University of Texas at Austin

United States of America

Available Courses

A study of America through its geography, language, government, or cultures. Examines women’s participation in well-known and lesser-known social movements during the twentieth century.

Selected topics in south and east Asian anthropology, economics, history, geography, government, and sociology. An introduction to the international relations of East and Southeast Asia, with particular attention to postwar economic and security issues, the changing political landscape of the post-Cold War period, and the development and functions of regional institutions.

Examine the social and economic distribution of health and health care and how underlying social values shape both the health of a population and its approach to health care. Analyze health care systems worldwide to see what the advantages and disadvantages of these models are for different segments of society compared to the US model.

Discuss the ethical, legal, and societal implications of advances in the understanding of neuroscience and genetics.

Analysis of topics in the philosophy and real-life application of the liberal arts.

Topics cover aspects of economic theory, applications, and policy.

Uses hip-hop music as a model for understanding a speech community. Focuses on language innovation and the creation of new social networks, forms of communication, and cultural meaning and values.

Traces the development of American culture and society from the end of the Civil War to the present. Major themes include racial conflict, pluralism, religion, urban development and reform, modernism, government centralization, cultural radicalism, and the rebirth of conservatism.

Examination of the ways people from different cultures communicate and argue, and how cultures use logic, stories, myth, images, and the spoken word to make their points.

Examination of the ways people from different cultures communicate and argue, and how cultures use logic, stories, myth, images, and the spoken word to make their points.