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SOME RECOMMENDED ELECTIVES
FOR SOCIOLOGY MAJORS AND MINORS
If you have checked out the section on degree requirements for sociology majors, you already know you need a minimum of 120 hours to graduate with a Bachelors degree. While some requirements are fairly rigid (for example, you must complete ENGL 1157 and 1158), considerable flexibility has also been built in to allow students to pursue courses relevant to their interests and career goals. Below you will find listed some of the most common career goals and personal interests:
Social work
Criminal justice/law enforcement/prelaw
Social activism and nonprofit organizations
Social activism and community organizing
Social activism around environmental issues
Social activism around labor issues
Social activism around race/ethnicity issues
Social activism around religious issues
Social activism around sexuality issues
Social activism around women's issues
International affairs
Personnel management
Popular culture work
Applied social research
Social theory
Underneath each of these career goals are listed suggestions for core courses, sociology electives, and non-sociology electives that are likely to be particularly useful to that particular career goal. Please note that we strongly recommend the Sociology Internship Program, which is flexible enough to accomodate virtually any career goal.
You DO NOT have to take all of these electives, or evan any of the recommended courses. These courses are intended only as RECOMMENDATIONS. You are free to pick from this list of recommendations the courses that sound particularly interesting to you, and/or that fit their particular scheduling needs. You are also free to ignore these recommendations entirely and put together a degree plan that works well for you and your interests and needs. Students in the process of choosing electives might also find it useful to check out the Web Page section on Minors in Other Departments.
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SOCIAL WORK
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
Soc 4101 Social Organization
SOC 4124 Social Stratification
SOC 4216 Advanced Social Psychology
SOC 4219 Social Deviance
Suggestions for Sociology Electives:
SOC 2273 Society and the Person
SOC 2962 Current Social Problems
SOC 2994 Multiculturalism and Diversity in U.S. Society
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
SOC 4104 The Family
SOC 4111 Sociology of Medicine
SOC 4112 Sociology of Mental Health
SOC 4113 Sociology of Aging and Death
SOC 4191 Seminar in Non-Profit Organizations
SOC 4192 Pracicum in Non-Profit Organizations
SOC 4911 Drugs and Society
SOC 4915 Black Women and Violence
SOC 4954 Juvenile Delinquency
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Electives:
ACCT 3124 Government Accounting and Special Topics
ACCT 4171 Survey of Government and Institutional Accounting
ANTH 4455 Contemporary Families and Kinship
ANTH 4761 Medical Anthropology
BIOS 2313 Nutrition
DRCM 2650 Oral Communications
DRCM 2670 Sign Language
ECON 4241 Public Finance
ECON 4250 Health Care Economics
ENGL 2284 A Survey of New Orleans English
ENGL 3240 Children’s Literature (cannot be counted toward general degree literature requirements, but can count as an elective)
ENGL 4240 Adolescent Literature (cannot be counted toward general degree literature requirements, but can count as an elective)
EDHS 1110 Personal Health and Wellness
EDHS 1420 Introduction to the Health Care Industry
EDHS 2610 Nutrition and Health
EDHS 2700 Drug Use and Abuse
EDHS 4111 Epidemiological Principles in Health Promotion
EDHS 4202 Community Health Promotion
EDHS 4701 Emotional Health
EDHS 4702 Death and Dying
EDHS 4704 Health Issues of Aging
PHIL 3232 Medical Ethics
PHIL 4200 Health Promotion Ethics
POLI 4100 Politics of Budgeting
POLI 4102 The Administrative Process
POLI 4130 Public Personnel Administration
PSYC 1500 The Psychology of Personal Adjustment
PSYC 1520 Human Sexual Behavior
PSYC 2110 Child Psychology
PSYC 2120 Adolescent Psychology
PSYC 2130 Adult Development and Aging
PSYC 2160 Psychology of Speech Language and Hearing
PSYC 2400 Social Psychology
PSYC 4100 Development Psychology
PSYC 4530 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
PSYC 4550 Clinical Psychology
PSYC 4600 Psychological Tests and Measurements
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PRE-LAW
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4101 Social Organization
SOC 4124 Social Stratification
SOC 4216 Advanced Social Psychology
SOC 4219 Social Deviance
Suggestions for Sociology Electives:
SOC 2962 Current Social Problems
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
SOC 4218 Power, Surveillance, Control
SOC 4911 Drugs and Society
SOC 4815 Black Women and Violence
SOC 4921 Criminology
SOC 4954 Juvenile Delinquency
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Electives:
HIST 2360 English Constitutional and Legal History
HIST 4561 U.S. Constitutional Development to 1865
HIST 4562 U.S. Constitutional Development Since 1865
PHIL 2205 Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 2207 Philosophy of Law
POLI 3151 American Government
POLI 2200 The Judicial Process
POLI 2450 Current Issues in Criminal Justice
POLI 4410 American Constitutional Law
POLI 4420 The American Constitution and Civil Liberties
POLI 4440 Urban Judicial Process
SOSC 1901 Introduction to Legal Concepts
SOSC 2003 Legal Interviewing and Investigation
SOSC 2005 Legal Research
SOSC 2050 Constitutional/Criminal Procedure
SOSC 2013 Legal Ethics
SOSC 2052 Evidence
SOSC 2907 Case Analysis and Writing
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, GENERAL
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4094 Social Change
SOC 4101 Social Organization
SOC 4161 Political Sociology
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 2962 Current Social Problems
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
SOC 4191 Seminar in Non-Profit Organizations
SOC 4192 Practicum in Non-Profit Organizations
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ACCT 3124 Government Accounting and Special Topics
ACCT 4171 Survey of Government and Institutional Accounting
ANTH 4075 Life History, Identity, and Autonomy
DRCM 2650 Oral Communications
DRCM 2660 Discussion and Debate
DRCM 3770 Message Design for the Mass Media
EDAD 2000 Introduction to Leadership
PHIL 1200 Social Ethics
PHIL 2201 Ethics
PHIL 2205 Social and Political Philosophy
POLI 1000 Fundamental Issues of Politics
POLI 1010 Contemporary Issues of Politics
POLI 2157 Public Policy
POLI 3605 Political Science and Practical Politics
POLI 4170 The Politics of Public Policy
POLI 4180 Organization and the Political System
POLI 4600 Political Parties and Politics
POLI 4640 The Legislative Process
POLI 4820 International Organizations
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
See Social Activism and Non-Profits, General
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 2881 The City
SOC 4881 The Urban Community
See Social Activism and Non-Profits, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 4775 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 4777 Transnational Processes: Migrations, Borderlands, Globalization.
ECON 1273 Development of the Economic System in the United States
ECON 4263 Transportation
ECON 4265 Regional Economics
ECON 4266 Urban Economics
ENGL 2284 A Survey of New Orleans English
GEOG 2810 Map Reading and Interpretation
GEOG 4610 Urban Geography
EDHS 4202 Community Health Promotion
HIST 4543 United States Urban History
HIST 4547 Women in the Modern American City
MANG 4420 Organizational Theory
MANG 4422 Organizational Politics
MANG 4424 Leadership in Organizations
POLI 4210 Politics of Metropolitan Areas
POLI 4230 Policy-Making and the Urban Environment
POLI 4440 Urban Judicial Process
URBN 4002 The Shape of the City
URBN 4003 The Post World War II City
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
See Social Activism and Non-Profits, General
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 2871 The Environment as a Social Problem
SOC 4871 Sociology of the Environment
SOC 4903 Population Issues and Dynamics
See Activism and Non-Profits, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 3320 Amazonia: People, Culture, and Nature
ANTH 4210 Cultural Adaptation of the Mississippi River Delta
ANTH 4610 Zoo Research in Comparative Social Organization
ANTH 4721 Cultural Resource Management and Preservation Archaeology
BIOS 1073 Biodiversity.
BIOS 266 Introduction to Environmental Biology
BIOS 3653 General Ecology
ECON 4253 Environmental Economics
ECON 4264 Economics of Natural Resources
EVSP 1100 Introduction to Environmental Policy
EVSP 2100 Introduction to Law & Regulatory Institutions
EVSP 3100 Environmental and Natural Resource Law
EVSP 4100 Approaches to Environmental Problems
GEOG 1600 Environmental Geography
GEOG 1690 Other People, Other Places
GEOG 2158 Conservation
GEOG 4150 Geography of Environmental Hazards and Disasters.
GEOG 4158 Environmental Impact Assessment.
GEOG 4530 Biogeography.
GEOG 4550 Geography of Coastal Louisiana
GEOL 1005 Environmental Geology
GEOL 1007 Geology of the National Parks
GEOL 1927 Earth Resources
GEOL 2070 Waters of the World
GEOL 2084 Introduction to Oceanography
GEOL 422 Environmental Geography of Coastal Louisiana
GEOL 4658 Environmental Geochemistry
GEOL 4700 Hydrology
HIST 2000 Environmental History of the World.
PHIL 4205 Environmental Ethics.
SOSC 3077 Environmental Law
URBN 4150 Planning for Natural Hazards
URBN 4810 Environmental Justice in Urban Environments
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AROUND LABOR ISSUES
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
Soc 4124 Social Stratification
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ECON 3231 Labor Economics
GEOG 2254 Elements of Economic Geography
GEOG 4230 Geography of Manufacturing.
HIST 4005 History of Social Radicalism.
POLI 4550 Communist Political Theory
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AROUND RACE/ETHNICITY ISSUES
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
Soc 4124 Social Stratification
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 2994 Multiculturalism and Diversity in U.S. Society
SOC 4915 Black Women and Violence
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 3314 The Indigenous Peoples and the First Nations of North America
ANTH. 4767 Race & Racism: Old Problems, New Approaches
DRCM 3400 The Black Experience on Stage and Screen
ENGL 2071 African-American Literature I
ENGL 2072 African-American Literature II
ENGL 2375 Asian-American Literature
ENGL 4093 Studies in Black Literature
HIST 1010 Introduction to African-American History
HIST 2087 The Jews in the Making of America
HIST 2315 Conquest, Slavery and Disruption: The Age of Discovery
HIST 2602 African Americans in Louisiana
HIST 3551 African-American History
HIST 3552 African-American History
HIST 4551 African-American Slavery
HIST 4552 Black Movements and Messiahs
HIST 4555 The Civil Rights Era
POLI 2158 Issues in Black Politics.
POLI 4657 Black Political Thought
POLI 4660 The Politics of Ethnic Tension
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AROUND RELIGIOUS ISSUES
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Sociology Electives:
SOC 4150 Sociology of Religion
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Electives:
ANTH 4440 Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft.
ANTH 4666 Shamanism, Curing, and Healing.
ENGL 2377 The Bible as Literature
ENGL 4370 Studies in the Bible
HIST 2302 The Emergence of Christianity
HIST 3588 Religion in American History
HIST 4544 Religion in American History
HIST 4545 Religion in Modern American History
PHIL 2701 Religions of the East
PHIL 2702 Religions of the West
PHIL 3480 Philosophy of Religion
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AROUND SEXUALITY ISSUES
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4107 Sociology of Gender
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 4455 Contemporary Families and Kinship
ANTH 4766 The Anthropology of Sex and Gender
ANTH 4888 The Anthropology of the Body
ENGL 2376 Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Literature
ENGL 4376 Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature
EDHS. 1110 Personal Health and Wellness
EDHS 4801 Education for a Healthy Sexuality
PHIl 2222 Philosophy of Sex and Love
PSYC 1520 Human Sexual Behavior
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM AROUND WOMEN’S ISSUES
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4107 Sociology of Gender
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 4070 Special Topics in Women, Literature, and Society
SOC 4130 Sociology of Women
SOC 4180 Women and Work
See Social Activism and Non-Profit Organizations, General
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 3737 Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ANTH 4766 The Anthropology of Sex and Gender
DRCM 2695 Women and the Media
ENGL 2378 Introduction to Women’s Literature
ENGL 4070 Special Topics in Women, Literature, and Society
ENGL 4286 Language and Gender
ENGL 4378 Advanced Studies in Women and Literature
FA 3265 Gender, Feminism, and the History of Art.
EDHS 4705 Gender and Health
HIST 2587 Women in American History
HIST 4547 Women in the Modern American City
PHIL 2203 Philosophy and Feminism
POLI 4670 Women and Politics
WS 2010 Introduction to Women’s Studies
WS 4078 Research Methods in Feminist Scholarship
WS 4080 Feminist Theory
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4094 Social Change
SOC 4104 Social Organization
SOC 4161 Political Sociology
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 2871 Environment as a Social Problem
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
SOC 4903 Population Issues and Dynamics
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 1010 Peoples of the World
ANTH. 3315 Caribbean Peoples and Cultures: Colonialism, Creolization, Diaspora.
ANTH 3320 Amazonia: People, Culture, and Nature
ANTH 3351 Peoples and Culture of Africa
ANTH 3370 Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific
ANTH 4462 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 4770 Contact, Change, and Cultural Survival: The Anthropology of Colonialism
ANTH 4777 Transnational Processes: Migrations, Borderlands, Globalization
ECON 2260 International Economics
ECON 4261 International Trade Theory
ECON 4262 International Finance
ECON 4272. Comparative Economic Systems
GEOG 1001 World Regional Geography
GEOG 1002. World Regional Geography
GEG 2254 Elements of Economic Geography
GEOG 2404 Geography of Latin America.
GEOG 2431 Geography of the Middle East.
GEOG 2441 Geography of Asia.
GEOG 4220 Agricultural Geography
GEOG 4290 Special Topics in Economic Geography
GEOG 4310 Political Geography
GEOG 4320 Tropical Lands and Their Utilization.
GEOG 4630 Geography of the Third World City
HIST 2401 Colonial Latin America.
HIST 2402 Latin American Since Independence.
HIST 2701 Africa to 1830.
HIST 2702 Africa from 1830 to Present.
HIST 4201 History of Modern China.
HIST 4401 Latin American Cities.
HIST 4403 History of Mexico.
HIST 4406 Caribbean Civilization.
POLI 2600 Introduction to Comparative Government
POLI 2700 Introduction to World Politics
POLI 4700 Latin American Government and Politics
POLI 4705 U.S.-Latin American Relations
POLI 4710 Politics of Developing Areas
POLI 4800 Concepts and Patterns of International Politics
POLI 4820 International Organizations
POLI 4840 International Regionalism
POLI 4860 Principles of International Law
POLI 4870 American Foreign Policy
POLI 4880 Comparative Foreign Policy
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PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4101 Social Organization
SOC 4216 Advanced Social Psychology
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 2273 Society and the Person
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
SOC 4180 Women and Work
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ACCT 2130 Management Accounting
CSCI 1000 Introduction to Computers
DRCM 2650 Oral Communications
ECON 3000 Managerial Economics
EDAD 2000 Introduction to Leadership
ENGL 2153 Business Writing.
EDHS 4701 Emotional Health.
EDHS 4703 Stress Management for Health Promotion
HRT 2000 Introduction to Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Administration
MANG 3070 Managing the Family Business.
MANG 3467 Human Resources Management.
MANG 3471 Business Communication
MANG 3472 Business Communication Oral
MANG 3475 Managerial Communications .
MANG 4201 Legal Issues in Human Resource Management
MANG 4400 Survey of Management Topics.
MANG 4420 Organizational Theory
MANG 4422 Organizational Politics
MANG 4424 Leadership in Organizations
MANG 4468 Staffing and Developing Human Resources
MANG 4470 Employment Law for Managers
MANG 4471 Quality Management
PSYC 2340 Motivation and Emotion
PSYC 2400 Social Psychology
PSYC 4400 Advanced Social Psychology
PSYC 4510 Personality
PSYC 4700 Introduction to Personnel and Industrial Psychology
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POPULAR CULTURE WORK
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4101 Social Organization
SOC 4216 Advanced Social Psychology
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
SOC 4150 Sociology of Popular Culture
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 2052 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3090 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3301 Doing Ethnography
ANTH 3401 Folklore
ANTH 3750 Food and Culture
ANTH 4075 Life History, Identity, and Autonomy
ANTH 4090 Advanced Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 4565 Language and Culture
ANTH 4610 Zoo Research in Comparative Social Organization
ANTH 4780 Exploring Visual Anthropology: Critical Perspectives and Interpretations
ANTH 4888 The Anthropology of the Body
AADM 4502 Principles of Arts Administration Law
DRCM 1000 The Theatre.
DRCM 1600 Introduction to Mass Communications
DRCM 1700 Introduction to Promotion in the Mass Media.
DRCM 2770 Promotion, Publicity, and Propaganda in the Mass Media
DRCM 3400 The Black Experience on Stage and Screen
DRCM 4150 Development of Fashion
DRCM 4540 The Development of Cinema
DRCM 4670 Mass Media and the Law
DRCM 4675 Mass Media in Society
ECON 4253 Economics of the Arts
ENGL 2311 American Film as Literary Art.
ENGL 2312. International Film as Literary Art
FA 2202. Historical Survey of the Arts
FA 2263. Art of the Twentieth Century
FA 3265 Gender, Feminism, and the History of Art
HIST 3587 American Social and Cultural History 1865 to the Present.
MKT 3505 Consumer Behavior
MTK 3580 Advertising
MUS 1004 Contemporary Jazz.
PHIL 2250 Philosophical Backgrounds of Literary Criticisms
PHIL 2411 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 3250 Philosophy of the Arts
POLI 3680 Politics and Cinema
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APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4101 Social Organization
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
SOC 3096 Internship in Sociology
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 3301 Doing Ethnography
ANTH 4070 Qualitative Research
ANTH 4075 Life History, Identity, and Autonomy
ANTH 4768 Anthropology and Policy.
ANTH 4772 Applied Anthropology
DRCM 2650 Oral Communications
ENGL 2151 Introduction to Non-Fiction Writing
ENGL 2151 Technical Writing (Not Open to Freshmen without Consent of Department).
GEOG 2810 Map Reading and Interpretation
GEOG 4805 Fundamentals of Mapping and GIS
GEOG 4830 GIS Theories and Concepts
GEOG 4831 GIS Applications
HIST 3001 Historical Thought and Writing
MANG 4402 Research Methodology in Management
MKT 3510 Introduction to Marketing Research
MKT 3511 Applied Marketing Research
PHIL 3431 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
POLI 2900 Methods of Political Research
POLI 3900 Polimetrics
POLI 4601 Voters and Elections
POLI 4621 Public Opinion
POLI 4900 Introduction to Techniques of Political Data Analysis
POLI 4910 Political Polling
WS 4078 Research Methods in Feminist Scholarship
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SOCIAL THEORY
Suggestions for Sociology Core Courses:
SOC 4094 Social Change
SOC 4101 Social Organization
SOC 4107 Sociology of Gender
SOC 4124 Social Stratification
SOC 4161 Political Sociology
SOC 4216 Advanced Social Psychology
SOC 4219 Social Deviance
Suggestions for Sociology Elective Courses:
Additional core courses
Suggestions for Non-Sociology Elective Courses:
ANTH 4454 Social Structure
ANTH 4801 The History of Anthropological Theory
ECON 3211 The Evolution of Economic Thought
ECON 4272 Comparative Economic Systems
HIST 4382 The European Intellectual Tradition
HIST 4383 The European Intellectual Tradition
PHIL 1050 Reasoning
PHIL 1100 Introduction to Logic
PHIL 2102 Symbolic Logic
PHIL 2312 History of Modern Philosophy
PHIL 2314 American Philosophy
PHIL 2411 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 2413 Contemporary Philosophy
PHIL 2430 Methods of Science
PHIL 2450 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 3101 Advanced Logic
PHIL 3401 Theories of Knowledge
PHIL 3415 Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy
PHIL 3422 Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 3431 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
PHIL 3500 The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
POLI 2500 Introduction to Political Theory
POLI 4510 History of Western Political Thought: Plato through Aristotle
POLI 4511 History of Western Political Thought: Reformers through Marx
POLI 4530 American Political Theory
POLI 4550 Communist Political Thought
POLI 4570 Contemporary Political Theory
WS Feminist Theory
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