These courses are recommended to fulfill the STPEC requirements. Not all courses listed here will be offered every semester. We suggest that you look for courses you are interested in and search in Spire using the Professor’s last name. If the Professor is not offering that specific course this semester, they might be offering a similar one that fits that same category. New courses might not appear in the list. If the new course is 300 and above, for example, AFROAM 391, or WGSS391H, you can consult with Monica García, our Director of Undergraduate Advising, to find out if it would be appropriate to fulfill an Upper-Level Course category. Courses below 300 do not qualify for Upper-Level Course status.
If a course is listed under more than one category you may choose which category you wish the course to fulfill. No course may be used to satisfy more than one STPEC requirement. You may take additional STPEC Focus Seminars to fulfill upper level requirements.
If SPIRE will not let you register for a course on the STPEC course list because it is restricted to majors in a particular department or because it requires prerequisites, contact the instructor to ask if they are willing to override SPIRE to allow you to enroll.
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A. PREREQUISITES
1. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL THEORY
- UM STPEC 101 - Introduction to STPEC—Shemon Salam- TuTh 11:30AM-12:45PM
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UM STPEC 189- Intro to Radical Social Theory- Shemon Salam Wed. 4:00pm-5:15pm
2. INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ECONOMY
- UM ECON 104 - Introduction to Macroeconomics - Robert Pollin, MoWe 10:10am-11:00am
- UM ECON 104 - Introduction to Macroeconomics- Patrick Dolenc MoWe 9:05am-9:55am
- UM ECON 105 - Introduction to Political Economy - Lenore Palladino TuTh 2:30pm-3:20pm
B. UPPER LEVEL COURSES
1. MODERN SOCIAL THEORY & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- UM ANTHRO 380 - Grassroots Community Organizing - Jennifer Sandler Th 4:00pm-7:00pm
- UM ANTHRO 397L - Leadership & Activism - Jennifer Sandler- Mondays1:00pm-3:45pm
- UM ANTHRO 496W - IS-Advanced Critical Pedagogy - Jennifer Sandler- TBA-
- UM ANTHRO 590STB- Relational Organizing in our Communities - Jennifer Sandler-Tu 5:30-8:00pm
- UM HISTORY 378J - Social Justice Lawyering - Jennifer Nye- Th 1:00pm-3:30pm
- UM HISTORY 378 - Sex & the Supreme Court - Jennifer Nye Tu 1:00pm-3:30pm
- UM HONORS 499DC - HonsThesis-DebatingGlobalizn 2 - Deepika Marya TuTh 2:30pm-3:45pm
- UM LEGAL 375 - Human Rights & Wrongs - Jamie Rowen Tu Th1:00pm-2:15pm
- UM LEGAL 460 Legalization of American Indians MoWe Kathleen Brown-Perez 2:30pm-3:45pm
- UM POLISCI 499DD ‐ Hons Thesis-Healthcare Inequality/1st - Dean Robinson TuTh 8:30am-9:45am
- UM STPEC 491H- Reparations due to Colonialism, Slavery, Racism & Coloniality: Dilemmas, Debates, Projects- Agustin Lao Montes- Wednesdays 4-6:30pm
- UM STPEC 492H- Practical Magic: Femme Vengeance, Healing & Revolution in the Americas- Rachel Weber and Diana Becerra Tu 4-6:30pm
- UM WGSS 494TI - Unthinking the Transnational - Svati Shah MoWe 2:30pm-3:45pm
2. POLITICAL ECONOMY
- UM ECON 305 - Marxian Economics - Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam TuTh 11:30-12:45pm
- UM ECON 330 - Labor in the American Economy - Noe Martin Wiener TuTh 2:30pm-3:45pm
- UM ECON 338 - Compensation, Incentives & Prod - Fidan Kurtulus TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm
- UM ECON 341 - Labor Economics - Fidan Kurtulus TuTh 10:00am-11:15am
- UM ECON 394CI - Econ of Cooperative Entrprs - Valerie Voorheis TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm
- UM ECON 351 - City, Industr, Labor/Colonial India - Priyanka Srivastava TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm
3. WOMEN, GENDER, SEXUALITY STUDIES, AND QUEER THEORY
- UM COMM 431- The Intersectional Internet-Roopali Mukherjee TuTh 4:00pm-5:15pm
- UM ENGLISH 891MX- Transgender Marxism- Jordy Rosenberg- We 4-6:30pm
- UM HISTORY 301-Women and Gender in Latin America - Diana Sierra Becerra TuTh 10:00-11:15am
- UM HISTORY 357-Women and Revolutions - Diana Sierra Becerra TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm
- UM HISTORY 378R -Hist/Reproductive rights law - Jennifer Nye- TuTh 10:00am-11:15am
- UM HISTORY 378- Sex & the Supreme Court - Jennifer Nye Tu 1:00pm-3:30pm
- UM STPEC 492H- Practical Magic: Femme Vengeance, Healing & Revolution in the Americas- Rachel Weber and Diana Becerra Tu 4-6:30pm
- UM WGSS 350-Global Mommy Wars: Reproductive Politics in Asia &Asian America- M.Kang TuTh 11:30-12:45
- UM WGSS 494TI - Unthinking the Transnational - Kiran Asher Mo We 2:30pm-3:45pm
4. HISTORY AND POLITICS OF RACE IN THE UNITED STATES
- UM AFROAM 390S Strike the Empire Back:Black Youth Culture in the Neoliberal Age- David Swiderski-TuTh 10:00am-11:15am.
- UM ANTHRO 384 - African American Anthropology - Amanda Johnson
- UM ANTHRO 590W- Whiteness, Power, Ontology- Boone Sheer We 2:30pm-5:15pm
- UM COMM 430 Stories of Race in the U.S.- Roopali Mukherjee-TuTh 5:30-6:45pm
- UM COMM 431- The Intersectional Internet-Roopali Mukherjee TuTh 4:00pm-5:15pm
- UM HISTORY 390STA Utopias and Dystopias-Kevin Young- TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm
- UM LEGAL 460 Legalization of American Indians MoWe Kathleen Brown-Perez 2:30pm-3:45pm
5. NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, GLOBAL SOUTH, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
- UM ECON 397MI - City, Industr, Labor/Colonial India - Priyanka Srivastava-Tu Th 11:30am-12:45pm
- UM HISTORY 301 - Women and Gender in Latin America - Diana Sierra Becerra TuTh 10:00-11:15am
- UM HISTORY 390STA Utopias and Dystopias-Kevin Young- TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm
- UM HISTORY 392E - The U.S. In Latin America - Kevin A. Young- TuTh 11:30-12:45pm
- UM HISTORY 337AH - ST-Race,Sex,& Emp:Brit & Ind Hons – P. Srivastava TuTh 2:30pm-3:45pm
- UM POLISCI 345 - Rvltn Ntlsm Impr Crb - Carlene Edie TuTh 2:30pm-3:45pm
- UM POLISCI 346 - Gov&Pol West Africa - Carlene Edie TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm
- UM POLISCI 390STG - Indigenous Resistance in the Americas - Angelica Bernal TuTh10:00-11:15pm
- UM STPEC 491H- Reparations due to Colonialism, Slavery, Racism & Coloniality: Dilemmas, Debates, Projects- Agustin Lao Montes- Wednesdays 4-6:30pm
- UM STPEC 492H- Practical Magic: Femme Vengeance, Healing & Revolution in the Americas- Rachel Weber and Diana Becerra Tu 4-6:30pm