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 |
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 | --- |
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 | --- |
ESYS 190B |
Environmental Systems Senior Seminar |
FA12 | --- |
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 | --- |
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 | --- |