Diversity Courses

These courses satisfy the university’s diversity requirement for students who began at USC or elsewhere prior to Fall 2015. They carry the designation “m” for multiculturalism.

AHIS 250gm Art, Modernity and Difference
AMST 101gmw Race and Class in Los Angeles
AMST 135gmw Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
AMST 200gm Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity
AMST 206m The Politics and Culture of the 1960s
AMST 220gmw The Making of Asian America
AMST 242gm Social Responses to Disaster
AMST 250gmw The African Diaspora
AMST 285gmw African American Popular Culture
AMST 357m Latino Social Movements
AMST 373m History of the Mexican American
AMST 378m Introduction to Asian American History
AMST 448m Chicano and Latino Literature
AMST 449m Asian American Literature
AMST 452m Race, Gender and Sexuality
ANTH 333gm Forms of Folklore
ANTH 371gm Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs
ARCH 440m Literature and the Urban Experience
COLT 374gm Women Writers in Europe and America
COMM 324mw Intercultural Communication
COMM 383m Sports, Communication and Culture
CTCS 192gm Race, Class, and Gender in American Film
EASC 160gmp China and the World
ENGL 343m Images of Women in Contemporary Culture
ENGL 344gm Sexual/Textual Diversity
ENGL 374m Literature, Nationality and Otherness
ENGL 447m African-American Narrative
GERO 380m Diversity in Aging
HIST 100gm The American Experience
HIST 102gm The Worlds of Medieval Europe
HP 365gmw Culture, Lifestyle, and Health
IML 295Lm Race, Class and Gender in Digital Culture
IML 420m New Media for Social Change
MUSC 200gmw The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity
MUSC 250gmw The Music of Black Americans
MUSC 320gmw Hip-hop Music and Culture
POSC 424m Political Participation and American Diversity
PPD 250m Cities in the Developing World
PPD 372m Public Service in an Urban Setting
PSYC 462m Culture and Mental Health
SOCI 155gm Immigrant America
SOCI 169gm Changing Family Forms
SOCI 200gm Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 250gmw Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective
SOCI 342m Race Relations
SOCI 355m Immigrants in the United States
SOCI 356m Mexican Immigrants in Sociological Perspective
SOCI 360m Social Inequality: Class, Status, and Power
SWMS 385m Men and Masculinity
THTR 395m Drama as Human Relations
THTR 476mw African American Theatre, Dance, and Performance
THTR 488mw Theatre in the Community
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