»Social Inquiry Classes

This page lists all the classes that you can take to fulfill the Social Inquiry at Chapman University. The Social Inquiry: is part of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Focus, a General Education requirement at Chapman; is designed to introduce you to the processes by which humans develop social or historical perspectives; requires you to take one class in total.

• AFST 101 Introduction to Africana Studies
• AFST 303 "Mixed Race" Identities
• AFST 305 Afro-Latinx in the Americas
• AFST 315 Racialized Punishment
• AFST 320 Black Feminisms
• AH 200 Ancient to Medieval Art
• AH 201 Renaissance to Modern Art
• AH 202 Art of India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
• AH 203 Exchange and Evolution in the Arts of China and Japan
• AH 204 Introduction to Museum Studies
• AH 205 Arts of the Ancient Americas
• AH 303 The Ancient Greek City
• AH 304 Etruscan and Roman Art
• AH 323 Arts of Tenochtitlán-Mexico City
• AH 330 Nineteenth Century Art
• AH 331 History of Photography
• AH 332 Modern Art
• AH 336 The Art of Fashion
• AH 337 Culture(s) of Outer Space
• AH 340 Contemporary Art: 1945 - 1970
• AH 341 Contemporary Art: 1970-Present
• AH 342 Black Subjects in White Art History
• AH 350 Chromophobia-Chromophilia: Color and the Making of the Atlantic World
• AH 351 Brazilian Art: 1500-2000
• AH 401 Gender, Art, and Western Culture
• AMST 102 Introduction to Asian American Studies
• AMST 203 Asian American Historical Experience
• AMST 205 Chinese American History and Experience
• AMST 215 Japanese American History and Experience
• AMST 280 Asian American Media
• AMST 342 Empire and Race in US History
• AMST 376 Asian American Political History
• AMST 396 Indians of California
• ANTH 102 Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 201 Physical Anthropology
• ANTH 205 Language and Culture
• ANTH 211 Visual Culture
• ANTH 303 Abject Bodies
• ANTH 335B The Anthropology of Space and Place: Ethnic Enclaves in Asian America
• ANTH 335C Anthropology of Space and Place: Japan
• CCI 100 Introduction to Creative and Cultural Industries
• CCI 202 Popular Culture
• CCI 203 Contemporary Issues in Creative and Cultural Industries
• CCI 301 Studies in Cultural Institutions
• CCI 302 Cultural Memory
• CCI 305 Creative and Cultural Studies
• CCI 444 Media, Culture and Emotion
• CES 101 Community Engagement through Service Learning
• CES 102 Social Construction of Difference
• CES 206 Schools in Society
• CES 207 Walt Disney and Charles Darwin: The Pursuit of Happiness and Knowledge
• CES 300 Valuing Differences in American Society
• CES 302 Family, School, and Community Partnerships
• CES 303 Education Through Life Transitions
• CES 310 LGBTQ Issues in Education
• CHIN 378 Contemporary Chinese Society, Politics, and the Chinese-Speaking World
• COM 151 Mass Communication
• COM 211 Intercultural Communication
• COM 212 Group Communication
• COM 311 Gender and Communication
• COM 351 Propaganda and Public Opinion
• ECON 200 Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 374 European Economic History
• ECON 496 Special Topics in Economics
• ENG 232 Latinx History of Orange County
• ENG 270 Foundations of Rhetorical Studies
• ENG 271 Introduction to Linguistics
• ENG 327 Multicultural Literatures of the U.S.
• ENG 372 Language and Ideology
• ENG 415 Topics in Journalism
• ENG 449 Literature in Translation
• FREN 309 Images of Childhood in French Literature and Film
• FREN 320 French Humor in Literature, Cinema and Society
• FREN 323 French Popular Music: a Mirror of Society
• FREN 350 French Poetry Across the Ages
• FREN 378 Contemporary French Society, Politics, The European Union and French-Speaking 
  World
• FREN 389 The French Philosophers and the French Enlightenment
• FREN 353C Topics in Historical Tours: a Tale of Two Cities
• FS 244 History of Film to 1959, Lecture and Laboratory
• FS 245 History of Film 1960 - Present, Lecture and Laboratory
• FS 342K Latinx Films and Filmmakers
• FS 444J Screened Violence
• FS 444M Italian American Cinema
• FTV 317 Unsung Stories and New Expressions
• GD 304 History of Graphic Design
• GER 341 German Film
• GER 351 The Holocaust in German Literature and Film
• GER 378 German Culture & Civilization
• HIST 101 U S History Survey I
• HIST 103 U S History Survey II
• HIST 110 Western Civilization: From Mesopotamia to the Renaissance
• HIST 112 Western Civilization: From the Reformation to Modern Times
• HIST 125 LGBTQ America
• HIST 135 Historian as a Sleuth - Crime in 20th Century United States
• HIST 141 Food in World History
• HIST 160 African Voices: African History to 1800
• HIST 179 Gender, Sexuality, and Power in 19th and 20th Century Africa
• HIST 180 Modern Latin American History
• HIST 190 East Asia History and Popular Culture
• HIST 200 A History of Sexuality
• HIST 201 The Rise of World Civilizations
• HIST 202 Modern World Civilizations
• HIST 205 Global Environmental History
• HIST 208 U.S. - Latin American Relations
• HIST 210 Modern Middle East History
• HIST 211 Mother Russia and Uncle Sam During the Cold War: Conflict and Coexistence
• HIST 215 History of Palestinians and Israelis
• HIST 220 The Vietnam Wars
• HIST 221 Native American History: The Struggle to Be Heard
• HIST 222 Apartheid and Resistance in South Africa
• HIST 223 The Sixties
• HIST 224 United States Women's History
• HIST 225 Colonial American Frontier Conflicts
• HIST 228 African American Historical Experience
• HIST 230 Chicano/a History & Culture to 1865
• HIST 231 Chicano/a History & Culture 1848-Present
• HIST 233 Disability and American Life
• HIST 234 3,000 Years of Jewish History
• HIST 250 Why Africa Matters: African History 1800-Present
• HIST 252 History and Film
• HIST 258 Latin American History Through Film
• HIST 260 Asian History and Film
• HIST 262 History of the Samurai
• HIST 293 U.S. Politics in the Age of Richard Nixon
• HIST 297 The Holocaust in History and Film
• HIST 300 Democracy to Dictatorship: Weimar Germany
• HIST 302 The Classical World: Ancient Greece and Rome
• HIST 303 Theory and Practice of Oral History
• HIST 304 The Ancient Mediterranean World
• HIST 305 Daily Life in Modern Europe
• HIST 306 The Middle Ages
• HIST 307 Germany and the Holocaust
• HIST 308 Early Modern Europe
• HIST 310 Modern Europe
• HIST 311 Russian History
• HIST 312 History of Spain and Portugal
• HIST 313 Modern British History
• HIST 317 Migration in World History
• HIST 319 Israel/Palestine: 3000 Years
• HIST 322 Global History of U.S. Civil Rights Era and Decolonization 1940s-1980s
• HIST 324 African History through Film, Literature and Music
• HIST 337 World War II
• HIST 339 Immigration, Border Consciousness and the Chicano/a Experience
• HIST 340 American Diplomatic History and Foreign Policy
• HIST 354 From Samurai to Pokemon: a Social History of Modern Japan
• HIST 358 Jewish Life From Napoleon to Hitler And Italy
• HIST 363 The Arab World: Colonialism to Revolution
• HIST 365 Topics in the Holocaust
• HIST 366 Capitalism and the Modern World
• HIST 367 The Holocaust in Eastern Europe
• HIST 372 California History
• HIST 377 The AIDS Epidemic in the United States
• HIST 379 Queer Politics in Africa
• HIST 389 History of the Caribbean
• HIST 393 White House Tapes from FDR to Nixon
• HIST 396 Mexican History
• HIST 365A Perpetrators, Witnesses, and Rescuers
• HIST 365B The Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories
• HLHM 100 Introductory Seminar in Health Humanities
• HON 202 On Being Ethical in the World
• HON 206 In Search of Reality: Media, Self and Society
• HON 209 Death, Self and Society
• HON 210 Monsters and Monstrosities
• HON 216 Twilight of the Gods
• HON 218 Social Movement in the Sixties
• HON 224 Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity
• HON 240 Anime and War
• HON 242 Beyonce, Madonna, Nina Simone
• HON 308 Consciousness and Cognition
• HON 314 Narrating the Afterworld: Dante’s Spiritual Journey
• HON 315 Power and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance
• HON 324 Private Law as Public Policy
• HON 326 Writing Food Culture
• HON 328 Elder Law and Juvenile Law
• HON 338 ThanaTourism: Traveling the "Dark Side"
• HON 339 Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Moral Rebels
• HON 345 Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy
• HON 353 The Algorithmic Self: How AI Shapes Our Choices
• HON 358 Geomyths and Fossil Folklore
• HON 363 The Castaway Narrative in World Literature
• HON 369 Select Contemporary Problems: Religion And Politics
• HON 376 Sustainability in an Unsustainably Structured World
• HON 380 Legends, Rumors, Conspiracies
• HON 392 Adventures in Cosmologies
• HON 409 Hermes Unbound: Divining Hermeneutics
• HON 412 "Seas of Stories": Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• HON 416 Sex, Self, Society
• HON 419 War Wounds: Vietnam
• HON 435 Race Matters
• HON 465 Porn Studies
• HON 395H Newton and the Scientific Revolution
• HUM 103 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
• HUM 205 Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Studies
• HUM 206 Introduction to Transgender Studies
• HUM 250 Pop Culture and Pedagogy: Examining the Black Mirror
• HUM 315 Paris and the Modern Experience
• HUM 320 Readings in Posthumanism
• HUM 322 Community, Justice and Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Engagement with The 
  Saint John’s Bible
• HUM 324 Ethnofiction Through Contemporary Narratives
• HUM 331 Feminism and Freedom
• HUM 352C Topics in Law and the Liberal Arts
• IES 101 Self and Identity
• ITAL 345 Conversation and Composition: Introduction to Contemporary Italy
• ITAL 350 The Made in Italy: Fashion, Design, and Material Culture
• ITAL 377 The New Italians: Immigration and Globalization in Twenty-First Century Italy
• JPN 348 Reading Japanese History
• LAT 340 Vergil and the Christian Poets
• LEAD 101 Introduction to Leadership: Principles & Practices
• LEAD 301 Theory and Practice of Leadership
• LEAD 302 Developing Effective Teams: Understanding Yourself and Others
• LEAD 315 Diversity and Inclusion in Leadership
• LEAD 320 Great Leaders: Ethics, Paion and Service
• LEAD 396 Gender and Leadership
• LEAD 397 Leading as a Way of Serving: Pursuing Your Purpose in Life and Work
• LEAD 410 Leadership in International Contexts: Travel Course
• MATH 310 History of Mathematics
• MGMT 470 International Business Management
• MGMT 480 Human Behavior in Organizations
• MUS 101 Introduction to Music
• MUS 102 Compendium of Western Music History
• MUS 122 Musical Cultures of the World
• MUS 202 Music and Gender
• MUS 301 Music History and Literature I
• MUS 302 Music History and Literature II
• MUS 303 Music History/Literature III
• MUS 304 Music History/Literature IV
• MUS 345 Musical Theatre History and Cultural Practice
• MUS 201A History of Rock
• MUS 201B Music, Race and Place in the U.S
• MUS 201C Protest Music
• MUS 201D Country Music
• MUS 201E Popular Music: LGBTQ Perectives
• MUS 201F All That Jazz
• MUS 201G Music of the 1980s
• MUS 201H Music of the Classic Rock Era
• MUS 201I Music, Politics and Social Movements
• MUS 332A Musical Cultures of Africa/Middle East
• MUS 332B Musical Cultures of Asia/Pacific
• MUS 332C Musical Cultures of the Americas
• MUS 332D Folk and Traditional Musical Cultures of Europe
• MUS 496E Opera History and Literature
• PCST 120 Intro to International Relations
• PCST 150 Introduction to Peace Studies
• PCST 200 Introduction to Human Rights
• PCST 253 Mediation & Conflict Resolution
• PCST 325 Albert Schweitzer: His Life & Thought
• PCST 345 Gender in Peace and War
• PCST 352 Race & Change in South Africa & USA
• PCST 353 Peace & Conflict: Middle East
• PCST 359 Terrorism and War in the Media
• PHIL 104 Introduction to Ethics
• PHIL 120 Global Ethics and Religion
• PHIL 125 Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 307 History of Twentieth Century Philosophy
• PHIL 310 From Socrates to Aquinas
• PHIL 311 Descartes to Kierkegaard
• PHIL 318 Political/Legal Philosophy
• PHIL 319 Philosophy of Women/Women of Color
• PHIL 321 Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 340 Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 360 Bootcamp in Aristotle
• POSC 101 Introduction to Political Science
• POSC 110 Introduction to American Politics
• POSC 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
• POSC 200 Introduction to Political Theory
• POSC 212 Introduction to Public Administration
• POSC 240 Introduction to U.S. Law
• POSC 251 Intercultural Conflict & Communication
• POSC 316 Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
• POSC 353 Ethnicity in the Middle East
• POSC 365 The Evolution of the American Party System
• POSC 312C Presidential Scandals
• POSC 378A The Politics of Climate Change
• PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology
• PSY 340 Human Sexuality
• PSY 341 Cross-Cultural Psychology
• REL 115 Living Religions of the World
• REL 120 Global Ethics & Religion
• REL 130 The Study of Religion
• REL 202 Introduction to Islam
• REL 204 Deities, Demons, and Monsters: Mesopotamian Myth and Ritual
• REL 213 Introduction to Judaism
• REL 316 Genesis and Gender
• REL 330 Gender and Religion
• REL 338 Asian Religions
• REL 353 Religion and Medicine
• REL 355 New Religious Movements in Global Context
• REL 366 Blood, Passion, and the Spirit: The Latin American and Latinx Religious 
  Experience
• REL 330A Women and Religion: Voodoo in Context
• SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 204 Marriage and the Family
• SOC 211 Social Problems
• SOC 225 Social Inequality/Stratification
• SOC 281 Sociology of Sex & Gender
• SOC 305 Social Theory
• SOC 306 Social Movements
• SOC 310 Feminist-Art-Theory-Power
• SOC 311 Society/Mass Communications
• SOC 316 Immigration in Southern California
• SOC 320 Sociology of Death
• SOC 335 Society and the Environment
• SOC 340 Black Music and African Diaspora
• SOC 345 Social Psychology
• SOC 370 Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 371 Sociology of Human Sexuality
• SOC 393 Child Abuse
• SPAN 440 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Spanish Bilingualism
• SPAN 470 Techno Writing and Global Perspectives In Latin American Literature and Culture
• TH 371 Theatre History I - Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
• TH 374 Theatre for Social Change
• TH 476 History of Acting in American Film From 1890 - 1970
• TWP 246 History of Television
• WGST 101 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
• WGST 450 Postcolonial Women Writers
• WLC 310 Japanese Film History