The Social and Cultural Analysis  major consists of introductory, elective, and research components, together comprising a total of eleven courses, as laid out below:

Three introductory courses, can be taken in any order:

V18.0001 Concepts in Social and Cultural Analysis—An introduction to key terms and analytical categories for interdisciplinary work in Social and Cultural Analysis and related fields.  This course fulfills the Society and Social Science MAP requirement.

Two courses from among the following:

• Approaches to Africana Studies (V18.0101)
  
  
• Approaches to American Studies (V18.0201)
  
  
• Approaches to Asian/Pacific/American Experience (V18.0301) or History of Asians in the United States (V18.0302) or MAP course World Cultures: Asian/Pacific/American Cultures (V55.0539)
  
  
• Approaches to Gender and Sexuality Studies (V18.0401)
  
  
• Approaches to Latino Studies (V18.0501) or the MAP course, World Cultures: Contemporary Latino Cultures (V55.0529)
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Metropolitan Studies (V18.0601) or Cities in a Global Context (V18.0602)

Six  elective courses 

Four courses (at least two of which must be upper division) distributed across two of the six different programs within the Department: Africana Studies; American Studies; Asian/Pacific/American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latino Studies; Metropolitan Studies.

Two upper-division courses offered by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis which address issues relevant across the Department's various fields of study

Two  research  courses:

V18.0040 Social and Cultural Analysis-related Internship Fieldwork

V18.0090 Senior Research Seminar pertinent to Social and Cultural Analysis

A note about Language/Linguistic Competency: The type of rigorous intercultural study promoted within the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis requires students to recognize the complex modes of communication at work both within and across different social groups. The department therefore strongly encourages its students to develop advanced skills in language and linguistics by any of the following means: taking elective courses in sociolinguistics; studying a language other than English beyond the minimum level required by CAS; studying languages especially germane to the department’s fields of study; pursuing community-based internship fieldwork necessitating the development and use of specific language skills; undertaking study or research abroad in contexts entailing the exercise of key language or linguistic capabilities.

HONORS

Departmental Honors in Social and Cultural Analysis—as in all the majors administered within SCA—requires a minimum of three courses with honors designations: An honors section of Strategies for Social and Cultural Analysis, in which students design their thesis research projects (or preliminary versions thereof) is normally taken in the sophomore or junior year. In the senior year, students take a two-semester honors sequence, consisting of a fall honors section of the Senior Research Seminar (V18.0900) and spring Independent Honors Research (8 points total), in which they complete a substantive research project with a significant component based on original primary research. Additional honors credit may be taken in honors sections of the introductory Concepts course, in designated sections of other departmental courses, or in interdisciplinary departmental honors junior seminars, when offered.