Units: 2
Hours: Lecture, .5 hours; discussion, .5 hours; practicum, 1 hour; workshop, .5 hours; extra reading, 2.5 hours; individual study, 2.5 hours; outside research, 2.5 hours; written work, 2.5 hours
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Prerequisites: graduate standing in Sociology
Description: Focuses on ongoing collective research projects on the evolution of polities and settlements. Studies the growth and decline of human settlements and polities in world historical and evolutionary perspective including those in nomadic and small-scale sedentary societies, early cities and states, and the emergence of empires and contemporary world cities. Students who submit a term paper receive a letter grade; other students receive a Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade. Course is repeatable as content changes to a maximum of 12 units.