27 Social Science Summer Course Programs in USA

The Global Study Program (GSP) allows international students from select universities to enroll in regular courses in a wide variety of fields at UC Davis. Last year, nearly 300 students from Asia, Europe and South America participated in the program.

Undergraduate core course. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change.

The Summer Course: Intro to Cultural and Social Anthropology introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline's distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly written ethnographic cases that show how anthropological approaches illuminate contemporary social and political issues in a range of different cultural sites.

Provides an understanding of how behavior, feelings, and thoughts of individuals are influenced and determined by characteristics of the situation. Topics: attraction, attitudes, prejudice, social roles, aggression, person perception, and groups. Readings cover theories, experimental research, and application.

Provides an overview of the operation, mechanics, and structure of the derivative markets and covers in-depth quantitative valuation of derivative instruments, such as options, futures, and swaps. Involves risk analysis including risk arbitrage, and risk management.

Undergraduate core course. Study of the national political structure; emphasis on Congress, the executive, administrative agencies, and the judiciary. Relations between formal institutions, parties, and interest groups.

In this course, we will introduce key concepts from the sociology of health and illness to examine the social causes and contexts of disease. We will apply theoretical concepts and frameworks to understand how health and illness are not only biological processes occurring within individuals but also social processes between people, groups, and institutions.

Why do countries go to war? How do social identities - including race, ethnicity, and gender - shape individuals' political behavior? How can we explain variation in rates of poverty and inequality? We will use the tools of political science to investigate some of these basic questions of governance and politics.

This course is a broad historical introduction to the devil. Specifically, we explore how the character and its roles have evolved over time to represent changing social anxieties while also shaping our ideas about evil.

This course provides an introduction to understanding how emerging media technologies like social media, smartphones, algorithms, and artificial intelligence affect our world. Specifically, we will explore how our experiences with technology affect our psychological well-being and mental health, and the informational well-being of our communities.

This class is meant to be an accessible entry point to political philosophy. We'll study theories including utilitarianism, libertarianism, classical liberalism, and egalitarian liberalism, and we'll take on complex current issues like reparations for racial injustice, the gender pay gap, and responses to climate change.

Introduces the major theories and basic principles of sociological analysis. Explores culture, media, socialization, race and ethnicity, globalization, capitalism, gender and sexuality, inequality and poverty, power in American society, and health and medicine from a sociological perspective.

Open only to non-Questrom students. Marketing elective for Business minors. How is it that some products succeed and some fail? In many instances, the difference is in their marketing. The course examines key areas of marketing including product development, advertising, promotions, pricing, and channels.

This seminar is devoted to an examination of United Nations peacekeeping, from its inception in 1956 in the wake of the Suez Crisis to its increasingly important role as an enforcer of political stability in sub-Saharan Africa. We will look at the practice of "classic" peacekeeping as it developed during the Cold War, with the striking exception of the Congo Crisis of 1960; the rise and fall of so-called "second-generation peacekeeping," more accurately labeled "peace enforcement," in the early 1990s in Bosnia and Somalia; and the re-emergence in recent years of a muscular form of peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa, most notably in Congo in 2013. Students will learn the basic history of the United Nations since 1945 and the fundamentals of the United Nations Charter, especially with respect to the use of force and the sovereignty of member states.

Offers an overview of the key current and emerging enterprise risk analytical approaches used by corporations and governmental institutions, and focuses on understanding and implementing the enterprise risk management framework to leverage the opportunities around a firm to increase firm value.