Undergraduate Electives in Global Urban Humanities
An elective course provides participants an opportunity to round out their study of Global Urban Humanities in a discipline outside of their home division. Elective courses will generally be listed under the following course numbers. These course numbers will not count toward the certificate in all years (depending on the degree of their focus on urban topics), so please research the course offerings of the relevant department on their departmental website and check with the GUH staff and the GUH website for the annually updated list (paying close attention to the course section number and instructor as well as main number).
You must petition to count courses toward the elective using the Elective Petition form. You must take one elective in the College of Environmental Design and one elective in the College of Letters & Science. Exceptions may be granted by petition. To see current and upcoming Core courses, visit the Undergraduate Certificate Core Course List.
All electives listed below must be approved by petition. If you don't see an elective on the list, feel free to suggest additions.
American Studies 10 Imagining the Future
American Studies 102 Oakland | City (AMERSTD 102 changes topics per semester. Please see the Academic Guide for the most current topic.)
American Studies 102: Staging the American City: A Cultural History of Broadway, 1800-present
American Studies 102: Wall Street/Main Street
American Studies H110: Honors Seminar: Special Topics in American Studies (Consent of instructor may be required)
American Studies C111E: Age of Noir
American Studies C111E: Harlem Renaissance
Anthropology 138A: History and Theory of Ethnographic Film
Architecture 109: Special Topics in Architectural Design - Designing for Water
Architecture 110AC: The Social and Cultural Processes in Architecture & Urban Design
Architecture 130: Intro to Architectural Design Theory and Criticism
Architecture 139: Special Topics in Architectural Design Theory and Criticism- Design and Difference: Spaces of Queer Theory
Architecture 170A: An Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism
Architecture 179: Special Topics in the History of Architecture - Public Spaces
Art 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking
Art 23AC: Foundations of American Cyber-Culture
Art 119: Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art
Art 163: Social Practice: Critical Site and Context
Chinese 158: Reading Chinese Cities
Chinese 172/Film 160: National Cinema: Shanghai Cinema
City Planning 110: Introduction to City Planning
City Planning 113B: Community and Economic Development
City Planning 118AC: The Urban Community
City Planning 140: Urban Design: City-Building and Place-Making
City Planning 190: Advanced Topics in Urban Studies
Classics 130: Etruscan Italy.
Classics 170: Pompeii
Comparative Literature W60AC: Boroughs and Barios: Moving in and through NYC & LA (offered Summer 2020)
Comparative Literature 156AC: Sounding American: Literature, Music, Technology and Race (offered Summer 2020)
Dutch 171AC: From New Amsterdam to New York: Race, Culture, and Identity in New Netherland
Education C181: Race, Identity, and Culture in Urban Schools
Education 186 AC / Geography 159AC / Ethnic Studies 159AC: The Southern Border
Education 190 AC: Critical Studies in Education
English 126: British Literature: 1900-1945
English C136: Topics in American Studies
English 165: Special Topics
English 166: Special Topics - New Orleans
English C181/History of Art C109: Digital Humanities, Visual Cultures: Digital Travels
English 190: Research Seminar - The Urban Postcolonial
Environmental Design 4A: Design and Activism
Environmental Design 4B: Global Cities
Environmental Design 100: The City: Theories and Methods in Urban Studies
Environmental Science, Policy & Management 155AC: Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems
Film 160: National Cinema- Shanghai Cinema
Gender and Women Studies 111: Feminist and Queer Activist Visual Cultures
Geography 31: Justice, Nature, and the Geographies of Identity (offered Summer 2020)
Geography 70AC: The Urban Experience (offered Summer 2020)
Geography 80: Digital Worlds: An Introduction to Geospatial Technologies
Geography 107: Waste Matters: Exploring the Abject, Discarded and Disposable (offered Summer 2020)
Geography 160B: American Cultural Landscapes: 1900 - Present
Geography 170: Walkers in the City: Landscape, Mobility, and Everyday Life (offered Summer 2020)
Geography 181: Urban Field Study
Geography 182: Field Study of Buildings and Cities (offered Summer 2020)
Global Studies 10B: Critical Issues in Global Studies
Global Studies 24: Freshman Seminar In Global Studies
Global Studies 140/Slavic 139: Post-Soviet Cultures - After Socialism: Post-Soviet Cultures in Russia and Beyond
History 7B: United States from Civil War to Present (pending AC status; offered Summer 2020)
History 39U: Shanghai: Between China and the World
History 39X: Fiction and the Historical Imagination: Modern Egypt from 1919 to the Arab Spring
History N100.003: History of Silicon Valley (Offered Summer 2020)
History 100F: Not Beijing, Not Shanghai: Four Capitals in China, Past and Present
History 100M: Special Topics in History of the Middle East - Tel Aviv: A City from the Sands
History 120AC/ESPM 160AC: American Environmental and Cultural History
History 106A: Ancient Rome: The Roman Republic
History 106B: Roman Empire (offered Summer 2020)
History 116D: 20th Century China (offered Summer 2020)
History 131B: Social History of US: End of Civil War to Global Age (pending AC status; offered Summer 2020)
History 134A: The Age of the City, 1825-1933
History 134B: The Age of the City: The 20th Century to the Present
History 137AC: Repeopling of America (offered Summer 2020)
History C139B/Demography 145AC: The American Immigrant Experience
History 158C: Modern Europe: Old and New Europe, 1914-present (offered Summer 2020)
History 167D: Berlin and the Twentieth Century
History of Art 27: Visual Cultures of Africa
History of Art 36: ASIAN MODERN: Art + Architecture, 1800-present
History of Art 37: Contemporary Art + Architecture from Asia, ca. 1945-present (offered Summer 2020)
History of Art 38: Art, Ecology, and Asia: Ecohumanities and, or Against, the Climate Crisis
History of Art 41: Introduction to Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
History of Art 80: Introduction to the Art and Architecture of South and Southeast Asia: Tantric Yogis, Dancing Ganeshas, Starving Buddhas
History of Art 80: Introduction to Modern Art (offered Summer 2020)
History of Art 100: Theories and Methods of Art History (offered Summer 2020)
History of Art 101: Theories and Methods for a Global History of Art
History of Art 105: Eco Art: Art, Architecture, and the Natural Environment
History of Art 108: Cities and the Arts: Rome and Constantinople
History of Art 108: Projecting Ancient Rome
History of Art 132: Asian American Art and Architecture
History of Art 156C: Fashion, Technology and the Sensible (offered Summer 2020)
History of Art 180C: The Spectacle of Modernity: Art and Technologies in late 19th-Century Paris
History of Art 182: Histories of Photography (offered Summer 2020)
History of Art 185A: Art, Architecture, and Design in the United States (1800 to the Present)
History of Art 186C: Contemporary Art in the Americas
History of Art 190F: Visual Activism (offered Fall 2020)
History of Art 190G: UC Berkeley Campus Architecture
History of Art 192H: Contemporary Art In/Against Global Crisis: Cairo
History of Art 192M: Undergraduate Seminar: Urban Africa
History of Art 192M: Undergraduate Seminar: Problems in Research and Interpretation: Global Modernism
International and Area Studies 158AC / PACS 148AC: Social Movements, Urban Histories and the Politics of Memory
International and Area Studies 196: 14301 Special Field Research
Italian 40: Italian Culture (offered in English)
Italian 105: The City / La città
Italian 120: Viaggio in Italia: Art, Tourism, and Culture from the Renaissance to Modernity
Jewish 120: Special Topics in Jewish Studies—Jewish Folktales from Around the World: Past and Present, Self and Other
Jewish 121A: Topics in Arts and Culture: Holocaust Museums in Israel and the World
Jewish 121B: Jewish Arts and Culture
Landscape Architecture C171: The American Designed Landscape Since 1850
Landscape Architecture C188: Geographic Information Systems
Media Studies 112: Media Theories & Processes
Near Eastern Studies 109: Mesopotamian History
Portuguese 128: Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature (Portuguese 103 is recommended but not required)
Rhetoric 114: Rhetoric of New Media (offered Summer 2020)
Rhetoric 116: Rhetoric, Culture and Society (offered Summer 2020)
Rhetoric 127: Novel, Society, and Politics
Rhetoric 167: Advanced Themes in Legal Theory, Philosophy, and Argumentation
Scandinavian 75: Literature and Culture of the Nordic World
Slavic 46: Utopias and Dystopias of the Russian Revolution
Slavic 50: Intro to Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures (offered Summer 2020)
Slavic 139/Global Studies 140: Post-Soviet Cultures - After Socialism: Post-Soviet Cultures in Russia and Beyond
Slavic 170: Written in exile: an emergent post-Yugoslav literature?
Spanish 102C: The City as Text: From Buenos Aires to San Juan and Berkeley
Spanish 135: Studies in Hispanic Literature
Sociology 136: Urban Sociology (generally offered in spring)
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies W158: Global Citizenship
To see current and upcoming Core courses, visit the Undergraduate Certificate Core Course List.