- ISCOR 300 - Global Systems
- LATAM 325 - Political Economy of Brazil
- LATAM 350 - Globalization and the Americas
- POL S 435 - Power and Poverty in the United States
- POL S 507 - Marx and Marxism
- SOC 433 - Wealth, Status, and Power
Preparation for the Major
18 unitsNo course list published for this category.
Required Course
3 unitsSocial Movements
- AFRAS 422 - Modern Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 585 - History of the Sixties
- ISCOR 324 - Politics of Global Resistance and Solidarity
- SOC 457 - Protests, Reforms, and Revolutions
- SOC 458 - Nonviolence, Peace, and Social Change
- SOC 459 - The American Labor Movement
- WGSS 530 - Women’s Movements and Activism
- WGSS 585 - Local Feminist Activism and Organizations
Social Science, B.A. - Roadmap
No course list published for this category.
Social Science Theory
3 units- AFRAS 322 - African American Political Thought
- AFRAS 327 - Critical Theories in Africana Studies
- ANTH 303 - Principles of Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- ECON 311 - History of Economic Thought
- ECON 320 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
- ECON 321 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
- GEOG 348 - Environment and Development
- POL S 301A - Ancient Political Thought
- POL S 301B - Early Modern Political Thought
- POL S 302 - Modern Political Thought
- POL S 305 - American Political Thought
- POL S 406 - Democracy and Mass Society
- SOC 401 - Classical Social Theory
- SOC 403 - Contemporary Social Theory
- SOC 410 - Social Psychology: Mind, Self, and Society
Teaching and Learning
- AMIND 480 - Issues in American Indian Education
- CCS 580 - Chicanas and Chicanos and the Schools
- CCS 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools
- AMIND 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools
- ECON 349 - Economics for Teachers
- HIST 410 - United States History for Teachers
- HIST 412 - Modern World History for Teachers
- LING 454 - Second Language Acquisition
- LING 550 - Theory and Practice of English as a Second Language
- SOC 539 - Sociology of Education
Upper-division Methods
3 units- ANTH 520 - Ethnographic Field Methods
- ANTH 531 - Methods in Applied Anthropology
- CCS 402 - Humanizing and Decolonizing Approaches to Theory and Research Methods
- ECON 301 - Introduction to Applied Econometrics
- ECON 441 - Introduction to Econometrics
- GEOG 380 - Map Investigation
- GEOG 381 - Computerized Map Design
- GEOG 385 - Spatial Data Analysis
- GEOG 586 - Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research
- SOC 301 - Social Research Methods
- SOC 406 - Intermediate Social Statistics
- SOC 407 - Survey and Experimental Research Methods
- SOC 408 - Qualitative Research Methods
Violence and Society
- SOC 443 - Crime and Society
- SOC 445 - Sociology of Deviance
- SOC 446 - Sociology of Criminal Organizations
- SOC 543 - Police, Courts, and Corrections: The Sociology of Crime and Punishment
- WGSS 572 - Women and Violence
- ANTH 443 - Anthropology of Violence and Kindness
- HIST 440 - The Holocaust and Western Civilization
- POL S 370 - Political Violence
- SOC 442 - Homicide in America
War and Society
- HIST 425 - The Vietnam War
- HIST 486 - World War II
- HIST 512A - The Great War: A Turning Point in European History
- HIST 534 - Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 580 - Topics in the History of War and Violence
- ISCOR 301 - Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- ISCOR 320 - International Security in the Nuclear Age
- POL S 479 - National Security Policy
- POL S 372 - Politics and Conflict
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.