Academic Plan
Academic Plan:
Courses as Host University and Their Transferrable Credits:
LSSOGE300: Gentrification: Urban and Social Inequality
Description: This course delves deeper into the phenomenon of gentrification, exploring its history, dynamics, causes, and effects. The complex notion of gentrification will be defined with relations to the politics of housing, social justice, and urban developments. The notion will be framed with references to different periods and geographical contexts. Gentrification will be assessed through a variety of social, political, and economic factors such as race, ethnicity, poverty, aesthetics, rurality, organized crime, commodification, Disneyfication, and museumification. In the second half of the course, emphasis will be placed on the gentrifying spaces in Italy, and Florence in particular, and students will be guided to conduct field research to further examine the impacts that gentrification has on urban and social inequalities.
Relevance to Major: I was specifically drawn to taking this course abroad, as I find it an excellent way to deepen my Sociological understanding of the main themes in Sociology, such as social inequality, urbanization, and housing dynamics. The head of Sociology approved this course and can contribute to my sociology major plan. It can provide me with three units. For a sociology major plan, 60 units are needed to graduate, keeping me on track.
LACRHR280: Human Rights and International Criminal Justice
Description: 3 semester credits. In the 20th century the international community has progressively elaborated rules and procedures to state that certain behaviors are crimes and to ensure violations are punished acts. The course will provide an introduction to the birth, evolution, and contemporary challenges of human rights, humanitarian law, and the international systems to maintain peace or restore justice. It aims at offering an overview of the history of human rights from their appearance on the international scene to contemporary debates. Students will analyze the process of definition of crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, war crimes and genocide, and the mechanisms to protect humanitarian law, from the emergency logic of Nuremberg Trials after World War II to the institutionalization of International Criminal Justice and the various categories of humanitarian interventions: peacekeeping, peace-making, and peace-enforcing.
Relevance to Major:I was drawn to this course as I have never taken a law course and am interested in expanding my knowledge of human rights. This course highlights human rights, law, and international justice systems, which is beneficial for my sociology program by furthering my understanding of global social structures. The sociology department has approved the course and offers 3 units. This benefits my major plan as I need 60 units of sociology courses to be eligible to graduate, keeping me on track for graduating within my four year program.
LAPYCS190: Culture Shock: Cross Cultural Psychology
Description: 3 semester credits. Over the recent decades, globalization has brought about a phenomenon that has increasingly been recognized by both psychologists and anthropologists as a viable field of research: Culture Shock. Also referred to as
Courses as Host University and Their Transferrable Credits:
LSSOGE300: Gentrification: Urban and Social Inequality
Description: This course delves deeper into the phenomenon of gentrification, exploring its history, dynamics, causes, and effects. The complex notion of gentrification will be defined with relations to the politics of housing, social justice, and urban developments. The notion will be framed with references to different periods and geographical contexts. Gentrification will be assessed through a variety of social, political, and economic factors such as race, ethnicity, poverty, aesthetics, rurality, organized crime, commodification, Disneyfication, and museumification. In the second half of the course, emphasis will be placed on the gentrifying spaces in Italy, and Florence in particular, and students will be guided to conduct field research to further examine the impacts that gentrification has on urban and social inequalities.
Relevance to Major: I was specifically drawn to taking this course abroad, as I find it an excellent way to deepen my Sociological understanding of the main themes in Sociology, such as social inequality, urbanization, and housing dynamics. The head of Sociology approved this course and can contribute to my sociology major plan. It can provide me with three units. For a sociology major plan, 60 units are needed to graduate, keeping me on track.
LACRHR280: Human Rights and International Criminal Justice
Description: 3 semester credits. In the 20th century the international community has progressively elaborated rules and procedures to state that certain behaviors are crimes and to ensure violations are punished acts. The course will provide an introduction to the birth, evolution, and contemporary challenges of human rights, humanitarian law, and the international systems to maintain peace or restore justice. It aims at offering an overview of the history of human rights from their appearance on the international scene to contemporary debates. Students will analyze the process of definition of crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, war crimes and genocide, and the mechanisms to protect humanitarian law, from the emergency logic of Nuremberg Trials after World War II to the institutionalization of International Criminal Justice and the various categories of humanitarian interventions: peacekeeping, peace-making, and peace-enforcing.
Relevance to Major:I was drawn to this course as I have never taken a law course and am interested in expanding my knowledge of human rights. This course highlights human rights, law, and international justice systems, which is beneficial for my sociology program by furthering my understanding of global social structures. The sociology department has approved the course and offers 3 units. This benefits my major plan as I need 60 units of sociology courses to be eligible to graduate, keeping me on track for graduating within my four year program.
LAPYCS190: Culture Shock: Cross Cultural Psychology
Description: 3 semester credits. Over the recent decades, globalization has brought about a phenomenon that has increasingly been recognized by both psychologists and anthropologists as a viable field of research: Culture Shock. Also referred to as