Upper-Division Writing GE Requirement

At least one upper-division course (numbered 100-199) in your academic program must include a significant writing component in English to complete the ERC Upper-Division Writing GE requirement.

See General Catalog for complete course descriptions and pre-requisites: http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog
This one course requirement may be taken for letter or P/NP grade*.
Students may overlap this requirement with any requirement. See Overlap Policies.
Course may overlap with Regional Specialization if course is within selected region
For students who do not complete an approved Upper-Division Writing course from the list below, they may petition coursework for consideration to clear the requirement. Review the Upper-Division Writing GE area for more information

(*) Eligible course for Regional Specialization OR Fine Art requirement, NOT BOTH
(~) May overlap with Regional Specialization

Academic Internship Program

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
AIP 197 (4 units minimum)	Academic Internship Program	FA11	---

Anthropology

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~ANAR 145S	Study Abroad: Egypt of the Pharaohs	FA11	---
ANTH 196A	Honors Studies in Anthropology	FA12	---
ANTH 196B	Honors Studies in Anthropology	FA12	---
ANSC 154	Gender and Religion	FA15	---
ANSC 159	The Anthropology of Marriage	FA15	---
ANTH 101	Foundations of Social Complexity	FA15	---

Biology

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
BIEB 176	Biology of Conservation and the Human Predicament	FA11	---

Communication

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
COMM 100C	Communication, Institutions, and Power	FA11	---
COMM 102C	MMPP: Practicum in New Media and Community Life	FA14	---
COMM 146	Advanced Topics in Cultural Production	FA11	---
COMM 190	Junior Seminar in Communication	FA11	---

Cognitive Science

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
COGS 190A	Pre-Honors Project in Cognitive Science	FA11	---
COGS 190B-C	Honors Project in Cognitive Science	FA12	SP13
COGS 196A-B	See Course Catalog	FA12	SP13

Dimensions of Culture

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~DOC 100D	Dimensions of Culture: Promises and Contradictions in US Culture	FA11	---

Economics

Course Number

Course Title

Start Date

End Date

ECON 159

Economic History of the United States II

(cross-listed: HIUS 141)

FA12

ECON 191A-B

Senior Essay Seminar

FA11

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Education Studies

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~EDS 117	Language, Culture, and Education (cross-listed: SOCI 117)	FA11	---
~EDS 130	Introduction to Academic Mentoring of Elementary/School Students	FA14	---
~EDS 131	Early Childhood Development and Education	FA14	---
~EDS 136	Introduction to Academic Tutoring of Secondary School Students	FA14	---
~EDS 137	Introduction to Discipline-Specific Teaching and Learning	FA14	---
~EDS 138	Introduction to Academic Tutoring at Charter Schools	FA11	---
EDS 140	Introduction to Action Research in Pre-K–12 Education	FA14	---
EDS 141	Action Research in Pre-K–12 Education: Advanced Practicum in Pre-K–12 Schools and Communities	FA14	---

Environmental Systems

Course Number

Course Title

Start Date

End Date

ESYS 103

Environmental Challenges: Science and Solutions

(cross-listed: MAE 124)

FA11

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ESYS 190B

Environmental Systems Senior Seminar

FA12

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Ethnic Studies

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
ETHN 100	Ethnic Studies	FA11	SP14
ETHN 100A	Ethnic Studies: Theoretical Approaches	FA19	---
ETHN 100B	Interdisciplinary Methodologies	FA19	---
ETHN 100C	Social Justice Praxis	FA19	---
ETHN 105	Ethnic Diversity and the City	FA12	---
~ETHN 124	Asian American Literature (cross-listed: LTEN 181)	FA11	---
~ETHN 125/125R	Asian American History (cross-listed: HIUS 124)	FA11	--
ETHN 128	Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (cross-listed: MUS 152)	FA12	---
~*ETHN 178	Blues: An Oral Tradition (Cross-listed: MUS 126)	FA11	--
~*ETHN 179	Discover Jazz (cross-listed: MUS 127)	FA19	---

ETHN 179B

Jazz Since 1946: Freedom and Form

FA14

SP18

Human Development Program

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
HDP 135	Practicum in Child Development	FA11	SP17
HDS 191 (Renumbered from HDP 191)	Field Research in Human Development	FA12	---
HDS 193 (Renumbered from HDP 193)	Advanced Research in Human Developmental Sciences	FA12	---
HDS 194A-B-C (Renumbered from HDP 194A-B-C)	Honors Thesis in Human Developmental Sciences	FA12	---

History

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~HIAF 112	West Africa since 1880	FA11	---
~HIEA 112	Japan: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the US Occupation	FA11	---
~HIEA 113	The Fifteen-Year War in Asia and the Pacific	FA11	---
~HIEA 122	Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Society	FA12	---
~HIEA 128	History of Material Culture in China	FA12	SP19
~HIEA 129	Faces of the Chinese Past	FA11	---
~HIEA 136	History of Thought and Religion in China: Daoism	FA12	SP19
~HIEA 137	Women and the Family in Chinese History	FA11	---
~HIEA 138	Women and the Chinese Revolution	FA11	---
~HIEA 149	Land of Three Faiths: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain and Portugal	FA20	--
~HIEA 150	Modern Korea, 1800–1945	FA12	---
~HIEA 164	Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese History	FA12	---
~HIEU 101A	Ancient Greek Civilization	FA12	SP17
~HIEU 110	The Rise of Europe	FA12	FA19
~HIEU 111	Europe in the Middle Ages	FA13	---
~HIEU 122	Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Peloponnesian War	FA12	---
~HIEU 128	Europe since 1945	FA12	---
~HIEU 129	Paris, Past and Present	FA12	---
~HIEU 130	Europe in the Eighteenth Century	FA12	---
~HIEU 132	Germany from Luther to Bismarck	FA11	FA19
~HIEU 134	The Formation of the Russian Empire, 800–1855	FA12	---
~HIEU 142	European Intellectual History, 1780–1870	FA11	---
~HIEU 144	Topics in European History	FA11	---
~HIEU 145	The Holocaust as Public History	FA11	---
~HIEU 146	Fascism, Communism, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Europe 1919–1945	FA11	---
~HIEU 149	History of Women in Europe: 1870 to the Present (topic end-dated)	FA11	SP15
~HIEU 149	Land of Three Faiths: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain and Portugal	WI21	--
~HIEU 151	Spain since 1808	FA11	---
~HIEU 154	Modern German History: From Bismarck to Hitler	FA11	---
~HIEU 156	History of the Soviet Union, 1905–1991	FA11	FA19
~HIEU 158	Why Hitler? How Auschwitz?	FA11	---
~HILA 113	Lord and Peasant in Latin America	FA11	SP14
HILA 118	Subverting Sovereignty: US Aggression in Latin America, 1898–Present	FA11	---
~HILA 131	A History of Mexico	FA11	---
~HILA 132	Modern Mexico: From Revolution to Drug War Violence	FA11	---
~HINE 170	Special Topics in Jewish History	FA11	---
~HISC 107	The Emergence of Modern Science	FA11
HISC 115	History of Modern Medicine	FA11	---
~HIUS 124	Asian American History (cross-listed: ETHN 125)	FA11	---
HIUS 133	The Golden Age of Piracy	FA11	---
HIUS 141	Economic History of the United States II (cross-listed: ECON 159)	FA12	---
~HIUS 146	Race, Riots, and Violence in the U.S	FA11	---
~HIUS 155	From Zoot Suits to Hip-Hop: Race and Popular Culture since World War II	FA11	--
HITO 105	Jewish Modernity from 1648-1948	FA11	--

Human Rights

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
HMNR 101	Human Rights II: Contemporary Issues	FA11	---

International Studies Program

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
INTL 190	Seminar in International Studies	FA11	---
INTL 190H	Honors Seminar in International Studies	FA12	---
INTL 196H	International Studies Honors Program	FA12	---

Japanese Studies

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
JAPN 190	Selected Topics in Contemporary Japanese Studies	FA12	---

Latin American Studies

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~LATI 190	Latin American Studies Senior Seminar	FA11	---

Law and Society

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
LAWS 101	Contemporary Legal Issues	FA11	---

Linguistics

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
LIGN 187	The Art, Language, and Culture of Flamenco	FA11	SP19
LIGN 155	Evolution of Language	FA19	---
LIGN 179	Second Language Acquisition Research	FA19	---
LIGN 180	Language Representation in the Brain	FA19	---
LIGN 181	Language Processing in the Brain	FA12	---

Literature

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~LTEA 110B	Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation	FA11	---
*~LTEA 120B	Taiwan Films	FA13	---
~LTEA 140	Modern Korean Literature in Translation from Colonial Period	FA11	---
LTEN 100-199	Refer to Course Catalog for Courses	FA12	---
LTLA 100	Intro to Latin Literature	FA11	---
~LTLA 132	Lyric and Elegiac Poetry	FA11	SP12
#~LTRU 123	Single Author in Russian Literature in Translation	FA11	---
LTWL 100-199	Refer to Course Catalog for Courses	FA12	---
LTWR 126	Creative Nonfiction Workshop	FA12	---
LTWR 191	See Course Catlog	FA12	SP13

Math

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
MATH 163	History of Mathematics	FA12	---

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Course Number

Course Title

Start Date

End Date

MAE 124

Environmental Challenges: Science and Solutions

(cross-listed: ESYS 103)

FA11

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Music

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
MUS 107	Critical Studies Seminar	FA14	---
MUS 113	Topics in Classic, Romantic, and Modern Music	FA11	---
MUS 114	Music of the Twentieth Century	FA11	---
~*MUS 126	Blues: An Oral Tradition (cross-listed: ETHN 178)	FA11	---
~*MUS 127 (formerly MUS 127B)	Discover Jazz (cross-listed: ETHN 179)	FA11	---
MUS 152	Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture (cross-listed: ETHN 128)	FA12	---
MUS 199	Independent Study	FA11	---

Making of the Modern World

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
MMW 121*	Exploring the Premodern World	FA14	---
MMW 122*	Exploring the Modern World	FA14	---

*MMW must be taken for a letter grade

Philosophy

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
~PHIL 100	Plato	FA11	---
~PHIL 101	Aristotle	FA12	---
~PHIL 102	Hellenistic Philosophy	FA12	---
~PHIL 105	The Empiricists	FA12	SP20
PHIL 108	Nineteenth-Century Philosophy	FA12	---
PHIL 109	History of Analytic Philosophy	FA12	---
~PHIL 110	History of Philosophy: Ancient	FA12	---
~PHIL 111	History of Philosophy: Early Modern	FA12	---
PHIL 123	Philosophy of Logic	FA12	---
PHIL 124	Philosophy of Mathematics	FA12	---
PHIL 130	Metaphysics	FA12	---
PHIL 131	Topics in Metaphysics	FA12	---
PHIL 132	Epistemology	FA12	---
PHIL 134	Philosophy of Language	FA12	---
PHIL 136	Philosophy of Mind	FA12	---
PHIL 137	Moral Psychology	FA12	---
PHIL 145	Philosophy of Science	FA12	---
PHIL 146	Philosophy of Physics	FA12	---
PHIL 150	Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences	FA12	---
PHIL 161	Topics in the History of Ethics	FA12	---
PHIL 163	Biomedical Ethics	FA12	---
PHIL 167	Contemporary Political Philosophy	FA12	---
PHIL 168	Philosophy of Law	FA12	---
PHIL 185	Philosophy of Religion	FA12	---

Political Science

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
POLI 100M	Political Psychology	FA11	---
~POLI 100O	Perspectives on Race	FA11	---
POLI 102C	American Political Development	FA11	---
POLI 104L	Positive Political Theory of Law	FA11	---
~POLI 110B	Sovereigns, Subjects, and the Modern State: Political Thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau	FA11	---
POLI 110K	Libery and Equality	FA15	---
POLI 110T	Modern Political Ideologies	FA11	---
~POLI 113A	East Asian Thought in Comparative Perspective	FA11	---
~POLI 114B	Marxist Political Thought	FA11	---
~POLI 120A	Political Development of Western Europe	FA11	---
POLI 122	Politics of Human Rights	FA11	---
~POLI 133A	Japanese Politics: A Developmental Perspective	FA11	---
POLI 138D	Special Topics in Comparative Politics	FA11	---
POLI 142J	National Security Strategy	FA11	---
POLI 142K	Politics and Warfare	FA11	---
POLI 145C	International Relations After the Cold War: Theory and Prospect	FA11	---
POLI 191A	Senior Honors Seminar: Frontiers of Political Science	FA11	---
POLI 194	Research Seminar in Washington, DC	FA11	---

Psychology

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
PSYC 139	The Social Psychology of Sport	FA12	---
PSYC 141	Evolution and Human Nature	FA12	---
PSYC 168	Psychological Disorders of Childhood	FA11	---

Religious Studies

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
RELI 110B	The Modern Study of Religion: Social and Cultural Theories of Religion	FA12	SP15

Sociology

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
SOCI 100	Classical Sociological Theory	FA11
SOCI 102	Network Data and Methods	FA15
~SOCI 117	Language, Culture, and Education (cross-listed: EDS 117)	FA11	---
SOCI 131	Sociology of Youth	FA12	---
SOCI 133	Immigration in Comparative Perspective	FA12	---
SOCI 142	Social Deviance	FA11
SOCI 148	Political Sociology	FA12	---
SOCI 160	Sociology of Culture	FA11	---
SOCI 163	Migration and the Law	FA12	---
SOCI 167	Science and War	FA12	---
SOCI 171	Technology and Science	FA12	---
~SOCI 178	The Holocaust	FA12	---
SOCI 184	Gender and Film	FA11	---
~SOCI 188E	Community and Social Change in Africa	FA12	---
SOCI 196A	Honors Seminar: Advanced Studies in Sociology	FA12	---
SOCI 196B	Honors Seminar: Supervised Thesis Reseach	FA12	---

Theater and Dance

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
TDGE 126	Storytelling and Design in Animation	FA12	---
TDGE 196A	Honors Study in Theatre and Dance	FA12	---
TDHT 103	Asian American Theatre	FA12	---
~TDHT 109	African American Theatre	FA15	---
TDHT 114	American Musical Theatre	FA12	---
TDHT 115	History and Theory of Directing	FA14	---

Urban Studies & Planning

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
USP 137	Housing and Community Development Policy and Practice	FA11	---
USP 143	The US Health-Care System	FA12	---
USP 144	Enironmental and Preventive Health Issues	FA12	---
USP 173	History of Urban Planning and Design	FA11	---

Visual Arts

Course Number	Course Title	Start Date	End Date
VIS 117E	Problems in Ethnoaesthetics	FA12	---
VIS 117G	Critical Theory and Visual Practice	FA12	---
VIS 117I	Western and Non-Western Rituals and Ceremonies	FA12	---
*VIS 121D	The Illuminated Manuscript in the Middle Ages	FA12	SP15
*VIS 122F	Leonardo’s La Gioconda	FA12	---
VIS 123BN	Jan van Eyck	FA12	SP13
*VIS125DN	Marcel Duchamp	FA12	---
~*VIS 126C	Problems in Mesoamerican Art History	FA11	---
~VIS 126D	Problems in Ancient Maya Iconography and Inscriptions	FA12	---
~*VIS 126I	Southwest American Indian Art	FA11	---
~*VIS 127B	Arts of China	FA11	---
~*VIS 127C	Arts of Modern China	FA11	---
~*VIS 127D	Early Chinese Painting	FA12	---
~*VIS 127E	Later Chinese Painting	FA12	---
~VIS 127F	Japanese Buddhist Art	FA12	---
*VIS 127G	Twentieth-Century Chinese Art	FA12	SP16
~VIS 127GS	Issues in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art	FA17	---
~VIS 127Q	Japanese Painting and Prints	FA12	---
VIS 129A	Seminar in Art Criticism and Theory	FA12	---
VIS 129B	Seminar in Art Criticism and Theory	FA12	---
VIS 129C	Seminar in Art Criticism and Theory	FA12	---
VIS 129D	Seminar in Art Criticism and Theory	FA12	---
VIS 129E	Seminar in Art Criticism and Theory	FA12	---
VIS 129F	Seminar in Art Criticism and Theory	FA12	---
VIS 129H	Art History Honors Directed Group Study	FA12	---
VIS 155	The Director Series	FA11	---
~VIS 158	Histories of Photography	FA11	---

Last Updated: 12/03/20