Sample Leadership Elective Courses :
BUSI 310 - Leading People in Organizations
COMP 301 - Ethics and Accountability in Computer Science
ENGI 140 - Engineering Leadership Development
ENGI 315 - Leading Teams and Innovation
ENGI 320 - Ethics and Engineering Leadership
FWIS 175 - Entrepreneurial Leadership
LEAD 102 - Introduction to Civic Leadership
LEAD/POLI 260 - Advocating for Change
LEAD 301 - Historical and Intellectual Foundations of Leadership
LEAD 309 - Leadership: Theory to Practice
LEAD 311 - Leadership and Creativity (1 Cr.)
LEAD 313 - Entrepreneurial Leadership (2 Cr.)
LEAD 321 - Leadership Communication
LEAD 325 - Applied Leadership: Power; Influence, And Persuasion
LEAD 330 - Leadership in Higher Education (1cr.)
LEAD 333 - Stem Outreach: Intro to Civic Science
LEAD 340 - Philanthropy in Theory and Action
LEAD 545 - Structured Problem Solving: How to Effectively and Efficiently Solve Complex Problems
NAVA 203 - Leadership and Management I
NSCI 399 - Medical Professionalism and Observership
PHIL 306 - Ethics
Sample Social Issues Elective Courses :
Note: New courses are consistently being added that address social issues, thus this is not an exhaustive list. If you have identified a social issue course not listed here, you will have the opportunity to submit the syllabus for review and potentially have it added to the list of qualifying elective courses.
ANTH 332 - The Social Life of Clean Energy
ANTH 344 - City/Culture
ANTH 354 / SWGS 353 - Illness, Disability and the Gendered Body
ANTH 358 - The Fourth World: Issues of Indigenous People
ARCH 313 - Case Studies in Sustainable Design
ARCH 455 - Housing and Urban Programs: Issues in Policy
ASIA 329 - Human Development in Global and Local Communities
ASIA 387 - Asian American Contemporary Communities
BUSI 464 - Social Entrepreneurship
CEVE 302 - Sustainable Design
CEVE 307 - Energy and The Environment
CEVE 406/ENST 406 - Introduction to Environmental Law
CHBE 281 - Engineering Sustainable Communities
EBIO 204 - Environmental Sustainability: Design & Practice of Community Agriculture (1 Cr.)
ECON 432 - Political Economy
ECON 450 - World Economics of Social Development
ECON 460 - International Development: Finance, Trade, Foreign Investment, And Foreign Aid
ECON 461 - Urban Economics
ECON 462 - Economics of Human Capital
ECON 479 - Economics Modeling and Public Policy
ECON 480 - Environmental Economics
ECON 481 - Health Economics
ECON 482 - Social Welfare and Distributive Justice
EDUC 202 - Contemporary Issues in Education
EDUC 335 - Urban Education: Issues, Policy, And Practice
EDUC 350 - Education Policy: From Legislatures to Classrooms
ELEC 419 - Innovation Lab for Mobile Health
ENGI 302 - Sustainable Design
ENGL 273 - Medicine & Media
ENGL 278 - Medicine in The Age of Networked Intelligence
ENGL 367 - Literature and Culture of The Us-Mexico Borderlands
ENGL 371 - Survey of Chicano/A Literature
ENGL 382/SWGS 380 - Feminist Theory: Environments
ENST 100/ARCH 105 - Environment, Culture, And Society
ENST 204 - Environmental Sustainability: Design and Practice of Community Agriculture
ENST 312 - Environmental Battles in the 21st Century: Houston As Microcosm
ENST 332 - The Social Life of Clean Energy
FWIS 113 - Race, Policy, and Racial Change in America
GLHT 201 - Bioengineering and World Health
HEAL 222 - Principles of Public and Community Health
HEAL 360 - Violence in America: A Public Health Perspective
HEAL 380 - Disparities in Health in America
HEAL 460 - Planning and Evaluation of Health Promotion and Education
HIST 268 - Modern Slavery
HIST 328 - Poverty and Social Justice in Latin America
HIST 421 - Race, Education and Society in The Urban South
HIST 455 - The History of Human Rights
HUMA 202 - Culture, Energy, And the Environment: An Introduction to Energy Humanities
HUMA 280 - Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities
HUMA 320 - From Physics Labs to Oil Futures: Social Studies of Energy
LASR 375 - Latina And African American Women's Activism in The Urban Metropolis
LASR 376 - Chicana And Latina Immigrant Experience
PHIL 204 - Philosophical Challenges and Engineering Applications of Stem Cells
PHIL 315 - Ethics, Medicine, And Public Policy
PJHC 371 - Poverty, Justice, Capabilities
PJHC 394 - Human Development in Global and Local Communities
POLI 250 - International Political Economy of Gender
POLI 315 - Elections and Voting Behavior
POLI 320 - The Legal Framework of Religious Tolerance
POLI 328 - Latino Politics in the US
POLI 362 - Comparative Urban Politics and Policy
POST 300 - Public Policy Planning, Management and Advocacy
POST 353 - The Social Dynamics of London: Contemporary Issues Through Service Learning
POST 420 - Health Care: Competition & Managed Care
PSYC 331/SWGS 331 - Psychology of Gender
PSYC 341 - Human-Computer Interaction
PSYC 345 - Health Psychology
PSYC 435 - Pollution and Psychological Development
RELI 216 - Religion and Black Lives Matter
RELI 345 - Houston's Houses of Worship: Building the Sacred in An American City
SOCI 238 - Human and Social Context and Questions in Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
SOCI 280 - Poverty, Justice, And Human Capabilities
SOCI 301 - Social Inequality
SOCI 306 - Sociology of Gender
SOCI 308 - Houston: The Sociology of a City
SOCI 310 - Urban Sociology
SOCI 314 - Science at Risk? Out of The Lab and Into Public Sphere
SOCI 340 - Sociology of Immigration
SOCI 343 - Race, Society, And Population Change
SOCI 344 - Sociology of Mental Health
SOCI 358 - Crime, Punishment, and Society
SOCI/ANTH 365 - How We Understand “War” And “The Racial Other”
SOCI 366 - Housing and Schools: The Social Contexts of Inequality
SOCI 470 - Inequality and Urban Life
SOSC 330 - Health Care Reform in the 50 States
SPPO 333 - Current Healthcare Issues in Latinx Communities
SPPO 344 - Mapping Latin American Culture
SPPO 422 - Latin American Cinema: History Theory, And Critique
SWGS 201 - Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
SWGS 302 - Globalization, Gender, And Migration
SWGS 422 - Gender and Global Economic Justice
SWGS 444 - Family Inequality