Blum Initiative on Global & Regional Poverty
Education
Education
UC Riverside offers a variety of poverty-related courses, spanning multiple disciplines, across campus. Students interested in learning more about the broad themes of poverty and inequality are encouraged to consider the courses* listed below.
Anthropology
- ANTH 160: Political Economy of Health
- ANTH 166: Cultural Perspectives of Cancer/Risk
- ANTH 131: Applied Anthropology
Economics
- ECON 115: Marxian Political Economy
- ECON 116: Foundations of Political Economy
- ECON 122E: Economic Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Immigration to the United States
- ECON 152: Economics of Labor Relations
- ECON 173: Global Poverty
- ECON 185: Economic Development in Latin America
- ECON 189: Economic Development in Brazil
History
- HISA 166: Modern Brazil, Society & State
- HISA 136: Historical Perspectives on Mass Incarceration
- HNPG 15: Hunger & Famine in the Modern World
Political Science
- POSC 138S: Labor & Globalization
- POSC 160S: Globalization & Development
Public Policy
- PPBL 234: Poverty in a Global Perspective
Sociology
- SOC 002-I: Inequality in American Society
- SOC 112: Sociology of the Labor Movement
- SOC 133: Inequality and Social Class
- SOC 182: Urban Problems