SEHE 144: Modern U.s. Consumer Culture

2025-26

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours

Catalog page 600

Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor

Description: Examines the history of mass consumer culture in the United States. Includes the shift from mass production to mass consumption; the grown in advertising and marketing; relationships of race and gender to the market; impacts on built and natural environment; rise of logistics; and waste.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with HISA 119.

Credit: Credit is awarded for one of the following HISA 119, SEHE 144, HISA 119S, or SEHE 144S.

Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Combined: HISA 119 / SEHE 144
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26  8/40  8/ 40
2024-25 75/80  8/25 83/105
2023-24 67/35 12/25 79/ 60
2022-23 69/52 22/25 91/ 77
2021-22 79/43 16/25 95/ 68
2020-21 62/65 27/30 89/ 95
2019-20 21/25 21/ 25
2018-19 60/60 17/25 77/ 85
2017-18 11/25 11/ 25
2016-17 13/25 13/ 25