Example Curricula

To give a sense of the forms that individualized MAPSS pathways can take, we are including examples of curricula below. Please note that these are only examples; every MAPSS student’s path looks different based upon their interests and goals.

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

None

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 3000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. ANTH 51942: Anthropological Encounters with Technology 
  3. SOCI 30593: Housing and Society: Precarity and Profit 

Non-credit Courses

None

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. Graduate Practicum in the Social Sciences (MAPS 30005, offered by the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences)
  2. UX Research Foundations (MAPS 30210, offered by the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences)
  3. Ethnography: Methods and Writing (MAPS 31402, offered by the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences)

Non-credit Courses

None

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. CMLT 32310: Character Study 
  2. MACS 30267: Thinking like a Computational Social Scientist 
  3. SSAD 69955: Storytelling and Community Building 

Non-credit Courses

None

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

None

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. EDSO 33006: Schooling and Social Inequality 
  3. LACS 35570: Radical Readings: Latin American/Latinx 

Non-credit Courses

  1. EDSO 60013: Workshop on Education (offered by the Committee on Education)

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. EDSO 30609: Social Reproduction and Mobility in a Changing World 
  2. HIST 36511: Cities from Scratch: The History of Urban Latin America (
  3. MAPS 31498: Historical Methods for the Social Sciences 

Non-credit Courses

  1. EDSO 60013: Workshop on Education (offered by the Committee on Education)

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. EDSO 33016: The History of American Urban Education (
  2. EDSO 63412: Cultural Studies in Education 
  3. HIST 47005: Proseminar in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity: Core Methods 

Non-credit Courses

None

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

None

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. PLSC 31822: Global Political Justice 
  3. PLSC 40010: Capital and Democracy in an Age of Finance 

Non-credit Courses

None

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. SOCI 30116: Global-Local Politics 
  2. MAPS 30600: MA Writing and Research 
  3. SOCI 30519: Spatial Cluster Analysis 

Non-credit Courses

None

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. PLSC 35500: Public Opinion 
  2. SOCI 30112: Applications of Hierarchical Linear Modeling ,
  3. SOCI 30252: Urban Innovation: Cultural Place Making and Scenescapes 

Non-credit Courses

None

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

  1. SOSC 30100: Mathematics for Social Sciences 

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis (
  2. HIST 39911: Global Legal History 
  3. MAPS 31801: The Practice of Political Theory 

Non-credit Courses

None

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. ENGL 47716: In a Queer Time and Place 
  2. MAPS 30600: MA Writing and Research 
  3. PLSC 31410: Advanced Theories of Gender and Sexuality 

Non-credit Courses

None

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. ENGL 54330: Agit-Prop Aesthetic 
  2. GNSE 38775: Racial Melancholia 
  3. PLSC 35901: Enlightenment Political Thought 

Non-credit Courses

None

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

  1. MACS 33000: Computational Math Camp 

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. MACS 30000: Perspectives on Computational Analysis 
  3. PSYC 43030: Introduction to Python Programming in the Behavioral Sciences 

Non-credit Courses

  1. MAPS 49800: Research Experience: Psychology Lab 

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. PSYC 30550: From Data to Manuscript in R 
  2. MACS 30100: Perspectives on Computational Modeling 
  3. PSYC 45500: Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging 

Non-credit Courses

  1. MAPS 49800: Research Experience: Psychology Lab 

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. PSYC 33662: The Disordered Mind 
  2. PSYC 37400: Long Term Memory 
  3. MAPS 30220: Exploratory Research Design 

Non-credit Courses

  1. MAPS 49800: Research Experience: Psychology Lab 

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

  1. MACS 33000: Computational Math Camp 

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. PBHS 35600: Money, Medicine, and Markets: The Financialization of the US Health System 
  3. STAT 24400: Statistical Theory and Methods I 

Non-credit Courses

  1. SOSC 47900: Quantitative Methods Workshop 

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. PBHS 43201: Introduction to Causal Inference 
  2. SOSC 36007: Overview of Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences 
  3. STAT 24500: Statistical Theory and Methods II 

Non-credit Courses

  1. SOSC 47900: Quantitative Methods Workshop 

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. BMSC 44000: Innovations in Healthcare Practice 
  2. PBHS 31100: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling in Public Health 
  3. PPHA 41800: Survey Questionnaire Design 

Non-credit Courses

  1. SOSC 47900: Quantitative Methods Workshop 

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

  1. MACS 30120: Computing Fundamentals Boot Camp 
  2. MACS 33000: Computational Math Camp 

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. SOCI 50097: Seminar: Normative Thinking in Sociology 
  3. SOCI 50136: Comparative Socialism Studies 

Non-credit Courses

None

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. SOCI 30508: Working with Found Data: Library/Internet Research 
  2. SOCI 50092: Seminar: Religion and Politics 
  3. SOCI 50139: Historical Research: Epistemology and Praxis 

Non-credit Courses

  1. None

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. AASR 46300: Coalitions, Conversions, and Conservative Christianities 
  2. SOCI 30615: The Chicago School: History, Legacy, and Prospects 
  3. SOCI 40223: Theories of Global Capitalism since Hobson 

Non-credit Courses

None

Taken Prior to the Start of Classes

None

Autumn Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. MAPS 30000: Perspectives in Social Science Analysis 
  2. CHDV 46500: Learning from/with Black girls: Identity, Intersectionality, and Intervention 
  3. CHDV 48700: Adolescent Development in Context 

Non-credit Courses

None

Winter Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. GNSE 3319: Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Embodiments in Historical Perspective 
  2. MAPS 31522: Education, Culture, and Power 
  3. RDIN 40100: Proseminar in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity: Core Works 

Non-credit Courses

None

Spring Quarter

For Credit Courses

  1. CHDV 33499: Who Am I? Identity Development, Race, and Intersectionality 
  2. MAPS 30600: MA Writing and Research (
  3. RDIN 40200: Proseminar in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity: Core Works 

Non-credit Courses

None