Course Offerings for Spring 2004

NOTE: If you are a declared major, you will need a new Adviser Code each semester to register for classes. Please complete the "TeleBear Advising Record" available on the ISF Bulletin Board and pick up your ISF file in 301 Campbell before you see your faculty adviser. If you cannot meet with your assigned Adviser, see another.

Please Note: You must attend all class meetings during the 1st two weeks of the semester or you will be dropped from ISF courses. However, it is the responsibility of the student to verify prior to the 8th week drop deadline that he/she is no longer enrolled.

SENIORS! Are you planning on writing your senior thesis in Fall 2004? If so, you will want to take the ISF 188 - Thesis preparation seminar this spring! Set yourself up for success!!

SOPHOMORES/JUNIORS!! Have your declared the ISF major yet? Talk to our faculty advisers today, it is never too early to begin planning your major - don't wait - and get those prerequisites completed asap!!!

ISF 60 - Technology and Values in the Global Arena (3 units)
MW 10-11:30, 170 Barrows, Instructor: Urs Cipolat, CCN: 45802
In recent years, the pace of international transfers of technology, funds, resources, information, and even populations has increased dramatically. This cross-cultural diffusion has raised complex and interesting moral issues, issues which this course seeks to explore. We will examine some of the emergent ethical issues in international affairs, with particular attention to those involving technological development. Such issues include the effect of mass media and the Internet on cultural integrity, the politics of environmental regulation, ethical implications of genetic engineering, and others. In each case, the student will explore the relevant historical and empirical background as well as the salient moral and political debates. We will draw on classical, academic, and popular sources, including contemporary films, to explore the ramifications of such issues in modern culture. The goal of the course is to provide the student with an interdisciplinary introduction to key areas of conflict in the next century. Satisfies the following L&S breadth requirements: (PV) Philosophy & Values and (SBS) Social & Behavioral Sciences. (LATE ADD TO THE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES)

ISF 100A, Sec 1 - Introduction to Social Theory and Cultural Analysis (4 units)
Tu/Th 9:30-11 AM, 110 Barrows, Instructor: Earl Klee, CCN: 45803
Focus: Social Theory and Societal Evolution: Charting the Patterns. This is an interdisciplinary survey course on the nature of power, authority, and social freedom in advanced industrial society. Our main focus will be on how social theory has attempted to grasp and comprehend the central currents of modern life. In this course we will learn to read, critique and draw out the implications of various insightful and influential social theories both past and present. By doing this the student will get an appreciation for some of the dominant structural trends shaping the course of modern life. Above all we will be concerned with the complex interplay of claims to individual freedom, and the structuring force of social, political and economic organization. The student will emerge from the course with a grasp of diverse forms of theoretical reflection, and a sharpened understanding of the central issues facing advanced industrial society. A premium will be placed on critical thinking and reflection. Readings: Karl Marx, Selected readings; Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism and From Max Weber; F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit; Charles Lindblom, The Market System; Robert Gilpin, The Challenge of Global Capitalism. Satisfies the following L&S breadth requirements: (IS) International Studies, (SBS) Social & Behavioral Sciences , or (PV) Philosophy & Values.

ISF 100B, Sec 1 - Introduction to Social Theory and Cultural Analysis (4 units)
M / W 12:00-2:00 PM, 180 Tan, Instructor: EHRLICH, Robert, CCN: 45806
In this course we will utilize the humanities and the social sciences to explore the problematic nature of the self in the modern world, particularly in American society. We will center our attention on the social matrix within which the self develops and functions. The central concern will be the way that the self is shaped through relationships in the family as well as through prevailing institutional arrangements and established values. Satisfies the following L&S breadth requirements: (SBS) Social & Behavioral Sciences , or (PV) Philosophy & Values.

ISF C100C - Word and Image (4 units)
T/ Th 3:30-5pm, 102 Moffit, Instructor: Karin Sanders, CCN: 45809
(Also listed as Scandinavian Studies C116)
This course is designed to sharpen our skills in understanding what happens when the world of images and words meet. Starting with works from the "classical Western" tradition we will proceed to investigate how word/image constellations operate in a variety of media, including sculpture and poetry, painting and prose, illuminated manuscripts, death masks and diaries, photography, silent movies and advertising. Satisfies the following L&S breadth requirements: (AL) Art and Literature.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW COURSE: ISF 100D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ISF 100D , Sec 1- Introduction to Technology, Society, Culture (4 units)
Tu/Th 12:30-2 PM, 60 Evans, Instructor: Renate Holub, CCN: 45812
Focus: technological revolutions and international social movements
This course is an introduction to the impacts of technological revolutions on a variety of global societies and cultures. First, it focuses on the technological elements of the industrial revolutions in the nineteenth century of Europe and North America and on the communication revolutions of the early twentieth century (telephones, radio, and visual media, automobile). Second, the course looks at the evolution of the computer and the development of the internet. Third, it examines the impact of the internet on contemporary social movements in a variety of global regions. Among these regions are South Africa, Vietnam, Iran, the United States, and Brazil. The purpose of the course is fourfold: (1) to place the emergence of the information society into a historical context and in a geopolitical context as well. (2) students will gain an understanding of the decision making processes and choices that command the development and application of technology. (3) students will be able to raise substantive questions about technological knowledge gaps and make ups in knowledge gaps. (4) students will be able to test a variety of hypothesis about the promises, constraints, and opportunities of the information age. Manuel Castells&Mac226;s theory of the information age provides a theoretical framework for this course.

ISF C155 - Social Implications of Computer Technology (2 units - p/np)
W/F 8:30-10 am, 380 Soda, Instructor: Brian Harvey, CCN: 45815
(Also listed as Computer Science C195)
Topics include electronic community; the changing nature of work; technological risks; the information economy; intellectual property; privacy; artificial intelligence and the sense of self; pornography and censorship; professional ethics. Students will lead discussions on some of these topics.


FOR ISF DECLARED MAJORS ONLY:

ISF 188, Sec. 1 - Thesis Workshop (2 units) (replaces ISF 198- Thesis Prep Workshop)
Wed 2-3:00 PM, 205 Dwinelle Hall, Instructor: Rita Maran, CCN: 45836
Highly Recommended (!) for all ISF majors who are planning to enroll in a thesis class in Fall 2004. This course will allow students to begin the very necessary preparatory work needed prior to the beginning of the senior thesis. Syllabus

ISF 190, Senior Thesis (4 units)
Sec 1 - Tu/Th 3-4 PM, 31 Evans, Instructor: Robert Ehrlich, CCN: 45818
Sec 2 - Tu/Th 11-12, 51 Evans, Instructor: Gary Wren, CCN: 45821
Sec 3 - Tu/Th 2-3 PM, 385 LeConte, Instructor: Gary Wren, CCN: 45824
Sec 4 - M/W 9:00-10:00 AM, 183 Dwinelle, Instructor: Urs Cipolat, CCN: 45827
Sec 5 - M/W 3-4 PM, 210 Wheeler, Instructor: Rita Maran, CCN: 45830 (syllabus)
Attendance in ISF 190 is required during the first week of class - bring a copy of your student record in your ISF file with you to the class to discuss the thesis in relation to your area of concentration and the courses you have completed.
NOTE: if you are planning to do the CREATIVE OPTION in relation to your thesis, please see Robert Ehrlich at the beginning of the semester during posted drop-in office hours.

ISF H195, Honors Thesis (4 units)
MW 10-11 AM, 385 LeConte, Instructor: Earl Klee
Honors thesis student should contact their faculty adviser during the PREVIOUS semester to discuss their options for completing an Honors Thesis. (Please be sure that you meet the gpa requirements for the honors class: 3.5 overall gpa and 3.5 gpa in all courses taken to fulfill the major requirements, this includes the world civ pre-req classes, l00A/B, and area of concentration courses taken at UCB. You can determine your own gpa in the major by simply adding up all course grade points and dividing them by the number of course units.) You will need to meet briefly with Dr. Klee in fall to also discuss your plans for the thesis and to get the CCN.


Reminders:

Have you completed your 2ND World Civ ISF pre-req yet? If not, you should do so ASAP! See the list
of World Civ. Courses for Spring 2004 on the bulletin board or on the ISF webpage under Requirements.

If you are graduating in spring 2004, you need to get on the degree list (via TeleBEARS) or at Sproul before the end of the 3rd week of Spring. Check out the commencement webpage at the ISF home page.

Be sure you are aware of any remaining L&S requirements - go to BearFacts and request a "DARS" report under "Degree".


Special Seating for ISF majors in other departments:

Economics: (no grade level or phase was indicated)
115 - 20th Century World Economy (10 seats)
121 - Industrial Organization & Public Policy (10 seats)
125 - Econ of Environment (10 seats)
151 - Labor Economics (10 seats)
C175 - Economic Demography (10 seats)
181 - International Trade (10 seats)

Psychology (seats will be held for ISF seniors during phase I)
122 - Introduction to Human Learning and Memory (5 seats)
124 - Psycholinguistics(3 seats)
130 - Clinical Psychology (8 seats)
132AC - Community Psychology: An American Cultures Perspect. (3 seats)
140 - Developmental Psychology (10 seats)
150 - Psychology of Personality (5-10 seats)
160 - Social Psychology (10 seats)
Also, there will be plenty of space in Psych summer courses: 130, 136, 150, 160, 167AC

Sociology -
In Phase II of Tele-Bears, ISF majors will be allowed into the class if there are any seats available after the needs of the Sociology majors have been met. You may or may not be able to get on a waitlist during Phase I, if not, then try to get on the waitlist in Phase II - the sociology department will be looking for ISF declared majors listed on the waitlists - if there are any extra seats available. Below are the larger classes that it might be easier for ISF majors to get into:
111 - Sociology of the Family, TuTh 1230-2P, A1 HEARST ANNEX
116 - Sociology of Work, TuTh 5-630P, 390 HEARST MIN
130 - Social Stratification MWF 1-2P, 145 DWINELLE Instructor: HOUT,
134 - Topics in the Sociology of Gender. TuTh 8-930A, 2060 VALLEY LSB,
141 - Social Movements and Political Action. MWF 10-11A, 101 MORGAN
160 - Sociology of Culture, MWF 9-10A, 166 BARROWS
170AC - Social Change, TuTh 330-5P, 56 BARROWS