Courses Toward an HCS Minor
All minor program courses must be taken for a letter grade, with an overall grade-point average of 2.0 or better. Successful completion of the minor program is indicated on the transcript and diploma.
CAN'T GET IN TO AN HCS UPPER-DIVISION COURSE?
Required Lower Division Courses (3 courses, minimum 12 units):
Courses may be from the same department or from different departments.
No more than two courses (8 - 10 units) taken to satisfy this minor may be applied toward requirements for a major or another minor.
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Email the course's faculty member, say you are an HCS minor, and you will receive a PTE number.
Pick two lower division courses from the following list:
Plus pick one lower division course from the following list:
The math/stats options reflect minimum requirements. If you already have credit in a higher numbered math, stats, or other course with significant math/stats content such as Psych 100 (by petition), then you fulfill this requirement.
Honors Credit Courses!
These 1-unit courses are adjuncts to a primary HumCS lecture course and are offered on a graded or P/NP basis.
A notation is made on your transcript. Honors Collegium students earn HC credit assuming a grade of 'B' or higher.
- HumCS 89: Honors Seminars
- HumCS 189: Advanced Honors Seminars
You can learn more about honors seminars here.
Required Upper Division Courses (5 courses, minimum 20 units):
You need Core Courses, pick two from the following list:
- Anthropology 131. Culture: What Makes It All Work (4)
- Comm Studies 154. Social Communication and New Technology (4)
- Hum CS M130A / Management 118A. Complexity Science for Social Systems (4)
- Political Science M115D. Diversity, Disagreement, and Democracy (4)
- Sociology 111. Social Networks (5)
NOTICES: Soc 112 and Soc 118 can replace Soc 111 by petition. Poli-Sci 146G and Poli-Sci 115A can replace Poli-Sci 115D by petition. Public Policy 102 can also meet a minor core requirement, by petition.
You need Methods courses, take all from the following list:
- Hum CS M100. Formal Modeling and Simulations in the Social Sciences (4)
- Hum CS 100L. Modeling and Simulation Laboratory (1)
- Hum CS 110L. Artificial Culture Laboratory (5)
OR substitute
Program in Computing 3 (4) by petition.
NOTICE: Anthropology M186 and Honors M150 are the same course as HumCS M100, and count toward the methods requirement.
Electives, pick a core course above not yet taken, or one course from the following list:
- Hum CS m193P. Journal Club Seminars: Human Complex Systems (1)
- Hum CS 197. Individual Studies (2-4 units, reading focus)
- Hum CS 199. Individual Studies (2-4 units, fieldwork focus)
- Anthropology 186P. Models of Cultural Evolution (4)
- Communication Studies 191F. Entertainment as Implicit Pedagogy (4)
- Communication Studies 191G. The Gaming Mind (4)
- Geography 142. Population Geography (4)
- Geography 148. Economic Geography (4)
- Political Science 115A. Ethics and Governance (4)
- Political Science 142D. Understanding Public Issue Life Cycle (4)
- Political Science 146G. The Social Life of Information
- Political Science 164. Comparative History of Government from Earliest Times to Present Day (4)
- Political Science 191C. Variable Topic Seminar ("Human Complex Systems")
- Public Policy 102. Rational Policies, Irrational People
- Public Policy C119/C219. Crime Control
- OR, any upper-division Core Course not already taken.
- Or, other courses applied by petition.
Note: Other courses taught by HCS faculty may typically be taken in lieu of listed courses. Available by petition. Example courses include: Anthropology 153P Economic Anthropology, and Honors Collegium 25. Artificial Intelligence: Machines as People, People as Machines
View the amazing projects and great fun students have had our courses!
Nineteen
student projects
from Prof. Nick Gessler's "Artificial Culture" class!
Three
student/robot plays
from Prof. Dario Nardi's "Artificial Intelligence" class!