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Seminars that Fulfill WAY-SI

Social Inquiry (SI)

Human beings are social animals. To understand human behavior and exercise responsible citizenship, you’ll need tools that allow you to explore and study the behaviors and propensities at the root of society as well as the ways in which those behaviors and propensities vary across space, time, and individual circumstances.

You’ll need to take two courses in Social Inquiry (SI).

Learn more about WAY-SI

Course Title	Instructor	Quarter	Notes	Fulfills:
Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human	Alison Grace Laurence	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Belonging in a Diverse Society	Greg Walton	Autumn		WAY-SI
Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism	Rowan Dorin	Winter		WAY-SI, Write-2
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	Michael Boskin	Spring		WAY-SI
Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Inequality	Luigi Pistaferri	Autumn		WAY-SI
Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine	Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D.	Spring	SOMGEN 150Q will be offered in Spring Quarter, instead of Autumn.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts	Alexandria Boehm	Winter		WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
Demystifying Pregnancy: Physiology, Policy and Politics	Sylvie Blumstein, Cynthia DeTata	Autumn	As of Aug 11, this seminar has an updated weekly schedule of Wednesdays 6pm–7pm and Fridays 1:30pm–3:30pm.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Energy, the Environment, and the Economy	Frank Wolak	Winter		WAY-SI
Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment	Londa Schiebinger	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Government by the Numbers	Mark Duggan, Steve Ballmer	Autumn		WAY-SI
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History	Steven Press	Winter		WAY-SI
Income and Wealth Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present	Walter Scheidel	Autumn		WAY-SI
International Organizations and Accountability	Erica Gould	Autumn		WAY-SI
Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan	Yoshiko Matsumoto	Spring		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Maps in the Modern World	Kären Wigen	Spring		WAY-SI
Mass Atrocities: Reckoning and Reconciliation	Pawel Lutomski	Winter		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Mathematical Mindsets - The Interplay of Identity & Knowledge in Learning & Life	Jo Boaler	Autumn		WAY-SI
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Winter		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn	TAPS 180Q will meet Online Synchronously in Autumn Quarter.	WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Psychology of Xenophobia	Rania Awaad, MD	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Public Policy and Personal Finance	Gregory Rosston	Autumn		WAY-SI
Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler’s Europe	Jelena Batinic	Spring		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination	Nancy Kollmann	Spring		WAY-SI, Write-2
Self Theories	Carol Dweck	Autumn		WAY-SI
Sexuality and Society	Lisa Medoff	Spring		WAY-SI
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Russian and American Writers’ Responses	Yuliya Ilchuk	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Stalin's Terror: Causes, Crimes, Consequences	Norman Naimark	Autumn		WAY-SI
The Good Death	Anna Bigelow	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall	Richard Saller	Autumn		WAY-SI
The Soviet Union and the World: Views from the Hoover Archives	Norman Naimark	Winter		WAY-SI
The U.S. Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective	Gary Cox	Winter		WAY-SI
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson	Jonathan Gienapp	Winter		WAY-SI
Thinking About War	Mark Lewis	Winter		WAY-SI
Understanding Children's Health Disparities	Donald Barr	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding the Welfare System	Thomas MaCurdy	Autumn		WAY-SI
Were They Really “Hard Times”? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens	Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, Ph.D.	Spring		WAY-ER, WAY-SI