Recommended Course List

Fall 2025

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. 

(Edited 11/7/24)

A. PREREQUISITES 

1. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL THEORY 

  • UM STPEC 101- Radical Visions of Social Thought and Political Economy-Salam- TuTh 11:30AM-12:45PM

2. INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ECONOMY 

  • UM ECON 104 - Introduction to Macroeconomics -P. Dolenc MoWe9:05AM-9:55AM
  • UM ECON 104 - Introduction to Macroeconomics Val Voorheis TuThu 1:00PM-1:50PM

B. UPPER LEVEL COURSES 

1. MODERN SOCIAL THEORY & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 

  • UM ANTHRO 386 - Critical Pedagogy and Academic Peer Facilitation - Jennifer Sandler Mo-1-4PM
  • UM ANTHRO 496W - IS-Advanced Critical Pedagogy - Jennifer Sandler-TBA
  • UM HISTORY 364- Gender and Race in US Social Policy History-Sharrow- MoWe 9:45AM-11:00AM
  • UM HONORS 499CC - HonsThesis-DebatingGlobalizn 1 - Deepika Marya MoWe 2:30PM-3:45PM
  • UM LEGAL 368 - Alternative Dispute Resolution - Leah Wing Tu 4:00PM-6:30PM
  • UM LEGAL  482- Irish Peace Process- Leah Wing Th 4:00PM-6:30PM
  • UM SOCIOL 335 - Radical Movements- Agustin Lao Montes TuTh 2:30PM-3:45PM
  • UM SOCIOL 360 - Urban Sociology - Agustin Lao-Montes TuTh 4:00PM - 5:15PM
  • UM WGSS 301 - Theorizing Gender, Race & Power – Laura Briggs TuTh 10:00AM-11:15PM
  • UM WGSS 392AA - Asian American Feminisms - Miliann Kang Tu 4:00PM-6:30PM

2. POLITICAL ECONOMY 

  • UM ANTHRO 340 - Other Economies Are Possible - Boone Shear TuTh 1:00PM-2:15PM
  • UM ECON 305 - Marxian Economics-Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam- TuTh 11:30AM - 12:45PM
  • UM ECON 330 - Labor in the American Economy - Noe Martin Wiener TuTh 10:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM ECON 338 - Compensation, Incentives & Prod - Fidan Kurtulus TuTh 11:30AM-12:45PM
  • UM ECON 340 -Economics of Health with Lawrence King-TuTh 11:30AM-12:45PM
  • UM ECON 343 - Economics of Gender, Race and Work- Fidan Kurtulus TuTh 11:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM ECON 346- African Americans in the U.S. Political Economy -Mason TuTh 10:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM ECON 348 - The Political Economy of Women -Katherine Moos MoWe 10:10AM-11:25AM
  • UM ECON 368 - Political Econ African Growth and Transformation-Ndikumana-MoWe 2:30-3:45PM

3. WOMEN, GENDER, SEXUALITY STUDIES, AND QUEER THEORY 

  • UM ECON 343 - Economics of Gender, Race and Work Fidan Kurtulus TuTh 11:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM ECON 348 - The Political Economy of Women Katherine Moos MoWe 10:10AM-11:25AM
  • UM HISTORY 364-Gender & Race in US Social Policy History-Sharrow MoWe 9:45AM-11:00AM
  • UM WGSS 301 - Theorizing Gender, Race & Power – Laura Briggs TuTh 10:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM WGSS 392AA Asian American Feminisms - Miliann Kang Tu 4:00PM-6:30PM
  • UM WGSS  393M Everything to Expect when You're Expecting: Confronting Pregnancy Loss TuTh 1:00PM-2:15PM

4. HISTORY AND POLITICS OF RACE IN THE UNITED STATES 

  • UM AFROAM 390S Strike the Empire Back: Black Youth Culture in Neoliberal Age-11:30AM-12:45PM
  • UM AFROAM 494DI ‐ Du Bois Senior Seminar – Amilcar Shabazz MoWe 2:30PM-3:45PM
  • UM ECON 343 - Economics of Gender, Race and Work Fidan Kurtulus TuTh 11:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM ECON 346- African Americans in the U.S. Political Economy -Mason TuTh 10:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM HISTORY 364-Gender & Race in US Social Policy History-Sharrow MoWe 9:45AM-11:00AM
  • UM POLISCI 372 Black Political Thought- Adam Dahl- TuTh 10:00AM-11:15AM
  • UM SOCIOL 330 - Asian Americans & Inequalities - Moon Kie Jung TuTh 1:00PM-2:15PM

5. NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, GLOBAL SOUTH, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE 

  • UM ECON 368 - Political Econ African Growth and Transformation-Ndikumana-MoWe 2:30-3:45PM
  • UM HISTORY 345 ‐ China in the 19th Century - Stephen Platt TuTh 1:00PM-2:15PM
  • UM HISTORY 354 - Hist Of Mexico - Kevin A. Young MoWe 2:30PM-3:45PM
  • UM HISTORY 356-US Empire&Solidarity in Central America-Sierra Becerra TuTh 11:30AM-12:45PM
  •  ​​​​​UM POLISCI 343 - Gov&Pol East Africa - Carlene Edie TuTh11:30AM-12:45PM
  • UM STPEC 492H- Popular Struggles and Revolutionary Praxis in Brazil, South Africa and South Asia- Svati Shah- Tu 4:00PM-6:30PM.