The Thai Study and Internship Program combines a one quarter study program offering a variety of courses for all students and an internship program in U.S. corporations, the American Embassy and university for qualified seniors. The program is offered during spring quarter. Students may obtain up to 16 units of credit. Students with paid internships will do coursework in the spring before entering company positions in the summer.

Program Faculty
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Spring 2008 Courses - based on student selection

Course Descriptions

AGB 400 Special Problems (2/4)
SOCS 200 Special Problems (2/4)
SOCS 400 Special Problems (2/4)
Everyone on the program will take this course together. The course will include program orientation in winter quarter, Thai Language, Guest Lectures, and Field Trips. Students have the choice or 2 or 4 units.
2 units will require participation in program related activities. 4 units will require participation in program related activities and independent research for additional credit

AGB 318 Global Agricultural Marketing and Trade (4)
Analysis of international marketing opportunities for agricultural products. Strategies for enhancing the performance of U.S. agricultural exports/imports. Impact of government trade policies and regulations, distribution systems, and the changing consumer. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: AGB 301, 312.

AGB 418 Seminar in U.S./World Agricultural Trade Issues (2)
Comparative analysis of agricultural infrastructures and trade policies of major U.S. trading partners within specific world regions (e.g., Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe , etc.). Particular emphasis on cultural and geo-political influences on the development of world agricultural policies. Class Schedule will list topic selected. 2 seminars. Prerequisite: AGB 318.

AGB 440 Field Studies in Agribusiness (2)
Visitation to selected agribusinesses. Organization, operation, services and problems considered. Prerequisite: Senior standing or consent of instructor. Can only be taken once for credit in the major.

ENGL 253 Great Books III: Romanticism to Modernism Literature (4) GE C1
Examination of key works marking the Romantic Revolution and the realist and modernist movements that followed in its wake. May include such readings as the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Eliot, Rimbaud, Plath, Ginsberg, and Stein; Notes from Underground, The Death of Ivan Ilych , The Metamorphosis and/or The Hunger Artist, Heart of Darkness, "Sonny's Blues," and Virginia Woolf's short fiction and essays. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A.

ENGL 346 Ethnic American Literature (4) GE C4 USCP
Investigation of the primary issues, themes, and tropes of literature written in English by African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Hispanic and Jewish writers. Cultural and historical contexts explored to consider effects of marginalization on this literature, and its subsequent relation to the American canon. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Areas A and C1. English majors will not receive GE C4 credit.

HUM 310 - Humanities in World Cultures (4) GE C4
Interdisciplinary examination of the humanities in a selected culture. Special focus on the arts, literature, philosophy and language in that culture. Class Schedule will list topic selected. Repeatable to 12 units with different course titles. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A and one course from Area C.

SOC 218 International Political Economy (4) GE D2
Principles of international political economy in their social and cultural context. Sociological perspectives on the historical development of the world system and the current patterns of global inequality. Comparison of the political economy of major nations and their relation to the overall world system. 4 lectures.

SOC 309 The World System and Its Problems (4)
Analysis of the historical background, structure, and dynamics of the world system; examines such issues as the origins of Third World poverty, colonialism, the changes in the world's dominant economic powers, the fall of communism, the growing economic competition between Europe, North America, and Asia; and possible strategies for the economic development of the Third World. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

SOC 315 Global Race and Ethnic Relations (4) GE D5
Diverse structures of unequal relationships among racial and ethnic groups in several countries including the United States . Theories about sources of economic and social discrimination and colonialism. Focus on the concept of ethnicity. Evaluation methods to restructure race and ethnic relations. International case histories. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, one course from D1 and one course from D3. Social Sciences majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.