REQUIREMENTS FOR MINORING IN PJHC
Students must complete 3 required core courses, 3 elective courses, and participate in either a PJHC summer internship or in a study abroad service learning experience that has been explicitly approved for the minor.
Required Courses
• HUMA 280/ SOCI 280: Introduction to Poverty, Justice, and Capabilities
• SWGS 422: Gender and Global Economic Justice or SWGS 250/POLI 250: International Political Economy of Gender
• SOCI 470: Inequality and Urban Life or POLI 338: Policy Analysis
After taking HUMA 280/SOCI 280 and at least one approved elective or one of the required SWGS gender-related courses, students who have declared the minor are eligible to participate in a service learning internship program approved for the minor. Although they do not receive academic credit for the internship, they must undertake an approved internship program as part of the minor.
Students may choose either SOCI 470: Inequality and Urban Life or POLI 338: Policy Analysis as the final required capstone to the minor. The capstone course provides students with an opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in other courses and the internship experience to develop a substantive paper or project on a real-world policy problem. Students must develop their capstone projects on a topic directly relevant to the themes and concerns of the PJHC minor and must get advance approval for their topics from one of the PJHC minor advisors, as represented in a detailed prospectus they will be required to submit for such approval.
ELECTIVE COURSES
Students must choose three electives, including at least one course from the PJHC non-Western elective list, one course from the Race and Ethnicity elective list, and a third from a broader list that also includes the non-Western and Race and Ethnicity lists. (Course options from the required list may serve as electives once the requirements are met. For example, a student may take both SWGS 250 and SWGS 422, with one counting as a required course and one counting as a non-Western elective.)
Non-Western Courses
ASIA 212 Perspectives on Modern Asia
ECON 450 World Economic and Social Development
RELI 340 Theology in Africa
RELI 342/ ANTH 343 New Religious Movements
SWGS 250/ POLI 250 International Political Economy of Gender
SWGS 422 Gender and Global Economic Justice
Race and Ethnicity Courses
ENGL 371 Chicano/a Literature
HIST 215/ HIST 315* Blacks in the Americas
HIST 268* Bondage in the Modern World
HIST 335* Caribbean History to 1838
HIST 427* History of the Civil Rights Movement: 1954 to the Present
POLI 330 Minority Politics
POLI 438* Race and Public Policy
SOCI 470 Inequality and Urban Life
Other Electives
BIOE 260 Introduction to Global Health Issues
BIOE 301 Bioengineering and World Health
BIOE 362/ GLHT 362 Bioengineering for Global Health Environment
ECON 461 Urban Economics
ECON 521 Public Finance
ENGL 342* Survey of Victorian Fiction
HIST 455* History of Human Rights
PHIL 307 Social and Political Philosophy
POLI 329 Health Policy
POLI 331* Environmental Politics and Policy
POLI 338 Policy Analysis
POLI 437* Education Policy
SOCI 303 Poverty and Public Policy
SOCI 345 Introduction to Medical Sociology
SWGS 101 Introduction to Women and Gender
SWGS 201 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
SWGS 496 & SWGS 497 Applied Women’s and Gender Studies (Practicum and Seminar)
* offered approximately every other year (all non starred courses scheduled to be offered every year)
ADMISSION
All PJHC minor courses are open to all Rice students, including those not pursing the PJHC minor. The key core course, HUMA 280/SOCI 280, will be offered each year. SWGS 422 and/or SWGS 250/POLI 250 (or an approved substitute will also be offered each year). Similarly, SOCI 470 and/or POLI 338 (or an approved substitute) will be offered each year. HUMA 280/SOCI 280 will be capped at 28 students and preference will be given to students who plan to complete the PJHC minor. Students will be required to seek instructor approval through the submission of a brief questionnaire.
Students must complete 3 required core courses, 3 elective courses, and participate in either a PJHC summer internship or in a study abroad service learning experience that has been explicitly approved for the minor.
Required Courses
• HUMA 280/ SOCI 280: Introduction to Poverty, Justice, and Capabilities
• SWGS 422: Gender and Global Economic Justice or SWGS 250/POLI 250: International Political Economy of Gender
• SOCI 470: Inequality and Urban Life or POLI 338: Policy Analysis
After taking HUMA 280/SOCI 280 and at least one approved elective or one of the required SWGS gender-related courses, students who have declared the minor are eligible to participate in a service learning internship program approved for the minor. Although they do not receive academic credit for the internship, they must undertake an approved internship program as part of the minor.
Students may choose either SOCI 470: Inequality and Urban Life or POLI 338: Policy Analysis as the final required capstone to the minor. The capstone course provides students with an opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in other courses and the internship experience to develop a substantive paper or project on a real-world policy problem. Students must develop their capstone projects on a topic directly relevant to the themes and concerns of the PJHC minor and must get advance approval for their topics from one of the PJHC minor advisors, as represented in a detailed prospectus they will be required to submit for such approval.
ELECTIVE COURSES
Students must choose three electives, including at least one course from the PJHC non-Western elective list, one course from the Race and Ethnicity elective list, and a third from a broader list that also includes the non-Western and Race and Ethnicity lists. (Course options from the required list may serve as electives once the requirements are met. For example, a student may take both SWGS 250 and SWGS 422, with one counting as a required course and one counting as a non-Western elective.)
Non-Western Courses
ASIA 212 Perspectives on Modern Asia
ECON 450 World Economic and Social Development
RELI 340 Theology in Africa
RELI 342/ ANTH 343 New Religious Movements
SWGS 250/ POLI 250 International Political Economy of Gender
SWGS 422 Gender and Global Economic Justice
Race and Ethnicity Courses
ENGL 371 Chicano/a Literature
HIST 215/ HIST 315* Blacks in the Americas
HIST 268* Bondage in the Modern World
HIST 335* Caribbean History to 1838
HIST 427* History of the Civil Rights Movement: 1954 to the Present
POLI 330 Minority Politics
POLI 438* Race and Public Policy
SOCI 470 Inequality and Urban Life
Other Electives
BIOE 260 Introduction to Global Health Issues
BIOE 301 Bioengineering and World Health
BIOE 362/ GLHT 362 Bioengineering for Global Health Environment
ECON 461 Urban Economics
ECON 521 Public Finance
ENGL 342* Survey of Victorian Fiction
HIST 455* History of Human Rights
PHIL 307 Social and Political Philosophy
POLI 329 Health Policy
POLI 331* Environmental Politics and Policy
POLI 338 Policy Analysis
POLI 437* Education Policy
SOCI 303 Poverty and Public Policy
SOCI 345 Introduction to Medical Sociology
SWGS 101 Introduction to Women and Gender
SWGS 201 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
SWGS 496 & SWGS 497 Applied Women’s and Gender Studies (Practicum and Seminar)
* offered approximately every other year (all non starred courses scheduled to be offered every year)
ADMISSION
All PJHC minor courses are open to all Rice students, including those not pursing the PJHC minor. The key core course, HUMA 280/SOCI 280, will be offered each year. SWGS 422 and/or SWGS 250/POLI 250 (or an approved substitute will also be offered each year). Similarly, SOCI 470 and/or POLI 338 (or an approved substitute) will be offered each year. HUMA 280/SOCI 280 will be capped at 28 students and preference will be given to students who plan to complete the PJHC minor. Students will be required to seek instructor approval through the submission of a brief questionnaire.