These requirements below apply to students with a catalog year 2011-2012 through 2017-18.
- Because the GE reuqirements inlcuded in previous catalogs informed transfer student preparation to enture UC Merced, transfer students who enter UC Mercd in the academic years 2018-19 or 2019-20 will be held to the GE requirements included in the 2017-18 Catalog.
- Students with a catalog year of 2018-2019 or later may find their GE requirements on their Audit and their catalog.
- Students with a catalog year of 2010-2011 or earlier should consult their Audit or their academic advisor for their appropriate GE requirements.
Natural Sciences & Engineering Courses
- ENGR 141: Environmental Science Policy
- ESS 141: Environmental Science Policy
- ESS 148: Fundamentals of Ecology
- MATH 171: Mathematical Logic
- NSED 100: Introduction to Instruction, Assessment, and Management for Beginning Teachers
- NSED 120: Classroom Interactions in Science and Mathematics: A Focus on Equity in Urban and Rural Schools (Diversity in Education prior to Summer 2014)
SSHA Courses
- ANTH 100: History of Anthropological Thought and Practice
- ANTH 110: Migration, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging
- ANTH 111: The Anthropology of Globalization (Fall 2015 and later)
- ANTH 112: Political Anthropology
- ANTH 113: Urban Anthropology (Fall 2015 and later)
- ANTH 114: Social Memory
- ANTH 116: Indigenous Activism in the Americas
- ANTH 117: The Anthropology of Citizenship
- ANTH 120: Introduction to Medical Anthropology (Fall 2015 and later)
- ANTH 121: Ethnomedicine
- ANTH 122: Anthropological Perspectives on Religion and Healing
- ANTH 124: Ethnopsychology
- ANTH 126: Anthropological Approaches to Gender
- ANTH 130: Material Culture
- ANTH 131: Space and Place: An Anthropological Perspective (Fall 2015 and later)
- ANTH 132: History of Archaeological Interpretation
- ANTH 134: Dynamics of Small-scale Societies
- ANTH 135: Archaeology of Native California
- ANTH 140: Cultural Heritage Policy and Practice
- ANTH 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology
- ANTH 142: Archaeology of Colonialism
- ANTH 144: Archaeology of Religion
- ANTH 146: Topics in Small-scale Societies
- ANTH 148: Topics in Complex Societies
- ANTH 150: Race and Human Variation
- ANTH 151: Human Adaptability
- ANTH 152: Dying, Death, and Dead Persons
- ANTH 155: Paleodemography
- ANTH 160: Human Origins
- ANTH 162: Growth, Development, and Human Evolution
- ANTH 169: Trends in Biological Anthropology
- ANTH 170: Ethnographic Methods
- ANTH 172: Ethnohistory
- ANTH 174: Lithic Artifact Analysis
- ANTH 178: Human Osteology
- ANTH 179: Bioarchaeology
- ANTH 190: Topics in Anthropology
- ARTS 100: History of World Art++
- ARTS 101: History of Clothing, Costume and Fashion: Euro-centric Pre-History to 1800++
- ARTS 102: History of Clothing, Costume and Fashion: Euro-centric 1800 to 1980++
- ARTS 103: History of Ethnic Costume++
- ARTS 104: History of Costume Design++
- ARTS 106: Arts of India (Fall 2015 and later)++
- ARTS 108: Islamic Art and Architecture of South Asia (Fall 2015 and later)++
- ARTS 112: Visual Cultures of India - 19th Century to Present++
- ARTS 114: History of Ancient Roman Art and Architecture++
- ARTS 115: Twentieth Century Drama: Theatre and Social Responsibility++
- ARTS 116: History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture++
- ARTS 120: Critical Popular Music Studies++
- ARTS 121: Music of the Twentieth Century++
- ARTS 125: African American Music of the 20th Century++
- ARTS 130: History of World Architecture++
- ARTS 131: Advanced Vocal Traditions++
- ARTS 134: Global Pop++
- ARTS 141: History & Practice of Photography++
- ARTS 144: Women, Gender, and Art in Islamic Cultures++
- ARTS 150: Assemblage Sculpture++
- ARTS 152: Topics in Music Studies++
- ARTS 159: Advanced Projects in Acrylic Painting++
- ARTS 160: Advanced World Music Ensemble - Africa++
- ARTS 160A: Advanced African Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 161: Advanced World Music Ensemble - Asia++
- ARTS 161A: Advanced Asian Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 162: Advanced World Music Ensemble – The Pacific++
- ARTS 162A: Advanced Pacific Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 163: Advanced World Music Ensemble – The Americas++
- ARTS 163A: Advanced American Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 164A: Advanced Swing Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 165A: Advanced Middle Eastern Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 166A: Advanced Nordic Ensemble - Music++
- ARTS 170: Techniques of Contemporary Artists++
- ARTS 171: Techniques of Interdisciplinary Research in Arts++
- ARTS 180: Architecture Design Studio: Modern Houses++
- ARTS 181: Architecture Design Studio: Urban Architecture and Sustainability++
- CCST 113: Latino and Immigrant Health
- COGS 101: Mind, Brain, and Computation (Spring 2014 and later)
- COGS 103: Introduction to Neural Networks in Cognitive Science
- COGS 104: Complex Adaptive Systems (Fall 2014 and later)
- COGS 110: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- COGS 121: Cognitive Psychology
- COGS 122: Agent-Based Modeling (Spring 2017 and later)
- COGS 123: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
- COGS 125: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2016 and prior)
- COGS 127: Modern Everyday Cognition (Fall 2014 and later)
- COGS 128: Cognitive Engineering
- COGS 130: Cognitive Neuroscience
- COGS 140: Perception
- COGS 141: Visual Perception
- COGS 142: Audition (Fall 2019 and later)
- COGS 144: Animal Cognition
- COGS 149: Music, Language, and Cognition
- COGS 150: Language, Cognition, and Interaction (Spring 2016 and later)
- COGS 151: Speech Processing
- COGS 153: Judgment and Decision Making
- COGS 154: Cognitive Science Applications for Management
- COGS 159: Metaphor and Thought
- COGS 160: Free Will in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Spring 2014 and later)
- COGS 175: Spatial Cognition
- COGS 177: Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Spring 2016 and later)
- CRES 100: Theories in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- CRES 101: Race and the Media
- CRES 110: Interdisciplinary Methods in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- CRES 120: Race, Law and Civil Rights
- CRES 121: Critical Refugee Studies
- CRES 150: Asians in the Americas
- CRES 190: (Fall 2019 and later)
- ECON 105: Corporate Finance
- ECON 108: Marketing and Consumer Behavior
- ECON 111: American Economic History (Fall 2018 and later)
- ECON 115: Economics of Industrial Organization
- ECON 116: Organizational Strategy
- ECON 120: Economics of the Environment and Public Policy
- ECON 126: Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- ECON 140: Labor Economics (Fall 2018 and later)
- ECON 142: The Economics of Gender and Poverty (Fall 2018 and later)
- ECON 151: The Economics of Government and Business
- ECON 153: Judgment & Decision Making
- ECON 158: Economics of Regulation
- ECON 161: International Finance and Trade
- ECON 163: Economics of Investments, Futures, and Options
- ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660
- ENG 102: Restoration, Early Colonial, & Early Romantic Literature and Culture: 1660-1837
- ENG 103: Victorian, Fin de siècle, and Early Twentieth Century Literature and Culture: 1837-1945
- ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present
- ENG 105: Shakespeare's Medieval Inheritance
- ENG 106: Early English Drama
- ENG 107: "The Age of Enlightenment" in the Long Eighteenth Century
- ENG 108: Romanticism and Acocalypse
- ENG 109: Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- ENG 113: U.S. Latino/a Literatures
- ENG 115: Chicano/a Literature
- ENG 118: Literature and Philosophy (Fall 2015 and later)
- ENG 119: Fashion and Fiction
- ENG 121: Topics in Continental Philosophy
- ENG 129: Topics in Literature and Culture
- ENG 132: Human Rights and Literature
- ENG 135: Voices of the People in Victorian England
- ENG 137: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature from the Crusades to the War on Terror
- ENG 138: Gothic Literature
- ENG 150: Geoffrey Chaucer
- ENG 151: Advanced Shakespeare 1 (Summer 2015 and later)
- ENG 152: William Blake
- ENG 153: Robert Louis Stevenson (Fall 2015 and later)
- ENG 156: Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity
- ENG 157: Virginia Woolf and EM Foster
- ENG 158: The Brontes
- ENG 159: Rudyard Kipling
- ENG 165: Tragic Drama: from Ancient Greece to the Present Day (Summer 2014 and later)
- ENG 166: Nineteenth Century Drama and Adaptation
- ENG 185: Reading from the Margin
- ENG 186: Language, Gender and Culture
- FRE 103: French Composition and Conversation
- GASP 100: Anime and Animation (Fall 2015 and later)
- GASP 101: Visual Arts of the Twentieth Century
- GASP 102: Asian American Art
- GASP 103: History of World Art
- GASP 103b: Advanced Shakespeare
- GASP 103T: Music, Language, and Cognition
- GASP 105: History of Islamic Art and Architecture
- GASP 106: Arts of India (Fall 2015 and later)
- GASP 108: Islamic Art and Architechture of South Asia (Fall 2015 and later)
- GASP 109: Image and Sound (Spring 2018 and later)
- GASP 110: Drawing II: Figure
- GASP 111A: Painting II: Portraiture
- GASP 112: Visual Cultures of India - 19th Century to Present (Spring 2018 and prior)
- GASP 112A: Sculpture II
- GASP 114: History of Ancient Roman Art and Architecture
- GASP 114A: Photography II
- GASP 115A: Multimedia II
- GASP 116: History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
- GASP 119: Topics in Public Art
- GASP 120: Video II
- GASP 121: Asian Pacific American Music
- GASP 122: Conceptual Arts (Spring 2017 and later)
- GASP 130a: Advanced Latin Music Ensemble
- GASP 130b: Advanced South Asian Music Ensemble
- GASP 130c: Advanced Swing Band
- GASP 131: Critical Popular Music Studies
- GASP 132: Critical Jazz Studies
- GASP 133: Theory and Method of Ethnomusicology
- GASP 134: Global Pop
- GASP 135: African American Music
- GASP 141: History & Practice of Photography
- GASP 144: Women, Gender, and Art in Islamic Cultures
- GASP 144a: Art for Social Change
- GASP 151: Topics in Visual Culture
- GASP 152: Topics in Music Studies
- GASP 153: Theater and Social Responsibility
- GASP 155: Film Theory and Criticism
- GASP 156B: South Asia After Europe: Visual Cultures of Colonialism & Post-colonialism
- GASP 156d: History of Ancient Roman Art and Architecture
- GASP 156e: History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
- GASP 157: Critical Photography
- GASP 158b: Women, Gender, and Art is Islamic Cultures (Spring 2017 and later)
- GASP 159: Topics in Visual Culture
- GASP 160: Film Therory and Criticism
- GASP 164a: Advanced Topics in Flim and Video
- GASP 171: Museums as Contested Sites
- GASP 172: Curatorial Methods and Practices
- GASP 172a: Critical Popular Music Studies
- GASP 172b: Global Popular Music
- GASP 173a: Theory and Method of Ethnomusicology
- GASP 174a: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (Spring 2017 and later)
- GASP 175: Race and Nationalism in American Art
- GASP 179a: Advanced Topics in Music
- GASP 179b: Adncanced Topics in Dance
- GASP 189a: Advanced Topics in Theater
- GASP 190: Theories of Expressive Culture
- GASP 191: Senior Thesis
- GEOG 141: Environmental Science and Policy
- GEOG 142: Geography of Resource Management
- HIST 101: Visual Arts of the Twentieth Century
- HIST 103: Critical Popular Music Studies
- HIST 104: Critical Jazz Studies
- HIST 106: Topics in the History of Women and Gender
- HIST 107: Topics in Urban History (Fall 2014 and later)
- HIST 109: Topics in the History of Science and Technology
- HIST 108: Topics in World History (Fall 2014 and later)
- HIST 108R: Topics in World History: Research
- HIST 110: Climate Change and World History
- HIST 111: The Legacy of Genghis Khan
- HIST 112: History of Islamic Art and Architecture
- HIST 113: History of the Gunpowder Empires
- HIST 114: History and Practice of Photography
- HIST 117R: Topics in Regional or State History: Research
- HIST 118: Environmental World HIST
- HIST 120: Essence of Decision: Case Studies in History
- HIST 121: Asian Pacific American Music
- HIST 123: Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- HIST 124: African American History from Slavery to Civil Rights
- HIST 124A: African American History to 1877
- HIST 124B: African American History 1877 to Present
- HIST 124BR: African American History 1877 to Present: Research (Fall 2015 and later)
- HIST 125: African American Music
- HIST 126: Race and Nationalism in American Art
- HIST 128: The United States and the Vietnam War
- HIST 130: The Cold War, 1941-1991
- HIST 132: Intelligence and National Security, 1945-2000
- HIST 133: Topics in Nineteenth Century U.S. History (Summer 2014 and later)
- HIST 134: History and Literature of the Great Depression
- HIST 135: History and Literature of the 1960s
- HIST 136: Essence of Decision: Case Studies in History
- HIST 137: Topics in European History (Fall 2015 and prior)
- HIST 137: Gender, Race, and Slavery in American History (Spring 2016 and later)
- HIST 138: Topics in Visual Culture
- HIST 139: Topics in U.S. History (Spring 2015 and later)
- HIST 140: Modern Africa
- HIST 142: Topics in Latin American History
- HIST 143: West Africa and Making the Atlantic World (Fall 2015 and later)
- HIST 150: The Cold War, 1941-1991
- HIST 156B: South Asia After Europe: Visual Cultures of Colonialism & Post-colonialism
- HIST 158: Topics in Middle Eastern History
- HIST 159: History of Iran (Fall 2016 and later)
- HIST 165: From Tang to Song: China in the Medieval World
- HIST 165A: China in the Ancient World
- HIST 165B: From Tang to Song:China in the Medieval World
- HIST 165C: Late Imperial China
- HIST 165D: China in the Modern World
- HIST 169: History and Heritage of Tibet
- HIST 171: Modern European Intellectual History
- HIST 172: Europe and the Early Modern Atlantic World
- HIST 173: History of Ancient Roman Art and Architecture
- HIST 174: History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
- HIST 179: Topics in European History
- HIST 180: The Silk Road
- HIST 187R: White Supremacy and White Violance in the US: Research
- JPN 103: Advanced Japanese I
- JPN 104: Advanced Japanese II
- LIT 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice +
- LIT 110: Topics in World Literature +
- LIT 111: Empire, the Postcolonial, and Representation: Reading East and West +
- LIT 112: Literature and History +
- LIT 120: Topics in the Literature of Difference +
- LIT 125: Literary Genres +
- LIT 130: Topics in American Literature +
- LIT 131: American Literature of the Expanding Nation +
- LIT 132: American Protest Literature +
- LIT 136: Literature and Culture of African Americans +
- LIT 137: US American Indian Literature and Cultures +
- LIT 138: US Working Class LITC +
- LIT 140: Topics in British Literature +
- LIT 141: British Literature of the Expanding Empire +
- LIT 151: Golden Age Spanish Literature +
- LIT 153: Spanish Literature Since the 20th Century +
- LIT 155: Latin American Colonial Literature +
- LIT 156: Latin American Literature Since the Independence +
- LIT 158: Transatlantic Modernism +
- LIT 159: Diasporas and Exiles in the Hispanic World +
- LIT 161: Latino/as in Children's Literature & Film +
- LIT 163: Latin American Film and Fiction +
- LIT 165: Great Writers +
- LIT 170: Topics in Language and Linguistics +
- LIT 181: Literature of California +
- LIT 183: Literature and the Other Arts +
- LIT 186: Novel of the Latin American Dictator +
- MGMT 115: Economics of Industrial Organization
- MGMT 118: Women in Executive Leadership
- MGMT 120: Marketing
- MGMT 122: Teams and Organizations
- MGMT 123: Business Ethics
- MGMT 124: Organizational Behavior and Leadership
- MGMT 125: Entertainment Management
- MGMT 127: Public Sector and Non-profit Management
- MGMT 128: Global Markets and Investment Banking
- MGMT 135: Business Law
- MGMT 136: Advanced Business Law
- MGMT 153: Judgment and Decision-making
- MGMT 154: Cognitive Science Applications for Management
- MGMT 158: Service Innovation
- MGMT 180: Entrepreneurship
- PH 100: Introduction to Epidemiology
- PH 102: Health Promotion (Spring 2014 and later)
- PH 103: Health Communication (Spring 2014 and later)
- PH 104: Health and the Media (Spring 2014 and later)
- PH 105: Introduction to US Health Care System
- PH 108: Introduction to Health Care
- PH 111: Social Epidemiology
- PH 112: Research Methods: Health Services Research and Public Health
- PH 113: Latino and Immigrant Health
- PH 125: Emerging Public Health Threats
- PH 135: Public Health Genetics
- PH 137: Insects and Public Health
- PH 190: Topics in Public Health
- PHIL 101: Metaphysics
- PHIL 102: Epistemology
- PHIL 103: Philosophy of Mind (Fall 2012 and later)
- PHIL 104: Ethical Theory
- PHIL 105: Philosophy of Language
- PHIL 106: Philosophy of Science
- PHIL 107: Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL 108: Political Philosophy (Summer 2014 and later)
- PHIL 109: Philosophy of Law (Fall 2015 and later)
- PHIL 110: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- PHIL 119: Topics in Philosophy of Science
- PHIL 130: Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2014 and later)
- PHIL 131: Topics in Ancient Philosophy
- PHIL 134: Modern Philosophy (Fall 2013 and later)
- PHIL 141: Topics in Continental Philosophy
- PHIL 150: Topics in Phenomenology (Spring 2016 and later)
- PHIL 157: Philosophy of Love and Friendship
- PHIL 160: Mathematical Logic
- PHIL 170: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Spring 2014 and later)
- PHIL 171: Free Will in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Spring 2014 and later)
- PHIL 173: Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Fall 2015 and later)
- PHIL 190: Epistemology (Fall 2013 only)
- POLI 100: Congressional Politics
- POLI 101: The Presidency
- POLI 102: Judicial Politics
- POLI 105: Interest Groups and Political Parties
- POLI 106: Urban Politics
- POLI 107: State Politics
- POLI 108: Direct Democracy
- POLI 110: Governmental Power and the Constitution
- POLI 111: Liberty Equality and the Constitution
- POLI 120: Voting Behavior Campaigns and Elections
- POLI 125: Public Opinion
- POLI 127: Race Gender and Politics
- POLI 130: Comparative Political Institutions
- POLI 135: Comparative Political Behavior
- POLI 145: Political Violence
- POLI 150: Causes of International Conflict
- POLI 153: Judgement and Decision Making (Spring 2018 and later)
- POLI 155: International Political Economy
- POLI 158: Politics of Human Rights
- POLI 160: US Foreign Policy
- POLI 170: Theoretical Models of Politics
- POLI 171: Politics in Film (Summer 2014 and later)
- PSY 105: Advanced Research Methods in Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 110: History of Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 120: Health Psychology
- PSY 121: Cognitive Psychology
- PSY 123: Alcohol, Drugs and Behavior (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 124: Health Disparities (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 125: Cognition, Affect, and Health
- PSY 130: Developmental Psychology
- PSY 131: Social Psychology
- PSY 133: Neurodevelopmental Cognitive, Language and Learning Disorders
- PSY 134: Adolescent Development
- PSY 135: Language Acquisition
- PSY 136: Cognitive Development
- PSY 137: Conceptual Development
- PSY 138: The Development of Social Mind
- PSY 139: Cognitive Development and Education
- PSY 140: Clinical Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 142: Abnormal Psychology
- PSY 143: Abnormal Child Psychology
- PSY 144: Clinical Neuropsychology
- PSY 145: Human Sexuality (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 147: Health Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 150: Psychological Perspectives on Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity (Fall 2012 through Summer 2015)
- PSY 151: The Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice
- PSY 152: Psychological Perspectives on Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity (Fall 2015 and later)
- PSY 155: Emotion
- PSY 156: Social Psychology
- PSY 157: Personal Relationships
- PSY 158: Positive Psychology
- PSY 159: Personality Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 160: Cognitive Psychology
- PSY 161: Perception
- PSY 162: Visual Perception
- PSY 171: Psychological Tests and Measurement
- PSY 172: Forensic Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 180: Physiological Psychology (Fall 2012 and later)
- PSY 181: Clinical Neuropsychology
- PSY 182: Evolutionary Psychology
- PSY 183: Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics
- PUBP 110: Poverty and Social Policy
- PUBP 120: Health Care Policy
- PUBP 130: Environmental Policy
- PUBP 140: Immigration and Public Policy
- PUBP 150: Race, Ethnicity and Public Policy
- SOC 107: Law and Society
- SOC 108: Advanced Topics in Criminology
- SOC 110: Social Movements Protest and Collective Action
- SOC 111: Environmental Sociology
- SOC 115: Political Sociology
- SOC 116: Inequality & Public Policy
- SOC 118: Hate Crime
- SOC 120: Sociology of Culture
- SOC 130: Social Stratification
- SOC 131: Urban Inequality (Fall 2018 and later)
- SOC 132: Sociology of Education
- SOC 134: Sports and Society (Fall 2018 and later)
- SOC 135: Sociology of Work
- SOC 136: Globalization
- SOC 140: Organizational Behavior
- SOC 145: Sociology of Health
- SOC 150: Self and Society
- SOC 155: Sociology of the Family
- SOC 160: Gender and Society
- SOC 161: Sociology of Sexuality
- SOC 170: Qualitative Research Methods
- SOC 175: Topics in Advanced Sociological Research Methods (Fall 2012 and later)
- SOC 180: Advanced Issues in Race and Ethnicity
- SOC 181: Chicanos in US Society
- SOC 182: Current Topics in Immigration
- SOC 185: Topics in Sociology (Fall 2012 and later)
- SPAN 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice
- SPAN 103: Spanish Composition and Conversation
- SPAN 105: Hispanic Cultures I
- SPAN 106: Hispanic Cultures II
- SPAN 107: Spanish for Health Professionals
- SPAN 108: Spanish for Business and Management (SPAN 142 prior to Fall 2013)
- SPAN 111: Empire, The Postcolonial, and Representation: Reading East and West
- SPAN 112: Chicano/a Literature Written in Spanish
- SPAN 113: U.S. Latino/a Literature
- SPAN 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film
- SPAN 115: Chicano/a Literature
- SPAN 121: Spanish Golden Age
- SPAN 122: Spanish (peninsular) 18-19 Centuries
- SPAN 123: Spanish (peninsular) 20-21 Centuries
- SPAN 130: The Transatlantic Baroque
- SPAN 131: Transatlantic Modernismo
- SPAN 140: Latin American Colonial Literature
- SPAN 141: Spanish for Health Professionals
- SPAN 143: Latin American Literature Since Independence
- SPAN 144: Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
- SPAN 145: Novel of the Latin American Dictator
- SPAN 146: Latin American Film and Fiction
- SPAN 147: Latin American Boom
- SPAN 148: The Narrative World of Mario Vargas Llosa
- SPAN 149: The Fantastic, Magical Realism, Realism, and Testimonials
- SPAN 150: Asians in the Americas
- SPAN 151: Diasporas and Exiles in Latin America
- SPAN 153: Bilingualism and Borders in Hispanic Literatures
- SPAN 154: Hispanic Drama and Performing
- SPAN 170: Spanish Linguistics (SPAN 110 prior to Fall 2013)
- SPAN 172: History of the Spanish Language (Fall 2015 and later)
- SPAN 173: Erotic Noel and Film
- SPAN 175: Spanish in the U.S. (Fall 2015 and later)
- SPAN 177: Sociolinguistics and Latino Health (Fall 2015 and later)
- SPAN 180: Topics in Hispanic Languages and Cultures
- SPAN 181: Topics in Literature and Culture
- WH 100: Virtual Heritage and World Heritage (Fall 2018 and later)
- WH 110: 3D Modeling Cultural Heritage
- WH 140: Cultural Heritage Policy and Practice
- WH 150: Geographic Information Systems for Cultural and Environmental Heritage
- WH 160: Advanced Methods in Digital Heritage (Fall 2015 and later)
- WH 169: History and Heritage of Tibet
- WH 181: Historical Geography of North America
- WH 183: The Cultural Landscape
- WH 185: Ethnic Geography
- WH 190: Topics in World Heritage
- WRI 100: Advanced Writing
- WRI 104: Personal Style and Formal Writing (Fall 2015 and later)
- WRI 105: Grammar and Style
- WRI 110: Tutor Training (Fall 2013 and later)
- WRI 112: Writing in the Arts (Fall 2014 and later)
- WRI 114: Enviromental Writing (Fall 2015 and later)
- WRI 115: Topics in Science Writing
- WRI 116: Science Writing in Natural Sciences
- WRI 117: Writing for Social Sciences and Humanities
- WRI 118: Management Communication Theory and Practice (Fall 2013 and later)
- WRI 120: Rhetorical Theory
- WRI 121: International Rhetoric
- WRI 125: Topics in Creative Writing
- WRI 125a: Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry
- WRI 125b: Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
- WRI 125c: Topics in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
- WRI 125d: Topics in Creative Writing: Drama
- WRI 130: Topics in Professional Writing
- WRI 131: Journal Production (Fall 2013 and later)
- WRI 131b: Journal Production: Vernal Pool
- WRI 131c: Journal Production: Undergraduate Research Journal (URJ)
- WRI 141: Writing Narrative for Archaeology
+ As of Summer 2013, UC Merced will no longer offer courses in Literature
++ As of Fall 2017, UC Merced will no longer offer courses in Arts