Sonia Moctezuma
Title:
Part-Time Faculty - Political Science
Department:
Business, Behavioral & Social Science
Office:
Campus:
MJC-East
Phone:
209-575-7950 8037
Email:
Office Hours:
Monday, 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m.
Biography
Education:
California State University, Chico: 2015
Universidad Andres Bello (Santiago, Chile):2015
Casa de Africa (Havana, Cuba):2014
MA: Political Science
University of California, San Diego: 2012
BA: Political Science-International Relations
Minor: History
Research Interest:
American Politics, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Quantitative/Research Methods, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics.
Courses I Teach
- American Politics,
MPOLSC 101
Introduction to United States politics emphasizing the essential institutions, groups, beliefs, behaviors and processes that comprise the American political system at the national, state, and local levels. Special attention to rights and obligations of citizenship. Field trips are not required. Not repeatable. (A-F or P/NP) Transfer: (CSU, UC) (CC: POLSC 10) (C-ID: POLS 110,) General Education: (MJC-GE: B) (CSU-GE: A1: b, D) (IGETC: 4) - California Politics & Problems,
MPOLSC-120
Analysis of government institutions, politics, issues and political behavior in California in constitutional, social, economic and cultural perspective. Included are studies of issues confronted by U.S. and California state, county, city and regional governments including political representation, climate change, land use and planning, population growth, poverty, education, criminal justice, pollution, budgets and taxation. Special attention to the rights and obligations of citizenship. Field trips are not required. Not repeatable. (A-F or P/NP) Transfer: (CSU, UC) General Education: (MJC-GE: B) (CSU-GE: A1: b, D)(IGETC: 4)
