# Irvine Valley College — full catalog > Generated 2026-06-21T21:06:21.541Z from a crawl of ivc.edu. 1157 records (3 programs · 1154 courses · 0 resource pages). # Summary Students majoring in accounting at Irvine Valley College focus on the principles and practices of accounting. The training they receive is intended to prepare them to make critical decisions based on data contained in various financial reports and statements. It also prepares them for entry-level accounting positions in the public and private sectors in such areas as service, merchandising, and manufacturing companies or transferring. Learning Outcome(s): Outcome: Demonstrate the ability to prepare financial reports and financial statements in public and private sector accounting. Outcome: De… Source: https://irvine.curriqunet.com/catalog --- # Requirements ## Courses - ACCT 112.1 — SPREADSHEETS I - ACCT 112.2 — SPREADSHEETS II - ACCT 1A — FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING - ACCT 1B — MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING - ACCT 1BH — MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING HONORS - ACCT 204 — ACCOUNTING APPLICATIONS: QUICKBOOKS - CIM 1 — INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - CS 1 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS - MGT 1 — INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS - MGT 103 — BUSINESS ENGLISH - MGT 104 — BUSINESS COMMUNICATION - MGT 120 — PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - MGT 125 — ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR - MGT 12A — THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS - MGT 12AH — THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS HONORS Source: https://irvine.curriqunet.com/catalog --- # Requirement ## Courses - BIO 11 — HUMAN ANATOMY - BIO 51 — FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY I - BIO 51H — FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY I HONORS - BIO 52 — FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY II - BIO 80 — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: ORGANISMS TO ECOSYSTEMS - BIO 80H — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: ORGANISMS TO ECOSYSTEMS HONORS - BIO 81 — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: FROM DNA TO ORGANISMS - BIO 81H — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: FROM DNA TO ORGANISMS HONORS - CHEM 1A — GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - CHEM 1AH — GENERAL CHEMISTRY IA HONORS - CS 10 — INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING PYTHON - CS 36 — C PROGRAMMING - ESL 1 — COLLEGE COMPOSITION FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS - ESL 80 — ACADEMIC WRITING III FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS - PHYS 2A — INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS - PHYS 4A — GENERAL PHYSICS Source: https://irvine.curriqunet.com/catalog --- # ACCT 1B — MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING This course covers the decision-making process associated with managerial accounting, focusing on manufacturing and service-related businesses. Emphasizes key managerial principles and their application to the decision-making process including fixed vs. variable costs, cost-volume- profit relationships, centralized vs. decentralized budgeting, differential analysis, and product pricing strategies. --- # ACCT 1A — FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING This course presents the basic theory and structure of financial accounting as an information system focusing on the corporate form of business ownership. The course covers all aspects of the accounting cycle: using spreadsheets to generate financial statements, cash flow, and the adjusting and closing process. It also covers topics related to financial activity, including asset management (including cash and receivables, investments, and inventories); liabilities; debt and equity valuation; internal controls; accounting for capital acquisition through debt or equity financing; and generally… --- # ACCT 1AH — FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING HONORS This course presents the basic theory and structure of financial accounting as an information system focusing on the corporate form of ownership. The course covers all aspects of the accounting cycle: generating financial statements, cash flow, and the adjusting and closing process. It also covers topics related to financial activity, including asset management; liabilities; debt and equity valuation; internal controls; accounting for capital acquisition through debt or equity financing; and industry standards of ethics and principles in all aspects of financial accounting. Honors course stud… --- # ACCT 1BH — MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING HONORS This course covers information used by managers to plan, direct operations, control costs, and make decisions focusing on manufacturing and service-related businesses. The course stresses key managerial principles and how they are applied to decisions related to fixed vs. variable costs, cost-volume-profit relationships, fixed vs. flexible budgeting, differential analysis, and product pricing strategies. Honors course students will be taught academic research methods, determination of authoritative sources, write APA formatted papers, and give oral business presentations. Credit may be earned… --- # ACCT 52 — DATA ANALYTICS FUNDAMENTALS This course is an overview of data analytics and their use in making business decisions, covering a broad selection of topics along the life-cycle of data analytics (business objective; data collection, cleansing, transformation; data analysis, data visualization/storytelling; data-based decision making). Professional skills, such as communication, presentation, and data storytelling, will be presented. Students will acquire a basic working knowledge of data analytics through hands-on projects and study in a variety of business, engineering, social sciences, or life sciences domains. Issues o… --- # ACCT 112.1 — SPREADSHEETS I This course is designed for individuals seeking to develop introductory skills in using spreadsheet software. Students will use a spreadsheet program to organize and manage financial data. Topics include formulas and functions, charts and graphs, and developing well-formatted worksheets. ACCT 112.1 is also listed as CIM 112.1; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ACCT 112.2 — SPREADSHEETS II This course provides instruction and training in the use of spreadsheet software at the intermediate level. Students will produce sophisticated spreadsheet documents for a variety of business applications. Topics include working with lists and pivottables, consolidating multiple worksheets and workbooks, integrating the spreadsheet software with other software programs and the web, and creating macros. ACCT 112.2 is also listed as CIM 112.2; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ACCT 112.3 — SPREADSHEETS III-CERTIFICATION This course provides students with advanced study and training required to qualify for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in spreadsheet software. Students will review and learn to integrate all of the features of the spreadsheet program and incorporate data from other software programs and the World Wide Web. The course is designed to prepare students for the MOS Certification exam for spreadsheets. ACCT 112.3 is also listed as CIM 112.3; credit will be given in either area, not both. Formerly offered as ACCT 212.3. --- # ACCT 202A — INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING I This course provides an overview of the fundamental accounting processes and an in-depth study of the income statement, balance sheet, and related accounts including: cash, receivables, inventory, plant assets, intangible assets, and long-term investments. --- # ACCT 202B — INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING II This course provides an in-depth overview of income statement, statement of cash flows, and balance sheet accounts including: current and contingent liabilities, long-term debt, revenue recognition, income taxes, pensions, leases, pensions and accounting changes, and error analysis. --- # ACCT 203 — COST ACCOUNTING This course offers a comprehensive study of the theory, principles and practices of cost accounting. Topics covered include job order cost systems; process cost accounting; direct costing; and managerial use of cost data in decision making. The course may be used to qualify students to sit for the CPA exam. --- # ACCT 204 — ACCOUNTING APPLICATIONS: QUICKBOOKS This course focuses on converting from a manual to a computerized accounting system. Students learn to assess system requirements and software using current industry-standard accounting applications. They learn how to perform accounting transactions in the areas of general ledger, accounts receivable, and accounts payable; generate reports and financial statements; solve a variety of accounting problems; and develop an audit trail. This course provides training in the use of QuickBooks online. --- # ACCT 205 — PAYROLL ACCOUNTING AND TAXATION This course covers the theory and practices pertaining to payroll preparation and accounting, including federal and state payroll tax forms, and laws and regulations affecting the payroll function. Students gain experience in computing wages; calculating social security, income, and unemployment taxes; preparing payroll tax forms; analyzing payroll transactions; and posting transactions in the general ledger. The course is designed to assist those preparing for a career in accounting, finance, or business management; a career concentration in payroll; or certifications such as the Payroll Fun… --- # ACCT 206 — INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXATION - FEDERAL AND STATE This course covers the theory and application of income tax laws and regulations, including tax strategies and relevant ethical issues. The course explains the preparation of federal and state personal income tax returns, using actual forms, when appropriate. --- # ACCT 206B — INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXATION- FEDERAL - ADDITIONAL TOPICS Covers additional tax concepts and further explores topics covered in 206A including tax credits and payments, federal gift and estate taxes, income taxation of trusts and estates, sale of a personal residence, other business deductions, and taxation of non-residents. The course will provide students with exposure to topics that are covered in the Special Enrollment Examination ("SEE") to become an Enrolled Agent ("EA") as well as the Certified Public Accountant's ("CPA") exam. --- # ACCT 206A — INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXATION- FEDERAL This course covers the theory and application of income tax laws and regulations, including tax strategies and relevant ethical issues. The course explains the preparation of federal personal income tax returns, using actual forms, when appropriate. The course will provide students with exposure to topics that are covered in the Special Enrollment Examination ("SEE") to become an Enrolled Agent ("EA") as well as the Certified Public Accountant's ("CPA") exam. --- # ACCT 207 — BUSINESS INCOME TAXATION - FEDERAL AND STATE This course covers the theory and application of income tax laws and regulations, including tax strategies and relevant ethical issues. The course explains the preparation of federal and state business income tax returns, using actual forms when appropriate. --- # ACCT 207B — BUSINESS INCOME TAXATION- ADDITIONAL TOPICS Covers additional tax concepts and further explores topics covered in 207A including corporate distributions not in complete liquidation, 1231 exchanges, partnership distributions as well as taxation relating to exempt entities. The course will provide students with exposure to topics that are covered in the Special Enrollment Examination ("SEE") to become an Enrolled Agent ("EA") as well as the Certified Public Accountant's ("CPA") exam. --- # ACCT 207A — BUSINESS INCOME TAXATION This course covers the theory and application of income tax laws and regulations, including tax strategies and relevant ethical issues. The course explains the preparation of federal business income tax returns, using actual forms when appropriate.The course will provide students with exposure to topics that are covered in the Special Enrollment Examination ("SEE") to become an Enrolled Agent ("EA") as well as the Certified Public Accountant's ("CPA") exam. --- # ACCT 208 — TAX PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES Provides practical knowledge of the day-to-day practices and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") including tax payer representation, appeals, and collection. --- # ACCT 210 — ADVANCED ACCOUNTING This course teaches the methods of accounting for mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations of business entities. It explores pre-combination activities and business considerations. It also teaches post combination accounting, financial statement presentation and financial disclosure requirements. --- # ACCT 215 — BOOKKEEPING AND GENERAL ACCOUNTING This course presents the basic principles and theory of elementary accounting pertinent to a sole proprietorship and partnership. This course introduces students as to how to apply accounting theory to the accounting cycles of service and merchandising business enterprises. This course is recommended for students seeking a bookkeeping foundation and/or a general accounting knowledge. --- # ACCT 219A — INTERNATIONAL INCOME TAXATION I This course covers the theory and application of international tax laws and regulations, including tax treaties, withholding (Form 1042), foreign tax credits, dividends (Subpart F), and transfer pricing. The course explains the preparation of income tax returns as they relate to international transactions, using actual forms when appropriate. --- # ACCT 219B — INTERNATIONAL INCOME TAXATION II This course covers the theory and application of international tax laws and regulations, including Global Intangible Low Tax Income (“GILTI”), Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax (“BEAT”), Foreign Derived Intangible Income (“FDII”), foreign corporations doing business in the United States, foreign currency, transfers (IRC 367) and dual consolidated losses. The course explains the preparation of income tax returns as they relate to international transactions, using actual forms when appropriate. --- # ACCT 220 — ACCOUNTING ETHICS This course will introduce students to ethical and professional issues encountered by those practicing in the accounting field. Study of ethical framework includes the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Code of Professional Ethics, audit responsibilities and accounting fraud, legal and regulatory obligations, corporate governance, and internal financial reporting. --- # ACCT 253 — DATA ANALYTICS AND DESIGN (ALTERYX) Students will explore the topics, tools, and techniques of data prep, blending, reporting, predictive analytics, and data science and their application across different industries. The practical application of data workflow processes will be experienced through hands-on projects and technical assignments using Alteryx software. This course prepares students for the Alteryx Designer Core Certification. Credit in either ACCT 253 or CIM 253, but not both. --- # ACCT 254 — DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION (TABLEAU) Students will explore an end-to-end data analytics platform that utilizes tools to prep, analyze, collaborate, and share big data insights. The practical application of visual analysis of big data and sharing insights across an organization will be experienced through hands-on projects and technical assignments using Tableau. This course prepares students for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification. --- # ACCT 261 — FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS This course is designed to build and strengthen the ability to interpret financial statements and their accompanying disclosures and use them to assess a company's value. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretability and understandability of financial and business communications. Using a company's external reporting (forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K), various financial statement analysis tools will be used to assess a company including liquidity, activity, profitability, coverage, and solvency ratios. Valuation models and pro-forma financial statements will be studied to forecast future earnings. --- # ACCT 262 — EXTERNAL REPORTING AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSILBITY This course will focus on the collection and reporting of financial accounting information for decision making. Corporate governance requirements set forth by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) will be used to explore Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") reporting and how CSR is reflected in a company’s external financial statements and other external reporting. The emergence of Environmental, Social and Government (ESG) criteria is used to measure a company's overall sustainability and the ways ESG are disclosed in a company's external financial statements. --- # ACCT 275A — AUDITING: INTERNAL CONTROLS UNDER SARBANES-OXLEY This course provides an introduction to the history, intent, and implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. It includes the study of the design, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of internal controls required by the Sarbanes-Oxley law. --- # ACCT 275B — AUDITING: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS This course examines the use of financial statement audits and details the audit process. Topics include professional responsibilities of auditors, audit design, sampling approaches, substantive testing and tests of control. --- # ACCT 405 — PERSONAL FINANCE This course for older adults covers the management of personal finances using the criteria, methodology and resources for effective financial planning. Topics include money management, insurance analysis, investment and retirement planning, and tax strategies. Students will set personal goals and develop a financial plan to meet those goals. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 500 — BASIC ENGLISH This introductory AESL course is for students with no or little prior English knowledge. Students will learn how to use vocabulary and set responses found in basic conversations, read short narrative paragraphs, and write 2 to 4 sentences about a topic using the simple past and present tenses. Class activities practicing short transactional conversations in pairs, reading aloud in groups, and filling in dialogues, sentences, and forms with personal information. This is a non-credit, open entry/open exit course. --- # AESL 501 — BEGINNING LOW AESL MULTI-SKILLS In this beginning low AESL multi-skills non-credit course, English learners will practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills focused on everyday situations and U.S. civics and culture. Students will work on English skills to be able to function in an English speaking community, such as recognizing and using common words, following directions, recognizing and using commands, and filling out simple forms. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 502 — BEGINNING HIGH AESL MULTI-SKILLS In this beginning high AESL multi-skills non-credit course, English learners will continue practicing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills focused on everyday situations and U.S. civics and culture. Students work on developing English skills for everyday needs, such as shopping, enrolling children in school, filling out simple applications, and going to the bank/post office. Students are encouraged to speak and write about their personal interests and life experiences. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 503 — INTERMEDIATE LOW AESL MULTI-SKILLS In this intermediate low AESL multi-skills non-credit course, English learners will continue to practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills focused on life and career goals, U.S. civics, and culture. Students will work with integrated English skills used in situations that require interaction with the public including parent-teacher conferences, simple job interviews, and the doctor's office. Students at this level increase their conversational fluency, vocabulary development, and grammar accuracy. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 504 — INTERMEDIATE HIGH AESL MULTI-SKILLS In this intermediate high AESL non-credit course, English learners will practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills focused on life skills, career development, and U.S. civics and community. Students will build on their communication skills and will learn how to monitor their own language learning process. Focus will be on English for job preparation and more complex interactions with the community. Example activities will be writing professional emails and cover letters, interviewing for a job, volunteering in the community, and responding to legal/community correspondence. Thi… --- # AESL 505 — ADVANCED LOW AESL MULTI-SKILLS In this advanced low AESL multi-skills non-credit course, English learners will practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills focused on career goals, college readiness, and have an in-depth review of U.S. civics and community. Lessons integrate language skills with long-term strategies necessary for successful transition into college credit programs and career advancement. Sample activities include making presentations for work, writing academically, exploring college options, and planning for a career/major. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 513 — ENGLISH FOR U.S. CITIZENSHIP This AESL course prepares intermediate/advanced English language learners for the U.S. naturalization interview. Emphasis is on developing the language skills and knowledge of American history and government needed for naturalization. Class activities include preparation for the civics portion of the interview: reading and listening to lectures about U.S. history/government and answering the 100 possible civics questions. Students will also practice the English language portion of the interview, including responding to questions about the N-400 form, reading given sentences out loud, and writ… --- # AESL 523 — ENGLISH FOR PARENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS This AESL course prepares intermediate English language learners to support their child(ren) in elementary school. Emphasis will be on developing oral and written communication skills for interacting with teachers, parents, and other school staff. In addition, students will build cultural awareness of the American elementary school system. Class activities include writing emails, participating in role plays, reading school documents, and listening to school-related conversations. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 524 — ENGLISH FOR PARENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS This AESL course helps intermediate English language learners support their teenager(s) in high school. Emphasis will be on developing oral and written communication skills for interacting with teenagers, counselors, teachers, and other parents. In addition, students will build cultural awareness of the American high school system and different parenting styles. Class activities include participating in role plays and discussions, listening to guest lectures, reading articles, and writing reflection papers. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 531 — BEGINNING PRONUNCIATION The course helps beginning English language learners improve their pronunciation of American English. Emphasis is on vowels and consonants in words and short sentences. Students will be able to pronounce vowels and consonants more accurately through an understanding of how each sound is made, comparison of English vs. native language, listening discrimination practice, listen-and-repeat exercises, and individual feedback from the teacher. This is a noncredit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 533 — INTERMEDIATE PRONUNCIATION The course helps intermediate English language learners better their pronunciation of American English. Emphasis is on vowels, consonants, word stress, and focus words in phrases and sentences. Class activities include listen-and-repeat exercises, pronunciation practice of sentences and short dialogues, and individual feedback from the teacher. This is a noncredit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 535 — ADVANCED PRONUNCIATION This course helps advanced English language learners refine their pronunciation of American English. Emphasis is on using word stress, rhythm, and thought groups with appropriate focus words, intonation, and linking. Class activities include listen-and-repeat exercises, pronunciation practice in short conversations, and individual feedback from the teacher. This is a noncredit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 541 — BEGINNING CONVERSATION This AESL course helps beginning English language learners sustain short conversations in English. Emphasis will be on common English phrases and strategies used in daily conversations. Class activities include listening to and practicing short conversations. This is a noncredit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 543 — INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATION This AESL course helps intermediate English language learners maintain balanced conversations in English. Emphasis will be on common English phrases and strategies used in everyday conversations. Class activities include listening to conversations and participating in role-play exercises. This is a noncredit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 545 — ADVANCED CONVERSATION This AESL course helps advanced English language learners maintain balanced discussions in English. Emphasis will be on common English phrases and strategies used in everyday discussions. Class activities include listening to conversations and participating in discussions. This is a noncredit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 551 — ENGLISH FOR USING COMPUTERS This course is designed for beginning English language learners to gain vocabulary and language skills necessary to acquire basic computer skills for personal, work, and educational settings. The course introduces vocabulary and language skills related to basic computer hardware, mouse skills, beginning keyboarding, accessing and navigating websites (including the course learning management system). The class serves as a supplemental course to develop students' digital skills for enhanced success in subsequent courses in our AESL program. It also prepares students for Computer Information Man… --- # AESL 553 — ENGLISH FOR JOB SUCCESS This AESL course prepares intermediate English language learners to succeed in entry-level jobs. Emphasis will be on the language, soft skills, and cultural knowledge needed to engage in basic communication with supervisors, co-workers, and customers at work. Students will improve their English speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills while role-playing work-related conversations, writing short emails to a supervisor, and interpreting common workplace documents. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 554 — ENGLISH FOR CAREER SEARCH: CAREER PATH AND JOB APPLICATION This AESL course prepares intermediate English language learners for entering the workforce. Emphasis will be on language needed for job readiness skills, including choosing a career path, finding a job, and applying for jobs. Students will improve their English speaking and writing skills while researching career paths, completing job applications, writing a resume and cover letter, and participating in mock interviews. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 555 — ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION This AESL course prepares advanced English language learners to successfully communicate in the workplace. Emphasis is on learning American business cultural norms, essential business phrases/idioms, and appropriate tone, style, and grammar for professional oral and written communication. Class activities include creating LinkedIn profiles, writing emails to clients/co-workers, role-playing meetings, and pitching ideas. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 563 — EVERYDAY VOCABULARY: IDIOMS & COMMON PHRASES This course helps intermediate English language learners understand and use common phrases for everyday situations. Emphasis is on idioms and phrasal verbs as well as strategies for recognizing them and determining their meanings. Class activities will include reading and listening to conversations that contain idioms/phrasal verbs and creating dialogues and/or stories using these phrases. This is an open-entry/open-exit, noncredit course. --- # AESL 574 — ENGLISH FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT This AESL course prepares intermediate language learners for a career in child development, credit courses in Human Development, or to support their child(ren) in child development programs. Emphasis will be on developing vocabulary and oral communication skills needed to interact with young children, educators, and parents. In addition, students will build cultural awareness of American early childhood education principles. Class activities include reading, listening, and talking about American early childhood education as well as participating in role plays. This is a non-credit open-entry/… --- # AESL 575 — ENGLISH FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS This AESL course prepares advanced English language learners for jobs as instructional assistants at U.S. elementary schools. Emphasis will be on developing the vocabulary and oral communication skills needed to interact with students and teachers. In addition, students will build cultural awareness of the American education system. Class activities include learning school-related terminology, listening to example conversations, reading notes and emails from teachers and school staff, participating in role plays, and applying for jobs at local K-12 schools. This is a noncredit, open-entry/ope… --- # AESL 583 — ENGLISH FOR HEALTH This AESL course prepares intermediate English language learners to communicate about health within the American medical system. Emphasis is on the language and cultural knowledge patients need for basic communication with doctors and medical/pharmacy staff. Students will improve their English speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills while role-playing health-related conversations, filling out medical documents, and interpreting labels on foods and medications. This is a noncredit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 584 — ENGLISH FOR REAL ESTATE This AESL course prepares intermediate English language learners for a career related to real estate and noncredit or credit courses in the real estate program. Emphasis will be on developing the vocabulary and oral communication skills needed to interact with clients, agents, and other real estate professionals. In addition, students will build cultural awareness of the American real estate system. Class activities include learning housing terminology, listening to example conversations, participating in role plays, and writing text messages/letters/e-mails to clients and real estate profess… --- # AESL 585 — ENGLISH FOR LAW This AESL course prepares advanced English language learners for a career related to law or credit courses in paralegal studies. Emphasis will be on developing vocabulary and oral communication skills needed to interact with lawyers and clients. In addition, students will build cultural awareness of the American law system. Class activities include learning legal terminology, listening to example conversations, participating in role plays, and writing notes/memos/e-mails to clients. This is a non-credit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 586 — ENGLISH FOR MEDICAL CAREERS This AESL course prepares advanced English language learners to communicate as healthcare professionals within the American medical system. Emphasis is on the language and career readiness skills medical personnel need for communication with patients and healthcare workers. Students will improve their English vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, and reading skills while role-playing healthcare-related conversations and interpreting medical documents. This is a noncredit open-entry/open-exit course. --- # AESL 599 — AESL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER An open-entry/open-exit, non-credit support course for students enrolled in other AESL courses. Supports student learning by reinforcing speaking, listening, reading, writing, and digital literacy skills through the use of Canvas modules and conference instruction. --- # AJ 2 — INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE This course offers an introduction to the history and philosophy of the administration of justice system as it has evolved over time. The course studies in-depth the American system of criminal justice and its various subsystems; the roles and role expectations of criminal justice agents; theories and concepts of crime, crime causation, punishment, rehabilitation, victimization, and disparity in treatment of offenders; local and federal court systems; and ethics, education, and training for professionalism in the criminal justice system. C-ID: AJ 110 --- # AJ 3 — INTRODUCTION TO EVIDENCE This course studies the origin, development, philosophy, and constitutional basis of the rules of evidence; constitutional and procedural considerations affecting arrest, search, and seizure; types and degrees of evidence and rules governing admissibility in a court of law; and judicial decisions interpreting individual rights. Case studies will be examined for practical use. C-ID: AJ 124 --- # AJ 4 — CRIMINAL LAW I This course presents the philosophical and historical development of U.S. law and constitutional provisions. The course defines and classifies crimes and examines their applications to the system of administration of justice. Students analyze crimes against persons, property, and the state in relation to social, religious, and historical ideology. The course includes an assessment of legal definitions, legal research and writing, and a brief introduction to laws of arrest and criminal procedure. C-ID: AJ 120 --- # AJ 5 — COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING (COP) This course examines the complex, dynamic interrelationship between the community and the justice system. Focus will be on the working relationship between the community and the various components of the justice system in managing crime and conflict, with emphasis on the challenges and prospects of working with diverse multicultural and socioeconomic populations. This course emphasizes the roles of the police and the community and strategies for building positive working relationships in community policing. Topics include problem identification and resolution strategies, crime prevention, and… --- # AJ 6 — CRIMINAL PROCEDURES This course traces legal processes from pre-arrest and arrest through trial, sentencing, and correctional procedures. Students review the history of case and common law; examines the laws of arrest, search and seizure; examines legal interpretations as reflected in court decisions; and studies case law methodology and case research in order to demonstrate how decisions impact the procedures of the justice system. C-ID: AJ 122 --- # AJ 7 — CRIMINAL LAW II This course examines the critical elements of federal, state, and relevant administrative and procedural laws as they affect the rights and duties of citizens and the police. Emphasis is on the interpretation and enforcement of provisions of the California Penal, Welfare and Institutions, Health and Safety and Vehicle codes. The course examines judicial limitations on the legal and procedural powers of peace officers, such as constitutional restraints on peace officers' arrest, search and seizure powers. --- # AJ 8 — JUVENILE LAW AND PROCEDURES This course provides a thorough introduction to the juvenile justice system. The course addresses the history and philosophy of juvenile law and delinquency; the role of police in handling juvenile offenders and preventing and repressing delinquency; the ability of the police and juvenile justice system to adapt to changing youth criminal patterns; techniques and procedures involved in apprehending young offenders and prosecuting juvenile cases; and the relationship between community agencies, the police, and juvenile justice resources, with special emphasis on California. C-ID: AJ 220 --- # AJ 13 — CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM This course evaluates the constitutional origins of criminal laws and their relationship to law enforcement. The particular emphasis of the course is on the constitutional protections provided by the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth amendments of the Bill of Rights and their impact on the process of law enforcement. --- # AJ 16 — STREET LAW, PERSONAL LAW Students will learn about law for living. Topics include law in a multicultural society, immigration, family, criminal and consumer law. The course will cover debate, legal research, and critical analysis of legal issues that affect individuals, families, and communities. This course will examine the historical and contemporary legal matters of traditionally marginalized communities. --- # AJ 19 — INTRODUCTION TO CORRECTIONS This course is an overview of the corrections subsystem of the criminal justice system. It examines the historical development of correctional theory, practice, and punishment; current concepts, trends, and practices; explanations of criminal behavior; legal issues, general laws, and general operations related to correctional institutions; and functions and objectives of the criminal justice system concerned with institutional, probation, parole, and community correctional processes as they modify the offender's behavior. The course explores professional career opportunities in public and pri… --- # AJ 61 — ORGANIZED CRIME AND CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA Provides the student with an introduction to the study of organized crime and criminal enterprise. Students examine the influence of covert criminal activities, including street gangs, prison gangs, and traditional organized crime upon social structure; symptoms and recognition of organized crime activity, including the interrelationship with drugs/narcotics, white-collar crime, and vice operations; and the historical and contemporary problems faced by criminal justice agencies combating these criminal enterprises in the United States. --- # AJ 105 — INTRODUCTION TO INVESTIGATION This course introduces the fundamentals of investigation, including techniques of crime scene search and recording; recognition, collection and preservation of physical evidence; interviewing of suspects, victims, and witnesses; modus operandi; and court preparation and presentation. C-ID: AJ 140 --- # AJ 106 — POLICE FIELD OPERATIONS This course presents an overview of patrol operations, the primary enforcement unit of the police. The course outlines the development of the patrol enforcement philosophy and role expectations of the line enforcement officer. It introduces students to current models and practices of patrol enforcement including basic patrol and traffic duties; handling requests for services; conducting field interviews, searches, and arrests; interceding in civil and domestic disturbances; and other community problems. Field trips may be required. --- # AJ 111 — LAW ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP This course studies organizational elements and administration in the criminal justice system. Topics include police selection and promotion, human resource management, principles of communication, personnel and liability issues, and police operations. The course addresses such structural elements as planning, staffing, records, budget, processing of grievances, and personnel discipline techniques. --- # AJ 112 — POLICE SUPERVISION This course examines the role and responsibility of the supervisor in law enforcement agencies. The course discusses the primary duties of a law enforcement supervisor - including employee discipline, training, performance appraisal, and personnel complaint investigations - and provides a basic foundation for theories of organization, administration, and management. Leadership and ethics are emphasized. --- # AJ 150 — EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION FOR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of technical report writing and the preliminary investigation methods used to prepare various types of criminal justice system reports, letters, memoranda, directives and administrative reports. Students will be required to prepare simulated reports based upon fictitious scenarios and assigned related readings, applying the rules of English grammar, spelling, sentence structure, punctuation, and word usage, and the format appropriate for successful criminal justice writing. Students will become familiar with technical terminology and resear… --- # AJ 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # AJ 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # AJ 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # AJ 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # ANTH 1L — PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY LAB ANTH 1L is the companion course to ANTH 1 or ANTH 1H (Introduction to Physical Anthropology) and may be taken concurrently with ANTH 1 or ANTH 1H or in a subsequent semester. The lab course includes in depth exploration of the scientific method, evolutionary theory, natural selection, cellular and population genetics, osteology, osteometry, primate behavior and evolution, hominin evolution. Field trips may be required. C-ID ANTH 115L --- # ANTH 1 — INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY This course is the study of human biology within the framework of evolution, with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. The course introduces students to the principles of evolution and natural selection, the fossil evidence of human evolution, primate behavior, and the biological basis of human variation. Credit may be earned in either ANTH 1 or 1H, but not both. C-ID: ANTH 110 --- # ANTH 1H — INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY HONORS ANTH 1H is the study of human biology within the framework of evolution, with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. The course introduces students to the principles of evolution and natural selection, the fossil evidence of human evolution, primate behavior, and the biological basis of human variation. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, seminar format and more extensive reading and analysis of primary research, culminating in a final research project and oral presentation. Credit may be earned in either ANTH 1 or 1H, but not both. C-ID: ANTH… --- # ANTH 2 — CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY This course presents a cross-cultural, comparative study of human behavior including current ethical obligations of anthropologists. The course investigates the relationship between language and culture; subsistence strategies; social organization; marriage and family patterns; systems of kinship and descent; economic, political, and religious systems; psychological anthropology; components of cultural change and the impact of globalization on language and culture. Credit may be earned for either ANTH 2 or 2H, but not both. C-ID: ANTH 120 --- # ANTH 2H — CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY HONORS This course presents a cross-cultural, comparative study of human behavior including current ethical obligations of anthropologists. The course investigates the relationship between language and culture; subsistence strategies; social organization; marriage and family patterns; systems of kinship and descent; economic, political, and religious systems; psychological anthropology; components of cultural change and the impact of globalization on language and culture. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, seminar format, more extensive reading and analysis of primary re… --- # ANTH 3 — CULTURE AND LANGUAGE This course explores the relationship between language and culture. The course examines characteristics of human language versus animal communication, contemporary theories of language acquisition, the impact of language on thought, the relationship between language and gender, techniques used in descriptive and historical linguistics, major language families, and linguistic diversity. C-ID: ANTH 130 --- # ANTH 4 — NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES This course examines the origin, major language families, and cultures of the Native Americans from traditional and contemporary perspectives. Topics include various subsistence strategies, social organization, political systems, and religious customs and beliefs, as well as Native American music and art. --- # ANTH 7 — NATIVE AMERICANS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA This course examines the origin, major language families, and cultures of the Native Americans of Southern California. Topics will include the various subsistence strategies, social organization, political systems, and religious customs and beliefs, as well as Native American music and art. --- # ANTH 9 — INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY This course examines the theoretical framework, historical development, and methods of anthropological archeology. The course introduces students to archeological site location and analysis, data collection, excavation techniques, artifact identification and classification, and interpretation of cultural sequences. This course will discuss archeological ethics and community relations as well as cultural resource management. C-ID: ANTH 150 --- # ANTH 13 — MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT AND RELIGION This course emphasizes the nature, origins and purposes of religion through a broad range of cultural examples. Emphasis will be placed on the identification of myth and symbolism, the analysis of roles of varied religious practitioners, the relevance of magic, witchcraft and sorcery and evaluation of religious change. --- # ART 40 — 2-D DESIGN AND COLOR This course is an introduction to two-dimensional design and color. Students learn to organize the visual elements of line, shape, color, value, and texture according to established principles of art. Emphasis is placed on manual skill and dexterity. ART 40 is required of art majors but is open to all students. C-ID: ARTS 100 --- # ART 41 — 3D DESIGN This course introduces the principles of three-dimensional design. Students work with a variety of materials, exploring the elements of line, plane, volume and mass and their composition in space. ART 41 is required of art majors but is open to all students. Attendance at field trips may be required. C-ID: ARTS 101 --- # ART 42 — COLOR THEORY This course investigates the various characteristics of color including theory, psychology, history, and the expressive aspects of color. Students will explore aspects of color mixing, matching, analysis, and relationships as it applies to the visual arts. C-ID ARTS 270. --- # ART 50 — BEGINNING OIL PAINTING This is a basic course in the craft and practice of oil painting. The course stresses the fundamentals of composition, value and color theory, instructing students to paint traditional subject matter from direct observation. ART 50 is required of art majors but is open to all students. Field trips may be required. C-ID: ARTS 210 --- # ART 51 — INTERMEDIATE PAINTING This course is designed to further the development of the student's painting skills. The course explores the creative process of developing a painting through the use of contemporary color and design, as well as furthering more advanced classical painting techniques. --- # ART 52 — ADVANCED PAINTING Students explore representational and non-representational subject matter in a variety of media, including acrylic, oil, and mixed media. The course focuses on the development of concepts and themes in a series of paintings. --- # ART 53 — BEGINNING LIFE PAINTING This course is an introduction to painting the human figure. Emphasis is placed on the application of light, color, and palette systems to the figure, and the development of composition within the painting. The course is designed to develop the student's ability to portray the live model in a representational manner using the traditional methods of oil painting. --- # ART 54 — LIFE PAINTING II Builds intermediate skills in painting the human figure. This class is oriented towards the development of more skillful use of color and composition when portraying the live model using traditional methods of oil painting. --- # ART 55 — LIFE PAINTING III: MODERN EXPRESSIONISM IN PAINTING Continues painting the figure from live models, applying the knowledge and techniques developed in prior courses. Emphasis is on developing a student's individual vision and expression through composition, concept, coordination of media, process, and directed research of historical and contemporary styles. --- # ART 60 — INTRODUCTION TO PRINTMAKING This course explores the fundamentals of the fine art of printmaking. Processes explore relief and intaglio printmaking methods. Emphasis is placed on developing skills, creative exploration in black and white, an introduction to color printmaking techniques, and technical analysis of printmaking aesthetics. Students will produce limited editions and survey the history of printmaking. --- # ART 61 — INTERMEDIATE PRINTMAKING Explores the fine art printmaking process, including both relief and intaglio methods. Emphasis is placed on further developing skills, creative exploration into monochromatic and color palettes, and in depth technical analysis of printmaking techniques. Emphasis is placed on enhancing basic printmaking skills. --- # ART 62 — PRINTMAKING: PAINTERLY TECHNIQUES ART 62 continues the exploration of the fine art printmaking process begun in ART 60, including both relief and intaglio methods. Emphasis is placed on edition printing (color), advanced technical skills of multiplate printing, color printing, monoprinting, and continued development of personal imagery and techniques. --- # ART 64 — PRINTMAKING: ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES ART 64 explores contemporary printmaking processes using a variety of light sensitive polymer plates and other alternatives to classical printmaking techniques. Images are prepared digitally and manually combining new and old methods of printed image creation. Emphasis is placed on developing visual statements, design sensibility, technical skills, printmaking aesthetics, historical contexts, and craftsmanship through projects, discussions, and oral and written criticism. --- # ART 70 — CERAMICS I Covers the basic methods of hand building with clay including forming, glazing, and decorating techniques, and offers an introduction to wheel throwing. Also covered is a brief historical and cultural survey of ceramics. --- # ART 71 — CERAMICS II Students will explore basic functional forms, surface decoration, glazing techniques, clays and clay bodies with an emphasis on the use of the potter’s wheel. The history of Early American, Far East and Western European ceramics is also covered. --- # ART 72 — CERAMICS III Students will continue to explore functional forms and surface enrichment and experiment with glazing techniques. Highfire clays and glazes, kiln loading and the theory of firing will be introduced. A brief history of ceramics will be included. --- # ART 75 — SCULPTURE I An introduction to the techniques, materials, and concepts of sculpture. Instruction is designed to foster observation, composition, interpretation, and expression. Representative topics include clay modeling, casting, and bas relief. Emphasis is placed on design, form, materials, and process. --- # ART 76 — LIFE SCULPTURE I Explores the anatomical structure of the human figure through sculptural studies. Students will develop technical and creative skills including observation, drawing, and modeling. Students will work from live models. --- # ART 80 — DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS This is a basic course in representational drawing. It introduces students to the process of perceiving natural forms and rendering the illusion of three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface. Students apply the principles, elements and practices of representational drawing using black and white, wet and dry media. ART 80 is required of art majors but is open to all students. Students are limited to taking four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88 or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. C-ID: ARTS 110 --- # ART 81 — REPRESENTATIONAL DRAWING This course is designed to build upon skills acquired in ART 80, Drawing Fundamentals. The course centers on the study of contemporary and traditional realistic drawing concepts, with emphasis on their creative application. Students work with dry and fluid media to create a variety of drawings. The course presents and explores the possibility of content and meaning and introduces the use of color in drawing. Students may take four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88, or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. C-ID: ARTS 205 --- # ART 82 — ADVANCED DRAWING This advanced course emphasizes the process of drawing as a form of creative expression. Students explore a variety of media (including gesso, colored chalks, ink, watercolor, and collage) and traditional and contemporary drawing styles. The course is designed to develop each student's personal drawing style. Students may take four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88, or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. --- # ART 83 — PERSPECTIVE DRAWING Introduction to the rules of perspective. Instructor lectures and demonstrations will illustrate application methods governing the principles of mathematical perspective applied to drawing techniques. Topics will cover the concepts of 1, 2, and 3 points scientific perspectives in drawing and painting. ART 83 was formerly ART 183. --- # ART 85 — LIFE DRAWING I This is a basic course in life drawing. It introduces students to the methods of rendering the illusion of the human form on a two-dimensional surface. Students apply the principles, elements and practices of representational drawing using black and white, wet and dry media in drawings of the live model. Students may take four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88, or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. C-ID: ARTS 200 --- # ART 86 — ADVANCED LIFE DRAWING This is an advanced course in life drawing. Students apply the principles, elements and practices of representational drawing using black and white, wet and dry media to render the human form emphasizing its musculature. The course is designed to develop students’ facility in perceiving the human form and rendering the illusion of three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface. Students may take four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88, or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. C-ID: ARTS 200 --- # ART 88 — FIGURE DRAWING FOR ANIMATION This is an intermediate course in figure drawing. Students will explore the principles, methods, and concepts relative to drawing the human figure for the purpose of animation and figure invention. Students may take four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88, or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. --- # ART 91 — PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT This course covers the development and presentation of a professional fine art and graphic design portfolio. Emphasis is on the selection of appropriate work, conceptual improvement, and methods of presentation, including digital and traditional formats. Students will complete a professional resume, cover letter, and artist's statement suitable for transfer or the job market. --- # ART 140 — JEWELRY I: INTRO TO JEWELRY AND METALSMITHING Introduction to the design and technical processes of jewelry and metalsmithing. Construction techniques such as sawing, soldering, forming, and surface embellishment are employed in combination with various metals and stones. Also covered are issues of contemporary aesthetics and their influence on jewelry design and construction. --- # ART 141 — JEWELRY II: JEWELRY FABRICATION Intermediate course where students will develop design skills and concepts through individual projects in jewelry fabrication, surface embellishment, forming, stone setting, and tool making. --- # ART 142 — JEWELRY III: JEWELRY CASTING Course covers the casting process as it relates to the field of jewelry. Model making, lost wax casting, and mold making will be introduced. Design skills and concepts will be developed through individual projects. --- # ART 186 — DRAWING THE HEAD AND HANDS This drawing course studies the anatomy and form of the human head and hand, and explores how to represent these most complex forms of the human figure in a two-dimensional medium. Students work with a variety of construction models and study how the application of light affects image and perspective. They apply the basic principles of construction to create an illusion of a three-dimensional form. Students may take four drawing courses (ART 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 88, or 186) for a maximum of 12 units. --- # ART 195 — ILLUSTRATION This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and practices of illustration and the process of developing and communicating visual ideas and imagery. Emphasis is on refining the student's personal visual vocabulary and addressing practical issues within the professional world of illustration. ART 195 is also listed as DMA 195; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ART 400 — ART HISTORY This course provides older adults an overview of the history of Western art. The course focuses on major works of art from the prehistoric to postmodern period. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 400C — ART HISTORY This course provides lifelong education and older adults with an overview of the history of Western art. The course focuses on major works of art from the prehistoric to postmodern period. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. Field trips may be required. --- # ART 403C — ART MEDIA This noncredit course introduces older adults to various art media, which may include drawing, painting, printmaking, beading, stained glass, or ceramics. It is designed to develop the student's appreciation of art and foster creative expression. The course also includes methods for improving fine motor skills and maintaining cognitive abilities. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 405 — BEGINNING OIL PAINTING This course is an introduction to the materials and techniques used in oil painting for the older adult. Students will have an opportunity to paint still life, floral, landscape, portrait, and abstract compositions. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 408 — FLORAL DESIGN-BEGINNING This open-entry/open-exit course for older adults is an introduction to care and handling of fresh flowers, greens and plants in floral design. Detailed instruction and demonstrations of arrangements, corsages, and holiday designs will be given along with individual design time for the execution of take-home projects. --- # ART 410 — INTERMEDIATE PAINTING This intermediate painting course for the older adult emphasizes color theory, composition, and perspective in the application of oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Students will participate in exhibit, framing and installation activities. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. Students may meet with the instructor at alternate locations. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 410C — PAINTING-INTERMEDIATE This intermediate painting course for the older adult emphasizes color theory, composition, and perspective in the application of oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Students will participate in exhibit, framing and installation activities. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. Field trips may be required. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 420 — PAINTING IN SUBJECT AREAS This course is an introduction to the theory, history and practice of landscape, seascape, life, and still life painting for the older adult. The materials, applications, and techniques relevant to each subject area will be emphasized. A list of instructional material will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 424 — BEGINNING SKETCHING This course presents beginning sketching techniques and media for the older adult. Students will create still lifes, gesture/figure drawings and outdoor sketches in the classic media of pencil, pen and ink, charcoal and pastel. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 425 — INTERMEDIATE SKETCHING This course presents intermediate sketching techniques and media for older adults. Students will create life drawings, landscapes, and still life compositions in the classic media of pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, and pastel. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 426 — ADVANCED SKETCHING This course presents advanced-level sketching techniques and media for older adults. Students will create life drawings, landscapes, and still life compositions in the classic media of pencil, pen and ink, charcoal and pastel, as well as new and mixed media. Abstract and experimental techniques will be emphasized. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 430 — BEGINNING WATERCOLOR This course for older adults introduces the materials and techniques used in watercolor painting. The course presents the basic methods of applying watercolor in washes, color mixing, and brush techniques, emphasizing the spontaneity of transparent watercolor. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 430C — WATERCOLOR-BEGINNING This course for older adults introduces the materials and techniques used in watercolor painting. The course presents the basic methods of applying watercolor in washes, color mixing, and brush techniques, emphasizing the spontaneity of transparent watercolor. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 435 — INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED WATERCOLOR This is a course in intermediate and advanced watercolor applications and brush techniques for older adults. Emphasis will be placed on color mixing in a broader palette for washes, glazing, and spontaneous interpretation of the subject matter. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ART 435C — WATERCOLOR-INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED This is a course in intermediate and advanced watercolor applications and brush techniques for older adults. Emphasis will be placed on color mixing in a broader palette for washes, glazing, and spontaneous interpretation of the subject matter. A list of instructional materials will be provided at the first class session. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # ARTH 1 — HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY This course presents an overview of the history, technology, and aesthetics of the science/art of photography from the earliest experiments in the medium to the present. The course analyzes trends that led to the contemporary expression of the medium in the late twentieth century. Students must attend at least one major photography exhibition. This course is required of photography majors. ARTH 1 is also listed as PHOT 1; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ARTH 4 — INTRODUCTION TO ART THEORY This course explores the fundamental elements and principles of art. It introduces the terms, theoretical methodologies and evaluative strategies used in the evaluation of art, various artistic media and artistic devices. The course addresses problems of organization and structure in a work of art as well as the relationship between a work of art and the social and intellectual context from which it emerges. Visits to off-campus galleries/museums may be required. --- # ARTH 20 — ART APPRECIATION This course provides a general introduction to the visual arts that offers a look at works of art and architecture through the study of theory, aesthetics, terminology, themes, design principles, media, techniques across time, global locations, and diverse cultures. The course includes the critical analysis of works of art as well as art historical methodology. Attendance at scheduled field trips may be required. C-ID: ARTH 100 --- # ARTH 22 — SURVEY OF ASIAN ART This course is a chronological and comparative survey of the artistic traditions of India, Korea, China, and Japan from prehistory to the twenty-first century. The course will examine Asian art and architecture within the cultural and historical framework in which they were produced. Attendance at scheduled field trips may be required. C-ID: ARTH 130 --- # ARTH 23 — AFRICAN, OCEANIC, AND INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN ART This course is a chronological, thematic and comparative study of the indigenous art of sub-Saharan Africa, the African diaspora, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia, and North America. The course addresses prehistoric to contemporary forms of artistic expression in these regions within their historical, geographical, religious and sociocultural contexts. In addition, the course will assess how the politics of colonialism and the impact of globalization have influenced the visual arts. C-ID ARTH 140. --- # ARTH 24 — ANCIENT ART This course is a survey of the painting, sculpture, and architecture produced throughout the ancient world of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East. Beginning with the Neolithic peoples of Anatolia, the course examines the first great civilizations of Mesopotamia, the spread of the Bronze Age, and the increasing power of both Persian and Egyptian cultures. The investigation continues with the pre-classical and classical civilizations of the Aegean basin, and culminates with a survey of Roman expansion. Works of art and architecture are discussed in light of their unique cultural and histori… --- # ARTH 27 — ART HISTORY SURVEY III: NON-WESTERN This course is a chronological and comparative survey of the painting, sculpture, craft and architecture of non-Western regions of the world: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. In addition, the course investigates Islamic artistic expansion in the Near East and its influence on the art and architecture of Spain. Aesthetic works from prehistoric to contemporary times are discussed in light of their unique cultural and historical context. --- # ARTH 28 — CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY This course offers a historical perspective of art and architecture from circa 1940 through the twenty-first century. The course begins with an overview of the arts in Europe and America in the first half of the century and continues through the second World War, exploring stylistic changes that occurred with a quickening pace and came to define late modernism and postmodernism. The course concludes with an emphasis on contemporary issues in an ever-shrinking global artistic community. All works of art and architecture will be examined within the cultural and historical framework in which the… --- # ARTH 29 — 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART This course is a survey of the painting, sculpture, and architecture produced in Europe and America from the French Revolution to World War II. Beginning with the neoclassical movement of the late eighteenth century, the course examines the rise of modernity and its innovative assumptions about art, aesthetics, and criticism. The course concentrates on the evolution of the modern definition of art and how changing criteria modify the value of art to society. Works of art and architecture are discussed in light of their unique cultural and historical context. --- # ARTH 30 — RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART This course is a survey of the painting, sculpture, and architecture produced throughout Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the cultural changes of the late Gothic period, the course examines the reintroduction of the classical aesthetic by Renaissance artists, the rise of humanism, and the subsequent visual response of the Catholic Church to developing Protestant institutions during the Baroque period. The course concludes with a survey of late Baroque (Rococo) art as defined by the French court. Works of art and architecture are discussed in light of thei… --- # ARTH 31 — MEDIEVAL ART This course is a survey of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the decline and fall of the Roman Empire through the rise of the great Gothic cathedrals. In addition, the course explores the Golden Age of Byzantium and its influences on the Latin West. The course investigates this epoch in history not as a "Dark Age" but rather as a major factor in the establishment and authority of Christianity throughout the world and today's organization of modern Europe. Works of art and architecture are discussed in light of their unique cultural and historical context. --- # ARTH 32 — HISTORY OF WORLD ARCHITECTURE This course is a chronological and comparative survey of world architecture and urban design from prehistory through the Modern World. Examples of the built environment and civic plans are discussed inside their unique aesthetic, cultural and historical contexts. Field trips may be required. --- # ARTH 33 — AMERICAN ART This course surveys the major developments in American painting, sculpture, and architecture from the early settlement of North America to the conclusion of World War II. The course investigates the role visual culture has played in the United States as Americans have attempted to situate themselves culturally, economically, and politically within their own society and the world at large. Works of art and architecture are discussed in light of their unique cultural and historical context. --- # ARTH C1100 — SURVEY OF ART FROM PREHISTORY TO THE MEDIEVAL ERA Common Course Numbering Language: This course introduces students to visual art and architecture from prehistory to the medieval era with a focus on art from Europe, North Africa, and the near East. The course will further consider global interactions involving these regions. IVC Details: Surveyed from the prehistoric through the late medieval era, these aesthetic works will be examined within the cultural and historical framework in which they were produced. Attendance on scheduled field trips may be required. C-ID: ARTH 110. Formerly ARTH 25. --- # ARTH C1200 — SURVEY OF ART FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO CONTEMPORARY Common Course Numbering Language: This course provides an overview of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period with a focus on art from Europe. The course will further consider global interactions involving this region. IVC Details: Attendance on scheduled field trips may be required. C-ID: ARTH 120. Formerly ARTH 26. --- # ASL 15 — AMERICAN DEAF CULTURE Introduction to American Deaf Culture and the Deaf community as a linguistic and cultural minority in the United States. ASL 15 was formerly offered as SIGN 15. --- # ASL 21 — BEGINNING AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I This course is designed to develop the student's ability to understand and communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). The course introduces the language of sign; the manual alphabet (finger spelling); and the basic vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and conversational conventions of ASL. The emphasis is on ASL as a visual-gestural language and on the unique cultural and linguistic features of the Deaf community. ASL 21 is equivalent to two years of high school ASL. ASL 21 was formerly offered as SIGN 21. --- # ASL 22 — BEGINNING AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II This course is designed to further develop the student's ability to understand and communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). The emphasis is on expanding ASL vocabulary and finger-spelling skills and on syntactical accuracy. This course discusses the appropriate use of sign language in various social contexts and examines cultural versus pathological perspectives on Deafness. ASL 22 is equivalent to three years of high school ASL. ASL 22 was formerly offered as SIGN 22. --- # ASL 23 — INTERMEDIATE AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE This course is designed to further expand the student's ability to comprehend and communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). The emphasis is on the continued acquisition of ASL vocabulary and syntactical accuracy; increased proficiency in finger spelling; and advanced expressive skills. The course also introduces ASL literature in-depth, the history of sign language, regional and international variations in the language, Deaf customs, and culturally appropriate behavior in the Deaf community. ASL 23 is equivalent to four years of high school ASL. ASL 23 was formerly offered as SIGN 23. --- # ASL 24 — INTERMEDIATE AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II This course is designed to increase the student's ability to comprehend and converse in ASL and refines receptive and expressive skills. Students view story narratives, a novel-length story in ASL, and also actively participate in classroom activities. Classroom discussions center around aspects of daily life and culture in the Deaf community. ASL 24 continues to build upon acquired grammar and introduces more complex grammatical structures. This course is taught in ASL. ASL 24 was formerly offered as SIGN 24. --- # ASTR 20 — GENERAL ASTRONOMY This introductory course traces the development of astronomy from ancient times to the present. The course examines the solar system, including the moon, sun, and planets; the composition and evolution of stars and galaxies; and theories of the origin of the universe. Field trips may be required to fulfill the objectives of this course. --- # ASTR 20H — GENERAL ASTRONOMY HONORS This introductory course traces the development of astronomy from ancient times to the present. The course examines the solar system, including the moon, sun, and planets; the composition and evolution of stars and galaxies; and theories of the origin of the universe. This honors course is enriched due to field trip attendance, conducting research, additional writing assignments, and a limited class size. Credit in either ASTR 20 or ASTR 20H, but not both. --- # ASTR 25 — OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY This course is designed primarily to acquaint students with astronomical measurements, instruments and techniques. Students will use telescopes, spectroscopes and other instrumentation to observe and study the moon, planets, stars, binary and multiple stars, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. Field trips may be required to fulfill the course objectives. --- # BIO 1 — THE LIFE SCIENCES This course is an integrated survey of the major principles of biology. General topics include molecular and cell biology, physiology, genetics, ecology/environmental science and evolution. This course is recommended for students seeking to fulfill the general education requirement in life sciences or as an introductory course for students pursuing advanced study in the life sciences and related fields. Credit may be earned in either BIO 1 or 1H, but not both. --- # BIO 1H — THE LIFE SCIENCES HONORS This Honors course is an integrated survey of the major principles of biology. Students focus on cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, reproduction, genetics, evolution, population biology, and ecology. This course is recommended for students seeking to fulfill the general education requirement in life sciences or as an introductory course for students pursuing advanced study in life sciences. In this Honors course, students are expected to read and summarize topical articles, perform literature searches and reviews, and complete associated writing assignments. Credit may be earned in… --- # BIO 1L — THE LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY This is a laboratory survey of the major principles of biology. It is the recommended course to accompany BIO 1 or BIO 1H. Topics include the application of laboratory equipment and procedures to the investigation of biological systems from the biochemical, cellular, organismal, ecological, and evolutionary perspective. Students may take BIO 1L concurrently with the BIO 1 or BIO 1H lecture or after, but not prior to either. --- # BIO 2 — PLANT BIOLOGY This course presents the structure, function, diversity and phylogeny of plant, fungal, and protistan taxa. Topics include comparative plant structure and function, physiology, development, evolution, phylogeny, and taxonomy. Principles of population, community, and ecosystem ecology are emphasized. The laboratory component of the course emphasizes observation, experimentation, and field techniques. Field trips may be required to fulfill course objectives. C-ID: BIOL 155 --- # BIO 3 — HUMANS AND THE BIOLOGICAL WORLD This general education course examines the basic principles of the biological sciences as it relates to humans. Topics range from cellular biology, physiology, genetics, evolution, ecology and the environment. This course is intended for those non-majors students seeking a comprehensive course in the biological sciences. --- # BIO 4 — RESEARCH METHODS IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES This course instructs students in the fundamentals of biological research methodologies. Students will be introduced to the Scientific Method, scientific literature searches and critiques, the design and implementation of biological experimentation, the analysis of results, and the preparation of a report of findings. Students will conclude their coursework by performing their own biological research project. --- # BIO 5 — ANIMAL BIOLOGY This course is a survey of protozoans and animals. Lectures focus on the form and function, physiology, development, classification, evolution, ecology, behavior, and natural history of major animal and protozoan taxa. Field trips may be required to fulfill the course objectives. C-ID: BIOL 150 --- # BIO 7 — STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR THE BIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES This course provides an introduction to statistical theory and experimental methods as applied to the biological and health sciences. Topics include experimental design for the study of biological systems in the field and the laboratory, hypothesis testing, graphical and numerical approaches to presenting data sets, statistical methods, discrete and continuous data, and the distinction between parametric and nonparametric data. The course includes instruction in the presentation and interpretation of results. --- # BIO 10 — BIOCHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES This course addresses the application of chemical principles to biological systems, especially at the cellular level of structure and function. Essential topics include the nature of biologically important solutions and colloids; structure, functions and interactions of biological macromolecules; interactions of biological molecules in formation and functions of biological membranes; intracellular metabolism and enzyme functions; and genetic control of biological functions. The course is intended for health science students who have no previous background in sciences. Students can receive cre… --- # BIO 11 — HUMAN ANATOMY This course presents an analysis of human structure integrating cellular, tissue, organ, and organ system levels of structure and relates structure to function. Laboratory emphasis is on histology and gross anatomy. The course is designed for pre-professional students and biology majors. C-ID: BIOL 110B --- # BIO 12 — HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY This course applies an integrated systems approach to the study of function in the human body. Emphasis is on major organ systems, their negative feedback controls, and their significance in maintaining homeostasis of the whole body. Each system is analyzed at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels of function. The lab component of the course emphasizes experimental design, data collection and analysis, and evaluation and interpretation of experimental results. C-ID: BIOL 120B --- # BIO 14 — ADVANCED RESEARCH IN BIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES This course provides more advanced training in the design and implementation of laboratory and field research in the biological and health sciences. Its focus is on more complex protocol, experimental design and instrumentation. Students will be introduced to more advanced statistical tests and prepare a final manuscript of findings. Students will also be required to report their findings at a special student research symposium at the conclusion of the semester. --- # BIO 15 — GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY This course is an examination of the fundamental biological concepts as they apply to viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoans. Theoretical as well as practical applications are discussed in such topics as bacterial morphology, metabolism, genetics, chemotherapy, and antibiotics. Also discussed are resistance and immunity, health and disease, and the role of microorganisms in the environment. Laboratory work will reinforce topics covered in lecture. Field trips may be required to fulfill course objectives. --- # BIO 16 — CELLULAR BIOLOGY This course, intended for majors but open to all students, will cover principles and applications of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure and function, biological molecules, homeostasis, cell reproduction and its controls, molecular genetics, classical /Mendelian genetics, cell metabolism including photosynthesis and respiration, and cellular communication. The philosophy of science, methods of scientific inquiry and experimental design are foundational to the course. C-ID: BIOL 190 --- # BIO 19H — MARINE BIOLOGY HONORS Marine Biology Honors presents the biology and natural history of marine organisms. A habitat approach emphasizes the physical features of each marine environment, the community structure of the habitat and adaptations of organisms. Emphasis is on California marine life. The laboratory component of the course emphasizes observation and experimentation. Experiments address general biological principles in the context of the marine environment. Students study the classification, anatomy, physiology and behavior of marine organisms. Field trips focus on the structure of marine ecosystems. This h… --- # BIO 19 — MARINE BIOLOGY This course presents the biology and natural history of marine organisms within an ecological context. A habitat approach emphasizes the physical features of each marine environment, the community structure of the habitat and adaptations of the constituent organisms. Emphasis is on California marine life. The laboratory component of the course emphasizes observation and experimentation. Experiments address general biological/ecological principles in the context of the marine environment. Students study the classification, anatomy, physiology and behavior of marine organisms. Field trips, an i… --- # BIO 21 — HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY This basic course shows the interrelationships between the anatomical and physiological systems of humans. The course presents an analysis that integrates cellular, tissue, organ, and organ system levels of structure and relates structure to function. Laboratory emphasis is on the histology, gross anatomy, and physiology of major systems. This course does not meet the requirements of either anatomy or physiology for nursing students or biology majors. --- # BIO 30 — CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE AND WILDLANDS This lecture course introduces students to the natural history of California flora and fauna in the context of the many ecosystems that occur in the state. The course presents both ecological and evolutionary perspectives as it examines the role of climate, geology, species interactions, and adaptation in creating California's world famous biodiversity. The course includes both prehistoric and historical changes to California wildlands and the role humans have played in shaping the current landscape. Field trips may be required to fulfill course objectives. --- # BIO 43 — BEING AN ANIMAL: THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR This course offers an integrated analysis of the physiological, ecological and evolutionary bases of animal behavior. The course considers in detail the psychobiological, ecological, developmental and sociobiological determinants of animal behavior in the context of adaptive evolution. Field trips may be required to fulfill course objectives. --- # BIO 44 — BIOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY This course provides a thorough introduction to the development and practice of sexuality in humans. Topics include biochemical function, developmental and sexual differentiation from fertilization through the age of 16 years, and psychosexual and physiological development from birth through adulthood. Field trips may be required to fulfill the objectives of this course. --- # BIO 51 — FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY I This combined lecture and lab course integrates four broadly defined levels of organismal structure and function into a coherent framework: biological chemistry, cell structure and function, cellular metabolism, classical and molecular genetics, and the molecular basis of evolutionary biology woven together using basic themes of structural/functional hierarchy, energetics, and information flow. This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence designed for biological science and pre-professional majors. Credit for BIO 51 or 51H, but not both. --- # BIO 51H — FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY I HONORS This combined lecture and lab course integrates four broadly defined levels of organismal structure and function into a coherent framework: biological chemistry, cell structure and function, cellular metabolism, classical and molecular genetics, and the molecular basis of evolutionary biology woven together using basic themes of structural/functional hierarchy, energetics, and information flow. This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence designed for biological science and pre-professional majors. As an Honors course, students will be completing advanced reading and writing assignme… --- # BIO 52 — FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY II Through a combination of lecture and laboratory instruction, this course utilizes foundational principles in ecology and evolution to underpin the conceptual organization in the dynamic diversity of, and interactions between, living organisms and their environment. Concepts pertaining to energy, material, and information flow within and between organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems are through lines in the introduction to macroevolution, phylogenetics, organismal diversity, anatomy and physiology, and ecology. Credit for BIO 52 or 52H, but not both. --- # BIO 61 — FIELD STUDIES: COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS This field course introduces students to interrelationships among biological communities and the physical environments that characterize coastal marine ecosystems. Topics will include natural history, ecology, and diversity of coastal ecosystems. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and field experiments. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, or 109) for a maximum of 5 units. --- # BIO 62 — FIELD STUDIES: ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS This field course introduces students to the interrelationships among biological communities and the physical environments that characterize island ecosystems. Topics will include island ecology and evolution, natural history, ecology and diversity of island flora and fauna, and human impacts to island ecosystems. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, or 109) for a maximum of 5 units. BIO 62 was formerly offered as BIO 102. --- # BIO 63 — FIELD STUDIES: MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS This field course introduces students to interrelationships among plant/animal communities and physical environments that characterize mountain habitats. Topics will include natural history, ecology and diversity of mountain flora and fauna, and human impacts to mountain ecosystems. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and experiments, data collection and analysis. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, or 109… --- # BIO 64 — FIELD STUDIES: DESERT ECOSYSTEMS This field course introduces students to interrelationships among plant/animal communities and physical environments that characterize desert habitats. Topics will include natural history, ecology and diversity of desert flora and fauna, and human impacts to desert ecosystems. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and experiments, data collection and analysis. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, or 109) for… --- # BIO 65 — FIELD STUDIES: VALLEY AND GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS This field course introduces students to the valley and grassland ecosystems of California. The course emphasizes interrelationships among plant/animal communities and physical environments that characterize valley and grassland ecosystems. Topics will include natural history, ecology, diversity, and human impacts. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and field experiments, data collection and analysis. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life scienc… --- # BIO 69 — FIELD STUDIES: A 21ST CENTURY LOOK AT THE AMERICAN WEST This field course introduces students to the flora and fauna of selected natural sites that have been the focus of influential natural history writers over the last 200 years. The course is taught as an expedition, as students plan and implement a trek to these sites, compare the flora and fauna of today to that described in historical books and essays, and prepare their own natural history journals. Introductory lectures in natural history, biology, ecology, and community structure complement direct field experiences. It is intended for both biology majors and non-majors. Students must be ab… --- # BIO 71 — STEM CELLS AND SOCIETY This course offers an introduction to stem cell research, including the origins and potential uses of stem cells in medicine, research, reproduction, agriculture, environment preservation, and other applications. Course topics include different sources and forms of stem cells, the technologies used to generate these remarkable cells, their use in a wide variety of fields, and the ethical and social concerns that have been and continue to be raised about the use of stem cells and related biotechnologies. This course is intended for majors and non-majors. --- # BIO 72 — HUMAN GENETICS AND MEDICINE This course offers an introduction to basic genetic concepts as they apply to humans. The course analyzes genetic pedigrees and hereditary relationships, genetic maps, genes, chromosomes, molecular aspects of human diseases and disorders related to genetics, and the role of databases including the Human Genome Project in forensics and medicine. Discussions include future potentials, as well as legal and ethical considerations, of genetic analysis and "genetic engineering." Intended for both majors and non-majors. --- # BIO 73 — HUMAN PROSECTION This course focuses on the gross anatomy of major organs and organ systems of the human body. The course presents detailed regional dissections using human cadaveric specimens. Emphasis is placed on dissection techniques. BIO 73 was formerly offered as BIO 200. --- # BIO 80H — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: ORGANISMS TO ECOSYSTEMS HONORS This Honors course introduces students to the diversity of life and provides the framework to understand its origins from underlying processes in organic evolution. Topics include natural selection, population genetics, systematics, speciation, history of life of Earth, morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptation, and the principles of evolutionary ecology. As an Honors course, students will be completing advanced reading and writing assignments, will conduct more rigorous laboratory exercises,and perform more in-depth data analyses than in BIO 80. Field trips may be required to f… --- # BIO 80 — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: ORGANISMS TO ECOSYSTEMS This course introduces students to the diversity of life and provides the framework to understand its origins from underlying processes in organic evolution. Topics include natural selection, population genetics, systematics, speciation, history of life of Earth, morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptation, and the principles of evolutionary ecology. Field trips may be required to fulfill objectives of this course. Credit for BIO 80 or 80H, but not both. C-ID: BIOL 140 --- # BIO 81 — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: FROM DNA TO ORGANISMS This combined lecture and lab course integrates four broadly defined levels of organismal structure and function into a coherent framework. Biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, and organismal structure and function (with emphasis on organ systems and physiology) are woven together using basic themes of structural/functional hierarchy, energetics, and information flow. BIO 81 was formerly offered as BIO 93 and 93L. Credit for BIO 81 or 81H, but not both. C-ID: BIOL 190 --- # BIO 81H — INTEGRATED BIOLOGY: FROM DNA TO ORGANISMS HONORS This combined lecture and lab course integrates four broadly defined levels of organismal structure and function into a coherent framework. Biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, and organismal structure and function (with emphasis on organ systems and physiology) are woven together using basics themes of structural/functional hierarchy, energetics, and information flow. As an Honors course, students will be completing advanced reading and writing assignments, will conduct more rigorous laboratory exercises, and perform more in-depth data analyses than in BIO 81. BIO 81H was formerly offered a… --- # BIO 82 — GENETICS This lecture/lab course is a comprehensive survey of genetics. Students evaluate the basic tenets of molecular, transmission, and population genetics, and use the science of genetics to appraise the relationship of genetics to the processes and products of microevolution and macroevolution. Topics include molecular aspects of DNA replication and gene expression including RNA and protein biosynthesis; genetic code and organization of genome; regulation of expression of genetic information; cell division; genetic recombination and mutation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes; and biochemical evolutio… --- # BIO 83 — BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY This course focuses on the structure and functions of major classes of intracellular macromolecules with special focus on protein structure and function; the metabolic pathways for the synthesis, degradation, and interconversion of carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins; energy use and capture, and the molecular mechanisms which control and direct intracellular metabolic processes; genetic information storage and retrieval, and concepts and theories of molecular evolution. Previously offered as BIO 99 and 99L --- # BIO 167D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: BIOLOGY/BIOTECHNOLOGY BIO 167 is an opportunity to earn college credits in the workplace by learning or improving knowledge or skills related to a paid job or volunteer position. Work Experience Education (WEE) seeks to develop desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per term, a maximum of 16 WEE combined units at IVC and including other K-12 educational institutions. Units are awarded upon achievement of approved learning objectives, completion of required forms and hours worked. One unit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of unpaid hours work… --- # BIO 511 — BEEKEEPING BASICS AND BEE PRODUCTS Students will learn about various bee species and their importance to our life on earth, with particular focus on the honeybee and how its colonies function. An introduction to beekeeping, equipment, function and laws will be discussed with hands-on learning of gear and safety. Bee pollination and products will be explored, including opportunities to taste honey and create your own goods using bees wax. --- # BIO 512 — BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT AND BEE NEEDS Students will learn about the important tasks of building and maintaining the beekeeping equipment needed to take care of the honey bees, as well as to provide a clean, safe and welcoming apiary. Students will assemble and repair woodenware, hive components, processing equipment, protection apparatus and bee foods. Seasonal gardening needs will also be covered, insuring the necessary food availability for the honey bees. --- # BIO 521 — BEE HIVE MANAGEMENT Students will learn how to manage bee hives during the different seasons of Southern California, while using the appropriate tools and exercising proper safety protocols. Bee suits and gloves will be provided, in addition to all the required tools. Students will utilize particular inspection techniques, regularly visit an apiary for hive inspections and will learn to identify and anticipate hive needs. Additional topics include honey bee food sources and nutrition, pests, predators, diseases and parasites and their treatments. --- # BIO 522 — ADVANCED BEEKEEPING, APIARY SAFETY & TECHNOLOGY Advanced seasonal beekeeping practices will be covered, including honey harvesting procedures, like re-queening a colony, swarm removal, splitting/combining colonies and building projects. Safety in and around the apiary will be discussed to enhance everyone’s beekeeping experience, which includes proper care and storage of equipment. Students will also learn about the different monitoring systems available to beekeeping, with an introduction to and practice of the scientific method, as well as data collection and interpretation. --- # BIOT 70L — INTRODUCTORY BIOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY This laboratory course addresses basic skills and techniques common to the biotechnology industry. Topics include measurement of activity and quantity of proteins, growth and manipulation of bacteria, genetic engineering and antibody methods. This course is intended for students majoring in applied biotechnology and is the recommended course to accompany BIOT 70. --- # BIOT 70 — INTRODUCTION TO BIOTECHNOLOGY This course introduces the field of biotechnology and its applications in medicine, industry, agriculture, and environmental management. Students will explore the historical development of biotechnology, current technologies such as genetic engineering and bioremediation, ethical issues, and career opportunities. Emphasis is placed on industry practices and professional standards. --- # BIOT 77 — BIOTECHNOLOGY: CELL CULTURE This laboratory-based course provides students with hands-on experience in essential cell culture techniques, preparing them for careers in industry and research. Students will learn fundamental skills, including aseptic techniques, sterile handling, media preparation, cell quantification, and the passage of cell lines. Topics covered include the composition of cell culture media, the establishment of primary cultures and cell lines from normal and cancerous tissues, routine cell cultivation, long-term storage methods, contamination management, and various approaches to cell characterization.… --- # BIOT 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: BIOTECHNOLOGY Provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # BIOT 173 — BIOTECHNOLOGY A-BASIC LAB SKILLS Biotechnology transforms knowledge that emerges from life science research into products of value to people. This course provides students with a foundation in techniques necessary to work as effective professionals in a biotechnology laboratory or production facility. Emphasis placed on metrology (the study of measurement), solution preparation and sterilization, aseptic technique, performing assays and basic biological separation methods. The course integrates ethical considerations along with product quality systems documentation; trouble-shooting; calibration, accuracy and precision error… --- # BIOT 176 — QUALITY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE IN BIOSCIENCE This course provides an overview of quality and regulatory requirements in the biotechnology industry, with a focus on research, development, and manufacturing processes. Students will examine the role of the FDA, key regulations (including GMP, GLP, and the FD&C Act), and the historical development of quality systems. The course also covers ISO standards, quality management systems (QMS), team dynamics, and the development and validation of regulatory documents such as SOPs. Designed for students preparing for careers in biomanufacturing, the course emphasizes practical applications of quali… --- # BIOT 274 — BIOTECHNOLOGY B: PROTEINS Students will learn fundamental skills applicable to any biotechnology laboratory with particular focus on downstream manufacturing processes in bio-manufacturing. Skills include maintenance of an industry standard notebook, preparation and sterilization of solutions, reagents and media; utilization of good aseptic technique, proper use and maintenance of laboratory equipment, adherence to quality control protocols, lab safety regulations, in vitro translation, large scale protein expression and purification, modification, western blot analysis, ELISA, antibody tagging and fluorescent microsc… --- # BIOT 275 — BIOTECHNOLOGY C-NUCLEIC ACIDS This course provides students with advanced laboratory skills needed for employment in the biotechnology industry. Students will be re-introduced to the basic concepts of molecular biology including DNA structure and function as well as the process and controls of gene expression. Techniques include DNA isolation, purification and sequencing, gel electrophoresis, fluorescence in situ hybridization and Southern Blot analysis, DNA restriction/fingerprinting, cloning (transformation and screening) and real-time PCR. Maintenance of an industry standard notebook, application of SOP and instrument… --- # BIOT 278 — QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION PREP. This course introduces the basics of quality assurance in industry. This course prepares students to take and pass the Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA) examination given by the American Society of Quality (ASQ). --- # BIOT 279 — QUALITY ASSURANCE OF MEDICAL DEVICES Medical device manufacturers are always working to balance the demands of meeting government regulations and containing production costs, in an effort to produce the most reliable and safest medical devices. This course is designed to introduce the basic elements of medical devise quality initiatives and quality-control methodologies to ensure compliance with federal guidelines for individuals working with medical devices in the biomanufacturing industry. --- # CHEM 1AH — GENERAL CHEMISTRY IA HONORS This is the first semester of a one-year course in chemistry intended for but not limited to majors in the natural sciences (chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics, pre-medicine), mathematics, and engineering. Topics include nomenclature, stoichiometry, gas laws, bonding, atomic theory, quantum theory, thermochemistry, liquids, and solids. CHEM 1A is part of the General Chemistry course sequence. This course assumes that the student has recently had at least high school level chemistry. It is recommended that CHEM 1A and 1B be completed at a single institution. This Honors course is enrich… --- # CHEM 1A — GENERAL CHEMISTRY I This is the first semester of a one-year course in chemistry intended for but not limited to majors in the natural sciences (chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics, pre-medicine), mathematics, and engineering. Topics include nomenclature, stoichiometry, gas laws, bonding, atomic theory, quantum theory, thermochemistry, liquids, and solids. CHEM 1A is part of the General Chemistry course sequence. This course assumes that the student has recently had at least high school level chemistry. It is recommended that CHEM 1A and 1B be completed at a single institution before transfer. C-ID: CHEM 1… --- # CHEM 1BH — GENERAL CHEMISTRY II HONORS This is the second semester of a one-year course in chemistry intended for majors in the natural sciences (chemistry, biochemistry, physics, pre-medicine), allied health, mathematics, and engineering. Topics include chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, coordination chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. CHEM 1B is part of the one year General Chemistry course sequence. It is recommended that CHEM 1A and 1B be completed at a single institution before transfer. This Honors course is enriched through additional writing assignments, and an independent research pro… --- # CHEM 1B — GENERAL CHEMISTRY II This is the second semester of a one-year course in chemistry intended for majors in the natural sciences (chemistry, biochemistry, physics, pre-medicine), allied health, mathematics, and engineering. Topics include chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, coordination chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. CHEM 1B is part of the one year General Chemistry course sequence. It is recommended that CHEM 1A and 1B be completed at a single institution before transfer. --- # CHEM 3 — FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY This course is a study of the basic principles of chemistry. It is designed especially for the student who intends to take Chemistry 1A but needs more preparation. Topics include problem-solving and calculation methods, nomenclature, chemical formulas, chemical equations, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, atomic and molecular structure, bonding, gases, solutions, acids, and bases. Laboratory activities will familiarize students with the use of basic equipment. C-ID CHEM 101. --- # CHEM 4 — INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL & ORGANIC CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY This course introduces major topics of general, organic, and biochemistry. It is a one semester course that starts with fundamental chemistry and builds up to the complicated chemistry of life. The course is designed primarily for students planning to enter a nursing program, an allied health or paramedical field, the liberal arts, or environmental technology. --- # CHEM 12A — ORGANIC CHEMISTRY This is a study of the principles, theories, and reactions of organic chemistry with an emphasis on the relations of structure and reactivity. The course is recommended for students whose major is chemistry or a related field such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, biology, biochemistry, or chemical engineering. The following topics are included: stereochemistry, aliphatic and aromatic compounds, preparations and reactions of certain organic compound families, and spectroscopic methods. C-ID: CHEM 150 --- # CHEM 12B — ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEM 12B is a continuation of CHEM 12A and meets the organic chemistry lecture/lab requirement for UC transfer. The course covers preparations and reactions of certain organic compound families, including aromatic, polynuclear, heterocyclic, carbonyl-containing compounds, polymers, carbohydrates, amino acids, and proteins. --- # CHI 1 — BEGINNING CHINESE 1 This course is designed to develop the fundamental communication skills in Mandarin Chinese, including listening, comprehension, reading and basic conversation. The emphasis is on the comprehension of native spoken and written Chinese. The course introduces Chinese characters and the pronunciation system. It also presents general aspects of Chinese daily life and culture. Throughout the course, the role of grammar is secondary to that of acquiring basic competency in reading, writing, and speaking Chinese and inferring its meaning. CHI 1 is equivalent to two years of high school Chinese. --- # CHI 2 — BEGINNING CHINESE II This course is designed to continue the development of fundamental communication skills in CHI 1, including further mastery of the pronunciation system and additional Chinese characters. Students engage in communicative tasks by increasing their listening, speaking, reading, and writing proficiency. The course presents more complex language structures and further explores aspects of Chinese daily life, culture and customs. Classes are conducted in Chinese. --- # CHI 3 — INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I Chinese 3 builds on language skills developed in Chinese 1 and 2. It is designed to further the student's ability to comprehend and converse in Mandarin Chinese, build vocabulary, and extend reading and writing skills. There is an increased emphasis on complex sentence structures and idiomatic expressions. The course also elaborates on Chinese customs and culture. CHI 3 is conducted in Chinese. --- # CHI 4 — INTERMEDIATE CHINESE II This course, continuation of Intermediate Chinese I, is designed to increase students' proficiency in comprehension and spoken expression, and refine their reading and writing skills. Emphasis is on applying Chinese grammar and syntax in written and oral communication, and on further developing awareness of the culture and history of China. Conducted in Chinese. --- # CHI 21 — INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE CULTURE This course introduces various aspects of Chinese culture. Areas of study include geography, history, literature, art, philosophy, religion, and customs. Students will discuss Chinese culture and its relationship with other cultures of the world. The class is taught in English; no knowledge of Chinese is required. --- # CIM 1 — INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL COMPUTER APPLICATIONS This course introduces Microsoft Office Professional applications. Topics covered include word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), database (Access), presentation (PowerPoint), email management (Outlook), and World Wide Web navigation software. (Formerly known as CIM 107). --- # CIM 34 — CLOUD COMPUTING I This course covers cloud deployment and service models, cloud infrastructure, and the key considerations in migrating to cloud computing. This course also provides the required technology essentials across all domains, including compute, storage, networking, applications, and databases, to help develop a strong understanding of virtualization and cloud computing technologies. The course also surveys cloud careers and discusses industry demand for cloud skills. Formerly CIM 234. --- # CIM 40 — INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN The course presents a systematic methodology for analyzing a business problem or opportunity, determining what role, if any, computer-based technologies can play in addressing the business need, articulating business requirements for the technology solution, specifying alternative approaches to acquiring the technology capabilities needed to address the business requirements, and specifying the requirements for the information systems solution in particular, in-house development, development from third-party providers, or purchased commercial off-the-shelf packages. CIM 40 was formerly offere… --- # CIM 49 — CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS) WEBSITE This course presents an introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and their application to presentation in the creation of websites. Topics include CSS syntax, selectors, positioning, and internal and external style sheets. --- # CIM 51 — DYNAMIC WEB DATABASE MANAGEMENT This course provides an overview of how to create and administer interactive, database-driven web sites using PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) and MySQL databases. Students create interactive, dynamic database-driven web sites with logins, database updates, validation, and security. --- # CIM 52 — DATA ANALYTICS FUNDAMENTALS This course is an overview of data analytics and their use in making business decisions, covering a broad selection of topics along the life-cycle of data analytics (business objective; data collection, cleansing, transformation; data analysis, data visualization/storytelling; data-based decision making). Professional skills, such as communication, presentation, and data storytelling, will be presented. Students will acquire a basic working knowledge of data analytics through hands-on projects and study in a variety of business, engineering, social sciences, or life sciences domains. Issues o… --- # CIM 91 — ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER This course applies Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools for use in College and Career. Students will gain hands-on experience and explore prompt engineering, AI Ethics, AI Tools for College Success, Career Development and Exploration, Personal Assistant, and Business Presentations. --- # CIM 103 — INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS This course provides an overview of the operating system used with personal computers, including the fundamentals of the Windows user interface. Topics include working with Windows programs; managing files and folders; securing the computer; exchanging mail, news and appointments; creating and managing movies, CDs, DVDs, and other digital media; organizing photos/pictures; sharing files; computing wirelessly; maintaining and securing the system; enhancing system performance; backing up and restoring files; and installing and managing hardware and devices. --- # CIM 110 — INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ESSENTIALS (A+) This beginning course provides an introduction to computer hardware and software skills needed to help meet the growing demand for Information Technology (IT) professionals. The fundamentals of computer hardware and software as well as advanced concepts such as security, networking, and the responsibilities of an IT professional will be introduced. This course is designed to prepare students for the CompTIA A+ certification exams. C-ID: ITIS 110 --- # CIM 112.1 — SPREADSHEETS I This course is designed for individuals seeking to develop introductory skills in using spreadsheet software. Students will use a spreadsheet program to organize and manage financial data. Topics include formulas and functions, charts and graphs, and developing well-formatted worksheets. CIM 112.1 is also listed as ACCT 112.1; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID BSOT 112X. --- # CIM 112.2 — SPREADSHEETS II This course provides instruction and training in the use of spreadsheet software at the intermediate level. Students will produce sophisticated spreadsheet documents for a variety of business applications. Topics include working with lists and pivot tables, consolidating multiple worksheets and workbooks, integrating the spreadsheet software with other software programs and the web, and creating macros. CIM 112.2 is also listed as ACCT 112.2; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID BSOT 122X. --- # CIM 112.3 — SPREADSHEETS III - CERTIFICATION This course provides students with advanced study and training required to qualify for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in spreadsheet software. Students will review and learn to integrate all of the features of the spreadsheet program and incorporate data from other software programs and the World Wide Web. The course is designed to prepare students for the MOS Certification exam for spreadsheets. CIM 112.3 is also listed as ACCT 112.3; credit will be given in either area, not both. Formerly offered as CIM 212.3. --- # CIM 115 — DATABASES This course covers a relational database management system for building and maintaining business databases. Topics include the design of relational databases; tables, queries, forms and reports; enter/edit/search data; field properties; import/export; joins; Structured Query Language (SQL); macros; and user interfaces. C-ID BSOT 113X and BSOT 123X. --- # CIM 116 — WORD PROCESSING This course is designed for those seeking to master skills in using word processing software in preparation for Microsoft certification. Students will use a word processing program to create, edit, design, format, and manipulate documents. Topics covered include merging; planning, creating, and running macros; creating and manipulating outlines; creating and using on-screen forms; working with master documents and subdocuments; and collaborating and integrating data. CIM 116 was formerly offered as CIM (116.1 or 210.1) and CIM (116.2 or 210.2). --- # CIM 117 — SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING This course introduces social media tools used for marketing in business. Topics include uses, ethics, and guidelines for social networking, and online marketing channels. Students create a social media marketing campaign through the use of Web applications, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. CIM 117 is also listed as ENTR 117; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # CIM 118 — SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING II This course is designed for students with a foundational understanding of social media marketing, looking to develop intermediate to advanced skills. The focus will be on using major social media platforms for marketing, customer interaction, and brand-building. Students will learn to leverage social media analytics, content strategy, paid advertising, and engagement techniques to create a cohesive digital marketing strategy. The course will also emphasize the integration of social media campaigns with broader marketing strategies. Also listed as ENTR 118; credit in either area, not both. --- # CIM 141 — CREATING A WEB PAGE USING HTML This course covers HyperText Markup Language (HTML) for building a business website for viewing on desktop and mobile devices using a browser. Topics include Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), lists, links, graphics, tables, multimedia, web forms, and Responsive Web Design for mobile devices. --- # CIM 143 — WEB DEVELOPMENT - DREAMWEAVER This course covers Dreamweaver for building business web pages for viewing on desktop and mobile devices using a browser. Topics include linking; typography; Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); lists; tables; graphics; movie/video files; and jQuery; and responsive web design for mobile devices. This course helps prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Experts (ACE) Dreamweaver Exam. --- # CIM 144 — WEB DEVELOPMENT - WORDPRESS This course covers WordPress for building a business website for viewing on desktop and mobile devices. Topics include WordPress installation; blogs; business pages using menus, themes, plugins, widgets, photos, and videos; maintenance; security; and publish a responsive web design business site. --- # CIM 148 — WEB DEVELOPMENT - EDGE ANIMATE This course introduces Edge Animate, an Adobe web development tool, that uses web standards for creating and animating web projects for desktop and mobile devices. Topics include the Edge Animate interface, creating and importing artwork, creating motion, scripting, creating responsive web design layouts, and publishing Edge Animate projects. --- # CIM 160 — COMPUTER NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS (NETWORK+) This course examines the concepts of networking protocols, hardware, and security. It covers Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), networking hardware, network security, and the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) suites of layered network protocols. This course is designed to prepare students for the industry-standard CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam. C-ID: ITIS 150 --- # CIM 161 — INTRODUCTION TO LINUX (LINUX+) This course is designed to prepare students for the CompTIA Linux+ Certification Exam and acquire the skills to become a Linux system administrator. The course will provide the skills and knowledge to install, troubleshoot, and maintain the Linux operating system (OS). It covers system architecture, installation, commands, file systems, devices, user interfaces, administrative tasks, system services, networking, security, disaster recovery, server roles/specializations, and boot loaders. C-ID: ITIS 155 --- # CIM 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: COMPUTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # CIM 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: COMPUTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # CIM 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: COMPUTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # CIM 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: COMPUTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # CIM 170 — INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY (SECURITY+) This course provides a comprehensive overview of network security. Topics include information security, malware and social engineering attacks, application and network attacks, vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation, host and data security, network security, wireless security, access control, authentication, account management, cryptography, and business continuity and disaster recovery plans. This course helps prepare students for the CompTIA Security+ Certification Exam. --- # CIM 172 — DIGITAL FORENSICS FUNDAMENTALS This course is an introduction to the methods used to properly conduct a digital forensics investigation and aligns with objectives of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) Certification. Topics covered include computer forensics as a profession and the investigator’s lab; computer investigation and crime scene processes; understanding operating systems boot processes and disk structures; data (email, graphics) acquisition and analysis; report writing for high-tech investigations; and a review of familiar computer forensics tools. C-ID ITIS 165. --- # CIM 174 — CYBERSECURITY ANALYSIS – COMPTIA CYSA+ This course covers how to configure and use threat detection tools, perform data analysis, and interpret the results to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and risks to an organization with the end goal of securing and protecting applications and systems within an organization. The course covers skills used by IT security analysts, vulnerability analysts, or threat intelligence analysts with a technical, hands-on focus on IT security analytics. This course helps prepare students for the DOD recommended intermediate level CompTIA CySa+ certification exam. --- # CIM 181 — INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKS (CCNA 1 & NETWORK+) This course examines the concepts of networking protocols, hardware, and security. It covers Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), networking hardware, network security, and the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) suites of layered network protocols. This course is designed to prepare students for the industry-standard CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam and is the first in a series of three Cisco networking courses that prepares students for the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certification Exam. C-ID: ITIS 150 --- # CIM 182 — INTERMEDIATE NETWORKING (CCNA 2) This is the second of three courses which prepare students for the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certification Exam. This course focuses on switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks, including wireless local area networks (WLAN) and security concepts. It includes basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identifying and mitigating LAN security threats, and configuring and securing a basic WLAN. C-ID ITIS 145 --- # CIM 201A — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS, KEYBOARDING AND WORD I This course is designed for individuals seeking basic computer, keyboarding and document processing skills for personal and business applications. The course introduces the Windows environment, word processing software, touch control of the keyboard, email, and the formatting of simple academic reports. Students concentrate on improving keyboarding speed and accuracy. No prior computer experience is required. Successful completion of this class results in a minimum keyboarding speed of 15 net words per minute. --- # CIM 201B — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS, KEYBOARDING AND WORD II This course is designed for individuals seeking to further develop computer, keyboarding, and document processing skills for personal and business applications. The course introduces personal and business correspondence, multiple-page reports, and the word processing software that supports the creation of these documents. Students concentrate on improving keyboarding speed and accuracy. Successful completion of this class results in a minimum keyboarding speed of 30 net words per minute. --- # CIM 201C — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS, KEYBOARDING, AND WORD PROCESSING III This course is designed for individuals seeking to develop skills in formatting various kinds of business documents, correspondence, reports, tables, and desktop publishing projects from unarranged and rough-draft sources. The course covers composition and language skills for business writing and strategies for developing keyboarding speed and accuracy on production assignments. Successful completion of this class results in a minimum keyboarding speed of 45 words per minute. --- # CIM 209 — INTRODUCTION TO OUTLOOK This course introduces the skills needed to manage and work with Outlook. Topics include managing email messages, contacts and tasks; working with calendars and appointments; customizing Outlook; using instant messaging; and collaborating with SharePoint and SkyDrive. The course is designed to prepare students to pursue the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification for Outlook. --- # CIM 210 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS AND KEYBOARDING This course is designed for individuals seeking to develop basic computer, keyboarding and document processing skills for personal and business applications. The course introduces the Windows environment, word processing software, touch control of the keyboard, email, and the formatting of business documents and reports. It also covers composition and language skills for business writing, and improves keyboarding speed and accuracy. No prior computer experience is required. (Formerly CIM 201A, 201B, and 201C) --- # CIM 235 — CLOUD COMPUTING II This course is designed to provide students with an overall understanding of the Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. It provides a detailed overview of cloud concepts; core services; and the pricing, security, architecture, and support for these core services. This course helps students prepare for the Cloud Practitioner exam. --- # CIM 236 — CLOUD COMPUTING III-AWS AI PRACTITIONER This course focuses on introducing artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI concepts and use cases as they relate to the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud. This course helps prepare students for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification. --- # CIM 237 — CLOUD COMPUTING IV-AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT PART 1 This is the first part of an advanced training program focused on the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Students will learn how to apply AWS Well-Architected Framework to optimize infrastructure with AWS solutions. This is one of two courses (CIM 238) that helps prepare students for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification. --- # CIM 238 — CLOUD COMPUTING V-AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT PART 2 This is the second part of an advanced training program focused on the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Students will learn how to apply AWS Well-Architected Framework to optimize infrastructure with AWS solutions. This is the second of two courses that helps prepare students for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification. --- # CIM 253 — DATA ANALYTICS AND DESIGN (ALTERYX) Students will explore the topics, tools, and techniques of data prep, blending, reporting, predictive analytics, and data science and their application across different industries. The practical application of data workflow processes will be experienced through hands-on projects and technical assignments using Alteryx software. This course prepares students for the Alteryx Designer Core Certification. This course is cross listed with ACCT 253. --- # CIM 254 — DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION (TABLEAU) Students will explore an end-to-end data analytics platform that utilizes tools to prep, analyze, collaborate, and share big data insights. The practical application of visual analysis of big data and sharing insights across an organization will be experienced through hands-on projects and technical assignments using Tableau. This course prepares students for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification. --- # CIM 256 — DATA ANALYTICS CAPSTONE This capstone course is designed to develop students' understanding of analytics in the context of business and to provide a framework for students to apply topics such as: framing a business problem, stakeholder analysis, data wrangling using Excel or Google Sheets, data visualizations, descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis, and data storytelling. --- # CIM 283 — ADVANCED NETWORKS (CCNA 3) This is the final of three courses in the CCNA series and covers the architectures and considerations related to designing, securing, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise networks. It covers wide area network (WAN) technologies and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms used for secure remote access, along with the introduction of software-defined networking, virtualization, and automation concepts that support the digitalization of networks. --- # CIM 284 — CISCO CYBEROPS This course provides an introduction to network security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies and procedures. Students gain understanding and hands-on experience on how to detect and respond to security incidents, understand how organizations deal with cybercrime, cyber espionage, insider threats, advanced persistent threats, regulatory requirements, and related issues. This course also aligns with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework to support consistent communication lan… --- # CIM 290 — INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) This course provides an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts, AI ethics, and Generative AI tools. Students will gain hands-on experience and explore the application of Generative AI in various fields. --- # CIM 502 — CYBER DEFENSE ESSENTIALS Explores the cybersecurity landscape and teaches the essential skills to protect your data while online. The course teaches the primary principles of security and how to use these principles to securely interact online. Basic networking, types of cyber attacks and proper defenses, proactive measures for cybersecurity, secure password management, cyber-fraud, identity theft, and other related topics are covered. CIM 502 is also listed as MGT 502; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # CIM 510 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS AND KEYBOARDING This course is designed for individuals seeking to develop basic computer, keyboarding and document processing skills for personal and business applications. The course introduces the Windows environment, word processing software, touch control of the keyboard, email, and the formatting of business documents and reports. It also covers composition and language skills for business writing, and improves keyboarding speed and accuracy. No prior computer experience is required. This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # CIM 516 — INTRO TO WORD PROCESSING This course is designed for those seeking to develop skills using word processing software to create, edit, design, and format basic documents. Topics covered include managing documents; inserting and formatting text, paragraphs; managing tables and lists; inserting and formatting graphic elements. This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # CIM 517 — SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING I This course introduces social media tools used for marketing in business. Topics include uses, ethics, and guidelines for social networking, and online marketing channels. Students create a social media marketing campaign through the use of Web applications, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. --- # CIM 520 — GOOGLE WORKSPACE This course is designed for individuals seeking to develop skills using Google Workspace documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drive, and other collaboration tools for personal and business applications. No prior computer experience is required. This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # CIM 530 — INTRODUCTION TO OFFICE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS This course introduces Microsoft Office Professional applications. Topics covered include word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), and presentation (PowerPoint). This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # CIM 590 — INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) This course provides an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts, AI ethics, and Generative AI tools. Students will gain hands-on experience and explore the application of Generative AI in various fields.This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # CIM 591 — ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER This course applies Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools for use in College and Career. Students will gain hands-on experience and explore prompt engineering, AI Ethics, AI Tools for College Success, Career Development and Exploration, Personal Assistant, and Business Presentations. This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. --- # COMM 2 — PERSUASION This course examines the components of persuasive messages. The course focuses upon ethics, logic, reasoning, and fallacies as they relate to the use of evidence, speaker credibility, and emotional appeals directed toward various types of audiences. C-ID: COMM 190 --- # COMM 3 — ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE This course focuses on the application of argumentative methods, analysis, sound reasoning, and critical thinking. Students participate in various types of debates on current topics, conducting research, formulating propositions, and discovering issues as they apply to social and personal decision making. C-ID: COMM 120 --- # COMM 9 — INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION This course is designed to give students a better understanding of the relationship between culture and communication and how the markings of culture and perception impact patterns of interaction. The course will familiarize students with the theory and process of communicating with people whose culture, ethnicity, or race differs from their own. --- # COMM 10 — GROUP DYNAMICS AND LEADERSHIP This course studies the principles of group discussion in learning and problem-solving situations, including small groups, committees, and meetings. The course examines leadership functions, styles, and approaches, as well as ethical considerations and responsibilities. C-ID: COMM 140 --- # COMM 30 — INTRODUCTION TO ORAL INTERPRETATION This is a course in the presentation of literature. Students apply basic physical and vocal performance techniques to prose, poetry, and drama. The course includes the study of literary craft, a vital part of oral presentation. COMM 30 is also listed as TA 30; credit will be given either area, not both. C-ID: COMM 170 --- # COMM 35 — VOICE AND DICTION In this course students study the principles and practices of vocal and articulatory development and control. The course provides drills in phonation and drills for clarity, ease in articulation, resonance, and vocal variety. This course is also listed as TA 35; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # COMM 106A — FORENSIC ACTIVITY A In COMM 106A students prepare and present materials for college-sponsored speech and forensic activities, tournaments and festivals, high school assemblies, and civic organizations. Events include debate, public speaking, and oral interpretation. Participation in at least one forensic event is required for credit. Students spend two hours in class and at least two hours outside of class per week to earn one unit of credit. This course is offered on an open-entry/open-exit basis. A combination of COMM 106A, 106B, and 106C may be taken a maximum of four times. C-ID: COMM 160B --- # COMM 106B — FORENSIC ACTIVITY B In COMM 106B students prepare and present speeches at competitive tournaments for the college-sponsored speech and debate team. Events include debate, public speaking, and oral interpretation. Participation in at least two forensic events is required for credit. Students spend four hours in class and at least four hours outside of class per week to earn two-and-a-half units of credit. This course is offered on an open-entry/open-exit basis. A combination of COMM 106A, 106B, and 106C may be taken a maximum of four times. C-ID: COMM 160B --- # COMM 106C — FORENSIC ACTIVITY C In COMM 106C students prepare and present materials for college-sponsored speech and forensic activities, tournaments and festivals, high school assemblies, and civic organizations. Events include debate, public speaking, and oral interpretation. Participation in at least three forensic events is required for credit. Students spend six hours in class and at least six hours outside of class per week to earn four units of credit. This course is offered on an open-entry/open-exit basis. A combination of COMM 106A, 106B, and 106C may be taken a maximum of four times. C-ID: COMM 160B --- # COMM 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PROJECTS IN COMMUNICATION COMM 167 is an opportunity to earn college unit(s) on the job by learning or improving knowledge or skills related to a paid or unpaid job. Work Experience Education (WEE) seeks to develop desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. WEE need not be related to a student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per term, a maximum of 16 WEE combined units at IVC, including other K-12 educational institutions. Units are awarded upon achievement of approved learning objectives and hours worked. One unit will be awarded for each 75… --- # COMM 167C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PROJECTS IN COMMUNICATION COMM 167 is an opportunity to earn college unit(s) on the job by learning or improving knowledge or skills related to a paid or unpaid job. Work Experience Education (WEE) seeks to develop desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. WEE need not be related to a student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per term, a maximum of 16 WEE combined units at IVC, including other K-12 educational institutions. Units are awarded upon achievement of approved learning objectives and hours worked. One unit will be awarded for each 75… --- # COMM 167D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION : PROJECTS IN COMMUNICATION COMM 167 is an opportunity to earn college unit(s) on the job by learning or improving knowledge or skills related to a paid or unpaid job. Work Experience Education (WEE) seeks to develop desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. WEE need not be related to a student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per term, a maximum of 16 WEE combined units at IVC and including other K-12 educational institutions. Units are awarded upon achievement of approved learning objectives and hours worked. One unit will be awarded for each… --- # COMM 167B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PROJECTS IN COMMUNICATION COMM 167 is an opportunity to earn college unit(s) on the job by learning or improving knowledge or skills related to a paid or unpaid job. Work Experience Education (WEE) seeks to develop desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. WEE need not be related to a students career goals or any specific vocational program or major. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per term, a maximum of 16 WEE combined units at IVC and other K-12 educational institutions. Units are awarded upon achievement of approved learning objectives and hours worked. One unit will be awarded for each 75 hours o… --- # COMM C1000 — INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either COMM C1000 or 1000H, but not both. C-ID: COMM 110. Formerly COMM 1. --- # COMM C1000H — INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either COMM C1000 or C1000H, but not both. C-ID: COMM 110. Formerly COMM 1H. --- # COMM C1004 — INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION Common Course Numbering Language: This course covers theory, research, and application of ethical one-to-one communication practices in various and diverse interpersonal relationships including in personal, professional, and social situations. IVC Details: C-ID: COMM 130. Formerly COMM COMM 5. --- # COUN 1 — ACADEMIC PLANNING This course is designed to introduce students to a successful college and transfer experience. The course examines the opportunities and requirements for vocational certificates, associate degrees, and baccalaureate and higher degrees. A major focus is helping students identify and overcome obstacles to academic success. The course introduces college survival skills and issues, including college expectations, student motivations, study skills overview, time management, college resources, and academic policies. Students develop an academic plan based on their individual educational goals and d… --- # COUN 2 — UC STUDENT EDUCATION PLAN This course covers important information for students who plan to transfer to one of the nine University of California campuses. Topics include admission requirements, general education options, transfer admission guarantee programs, the application process, and helpful online resources. Each student will develop a comprehensive student education plan that includes needed courses for each semester. --- # COUN 4 — STRESS MANAGEMENT This course introduces the basic principles of holistic stress management. The course covers the history of stress, the development of stress theories, and explores the mind-body relationship (psychophysiology) of stress. Students learn cognitive strategies, physiological interventions, and relaxation techniques that may be applied to help manage stress. --- # COUN 6 — ACADEMIC, CAREER AND LIFE SUCCESS A comprehensive course that integrates personal, professional, career and academic growth through the development and application of effective communication skills, positive self-image and self-esteem, self-advocacy and strategies for problem solving and decision making. Students examine individual morals, values, and motivation from psychological, social and physiological perspectives. Course covers goal setting, financial literacy, basic communication skills, diversity and balancing the challenges faced in today's society. Emphasis is on holistic student development. Credit may be earned fo… --- # COUN 6H — ACADEMIC, CAREER AND LIFE SUCCESS HONORS A comprehensive course that integrates personal, professional, career and academic growth through the development and application of effective communication skills, positive self-image and self-esteem, self-advocacy and strategies for problem solving and decision making. Students examine individual morals, values, and motivation from psychological, social and physiological perspectives. Course covers goal setting, financial literacy, basic communication skills, diversity and balancing the challenges faced in today's society. Emphasis is on holistic student development.Honors course is enriche… --- # COUN 10 — INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS This comprehensive course is designed to cultivate the holistic student in developing effective academic study skills and critical thinking strategies necessary to reach desired educational goals. Topics surveyed include various educational learning theories; successful interpersonal communication techniques, sensitivity to diverse populations and examination of individual morals and values. Keystone to this course, students learn academic survival strategies such as principles of memory and learning, motivation and concentration, effective note-taking, textbook study methods, efficient time… --- # COUN 12 — INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER EXPLORATION This course provides students with the opportunity to conduct self-assessments and to apply the results to the process of making educational and career decisions, including the selection of an academic major, and the creation of an action plan with measurable goals. The course includes assessments of values, interests, personality characteristics, skills, and learning styles. Students use a variety of resources to research and evaluate educational and career options. The course presents decision-making models, goal-setting techniques and job-search strategies related to each student's short-… --- # COUN 15 — HELPING RELATIONSHIPS Students planning to enter any professional field that requires active listening, communication and intervention skills that will be central to their central roles. Helping occupations include, but are not limited to, working as teachers, counselors, psychologists, nurses, doctors, medical personnel, caregivers, firefighters, and law enforcement personnel. Students examine their role as a helper and applying the skills that they acquire to their own lives and relationships. COUN 15 was formerly offered as COUN 150. --- # COUN 20 — WOMEN AND WORK This course explores common gender issues in the workplace. Within a historical and contemporary framework, it will focus on gender inequality, cultural influences, sexuality, family roles, and ways to address and reduce gender bias in the workplace. Students will also evaluate potential career choices based on self-assessments. --- # COUN 47 — LATINX EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Students will be exposed to practices that contribute to a successful experience in higher education for Latinx students. This course will cover theoretical and empirical overviews of the Latinx educational experience in the United States and the relation of that experience to current educational conditions and trends. --- # COUN 100A — EDUCATION PLANNING FOR CERTIFICATES AND ASSOCIATE DEGREES This course covers important information for students who plan to pursue a certificate, AA/AS, AS-T and/or AA-T degree from Irvine Valley College. The course discusses degree and certificate options at IVC and explains requirements for graduation, such as units, general education, major and grade point average. Students will develop a comprehensive student education plan that includes courses needed for each semester. --- # COUN 100B — CSU STUDENT EDUCATION PLAN This course covers important information for students who plan to transfer to one of the 23 California State University campuses. Topics include admissions requirements, general education options, Associate in Arts for Transfer (AA-T) and Associate in Science for Transfer (AS-T) degrees, the application process, and helpful online resources. Each student will develop a comprehensive student education plan that includes needed courses for each semester. --- # COUN 103 — INTRODUCTION TO ASSERTION This course introduces students to the theoretical principles underlying assertive behavior and the practical application of these principles in their communication with others, including in the workplace. The course covers the distinctions among assertive, aggressive and non-assertive behaviors and the causes and consequences of these behavioral styles. Included will be discussions of the relationship between assertion and self-esteem, success, problem resolution, positive relationships, and health. In addition, strategies for establishing and maintaining your professional image in the workp… --- # CS 1 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS This course provides an overview of computer information systems and introduces hardware, software, networking, and Internet terminology. The course introduces Windows and Microsoft Office software, focusing particularly on spreadsheet and database applications. It also introduces program development and programming languages. Students write and execute elementary programs in a programming language. Credit may be earned in CS 1 or 1H, but not both.C-ID: BUS 140 and ITIS 120 --- # CS 6B — COMPUTER DISCRETE MATHEMATICS II This course is designed primarily for computer science majors. Major topics include propositional logic, proofs, recursion, combinatorics, probability, number theory, relations, graphs, trees, Boolean algebra, and modeling computation. This course is also listed as MATH 6B; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # CS 6A — COMPUTER DISCRETE MATHEMATICS I This course is designed primarily for computer science majors. Areas of study include logic, proofs, basic structures, algorithms, integers, matrices, induction, recursion, counting principles, discrete probability, inclusion-exclusion, and graphs and trees. This course is also listed as Math 6A; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID: COMP 152 --- # CS 10 — INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING PYTHON This course provides an introduction to computers and programming using Python. The course focuses on planning, creating and debugging programs using the grammar and syntax of the Python language. Topics include types and variables, input and output statements, control statements, functions and parameter passing, looping structures, text files, classes, lists,tuples, sets, dictionaries, algorithms, and graphics. C-ID: COMP 112 --- # CS 17 — DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING USING R This course teaches students the tools of computation and Statistical analysis using R. Students apply methods from Statistics to analyze data sets. Using the open source software R, students learn to download, process, and manipulate large data sets. Students apply statistical methods to compute descriptive statistics, visualize data, and perform inferential analysis for data analysis. CS 17 is also listed as MATH 17; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # CS 30 — VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMMING This course focuses on the development of programming applications using Visual Basic. The course covers Visual Basic structure, syntax, and operating procedures, as well as design and programming techniques for event-driven and object-oriented programs in Visual Basic. --- # CS 31 — DATABASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMING This course introduces Database Concepts and programming. Topics include the principles of relational database design, modeling, and Standard Query Language (SQL) programming; normalization; implementation; database management; client/server systems; data warehousing; and the use of databases in the Internet. C-ID ITIS 180. --- # CS 36 — C PROGRAMMING This course introduces the C programming language, focusing on how to create, execute, and debug C programs. Topics include input and output statements; control statements; random numbers; functions and parameter passing; recursion; loops; arrays; structures; text, binary, and header files; pointers; and linked lists. --- # CS 37 — C++ PROGRAMMING This course covers the C++ programming language, focusing on how to create, execute, and debug C++ programs. Topics include input and output statements; file handling; functions and parameter passing including function pointers and function overloading; templates and the Standard Template Library (STL); object-oriented programming principles using classes, constructors, and destructors; friends; pointers including the “this” pointer; operator overloading; inheritance; polymorphism; and exception handling. --- # CS 38 — JAVA PROGRAMMING This course focuses on application development using both stand-alone Java programs and Java applets. The course covers Java syntax and operating procedures, as well as design and programming techniques for object-oriented programs. Additional topics include arrays, text files, graphical user interface (GUI) components, exception handling, and multithreading. C-ID: COMP 122 --- # CS 39 — C# PROGRAMMING USING MICROSOFT.NET This course covers the C# programming language. Topics include C# syntax; input and output statements; operators; decision statements; arrays; loops; methods; Windows Forms; classes; inheritance and polymorphism; exception handling; structs; operator overloading; text and binary files; generics; and collections and data structures including stacks, queues, and hash tables. --- # CS 40A — COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE I This course introduces computer organization focusing especially on assembly language programming. Topics include finite-precision whole number arithmetic and non-integer numbers, including number conversions. The course also discusses programming in pseudo-code and its corresponding assembly language. C-ID: COMP 142 --- # CS 40B — COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE II This course is a continuation of Computer Science 40A. Students will further study computer organization and advanced assembly language programming. The course will also examine logical expressions, arrays, procedures, decimal numbers and fractions, floating point numbers, dynamic storage, strings,input/output, signed numbers, and numeric approximations. --- # CS 41 — DATA STRUCTURES This course examines the basic concepts of data structures and related algorithms. Students use arrays, structures, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, graphs, and tables to design algorithms and then write complete programs to implement these algorithms. Recursion, searching, sorting, timing and space analysis for algorithms, and memory management are also discussed. C-ID: COMP 132 --- # CS 50 — HTML/XHTML PROGRAMMING This course covers the fundamentals of designing basic web pages and web sites for the internet utilizing HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and JavaScript. Topics include creating, editing, displaying and debugging web pages and web sites while controlling the structure, function and appearance of web pages and web sites utilizing markup and JavaScript language features and syntax. Other topics include uploading and downloading web site files and resources to and from a web site remote hosting server and local comp… --- # DMA 10 — INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MEDIA: DIGITAL IMAGING This introductory course provides an overview of digital media art fundamentals for digital imaging. Emphasis is on extensive hands-on projects to develop skills and techniques for developing industry-standard software skills using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. --- # DMA 12 — INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MEDIA: VECTOR ILLUSTRATION This is an introductory course that introduces the theory and technology of vector illustration for digital artists and designers. This project-based course focuses on developing industry standard competencies in software as well as developing students' conceptual and creative skills, and problem solving abilities. The course addresses the integration of traditional design, color, and gestalt principles through the use of contemporary digital tools. Assignments are designed to produce strong portfolio pieces. Students will learn to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. --- # DMA 51 — BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY This beginning course focuses on digital photography as a creative medium. Emphasis will be placed on conceptual, technical, and creative photography skills. The course covers the use of digital cameras and digital imaging software to capture, import, edit, and export digital photographs. DMA 51 is also listed as PHOT 51; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # DMA 52 — INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY This course addresses the theoretical, aesthetic, and technical issues of photography at an intermediate level. Fine art and commercial photography subjects will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on producing a portfolio of original photographs using creative lighting, color, and digital effects. DMA 52 is also listed as PHOT 52; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # DMA 55 — BEGINNING GRAPHIC DESIGN This course is an introduction to the concepts, processes, and practices of graphic design. Emphasis will be placed on developing problem-solving skills; applying the principles and elements of design; and integrating digital imagery, illustration, typography, and color theory in design projects. --- # DMA 56 — INTERMEDIATE GRAPHIC DESIGN This intermediate course covers the graphic design process and its application to professional studio projects including corporate, editorial, packaging, and advertising design projects. Emphasis is on integrating the principles and techniques of commercial graphic design. --- # DMA 62 — MOTION DESIGN This course introduces the principles of motion design including the conceptual, technical, and production process. It explores fundamental and experimental approaches to creating two-dimensional motion design projects with artistic integrity for experiential graphic design, video and web-based animation. --- # DMA 65 — TYPOGRAPHY This course is designed to provide a thorough understanding of typographical form and function as it relates to visual communication within graphic design. Class work will include extensive hands-on projects emphasizing typography as a primary visual element. Emphasis will be on developing a current and practical typographic workflow based on industry standards. --- # DMA 70 — DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of digital video production. Students will explore the video production process to film and edit original creative content. Emphasis will be on demonstrating conceptual and technical proficiency including the basics of videography through hands-on video projects. --- # DMA 72 — FILM & VIDEO POST PRODUCTION This course provides an in-depth exploration of film and video post-production, covering editing techniques, color correction, sound design, graphics, and finishing workflows. Students will gain hands-on experience using industry-standard software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and After Effects. Through practical exercises and collaborative projects, students will develop technical skills and creative storytelling techniques essential for professional post-production work. --- # DMA 75 — EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO This course focuses on video as a creative medium. Students will explore historical, conceptual, and technical aspects of film and video art to produce a variety of experimental projects including abstract films, non-narrative shorts, and music videos. --- # DMA 80 — VISUAL DESIGN FOR THE WEB This intermediate course explores the fundamentals of design and aesthetics for the Web. Emphasis is placed on layout, color, texture, typography, interactive elements, and user experience design using industry-standard design software. --- # DMA 120 — SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGN: CONTENT CREATION AND BRAND STRATEGY This course explores the creative and technical aspects of social media content creation, equipping students with the skills to craft compelling narratives, design platform-specific content, and leverage AI-driven tools alongside industry-standard software. Through hands-on projects, students will master various content formats—visuals, videos, and interactive media—while utilizing AI for brainstorming, content generation, automation, and optimization. Emphasis is placed on storytelling, branding, and audience engagement, focusing on professional workflows that enhance efficiency and creativi… --- # DMA 175 — BRAND IDENTITY DESIGN This intermediate course covers the process of developing and creating corporate brand identities through hands-on design projects. Using industry-standard software, students will learn effective logo design techniques and expand corporate graphics into a complete identity system. Students will also gain experience in branding and campaign strategies, targeting specific audiences with traditional and green marketing techniques, and writing skills comprehensive design briefs. --- # DMA 192 — PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES AND PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT This course is the capstone of the Digital Media Art program. Students will explore career and educational paths while researching and producing the appropriate body of work that will help them reach their goals. Students are expected to improve their existing creative work and continue producing new projects for their portfolio. Self-branding, digital visibility, and networking strategies will also be covered. Students will also focus on developing soft skills, resiliency, and gig economy skills, such as looking and applying for jobs, needed to thrive in the competitive freelance labor marke… --- # DMA 195 — ILLUSTRATION This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and practices of illustration and the process of developing and communicating visual ideas and imagery. Emphasis is on refining the student's personal visual vocabulary and addressing practical issues within the professional world of illustration. DMA 195 is also listed as ART 195; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # DMA 520 — SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGN: CONTENT CREATION AND BRAND STRATEGY This course explores the creative and technical aspects of social media content creation, equipping students with the skills to craft compelling narratives, design platform-specific content, and leverage AI-driven tools alongside industry-standard software. Through hands-on projects, students will master various content formats—visuals, videos, and interactive media—while utilizing AI for brainstorming, content generation, automation, and optimization. Emphasis is placed on storytelling, branding, and audience engagement, focusing on professional workflows that enhance efficiency and creativi… --- # DMA 556 — PRESENTATION DESIGN This class focuses on developing the visual communication skills needed to create professional and engaging workplace presentations. It covers color theory, animation for presentations, interaction design, storytelling, and technical skills for producing effective presentation assets. It is recommended for those with a working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint. --- # DMP 20 — BASIC MODEL MAKING This course focuses on developing forms and shapes using a variety of basic model-making materials and hand fabrication techniques, with an emphasis on wood, plastic and metal processes. In addition to modeling with basic materials, students begin to develop skills using quick, visual model-development materials, including foam core, cardboard and clay. --- # DMP 22 — ADVANCED MODEL MAKING II This course develops skills in using computer-aided design and manufacturing equipment and software to fabricate models. Designs will be created on three-dimensional solid modeling software and transferred to a three-dimensional computer aided manufacturing software for coding and post processing. Students will fabricate parts on a variety of equipment including CNC mills and lathes, laser cutters, and two and three-dimensional rapid modeling equipment. --- # DMP 40 — 3D RAPID MODEL MAKING AND PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT I In this project development course, students fabricate a variety of complex models within their selected discipline using advanced model-making equipment. Students use Computer Numerical Controlled milling, laser cutting, water jet cutting and 3D machining equipment to fabricate models. Field trips may be required. --- # DMP 41 — 3D RAPID MODEL MAKING AND PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT II This is an advanced project development course in rapid prototyping. Students program, set up and operate a variety of 3-D modeling machines, including Computer Numerically Controlled machining and turning centers, water jet cutters, conventional lasers and metal lasers. Students will fabricate a variety of complex high tolerance parts within their selected discipline. Field trips may be required. --- # DMP 121 — ADVANCED MODEL MAKING I This course focuses on more advanced and complex methods used throughout the model-making industry. The course covers thermoforming, reinforced plastics, two-dimensional routing and engraving, and a variety of flexible tooling techniques used to make complex molds and parts. Students learn techniques for working with advanced casting materials, and surface preparation with textures, plating and painting. --- # DMP 130 — SOLIDWORKS A beginning level Computer-Aided Design course that provides basic techniques and applications utilized in the model-making industry. Students will learn to create basic 2D drawings and 3D solid models incorporating state-of-the-art PC-based software. Graphic creation and control will be learned using a variety of common softwares. DMP 130 was formerly offered as DMP 230. --- # DMP 160 — MODELING AND PROTOTYPING METHODS AND MATERIALS This course introduces the many universal plastic materials and fabrication processes currently used in design and modeling. Emphasis is on the applications, fabrication techniques, and properties of many common plastic materials used today as well as emerging materials and their processes. DMP 160 was formerly offered as DMP 260. --- # DMP 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DESIGN MODEL MAKING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DMP 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DESIGN MODEL MAKING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DMP 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DESIGN MODEL MAKING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DMP 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DESIGN MODEL MAKING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DMP 200 — INTRODUCTION TO MODEL MAKING AND DESIGN This course introduces students to career options within the model-making industry. Onsite studio visits, guest speakers and career guides will give students an overview of the job skills and technologies required in the various disciplines of model making. Areas of interest will include entertainment, product design, packaging, transportation, aerospace, medical design and architecture. The goal of the course is to facilitate each student's career path selection. Field trips may be required. --- # DMP 210 — RAPID VISUALIZATION This course introduces the principles of three-dimensional design as they relate to model making. Students work with a variety of materials and techniques, exploring three-dimensional description elements: value, texture, lighting, shade, shadow, composition, and perspective. Emphasis is placed on manual skill and dexterity. The course also introduces the fundamentals and techniques of ideational sketching. --- # DNCE 1 — INTRODUCTION TO DANCE: OVERVIEW This course introduces the basic techniques, styles, and backgrounds of ballet, modern, and jazz dance, as well as other dance forms, such as hip hop, tap, international (e.g., African and Middle Eastern), and social dance. It is designed for dancers of any experience level. The course focuses on developing coordination, flexibility, strength, and postural alignment. Movement studies and improvisations encourage student individuality. DNCE 1 (or DNCE 1A and 1B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. --- # DNCE 6 — BASIC BALLET I This course introduces the basic ballet positions, movements, and combinations, as well French ballet terms and their meanings. The course also discusses the history and origins of ballet and its various styles. Students are required to attend at least one dance concert, on or off campus. No prior dance experience is required. --- # DNCE 7 — BEGINNING BALLET II This begin level ballet course further explores the technical and expressive elements of ballet, as well as historically significant ballet schools and styles. It is designed to advance the performance level of students who have mastered the basic skills and vocabulary of ballet. Students practice and perform beginning barre exercises, demi-pointe work, and increasingly complex connecting movements. Attendance at a minimum of one dance concert, on or off campus, is required. --- # DNCE 8 — INTERMEDIATE BALLET III This intermediate level ballet course further explores the technical and expressive elements of ballet, as well as historically significant ballet schools and styles. It is designed to advance the performance level of students who have mastered the beginning skills and vocabulary of ballet. Students practice and perform beginning barre exercises, demi-pointe work, and increasingly complex connecting movements. Attendance at a minimum of one dance concert, on or off campus, is required. --- # DNCE 12 — MODERN DANCE I This course introduces the fundamentals of modern dance and its history. It is designed for students with no dance experience as well as returning dance students. Students participate in movement studies and improvisations that deal with shape, space, time and energy - four main dance principles - to encourage their creativity and individuality. Emphasis is on developing axial and locomotor skills, performing movement combinations, conditioning the body, and solving creative problems.A combination of DNCE 12 and DNCE 13 may be taken a maximum of four times. --- # DNCE 13 — MODERN DANCE II This course further explores the technical and expressive elements of modern dance, including historically significant eras, companies, dancers, and choreographers. It is designed for students who have mastered basic modern dance techniques and vocabulary. Students practice intermediate-level skills, exercises with rhythmic variations, turns, jumps with turns and beats, and increasingly complex connecting movements. A combination of DNCE 12 and DNCE 13 may be taken a maximum of four times. --- # DNCE 16 — JAZZ DANCE IV This course introduces an overview of Broadway styles of the 20th and 21st Century. It is designed for students with basic dance experience and for intermediate dancers wishing to increase their jazz dance knowledge to include musical theatre dance, history and techniques. Class participation is intended to develop an appreciation for the Broadway musical dance. --- # DNCE 17 — JAZZ DANCE I This survey course introduces the fundamentals of jazz dance, including its history and styles. It is designed for students with no dance experience and for experienced dancers wishing to perfect basic jazz dance skills. It also provides training for a professional career in Jazz dance. Jazz dance techniques are presented and practiced in class, with an emphasis on combinations using a variety of rhythms and styles. Class participation is intended to develop an appreciation for the physical demands of jazz dancing. --- # DNCE 18 — JAZZ DANCE II This course further explores the technical and expressive elements of jazz dance, including the historical origins, music, rhythms, and styles of this dance form. It is designed for students who have mastered basic jazz dance techniques and vocabulary. It also provides training for a professional career in jazz dance. Students practice intermediate-level jazz skills, turns, jumps, and center and locomotor combinations. They also develop original routines set to jazz music. --- # DNCE 19 — JAZZ DANCE III Preparation and development of techniques necessary for becoming a commercial dancer, including the blending of commercial jazz dance with contemporary dance. Focus is on proper alignment that draws from ballet and contemporary dance, turns and jump combinations, as well as development of retention and manipulation of jazz dance phrases, and adapting to camera restrictions. It also provides training for a professional career in Jazz dance. --- # DNCE 20 — JAZZ DANCE V This course is designed to introduce elements of Latin dance and jazz dance. It is formulated for dancers wishing to increase their dance skills with an emphasis on developing rhythms and movements as they pertain to jazz dance technique. The merging of various styles is a new focus in contemporary forms of jazz dance. --- # DNCE 22 — TAP DANCE I This course introduces tap dance technique at the beginning level. Instruction focuses primarily on the rhythm tap style however, other tap styles are explored. Students practice fundamental tap dance skills; rhythms, including swing and Latin; syncopation; time steps; short combinations; and stylings. The course includes an introduction to the history and performance of tap dance. Students are limited to taking four tap courses (DNCE 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26) for a maximum of 4 units. --- # DNCE 23 — TAP DANCE II This intermediate-level course is designed for students who have mastered basic tap dance skills. Students practice new and more complicated rhythms, movement coordinations, and skills. Focus is on developing the speed at which students master tap routines. The course presents a variety of musical forms related to tap dance. Students are limited to taking four tap courses (DNCE 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26) for a maximum of 4 units. --- # DNCE 24 — TAP DANCE III This beginning level course is designed for students who want to acquire basic tap dance skills. Students practice basic tap rhythms, movement coordinations, and skills. Focus is on acquiring tap dance vocabulary specific to the Broadway genre. The course presents a variety of musical forms related to Broadway tap dance styles. Students are limited to taking four tap courses (DNCE 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26) for a maximum of 4 units. --- # DNCE 25 — TAP DANCE IV This course presents a variety of musical forms related to tap dance designed to develop tap rhythms, movement coordination, and tonal variations. Broadway steps will be used to further develop the student's stylistic range as well as his/her understanding of Tap dance's place in the history of Musical Theatre. Students are limited to taking four tap courses (DNCE 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26) for a maximum of 4 units.. --- # DNCE 26 — TAP DANCE V This course is designed for students who want to further their mastery of Tap dance. Focus will be on increasing the speed and accuracy of execution of master tap routines and developing improvisation techniques. Students are limited to taking four tap courses (DNCE 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26) for a maximum of 4 units. --- # DNCE 27 — HIP HOP III This beginning-level course presents a blend of hip hop and commercial dance styles. The course surveys traditional hop hip step, past and present video-style hip hop, and freestyling. Students practice and perform combinations and dances to contemporary hip hop, rhythm and blues, and pop music. The class focus is on developing technique, musicality, and individual artistic expression. Students will use accents and musical phrasing to demonstrate originality, unity, and clarity of intent in choreography. --- # DNCE 30 — AFRICAN DANCE I This is an overview course that introduces dances from African cultures. Students will examine the role of dance in the African society through the practice of dance traditions and rituals. Discussions on African history, empires, and instruments will help to shape the study of African dance performance. African dance movements, steps and styles will be taught with emphasis on body alignment, coordination, rhythm and body positions. All classes are aerobic in nature. Field trips may be required. --- # DNCE 32 — MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE I A beginning level course emphasizing the social and stage dances from the Near and Middle East that incorporates movement vocabulary, expression, choreography, improvisation, prop work, musical awareness, and finger cymbals.Formerly DNCE 3. --- # DNCE 33 — MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE II An advanced beginner level course emphasizing the social and stage dances from the Near and Middle East that incorporates movement vocabulary, expression, choreography, improvisation, prop work, musical awareness, and finger cymbals. --- # DNCE 34 — MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE III An intermediate level course emphasizing the social and stage dances from the Near and Middle East that incorporates movement vocabulary, expression, choreography, improvisation, prop work, musical awareness, and finger cymbals. --- # DNCE 35 — MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE IV An advanced level course emphasizing the social and stage dances from the Near and Middle East that incorporates movement vocabulary, expression, choreography, improvisation, prop work, musical awareness, and finger cymbals. --- # DNCE 36 — BALLROOM DANCE: OVERVIEW OF STYLES This course gives students the opportunity to learn various ballroom dance forms. It is designed for students with no dance experience as well as dance students preparing for teaching or performing and who want to be introduced to dance forms new to them. Examples of dance forms that may be included are swing, salsa, mambo, cha cha, rhumba, tango, waltz, country and foxtrot. The course will focus on exploring the differences and similarities among styles and techniques while also developing coordination skills. --- # DNCE 37 — BALLROOM DANCE: INTERMEDIATE This course gives students the opportunity to learn intermediate ballroom dance skills. It is designed for students with basic ballroom dance experience. Examples of dance forms that may be included are swing, salsa, cha cha, rumba, tango, waltz, and foxtrot. This course also explores the differences and similarities within the styles and techniques of intermediate ballroom dance while addressing development of coordination skills as it relates to the professional world. This course will encourage individual choreography which will enhance the students knowledge of each dance form as well as… --- # DNCE 38 — BALLROOM DANCE: LATIN DANCES An introductory course in Latin dance styles designed to teach cha-cha, merengue, tango, salsa and other Latin dance styles. This course will emphasize styling, partnering and rhythm as it relates to the profession. The beginning level is appropriate for students of all ages and level of training. --- # DNCE 39 — BALLROOM DANCE: AMERICAN SMOOTH This course gives students the opportunity to learn various amateur and professional smooth ballroom styles dances. Examples of the smooth dance forms that may be included are Waltz, Foxtrot,and American Tango as it relates to the amateur and professional world. This course will focus on learning both the International and American smooth styles of dance. The students will develop coordination skills and knowledge of each dance form. --- # DNCE 40 — HIP HOP I This beginning-level course presents a comprehensive survey of Hip-Hop dance history. The course introduces traditional hip-hop music and movement including; breaking, b-boying, popping, and locking. The focus of this course is on developing individual skill, musicality, and artistic expression as a dancer and choreographer. Students will study the contributions and participants from various ethnic groups that practice and perform street dance styles known as Hip-hop from the 20th and 21st centuries. No previous experience is required. --- # DNCE 41 — HIP HOP II This is a beginning course that surveys Hip Hop Dance Funk Styles that were created during the development of the American street dance culture. The focus will be on techniques of hip hop and the elements of dance including time, shape, energy/effort and space as they relate to funk styles. It will also emphasize postural alignment, flexibility, strength, coordination, and musicality. Students will distinguish between the different styles while demonstrating and rearranging the styles into new choreography. --- # DNCE 42 — HIP HOP IV This intermediate/advanced course emphasizes proper Hip Hop dance technique as it applies to more complex warm up exercises, dance steps and movement sequences. It is designed to focus on developing individual and group performance abilities within small and large choreographic formations. This course will also cover the historical evolution of Hip Hop dance including its music and culture as they relate to dance. --- # DNCE 45 — YOGA AND STRESS MANAGEMENT This course explores the relationship between yoga and its connection as one of several holistic methods to manage the mind, body, and spiritual effects of stress. It is designed to promote enhanced performance and function. Its focus is the practice of breathing, relaxation, asanas, meditation, positive thinking, and other techniques related to taking and/or instructing others in yoga. --- # DNCE 46 — INTRODUCTION TO YOGA This survey course investigates the principles and practices of various types of yoga to unify body, mind and spirit. Emphasis is on yoga postures (asanas), breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques intended to reduce stress and to improve concentration, circulation, flexibility, and muscle strength. It is designed for dancers and non-dancers. --- # DNCE 47 — RAJA YOGA-HATHA YOGA This course involves the investigation and practice of Hatha Yoga principles as it pertains to Raja Yoga, which involves the science behind mind, body, spirit. It is designed to improve proper technique within postures (asanas) and associated breathing techniques; body balance, awareness, alignment and relaxation; joint flexibility, coordination; muscle tone; and stress management. It is for dancers and non-dancers and provides training on how to adjust the difficulty based upon individual needs, a tool needed as a participant or future teacher. --- # DNCE 48 — YOGA-CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL EASTERN FORMS This course incorporates traditional mind, body spirit exercises and paths and compares these with current styles of yoga and other holistic methods. It focuses on the evolution, differences, and similarities between various paths and styles of yoga and other eastern-based body therapies. Use of restorative breathing and relaxation exercises are also included. --- # DNCE 50 — CONDITION AND CORRECT: OVERVIEW This course introduces various types of stretch, strengthen, and body alignment exercises for dancers and non-dancers. It combines techniques and skills from dance, exercise, and various body therapy programs (e.g. yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique) to enhance flexibility, strength, postural alignment, balance, coordination, endurance, and movement memory, and promote greater technical ability in dance, sports, exercise, and other movement-based programs. The course includes introductory information on anatomy, nutrition, and the care and prevention of injuries. Students are limited to takin… --- # DNCE 51 — PILATES: OVERVIEW This survey course introduces the fundamentals of non-impact body therapy/training method based on the principles of Joseph Pilates using a variety of props and equipment. Classes provide the dancer and non-dancer, sports enthusiast, coach or instructor with exercises to improve core strength, postural alignments, coordination, and body awareness and mechanics as well as the care and prevention of injuries. The focus is on exercising the mind and connecting that to proper breathing techniques and the body. Emphasis is on how to increase/decrease the challenge and make personalized adjustments… --- # DNCE 52 — PILATES: MAT This course is a non-impact body therapy and training method based on the principles of Joseph Pilates. Classes provide the dancer and non-dancer with detailed exercises for the entire body that focus on core strengthening while also re-training postural alignment and muscular imbalances. Proper breathing techniques are emphasized to exercise the mind as well as the body.The main emphasis will be mat exercises; exercises using props and other equipment will also be introduced. --- # DNCE 53 — PILATES-REFORMER WITH MAT This course connects Pilates mat-work with reformer work and associated props that aid in personalized adjustments based on individual needs. It is a non-impact body therapy and training program for the entire body focusing on re-training alignment and imbalances in the body; promoting enhanced core strength, movement abilities, care and prevention of injuries; and reduction of pain. Breath use is emphasized to initiate and maintain the core for each exercise as well as being able to recognize internal changes in muscle efficiency in all areas. --- # DNCE 54 — PILATES: DESIGNED FOR YOU This course focuses on traditional and new forms of Pilates exercises as well as the use of modification aids to aid the student in receiving the benefits intended in each exercise. Emphasis will be on technique enhancement, how to select and adjust exercises for individual needs and goals, and injury care and prevention. This course is designed for all experience levels. Students are limited to taking four Pilates courses (DNCE 51, 51A, 51B, 52, 53, or 54) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # DNCE 55 — CHOREOGRAPHY I This beginning-level course provides a theoretical and practical foundation in dance composition. It emphasizes the development of basic skills in problem solving and in the craft and creation of dances. Students will explore and develop movement studies and full-length dances for both individuals and groups. The focus is on creating compositions with thematic and artistic clarity, incorporating shapes, times, space, energy, phrasing, abstraction, stylization, and various choreographic devices and structures. --- # DNCE 57 — CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECTS This course focuses on the preparation and execution of a dance production, emphasizing the choreographic process. It investigates the various creative, artistic and practical aspects involved in defining and developing a project. The course is designed to build each student's proficiency in the skills necessary to choreograph a dance piece from the planning stages through post-production work. --- # DNCE 58 — CHOREOGRAPHY III For students whose choreographic work has been chosen to represent IVC at a national/regional Dance competition. Competition guidelines will determine the scope of the project. Choreographers will remount and rehearse the chosen dance work and oversee its production at the competition. --- # DNCE 60 — AFRICAN DANCE II This movement course is an introduction to the history and performance of African dance and drumming. Students will be introduced to African folk and cultural dance movements and song forms including poly rhythms, vocalizations and integration of movement to live drumming. This course examines the way that African dance functions as a social and cultural expression, focusing on universal elements such as drumming, singing, storytelling, community, and the environment. Field trips may be required. --- # DNCE 61 — AFRICAN DANCE III This course introduces the influence of African dance and music on the world through the African Diaspora. Students will study how the doctrine of Pan-Africanism is helping to shape the identity of contemporary Africans through dancing, drumming, singing and storytelling. The course explores the research and practices of performing African dances from the diaspora and its specific historical reference to representing the African community at large. All classes are aerobic in nature. Field trips may be required. --- # DNCE 62 — AFRICAN DANCE IV This course is an introduction to the history and performance of West African dance of the Empire of Mali. Students will study, practice and perform traditional West African dances and drum rhythms from the Empire of Mali. The course explores the components of West African dance as it relates to community, movement, music, theme, season, and organization of the dance. All classes are aerobic in nature. Field trips may be required. --- # DNCE 65 — DANCE REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE-PRODUCTION OVERVIEW This course provides an overview of the many aspects in the preparation of a dance production. It emphasizes rehearsal and performance experiences as well as connecting the technical theater tasks and dance management needed to put on a dance concert. Students will be involved with the creation of three dances exploring the evolution of movement material, artistic expression and production elements in relationship to each choreographer's vision. A performance and/or informal showing is included. Various in-progress showings will determine performance format and additional performance opportun… --- # DNCE 66 — DANCE REHEARSAL & PERFORMANCE-ANALYSIS OF CREATIVE PROCESSES This course is designed to prepare the students to work with different choreographers contrasting creative methodologies. Students will learn to adapt to the creative processes and analyze contrasting approaches by rehearsing, performing and observing choreographers within three dances. A performance and/or informal showing is included. Various in-progress showings will determine the final performance format and additional performance opportunities. Students will also participate in technical production aspects of a dance concert. Enrollment limited to a total of four rehearsal and performanc… --- # DNCE 67 — DANCE REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE-SOLOS TO VARIOUS GROUPS C This course is designed to emphasize the creative process of solos, duets, and other small groupings as well as ensemble work within the choreographic works. It focuses on the technical and interpretive skills necessary to perform in these formats within three dance pieces. A performance and informal showing/s are included. Various in-progress showings will determine the final performance format and any additional performance opportunities. This course also includes completion of production tasks inherent in a dance concert. Performance limited to a total of four rehearsal and performance cou… --- # DNCE 68 — TOURING DANCE ENSEMBLE-DANCE COMPETITIONS This course prepares students for participation in regional and/or national dance competitions. Students study traditional and contemporary choreography through rehearsal and competitive performance. The focus is on bringing one or more dance works to a high level of performance so as to best represent Irvine Valley College at intercollegiate and dance industry concerts and competitions, including the American College Dance Association. Students experience different repertoire each semester it is offered. Field trips to the competitions are mandatory. --- # DNCE 69 — INTRODUCTION TO DANCE ENSEMBLE PRACTICES This course prepares students for participation in our Certificate/AA capstone advanced course: Performing Dance Ensemble. Students will understudy assigned roles, learn company protocols and help in the production aspects of the performance. Field trips may be required. --- # DNCE 70 — IVC PERFORMING DANCE ENSEMBLE This course is designed to prepare students interested in a performing career in Dance. It will cover auditioning techniques, career investigation and goals, nutrition for dance as well as rehearsal and performance proficiency with faculty and guest choreographers. Students participate in multiple performances and production aspects of a dance concert. Field trips may be required. --- # DNCE 71 — DANCE ASSISTANT The course will prepare students to support and assist a choreographer. Training will cover all aspects of preparation and running of rehearsals, production duties, and communications with the dancers. --- # DNCE 72 — AERIAL, ACROBATIC, PARTNERING TECHNIQUES I Students will be introduced to the art of aerial dance by studying basic aerial apparatuses, floor acrobatics and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 73 — PERFORMING DANCE ENSEMBLE-COMMUNITY OUTREACH The Performing Dance Ensemble is designed to prepare the intermediate/advanced dancer with a dance company experience. This course focuses on the creation and presentation of repertory for community-based educational outreach programs and/or choreography shown in multiple venues. Emphasis is also on determining how to adjust dances and programs according to various stages, spaces, and types of audiences. Another aspect is discovering how to complete administrative tasks including establishing contacts in the local community, gathering information, and the preparation and distribution of marke… --- # DNCE 74 — AERIAL, ACROBATIC, PARTNERING TECHNIQUES II Students will continue to learn the art of aerial dance by studying beginning aerial apparatuses, floor acrobatics and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 75 — IMPROVISATION I This course is designed to develop improvisational techniques as related to structural form. The focus is on individual and group work to learn tools that aid in the creation of unplanned movement and improve one's ability to edit movement choices to craft phrases, studies, and dances "in the moment". Emphasis is on how to adapt to changing situations, come up with spontaneous solutions, and create 'on the spot' choreography which is important in the professional world. For the dancer and non-dancer. --- # DNCE 76 — AERIAL, ACROBATIC, PARTNERING TECHNIQUES III Students will study at intermediate level the art of aerial dance by studying intermediate aerial apparatuses, floor acrobatics and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 77 — DANCE HISTORY: TWENTIETH CENTURY This course studies the history of dance in the twentieth century focusing on major themes, ideas, values, people, and institutions within a global context. It traces the continued development of various dance forms with primary emphasis on ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance (including tap dance and musical theater). The course will include some reference to other art forms and the humanities. Videotapes, movies, and attendance at live performances will augment lectures. --- # DNCE 78 — DANCE APPRECIATION Overview of religious, social and theatrical dance forms, focusing on their purposes and themes within their historical context. Dance genres will be examined in terms of practices, movement, and music. Videos, live performances, discussions and readings will illuminate the social and cultural relevance of each genre studied. --- # DNCE 79 — AERIAL, ACROBATIC, PARTNERING TECHNIQUES IV Students will learn the intermediate/advance level art of aerial dance by studying intermediate/advance aerial apparatuses, floor acrobatics and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 80 — FOLK AND CLASSICAL CHINESE DANCE I This is an introductory course in Folk and Classical Chinese dance forms, focusing on the fundamental dance techniques, mind-body awareness, and cultural and historical analysis of various Folk and Classical Chinese dance forms, including Mongolian, Tibetan, Han, Dai, Korean, Uyghur, and Chinese Classical dance. --- # DNCE 81 — FOLK AND CLASSICAL CHINESE DANCE II This is an advance beginning course in Chinese dance that explores various Chinese dance forms in greater depth, including Mongolian, Tibetan, Han, Dai, Korean, Uyghur, and Chinese Classical dance. This course emphasizes the perception and expression of mind-body energy, dance techniques, use of props, and cultural and historical analysis. --- # DNCE 85 — MUSIC FOR DANCE This course assists the dancer and/or choreographer by providing practical training in basic music theory and musicianship. It focuses on systematically breaking down and investigating the terminology of and concepts behind "dancer musicality," rhythm and meter, melodic design, basic musical form, notation, and historical style. The course is designed to present the development of music and dance in a historical perspective; to develop through listening an awareness of available musical literature; and to train the dancer/choreographer and musician to work together by developing a common voca… --- # DNCE 86 — CONDITION AND CORRECT: BODY ALIGNMENT Applies movement science concepts to various exercises from dance, conditioning, and body therapy programs (e.g. yoga, Pilates, massage, Alexander Technique) for dancers and non-dancers. It focuses on the awareness of posture and movement habits as related to anatomy, wellness and the reduction of the potential of pain and injury. Students start to retrain the body by learning proper warm-up and exercise set-up. Emphasis is on selecting effective and safe joint motions while maintaining alignment to gain the most benefit from each exercise. Flexibility, strength, posture, balance, coordinatio… --- # DNCE 88 — CONDITION AND CORRECT: MIND-BODY TECHNIQUES This course utilizes the Eastern Medicine mind-body techniques and methods from dance, exercise, and various therapy programs (e.g. Raja Yoga, Pilates, Myofascial release, Sweigard, Feldenkrais, GYROKINESIS(R)Techniques) to promote greater technical ability in dance, sports, exercise, and other movement-based programs. Emphasis is on efficiency of movement, agility, balance, flexibility, and the long-term care and prevention of injuries for oneself and others to be more marketable in any profession. It also includes information on kinesiology, nutrition, and the connections between eastern an… --- # DNCE 90 — DANCE TRAINING: THERABAND RESISTANCE WORKOUT This course is designed to provide students with intermediate-level dance conditioning using theraband resistance. Students will learn to apply correct placement, increase stretch and lines, and challenge core in intermediate-level movement patterns. Students are limited to taking four conditioning courses. --- # DNCE 92 — DANCE TRAINING: FLOOR BARRE This course focuses on the components of correct placement and the biomechanics of dance movement. Floor Barre methodology as well as other dance conditioning methods will be used to develop and challenge core stabilization, elongation in stretches and movements, and efficient alignment in key movement patterns. Students will perform dance placement exercises and analyze their form and effectiveness. Students are limited to taking four conditioning courses (DNCE 50, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, or 92) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # DNCE 93 — GYROKINESIS (R): ART OF EXERCISING AND BEYOND, OVERVIEW An overview course introducing background information and a variety of formats within the holistic GYROKINESIS(R) methodology. It embraces some of the key principles and philosophies also found in yoga, dance, swimming, gymnastics, massage, and tai chi. The entire body is worked using three dimensional movement sequences designed to stretch and strengthen the muscles; articulate, decompress, and increase range of motion; and develop coordination and endurance. The objective is to improve overall health of mind, body, and spirit by teaching the body to move with fluidity, ease, and power. Stud… --- # DNCE 94 — GYROKINESIS (R): FORMAT 2 - 90 MINUTE A holistic method that embraces some of the key principles also found in yoga, dance, swimming, gymnastics, massage, and tai chi. The objective is to improve overall health of mind, body and spirit by teaching the body to move with fluidity, ease and power. The entire body is worked using three-dimensional movement sequences designed to stretch and strengthen the muscles; articulate, decompress, and increase the range of joint motion; and develop coordination and endurance. This is a beginning-level course for all students with emphasis on the Format 2 - 90 minute format and principles. Stude… --- # DNCE 95 — GYROKINESIS(R)- FORMAT 1 - 60 MIN. AND OTHER SEQUENCES GYROKINESIS (R):Format 1 - 60 minute format, and the other sequences taught in this course, merge eastern and western influences in a Holistic way. This format focuses on working the energetic pathways of the entire body integrating changing rhythms and breath patterns in fluid three-dimensional movement sequences. It is designed to deeply stretch and strengthen the muscles; articulate, decompress, and increase the range and quality of joint motions; and develop more complex rhythmic coordination and endurance. Emphasis is on also on spinal elongation, balanced motions and energy/chi stimulat… --- # DNCE 96 — GYROKINESIS®: ALTERNATIVE FORMATS AND MUSIC This course is a holistic system of exercise that works the entire body using three-dimensional movement sequences and coordinated breath patterns. The objective is health of mind, body and spirit achieved by merging of eastern and western approaches to training. This course will focus on new and alternative formats and methods in the system. It will also explore additional breathing techniques and patterns, self-massage, use of music, and restorative stress management methods intended to keep energy pathways open and especially improve the nervous, muscular and cardio-respiratory systems. Th… --- # DNCE 97 — GYROKINESIS (R) THE ART OF EXERCISING AND BEYOND GYROKINESIS(R) is a holistic system of exercise that embraces some of the key principles found in yoga, dance, swimming, gymnastics, massage, and tai chi. The entire body is worked using three-dimensional movement sequences designed to stretch and strengthen the muscles; articulate, decompress, and increase the range of joint motion; and develop coordination and endurance. Focus is on the natural directions of spinal movement and coordinated breath patterns intended to open energy pathways and enhance the nervous and circulatory systems. The objective is to improve overall health of mind, bod… --- # DNCE 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DANCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DNCE 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DANCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DNCE 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: DANCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # DR 50 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING This is an introductory course in the operation and application of a computer-aided drafting (CAD) system that is used to create, modify, store, and plot typical part and assembly drawings. Students create and analyze 2D orthographic projections of objects as well as 3D models which conform to industry practices and standards. Proper dimension practices are covered throughout the course. --- # DR 52 — ENGINEERING DRAWING AND DESIGN This course is designed to develop the basic skills needed for industrial-level engineering drawing and conceptual design, including assembly drawings and detail drawings. The course introduces the fundamentals of mechanical design and strategies for creative design. It includes the basic design process used for machine drawings, castings, cams, weldments, and power transmissions, with integrated problems and solutions. DR 52 was formerly offered as DR 101. --- # DR 103 — INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING This course introduces students to the terminology, construction methods, and computer-aided drafting methods associated with modern architectural design. Students gain practical experience integrating residential modeling techniques into industry-standard 2D projected drawings used to illustrate the majority of conventional buildings. The course also covers basic 3D modeling structures, as well as the materials of construction and physical assembly methods that are required for proper manufacture. --- # ECON 5 — PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING This course covers the proper management of personal incomes and expenditures using criteria, methodology and resources for effective financial planning. Topics include the study of inflation and business cycles; career planning; money/credit management; insurance analysis; investment and retirement planning; and tax strategies. The course uses an integrative approach that focuses on practical financial decision making as well as the social, psychological and physiological contexts in which those decisions are made. Students will examine their relationship with money, set personal goals and d… --- # ECON 6 — ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS This introductory environmental and resource economics course focuses on resource, agricultural, and environmental issues and related policy analysis. The course applies microeconomic principles, models and analytical tools to problems of natural resource use and environmental quality caused by human populations. Students examine and evaluate policies to remedy the market failure of inefficient resource use and environmental degradation, both nationally and internationally. ECON 6 is also listed as ENV 6; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ECON 10 — STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS This introductory course presents statistical concepts and methods used extensively in economics, business, social sciences, psychology, life and health sciences, and education including computer-based statistical analysis. Students study descriptive and inferential statistics and perform statistical analysis. Emphasis is on problem solving and interpretation. Credit may be earned in ECON 10 or 10H, but not both. Also listed as MGT 10 or 10H; credit may be earned in one course, not all. C-ID: MATH 110 --- # ECON 10H — STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS HONORS This introductory honors course presents statistical concepts and methods used extensively in economics, business, social sciences, psychology, life and health sciences, and education including computer-based statistical analysis. Students study descriptive and inferential statistics and perform statistical analysis. Emphasis is on problem solving and interpretation. This honors course is enriched through a course project that applies statistical analysis to a case study and is shared through a class presentation. Credit may be earned in ECON 10 or 10H, but not both. Also listed as MGT 10 or… --- # ECON 13 — GLOBAL ECONOMICS This survey course presents a wide range of issues concerning the contemporary global economy from historical, political, and economic perspectives. It is suitable for students from all majors and backgrounds and anyone interested in learning about issues confronting the global economy. The course examines international economic choices using basic economic theories and principles to address such topics as the effects of globalization, international trade and trade restrictions, international finance, foreign exchange markets and exchange rate systems, international capital flows, and the rol… --- # ECON 20 — INTRODUCTORY ECONOMICS This course, designed for non-economics and non-business majors, provides a survey of both micro and macroeconomic principles and provides a foundation for ECON 1 and 2. Microeconomic areas of emphasis include scarcity, markets, supply and demand, industrial organization, and marginal analysis used for decision making by individuals and firms. Macroeconomic areas of emphasis include national income accounts, money and monetary policy, economic stabilization policies, economic growth, and international trade and finance. Credit may be earned in ECON 20 or 20H, but not both. --- # ECON 20H — INTRODUCTORY ECONOMICS HONORS Designed for non-economics and non-business majors, this course provides a survey of both micro and macroeconomic principles and provides a foundation for ECON 1 and 2. Microeconomic areas of emphasis include scarcity, markets, supply and demand, industrial organization, and marginal analysis used for decision making by individuals and firms. Macroeconomic areas of emphasis include national income accounts, money and monetary policy, economic stabilization policies, economic growth, and international trade and finance. ECON 20H stresses higher order skills including analysis, interpretations,… --- # ECON 167B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ECONOMICS This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # ECON 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ECONOMICS This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # ECON 167C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ECONOMICS This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # ECON 167D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ECONOMICS This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ECON C2001 — PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS Common Course Numbering Language: An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies. IVC Details: This course introduces the concepts and tools of microeconomic analysis. It investigates the problems that result from scarcity and how individuals and groups make decisions, given scarcity. The primary areas of focus are: markets and prices, marginal analysis, the decision-making processes of individua… --- # ECON C2001H — PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies. This is an honors course. IVC Details: ECON C2001H is an intensive introductory course that employs higher order thinking skills which include analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of texts and outside readings. It also uses applied mathematical and graphical analysis techniques to evaluate economic decisions and… --- # ECON C2002 — PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS Common Course Numbering Language: An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. IVC Details: This course examines and analyzes the economic problems of scarcity, recession, unemployment, and inflation. Investigation centers on business cycles, economic growth, determination and the measurement of output and income in the economy, money creation and the banking system, monetary and fiscal policy options, ef… --- # ECON C2002H — PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS-HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. This is an honors course. IVC Details: ECON C2002H is an enriched principles of macroeconomics course that emphasizes the use of higher order skills including mathematical and graphical analysis, interpretation and evaluation of the text material and outside readings. It employs these techniques to evaluate economic decisions,… --- # ELEC 21 — INTRODUCTION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY This course introduces students to application of renewable energy sources (such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, etc.) to electric power generation. As each renewable energy technology is explained, the student will learn how to perform a basic energy analysis of the corresponding power-generation system. ELEC 21 was formerly offered as ELEC 210. --- # ELEC 22 — INTRO TO GENERATIVE AI FOR ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGISTS This course provides the foundations for generative artificial intelligence, which empowers machines to create new data, such as text, images, audio, and code, resembling human creations. Students will learn and apply prompt engineering throughout the course. Designed for electrical technology students. --- # ELEC 100 — BASIC ELECTRICITY This introductory course emphasizes the basic concepts of electricity and their practical applications. The course focuses on basic two-terminal passive devices, direct current and alternating current, plus standard laboratory test equipment and procedures. Students analyze and test, circuits, including batteries, resistors, capacitors and inductors connected in series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits. ELEC 100 was formerly offered as ELEC 230. --- # ELEC 200 — OSHA STANDARDS FOR CONSTRUCTION SAFETY This course covers OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Topics include scopes and applications of the OSHA construction standards. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide. --- # ELEC 200A — OSHA 10 This course covers OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Topics include scopes and applications of the OSHA construction standards. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide. --- # ELEC 201 — RESIDENTIAL WIRING This course provides practical instruction for wiring homes according to National Electrical Code (NEC) rules, covering all code requirements and construction practices for installing electrical systems in one- and two-family dwellings. Through classroom and laboratory instruction, the course covers planning, service equipment, wiring methods, lighting, and the special requirements for kitchens, bathrooms, and other residential living spaces. Outdoor installations are also covered, as well as swimming pools, spas, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, and remodeling (ol… --- # ELEC 202 — NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE - RESIDENTIAL This course is an introduction to the National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements for residential wiring. The course covers electrical wiring diagrams, material use, installation methods and calculations of electrical loads used to size feeders and conductors. This course is designed for job seekers in the construction, electrical and air conditioning trades; contractors; inspectors, and lighting specialists. --- # ELEC 203 — COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WIRING This course provides practical instruction for wiring commercial buildings according to National Electrical Code (NEC) rules, covering all code requirements and construction practices for installing electrical systems in commercial facilities. Through classroom and laboratory instruction, the course covers planning, working drawings, service equipment, wiring methods, branch and feeder circuits, overcurrent protection, motor and appliance circuits, and lighting, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. Safety requirements and procedures are emphasized throughout. --- # ELEC 209 — ELECTRICAL SAFETY FUNDAMENTALS This course provides the foundations for the bonding and grounding of electrical systems, as a means to ensure safety against electric shock in industrial, commercial, and residential environments. Current technical standards and technologies are used throughout the course. Emphasis is also given to Arc Flash analysis and protection for the electrical workers. --- # ELEC 211 — GRID-TIED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS This first level lecture/laboratory electrical course will introduce students to the components that make up a photovoltaic (PV) system and the function of each. Students will also learn how to install, troubleshoot, and maintain a residential solar electric system. The student will perform calculations and measure efficiencies of the three major types of PV modules and analyze components and their functions. --- # ELEC 212 — ADVANCED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS In this course, students build upon skills learned in ELEC 211 and expand their knowledge on the design of cost-effective photovoltaic (PV) systems with battery backup. Emphasis will be put on stand-alone systems sizing, charge controllers, inverters and commissioning, maintenance and troubleshooting of PV systems. --- # ELEC 232 — BASIC ENERGY MANAGEMENT An introductory course on fundamental principles and practices of energy conservation in buildings, including renovation and remodeling. The best practices include the diagnosis, retrofit, maintenance, and energy management of residential buildings, as well as technical and economic operating principles of electrical and mechanical devices for cost-effective decisions and energy-efficient choices. --- # ELEC 234 — BLUEPRINT READING Covers the basics of Computer-Aided Design and the reading of blueprint plan sets as encountered by the air conditioning and refrigeration field technician, project manager and design engineer. Course includes practical application of numbers to the topics of problem solving, dimension conversion and mathematical verification, proportions and ratios, length measurements with field application and exercises, area calculations, duct and sheet metal calculations, and equivalent units of measurement. --- # ELEC 249 — INTRO TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS This course is designed to equip students with a strong foundational understanding of industrial robotics, making it an ideal starting point for those interested in pursuing a career in this rapidly expanding field. Students will learn to prepare robots for various tasks, configure end-effectors, work with sensors, and control conveyors. Emphasis will be put on robot components, motion programming, safety, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Practical hands-on labs will provide students with essential skills in programming robot motions, operating grippers, and optimizing pick-and-place applica… --- # ELEC 253 — ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS Students will gain an array of advanced skills, encompassing robot operations, maintenance, programming, troubleshooting, and strategic robot deployment. Students will be guided through robot operation, emphasizing preventive measures aimed at averting accidents and mishaps. The course will delve into troubleshooting techniques, a pivotal facet of the robotics domain. Drawing from both observations and diagnostic tools, students will be equipped with the means to identify and rectify issues effectively. An emphasis will be placed on the significance of proactive robot maintenance to thwart po… --- # ENGL 302 — COLLEGE WRITING SKILLS AND SUPPORT ENGL 302 is a supplemental writing course taught in conjunction with ENGL C1000. ENGL 302 provides instruction in the basic conventions of college essay writing to supplement the concurrent ENGL C1000 course. In ENGL 302, students receive additional support for topics covered in ENGL C1000. Successful completion of ENGL 302 and ENGL C1000 allows the student to enroll in ENGL C1001. Formerly WR 302. --- # ENGL 382 — WRITING CONFERENCE FOR ENGL C1000 WITH ENGL 302 This pass/no-pass corequisite course offers one-on-one conference instruction with English instructors for students enrolled in ENGL 302. Students must spend at least 24 hours in the Writing Center during the semester and participate in no fewer than four formal conferences in order to receive credit. Formerly WR 382. --- # ENGL 1000 — WRITING CONFERENCE ENGL C1000, C1000H, AND ESL 1 This open-entry/open-exit, pass/no-pass course offers one-on-one conference instruction with English instructors for students in ENGL C1000, ENGL C1000H, or ESL 1. Students must complete 12 hours in the Writing Center during the semester and participate in no fewer than two formal conferences in order to receive credit. Formerly WR 181. --- # ENGL 1001 — WRITING CONFERENCE FOR ENGL C10001 AND C10001H This open-entry/open-exit, pass/no-pass course offers one-on-one conference instruction with English instructors for students in ENGL C10001 and C1001H. Students must complete 12 hours in the Writing Center and no fewer than two formal conferences during the semester in order to receive credit. Formerly WR 182. --- # ENGL C1000 — ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING Common Course Numbering Language : In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. IVC Details : Credit may be earned in either ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H, but not both. C-ID: ENGL 100. Formerly WR 1. --- # ENGL C1000H — ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. This is an honors course. IVC Details: The course is enriched through smaller class size and more extensive and rigorous reading, writing, and research assignments. Credit may be earned in either ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H, but not both. C-ID: ENGL 100. Formerly WR 1. --- # ENGL C1001H — CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 College Reading and Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. This is an honors course. IVC Details: This course will offer enriched opportunities through limited class size, seminar format, more extensive reading and research assignments, and a formal in-class pr… --- # ENGL C1001 — CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year writing course. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either ENGL C1001 or ENGL C1001H, but not both. Formerly WR 2. C-ID: ENGL 105. --- # ENGL C1002 — INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students are introduced to works by diverse authors and major literary genres, developing close reading and analytical writing skills. Students also develop appreciation for and critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature. IVC Details: C-ID: ENGL 120, Formerly LIT 1. --- # ENGL C1002H — INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE - HONORS Common course numbering language: In this course, students are introduced to works by diverse authors and major literary genres, developing close reading and analytical writing skills. Students also develop appreciation for and critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature. IVC details: The honors course is enriched through extensive reading in primary and secondary sources, a formal presentation, an essay, and/or an annotated bibliography. Credit in either ENGL C1002 or ENGL C1002H, but not both. C-ID: ENGL 120. Formerly LIT 1. --- # ENGL C1003H — CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING THROUGH LITERATURE - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language : In this course, students receive instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing. Students develop critical thinking, close reading, and literary analysis skills, research strategies, information literacy, and knowledge of accurate documentation through the study of diverse literary works from a variety of literary genres, developing an appreciation for literature. This is an honors course. IVC details: This honors course is enriched through extensive reading in primary and secondary sources, a formal presentation, a research abstract, and/or… --- # ENGL C1003 — CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING THROUGH LITERATURE Common Course Numbering Language: In this course, students receive instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing. Students develop critical thinking, close reading, and literary analysis skills, research strategies, information literacy, and knowledge of accurate documentation through the study of diverse literary works from a variety of literary genres, developing an appreciation for literature. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either ENGL C1003 or ENGL C1003H, but not both. --- # ENGR 7 — INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING METHODS This course provides practical experience for students majoring in engineering and applied sciences. It focuses on modeling and designing with a physical element such as a robot or quad-copter. Students will develop skills such as analyzing physical structures, manufacturing small components, testing, team building, planning, scheduling, management, and implementation of a final design. Projects may include data collection, design reviews, analysis, report writing, group construction projects, and participation in competitions based on related criteria. --- # ENGR 11 — INTRO TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING This course provides an overview of occupations in electrical and computer science engineering and related technologies. It is designed to familiarize students with the educational requirements for and opportunities for employment as an engineer or engineering technologist, as well as the nature and responsibilities of such work. --- # ENGR 20 — INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING AND PROBLEM SOLVING WITH MATLAB This course provides an introduction to computer programming within the numerical computing environment of MATLAB/Simulink. It provides students with a working knowledge of computer-based problem-solving methods relevant to science and engineering. It introduces the fundamentals of procedural and object-oriented programming with MATLAB/Simulink program to formulate, solve, and verify solutions to engineering, math and physics problems. --- # ENGR 21 — INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY This course provides an overview of occupations in engineering and related technologies. It is designed to familiarize students with the educational requirements for and opportunities for employment as an engineer or engineering technologist, as well as the nature and responsibilities of such work. --- # ENGR 23 — ENGINEERING GRAPHICS AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY This course introduces the principles of graphic modeling and problem solving with the support of 3D computer-aided design. Students solve common math and engineering problems with the assistance of 3D CAD models. Typical assignments involve generating industry standard multiview projections, creating 3D mechanical, architectural, and civil engineering CAD models and surfaces, finding intersections and angles created by multiple lines and surfaces, constructing developments, and performing vector computations. The course also covers 3D point data management and topographical surface modeling… --- # ENGR 25 — 3D CIVIL COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN This is an advanced computer aided design course which demonstrates modern three dimensional terrain modeling techniques as well as digital civil design concepts. In addition to learning how to collect, refine, and model topographical data points in modern parametric CAD systems, students will generate detailed drawing sets, cost and feasibility studies of detailed projects, and industry standard presentations. Recent advances in base mapping, GPS, GIS, earthwork management, and watershed analysis are central to laboratory assignments. Students require solid knowledge of two and three dimensi… --- # ENGR 30 — STATICS OF RIGID BODIES AND STRUCTURES This course covers major topics in statics such as addition and resolution of forces, and developing equivalent systems of forces. It includes analysis and calculations related to concentrated and distributed forces, centroids, and rigid-body equilibrium analysis under forces. The course also includes calculations related to one-dimensional cables and bars under axial loads. It covers topics of statical determinacy, stress, strain, and elastic behavior, and numerical analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate trusses. C-ID ENGR 130. --- # ENGR 31L — INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL LOGIC LABORATORY This course uses laboratory equipment to cover the digital representation of information. It focuses on specification, analysis, design and optimization of combinational and sequential logic, register-transfer components and register-transfer systems with datapaths and controllers. It provides introduction to high-level and algorithmic state-machines and custom processors. --- # ENGR 31 — INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS This course introduces the concept of digital representation of information. It focuses on specification, analysis, design and optimization of combinational and sequential logic, register-transfer components and register-transfer systems with datapaths and controllers. It provides introduction to high-level and algorithmic state-machines and custom processors. --- # ENGR 54 — PRINCIPLES OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING This course covers major topics related to engineering design, manufacturing, and the properties of materials used in modern component construction. Students will learn to implement design methods required to efficiently use manufacturing methods such as machining, forming, and molding. students will conduct analysis of material used for practical application of manufacturing processes. Atomic structure, bonding, defects, phase equilibria, mechanical properties, electrical properties, and optical properties are key elements which students study in detail to provide a firm support for student… --- # ENGR 70L — NETWORK ANALYSIS LABORATORY I This course provides the foundations for the construction and measurement of electrical circuits. The laboratory experiments will include basic use of electrical testers, such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, as well as power supplies, and function generators. In the labs, the students will lay out circuits and predict their behavior mathematically by using circuit simulation software. Student will interpret measured and simulated data based on principles of circuit analysis for DC, and transient conditions. The elementary circuit design will also include practical considerations such as compon… --- # ENGR 70 — INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK ANALYSIS This course provides instruction in the modeling and analysis of electrical networks. Introduction to basic network theorems, sinusoidal steady state, transient analysis of RLC (Resistor, Inductor, Capacitor) networks, impedance concept, and solving network circuit problems. --- # ENGR 71L — NETWORK ANALYSIS LABORATORY II This course provides the foundations for the construction, simulation and measurement of electrical AC circuits, also in transient conditions. The laboratory experiments will include measurement of AC sine voltages, and resistance using a multimeter and an oscilloscope. The voltmeter and the oscilloscope will be used to determine the output voltage of a voltage divider network. --- # ENGR 80 — ENGINEERING DYNAMICS This course is an introduction to the kinetics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. The topics covered include the Newton-Euler principles, work and energy relationships, and impulse and momentum methods to ascertain the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. --- # ENGR 83 — COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN TECHNIQUES This course develops skills for interpretation and presentation of mechanical design drawings and the use of CAD software (SolidWorks) in engineering design. An integrated approach to drafting based on sketching, manual drawing, and three-dimensional CAD techniques is presented. --- # ENGR 91 — INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS This course covers major topics related to thermodynamic systems. Students will learn to identify the control mass and control volume in thermodynamic problems, calculate properties of pure substances, map and analyze processes on Temperature-Volume, Pressure-Volume, and Temperature-Entropy diagrams, apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to control mass and control volume processes, and use the Carnot thermodynamic cycle to calculate the limits of the thermal efficiency. --- # ENGR 100 — RESEARCH TOPICS IN ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES This course provides practical experience for students majoring in engineering and applied sciences. It focuses on management of all types of engineering projects from visualization, planning, scheduling, management, and implementation. Projects may include data collection, analysis, report writing, and construction management. --- # ENGR 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ENGINEERING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ENGR 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ENGINEERING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ENGR 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ENGINEERING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ENGR 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ENGINEERING This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ENTR 117 — SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING This course introduces social media tools used for marketing in business. Topics include uses, ethics, and guidelines for social networking, and online marketing channels. Students create a social media marketing campaign through the use of Web applications, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. ENTR 117 is also listed as CIM 117; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ENTR 160 — ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS This course introduces key elements of entrepreneurship and small business development. It focuses on the phases and process of building a viable business plan and putting the plan to work. Topics of exploration include building a marketing plan and financial plan, conducting feasibility studies, the nature of competition and markets, and the global aspects of entrepreneurship. The course provides students with a foundation for understanding the role of small business within society. It also provides preparation for individuals seeking to engage in entrepreneurial ventures. --- # ENTR 200 — PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS This interactive course enables students to engage in the fundamental aspects of creatively developing frameworks of passion and purpose as a means of personal empowerment and wealth. The course promotes entrepreneurial thinking across disciplines and assists students in developing a process for transforming ideas into sustainable success. Students will examine how others overcame adversity and achieved success. The course includes individualized learning assessments designed to assist the student in exploring their frameworks of thought and entrepreneurial potential. --- # ENTR 201 — CREATIVITY AND IDEA GENERATION This course helps students discover that creativity is a process that can be learned. The relationship between imagination, creativity, and innovation will be examined and students will explore the use of creativity tools and processes to develop solutions for business problems. During the course, students will learn how to use questions to spark creativity. --- # ENTR 202 — INNOVATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES This cross-disciplinary course helps students develop mental frameworks that enable them to link invention and insight as means to create social and economic value. Students will explore the creative process, the link between strategy and innovation, the development of an innovation infrastructure, and ways to measure the innovation process. This course prepares students to contribute in unique and productive ways to today's entrepreneurial and organizational demands. --- # ENTR 211 — BUSINESS MODELS: THE DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF VALUE Successful entrepreneurs are able to describe how their organization creates, delivers, and captures value. This cross-disciplinary course helps students understand business model generation by examining customer segments, profitability, and the process of identifying business goals, developing strategic objectives, critical success factors, and key performance indicators for entrepreneurial endeavors. Students will learn how to filter business opportunities, project whether business opportunities can be scalable, identify and validate potential markets, and estimate profitability. --- # ENTR 212 — MARKET VALIDATION AND RESEARCH This course explores a variety of resources, tools, and techniques for collecting and analyzing market research data. It engages students in the process of assessing target markets, implementing a market validation strategy, and interpreting primary and secondary research to create effective plans and forecasts. The course illustrates how targeting the market can reduce marketing costs and increase effectiveness. It also discusses common marketing mistakes and the limits of market research. --- # ENTR 220 — BUSINESS START-UP DESIGN-LEGAL, OPERATIONS, AND PEOPLE This course examines legal and operational elements of business start-up and structure. The course will help entrepreneurs recognize legal, start-up, human resource, and operational issues before they become problems. The course does not replace the need for competent legal advice but endeavors to help entrepreneurs seek and select legal resources in an informed and economical manner. --- # ENTR 221 — MONEY, ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS This course examines tools and practices necessary for entrepreneurs to access financing, manage cash flow, and measure financial performance. The course will help entrepreneurs to meet financial record-keeping requirements, identify areas of improvement, and determine actions needed to improve performance. Topics include entrepreneurial finance, assessing venture value, financial scorecard, financial dashboard, record-keeping, and cash management. --- # ENTR 222 — BUSINESS STRUCTURE AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS This course examines the primary forms of business structure, i.e. sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation, and legal elements needed to comply with regulations and guidelines of various governmental agencies. The course will help entrepreneurs recognize legal issues before they become legal problems, and manage and grow businesses more effectively within the law. The course does not replace the need for competent legal advice but endeavors to help entrepreneurs seek and select legal resources in an informed and economical manner. --- # ENTR 223 — BUILDING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM This course is designed to help build successful teams and personal partnerships with coaches, mentors and advisors who can help them to make the most of their own potential and to develop their business ideas. Students will consider how managing human resources can create a competitive advantage. --- # ENTR 224 — OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT FOR ENTREPRENEURS In this interactive course, students will investigate differences between the entrepreneurial environment and the operations environment. Students will examine the readiness of entrepreneurs for managing operations, the skill sets and management competencies necessary to produce goods and services effectively and efficiently. Topics examined will include, business location, facility design, supply chain management, measures of operational excellence, use of technology, and areas of potential cost savings. --- # ENTR 241 — THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PLAN This course provides a systematic process for developing a business plan. The instructor and a network of like-minded students will help those thinking about starting a business to establish a clear roadmap for clarifying a vision for the business and the strategic, tactical, and operational plans needed to move ideas to action. Students further along in the planning and research process will work through the major components of writing a business plan and emerge with a completed draft of a business plan. --- # ENTR 242 — PERSUASIVE PRESENTATIONS This course provides students with the opportunity to collaborate and use business plans as the foundation for crafting the story of their business that will engage others to be a part of that story. Entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to create powerful sales tools using technology to create presentations using videos, animation, visuals, and simulations. --- # ENTR 522 — STARTING A BUSINESS This course examines the primary forms of business structure, i.e. sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation, and legal elements needed to comply with regulations and guidelines of various governmental agencies. The course will help entrepreneurs to understand legal requirements, and manage and grow businesses more effectively within the law. The course does not replace the need for competent legal advice but endeavors to help entrepreneurs seek and select legal resources in an informed and economical manner. --- # ENV 1 — INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES This introductory course emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. It includes topics in biology, ecology, chemistry, geology, economics, health, and politics. Emphasis is on current environmental problems, their impacts, and solutions. C-ID ENVS 100. --- # ENV 6 — ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS This introductory environmental and resource economics course focuses on resource, agricultural, and environmental issues and related policy analysis. The course applies microeconomic principles, models and analytical tools to problems of natural resource use and environmental quality caused by human populations. Students examine and evaluate policies to remedy the market failure of inefficient resource use and environmental degradation, both nationally and internationally. ENV 6 is also listed as ECON 6; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # ERTH 20 — INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCE This course introduces and unifies the central theories of geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. Students study the universe and solar system, the planet Earth and its constituents, rocks and minerals, drifting crustal plates, and processes such as mountain building and earthquakes. Students also study oceans and shorelines, the atmosphere, and climate. The effect of these disparate realms on life, past and present, is considered along with the effects of pollution of the natural environment. Field trips may be required. C-ID: GEOL 121 --- # ESL 1 — COLLEGE COMPOSITION FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS This composition course is designed for multilingual speakers of English and emphasizes an integrated approach to critical reading, expository and argumentative writing and mastery of library research techniques. It includes instruction and practice in critical thinking, analytical reading and evaluation of written work. Students will receive instruction in the methods of clearly communicating and supporting ideas in organized, coherent essays and using appropriate academic language. Students are required to write essays, including a research paper, based on fiction and nonfiction texts, pers… --- # ESL 80 — ACADEMIC WRITING III FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS This is the third semester of the credit ESL academic writing sequence for multilingual writers who need to gain a greater understanding of Academic English. Students write essays in response to culturally diverse readings from a range of college-level texts. The course covers how to develop a thesis statement, how to control the structure of an academic essay, and how to develop details of support through multiple drafts. It focuses on refining academic reading, writing, language, and critical thinking skills with an emphasis on the academic essay. Successful completion allows students to en… --- # ESL 360 — ACADEMIC WRITING I FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS The first course of the ESL academic writing sequence for multilingual writers who need to gain an understanding of Academic English. Focuses on the structure and development of the academic paragraph and the correct use of appropriate grammatical structures. Students are required to complete rigorous reading and writing tasks that introduce students to college-level academic requirements. --- # ESL 370 — ACADEMIC WRITING II FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS This the second course of the credit ESL academic writing sequence for multilingual writers who need to gain an understanding of Academic English. Students will write paragraphs and essays as they respond to text based prompts. The course covers refining the academic paragraph and structuring the academic essay. The course focuses on developing academic reading, writing, language, and critical thinking skills. Successful completion allows students to enroll in ESL 80. --- # ESL 370L — ACADEMIC WRITING II LEARNING CENTER This pass/no-pass course offers supplemental language learning assistance for students concurrently enrolled in ESL 370. Students must complete 24 hours in the learning center during the semester and successfully complete ESL 370 in order to receive credit. --- # ESL 380L — ACADEMIC WRITING III LEARNING CENTER This pass/no-pass course offers supplemental language learning assistance for students concurrently enrolled in ESL 80. Students must complete 24 hours in the learning center during the semester and successfully complete ESL 80 in order to receive credit.Formally offered as ESL 301L --- # ESL 384 — ADVANCED VOCABULARY SKILLS This course is designed to help English language learners develop college-level vocabulary. Students gain understanding of key academic words and collocations and how to use them appropriately in both oral and written contexts. Fall semester only. --- # ESL 385 — ACADEMIC READING The course introduces non-native English students to reading strategies that students may apply to textbooks and other academic prose. Students focus on building background information in content areas in a variety of disciplines. Fall semester only. --- # ESL 388 — ADVANCED GRAMMAR This course is designed to help advanced English language learners improve their grammar, especially for academic writing and other formal settings. Fall semester only. --- # ESL 389 — ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER (ELC) This open-entry/open-exit course offers conference instruction with ESL language instructors for students enrolled in specified ESL corequisite courses. The course focus is on exercises and assignments to improve students' speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar skills in English. --- # ESL 390L — ACADEMIC WRITING IV LEARNING CENTER This pass/no-pass course offers supplemental language learning assistance for students enrolled in ESL 90. Formerly offered as ESL 201L. Students must complete 24 hours in the learning center during the semester and successfully complete ESL 90 in order to receive credit. --- # ESL 394 — ADVANCED VOCABULARY SKILLS This course is designed to help English language learners refine college-level vocabulary. Students gain understanding of key academic words and collocations and how to use them appropriately in both oral and written contexts. Spring semester only. --- # ESL 395 — ACADEMIC READING This course will introduce students to strategies employed in academic reading with a focus on language development. Spring semester only. --- # ESL 398 — ADVANCED GRAMMAR This course is designed to help advanced English language learners refine their grammar, especially for academic writing and other formal settings. Spring semester only. --- # ET 92 — BASIC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I This introductory course studies the basic concepts of electricity and their practical applications. The course focuses on basic two-terminal passive devices, direct current and transient circuits, plus standard laboratory test equipment and procedures. Analyze, test, design and troubleshoot specific devices and circuits, including batteries, resistors, capacitors and inductors connected in series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits. --- # ET 99 — DIGITAL ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS This course introduces the fundamental concepts of digital electronics, including binary numbers, truth tables, logic families, and Boolean algebra. Students test, troubleshoot, analyze, and design digital circuits including gate networks, flip-flops, multivibrators, registers, counters, state machines, memories, digital-to-analog (D/A) and analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, programmable logic devices, tri-state logic, and data communication circuits. --- # ET 101 — ELECTRONICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE This course provides an introduction to the field of electronics. The course studies basic electronic principles, components and terminology and their practical application in such areas as radio, television, digital devices, household and automotive electronics. --- # ET 104 — BASIC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS II This course covers the principles and applications of AC circuits, including reactance, impedance, resonance, residential wiring and lighting, filters, spectrum analysis, audio, telephone, and radio. Students analyze, test, design and troubleshoot the devices and circuits studied. --- # ET 105 — ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS I This course studies basic solid-state devices and their application circuits. Students test devices such as diodes, LEDs, transistors and thyristors and measure their characteristics. The course covers the analysis, troubleshooting, and design of solid-state application circuits, including rectifiers, switching circuits, and amplifiers. --- # ET 107 — ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS II This course continues the study of solid-state devices and their application circuits begun in ET 105. Students test and measure the characteristics of such devices as field effect transistors (FETs), operational amplifiers (op amps), linear integrated circuits, active filters, analog switches, opto-electronics, and fiber optics. They also analyze, design, and troubleshoot application circuits, including amplifiers, power supplies, voltage regulators, and oscillators. --- # ET 116 — INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS This course deals with the application of electronics to industrial monitoring and control. It introduces the basic functional blocks used in industrial systems, including sensors, actuators, controllers, and signal processors. The course covers how to monitor and control industrial processes using a microcontroller or a programmable logic controller (PLC), and how to test, troubleshoot, analyze, and design commonly used industrial circuits and systems. Topics include digital and relay logic, time delay, motors, triacs, robotics, closed-loop control, and remote control. --- # ET 119 — INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION USING PLCS This course introduces the PLC, or programmable logic controller, a small, specialized computer used to control and monitor industrial processes. Students gain hands-on experience in both connecting the PLC to external equipment and programming it using ladder diagrams. Topics covered include relay ladder logic, latching, timing, counting, sequential control, sensors, and actuators. --- # ET 120 — INTRODUCTION TO MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROCONTROLLERS This course introduces the microprocessor and microcontroller. Topics include tri-state buses, memory, input/output (I/O) ports, address decoding, assembly and machine language programming, addressing modes, logical and mathematical operations, branching, loops, subroutines, interfacing, interrupts, and troubleshooting techniques. Students design the hardware, software, and interfacing circuitry to provide a microprocessor - or microcontroller-based function, or a complete system. --- # ET 122A — EMBEDDED CONTROL SYSTEMS I This course covers embedded control systems based on the popular Microchip or Atmel series of controllers. Topics include microcontroller architecture and instruction set, software development tools, timers, subroutines, interrupts, and input/output interfacing. Students design and construct the hardware, software, and interfacing circuitry to provide a complete embedded control system. --- # ET 122B — EMBEDDED CONTROL SYSTEMS II This course continues the study of embedded controls systems begun in ET 122A using the popular Microchip or Atmel series of controllers. Students design and construct an individual microcontroller project, including the hardware, software, and interfacing circuity. --- # ET 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ET 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ET 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # ETHN 10 — INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES This course introduces students to concepts and theories in Ethnic Studies, such as race, racism, ethnicity, racial formation, settler colonialism, and resistance (Core Competency 1). Through an interdisciplinary and comparative overview of racialized groups in the United States, students will examine how various sociohistorical forces and institutions have constructed race and shaped race relations. In addition, students will critically analyze the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference (Core Competency 3). Particular em… --- # ETHN 10H — INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES HONORS This course introduces students to concepts and theories in Ethnic Studies, such as race, racism, ethnicity, racial formation, settler colonialism, and resistance (Core Competency 1). Through an interdisciplinary and comparative overview of racialized groups in the United States, students will examine how various sociohistorical forces and institutions have constructed race and shaped race relations. In addition, students will critically analyze the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference (Core Competency 3). Particular em… --- # ETHN 15 — WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE UNITED STATES This course is an interdisciplinary, multi-perspective, comparative study of women of color in the United States. Students will focus on the histories, experiences, contributions, philosophies, and struggles of Native American, Black/African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Chicanx/Latinx women in U.S. society. Students will examine interlocking categories of power that include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, among others, and engage with feminist of color critiques and scholarship. --- # ETHN 20 — INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES ETHN 20 is a critical study of the Asian American experience. Students will read scholarly, literary, and visual texts in order to understand how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American Studies confronts issues of Asian American immigration, racialization, exclusion, social and political activism, assimilation, community-building, and transnationalism. It explores questions of gender and sexuality, race and class, war and imperialism, and culture and memory, and the forces that have shaped the experience of Asian Americans. It will also focus on how Asian Americans negotiate and often r… --- # ETHN 30 — INTRODUCTION TO CHICANX STUDIES This course examines the principal developments in Chicano history from its Mesoamerican origins to the present. Students explore the indigenous and European influences which have shaped the culture, character, and history of Mexican Americans, and the manner in which the cultural patterns have been retained or redefined by life in the U.S. ETHN 30 was formerly offered as HIST 33. --- # ETHN 35 — CHICANA FEMINISM This course is an interdisciplinary, transnational, and historical overview of Chicana, Mexican American, and Mexican women in American society. This course will examine the experiences, struggles, contributions, art, philosophies, and writings of Chicana women through Chicana feminist scholarship. Students will examine interlocking categories of power that include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, among others, and engage with feminist of color critiques and scholarship. --- # ETHN 40 — INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES This course will introduce students to the field of African American Studies. It will investigate how African American studies came to be a discipline of study and the shape(s) it took in its initial formulations. Students will explore the ways various community members, activists, students, teachers, scholars, artists, musicians, poets, and filmmakers have contributed to thinking about Black experiences both historically and contemporarily. Finally, students will consider current Black struggles for freedom, for justice, and for humanity. --- # ETHN 50 — INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES This course will introduce students to the field of Native American Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will explore the histories, cultures, identities, social movements, and contemporary concerns of Indigenous peoples of North America.This course examines key topics from Indigenous perspectives such as: colonialism, settler colonialism, racialization, indigeneity, sovereignty, self-determination, decolonization and resistance (Core Competency 1). In addition, this course will explore the development of Native American Studies as a field of academic inquiry, and provide st… --- # ETHN 60 — INTRODUCTION TO LATINX STUDIES Introduction to Latinx Studies is an interdisciplinary survey of the field of Latinx Studies. This course will provide students with a historical and contemporary overview of the political, economic, social and cultural issues that shape various Latina/o/x communities in the United States. Using a comparative framework, this course will help students identify the hemispheric and transnational forces that have shaped Latinx groups. In addition, this course will analyze the experiences of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, and Central Americans in the United States using the lenses of… --- # FILM 40 — MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY This course introduces students to the complexity of media forms in society. Students will analyze media types, functions, responsibilities, practices, and influences as well as investigate the legal framework that governs the media, ethical considerations, historical developments in the various media, and the local and global aspects of both mass and personal media. The course is designed to increase critical awareness of how media and society influence each other. C-ID: JOUR 100 --- # FILM 70 — HISTORY OF FILM This course examines the development of film as one of the dominant art forms of the 20th and 21st century. Important technical achievements, movements, filmmakers, and historical trends will be discussed chronologically. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of landmark films that represent the most pivotal moments in film history. --- # FILM 71 — INTRODUCTION TO FILM This course offers an introduction to the narrative, thematic, and aesthetic and philosophical aspects of cinema. Students will examine a wide variety of films focusing on storytelling, staging, cinematography, acting, editing, sound, and film theory. Emphasis will be placed on the artistic quality of film and the development of technical methods used by filmmakers to present their ideas. Credit may be earned in either FILM 71 or 71H, but not both. --- # FILM 71H — INTRODUCTION TO FILM HONORS This course offers an advanced introduction to the narrative, thematic, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of cinema. Students will examine a wide variety of films focusing on storytelling, staging, cinematography, acting, editing, sound, and film theory. Emphasis will be placed on the artistic quality of film and the development of technical methods used by filmmakers to present their ideas. As an honors course, students will encounter more demanding film texts (including avant garde and experimental films) and readings in the areas of criticism and theory. Enriched assignments will requir… --- # FILM 72H — FILM AND AMERICAN CULTURE HONORS This course introduces students to the critical study of the representation and construction of American culture in film. Lectures, readings and screenings focus on the cinematic depiction of values and major events, political and social realities, and the portrayal of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Special attention will be paid to issues unique to documentary films: objectivity and subjectivity, ethical considerations, aesthetic developments, and production practices. As an honors course, students will encounter more demanding film texts as well as challenging readings in th… --- # FILM 72 — FILM AND AMERICAN CULTURE This course introduces students to the critical study of the representation and construction of American culture in film. Lectures, readings and screenings focus on the cinematic depiction of values and major events, political and social realities, and the portrayal of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Special attention will be paid to issues unique to documentary films: objectivity and subjectivity, ethical considerations, aesthetic developments, and production practices. Credit may be earned in either FILM 72 or 72H but not both. --- # FILM 73 — FILM GENRE STUDIES This course examines the emergence of a category, or genre, of film within the context of film history. Each time the course is offered, it focuses one or more genres (e.g., the Western, gangster film, musical, film noir) and the societal and economic context in which specific film types emerge. Students view representative films in order to identify and analyze techniques and conventions unique to the genre under consideration. --- # FILM 74 — FILM AND LITERATURE This course analyzes films adapted from literary texts, and the relationship between these films and their source texts. Students read, discuss and analyze texts in order to explore themes, issues, and literary forms used to present them, and then view, discuss, and analyze the film adaptation of the text. Emphasis will be placed on the complex relationship between film and its literary source, especially the challenges of adapting the story from a literary audience to a film audience. FILM 74 is also listed as LIT 74; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # FILM 75 — INTRODUCTION TO TELEVISION STUDIES This course introduces students to the critical study of television. Topics covered include formats and genres, historical and contemporary styles, regulations and public policy, the broadcast era, the cable revolution, digital innovations, convergence, and interactive television, and globalization. Course materials will also introduce students to several theories and critical methodologies for examining the construction and representation of society: media effects, active audience theories, Ideological criticism, textual analysis, semiotic analysis, cultural studies, and fan studies. --- # FN 400 — NUTRITION/COOKING FOR ONE OR TWO This course offers practical information about nutrition, food preparation, menu planning, and food shopping for one or two people, focusing on the dietary needs of older adults. Simplified meal preparation will be demonstrated in the cooking lab. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # FR 1 — BEGINNING FRENCH I This course is designed to develop the fundamentals of communicating in French, including basic conversation, listening comprehension and reading. The emphasis is on speaking and comprehending native spoken French. The course introduces basic writing skills and also presents general aspects of French and Francophone life and culture. FR 1 is equivalent to two years of high school French. Credit may be earned in either FR 1 or 1H, but not both. --- # FR 1H — BEGINNING FRENCH I HONORS This honors course is designed to develop the fundamentals of communicating in French, including basic conversation, listening comprehension and reading. The emphasis is on speaking and comprehending native spoken French. The course introduces basic writing skills and also presents general aspects of French and Francophone life and culture. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, more extensive development of speaking, listening and comprehension skills, more extensive exposure to French and Francophone culture and additional assignments beyond the regular FR 1. Studen… --- # FR 2 — BEGINNING FRENCH II This course continues the development of the fundamental skills acquired in French 1, with increased emphasis on speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The course introduces students to elements of French and Francophone life and culture. --- # FR 3 — INTERMEDIATE FRENCH This course is designed to build upon the fundamental language abilities acquired in FR 1 and 2. Emphasis is on developing more advanced skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students are further introduced to cultural topics related to France and other French-speaking countries. --- # FR 4 — INTERMEDIATE FRENCH This course concentrates on developing an intermediate level of fluency, strengthening the skills needed to read, write, and communicate in French. Emphasis is placed on French literature and film and on writing analytical compositions based on readings and films. There is further instruction in French history and culture. --- # FR 10 — INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH This course is designed to develop fluency in French, with an emphasis on informal expression. Conversations are centered on topics including current events, politics, cinema, cuisine, art, literature, theatre, and other aspects of French and Francophone culture. --- # FR 11 — ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH This course is designed to increase the student's ability to comprehend native spoken French and increase oral fluency. Reading, watching films and oral and written responses enable the student to acquire new vocabulary and structures and examine various aspects of French and Francophone cultures. Field trips may be required. --- # GEOG 1 — EARTH'S NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Earth's Natural Environment focuses on physical geography: the systematic study of the dynamic physical environment of the earth as the human home. Topics include the sun/earth relationship and energy balance, geospatial techniques, the character of the atmosphere, weather, climate, vegetation, the composition of the earth, plate tectonics, landform development and reduction, water, and the modification and pollution of the earth by humans. --- # GEOG 1L — EARTH'S NATURAL ENVIRONMENT LABORATORY Laboratory exercises and experiments designed to explore and understand the primary areas of physical geography. Stresses the scientific method in interpreting Earth-sun relations; time; Earth representation through globes, topographic maps and remote sensing; meteorological tools, models and weather prognostication; climate; natural vegetation; geomorphologic models and processes, and landform interpretation. --- # GEOG 2 — PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS This course explores the kaleidoscope of human activity which takes place on, and interrelates with, the surface of the earth. Geography, a holistic science, investigates such topics as population growth; economic development; human migration; the variety of agriculture; political organization; cultural and ethnic conflict; the origin and diffusion of language; world religions and their distribution; the history, growth and patterns of settlement; the rise of industrialism; and the result of human activity on the land, water, and atmosphere of the earth. C-ID: GEOG 120 --- # GEOG 3 — WORLD GEOGRAPHY World Geography provides a systematic study of the major geographic regions of the world. Specific countries within various regions are investigated in terms of their physiographic features, climatic conditions, natural resources, cultural heritage, population characteristics, agricultural practices, transportation systems, economic development, and current geographic issues. Credit may be earned in either GEOG 3 or 3H, but not both. C-ID: GEOG 125 --- # GEOG 3H — WORLD GEOGRAPHY HONORS World Geography provides a systematic study of the major geographic regions of the world. Specific countries within various regions are investigated in terms of their physiographic features, climatic conditions, natural resources, cultural heritage, population characteristics, agricultural practices, transportation systems, economic development, and current geographic issues. Credit may be earned in either GEOG 3 or 3H, but not both. C-ID: GEOG 125 --- # GEOG 10 — INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE This course is an introduction to Earth’s atmosphere and processes. The course investigates local and global surface weather phenomena, the use of instruments to interpret them, and the classification and distribution of world climates. Emphasis is placed on the interrelationships between weather and climate. Topics include atmospheric structure and composition, solar radiation, energy budget, temperature, seasonal changes, atmospheric moisture, clouds and fog, precipitation, circulation systems, air masses and fronts, weather forecasting, climate and climate change. A field trip may be requi… --- # GEOG 10H — INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE HONORS This honors course is an introduction to Earth’s atmosphere and processes. The course investigates local and global surface weather phenomena, the use of instruments to interpret them, and the classification and distribution of world climates. Emphasis is placed on the interrelationships between weather and climate. Topics include atmospheric structure and composition, solar radiation, energy budget, temperature, seasonal changes, atmospheric moisture, clouds and fog, precipitation, circulation systems, air masses and fronts, weather forecasting, climate and climate change. This honors course… --- # GEOG 12 — INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MAPPING This course provides an overview of the tools and techniques of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The course explores the mapping and spatial analysis capabilities of desktop GIS software (e.g., ArcView, ArcGIS, MapInfo); the management, manipulation and analysis of data; cartographic design and presentation; raster and vector data structures; georeferencing and Global Positioning Systems (GPS); and basic GIS programming. The course discusses how GIS can be applied to various disciplines, including geography, geology, biology, marketing, business and regional planning. C-ID:GEOG 155 --- # GEOG 14 — GEOGRAPHY FIELD STUDIES-WESTERN UNITED STATES This lecture and laboratory field course studies the cultural and physical geography in the western United States. Students observe and analyze the effects of weather and climate on natural vegetation; use topographical maps to interpret land use and terrain; explore economic and political systems of the region; and evaluate the interrelationships between the physical and cultural environment. Thematic emphasis will vary depending on location. A required course fee must be paid at or prior to the orientation session. C-ID:GEOG 160 --- # GEOG 15 — FIELD GEOGRAPHY OF CITIES AND NATURE This lecture and laboratory course introduces students to learning physical and cultural geography in the field. Students observe and analyze patterns in weather and climate, vegetation, natural landscapes and landforms, settlement patterns, land use patterns, and historical cultural geography. Emphasis is placed on the interrelationships between humans and their environment. Thematic emphasis will vary depending on location. --- # GEOG 20 — GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES This course analyzes society-nature relationships and global environmental problems from a geographical perspective. The focus is on the spatial dimensions of global environmental crises as they relate to social, political, and economic issues. Topics examine the historical evolution of environmental issues including population growth, diseases, agriculture and pesticides, climate change, resource extraction and management, energy, endangered species and appropriate development. --- # GEOG 38 — CALIFORNIA GEOGRAPHY This course provides a broad overview of the state of California in terms of its physical landscape and cultural environment. The state is divided into specific geographic regions; and those regions are analyzed in terms of their physiography, climate, vegetation, water resources, human history, agriculture, mineral resources, manufacturing, transportation, economic development, urbanization, and geographic problems. Students learn to interpret and construct basic maps, the foundation for spatial analysis. Attendance at field trips may be required. --- # GEOG 38 H — CALIFORNIA GEOGRAPHY HONORS This course provides a broad overview of the state of California in terms of its physical landscape and cultural environment. The state is divided into specific geographic regions; and those regions are analyzed in terms of their physiography, climate, vegetation, water resources, human history, agriculture, mineral resources, manufacturing, transportation, economic development, urbanization, and geographic problems. Students learn to interpret and construct basic maps, the foundation for spatial analysis. This honors course will be enriched with smaller class size, seminar format, and more e… --- # GEOL 1 — PHYSICAL GEOLOGY This course introduces the principles of geology and the methods of studying the Earth. Consideration is given to the materials of the Earth's crust, earthquakes, plate tectonics, the processes of mountain building and volcanism, sculpturing of the Earth's surface, evaluation of natural resources, the implications of geology to society, and aspects of the environment in which our lives are spent. Laboratory exercises include the identification of common rocks and minerals; reading and using topographic maps and geologic maps; and constructing topographic profiles and cross-sections to interpr… --- # GEOL 2 — HISTORICAL GEOLOGY This course is an in depth study of the physical and biological aspects of the evolution of the earth with emphasis on the origin and evolution of life reflected in the rock record. The history and origin of the earth, continents, oceans and atmosphere are also explored. Methods and concepts utilized in deciphering the geologic record will be emphasized in both lecture and lab. Field trips may be required. C-ID: GEOL 111 --- # GEOL 3 — GEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA This course is a study of the geologic development of California, including an exploration of plate tectonic and landform processes responsible for shaping the environment. This course examines processes related to earthquakes, faulting, volcanic activity and geologic time, as well as energy resources significant to California. Field trips may be required. C-ID GEOL 200. --- # GEOL 22 — EARTH HISTORY This general education lecture and laboratory science course is a study of the evolution of life on Earth, including the environments where life forms are found in the fossil record. Study includes the origin and formation of rock-forming minerals and the three types of rocks found on Earth. Development of the continents, oceans and atmosphere including ideas related to the origin and evolution of life will be introduced. Field trips may be required to fulfill the objectives of this course. Recommended for non-geology majors. --- # GEOL 23 — NATURAL DISASTERS This course discusses the interaction of man and the geologic environment with particular reference to natural disasters that include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, and climate change. Students learn the principles of sound planning for human use of the planet Earth. Field trips may be required. --- # GEOL 60 — GEOLOGY FIELD STUDIES: NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS This field study course introduces students to the origin, geology, and natural history of National Parks and Monuments of the western United States. Thematic emphasis, course content, and national parks to be visited will vary. Students in the physical and life sciences are encouraged to enroll. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in geological sciences (GEOL 65, 69, 60, 61, or 66) for a maximum of 4 units. This course was formerly offered as GEOL 170. --- # GEOL 61 — GEOLOGY FIELD STUDIES: COASTAL AND OFFSHORE GEOLOGY This field study course introduces students to the origin, evolution, and geology of coastal and offshore field areas in the western United States. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations, data collection, analysis and interpretation. Thematic emphasis and course content will vary depending on destination. The course is taught entirely in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students in geology, earth science, marine science, biology, and geography are encouraged to enroll. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in geological sc… --- # GEOL 65 — GEOLOGY FIELD STUDIES: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK This field study course introduces students to the geology of the Sierra Nevada Mountains with an emphasis on the geologic origin and evolution of Yosemite National Park, California. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations, field data collection, analysis and interpretation. The course is taught in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students in geology, earth science, marine science, biology and geography are encouraged to enroll. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in geological sciences (GEOL 65, 69, 60, 61, or 66) for a… --- # GEOL 66 — GEOLOGY FIELD STUDIES: GEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA This lecture and laboratory field course studies the origin, tectonic development, and present geology of California. Thematic emphasis will vary each time the course is offered depending on destination. Introductory lectures complement direct field observation, field data collection, analysis and interpretation. The course is taught in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students in geology, earth science, marine science, biology and geography courses are encouraged to enroll. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in geological sciences (GEOL 6… --- # GEOL 69 — GEOLOGY FIELD STUDIES-ZION NATIONAL PARK, UTAH This field study course introduces students to the geology of the Colorado Plateau region with emphasis on the origin and evolution of Zion National Park, Utah. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations, field data collection, analysis and interpretation. The course is taught in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students in geology, earth science, marine science, biology and geography are encouraged to enroll. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in geological sciences (GEOL 65, 69, 60, 61, or 66) for a maximum of 4 units. Th… --- # GEOL 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: GEOLOGY This General Cooperative Work Experience course provides college unit(s) for supervised work experience related to any type of job whether paid or unpaid; this is intended to assist students in acquiring and developing desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. General CWE need not be related to student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major offered by the college. Students may earn up to 1 CWE units per semester. 1 unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of unpaid hours worked. --- # GLBL 1 — INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES This course offers students an introduction to the interdisciplinary program of global studies. As a foundational course, this course focuses on a series of issues and problems associated with globalization. The course examines the nature and history of globalization, and analyzes economic, political, cultural and ecological dimensions of globalization. For each dimension, focus is on the extent of international conflict and cooperation, and effects of growing interdependence. C-ID: GLST 101 --- # GLBL 2 — INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL ISSUES This course introduces students to the social, political, and economic problems that transcend international boundaries in a globalized world. Students will become familiar with the roles and perspectives of individuals, organizations and governments toward global problems and the complex linkages and interdependencies that lead to conflict and cooperation in the international system. C-ID: GLST 102 --- # GS 10 — INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES This course is an interdisciplinary course that introduces gendered identities as a category of cultural analysis. This course will offer a survey of theoretical concepts of gender and its intersection with various categories of difference, including sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age and ability. The main focus of the course will examine gender within the context of the United States. Students will study the social construction of gender with particular emphasis on social and political activism and resistance and the ways in which social movements have led to societal transf… --- # GS 20 — GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY This course explores the construction of gender in contemporary culture, media, and social institutions. Students will examine gender in literature, art, music, film, and new media. Additionally, students will study gender in work, family, religion, sports, and social advocacy. Special attention will be paid to issues of intersectionality in contemporary life in terms of race, sexuality, class, age, and ability. --- # GS 50 — INTRODUCTION TO LGBTQ+ STUDIES This course introduces students to LGBTQ+ studies, a field that draws from many disciplines to provide a multiperspectival view of queerness today and in the past. Some topics include: historical events and ideologies, patterns of discrimination, biomedical and legal issues, artistic expression, activism, and advocacy. Intersectionality and queer theory will applied to critique identity and study intersections of sexuality and race, class, gender identity, dis/ability, and other social locations. The course will highlight and celebrate LGBTQ+ life, culture, and community. --- # HD 4 — INFANT AND TODDLER DEVELOPMENT A study of infants and toddlers, from conception to 36 months, including the theoretical frameworks of development and the impact of pregnancy, birth, and early life experiences on a child emotionally, socially, cognitively, and physically. Emphasizes the role of family, culture, caring and responsive adults, and attachment relationships on growth and development. --- # HD 7 — DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE This course presents a study of the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial processes of human development from conception through adolescence. It introduces the theories, research, and applications that constitute the field of child development both typical and atypical, examining both traditional approaches and recent innovations. Topics address the physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social areas of development. The course discusses issues related to intellectual functioning, learning, personality, social roles and relationships, and adjustment. It meets Title 22 Licensing… --- # HD 10 — INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY TEACHING Introduces concepts and issues related to teaching diverse learners in today’s contemporary schools, Transitional Kindergarten through grade 12 (PK-12). Topics include teaching as a profession and career, historical and philosophical foundations of the American system, contemporary educational issues, California’s content standards and frameworks, and teacher performance standards. In addition to class time, the course requires a minimum of 45 hours of structured fieldwork in California public school elementary general education classrooms that represent California’s diverse student populatio… --- # HD 15 — SOCIALIZATION OF THE CHILD-CHILD, FAMILY, COMMUNITY This course examines the influence of major socializing agents-family, school, peers, media, and community-on the developing child. The course addresses historical, cultural, and socioeconomic factors that affect a child's socialization, as well as issues confronting children with specialized needs and resources available for interventions. Emphasis is placed on the importance of respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families. This course is of particular interest to students preparing for a career working with children. It also meets Title 22 licensing requirements fo… --- # HD 27 — INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OR DELAYS oduction to the variations in the development of children with disabilities or delays ages birth through eight. Includes an overview of historical and societal influences, laws relating to children with disabilities or delays, and the assessment and referral process. Emphasizes the importance of working in partnership with families and specialists to support children’s development. --- # HD 28 — CURRICULUM & STRATEGIES: CHILDREN W/ DISABILITIES OR DELAYS Covers curriculum and intervention strategies for working with children with disabilities or delays in partnership with their families. Focuses on the use of observation and assessment in meeting the individualized needs of children in inclusive and natural environments. Includes the role of the teacher as a professional working with families, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, and cultural competence. Examines the identification and referral process for special education and related services. Includes field observations in inclusive settings. --- # HD 30 — TEACHING IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY This course offers a critical examination of societal and personal attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions, and biases about culture, race, language, identity, family structure, ability, socioeconomic status, and diverse groups affected by systemic oppression. The course is designed to help students recognize and confront barriers that interfere with their ability to work effectively with diverse populations of children and families, and to enhance teachers' skills for educating children in a pluralistic society. Meets the course requirement for Title 22 Licensing and the California Child Dev… --- # HD 65 — INTRODUCTION TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD This course examines the factors contributing to optimal development in the biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial domains during middle childhood between 6 and 12 years of age. Students are introduced to both grand and emergent theories and will apply practical applications to an understanding children in middle childhood. The course is of particular interest to students preparing for a career in school-age childcare settings as well as to parents, grandparents or guardians. This course meets Title 22 licensing requirements for school-age childcare providers. --- # HD 101 — OBSERVATION AND ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN This course introduces the appropriate use of assessment and observation strategies to document the growth and development of young children. The course focuses on selecting and using information collected as documentation to plan and implement quality programming and meet the individual needs of the child. The course also examines methods of utilizing data about each child to form effective partnerships between families and professionals. The course explores recording strategies including rating scales, portfolios, and use of multiple assessment methods. Meets course requirement for Title 22… --- # HD 105 — INFANT AND TODDLER PROGRAMS This course explores the caregiving skills necessary in the delivery of high quality programs for infants and toddlers. It focuses on relationships among caregivers, infants and other adults as well as the physical and social environment of the program including health and safety concerns, cultural and gender identity and guidance methods. Additionally this course addresses the development of the caregiver as a professional and as an educator of parents. Completion of the course partially qualifies students to work in a licensed childcare facility. --- # HD 110 — PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN Historical contexts and theoretical perspectives of developmentally appropriate practice in early care and education for children birth through age eight. Explores the typical roles and expectations of early childhood educators. Identifies professional ethics, career pathways, and professional standards. Introduces best practices for developmentally appropriate learning environments, curriculum, and effective pedagogy for young children, including how play contributes to children's learning, growth, and development. --- # HD 115 — INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM This course provides an overview of planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum and play-based environments for young children. The course examines the teacher's role in supporting development and learning, and fostering respect for children of diverse economic backgrounds, cultures, languages, and abilities. Content areas include language and literacy, social and emotional learning, sensory learning, art, creativity, math, science and physical development. Students observe and assess effective strategies for developing curriculum and adapting environments. Meets the cour… --- # HD 120 — CHILD GUIDANCE AND DISCIPLINE This course presents the basic principles and theories of child guidance and discipline through a strengths-based approach. Students will look at the multiple factors that make each guidance situation unique. The student will apply effective communication techniques and guidance strategies to real-life situations in a play-based environment and consider effective techniques for guiding young children in all early childhood curricular areas. A focus on the moral and ethical considerations involved in guiding young children will be pursued as the student develops a professional philosophy of gu… --- # HD 131 — CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN This course examines creativity as a critical function in the holistic development of young children. The course focuses on the importance of art, music, movement, imagery, literacy activities, and dramatic play in furthering children's overall development. Students will engage in creative activities, make connections between their experiences and those of children, and apply what they have learned in real-life settings with young children. Completion of the course partially qualifies students to work in a licensed childcare facility. --- # HD 145 — LANGUAGE AND LITERACY FOUNDATIONS This course looks at the foundations of language and literacy skills in young children. It includes a discussion of national policies and instructional approaches in the language and literacy realm, oral language development, and early writing. Students explore early literacy strategies and best practices for exposing young children to literature. The course presents techniques for assessing and documenting language and literacy development with an eye to adapting instruction for children with special needs. Integrating language and literacy activities with other areas of curriculum, as well… --- # HD 150 — HEALTH, SAFETY AND NUTRITION OF CHILDREN This course presents laws, regulations, standards, policies, procedures, and best practices related to health, safety, and nutrition in care and education settings for children from birth through middle childhood. The course includes the teacher’s role in prevention strategies, nutrition and meal planning, integrating health safety and nutrition experiences into daily routines, and overall risk management. Meets course requirement for Title 22 Licensing and the California Child Development Permit. C-ID: ECE 220 --- # HD 151 — TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN PLAY-BASED EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS This course explores the emerging understanding of math concepts children can learn in a play-based early childhood program. Emphasis is on integrating a child-based approach and content standards. The theoretical perspectives of Piaget and Vygotsky provide a framework for teaching. This course is appropriate for early childhood educators and parents of young children. HD 151 was formerly offered as HD 250. --- # HD 160 — ADVANCED CURRICULUM PLANNING This course engages students in an advanced study of the curriculum in early childhood classrooms. The underlying theoretical principles of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in an effective play-based learning space will be emphasized. The theoretical perspectives of Dewey, Erikson, Montessori, Piaget, and Vygotsky will provide a foundation for the topics covered in this course. Additionally, students will be introduced to effective strategies for evaluating and rating individual classrooms. This course may be applied to the California Child Development Permit. --- # HD 161 — PRINCIPLES OF ADULT SUPERVISION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS This course studies the methods and principles of supervising, mentoring, and coaching student teachers and other adults in early care and education settings. Presents the strategies and skills necessary to support the development of adult learners as effective mentors, coaches, and teachers. Emphasis is on individualized, relationship- and strengths-based approaches, reflective practices, and constructive communication skills. Covers characteristics and roles, career requirements and pathways, and use of evaluation in setting professional learning goals. --- # HD 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # HD 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # HD 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # HD 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # HD 170 — CURRICULUM PLANNING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN This course presents specific techniques for developing curriculum plans and planning activity areas in School-Age Programs. Students will explore ways to find balance among academic, enrichment and recreation experiences. Topics include; emergent curriculum, advanced planning, short and long term planning, health, fitness, and creative curricula such as art, music and drama. This course meets Title 22 licensing and Child Development Permit requirements for school-age providers. HD 170 was formerly offered as HD 270. --- # HD 181 — PRACTICUM: EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS This course is designed as a review and practical application of early childhood teaching competencies under the supervision of a master or mentor teacher. Students are required to participate in all segments of the program including curriculum planning and implementation, classroom management, effective guidance and communication with children and adults, observing and assessing children, and initiating activities. Lecture and discussion relate to putting theoretical concepts into practice directly with children. Concurrent enrollment in one unit of HD 168 is required. Meets course requireme… --- # HD 190 — ADMINISTRATION I: PROGRAMS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Introduction to the administration of early childhood programs. Covers program types, budget, management, regulations, laws, development and implementation of policies and procedures. Examines administrative tools, philosophies, and techniques needed to organize, open, and operate an early care and education program that is responsive to the needs of the community. It is one of two courses in administration and partially meets requirements for directors under Title 22 and for the Child Development Center Permit issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. --- # HD 191 — ADMINISTRATION II: PERSONNEL AND LEADERSHIP IN ECE This course presents effective strategies for personnel management and leadership in early care and education settings. Students will learn about legal and ethical responsibilities, supervision techniques, professional development, and reflective practices for a diverse and inclusive early care and education program. It is one of two courses in administration and partially meets requirements for directors under Title 22 and for the Child Development Center Permit issues by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. --- # HD 213 — OPERATING A QUALITY CHILD CARE PROGRAM IN YOUR HOME This course discusses the requirements of operating a high quality family child care business in the home. Planning for quality; developing general policies and procedures; incorporating specific licensing and legal requirements; effective communication; maintaining a strong client base; and ensuring a high-quality program make up its content. --- # HD 215 — PLANNING YOUR FAMILY CHILD CARE PROGRAMS This course provides specific examples of age-appropriate activities for children within a family child care home. It is designed for family child care providers. Areas of emphasis include dramatic play, art, math, science, cooking, language and literature, and motor activities. Students consider options for organizing the home environment, scheduling activities, and applying various guidance and discipline techniques. --- # HD 231 — CHILD MALTREATMENT: IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT This course provides an overview of child maltreatment, including various types of abuse and neglect. The course examines the warning signs and consequences of maltreatment, as well as strategies for its prevention. Students receive instruction in the mandated requirements for and steps involved in reporting suspected cases of child maltreatment and available options for permanency planning, including foster care, kinship care and adoption. --- # HD 232 — CHILDREN AND DIVORCE This course explores the common problems and concerns of families going through the process of divorce, focusing on the complexities of the experience from the child's perspective. It examines children's reactions to divorce and presents parents and teachers with practical information - concepts, insights, examples, and techniques - to help children through the experience. The course is of particular interest to parents, teachers, and childcare providers. --- # HD 251 — TEACHING SCIENCE IN A PLAY-BASED EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM This course explores how a play-based early childhood program can help foster children's understanding of science concepts in developmentally appropriate ways. Emphasis is on integrating a child-based approach and content standards. The theoretical perspectives of Piaget and Vygotsky provide a framework for teaching. The course is designed both for parents of young children and for early childhood educators and administrators seeking professional development. --- # HD 252 — TEACHING LITERACY IN A PLAY-BASED EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM Students will explore how a play-based early childhood program can foster children's emerging reading and writing abilities in developmentally appropriate ways. A child-centered approach and the California Preschool Learning Foundations will be emphasized, as well as current early childhood research and theory. The course is appropriate for early childhood educators and parents of young children. --- # HD 253 — CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS IN SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN This course is useful for teachers in after/before school child care programs as well as teachers of children in middle childhood. It provides an overview of effective guidance and communication strategies for school age children with a focus on challenging behaviors seen in middle childhood. Principles of positive guidance and specific applications for addressing challenging behaviors will be emphasized. This course partially meets requirements for Title 22 licensing. --- # HD 266 — PROGRAM PLANNING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN This course presents an integrated approach to School-Age Care (SAC). It provides the foundation of middle childhood theories and specific guidelines to ensure high program quality. Topics include: creating the SAC environment, incorporating best practices, applying procedures and policies, scheduling, planning curricula, and teaching social skills that will facilitate the prosocial development of children. This course partially meets Title 22 licensing requirements for SAC programs. --- # HD 270 — ART, MUSIC, AND DRAMA FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN This course presents specific techniques for integrating art, music, and drama into the school-age curriculum. Utilizing an experiential approach it presents an overview of creative expression, the role of the arts in supporting development, and specific means of implementing developmentally appropriate activities into daily planning. The course meets Title 22 and Child Development Permit requirements for school-age childcare providers. --- # HIST 1 — THE HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS TO 1500 This course examines the origins, major themes, and principal developments of world civilizations from prehistory to the 16th century. Special emphasis is given to the emergence of complex societies and the rise and development of civilization in the ancient Near East, classical Mediterranean world, Asia, the later Mediterranean world, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Central themes include urbanization and imperial impulses; individual-communal dynamic; emergence of major religious/philosophical traditions; elaboration of value systems and worldviews; science and the diffusion of technolog… --- # HIST 1H — THE HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS TO 1500 HONORS This course examines the origins, major themes, and principal developments of world civilizations from prehistory to the 16th century. Emphasis is given to the emergence of complex societies and the rise and development of civilization in the ancient Near East, classical Mediterranean world, Asia, the later Mediterranean world, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Central themes include urbanization and imperial impulses; individual-communal dynamic; emergence of major religious/philosophical traditions; elaboration of value systems and worldviews; science and the diffusion of technologies; hum… --- # HIST 2 — THE HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1500 This course examines the origins, major themes, and principle developments of world civilizations since the 16th century. Special emphasis is given to interactions among various civilizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and their mutual interdependence in the shaping of the modern world. Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of themes like imperialism, colonialism, industrialization, trade, modernization, urbanization and the rise of the nation-state. C-ID: HIST 160 --- # HIST 10 — WESTERN CIVILIZATION: BEGINNINGS TO THE REFORMATION This course is a survey of the scope, definition and culture of the West in a global context from the rise of Paleolithic and Neolithic societies in Eurasia to the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Emphasis will be on the major developments in the cultural, political, and social history of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Europe from Late Antiquity through the Reformation. C-ID: HIST 170 --- # HIST 11 — THE WEST AND THE WORLD SINCE THE RENAISSANCE The course considers the principal developments of Western civilization within a global context. Students explore the impact of Western themes, institutions, and ideas upon non-Western cultures, as well as the corresponding influence of non-Western cultures upon the "Western heritage." Special emphasis will be given to the emergence of such themes as the nation-state, rationalism and empiricism, industrialization, liberalism, nationalism, socialism, modern imperialism, post-war realignments, and geopolitics. The course traces the development of European culture from the 16th century to the pr… --- # HIST 24 — AMERICA AFTER THE BOMB: 1945 TO THE PRESENT History 24 is a study of the history of the United States from the end of the Second World War to the present. It focuses on the principal political, social, economic, and cultural challenges and achievements in American life since 1945 as reflected in domestic and foreign developments. Special emphasis is given to the use of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, the Cold War at home and abroad, prosperity and conformity in the 50's, social ferment in the 60's, the Civil Rights movement, the New Left and counterculture, black militancy, domestic upheaval in the 70's, mass dissent and th… --- # HIST 25 — HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA Students study and analyze California history from its pre-colonial origins through the present. Students survey the contributions of peoples of diverse cultures in the development of California and the ways in which California has and continues to influence the nation and the world. --- # HIST 30 — HISTORY OF ETHNICITY AND CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES A general survey of selected ethnic groups in American history, including Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos, as well as the major impacts of immigration from the pre-contact period through the present. --- # HIST 40 — THE HISTORY OF EAST ASIA BEFORE 1800 This course provides an overview of the pre-modern histories of China, Japan and Korea, and of their institutional and cultural interaction. Topics include the origins of civil statecraft in China and its impact on Korean and Japan; the development of a distinctive warrior class in Japan; the elaboration of court cultures in the traditional era. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of the conflicting themes of cultural unity and cultural uniqueness in East Asian civilization, and on the way in which cultural codes from China were transformed when imported to Japan and Korea. --- # HIST 41 — THE HISTORY OF EAST ASIA SINCE 1800 This course examines the major themes in the development of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese societies from the late 18th century to the present. Topics include the growth of the Confucian state in China; the role of 19th century crises and the Communist revolution in transforming the state's goals and capacities; the fragmentation and reorientation of the Chinese elite; peasant rebellion and the revolution of 1949; protest and resistance to traditional and modern regimes; the influence of Western contact on the restructuring of Japan; industrialization; political modernization and imperialism i… --- # HIST 51H — WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY HONORS This course surveys the history of women in the United States from the pre-contact period to the present, addressing significant events, processes, individuals, and movements that have contributed to the nation's development and women's changing roles. The course investigates the ways in which geographic location, class, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, urbanization, technology, labor, and notions of family have affected the political, social, economic, intellectual, and sexual lives of American women. Feminisms and the politics of gender are recurrent themes in this historical and cultur… --- # HIST 51 — WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY This course surveys the history of women in the United States from the pre-contact period to the present, addressing significant events, processes, individuals, and movements that have contributed to the nation's development and women's changing roles. The course investigates the ways in which geographic location, class, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, urbanization, technology, labor, and notions of family have affected the political, social, economic, intellectual, and sexual lives of American women. Feminisms and the politics of gender are recurrent themes in this historical and cultur… --- # HIST 60 — INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE The course will cover the history of science from a world perspective spanning a period from ancient times to the present. General areas covered will include the origins of science and its development and interaction with society. Specific topics will include: technology, physics, electricity, chemistry, biology, medicine, geology, evolution, and the nature of the scientist. The impact of science on society, religion, literature, philosophy and popular culture will also be examined. A philosophical analysis of the advances, functions, and implications of science in society will be used to stu… --- # HIST 61 — INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY This course provides an introduction to the changing relationships between human beings and the natural world in various places and various time periods around the world. The course explores how nature has helped to shape history and culture as well as how humans have modified the natural world and transformed the land in the process of extracting resources, building structures, producing pollution, and importing exotic species. At the same time, the course contextualizes differing values and ideas associated with the non-human world. --- # HIST C1001 — UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1877 Common Course Numbering Language: This course is a historical survey of the United States, from Indigenous North America to the end of Reconstruction. The course also introduces students to historical reasoning skills. IVC Details: C-ID: HIST 130. Formerly HIST 20. --- # HIST C1002 — UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 Common Course Numbering Language: This course is a historical survey of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course also introduces students to historical reasoning skills. IVC Details: This course is a study of the history of the United States from the Civil War to the present. The survey will focus on the major themes, ideas, attitudes, institutions, and elements that are part of the American national development from the mid-19th century to the present. Special emphasis will be given to national recovery and the victory of industrialization after the war, dom… --- # HLTH 1 — HEALTH EDUCATION This course focuses on the exploration of major health issues and behaviors in the various dimensions of health. Emphasis is place on individual responsibility for personal health and the promotion of informed, positive health behaviors. Topics include nutrition, exercise, weight control, mental health, stress management, violence, substance abuse, reproductive health, disease prevention, aging, healthcare, and environmental hazards and safety. C-ID PHS 100 --- # HLTH 2 — FIRST AID: RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES This lifesaving skill-training course provides students with the practical resources necessary to respond effectively in emergency situations. The course covers accident and injury prevention, emergency medical care, emergency childbirth, first aid for common injuries and for people with special needs, and responding to delayed help (e.g., wilderness) situations. Two American Red Cross first aid certificates (Responding to Emergencies and Community CPR) and an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) certification will be granted upon successful completion of all course requirements. C-ID: KIN… --- # HLTH 3 — WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES This course analyzes the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of women's health, and explores health services, health education, and healthcare delivery systems. Social determinants of health and health inequities are examined, as well as contemporary issues relating to LGBTQ+ rights, racism, ageism, gender stereotypes and gender roles, politics, and the role of women in the family, workforce, community, and society. Strategies for social and political change are developed. --- # HLTH 5 — INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH Students will gain an understanding of the basic concepts and terminologies of public health, and the history and accomplishments of public health officials and agencies. An overview of the functions of various public health professions and institutions, and an in-depth examination of the core public health disciplines is covered. Topics include the epidemiology of infectious and chronic disease; prevention and control of diseases in the community including the analysis of the social determinants of health and strategies for eliminating disease, illness and health disparities among various po… --- # HLTH 5H — INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH HONORS In this honors course, students will gain an understanding of the basic concepts and terminologies of public health, and the history and accomplishments of public health officials and agencies. An overview of the functions of various public health professions and institutions, and an in-depth examination of the core public health disciplines is covered. Topics include the epidemiology of infectious and chronic disease; prevention and control of diseases in the community, including the analysis of the social determinants of health and strategies for eliminating disease, illness and health disp… --- # HLTH 6 — HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE This course provides an introduction to the health inequities in the United States that stem from unequal living conditions. Students will explore how education, socioeconomic status, racism and gender shape health epidemics and policy development. Fundamental theories to advocate for health and social justice will be presented. C-ID: PHS 102 --- # HLTH 6H — HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE HONORS This honors course provides an introduction to the health inequities in the United States that stem from unequal living conditions. Students will explore how education, socioeconomic status, racism and gender shape health epidemics and policy development. Fundamental theories to advocate for health and social justice will be presented. Honors enrichment includes limited class size and additional reading and analysis of primary sources with application. C-ID: PHS 102 --- # HLTH 7 — GLOBAL HEALTH This course introduces the growing field of global health, global health challenges, programs, and policies. Students will explore the biological, cultural, social, and political factors that influence health at a global level. Topics include comparative health systems; emerging global health priorities; social determinants of health; health systems reform; and major global health initiatives for disease prevention and health promotion. An emphasis is placed on global health ethics, health inequities, and issues of social justice. --- # HLTH 8 — HEALTH DISPARITIES This course will examine personal and social determinants of health through the examination of the role individuals play in their own health and wellbeing, along with the impact of environmental, social, structural, and cultural factors that play a role both in individual and community and public health. Health disparities and inequities in sexually diverse, gender, racial, and minority populations will be explored, and culturally competent ideas to bridge the health equity gap and improve population health will be developed. --- # HLTH 9 — INTEGRATIVE MIND-BODY CONNECTION AND MINDFULNESS This course will explore research that provides insight into how contemplative practices such as mindfulness and meditation, contemporary psychological approaches, exercise, diet,and sleep alter brain function in positive ways to promote mental health and wellbeing. In addition to examining diseases related to stress response, the course will focus on how lifestyle choices can alter brain function and lead to enhanced states of mental health wellbeing, resilience and likelihood of decreasing mental health disorders in the future, through underlying neurobiological mechanisms that allow one to… --- # HLTH 10 — STATISTICS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH This course emphasizes the calculation, interpretation, and application of descriptive and inferential statistics in public health science, population-based research and practice, and related fields. Topics include statistical principles and use of probability techniques, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate evidence-based practices. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi-square and t-tests. Application of statistical concepts will incorporate data… --- # HLTH 131 — SIMPLE STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT MANAGEMENT This course is designed to help students manage their weight. The emphasis is on combining good nutrition and regular exercise to meet body weight goals. Students learn how to choose healthy, balanced meals at home or away; read packaged food labels; avoid the "diet failure mentality"; use exercise equipment properly; and design a safe, individualized exercise program. --- # HLTH 400 — HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR THE MATURE ADULT This course assesses the physical and mental health processes of aging and stresses the importance of exercise in maintaining independence in daily activities. Topics include cognitive and physical exercise, diet, nutrition, and disease and injury prevention as it relates to the older adult. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # HLTH 400C — HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR MATURE ADULTS This course addresses the physical and mental health of the older, mature adult through the use of exercise and fitness activities aimed at maintaining an active, independent lifestyle. Topics include the physical and cognitive benefits of exercise, injury prevention, and special considerations to approaching exercise safely for the older adult. This is an open entry/exit course. --- # HLTH 400B — HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR MATURE ADULTS This course addresses the physical and mental health of the older, mature adult through the use of exercise and fitness activities aimed at maintaining an active, independent lifestyle. Topics include the physical and cognitive benefits of exercise, injury prevention, and special considerations to approaching exercise safely for the older adult. This is an open entry/exit course. --- # HLTH 400A — HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR MATURE ADULTS This course addresses the physical and mental health of the older, mature adult through the use of exercise and fitness activities aimed at maintaining an active, independent lifestyle. Topics include the physical and cognitive benefits of exercise, injury prevention, and special considerations to approaching exercise safely for the older adult. This is an open entry/exit course. --- # HUM 1 — INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES This course introduces students to themes central to humanistic inquiry and to the methodologies used to analyze artistic and written expressions that incorporate these themes. Students examine works of literature, art, architecture and philosophy chosen from a variety of historical periods and representative of distinctive approaches to the themes under discussion. Credit may be earned in either HUM 1 or 1H, but not both. --- # HUM 1H — INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES HONORS This course introduces students to themes central to humanistic inquiry and to the methodologies used to analyze artistic and written expressions that incorporate these themes. Students examine works of literature, art, architecture and philosophy chosen from a variety of historical periods and representative of distinctive approaches to the themes under discussion.This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, seminar format, more extensive writing assignments, and more challenging reading assignments. Credit may be earned in either HUM 1 or 1H, but not both. --- # HUM 2 — THE CULTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME This course introduces students to the literature, philosophy, and culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Students examine works that defined and reflected Greek and Roman cultural values and subsequently influenced later philosophical, artistic, and literary developments in the West. Primary sources include representative epics, dramas, and philosophical texts, and works of art and architecture that were instrumental in the development of what is known as the "classical tradition." --- # HUM 3 — THE CULTURE OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE This course provides a general introduction to European medieval and Renaissance culture from the 12th through the 17th centuries. Students closely consider and discuss major primary works of literature, history, philosophy, and the arts. --- # HUM 4 — THE CULTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD-1700 TO THE PRESENT The course provides a general introduction to the emergence and development of modernism, modernity, and modern culture from the 17th century to the present, with an emphasis on Western civilizations. Students query the distinctive qualities and transformations of the "modern" world by considering selected primary works in philosophy, history, literature, criticism, and the arts. --- # HUM 6 — CULTURE, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CONTEXT This course examines select events, technologies, and works of art that have revolutionized or are revolutionizing ways of inhabiting the contemporary world. The approach will be interdisciplinary, engaging with works of art, architecture, technology, media, philosophy, and literature in terms of a specif revolutionizing event, technology, or work of art ( e.g. , “Global Warming,” “Cyborgs in Literature, Television, and Film,” “Women’s Revolutions in the Twenty-first Century," et al ). The course will provide students with the skills, background, and strategies necessary to engage in cultural… --- # HUM 10 — INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES Introduces students to the theories, methodologies and issues used in the field of cultural studies. Considers the political nature of knowledge, representation, and cultural identity, especially as it relates to subjectivity, identity, race, gender, sexuality, class, and colonialism. This course explores the history, nature, and strategies involved in cultural change and theorizes the emergence of cultural movements and practices. Field trips may be required. --- # HUM 20 — RELIGION AND THE QUEST FOR MEANING This course is an introduction to the study of religion as an academic discipline, exploring the key theoretical approaches to the nature of religious experience and its function in human society. The course focuses particularly on the nature and function of religious myth/narrative, ritual, art, architecture, doctrine, and experience. --- # HUM 21 — INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN RELIGIONS This course is intended to provide an introduction to the religions of Asia, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto and Pacific Island religions. This course will cover the history as well as key doctrinal, philosophical, devotional, ritual and social aspects of these religions, including an introduction to primary texts. --- # HUM 22 — INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM This course is a comparative study of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The course addresses the historical origin, growth, major doctrines, rituals, texts and philosophical presuppositions of each religion under discussion. Special attention will also be given to the interaction among these religions from ancient times to the present. --- # HUM 27 — WORLD RELIGIONS This course is a comparative study of some of the major world religions focusing on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, and also covering Hinduism, Confucianism, and Taoism. The course addresses the historical origins, growth, major doctrines, rituals, and philosophical presuppositions of each world religion under discussion. --- # HUM 50 — MYTHOLOGY This course studies critical approaches to understanding myth in the comparative context of world mythology. Analyzes myths from various time periods, geographic locations, and cultural settings using a variety of critical methodologies including Freud, Jung, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Rank, and Propp. --- # HUM 435C — FILM GENRES A formal analysis of film as an art form for older adults. Films of various styles, periods, issues of plot, character, setting, dialogue, imagery, and symbolism. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # IA 1A — INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS OFF SEASON TRAINING A This course gives students an opportunity to train for intercollegiate athletics. --- # IA 1 — INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS OFF SEASON TRAINING This course gives students an opportunity to train for intercollegiate athletics. --- # IA 2 — INTERCOLLEGIATE MEN'S BASKETBALL This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in men's intercollegiate basketball. --- # IA 4 — INTERCOLLEGIATE BEACH VOLLEYBALL This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in intercollegiate sand volleyball. --- # IA 10 — INTERCOLLEGIATE WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in women's intercollegiate volleyball. --- # IA 12 — INTERCOLLEGIATE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in women's intercollegiate basketball. --- # IA 15 — INTERCOLLEGIATE MEN'S SOCCER This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in men's intercollegiate soccer. --- # IA 18 — INTERCOLLEGIATE WOMEN'S SOCCER This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in women's intercollegiate soccer. --- # IA 19 — INTERCOLLEGIATE MEN'S VOLLEYBALL This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in men's intercollegiate volleyball. --- # IA 20 — INTERCOLLEGIATE WOMEN'S BADMINTON This course gives students an opportunity to train for and participate in women's intercollegiate badminton. --- # IA 35 — IA 35 INTERCOLLEGIATE WOMEN'S FLAG FOOTBALL This course gives students an opportunity to train and participate in women's intercollegiate flag football. --- # IA 101 — INTERCOLLEGIATE ELECTRONIC SPORTS This course is designed for a competitive electronic sports team. Students will compete against other competitive electronic sports teams throughout the State of California at the community college and university level. IA 101 was formerly offered as IA 201. --- # IA 121 — STRENGTH TRAINING AND CONDITIONING FOR SPORT This course is designed for students interested in strength training and conditioning methods specific to their sport. The course presents the principles and properties of a physiologically sound strength-training program, focusing on advanced modes of training, including free weights, machines, medicine balls, plyometrics, circuit training, and conditioning. --- # IMA 20 — WRITING FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVITY Research and practice in the creation of an original story, includes understanding visual structure, character development, plot structure and the design of both visual and verbal content. Course will study a variety of visual narrative approaches. Students will use industry standard software to create an interactive story with art. --- # IMA 22 — BASIC GAME ENGINE This course is a visual introduction to basic game engine interaction. We study game design from concept to finished projects for playability on the PC and console. Topics include core concepts in visual scripting to include finite state machines, actions, variables, events, basic Artificial Intelligence (AI), and editing basics. Students will design and build four responsive environments. Student projects will focus on developing visual scripting skills using industry-standard software. --- # IMA 27 — ENVIRONMENTAL TEXTURING AND LIGHTING IN GAMES This course is an introduction to Environmental Texturing and Lighting from concept to finished projects for games, virtual reality, film, emerging media, television, and the web. Topics include texturing 3D worlds, lighting 3D worlds, and output. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 30 — 3D ANIMATION This course is an introduction to 3D animation from concept to finished projects for games, virtual reality, film, emerging media, television, and the web. Topics include the 12 principles of animation and how they are applied to a variety of rigged models used in 3D animation. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 33 — ENVIRONMENT DESIGN Creation of a compelling digital environment from concept to realization. Apply foundation art fundamentals such as perspective, drawing, storytelling, painting, creating atmosphere, establishing lighting, and how we can combine all these different elements into a full scene. Create digital assets utilizing industry standard software and hardware. --- # IMA 35 — LIVE EVENT DESIGN AND PROJECTION MAPPING Live Interactive Events and Design concentrates on developing skills for creating electronic art and interactive events. Entry level course for artists who want to build interactive media events like those seen at popular venues like Burning Man and Music Concerts. Entrepreneurs can use these skills to create smaller scale projection mapped displays for weddings and events. Students experiment with industry standard projection mapping and audio design, with introduction to various input and output devices for live interactive events. No prior digital art experience necessary. --- # IMA 40 — INTRODUCTION TO GAME DESIGN Character Design and Layout concetrates on the concept design stage of media production. This 2D course studies traditional character and layout design. --- # IMA 46 — CONCEPT DESIGN AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Concept Design and Artificial Intelligence studies designing a blueprint for constructing 3D worlds for immersive environments. Topics include applying Artificial Intelligence to enhance concept generation of ideas and creating mood boards, color schema designs and supporting media to convey a story construct. Emphasis is placed on manipulating the eye in an interactive environment, researching a cohesive world, and color as mood. --- # IMA 79 — CHARACTER DESIGN AND LAYOUT Character Design and Layout analyzes the concept design stage of game production. This is a critical stage of game production, as all employee hiring decisions and schedules are then built off of decisions made at this stage of pre-production. --- # IMA 88 — 3D CHARACTER ANIMATION II This course focuses on intermediate skills in 3D character animation and an introduction to motion capture. Students advance their skills in 3d animation, to include character weight, advanced arcs, overlapping action, and dual character interaction. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 89 — MOTION CAPTURE AND BASIC RIGGING FOR 3D MEDIA Create fast and effective animation with motion capture, with a baseline understanding of how rigging contributes to successful motion capture. Rigging is a term used for 'making the 3D character animatable by building bones'. Students learn how to rig the face, body, and apply necessary movement constraints so that they understand how to move and edit motion capture data. Students also use available basic rigs for motion capture. Students will practice creating and editing motion capture for use in 3D media using motion capture suits and industry standard software. Student projects will focu… --- # IMA 90 — ORGANIC MODELING This course teaches modeling in a more sculptural software, Zbrush. IMA 90 is a course in 3D modeling as it pertains to constructing digital art assets for virtual worlds and fabricated physical objects. Course content covers 3D modeling and design from concept to finished projects for virtual worlds and physical product. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 94 — PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN This course covers the development and presentation of an Environmental Design portfolio and team driven project. Emphasis is on the selection of appropriate work, conceptual improvement, and methods of presentation, including digital and traditional formats. Students will complete a professional resume, cover letter, and artist's statement suitable for transfer or the job market. In addition, student will participate in a team project wherein they create an interactive media project in a professional production environment. --- # IMA 96 — 2D ANIMATION PRINCIPLES This course is an introduction to 2D character design and animation from concept to finished projects for interactive media arts related industries. Topics include the principles of animation as they pertain to a hand drawn object or character. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 98 — 3D MODELING FOR GAMES AND FILM This course is an introduction to 3D modeling from concept to finished projects for video and the Web. Topics include character design and modeling, prop design and modeling, and creating 3D environments. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 99 — VIRTUAL FILM PRODUCTION IN A GAME ENGINE This course is a study of game engine specific digital filmmaking from concept to finished project for virtual reality, pre-visualization or theatrical release. Students will learn to create and tell a story within a virtual world. Topics include environmental design, animation, lighting, editing and particle systems as they relate to a linear story. Students will design and build environments. Student projects will focus on developing conceptual and artistic skills using industry-standard software applications. --- # IMA 100 — INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE MEDIA ARTS AND DESIGN In this introductory course we will create a digital world with interactive events. No programming, modeling, or gaming experience is required. Through workshops, readings, lectures, critiques, and discussions, evaluation of the role interactivity plays in forming our understanding of what is technically possible, and what is artistically achievable (or not) in current and future interactive media. Interactive Media Art is a new focus in the arts wherein a game engine allows the player to communicate with art using a platform based on Artificial Intelligence, digital art asset creation, story… --- # IMA 191 — PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT This course covers the development and presentation of a professional interactive media arts portfolio for game level design. Emphasis is on the selection of appropriate work, conceptual improvement, and methods of presentation, including digital and traditional formats. Students will complete a professional resume, cover letter, and artist's statement suitable for transfer or the job market. In addition, student will participate in a team project wherein they create an interactive media art project in a professional production environment. --- # IMA 192 — PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT - 3D ANIMATION This course covers the development and presentation of a 3D animation / motion capture portfolio and team driven project. Emphasis is on the selection of appropriate work, conceptual improvement, and methods of presentation, including digital and traditional formats. Students will complete a professional resume, cover letter, and artist's statement suitable for transfer or the job market. In addition, student will participate in a team project wherein they create an interactive media project in a professional production environment. --- # IMA 193 — PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT - 2D MOTION This course covers the development and presentation of a professional fine art and graphic design portfolio. Emphasis is on the selection of appropriate work, conceptual improvement, and methods of presentation, including digital and traditional formats. Students will complete a professional resume, cover letter, and artist's statement suitable for transfer or the job market. In addition, student will participate in a team project wherein they create an interactive media art project in a professional production environment. --- # JA 1 — BEGINNING JAPANESE I This course is designed to develop the fundamentals of communicating in Japanese, including listening comprehension, reading, writing, and basic conversation. The emphasis is on the comprehension of native spoken and written Japanese. The course introduces reading and writing Japanese syllabic symbols and selected Kanji characters. It also presents general aspects of Japanese daily life and culture. Throughout the course, grammar plays a supportive role in the acquisition of basic competency in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Japanese. JA 1 is equivalent to two years of high sch… --- # JA 1H — BEGINNING JAPANESE I HONORS This honors course is designed to develop the fundamentals of communicating in Japanese, including listening, comprehension, reading, writing, and basic conversation. The emphasis is on the comprehension of native spoken and written Japanese. The course introduces reading and writing Japanese syllabic symbols and selected kanji characters. It also presents general aspects of Japanese culture. Throughout the course, grammar plays a supportive role in the acquisition of basic competency in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Japanese. This honors course will be enriched through limite… --- # JA 2 — BEGINNING JAPANESE II This course is designed to expand the fundamentals of communicating in Japanese, including listening comprehension, reading, writing, and basic conversation. Emphasis is on the comprehension of native spoken and written Japanese. Throughout the course, grammar plays a supportive role in the acquisition of basic competency in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Japanese. The course expands upon Japanese syllabic symbols and selected kanji characters. It also presents general aspects of Japanese daily life and culture. Credit may be earned in either JA 2 or 2H, but not both. --- # JA 2H — BEGINNING JAPANESE II HONORS This honors course is designed to expand the fundamentals of communicating in Japanese, including listening comprehension, reading, writing, and basic conversation. Emphasis is on the comprehension of native spoken and written Japanese. Throughout the course, grammar plays a supportive role in the acquisition of basic competency in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Japanese. The course expands upon Japanese syllabic symbols and selected kanji characters. It also presents aspects of Japanese daily life and culture. JA 2H is enriched with more rigorous writing assignments, research… --- # JA 3 — INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE I This course is designed to develop further the students' abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and expand their vocabulary and mastery of approximately 230 Kanji characters. There will be increased emphasis on complex sentence structures and idiomatic expressions, as well as on Japanese history and culture. JA 3 is taught in Japanese. --- # JA 4 — INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE II This course is designed to refine the students' abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing with continued emphasis on complex sentence structures, idiomatic expressions, mastery of approximately 320 Kanji characters, and Japanese history and culture. JA 4 is taught in Japanese. --- # JA 10 — INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATIONAL JAPANESE This course is designed to develop fluency in Japanese on various levels of expression. Conversations are centered on topics including current events, politics, cinemas, art, literature, theater, and other aspects of Japan and Japanese culture. --- # JA 21 — INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE CULTURE This course covers various aspects of Japanese culture. Areas of study include geography, history, literature, art, philosophy, religion, and customs of Japan. Students will study a variety of materials to discuss Japanese culture and its relationship to other cultures of the world. The class is taught in English, and no knowledge of Japanese is required. --- # JA 21H — INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE CULTURE HONORS This course covers various aspects of Japanese culture. Areas of study include geography, history, literature, art, philosophy, religion, and customs of Japan. Students will study a variety of materials to discuss Japanese culture and its relationship to other cultures of the world. This JA 21H is enriched with extended reading and an additional writing project based on a novel, providing a deeper understanding of Japanese culture. The class is taught in English, and no knowledge of Japanese is required. Credit offered in JA 21 or JA 21H, but not for both. --- # JA 23 — JAPANESE ANIME AND MANGA This course examines, analyzes, and discusses central themes and topics in Japanese culture and society through the lens of Japanese animation (anime) and printed cartoons/graphic novels (manga). Students also look into the work of key anime and manga artists to gain an insight into the evolution of these genres and how they have impacted the development of global popular culture. The class is taught in English. --- # JA 23H — JAPANESE ANIME AND MANGA HONORS This course examines, analyzes, and discusses central themes and topics in Japanese culture and society through the lens of Japanese animation (anime) and printed cartoons/graphic novels (manga). Students also look into the work of key anime and manga artists to gain an insight into the evolution of these genres and how they have impacted the development of global popular culture. This JA 23H is enriched with a guided research project to synthesize the lesson contents and apply the newly gained knowledge and skills to the analysis of an anime/manga phenomenon of student's choice. The class is… --- # JRNL 41 — NEWSWRITING This course focuses on newswriting and reporting for print, broadcast, and online media. Central topics include methods of newsgathering, interpreting significant news events, organizing and writing articles, using appropriate news style, and techniques of in-depth reporting. C-ID: JOUR 110 --- # KNEA 1 — ADAPTED PERSONALIZED FITNESS This fitness class stresses strength, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, balance, and gait. It is designed for students who have participated in physical therapy or have a chronic medical diagnosis, or permanent disability. --- # KNEA 2 — ADAPTED YOGA This course is designed for those with a chronic medical diagnosis or pain, permanent disability, or have participated in physical therapy or rehabilitation. It will focus on Yoga poses that are individualized to meet goals, abilities and limitations. For example, learning the poses takes into account postural alignment, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscular body balance, mobility and stabilization. The use of props such as: pillows, wedges, blankets, various sizes of yoga blocks, straps, pads, mats are incorporated into the class to modify Yoga poses according to the individual's needs.… --- # KNEA 3 — ADAPTED STRETCHING AND CORE TRAINING This course is designed for students with a chronic medical diagnosis, or pain, permanent disability, or who have participated in physical therapy. It will focus on training exercises from various methods to improve flexibility and the core based upon the student's goals and individual abilities and limitations . --- # KNES 3A — LIFE FITNESS CENTER I This combination lecture/lab course is designed to develop and encourage healthy attitudes and habits with regard to cardiovascular efficiency, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. The course covers the safe use of exercise equipment, the components of a balanced fitness program, basic nutrition, and pre- and post-testing of physical fitness. Students use state-of-the-art weight-training and cardiovascular equipment to enhance their fitness levels. --- # KNES 3B — LIFE FITNESS CENTER II This combination lecture/lab course is designed to develop and encourage healthy attitudes and habits with regard to cardiovascular efficiency, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. The course covers the safe use of exercise equipment, the components of a balanced fitness program, basic nutrition, and pre- and post-testing of physical fitness. Students use state-of-the-art weight-training and cardiovascular equipment to enhance their fitness levels. --- # KNES 3C — LIFE FITNESS CENTER III This combination lecture/lab course is designed to develop and encourage healthy attitudes and habits with regard to cardiovascular efficiency, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. The course covers the safe use of exercise equipment, the components of a balanced fitness program, basic nutrition, and pre- and post-testing of physical fitness. Students use state-of-the-art weight-training and cardiovascular equipment to enhance their fitness levels. --- # KNES 4 — WEIGHT TRAINING I This course introduces the basic principles related to the acquisition of muscular strength and endurance. The course addresses the physiological adaptations that occur as a result of strength training. Students will explore training techniques as well as available equipment. KNES 4 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 5 — WEIGHT TRAINING II This course is designed to help students develop their physical strength through weight lifting. Students practice advanced methods and techniques of weight lifting and develop an individual program to improve their strength. KNES 5 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 6 — WEIGHT TRAINING III This course presents the principles and properties of a physiologically sound strength-training program, focusing on advanced modes of training. Students create a personalized workout regimen that includes free weights, machines, medicine balls, plyometrics, circuit training, and conditioning. KNES 6 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 7 — WEIGHT TRAINING IV This course reviews weight training principles and introduces powerlifting including equipment and safety techniques. Instruction includes proper protocols to successfully execute basic explosive and powerlifting exercises as well as nutritional factors related to individual strength and fitness performance. KNES 7 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 10 — INTRODUCTION TO SPORT PSYCHOLOGY This course provides a thorough introduction to the principles of psychology as applied to the area of sport. The course explores individual personality differences and team dynamics as they apply to sporting performance; psychological techniques to enhance performance (hypnosis, cognitive-behavioral, imagery); and the profile of the "mentally tough" athletic. Students explore mental training techniques and create applied performance routines. KNES 10 was formerly offered as KNES 101. --- # KNES 11 — BADMINTON I This course introduces the official singles and doubles games of badminton at the beginning level. Students practice basic strokes, footwork, strategies, rules, scoring, and court etiquette. KNES 11 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 12 — BADMINTON II This course is designed to develop intermediate-level skills in both singles and doubles games. Students focus on individual stroke analysis, offensive and defensive strategies, court coverage, and match play in order to encourage a more powerful game. KNES 12 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 13 — BADMINTON III This course is designed to help the advanced badminton students improve specific skills and strategies in both singles and doubles games. Students work on refining their strokes and on analyzing/playing to their individual and team strengths and opponents' weaknesses. KNES 13 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 15 — CORE TRAINING I This course introduces basic core-training techniques, equipment and exercises. Students practice aerobic and anaerobic exercises to improve core strength, flexibility, and overall fitness. --- # KNES 16 — CORE TRAINING II This course incorporates additional core movement exercises to build core strength, coordination, balance, and flexibility. Students refine their technique and build a training program to address personal fitness goals. --- # KNES 17 — CORE TRAINING III This course is designed to improve the athlete's core strength, coordination, balance, quickness, and agility. Emphasis will be placed on medicine ball and bosu ball training for muscle enhancement to maximize performance. --- # KNES 20 — BEGINNING GOLF This course introduces golf techniques, rules and etiquette. Students practice chipping, putting and golfing strategies, and incorporate these skills in playing a round of golf. Students are responsible for balls, green fees and clubs. KNES 20 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 22 — INTERMEDIATE GOLF This course presents intermediate-level ball-striking techniques, golf rules and course etiquette. Students study and practice chipping, putting, and hitting at the local driving range/practice facility with all clubs allowed in a competitive round of golf. Students are responsible for balls, golf clubs, and range fees. KNES 22 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 23 — ADVANCED GOLF This course provides training for those seeking improvement in their golf technique and knowledge. Emphasis is on developing ball-striking skills, and on scorecard evaluation, strategy, course management, and proper application of the rules of golf. Students are responsible for balls, golf clubs, and range fees. --- # KNES 25 — TENNIS I This course introduces the official singles and doubles games at the beginning level. It also provides an exercise program for those striving for a healthy lifetime activity. Students practice forehand and backhand strokes, serves, basic strategies, footwork, scoring, and court etiquette. Students must provide a racquet and two cans of tennis balls. KNES 25 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 26 — TENNIS II This course is designed to help the intermediate tennis student improve fundamental skills, analyze weaknesses, and practice offensive and defensive strategies in singles and doubles/mixed doubles games. It will emphasize game play, development of tactics, and court coverage to encourage a more powerful game. Students must provide a racquet and two cans of tennis balls. KNES 26 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 27 — TENNIS III This course is designed to help the advanced tennis student improve specific skills and strategies. Students work on refining their serves, strokes, and specialty shots, and on analyzing/playing to their individual and team strengths and opponents' weaknesses. Students must provide a racquet and two cans of tennis balls. KNES 27 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 28 — TENNIS IV This course is designed to help the advanced tennis student improve specific skills and strategies in competitive game situations. KNES 28 may be taken a maximum of once for 1 unit. --- # KNES 32 — INTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES This course provides an opportunity for students to participate in individual and team sports. Sports offered vary by semester and may include volleyball, soccer, tennis, basketball, and golf. This course is taught on a pass/no-pass basis only. KNES 32 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 40 — PICKLEBALL I This course introduces the official singles and doubles games at the beginning level. It also provides an exercise program for those striving for a healthy lifetime activity. Students practice forehand and backhand strokes, serves, basic strategies, footwork, scoring, and court etiquette. --- # KNES 41 — PICKLEBALL II This course is designed to help the intermediate pickleball student improve fundamental skills, analyze weaknesses, and practice offensive and defensive strategies in singles and doubles/mixed doubles games. It will emphasize game play, development of tactics, and court coverage to encourage a more powerful game. KNES 41 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 42 — PICKLEBALL III This course is designed to help the advanced pickleball student improve specific skills and strategies. Students work on refining their serves, strokes, and specialty shots, and on analyzing/playing to their individual and team strengths and opponents' weaknesses. Knes 42 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 43 — PICKLEBALL IV This course is designed to help the advanced pickleball student improve specific skills and strategies in competitive game situations. KNES 43 may be taken a maximum of once for 1 unit. --- # KNES 61 — BASKETBALL I This course focuses on developing basic basketball skills and preparing students for beginning team play. KNES 61 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 62 — BASKETBALL II This course focuses on developing intermediate basketball skills and preparing students for team play. KNES 62 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 63 — BASKETBALL III This course is designed for players who have mastered the fundamental skills, strategies, and rules of basketball and seek to develop advanced-level physical and mental skills for competitive play. In addition to refining offensive and defensive skills, students analyze game tactics and evaluate strategies for strengthening personal and team performance. KNES 63 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 64 — BASKETBALL IV KNES 64 provides instruction at an advanced level in the rules, strategies and skills of basketball for students refining their skills in competitive play. Includes round-robin play during the last half of the semester. --- # KNES 65 — FLAG FOOTBALL I This course introduces the official game of flag football, including basic rules, techniques of throwing, receiving, handoffs, proper blocking, and carrying the football --- # KNES 66 — FLAG FOOTBALL II This course is designed to strengthen fundamental flag football skills. Emphasis is on scrimmages and applying offensive and defensive group strategies in competitive play. The course also introduces tactical strategies for each player, offensive running backs, wide receivers, quarterbacks, offensive line, and defensive line --- # KNES 67 — FLAG FOOTBALL III Focuses on refining flag football skills and tactics for the individual, group and team. --- # KNES 68 — FLAG FOOTBALL IV The course focuses on refining advanced flag football skills and game tactics for the individual, group and team. Students practice throwing, catching, and carrying football skills, and apply more sophisticated offensive and defensive strategies in game situations. Advanced defensive skills and concepts such as coverage, blitzes and pass pushing. --- # KNES 71 — SOCCER I This course introduces the official game of soccer, including basic techniques of shooting, passing, receiving, crossing, heading, kicking, dribbling, trapping and shielding. Students practice fundamental rules, scoring, and strategies. --- # KNES 72 — SOCCER II This course is designed to strengthen fundamental soccer skills. Emphasis is on scrimmages and applying offensive and defensive group strategies in competitive play. The course also introduces tactical strategies for each player: forwards, midfielders, fullbacks, and goalkeepers. --- # KNES 73 — SOCCER III This course focuses on refining soccer skills and game tactics for the individual, group, and team. Students practice ball-juggling skills and apply more sophisticated offensive, mid-field and defensive strategies in game situations. The course also covers injury prevention and safety. --- # KNES 74 — SOCCER IV This course is designed for players who have mastered the fundamental skills, strategies, and rules of soccer and seek to develop advanced-level physical and mental skills for competitive play. In addition to refining offensive and defensive skills, students analyze game tactics and evaluate strategies for strengthening personal and team performance. KNES 74 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 76 — VOLLEYBALL I This course introduces the fundamental strategies and skills of volleyball, including setting, passing, spiking, blocking, and serving, as well as the beginning concepts of team and tournament play. KNES 76 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 77 — VOLLEYBALL II This course gives intermediate students an opportunity to improve their volleyball skills. Students practice passing, setting, hitting, serving and blocking, as well as basic offensive and defensive systems of play. The course includes discussions of rules and strategy. KNES 77 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 78 — VOLLEYBALL III This course presents advanced volleyball techniques and tactics for team and tournament play. The course offers advanced skills, court positioning, defensive techniques, and team strategy, both offensive and defensive. KNES 78 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 79 — VOLLEYBALL IV This course is designed for advanced level volleyball players who wish to further develop technique and enhance their individual skills and team strategies. Course includes offensive and defensive systems. KNES 79 may be taken once for a maximum of 1 unit. --- # KNES 81 — BASEBALL I This course introduces the fundamental skills, base positions, safety considerations, and strategies of baseball. Emphasis is on individual skill development in game settings, including batting, bunting, throwing, case running, and fielding techniques; offensive and defensive situations; and associated game rules. --- # KNES 82 — BASEBALL II This course is designed to develop intermediate-level baseball skills. The course presents tactical strategies for batters, runners, basemen, catchers, pitchers, and outfield players. Emphasis is on applying appropriate offensive and defensive strategies in practical game situations. --- # KNES 83 — BASEBALL III This course is designed for players who have mastered the fundamental skills, strategies, and rules of baseball and seek to develop advanced-level physical and mental skills for competitive play. In addition to refining offensive and defensive skills (throwing, catching, fielding, hitting, bunting, base running, pitching, and sliding), students analyze game tactics and evaluate strategies for strengthening personal and team performance. --- # KNES 84 — BASEBALL IV This course focuses on developing offensive and defensive techniques and skills for the advanced player. --- # KNES 85 — INTRODUCTION TO ATHLETIC TRAINING This course studies both the theory and the practice of preventing, recognizing, and rehabilitating common athletic injuries. Students gain practical experience in basic taping, wrapping, and bracing. The course is designed to assist athletic training majors, physical therapy majors, kinesiology majors, coaches, and athletes. --- # KNES 86 — THEORY OF COACHING This generic foundations course is designed for individuals interested in coaching sports at various levels. The course examines the philosophy of coaching; the role and responsibilities of the modern coach; techniques for motivating and communicating with athletes; principles and methods of training; developing and organizing sports programs; nutrition for health and performance; and managing injuries and emergencies. --- # KNES 93 — MOVEMENT ANATOMY This course, part of the Fitness Professional Certificate Program, discusses movement as it relates to exercise and sports. The course examines the composition, structure, function and movements of bones and joints; the structure and actions of skeletal muscle; and the practical application of kinesiological principles in developing structurally sound exercise program. --- # KNES 94 — EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY This course, part of the Fitness Professional Certificate Program, examines how the body functions under conditions of exercise stress. Students will study the practical implications of muscle function, cardiorespiratory and hormonal function; metabolism; body composition, training techniques; and the influence of the environment on exercise. --- # KNES 95 — PRINCIPLES OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING This course, part of the Fitness Professional Certificate Program, provides a thorough review of the structure, action and performance of skeletal muscle for those intending to teach strength training. The course studies anatomy and physiology; muscular strength and endurance; flexibility; training sequences; available equipment; and safety factors, including contraindications. --- # KNES 96 — DRUGS, HEALTH AND SOCIETY This course provides an overview of the epidemiology and toxicology of substance abuse and its relevance to personal and public health. Students will be introduced to the different categories of drugs: licit and illicit, over-the-counter, prescription and illegal “recreational drugs.” Drugs and their relationship to a person’s health and well being will be discussed. The motivation to use, misuse and abuse of drugs, substance abuse and dependency, family concerns, identification of drugs, law enforcement and addiction intervention methods, and current options for recovery will be covered. C-I… --- # KNES 97 — SOCIAL-CULTURAL ISSUES IN SPORT This course will explore past, current, and future trends of social-cultural issues in sport. Students will receive a hands on, integrated educational experience to enhance their professional skills and knowledge. Literature, discussions, and multi-media presentations will be used to survey how social-cultural issues impact sports and society. Students will engage in discussion and debate over topics such as media's role in sports, gender equity, racial barriers, concussions, performance enhancing drugs, women in sports, fantasy sports, ESports, along with a number of other social-cultural is… --- # KNES 98 — SPORTS APPRECIATION This course will explore past, current and future trends of sports and their impact on society. This course will give students hands-on integrated educational experience to enhance their professional skills and knowledge. Literature, discussions, multi-media presentations and video content will be used to survey the evolution of sports and social issues. Topics will focus on the interaction of sport in the areas of youth, high school, college and professional athletics, athletes with disabilities, politics, sexual/gender orientation, women, e-sports, doping, local sport, extreme sports, end o… --- # KNES 99 — INTRODUCTION TO KINESIOLOGY An introductory course to the interdisciplinary approach to the study of human movement. An overview of the importance of the sub-disciplines in kinesiology will be discussed along with career opportunities in the areas of teaching, coaching, allied health, and fitness professions. C-ID: KIN 100 --- # KNES 100 — INTRODUCTION TO THERAPY AND CAREER EXPLORATION OF REHABILITATION Designed to provide information and practical experience to students pursuing a career in physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreation therapy, adapted physical education, speech pathology or other health care fields that work with special populations. TBA hours to be completed in adapted kinesiology program or related settings. --- # KNES 101 — INTRODUCTION TO SPORTS MANAGEMENT Introduction to the field of sports management: career opportunities, human resource management, leadership, strategic planning, teamwork, ethics and values, marketing and advertising, finance, managing facilities, sports and the law, economics of sport and community impact. --- # KNES 106 — EXERCISE TESTING AND PRESCRIPTION This course is a part of the Fitness Professional Certificate Program. A review of tests for determination of muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body composition and aerobic endurance for normal adults. Study of the application of exercise guidelines for normal adults based upon the standards of the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine. --- # KNES 107 — TEACHING TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION SPORTS/MOVEMENTS This course prepares students with the skills of teaching progressions and sport specific teaching strategies for traditional team sports of volleyball, basketball, soccer, softball and football. The knowledge base will also include histories, skills, rules, and how to meet the state content standards. Appropriate teaching strategies are intended to promote active participation and experiential learning. This course is intended to prepare students who may want to become physical education teachers at the secondary school level. --- # KNES 212 — SPORTS MEDICINE INTERNSHIP I This course provides practical instruction of the introductory skills in the prevention, recognition, and rehabilitation of common athletic injuries. It affords students the opportunity to study and apply athletic training techniques by assisting the IVC Sports Medicine staff working with the intercollegiate athletic teams. Students will be assessed based on evaluation standards established by the university undergraduate Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP). KNES 213 (integration of skills) and KNES 214 (mastery of skills) complete the recognized ATEP sequence. --- # KNES 213 — SPORTS MEDICINE INTERNSHIP II This course is second in a three-part sequence based on the recognized university undergraduate Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP). It applies the skills introduced in KNES 212 by providing practical instruction in the integration of skills in the prevention, recognition, and rehabilitation of common athletic injuries. It affords students the opportunity to study and apply athletic training techniques by assisting the IVC Sports Medicine staff working with the intercollegiate athletic teams. Students will be assessed based on evaluation standards established by ATEP. KNES 214 (mastery… --- # KNES 214 — SPORTS MEDICINE INTERNSHIP III This course is third in a three-part sequence based on the recognized university undergraduate Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP). Students will concentrate on mastering the skills used in the prevention, recognition, and rehabilitation of common athletic injuries. It affords students the opportunity to study and apply athletic training techniques by assisting the IVC Sports Medicine staff working with the intercollegiate athletic teams. Students will be assessed based on evaluation standards established by ATEP. --- # KNES 215 — FITNESS PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP This course is designed to provide students with practical experience in screening individuals for risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Students perform physical testing and formulate an individualized exercise prescription based on fitness testing parameters. --- # LGL 11 — ADMINISTRATIVE LAW This course presents the constitutional, legal, and administrative principles that regulate activities of administrative agencies, on both the state and federal level. Substantive topics will include administrative delegation of power, rule making, agency discretionary powers, remedies, and judicial review. LGL 11 was formerly offered as LGL 211. --- # LGL 15 — ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY This course presents fundamental concepts of environmental law with an emphasis on policy considerations. Topics include significant legislation in the area with emphasis on California law. Also covered will be ethical issues dealing with environmental concerns. --- # LGL 21 — SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LAW In this course, students will examine U.S. law and regulation of governing mass media, from print to the Internet. Students will also examine the ethical conflicts faced by media professionals. Topics include: freedom of speech, citizen journalism, defamation, privacy, copyright, obscenity, truth, ethics, social media and advertising. This course will help prepare future media producers to work in industries that have significant influence over society. LGL 21 was formerly offered as LGL 221. --- # LGL 101 — INTRODUCTION TO PARALEGAL STUDIES AND ETHICS This course explores the dynamic of working as a paralegal, career opportunities in the legal environment, and the skills necessary to succeed in the field. Focus is on rules of ethics and the ethical guidelines that paralegals must follow. Topics include identifying career opportunities, performing legal investigations, evaluating sources, investigating facts and applying rules to facts, interviewing clients, witnesses, and experts, understanding discovery documents, providing litigation assistance, researching the law, drafting legal documents using computer software to conduct research and… --- # LGL 102 — COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONIC RESEARCH This course introduces computer software used in law offices and other legal environments including Microsoft Office, calendaring, billing, docketing and indexing programs. Includes training in the use of electronic methods of performing research. --- # LGL 103 — BUSINESS LAW CONTRACTS AND TORTS This course is an introduction to laws relating to the conduct of business, with an emphasis on the role and responsibilities of the paralegal. Topics include contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code, sales of personal and real property, negotiable instruments, agency, employment, torts, liability, nuisance, ethics, and social responsibility. --- # LGL 105 — INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING This course provides instruction in the fundamentals of legal research, analysis, and writing for the paralegal. Topics include the reading and analysis of statutes; research using primary authorities, secondary sources, and computer-assisted research tools; law office writing, including transmittal and client opinion letters, pleadings, law office memorandums, case briefs, and memorandums of law; and legal citation rules. --- # LGL 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PARALEGAL STUDIES This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # LGL 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PARALEGAL STUDIES This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # LGL 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PARALEGAL STUDIES This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # LGL 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PARALEGAL STUDIES This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements or a certificate. --- # LGL 206A — CIVIL LITIGATION I This course introduces civil law processes and procedures with an emphasis on the role of the paralegal in civil litigation investigation, jurisdiction, pleadings, and discovery. Topics include evidence gathering and investigation, jurisdiction, venue identification, initiation of civil proceedings, drafting the complaint, filing a lawsuit, defending and testing a lawsuit, and discovery procedures. --- # LGL 206B — CIVIL LITIGATION II This course continues the study of litigation processes and procedures, focusing on the role of the paralegal in civil litigation. Topics include motions, subpoenas, trial preparation, alternative dispute resolution, settlement, trial procedures, dismissal, judgment, and judgment enforcement. --- # LGL 208 — WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES This course provides an introduction to wills, trusts, and estates and the role of the paralegal/legal assistant in estate planning and administration, and probate. Topics include wills, intestacy, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, advance directives, incapacitation, estate planning, taxation, probate procedures, and ethical considerations. --- # LGL 209 — BANKRUPTCY This course provides an overview of bankruptcy laws and processes from the perspective of both the debtor and the creditor. Students review the Bankruptcy Code and Rule, debtor relief, bankruptcy litigation, liquidation, creditor claims, and reorganization proceedings. The course covers the paralegal's responsibilities in researching and preparing legal documents related to bankruptcy. --- # LGL 210 — INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY This course examines the different types of intellectual property ("IP"), the law associated with IP, and the paralegal's role including registration, prosecution, maintenance, protection, enforcement, and other controversies surrounding IP, such as infringement and dilution. The course will cover trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. Students will analyze different types of IP, learn how to protect IP in the U.S. and internationally, prosecute applications, maintain registration, protect IP, and enforcement of IP rights. The course includes an assessment of legal definitions, l… --- # LGL 212 — APPLIED PARALEGAL STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY This course serves as a capstone course for Paralegal studies. Students will utilized skills developed in previous courses. It has a technology focus and extends the paralegal student's computer knowledge to new and advanced areas of applied legal technology. Topics include advanced functions of Word Processing software, spreadsheet software and Adobe Acrobat professional; Legal timekeeping and billing. --- # LGL 213 — LEGAL ETHICS An examination of ethical regulations, considerations and responsibilities facing legal professionals including legal assistants and paralegals. Focus will be on the unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, conflicts of interest and evolving ethical issues within the legal profession. --- # LGL 220 — FAMILY LAW This course will present an overview of the law relating to dissolution of marriage, separation, annulment, paternity, custody, guardianship and adoption. Students will be expected to understand substantive and procedural aspects of the law presented. Students will draft a complaint, a judgment, and a motion. --- # LGL 222 — FORENSIC SCIENCE AND THE LAW Science has a unique role in the criminal justice system. This course covers interactions between law enforcement, scientists, and legal professionals in the evaluation of crime scenes. It reviews the procedures of those professionals and the legal implications of evidence from crime scenes. --- # LGL 240 — CANNABIS LAW & POLICY This course will introduce the student to the policies and regulations of Cannabis at the state and federal level. It will also cover the development of policies regarding Hemp and Psychedelics. --- # LIB 10 — INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE RESEARCH Students are introduced to the college research process and will practice the efficient location, selection, and retrieval of high-quality information. Practicing citation formatting will help students avoid plagiarism and strengthen their writing. This course is essential for students new to college research. --- # LIB 15 — INTERMEDIATE COLLEGE RESEARCH AND INFORMATION LITERACY Students will learn college research skills so they may engage in strategic and iterative exploration of information in various contexts and modes. This class facilitates efficient location, selection, access, and acknowledgment of high-quality information. Students will extract significance from academic readings to write a critical annotated bibliography that informs an instructor-approved research inquiry. --- # LIB 20H — CRITICAL THINKING AND RESEARCH WRITING HONORS Develops critical thinking and advanced research writing through thesis-driven projects, synthesizing scholarly and professional sources. Emphasizes iterative, evidence-based writing across disciplines. Honors students create a multimedia or conference-ready research project. Credit in either LIB 20 or LIB 20H, but not both. --- # LIB 20 — CRITICAL THINKING AND RESEARCH WRITING Develops critical thinking and advanced research writing through thesis-driven projects that synthesize scholarly and professional sources. Emphasizes iterative, evidence-based writing across disciplines. Credit in either LIB 20 or LIB 20H, but not both. --- # LIT 7 — SURVEY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE This course surveys the historical and cultural development of children's literature. It focuses on critically reading and analytically responding to various forms of children's literature beginning with the oral tradition and its multicultural roots and extending to contemporary texts. The course reviews the social, emotional, and cognitive role literature plays for children. Course topics include the history of children's literature, literary genres, dominant elements and conventions, mainstream and academic responses to children's literature, and criteria for evaluating and books for child… --- # LIT 10 — CREATIVE WRITING PUBLICATION AND PODCAST PRODUCTION This course provides professional skills in producing a creative writing and visual arts publication and its accompanying podcast. In the Fall, students appraise and select creative submissions for the publication and learn to use the software associated with this practice. Submissions are examined by genre and literary or artistic technique and then workshopped. For the podcast, students identify sources for audio interviews and record, edit, and design episode content. Students create and market the publication, including networking with professional creative writers. LIT10 is intended to b… --- # LIT 11 — CREATIVE WRITING PUBLICATION AND PODCAST PRODUCTION This course gives students professional skills in producing a creative writing and visual arts publication and an accompanying podcast. In the Spring, students learn to use graphic design software to create both print and digital book products. Students converse with artists and writers regarding edits, proofs, and marketing. For the podcast, students identify sources for audio interviews and record, edit, and design episode content. Students create and market the publication, including networking with professional creative writers. LIT10 is intended to be taken during the Fall semester, and… --- # LIT 16 — SURVEY IN CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE NONFICTION Surveys contemporary creative nonfiction through critically reading and analytically responding to various forms of the genre including but not limited to memoir, essay, literary journalism, and audio storytelling. The course reviews definitions of creative nonfiction, dominant narrative and structural elements consistent across forms, and the ethical considerations related to limitations of memory, subjectivity, and writing creatively while adhering to fact. --- # LIT 20 — SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1776 This course offers a general introduction to and survey of the history of literature written in the British Isles from the pre-Norman period to the American Revolution. Emphasis is placed on major (influential or otherwise significant) texts and authors; intellectual and historical contexts within which literary works arose; the development of literary traditions, conventions, and genres; and the emergence of a "national" literature. C-ID: ENGL 160 --- # LIT 21 — BRITISH LITERATURE FROM BLAKE TO THE PRESENT This course examines the major genres, issues, and themes central to the study of British literature from the rise of English Romanticism to late modern and contemporary British authors and texts. Students study Romanticism, Victorian literature, Modernism, post-war disillusion, and British literary culture since the Second World War, and examine the social and cultural contexts that shape the development and characteristics of these literary movements. C-ID: ENGL 165 --- # LIT 22 — AMERICAN LITERATURE TO TWAIN This course examines the genesis of American literary traditions and what, in the views of diverse observers, it meant to be an American. The course surveys American literature from the narratives of exploration and encounter through the captivity narratives and sermons of the Colonial period; covers the political treatises and self-examination of the Enlightenment and Federalist period; and culminates in the Romanticism of the mid-nineteenth century with consideration of dominant and alternative voices. C-ID: ENGL 130 --- # LIT 23 — AMERICAN LITERATURE: TWAIN TO THE PRESENT Surveys the rich cultural diversity of American literature from Twain through the present. Literary selections represent the distinctively American treatment of such genres as tales, slave narratives, essays, drama, poetry, short fiction, and novels. The course examines the textual features and thematic concerns of the literature of Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism, Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Post-war period, Post-modernism, and the Contemporary period, and considers the historical and intellectual influences on the development of this literature. The course also addresses varieti… --- # LIT 24 — CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Literature 24 examines the work of selected contemporary writers from various traditions, media, and cultures. Emphasis is on contemporary writers from the fifties through today in fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Students will study these writings from a recent historical perspective to determine major themes and concerns of contemporary literature. --- # LIT 30 — INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL Literature 30 introduces the novel, exploring its history, variations, flexibility and limitations as a literary genre. Students read from a variety of major novels--classic to contemporary and from a variety of cultures--in order to study the diversity of novelistic form and content and to discuss the various uses of and critical approaches to the form. --- # LIT 31 — INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION This course studies short fiction from its classical origins to the short stories of contemporary authors. Students examine representative short stories within diverse historical, cultural, and literary traditions, and analyze how writers use central conventions and combine major elements of fiction such as plot, character and setting to establish theme and achieve desired narrative effect. --- # LIT 32 — INTRODUCTION TO POETRY This course is an introductory, historical study of the poetry of various cultures from antiquity to the present. The course introduces poetic conventions and traditions as well as terms and concepts fundamental to the study of poetry, as drawn from prosody, rhetoric, aesthetics, and criticism. In addition, the course explores important movements and essential concerns in the history of poetics. --- # LIT 33 — INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA This course surveys the development of drama and dramatic texts from Greek antiquity through contemporary drama. Students critically read then analytically respond to plays and other dramatic works reflecting a diversity of dramatic periods, traditions, and movements; genres, conventions, and themes; and concerns central to the study of drama. The course emphasizes how students might interpret and argue meaning of a text within historical, social, and literary contexts. --- # LIT 43 — INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE This course provides a close study of William Shakespeare's dramatic work, including early and late plays selected from the histories, comedies, tragedies, satires, and romances. The course emphasizes Shakespeare's variety and development as a dramatic artist. Consideration is given to the social, cultural, and political milieu from which the plays emerged, as well as to the role, function, and performance of dramatic literature within Elizabethan and Jacobean England. --- # LIT 45 — GENDER IN LITERATURE Literature 45 examines how poems, novels, short stories, essays, drama, and other literary forms from various historical periods and cultures reflect a variety of gender expectations and performances. Students will analyze literature as a means to uncover cultural values and norms related to masculinity, femininity, transgender, and queer and non-binary genders. Emphasis is on major themes and issues of gender, including the ways that gender intersects with other identity categories, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and ability in literary works. This comprehensive literary study… --- # LIT 46 — ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES This course examines the literature of a historically underrepresented ethnic group whose identity and concerns are traditionally ignored or stereotyped by the larger, dominant culture in which it exists. Special emphasis will be placed on the following:(1) the historical and social conditions which fostered the literary production(2) the relation between this literature and the traditional literary and critical canon by which it is ignored or marginalized;(3) the way the very existence of such literature challenges the validity of a traditional canon;(4) the way this literature works to defi… --- # LIT 46H — ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES HONORS LIT46H examines the literature of a historically underrepresented ethnic group whose specific concerns are often unaddressed by dominant culture. Special emphasis will be placed on the following: (1) the historical and social conditions fostering literary production (2) the relation between this literature and the traditional canon; (3) the way this literature challenges and broadens the traditional canon; (4) the way this literature defines the cultural and personal identity of subjects claiming ethnicity; and (4) the ways this literature addresses the perception of ethnic culture within the… --- # LIT 49 — POPULAR LITERATURE This course examines a specific genre or theme within the field of popular literature. Students explore the historical, socio-cultural, political, and literary contexts that foster the development of the genre or theme; the critical conversations surrounding the genre or theme; its traditional and emergent conventions; and its impact on audiences and the development of mainstream and genre literature. --- # LIT 49H — POPULAR LITERATURE HONORS Literature 49H examines a specific genre or theme within the field of popular literature. Students explore the historical, socio-cultural, political, and literary contexts that foster the development of the genre or theme; the critical conversations surrounding the genre or theme; its traditional and emergent conventions; and its impact on audiences and the development of mainstream and genre literature. The honors course is enriched through extensive reading in primary and secondary sources, a formal presentation, an essay, and/or an annotated bibliography.Credit may be earned in either LIT… --- # LIT 74 — FILM AND LITERATURE This course analyzes films adapted from literary texts, and the relationship between these films and their source texts. Students read, discuss and analyze texts in order to explore themes, issues, and literary forms used to present them, and then view, discuss, and analyze the film adaptation of the text. Emphasis will be placed on the complex relationship between film and its literary source, especially the challenges of adapting the story from a literary audience to a film audience. LIT 74 is also listed as FILM 74; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # MATH 2 — PRE-CALCULUS This course is designed for students who seek a better understanding of and preparation for mathematics prior to enrolling in a calculus course. Topics include the complex number system; elementary functions, including polynomial, rational, algebraic, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions; polar coordinates and parametric equations; relations and their graphs; and methods for solving linear and non-linear systems of equations. C-ID: MATH 155 --- # MATH 4AH — ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS III HONORS Studies vectors and parametric equations, partial differentiation, functions of two or more variables, gradients, higher-order derivatives, multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates, vector functions and their derivatives, vector fields, surface and line integrals, the theorems of Green and Stokes, and the Divergence Theorem. The honors course includes tensors, differential forms, and further applications of Physics. MATH 4A may be taken concurrently with MATH 24 or MATH 24H and/or MATH 26. C-ID: MATH 230. Credit may be earned in either MATH 4A or 4AH, but not both. --- # MATH 4A — ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS III Studies vectors and parametric equations, partial differentiation, functions of two or more variables, gradients, higher-order derivatives, multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates, vector functions and their derivatives, vector fields, surface and line integrals, the theorems of Green and Stokes, and the Divergence Theorem. MATH 4A may be taken concurrently with MATH 24 and/or MATH 26. C-ID: MATH 230. Credit may be earned in either MATH 4A or 4AH, but not both. --- # MATH 5 — MATHEMATICS FOR LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS This course provides an overview of a variety of mathematical topics including the mathematics of finance, set theory, probability, statistics, logic, critical thinking, and other selected topics. It is designed for students majoring in liberal arts, education, or communication. --- # MATH 6B — COMPUTER DISCRETE MATHEMATICS II This course is designed primarily for computer science majors. Major topics include propositional logic, proofs,recursion, combinatorics, probability, number theory, relations, graphs, trees, Boolean Algebra, and modeling computation. Previously known as MATH 31. This course is also listed as Computer Science 6B; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # MATH 6A — COMPUTER DISCRETE MATHEMATICS I This course is designed primarily for computer science majors. Areas of study include logic, proofs, basic structures, algorithms, integers, matrices, induction, recursion, counting principles, discrete probability, inclusion-exclusion, and graphs and trees. Previously known as MATH 30. This course is also listed as CS 6A; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID: COMP 152 --- # MATH 8 — COLLEGE ALGEBRA This course examines algebraic topics and elementary functions for those seeking preparation prior to enrolling in a calculus course for non-STEM majors. Course topics include equations and inequalities, relations and functions, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, matrices and determinants, sequences and series, limits, the binomial expansion, and curve sketching techniques. C-ID: MATH 150 --- # MATH 11 — A BRIEF COURSE IN CALCULUS This course focuses on the application of concepts in calculus to business, economics, and the social and biological sciences. Topics include limits, derivatives, integrals, and differential equations as applied to functions of one or more variables. The course is designed for students who need only one semester of calculus. C-ID: MATH 140 --- # MATH 17 — DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING USING R This course teaches students the tools of computation and Statistical analysis using R. Students apply methods from Statistics to analyze data sets. Using the open source software R, students learn to download, process, and manipulate large data sets. Students apply statistical methods to compute descriptive statistics, visualize data, and perform inferential analysis for data analysis. MATH 17 is also listed as CS 17; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # MATH 20 — MATHEMATICS FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS This course is designed for current and prospective teachers who seek to improve their knowledge of elementary mathematics. Topics covered include: problem-solving techniques; numeration and whole numbers; integers, rational numbers and real numbers; ratios, proportions, decimals and percents; set theory; elementary number theory. C-ID: MATH 120 --- # MATH 24 — ELEMENTARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS This course includes the study of first-order differential equations; second- and higher-order linear differential equations; equations with constant coefficients; the Laplace transform; systems of equations; series solutions; and the numerical methods of solutions with applications to physics and engineering. MATH 24 may be taken concurrently with MATH 26 or 26H and/or MATH 4A or 4AH. Credit may be earned in either MATH 24 or 24H, but not both. C-ID: MATH 240 --- # MATH 24H — ELEMENTARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS HONORS This course includes the study of first-order differential equations; second- and higher-order linear differential equations; equations with constant coefficients; the Laplace transform; systems of equations; series solutions; and the numerical methods of solutions with applications to physics and engineering. This is the Honors version of Math 24. It covers the above topics in a more rigorous manner and covers more realistic applications in greater detail. Research projects are used to explore connections with physics and engineering and to model and solve real world applications. MATH 24H m… --- # MATH 26H — INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA HONORS Studies include vectors; vector spaces and subspaces; matrices; systems of linear equations; dimension; determinants; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; and linear transformations and their applications. The honors course covers proofs and applications to Physics and Engineering. MATH 26 may be taken concurrently with MATH 24 or MATH 4A. C-ID: MATH 250. Credit may be earned in either MATH 26 or 26H, but not both. --- # MATH 26 — INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA This course introduces the concepts of linear algebra. Studies include vectors; vector spaces and subspaces; matrices; systems of linear equations; dimension; determinants; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; and linear transformations and their applications. MATH 26 or 26H may be taken concurrently with MATH 24 or 24H and MATH 4A or 4AH. C-ID: MATH 250. Credit may be earned in either MATH 26 or 26H, but not both. --- # MATH 124 — TRIGONOMETRY This course introduces circular and trigonometric functions, their inverses and interrelationships, focusing on both the unit circle and right triangle methodologies. Topics include graphing, conditional equations, laws of sines and cosines, vectors, complex numbers, polar coordinates, and DeMoivre's Theorem. C-ID: MATH 851 --- # MATH 253 — INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA This course is the continuation of elementary algebra and is intended to prepare students for subsequent math classes. It includes the study of the real number system, open sentences in one variable, polynomials, factoring, systems of linear equations, rational numbers, and functions. The course also covers irrational and complex numbers, quadratic equations and functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, and quadratic relations and systems. --- # MATH 317 — SKILLS FOR STATISTICS MATH 317 provides co-requisite skills to help students be successful in STAT C1000. MATH 317 must be taken concurrently with STAT C1000 with P/NP grading option. --- # MATH 327 — SKILLS FOR PRE-CALCULUS Math 327 provides a review of the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts for Precalculus, and is intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in Math 2, Pre-Calculus. This course includes the study of: solving linear equations, graphing points and lines on the Cartesian plane, interval notation, translating words to equations, square roots, complex numbers, polynomial algebra, factoring, completing the square, function notation, asymptotes of functions, absolute value, exponent rules, trigonometric functions, the unit circle, basic trigonometric identities, and systems of… --- # MATH 337 — SKILLS FOR STEM CALCULUS This course is a review of the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in STEM calculus. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 3A. Topics include: a review of computational skills developed in precalculus and the study of algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions. This course is appropriate for students who are confident in their algebra skills. Passing Math 337 is contingent on successfully demonstrating knowledge of transfer-level mathematical concepts covered in Math 3A. --- # MATH 347 — SKILLS FOR TRIGONOMETRY This course is a review of the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in trigonometry. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 124. Topics include: a review of computational skills developed in intermediate algebra, factoring, operations on rational and radical expressions, solving equations and inequalities, functions including domain and range, composition and inverses, and graphing. This course is appropriate for students who are confident in their beginning algebra skills. Passing Math 347 is contingent on successfully demonstrating knowledge of tr… --- # MATH 387 — SKILLS FOR COLLEGE ALGEBRA This course reviews the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts for College Algebra. Topics include the real and complex number system, simplifying algebraic expressions, solving linear and nonlinear equations, graphing linear and nonlinear functions, factoring methods, solving systems of linear equations, and analysis of rational functions. Passing Math 387 is contingent on successfully demonstrating knowledge of transfer-level mathematical concepts covered in Math 8. Pass/No Pass only. --- # MATH 397 — SKILLS FOR BRIEF CALCULUS This course is a review of the core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in a brief calculus course. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 11. Topics include: a review of necessary computational skills and the study of algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Passing Math 397 is contingent on successfully demonstrating knowledge of transfer-level mathematical concepts covered in Math 11. --- # MATH 501 — BSTEM ALGEBRA 1 This course is a study of elementary algebra concepts in preparation for college-level math courses required for Business, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (BSTEM) fields. Topics include properties of real numbers, linear equations and inequalities, linear graphs, polynomials, systems of linear equations, factoring, rational expressions and equations, roots, and quadratic equations. --- # MATH 502 — BSTEM ALGEBRA 2 This course is a study of intermediate algebra concepts in preparation for college-level math courses required for Business, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (BSTEM) fields. Topics include the study of the real number system, basic algebraic operations, equations and inequalities, polynomials, functions, rational expressions, exponents and radicals, quadratic equations, and graphing. --- # MATH C2210 — CALCULUS I: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS Common Course Numbering Language: A first course in differential and integral calculus of a single variable. Topics include limits and continuity of functions, techniques and applications of differentiation, an introduction to integration, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. This course is primarily intended for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either MATH C2210 or MATH C2210H, but not both. C-ID MATH 210. Formerly MATH 3A. --- # MATH C2210H — CALCULUS I: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: A first course in differential and integral calculus of a single variable. Topics include limits and continuity of functions, techniques and applications of differentiation, an introduction to integration, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. This course is primarily intended for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. This is an honors course. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either MATH C2210 or MATH C2210H, but not both. C-ID MATH 210. Formerly MATH 3AH. --- # MATH C2220 — CALCULUS II: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS Common Course Numbering Language: A second course in differential and integral calculus of a single variable. Topics include applications of integration, techniques of integration, infinite sequences and series, and the calculus of parametric and polar equations. This course is primarily intended for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. IVC Details: This course continues the study of single-variable differential and integral calculus begun in MATH C2210 (formerly MATH 3A). It covers techniques of integration, applications of integration, parametric and polar equati… --- # MATH C2220H — CALCULUS II: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: A second course in differential and integral calculus of a single variable. Topics include applications of integration, techniques of integration, infinite sequences and series, and the calculus of parametric and polar equations. This course is primarily intended for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. This is an honors course. IVC Details: This course continues the study of single-variable differential and integral calculus begun in MATH C2210 (formerly MATH 3A). It covers techniques of integration, applications of integration, p… --- # MGT 1 — INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS A survey in business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Demonstrates how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and sec… --- # MGT 1H — INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS HONORS A survey in business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Demonstrates how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and sec… --- # MGT 5 — PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING This course covers the proper management of personal incomes and expenditures using criteria, methodology, and resources for effective financial planning. Topics include the study of inflation and business cycles; career planning; money/credit management; insurance analysis; investment and retirement planning; and tax strategies. The course uses an integrative approach that focuses on practical financial decisions making as well as the social, psychological and physiological contexts in which those decisions are made. Students will examine their relationship with money, set personal goals, an… --- # MGT 10 — STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS This introductory course presents statistical concepts and methods used extensively in economics, business, social sciences, psychology, life and health sciences, and education including computer-based statistical analysis. Students study descriptive and inferential statistics and perform statistical analysis. Emphasis is on problem solving and interpretation. Credit may be earned in MGT 10 or 10H, but not both. Also listed as ECON 10 or 10H; credit may be earned in one course, not all.C-ID: MATH 110 --- # MGT 10H — STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS HONORS This introductory honors course presents statistical concepts and methods used extensively in economics, business, social sciences, psychology, life and health sciences, and education including computer-based statistical analysis. Students study descriptive and inferential statistics and perform statistical analysis. Emphasis is on problem solving and interpretation. This honors course is enriched through a course project that applies statistical analysis to a case study and is shared through a class presentation. Credit may be earned in MGT 10 or 10H, but not both. Also listed as ECON 10 or… --- # MGT 12A — THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS This course introduces the law as an instrument of social and political control in society while focusing on fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions, including its effects on managerial decision-making and methods of resolving disputes. Topics include sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, agency, judicial and administrative processes, employment law, forms of business organizations, and domestic and international governmental regulations. Credit may be earned in either MGT 12A or 12AH, but not both. C-ID: BUS 125 --- # MGT 12AH — THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS HONORS This course introduces the law as an instrument of social and political control in society while focusing on fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions, including its effects on managerial decision-making and methods of resolving disputes. Topics include sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, agency, judicial and administrative processes, employment law, forms of business organizations, and domestic and international governmental regulations. The honors course will be enriched through limited class size, seminar format, and a collaborative project. Credit may be ea… --- # MGT 68 — INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS This course is a college-level overview of how traditional business functions are influenced by global cultures, geography, economics, and technology and how globalization generally impacts world markets. Emphasis is on preparing students to do business in the international marketplace. Integrated into the course is an evaluation of domestic and foreign economic and business issues; international trade; foreign currency exchange; global finance markets; and global, cultural and economic diversities. --- # MGT 102 — PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR BUSINESS This course is designed to develop student knowledge and basic oral communication skills with an emphasis on presentation skills, focusing on organization, delivery, and forms of support as applied in different professional contexts, including in-person and online delivery. Students will plan, outline, research, organize, prepare, and deliver platform and online presentations on topics related to business. The course introduces strategies for listening critically, taking a position on a business topic and expressing that position, and adapting presentations to specific audiences. The course a… --- # MGT 103 — BUSINESS ENGLISH This course is designed to refine and hone the student's skills in written and spoken English as used in business, professional, or technical settings. The course studies the conventions of English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, word usage, and style at a professional level and with the clear, concise, and effective writing required in business. MGT 103 was formerly MGT 203. --- # MGT 104 — BUSINESS COMMUNICATION This course is designed to help students develop and refine the written and oral skills necessary to communicate effectively in a business environment. Students plan, compose, and evaluate a variety of written business communications; write reports; make oral presentations; and practice editing and business grammar skills. C-ID: BUS 115 --- # MGT 115 — DIVERSITY, BUSINESS, AND THE WORKPLACE This course examines cultural diversity as a driver of organizational and business success as well as the knowledge, skills, and abilities to lead, manage, and interact effectively within diverse business environments. The course explores the influence that historical, social, and cultural experiences and perspectives have in the work place and reviews existing legislation relevant to workplace diversity. This course is valuable for students that seek leadership positions within multicultural environments. --- # MGT 118 — SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING II This course is designed for students with a foundational understanding of social media marketing, looking to develop intermediate to advanced skills. The focus will be on using major social media platforms for marketing, customer interaction, and brand-building. Students will learn to leverage social media analytics, content strategy, paid advertising, and engagement techniques to create a cohesive digital marketing strategy. The course will also emphasize the integration of social media campaigns with broader marketing strategies. This course is cross-listed with CIM 118. --- # MGT 120 — PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT This course surveys business management principles and practices. It includes a study of organizational structures; the management functions of planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling; and managerial decision-making processes. --- # MGT 125 — ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR This course explores the application of behavioral theory to management practices in order to help students understand business organizations and to take effective action within them. A key area of focus is developing and applying management skills, which include understanding individual differences and diversity, working effectively in teams, motivating and influencing others, active listening, leadership techniques, and managing organizational change. Discussions explore organizational behavior in a variety of business environments, including businesses of different sizes, (e.g. micro, smal… --- # MGT 131 — COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR MANAGERS This course is designed to teach managers how to communicate the values, mission, and goals of the organization to create an environment that encourages motivation on the part of employees. Students learn motivational techniques and presentation skills required to be an effective business leader. Topics also include managerial communication, written communications, presentation skills, leading meetings and discussion. Emphasis is on the process of developing presentation materials, planning presentations, and using communication technology with which to deliver professional, compelling presen… --- # MGT 132 — FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR MANAGERS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH The course is designed for retail and service managers to understand basic math, budgeting and accounting concepts that are specific to the retail and service environments. The course equips students with essential financial literacy skills. The course begins with a review of basic skills needed specifically in the retail and service environments and an overview of the interrelation of financial reports. Using this knowledge, students will learn how to analyze financial information, how internal controls affect the retail and service environments, preparing operational budgets, and identifyin… --- # MGT 135 — PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING This course is an introduction to the marketing system as it functions within the economy. Course topics include product development, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Students will analyze case studies, examining strategies and tactics that reflect current developments in marketing. --- # MGT 140 — ADVERTISING This course examines the role of advertising in business and introduces an integrated approach to market communications. The course analyzes the various forms of communication, including print, radio and broadcast advertising; sales promotion; public relations; and direct response marketing. It also explores influences on consumer and business audiences, as well as basic strategies for research; media planning and buying; ad creation; and the role of advertising agencies. MGT 140 was formerly offered as MGT 235. --- # MGT 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # MGT 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # MGT 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # MGT 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # MGT 182 — LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT Practical knowledge and skills in logistics and traffic management, including logistics procedures and management, distribution and transport, modes of transportation (air, sea, road, rail), operators and forwarders, multimodal transport, cargo types, container types, key performance indicators, logistics technology including RFID and ERP: systems, documentation, and clearance processes, and international logistics and transport --- # MGT 183 — INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND DEMAND PLANNING Provides students with knowledge and skills necessary for integrated supply chain management and demand planning. Prepares students for designing and managing supply chains for logistics and cost efficiencies and customer satisfaction. Investigates operations planning, scheduling, and sequencing; forecasting and timely planning of orders, materials, capacity, and labor; supply chain networks, efficient product flows, distribution strategies, fulfillment options, and network designs. Prepares students to use technologies in supply chain management for effective supply management, including pro… --- # MGT 188 — HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT This course introduces the functions of effective human resource management that help organizations achieve success. It emphasizes ways that human resource management can provide a competitive edge for an organization and be a fundamental element of its organizational strategy. The course examines techniques of human resource planning; recruiting, selecting, training, and evaluating personnel; compensation and benefits administration; and union/management relations. --- # MGT 189 — RETAIL MANAGEMENT This course provides a comprehensive review of the basic principles of retailing. It includes a study of consumer behavior, product analysis, location and store layout, personnel administration, buying and handling merchandise, financial merchandise planning and management, and promotional strategies. --- # MGT 222 — EMPLOYMENT LAW Provides students with knowledge and skills related to current employment laws, including recruitment and hiring, discrimination, compensation, benefits, health and safety, employer rights and duties, employee rights and duties, privacy concerns, collective bargaining, termination, dispute resolution, and other topics. --- # MGT 226 — WAREHOUSE AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Prepares students for warehousing and inventory logistics management. Topics include: warehousing logistics, functions, and costs; warehouse structure and operations; warehouse and inventory technologies; minimizing health and safety risks; strategic retail value chain; strategic replenishment; inventory stock analysis: demand forecasting, planning and controlling stock levels; inventory security and loss prevention. --- # MGT 250 — EXPORTING AND IMPORTING Global trade, exporting and importing procedures and regulations. Emphasizes international agreements, global marketing, channels of distribution, pricing, contracts, roles of United States government, organizations and agencies, customs brokers, duty rates, harmonized tariff schedule, basic laws and regulations affecting exports and imports, access, currency exchange, and payment methods, tax implications, financing, letters of credit, documentation, country, and commodity trade patterns, and entrepreneurship. Students will research and prepare an importing plan for a given country, includin… --- # MGT 269 — INTERNATIONAL MARKETING This course offers a comprehensive survey of international marketing, addressing participants, opportunities, and cultural considerations. The course focuses on marketing research techniques, strategies, planning, organization, control, and finance as they pertain to the international arena and to management problems. --- # MGT 500 — CRYPTOCURRENCY AND BLOCKCHAIN Explore the origins and evolution of money, and how Bitcoin and blockchain technology provide a pathway to digitally move value on the internet without the need for a central intermediary. Understand smart contracts, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and the regulatory environment cryptocurrency operates in. Learn about the volatile cryptocurrency markets, exchanges, types of cryptocurrency trading, and custody solutions. Discover how financial institutions, big tech, and banks are responding to the emergence of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Explore the technical challenges facing… --- # MGT 501 — DIGITAL INVESTMENTS Explore a changing global monetary system where 92% of all financial transactions deal with digital monetary transactions rather than physical cash. This class examines this digital transfer processes as well as the digital trading of various securities and monetary digital currencies for investment purposes. It will examine digital transaction changes for numerous types of investments which deal with traditional investment instruments as well as the new digital currencies and assets. --- # MGT 502 — CYBER DEFENSE ESSENTIALS Explores the cybersecurity landscape and teaches the essential skills to protect your data while online. The course teaches the primary principles of security and how to use these principles to securely interact online. Basic networking, types of cyber attacks and proper defenses, proactive measures for cybersecurity, secure password management, cyber-fraud, identity theft, and other related topics are covered. MGT 502 is also listed as CIM 502; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # MGT 503 — ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BUSINESS Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming modern business in this hands-on course. Students will learn to craft effective AI queries, build presentations, analyze financial data, identify markets, and promote products using cutting-edge tools. The course covers large and small language models, AI-driven social media strategies, and video creation techniques. Ethical considerations and personal values are emphasized throughout. By the end, students will have practical experience applying AI to real-world business challenges and be equipped to lead in an increasingly automated economy… --- # MS 20 — INTRODUCTION TO OCEANOGRAPHY This is an introductory course studying the physical and chemical properties of the ocean. The principles and components of the dynamic ocean system will be surveyed, including the current techniques for measurement of the physical properties of the oceanic environment. The laboratory will focus on the measurement techniques used by oceanographers to discover how the ocean system works. Field trips may be required. --- # MSS 325 — BASIC ARITHMETIC SKILLS Although this course is open to anyone, it is designed for students with learning disabilities who need to review the fundamentals of arithmetic computation. Course topics include adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers and fractions; converting fractions, decimals, and percents; solving word problems; and calculating ratios and proportions. --- # MUS 1H — THE BASICS OF MUSIC HONORS This course is a study of the basic principles and structures of music, including rhythm and pitch notation, basic properties of the sound, counting, major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals, triads and dominant seventh chords. It is designed to develop the student's basic skills in music reading, sight singing, and aural identification, as well as handwritten notation. Students will also learn the creative process of composing music and give presentations on the music of composers assigned by the instructor. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, seminar for… --- # MUS 1 — THE BASICS OF MUSIC This course is a study of the basic principles of music, including rhythm and pitch notation, basic properties of the sound, counting, major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals, and triads. It is designed to develop the student's basic skills in music reading, sight singing, and aural identification, as well as handwritten and digital notation. The course is recommended for music majors but is open to all students. Credit may be earned in either MUS 1 or 1H, but not both. C-ID: MUS 110 --- # MUS 3 — HARMONY I This course is mandatory for music majors and offers an in-depth exploration of diatonic harmony in both major and minor modes. It includes Roman numeral analysis of chords and their voice leading in four voices. Students will engage in composing diatonic melodies and analyzing harmonies found in classical musical compositions. The course also incorporates Musicianship I: sight-singing, keyboard harmony, ear training, and dictation. C-ID: MUS 120. --- # MUS 4 — HARMONY II This course is mandatory for music majors and offers an in-depth exploration of diatonic harmony in both major and minor modes. It includes non-chord tones, inversions and treatment of seventh chords, secondary functions and modulations to relative as well as closely related keys. Students will engage in analyzing major works and composing melodic lines in 4 voices. The course includes Musicianship II: sight-singing, keyboard harmony, ear training and dictation. C-ID: MUS 130 --- # MUS 5 — HARMONY III This course is mandatory for music majors and explores chromatic harmonic elements and their application in key musical works from the second half of the nineteenth century. Students will analyze the use of chromatic chords, and will compose examples of chromatic writing in four voices. Additionally, the course includes Musicianship III, which covers sight-singing, ear training, keyboard harmony, and dictation of chromatic melodies, harmonic progressions, and rhythms. This course is required for music majors. C-ID: MUS 140 --- # MUS 6 — HARMONY IV This course is a requirement for music majors and explores the harmony of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with an emphasis on various techniques. Students will give presentations on composers who contributed to these techniques, or create compositions that incorporate one or more of these methods. It also includes Musicianship IV, covering ear training, dictation, keyboard harmony, and sight-singing. C-ID: MUS 150. --- # MUS 7 — POP SONG WRITING Study and training on the usage of the traditional musical elements necessary to build popular songs. The elements include intervals, chords, chord progressions, scales, modes, rhythms, meters, cadences, modulations, structures, melodic treatment, and the relationship between lyrics and music. --- # MUS 15 — MUSIC COMPOSITION In this course, the primary emphasis lies in crafting authentic musical compositions tailored for traditional instruments or vocal performances. Participants delve deeply into the technical intricacies of composition, exploring elements like orchestration, instrumentation, and part writing across various twentieth-century styles. Additionally, there's a strong focus on cultivating appreciation and analytical skills through the study of exemplary works. --- # MUS 20 — MUSIC APPRECIATION This course introduces skills for listening to music, with an emphasis on the Euro-Western classical music traditions. Students will learn to identify components of music such as meter, texture, tempo, dynamics, orchestration and style characteristics. Students will also learn biographical information regarding significant composers, as well as cultural, economic, political, religious, and social contexts in which these traditions have existed. May require attendance at live concerts. Credit may be earned in either MUS 20 or 20H, but not both. C-ID: MUS 100 --- # MUS 20H — MUSIC APPRECIATION HONORS This course introduces skills for listening to music, with an emphasis on Euro-Western classical music traditions. Students will learn to identify components of music such as meter, texture, tempo, dynamics, orchestration and style characteristics. Students will also learn biographical information regarding significant composers, as well as cultural, economic, political, religious, and social contexts in which these traditions have existed. May require attendance at live concerts. Students in this Honors course will also learn biographical information on secondary composers, listen to and dis… --- # MUS 21 — WORLD MUSIC This course introduces skills for listening to music within both Western and non-Western musical traditions. Students study vocal and instrumental traditions, as well as musical components such as tempo, dynamics, texture, orchestration, form, and style characteristics. Students also consider historical, cultural, socio-economic, religious, and/or political contexts and issues that bear upon the music. Attendance at live concerts may be required. Credit would be given to MUS 21 or 21H, not both. --- # MUS 21H — WORLD MUSIC HONORS Introduces skills for listening to music within both Western and non-Western musical traditions. Includes study vocal and instrumental tradition, historical and cultural issues. Attendance at live concerts may be required. Honors course: required reading of advanced texts, scholarly articles, and an in-class presentation. Credit is given for MUS 21 or 21H, not both. --- # MUS 27 — HISTORY OF JAZZ This course introduces the history and development of musical styles, genres, forms, techniques, musicians, and the social-political, and economic contexts of jazz. Emphasis is on history, musicians, the nature of the styles, and the various other contexts of jazz. May require attendance at live concerts. --- # MUS 28 — HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC This course traces the development and history of rock music in the United States. Students study musical, sociological and political aspects of rock music as well as important people, ensembles, and institutions of the genre. The course includes a general study of musical elements such as melody, harmony, rhythm and orchestration as they pertain to the diverse styles of rock music. Attendance at live concerts may be required. --- # MUS 39 — CHORALE The Chorale focuses on the study, rehearsal, and performance of repertoire for mixed voices both a capella and accompanied, from a variety of style periods, and in a variety of languages with an emphasis on the development of individual musicianship and the skills needed to perform within an ensemble. Public performance, both on and off campus, in formal concerts, is required for credit. C-ID: MUS 180 --- # MUS 40 — WIND SYMPHONY The Wind Symphony performs wind and percussion literature from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, as well as twentieth century and contemporary works including, the performance of both professional and student new compositions. The repertoire varies each semester. Instrumentation will vary according to the demands of the literature. The emphasis is on a high degree of individual musicianship and the skills needed within an ensemble. Participation in formal concerts, both on and off campus, is required. C-ID: MUS 180 --- # MUS 42 — SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Symphony Orchestra performs orchestral repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, as well as twentieth century and contemporary works including, the performance of both professional and student new compositions. The repertoire varies each semester. Instrumentation will vary according to the demands of the literature. The emphasis is on a high degree of individual musicianship and the skills needed to perform within an ensemble. Participation in formal concerts, both on and off campus, is required. C-ID: MUS 180 --- # MUS 44 — GUITAR ENSEMBLE The Guitar Ensemble performs repertoire for multiple guitars in both large and small ensembles, from Renaissance music to contemporary literature, including the performance of both professional and student new compositions. Emphasis is on a high degree of individual musicianship, sight-reading, and ensemble performance. Participation in formal concerts, both on and off campus, is required. C-ID MUS 180. --- # MUS 46 — JAZZ ENSEMBLE The Jazz Ensemble focuses on the rehearsal and performance of standard jazz specific repertoire for big band ensembles ranging from swing to contemporary genres including the performance of both professional and student new compositions. The repertoire varies each semester. Instrumentation will vary according to the demands of the repertoire. The emphasis is on a high degree of individual musicianship and the skills needed to perform within an ensemble. Participation in formal concerts, both on and off campus, is required. C-ID: MUS 180 --- # MUS 50 — APPLIED MUSIC: INSTRUMENTAL This course provides one half-hour individual lesson per week in a traditional band or orchestral instrument or classical guitar with an instructor on the Applied Music faculty. A performance for a faculty jury is required at the end of the semester. The course is designed for the music major whose performance ability is at a college level. The emphasis is on the progressive development of skills needed for solo performance. --- # MUS 51 — APPLIED MUSIC-KEYBOARD This course provides one individualized keyboard lesson per week with an instructor on the Applied Music faculty. Performances for a faculty jury will be required at the end of the semester. The course is designed for the music major whose performance ability is at a college level. The emphasis is on the progressive development of skills needed for solo performance.Students will be required to attend concerts --- # MUS 52 — APPLIED MUSIC: VOICE This course provides one half-hour individual voice lesson per week with an instructor on the Applied Music faculty. Performances for a faculty jury will be required at the end of the semester. The course is designed for the music major whose performance ability is at a college level. The emphasis is on the progressive development of skills needed for solo performance. --- # MUS 53 — APPLIED MUSIC PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP MUS 53 is required of all auditioned music majors enrolled in MUS 50, 51 or 52. It is designed to teach, train and prepare students for a successful career in music. Students are required to perform repertoire or exercises associated with their Applied Music area, critique the performances of their peers, and plan for, manage and achieve success both while in college and beyond college. Students also participate in and attend concerts, recitals and master classes; organize and prepare programs; critique each others' performances, learn how to manage and execute all aspects of pre- and post-pe… --- # MUS 54 — PIANO I This course provides group piano instruction for beginners. It emphasizes basic technical and interpretive skills. The course presents the foundations of keyboard musicianship, including standard music notation; pentascales; and tonic, dominant and subdominant harmonies. Practice outside of class and concert attendance are required. Practice pianos are available on campus. Students are limited to enrollment in four piano courses (MUS 54, 55, 56, 57, 62, or 65) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: MUS 170 --- # MUS 55 — PIANO II This course provides group piano instruction for second semester piano students. It introduces short classical repertoire, continues the development of technical and interpretive skills, and expands upon the foundations of keyboard musicianship. Regular practice outside of class and concert attendance are required. Practice pianos are available on campus. Students are limited to enrollment in four piano courses (MUS 54, 55, 56, 57, 62, or 65) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # MUS 56 — PIANO III This course provides group piano instruction at the intermediate level. Students focus on the performance of repertoire from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods, as well as popular compositions. The course stresses various aspects of piano technique, including major and minor scales; arpeggios in three octaves; keyboard harmonizations; and stylistic interpretation. Regular practice outside of class and concert attendance are required. Practice pianos are available on campus. Students are limited to enrollment in four piano courses (MUS 54, 55, 56, 57, 62, or 65) for a maximum… --- # MUS 57 — PIANO IV This course provides group instruction in piano at the advanced level. The course focuses on the historical background and theoretical structure of works from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods; and on the analysis and criticism of each performance through teacher and group discussion. Preparation for performances includes research and listening in addition to required practice. Students strengthen and refine skills in style, interpretation, and technique, participating in both individual and group assignments. Practice and recital attendance are required. Practice pianos ar… --- # MUS 59 — PIANO PERFORMANCE AND ENSEMBLE The Piano Performance Ensemble performs solo and collaborative repertoire from Baroque to contemporary commissioned works. Instrumentation will vary according to the demands of the literature. The emphasis is on the development of individual musicianship and collaborative playing. Participation in formal concerts is required. --- # MUS 62 — COLLABORATIVE PIANO This course studies the techniques of instrumental and vocal collaboration. An overview of chamber music repertoire will be reviewed. Particular emphasis will be given to style, interpretation and techniques of collaborative playing and sight-reading. Students are limited to enrollment in four piano courses (MUS 54, 55, 56, 57, 62, or 65) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # MUS 63 — CHAMBER MUSIC This course studies musical literature, musical style, rehearsal techniques, and ensemble playing as they relate to the performance of instrumental chamber music. Students develop skills in ensemble playing and rehearsal techniques through the preparation and performance of appropriate chamber repertoire. Students are encouraged to form their own group prior to enrollment. Participation in the program is dependent on the availability of a place within a viable ensemble. --- # MUS 65 — PIANO ACCOMPANYING This course is designed to give students experience and technique for instrumental and vocal accompaniment. Students will perform a variety of pieces in class, receiving critique on balance, phrasing, and tempos. Students will be coached on watching and following soloists, rehearsal practices, and how to support the soloist throughout the process of performing. In the class, there will be mock experiences where students will have to adapt to soloists that skip sections, get lost, or need additional support during a concert. Emphasis will also be given to style, interpretation and techniques o… --- # MUS 70 — DIGITAL MULTI-TRACK MUSIC RECORDING Introductory exposure to sound-recording principles, techniques, and equipment. Emphasizes multi-track music recording process, editing and mixing. Students will receive hands-on experience with professional 24 track digital recording equipment while the class participates in a variety of recording projects. --- # MUS 71 — INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY This course introduces general aspects of the music industry. It addresses the practical and historical details of becoming a successful musician in the industry, focusing on skills and duties associated with the operation of an independent record label. Students learn basic concepts including publishing, copyright, business models, contracts, artist management and ethics to record music --- # MUS 72 — MUSIC PRODUCTION I Introduces the necessary tools and techniques to compose with electronic music means. Students learn about and participate in the essential development and current digital and audio theory, digital audio station signal flow and system requirements, MIDI sequencing, stereo mixing techniques, use of software-based virtual instruments, equalizers, compressors and reverbs. --- # MUS 73 — MUSIC PRODUCTION II Continuation course on music production. Students will learn further topics such as making professional sounding compact disks using a digital recording studio. Students will learn to solve problems in the recording process, console automation, SMPTE and MIDI synchronization in the recording session. --- # MUS 75 — JAZZ IMPROVISATION Jazz Improvisation explores concepts including jazz theory, transcription, and history. This course provides students with the opportunity to develop technical command of their instrument and the ability to create stylistically appropriate improvised melodies. --- # MUS 80 — VOICE I This course introduces students to vocal techniques for the unamplified voice, with a special emphasis on body alignment; breathing; and free, efficient tone production. Students perform vocal literature from a variety of cultures and genres, including art songs, folk songs, and songs of the musical theatre. Concert attendance may be required. --- # MUS 81 — VOICE II This course provides continued instruction in vocal techniques for the unamplified voice, with a special emphasis on registration, resonance, and performance considerations. Students perform in class vocal literature for a variety of genres, including art songs, folk songs, and songs of the musical theatre. The course introduces repertoire in English, as well as Italian and other Romance languages. Concert attendance may be required. --- # MUS 82 — VOICE III This course is designed to give singers regular opportunities to perform in class and in public. Students concentrate on applying strategies to further enhance diction, breath support, care of the voice, and expression. They evaluate their own singing technique and receive written and verbal feedback from each other and the instructor. The focus of the repertoire varies each time the course is offered. Attendance at concerts may be required. --- # MUS 83 — GUITAR I This is a course emphasizing beginning guitar techniques and repertoire focused on the first position. Topics include playing position, tuning, free and rest strokes, alternation, naming of fingers, chords, and arpeggios. The student is introduced to musical notation, time and counting. In the study of the first position, the student is exposed to sharps, flats, natural signs, and key signatures. Students will perform two-part pieces. The course is designed for beginning guitarists and/or guitarists with no music reading background. Field trips may be required. --- # MUS 84 — GUITAR II This is a course emphasizing guitar level II techniques and repertoire. Topics include chords, music in two lines, ligado techniques, dotted notes, dynamic markings, and tempo indications. The student will be introduced to Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern pieces in the 2nd through 4th positions, This course is designed for intermediate guitarists with some music reading background. Field trips may be required. --- # MUS 85 — GUITAR III MUS 85 emphasizes guitar techniques, repertoire and interpretation for playing in the 5th through 7th positions. Topics include reading in the higher positions, contrapuntal music, harmonics, and ornamentation. The student will study and play a variety of exercises and repertoire representative of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods as well as selected compositions from the modern folk and pop music genre. The course is designed for those guitarists who are approaching advanced levels with a strong music reading background. Field trips may be required. --- # MUS 86 — CLASSICAL GUITAR IV This is a course emphasizing advanced classical guitar techniques, repertoire, interpretation, history and performance practice as it relates to the various style periods. The course is designed to take the student to the next level of both technique and musicianship. Topics include reading in the higher positions, contrapuntal music, harmonics (natural and artificial), ornamentation and improvisation. The student will study Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern pieces in all positions. Further topics include accompanying techniques, reading from figured bass and other continuo… --- # MUS 87 — JAZZ AND POPULAR VOICE Introduction to the study and performance of songs in the popular and jazz idioms. Topics include vocal production, microphone techniques, and styles. Includes in-class performance. --- # MUS 90 — INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC Instrumental Chamber Music offers an opportunity to play woodwind, brass, strings, and percussion masterworks in a more intimate musical setting. Students perform literature from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, as well as twentieth century and contemporary works. The performing groups include duos, trios, quartets, quintets and larger ensembles. Public performances are required. --- # MUS 113 — INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC BUSINESS This course presents an overview of the business and legal aspects of the music industry. Topics include: record contracts, publishing, licensing, distribution, and copyright. In addition, the duties and responsibilities of producers, agents, managers, promoters and performing artists will be covered extensively. --- # MUS 255 — BEGINNING PIANO PEDAGOGY MUS 255 examines a variety of published pedagogy methods and music conservatory traditions for teaching beginning piano. Students study pedagogy tools, music education software, music games, and pedagogy traditions from around the world. Students will learn how to teach music for Early Childhood Music Classes, with exposure to the Kodaly Method, Orff Schulwerk, and Suzuki Method. This course will emphasize how to set up the hand position of a beginning student as well as varying approaches to teaching musical expression. It will discuss different learning modalities and how to work with stude… --- # MUS 256 — INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED PIANO PEDAGOGY This course examines a variety of published pedagogy methods and music conservatory traditions for teaching intermediate and advanced piano. Students will study pedagogy tools and traditions from around the world. This course will emphasize how to set up the hand position and technique of an intermediate and advanced student as well as varying approaches to teaching musical expression. Students will learn tools for motivating teenage students and taking their practicing skill to a more advanced level. Students will create lesson plans for private and group instruction for different age groups… --- # MUS 400C — MUSIC APPRECIATION This course is an introduction to music appreciation for older adults. The course provides an overview of important periods and styles of music, the form of compositions, practical music theory, the concert program, and the role and contribution of various instruments and voices in the orchestra. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # MUS 450 — BEGINNING PIANO This is a beginning course in popular and classical piano technique for older adults. The course focuses on music theory, note reading, scales, fingering, chording, sight reading, and performance techniques. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # MUS 451 — INTERMEDIATE PIANO This is an intermediate-level course in classical and popular piano technique and performance for older adults. The course focuses on theory, fingering, interpretation techniques, sight reading, and repertoire development. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # MUS 452 — EARLY ADVANCED PIANO This course provides group piano instruction at the advanced level for older adults. The course focuses on the historical background and theoretical structure of works from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods; and on the analysis and criticism of each performance through teacher and group discussion. Preparation for performances includes research and listening in addition to much practice. Students strengthen and refine skills in style, interpretation, and technique, participating in both individual and group assignments. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # MUS 454 — PIANO MASTER CLASS-SOLO AND COLLABORATIVE PIANO This course provides advanced piano master classes and performance opportunities for older adults. The emphasis is on the development of individual musicianship and the skills needed to perform within an ensemble. Participation in formal concerts is encouraged. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # MUS 460 — REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: INSTRUMENTAL This course for older adults focuses on the study, preparation, and performance of an orchestral concert repertoire. Students may participate in concerts and recitals at alternate locations. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # MUS 461 — MAKE MUSIC FOR LIFE This open-entry/open-exit course, for older adults, focuses on improving technical skills,musical interpretation, and the joy of playing music in a group setting. Emphasis includes deep breathing, poised relaxation, and a scientific approach to tone production. The class is open to woodwind, brass, string and percussion instrumentalists. --- # MUS 480 — CHORAL ENSEMBLE This is a course in choral singing and choral literature for older adults. The course focuses on developing correct singing techniques, vocal production, and sight-reading skills. Students may participate in concerts and recitals at alternate locations. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # NUT 1 — PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION This course provides a thorough introduction to the principles of nutrition and their application in wellness and disease. The course includes discussions of the role, function and sources of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water; food pyramids, diets, and fads; food safety; changing nutritional needs; and global issues such as world hunger. Emphasis is on assessing nutritional information and applying it to the individual diet. C-ID NUTR 110. --- # NUT 2 — SPORT NUTRITION This course provides a thorough introduction to the principles of nutrition as applied to sport. The course will provide the student with a basic understanding of how nutrition affects physical performance and sport. The course will focus on understanding how nutritional choices can be modified to maximize performance potential. This will include an overview of the basic food groups (carbohydrate, fats, and protein), energy metabolism, vitamins and minerals, hydration, ergogenic aids, special populations, weight management, and training/performance diets. An emphasis will be placed on applyin… --- # PHIL 1 — INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY Introduction to Philosophy explains the tools and methods of the philosopher and introduces a few representative philosophical issues. Typical issues are the free will problem, the problem of personal identity, the question of God's existence, and the question of the nature of knowledge of the external world. C-ID: PHIL 100 --- # PHIL 2 — INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS This philosophy course examines the concept of morality and ethics, ethical theories, and applications of theory to issues of our day. C-ID: PHIL 120 --- # PHIL 3 — INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC Introduces principles of valid reasoning of deductive logic. The course concentrates on formal techniques of sentential logic. C-ID: PHIL 110 --- # PHIL 5 — POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY This course is designed as an introduction to the study of political philosophy. The course engages prominent works from the history of political thought while addressing the concepts, questions, tensions and problems that guide the study of politics. Among these are: what is justice; what are the goals of a decent society; what is the nature of citizenship and what are its corresponding privileges and obligations; what is the nature of political obligation and are there limits to that obligation; what is the appropriate division between rights and responsibilities; how should liberty and equ… --- # PHIL 10 — ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY This course addresses Ancient Philosophy with emphasis on the development of Greek philosophy from the Pre-Socratics through Aristotle. C-ID: PHIL 130 --- # PHIL 11 — MODERN PHILOSOPHY This course addresses 17th through 18th Century Western philosophy, emphasizing epistemology and metaphysics. The course traces the development of the Modern empiricist and rationalist traditions and Kant's "Copernican Revolution" of that debate. C-ID: PHIL 140 --- # PHOT 1 — HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY This course presents an overview of the history, technology, and aesthetics of the science/art of photography from the earliest experiments in the medium to the present. The course analyzes trends that led to the contemporary expression of the medium in the late twentieth century. Students must attend at least one major photography exhibition. This course is required of photography majors. PHOT 1 is also listed as ARTH 1; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # PHYS 2A — INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS This course is intended for students in the sciences and related subjects who are required to complete a physics course based on precalculus mathematics. The major emphasis is on mechanics with additions from properties of matter, vibrations and waves and thermodynamics. Topics include kinematics and dynamics in one and two dimensions; vectors; Newton's laws; conservation of energy and momentum; kinematics and dynamics of rotational motion; harmonic motion; and selected topics from properties of matter and thermodynamics. C-ID: PHYS 105 --- # PHYS 2B — INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS This course is a continuation of Physics 2A. Major emphasis is on electricity, magnetism and optics with additions from modern physics. Topics include electrostatics, electrical potential, circuits, magnetic forces and fields, induction, electromagnetic waves, AC circuits, ray optics, interference and diffraction of light, and selections from modern physics. C-ID: PHYS 110 --- # PHYS 4B — GENERAL PHYSICS A calculus-based introduction to classical electromagnetism. Electrostatic forces and fields, Gauss's Law, potential, currents and circuits, magnetic forces and fields, induction, Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves are the major topics of study. C-ID: PHYS 210 --- # PHYS 4A — GENERAL PHYSICS This is a calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics. Kinematics in one and two dimensions; forces and equilibrium; Newton's laws; particle dynamics; universal gravitation; conservation laws; work and potential energy; collisions; kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies and oscillations are studied. C-ID: PHYS 205 --- # PHYS 4C — GENERAL PHYSICS This is a calculus-based introduction to thermodynamics, light, and modern physics. Included are the kinetic theory of gases, laws of thermodynamics, thermal processes, properties of light, optical images, interference and diffraction, electromagnetic waves, relativity, and atomic and nuclear concepts. C-ID: PHYS 215 --- # PHYS 20 — CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS This is a survey course intended for students who are not majoring in science. Previous physics training and extensive mathematical background are not required. Focus is on major discoveries, ideas, concepts and methods in physics. Included are simple motions, the nature of matter and energy, and electrical and nuclear science. This course is designed to prepare students for more advanced physics courses. --- # PHYS 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PHYSICS This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three (3) learning objectives. One (1) unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four (4) units may be applied toward major requirements or a certifi… --- # POLS 3 — CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS This course examines the structure and function of California state and local governments from a national comparative perspective. Major issues facing the state will be critically examined, such as the economy, immigration, environmental protection, crime and education. --- # POLS 4 — INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE This course is an introduction to the study of politics designed to familiarize students with the basic systems, ideologies and models of political analysis. Among the topics of discussion are the relationship of political science to culture, economics and international affairs; and the challenges posed by analytical approaches used to explain the behavior of individuals, groups and states. C-ID: POLS 150 --- # POLS 5 — POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY This course is designed as an introduction to the study of political philosophy. The course engages prominent works from the history of political thought while addressing the concepts, questions, tensions and problems that guide the study of politics. Among these are: what is justice; what are the goals of a decent society; what is the nature of citizenship and what are its corresponding privileges and obligations; what is the nature of political obligation and are there limits to that obligation; what is the appropriate division between rights and responsibilities; how should liberty and equ… --- # POLS 6 — POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT OF THE MIDDLE EAST This course introduces students to the historical, ideological and social foundations of the governments and politics of the major Middle Eastern states, including Iran, Turkey, Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The course explores issues of regional and international importance, including human rights and democratization, economic development, politicized religion, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the politics of oil. --- # POLS 12 — COMPARATIVE POLITICS This course introduces students to analytical methods used to compare political systems and governments. It examines the politics of selected foreign states from among industrial democracies, developing countries, and communist and post-communist systems. Issues given particular attention include democratization, economic development, ideologies, political culture and political change. Credit may be earned in either PS 12 or 12H, but not both. C-ID: POLS 130 --- # POLS 12H — COMPARATIVE POLITICS HONORS This course is an enriched introductory course on comparative politics that introduces students to analytical methods used to compare political systems and governments. It examines the politics of selected foreign states from among industrial democracies, developing countries, and communist and post-communist systems. Issues given particular attention include democratization, economic development, ideologies, political culture and political change. PS 12H is enriched through smaller class size, more rigorous reading and writing, and research assignment. Credit may be earned in either PS 12 or… --- # POLS 14 — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This course introduces students to the major theoretical explanations of conflict, cooperation, economic growth and redistribution in international affairs, explores important historical and contemporary debates in international politics, and teaches students to critically think about international relations. Credit may be earned in either PS 14 or 14H, but not both. C-ID: POLS 140 --- # POLS 14H — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HONORS This course introduces students to the major theoretical explanations of conflict, cooperation, economic growth and redistribution in international affairs, explores important historical and contemporary debates in international politics, and teaches students to critically think about international relations. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, more independent reading, expectation of a greater degree of student participation and involvement, and research assignments that allow the student to pursue topics and projects of individual interest. Credit may be earned i… --- # POLS 17 — LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT The course examines political development of Latin America from independence to the present, structure and organization of governments, political participation, and the role of the military and the church. In addition, major developments in the area of political modernization, democratization, economic growth and economic modernization will be analyzed. --- # POLS 21 — MODEL UNITED NATIONS This course is designed as an introductory course to the study of the international organizations, foreign policy, and international relations. In addition, the course functions as a preparatory course for student participation in Model United Nations (MUN) conferences. At MUN conferences students represent diplomats from a specific country in a simulation of United Nations committee meetings. During these committee meetings, student delegates debate and negotiate international issues and write formal resolutions in an effort to address a wide variety of global problems, such as maintaining i… --- # POLS 30 — GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF EAST ASIA This course provides an introduction to the government and politics of the countries of East Asia. Starting with the impact of Japanese imperialism in the region, the course examines the political and economic developments of China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Taiwan in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics covered in the course include autocratic governments in China and North Korea, democratization in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, economic development and the role of government in guiding the economy, and governmental structures. In addition, current domestic and international issue… --- # POLS 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: POLITICAL SCIENCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment. A maximum of four units may be applied towards political science major requirements. --- # POLS 167B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: POLITICAL SCIENCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied towards political science major requirements. --- # POLS 167C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: POLITICAL SCIENCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied towards political science major requirements. --- # POLS 167D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: POLITICAL SCIENCE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied towards political science major requirements. --- # POLS C1000 — AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Common Course Numbering Language: This course is an introduction to government and politics in the United States and California. Students examine the constitutions, structure, and operation of governing institutions, civil liberties and civil rights, political behaviors, political issues, and public policy using political science theory and methodology. IVC Details. Credit may be earned in either POLS C1000 or POLS C1000H, but not both. C-ID: POLS 110. Formerly PS 1. --- # POLS C1000H — AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: This course is an introduction to government and politics in the United States and California. Students examine the constitutions, structure, and operation of governing institutions, civil liberties and civil rights, political behaviors, political issues, and public policy using political science theory and methodology. This is an honors course. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either POLS C1000 or POLS C1000H, but not both. C-ID: Formerly PS 1H. --- # PSYC 2 — RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY This course introduces students to the fundamentals of psychological research methods. Students will apply the scientific method in conducting research, analyzing data, interpreting results and writing a research report using current American Psychological Association formatting. The course is recommended as the third course in the psychology major sequence following completion of Introductory Psychology (PSYC 1) and Statistical Methods for the Behavioral Sciences (PSYC 10) courses. C-ID: PSY 205B --- # PSYC 3 — PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY This course is an introduction to the interaction of physiology and behavior. Students will examine the role of neuroanatomy, endocrinology in human behavior, emotions, and cognition. The course is recommended for students majoring in psychology to better understand the importance of physiological perspectives of experience and behavior. Credit may be earned for either PSYC 3 or 3H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 150 --- # PSYC 3H — PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY HONORS This course is an introduction to the interaction of physiology and behavior. Students will examine the role of neuroanatomy, endocrinology in human behavior, emotions, and cognition. The course is recommended for students majoring in psychology to better understand the importance of physiological perspectives of experience and behavior. Honors enrichment includes: limited size, additional reading and analysis of primary sources, and greater levels of discussion about and participation in psychological research. Credit may be earned for PSYC 3 or 3H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 150 --- # PSYC 3L — PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY LAB This introductory science laboratory course surveys structure and function of the nervous system, psycho-physical research, and scientific research methodology. Students will engage in hands-on physiological psychology demonstrations and data collection in order to investigate the link between mind and brain, such as dissections, electroencephalograms, galvanic skin response, and other physiological indicators of perception. Main topics include neuroanatomy, behavioral neuroscience, consciousness, attention, emotion, stress, and sensation and perception. --- # PSYC 5 — PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY This course focuses on biopsychosocial aspects of human sexuality from childhood to old age. This course will examine male and female sexual anatomy, the reproductive process, atypical sexual behaviors, as well as sexual disorders and sexually transmitted infections and their prevention and treatment. Credit may be earned in either PSYC 5 or 5H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 130 --- # PSYC 5H — PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY HONORS This course focuses on biopsychosocial aspects of human sexuality from childhood to old age. This course will examine male and female sexual anatomy, the reproductive process, atypical sexual behaviors as well as sexual disorders and sexually transmitted infections and their prevention and treatment. Honors class will feature limited class size, extensive reading and writing on sexual behaviors and disorders. Credit may be earned in either PSYC 5 or 5H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 130 --- # PSYC 6 — DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LIFESPAN This course examines the biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial developments that occur across the human lifespan from conception to death. The course provides an overview of various theories of development, empirical findings, and other issues relating to particular stages in the human life cycle. C-ID: PSY 180 --- # PSYC 7 — DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE This course presents a study of the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial processes of human development from conception through adolescence within cultural and family contexts. It introduces the theories, research, and applications that constitute the field of child development, both typical and atypical, examining both traditional approaches and recent innovations. Topics address the physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social areas of development. The course discusses issues related to intellectual functioning, learning, personality, social roles and relationships, and ad… --- # PSYC 9 — INTRODUCTION TO COGNITION This course introduces basic concepts in cognitive psychology with a focus on the understanding of cognitive functioning and associated theories. Topics include perception, attention, mental representation, memory, reasoning and problem solving, decision making, vision, and language. --- # PSYC 10 — STATISTICAL METHODS IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES This course presents the statistical concepts and methods most widely used in behavioral and social science research. Students study the principles of descriptive and inferential statistics, concentrating on the correct analysis of data relating to practical behavioral problems, and the assumptions underlying statistical inferences. The course is recommended as the second course in the psychology major sequence following completion of the introductory course (Psychology 1) and is intended to build an adequate foundation for the study of research methods (Psychology 2). Credit may be earned in… --- # PSYC 10H — STATISTICAL METHODS IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES HONORS This honors course presents the statistical concepts and methods most widely used in behavioral and social science research. Students study the principles of descriptive and inferential statistics, concentrating on the correct analysis of data relating to practical behavioral problems, and the assumptions underlying statistical inferences. The course is recommended as the second course in the psychology major sequence following completion of the introductory course (Psychology 1) and is intended to build an adequate foundation for the study of research methods (Psychology 2).Honors students u… --- # PSYC 11 — INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION What is Language and how is it related to Psychology? The production and comprehension of language is one of the most complex aspects of human cognition. This course will give an overview of the aspects of language and how it is acquired by and functions in the developing brain. Topics include the sound system, word structure, sentence structure, and meaning in human language, as well as how these aspects of communication are acquired naturally and fairly effortlessly by children. --- # PSYC 13 — PSYCHOLOGY OF REASONING AND PROBLEM SOLVING This course studies the nature of critical thinking, and models and strategies of reasoning and problem solving. Topics include common fallacies of reasoning, self-regulation in the thinking process, the relationship between thought and language, the detection of psychological myth, hypothesis testing, and the application of critical thinking skills to complex issues of everyday life. Credit may be earned in either PSYC 13 or 13H, but not both. --- # PSYC 13H — PSYCHOLOGY OF REASONING AND PROBLEM SOLVING-HONORS This course studies the nature of critical thinking, and models and strategies of reasoning and problem solving. Topics include common fallacies of reasoning, self-regulation in thinking, the relationship between thought and language, the detection of psychological myth, hypothesis testing, and the application of critical thinking skills to complex issues of everyday life. This honors course is enriched through extensive hands-on training with a toolkit for critical thinking and research, which helps students evaluate sources of information as well as find high-quality scientific sources. Add… --- # PSYC 14 — PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING An introduction to behavioral psychology, topics including conditioning, motivation, rewards, and punishment. --- # PSYC 15A — FACULTY MENTORED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY A This research course provides hands-on experience for conducting independent psychological research while under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students learn to access research databases related to the psychology field, collaborate effectively on a research team, design a study that adheres to appropriate ethical guidelines, write an IRB proposal, and present their design in a research conference setting. --- # PSYC 20 — THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER This course is an introduction to the psychology of gender. The course explores gender distinctions and gender roles and their influences on women and men individually and collectively. The emphasis is on methods used by psychologists to study gender differences and how scientific and cultural assumptions about the sexes are reflected in psychological research. Special attention will be paid to the issues that affect women and men in their personal, professional, and political relationships. --- # PSYC 20H — THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER HONORS This course is an honors-level introduction to the psychology of gender. The course explores gender distinctions and gender roles and their influences on women and men individually and collectively. The emphasis is on methods used by psychologists to study gender differences and how scientific and cultural assumptions about the sexes are reflected in psychological research. Special attention will be paid to the issues that affect women and men in their personal, professional, and political relationships. Credit may be given to PSYC 20 or 20H, but not both. --- # PSYC 30 — SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY This course is a survey of the major theories, concepts, and empirical research findings in social psychology. The course examines the relationship between the individual and group, and engages such topics as social beliefs and judgments, social influence, conformity, persuasion, prejudice, aggression, and altruism. Psychology 30 is also listed as Sociology 30; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID: PSY 170 --- # PSYC 32 — PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY This course examines major topics in the field of personality, including theoretical approaches, research methods, and assessment measures. The course discusses the role of biology, environment, and culture on learning, health, and motivation in personality development. It also explores the philosophies and historical contributions of key figures to the study of personality. --- # PSYC 33 — PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT This introductory course in adjustment and relationships explores psychological approaches to the understanding of human functioning (e.g., personality development, interpersonal relationships, and self-motivation). Students apply course concepts to commonly faced problems and the management of their own perceptions, emotions and behavior. C-ID: PSY 115 --- # PSYC 37 — ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR This course provides a research-based introduction to the major maladaptive patterns of human behavior. Students will explore historical and current psychological perspectives and research findings on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental problems such as disorders relating to anxiety, mood, personality, sexual functioning, psycho-physiology, schizophrenia, and gender identity. Credit may be earned in either PSYC 37 or 37H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 120 --- # PSYC 37H — ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR HONORS This course provides a research-based introduction to the major maladaptive patterns of human behavior. Students will explore historical and current psychological perspectives and research findings on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental problems such as disorders relating to anxiety, mood, personality, sexual functioning, psycho-physiology, schizophrenia, and gender identity. Honors class will feature limited class size, more opportunities for student to assess and diagnose an individual with a mental disorder, additional reading and writing on disorders, greater levels of part… --- # PSYC 115B — FACULTY MENTORED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY B This research course provides hands-on experience for conducting independent psychological research while under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students learn to access psychology's research databases, collaborate effectively on a research team, design and conduct a study in compliance with appropriate ethical guidelines, perform data analyses, and present their research findings in a research conference setting. This course is an extension of Psych 15A where students will complete, analyze and present results from their pilot study designed in Psych 15A. --- # PSYC 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: PSYCHOLOGY This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # PSYC C1000 — INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Common Course Numbering Language: This course is an introduction to psychology, which is the study of the mind and behavior. Students focus on theories and concepts of biological, cognitive, developmental, environmental, social, and cultural influences; their applications; and their research foundations. IVC Details: Credit may be earned in either PSYC C1000 or C1000H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 110 --- # PSYC C1000H — INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY - HONORS Common Course Numbering Language: This course is an introduction to psychology, which is the study of the mind and behavior. Students focus on theories and concepts of biological, cognitive, developmental, environmental, social, and cultural influences; their applications; and their research foundations. IVC Details: This is an honors course. Credit may be earned in either PSYC C1000 or C1000H, but not both. C-ID: PSY 110 --- # RE 168D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: REAL ESTATE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # RE 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: REAL ESTATE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # RE 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: REAL ESTATE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # RE 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: REAL ESTATE This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. A maximum of four units may be applied toward major requirements for a certificate. --- # RE 170 — REAL ESTATE PRINCIPLES This fundamental real estate course covers the basic laws and principles of California real estate, focusing on the background and terminology needed to pursue advanced study in specialized courses. Topics include encumbrances, agency, contract law, finance, appraisal, escrow, taxation, fair housing, and real estate licensing law. The course is required of those preparing for the real estate salesperson license examination, and it applies toward the state's elective educational requirements for the broker's examination. --- # RE 172 — REAL ESTATE PRACTICE This course provides a thorough review of the day-to-day operations in real estate operations and brokerages, and provides practical experience for new agents. Topics include listing, prospecting, advertising, financing, sales techniques, escrow, property management, and ethics. The Department of Real Estate requires completion of this course before obtaining a real estate salesperson license. The course also applies toward the state's educational requirements for the broker's examination. --- # RE 174 — LEGAL ASPECTS OF REAL ESTATE This course presents a comprehensive overview of the laws that affect real estate transactions and the real estate profession in California. Topics include: California real estate law including rights incident to property ownership and management, agency, agency law, fair housing law, environmental law, and contract law. This course applies toward California's Department of Real Estate's elective educational requirements for the Real Estate Salesperson exam and core educational requirements for the Broker exam. --- # RE 175 — REAL ESTATE FINANCE This course covers lending institutions, the government’s role in real estate finance, primary and secondary mortgage markets, lending instruments; and basic financial concepts of mortgage lending, property valuation, real estate investment, escrow, and federal laws affecting real estate. The course applies toward the state's statutory educational requirements for real estate salespersons and brokers. --- # RE 176 — REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL This is an introductory course covering the purposes of real property appraisals; the appraisal process; and the different approaches, methods, and techniques used to estimate the value of various types of property. Focuses on residential and one to four-unit properties. This course applies towards California’s Department of Real Estate’s elective educational requirements for the Real Estate Salesperson exam and core educational requirements for the Broker exam. --- # RE 178 — REAL ESTATE ECONOMICS This course examines the economic systems and forecasting of national- and state-level real estate trends and includes the government's involvement in monetary policy, financial tools and regulations in real estate. The analysis and valuation of real estate investment is discussed with an overview of finance and taxation and different types of investment properties. This course is an elective for those preparing for the real estate salesperson license examination, and is a requirement of the state's educational requirements for the broker's examination. --- # RE 180 — REAL ESTATE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge necessary to make the transition from salesperson to business manager in a real estate business or broker office. Topics covered include: marketing and advertising; analyzing the business environment and real estate market; management skills and leadership; structuring business and finance systems; creating policies and procedures; recruiting, selecting, hiring and legal concerns with staffing; and communications and decision making. This course applies towards the California Department of Real Estate's elective educational requir… --- # RE 190 — REAL ESTATE ESCROW This course covers the principles and current practices of the escrow process in California. Topics include terminology, documentation, escrow instructions, encumbrances, interest adjustments, reconveyance, mortgages, insurance, taxes, and fees, other processing details pertinent to the handling of an escrow from inception to closing including fiduciary and ethical responsibilities. This course is one of the elective courses for the real estate salesperson or broker license requirement as set forth by the California Bureau of Real Estate (BRE). --- # RE 195 — PROPERTY MANAGEMENT This course covers the professional management of investment properties such as single-family, multi-family, commercial, and industrial properties. Focus is on current marketing strategies, accounting, and maintenance procedures used by professional management firms. The course is intended for the property owner or the real estate practitioner who wishes to specialize in property management. Course applies toward the California Bureau of Real Estate's educational requirements for licensees. --- # RE 250 — REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON'S LICENSE EXAM PREPARATION This course covers fundamental information concerning the practice of real estate and assists those preparing for the real estate salesperson license examination. Emphasis is placed on real estate licensing, contract law, agency law, taxation, appraisal, and escrow. --- # RE 503 — LAUNCH A CAREER IN REAL ESTATE & FINANCE This noncredit course will review many job opportunities in the fields of real estate and finance. Discover when state or national licensing is required, what job opportunities come with licensing, if needed, and what educational paths to take next. The following areas will be discussed: real estate sales, investment, and institutional work; mortgage loans and brokerage, finance; trading; insurance; and construction. --- # RE 512 — REAL LIFE REAL ESTATE This noncredit course covers the real-life topics of being a homeowner and tenant. It can help you decide if you want to attain your license, invest in real property or seek another goal. Additional topics include financing and credit, property inspections, technology in real estate and basic sales techniques as buyer or agent. --- # RE 513 — SALES SKILLS & NEGOTIATIONS This noncredit course will teach students how to succeed in sales, client development, and real estate negotiations. Students will develop a dealmaker’s playbook that moves beyond theory and includes building a personal brand, leveraging technology to attract clients, and negotiating contracts. Learn how to move beyond a single transaction to build a sustainable, long-term business through a powerful referral engine. Students who complete the class will create a personalized playbook that can serve as a business plan for the first 90 days of their new business and beyond. --- # RE 514 — GOAL SETTING & ACHIEVEMENT Successful outcomes are not accidental, they are architected. This noncredit course will teach students how to master the art and science of effective goal achievement. Whether you want to enter sales, improve your sales, grow your business or personal life, or build an investment portfolio, this class will give you the blueprint to succeed. To accomplish these goals, you may need to start on a team or develop your own. This course also teaches strategies for both pathways using collaboration as a powerful tool to amplify personal and professional success. --- # RE 520 — INTRO TO CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE INSPECTIONS This noncredit course covers the structure and systems of real estate buildings and construction processes. If you own a home, rent an apartment or act as an agent, you will learn how it all should work and what to look for when inspecting a property. You can find the issues before you buy or even start a business inspecting properties for others. --- # RE 530 — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT & FRANCHISING This course identifies opportunities and evaluation tools for those interested in real estate investments, including residential, apartments, commercial and land. Land development, construction and financing is discussed to inform decisions and budgeting. Business franchising is also evaluated as an alternative to real property ownership. This class is designed for current real estate agents or those interested in investing, to learn more about the practical aspects of real estate investment analysis. --- # RE 540 — PERSONAL & REAL ESTATE FINANCE This course for all adults, covers the management of personal finances using the criteria, methodology and resources for effective financial planning. Topics include money management, insurance analysis, investment and retirement planning, tax strategies and real estate. Students will set personal goals and develop a financial plan to meet those goals. --- # RE 541 — STOCK MARKET INVESTING & RETIREMENT PLANNING This course will teach the principles of saving, investing, and planning required to create an income stream and wealth for an enhanced lifestyle and comfortable retirement. Emphasis will be placed on savings vehicles, investment strategies and tax treatment of income and assets. --- # RE 550 — FUNDAMENTALS OF REAL ESTATE This course covers fundamental information concerning the principles and practice of real estate and the skills necessary to complete and pass the California Department of Real Estate Salesperson Examination. Emphasis is placed on: Property ownership and land use controls and regulations; Laws of agency and fiduciary duties; Property valuation and financial analysis; Financing; Transfer of property; Practice of real estate and disclosures; and Contracts. --- # RE 580 — INTRO TO INSURANCE SALES & ETHICS This noncredit course covers an introduction to insurance sales as an industry and job opportunity. This course can help you decide if you want to attain your license to become self-employed or work in an insurance office. Agent requirements and activities will be discussed along with California laws and fraudulent activities to avoid. This course meets the California Department of Insurance ethics education requirement with the purchased California Department of Insurance-approved content. --- # RE 581 — INSURANCE: PROPERTY & CASUALTY This noncredit course covers the pre-license education requirements of the California Department of Insurance in Property and Casualty Insurance. Students will learn about these two areas of insurance coverage and agency responsibility. Personal, commercial and production applications are covered along with California laws and regulations. This course meets the California Department of Insurance ethics education requirement with the purchased California Department of Insurance-approved content. --- # RE 582 — INSURANCE: LIFE, ACCIDENT & HEALTH This noncredit course covers the pre-license education requirements of the California Department of Insurance (CDI) in Life, Accident & Health Insurance. Students will learn about these two areas of insurance coverage and agency responsibility. Private and group life insurance options and taxation is covered as well as health insurance and medical plans, along with California laws and regulations. This course meets the California Department of Insurance ethics education requirement with the purchased California Department of Insurance-approved content. --- # SOC 1 — INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY This course explains how society shapes people's lives and how individual behavior is largely shaped by the groups to which we belong. The course investigates the structure and function of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts. Since all human behavior is social, the subject matter of sociology is vast, ranging from the intimate family to the hostile mob; from organized crime to religious cults; from the division of race, gender and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture; and from the sociology of work to the sociology of the media… --- # SOC 1H — INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY HONORS This course explains how society shapes people's lives and how individual behavior is largely shaped by the groups to which we belong. The course investigates the structure and function of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts. Since all human behavior is social, the subject matter of sociology is vast, ranging from the intimate family to the hostile mob; from organized crime to religious cults; from the division of race, gender and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture; and from the sociology of work to the sociology of the media… --- # SOC 2 — SOCIAL PROBLEMS The course examines major social phenomena in contemporary society. Subjects such as population growth, environmental degradation, the global assembly line, racism, ageism, economic inequality, urban poverty, domestic violence and drugs are emphasized. Students explore, evaluate and seek solutions to world problems. C-ID: SOCI 115 --- # SOC 3H — GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY: THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM HONORS The course discusses the radical new version of human society that has accompanied the spread of global capitalism: political and cultural transformations, the life-style adjustments that have coincided with these grand social trends and an unprecedented level of global inequality. Introduces students to the macrosociological perspective studying the development of the capitalist world system, how this system impacts politics, culture and the economy, and resistance to the growth of global capitalism. Honors course enrichment through limited class size, seminar format, more extensive reading… --- # SOC 3 — GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY: CHANGE IN THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM This course analyzes the major revolutionary changes in human societies that have occurred over the past few hundred years up to the present time. The course discusses the radical new version of human society that has accompanied the spread of global capitalism: political and cultural transformations, the life-style adjustments that have coincided with these grand social trends and an unprecedented level of global inequality. This course introduces students to the macrosociological perspective studying the development of the capitalist world system, how this system impacts politics, culture a… --- # SOC 10 — INTRODUCTION TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY This course is designed to give the student a sociological understanding of the family in a historical and cultural context. The focus is on the family as a social institution -- a set of structured social arrangements for meeting certain human needs -- and the larger social forces that shape its structure. The course explores how wealth, race, gender and sexuality produce diverse family forms and household arrangements, especially within late twentieth century U.S. society. Topics covered include dating, marriage, cohabitation, divorce, single parent families, blended families, issues relate… --- # SOC 15 — SOCIALIZATION OF THE CHILD-CHILD, FAMILY, COMMUNITY This course examines the influence of major socializing agents - family, school, peers, media, and community - on the developing child the course addresses historical, cultural, and socioeconomic factors that affect a child's socialization, as well as issues confronting children with special needs and resources available for interventions. Emphasis is placed on the importance of respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families. This course is of particular interest to students preparing for a career working with children. It also meets Title 22 licensing requirements for… --- # SOC 19 — THE SOCIOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER The course introduces students to the discipline of sociology and to the specific area of gender roles. Focusing on research, both in the United States and globally, it provides an in-depth, multidisciplined survey of gender stressing the interlocking nature of race, class, and gender. The course highlights other disciplines to demonstrate their influence on the thinking of gender roles and the creation of beliefs about women and men, masculinity and femininity. C-ID: SOCI 140 --- # SOC 20H — RACE AND ETHNIC GROUP RELATIONS HONORS This course introduces the principles and processes that shape the patterns of racial and ethnic group relations in the United States. The course examines the social, cultural and economic causes and consequences of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. It offers a sociological framework to address immigration, the growing diversity in the United States, and racial and ethnic struggles worldwide. As an honors course enrichment is achieved through limited class size, seminar format, more extensive reading and discussion of major concepts, theoretical perspectives, and empirical findings. Cred… --- # SOC 20 — RACE AND ETHNIC GROUP RELATIONS This course introduces the principles and processes that shape the patterns of racial and ethnic group relations in the United States. The course examines the social, cultural and economic causes and consequences of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. It offers a sociological framework to address immigration, the growing diversity in the United States, and racial and ethnic struggles worldwide. C-ID: SOCI 150 --- # SOC 23 — SOCIOLOGY OF POPULAR CULTURE This course analyzes the emergence and shifts in popular culture up until the current day--from local newspapers to social media conglomerates. Case studies of media companies such as the Walt Disney Company will be used to trace changes in popular culture, especially production, sales and synergy. The growth of 'new' media outlets on social media and tabloid journalism will also be covered. While there is a focus on media the course will cover other elements of pop culture, including movies, TV, games, toys, theme parks, sports, technology and politics. Attention is given to uncovering conne… --- # SOC 30 — SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY This course is a survey of major theories, concepts, and empirical research findings in social psychology. The course examines the relationship between the individual and the group, and engages such topics as social beliefs and judgments, social influence, conformity, persuasion, prejudice, aggression, and altruism. SOC 30 is also listed as PSYC 30; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID: PSY 170 --- # SPAN 1 — BEGINNING SPANISH I This course develops the fundamentals of communicating in Spanish, including listening comprehension, reading, and basic conversation. The emphasis is on comprehension of spoken and written Spanish. Students actively participate in classroom oral activities. This course also introduces beginning writing skills and presents general aspects of Hispanic daily life and culture. Throughout the course, the role of grammar is secondary to that of acquiring basic competence in Spanish. SPAN 1 is taught in Spanish and is equivalent to two years of high school Spanish. Credit earned in either SPAN 1 or… --- # SPAN 1H — BEGINNING SPANISH I HONORS This course develops the fundamentals of communicating in Spanish, including listening comprehension, reading, writing and basic conversation. Grammar instruction enhances reading comprehension and writing accuracy. Students actively participate in classroom oral activities. In addition, this course presents general aspects of Hispanic daily life and culture. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, oral presentations, expanded assignments and participation in cultural activities. Field trip required. SPAN 1H is taught in Spanish and is equivalent to two years of high s… --- # SPAN 2 — BEGINNING SPANISH II This course is designed to expand the fundamentals of communicating in Spanish, including listening comprehension, reading, writing and basic conversation. The emphasis is on the comprehension of spoken and written Spanish. Students actively participate in classroom oral activities. This course expands beginning writing skills and presents more information about Hispanic daily life and culture. Throughout the course the role of grammar is secondary to that of acquiring basic competence in Spanish. SPAN 2 is taught in Spanish. Credit may be earned in either SPAN 2 or 2H, but not both. C-ID: SP… --- # SPAN 2H — BEGINNING SPANISH II HONORS This course is designed to expand the fundamentals of communicating in Spanish, including listening comprehension, reading, writing and basic conversation. The emphasis is on the comprehension of spoken and written Spanish. Students actively participate in classroom oral activities. This course expands beginning writing skills and presents more information about Hispanic daily life and culture. Throughout the course the role of grammar is secondary to that of acquiring basic competence in Spanish. This honors course will be enriched through limited class size, oral presentations, expanded ass… --- # SPAN 3 — INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I This course further develops the student's ability to comprehend and converse in Spanish and continues to expand student's skills in reading and writing. Students actively participate in classroom oral activities and read essays and fiction in Spanish. The course reviews first year Spanish grammar and introduces intermediate grammatical concepts. SPAN 3 presents additional aspects of Hispanic daily life and culture. SPAN 3 is taught in Spanish. C-ID: SPAN 200 --- # SPAN 4 — INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II This course increases the student's ability to comprehend and converse in Spanish and refines reading and writing skills. Students read essays and fiction in Spanish and also actively participate in class activities. Class discussions center around aspects of Hispanic daily life and culture. Spanish 4 continues to build upon earlier language structures and further expands advanced grammatical structures. SPAN 4 is taught in Spanish. C-ID: SPAN 210 --- # SPAN 10 — INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH This course improves the student's ability to comprehend native spoken Spanish and increases oral fluency. Reading and writing activities enable students to acquire new vocabulary and structures and examine various aspects of Hispanic culture. --- # SRM 80 — INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY This course lays the foundation for the study of global sustainability. With universal foundation/framework, this course provides students with a basic understanding of environmental systems and interrelationship and effect of humans upon the environment. Topics include a historical overview of sustainability and the current problems and issues related to establishing sustainable practices in resource management and conservation of natural resources. Students will examine environmental and urban resource issues, strategies, and tools to investigate and analyze sustainable practices. Students… --- # SRM 85 — SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABILITY This course explores key global challenges, such as population growth and resource consumption and how they are creating a greater urgency to develop and promote theories, methods, and practices that foster sustainability in our society, to include analysis of the origins and environmental impacts of consumer culture, social media tools and community based outreach models to address the needs of developing sustainability programs. --- # SRM 90 — SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR COMMUNITIES This course investigates the nexus between communities and sustainability. Topics include sustainability in the context of urban systems and how these systems should be studied in light of sustainability concerns. This course will consider the impact urban systems have on the environmental systems that support them. Students will study ways we account for costs, benefits, and the environment utilizing the International City Council Management system, Triple Bottom Line tool. Students will examine how decisions are made at the local level and will understand the regulatory framework for sustai… --- # SRM 95 — BUSINESS CASE FOR SUSTAINABILILITY In this course, students will explore trends, concepts, tools, new market opportunities, innovation, and employee engagement in sustainable practices to design, implement and oversee sustainability programs for businesses. Students will study the tools needed to build a business case that examines the impact of sustainability on an organization, institution, or community. Topics include the benefits and challenges of developing more sustainable business strategies and practices as well as the changing role of business in society and the environment. --- # SRM 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: SUSTAINABILITY & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # SRM 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: SUSTAINABILITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # SRM 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: SUSTAINABILITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # STAT C1000 — INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS Common Course Numbering Language: This course is an introduction to statistical thinking and processes, including methods and concepts for discovery and decision-making using data. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi-squared, and t-tests; and applications of technology for statistical analysis including the interpretation of the relevance of the statistical findings. Students apply methods and processes to applications using data from a broad range of disciplines. IVC… --- # TA 1 — ACTING This course addresses traditional techniques, theories and philosophies of acting. Students work on the creative and physical aspects of the art, including voice development, breathing and relaxation techniques, and kinetics. Improvisation, scene study, character development, and text analysis are central to this course. C-ID: THTR 151 --- # TA 2 — BEGINNING SCENE STUDY This course continues the emphasis on the physical and creative aspects of acting begun in Theatre Arts 1. Students concentrate on scene study, characterization, and ensemble performance, working toward realizing a method of approach. C-ID: THTR 151 --- # TA 3 — ADVANCED SCENE STUDY This course continues the physical and creative acting emphasis of Theatre Arts 2, with additional work in the areas of cold reading and situation comedy. Students focus primarily on advanced scene study, characterization and ensemble performance, working toward realizing a method of approach. --- # TA 4 — ACTING STYLES: CLASSICAL This course is devoted to the analysis, preparation and performance of classical scenes. The course focuses on the stylistic demands placed on actors performing scenes or monologues from plays by classical Greek, Elizabethan, and Renaissance playwrights, including Shakespeare. Students study and practice the nuances of period characterization. --- # TA 5 — ACTING STYLES-CONTEMPORARY This course is devoted to the analysis, preparation and performance of modern and contemporary scenes. The course focuses on the stylistic demands placed on actors performing scenes or monologues. Students study and practice the nuances of characterization. --- # TA 7 — SCREEN ACTING TECHNIQUES This course explores the principles and techniques of various performance methods involved in acting for television and film. The course includes directed exercises and dramatic scenes from feature films, situation comedies, soap operas, and commercials. --- # TA 8 — ADVANCED ACTING This is an advanced course in acting. The course focuses especially on text analysis and character development, and students concentrate on exploring and developing their creative abilities in these areas. C-ID: THTR 152 --- # TA 9 — MUSICAL THEATRE TECHNIQUE This course introduces students to the principles and techniques involved in performing for musical theatre. Students practice solo, small group, and ensemble singing, dancing, acting, and auditioning techniques. They also experiment with various performance methods and styles. --- # TA 10 — MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP This course builds upon the principles and techniques involved in performing for musical theatre. Students develop and integrate acting, vocal, and dance skills through solo, small group, and ensemble performances of musical theatre pieces. They also experiment with various performance methods and styles, and build audition skills and personal repertoire. --- # TA 11 — DEVISED THEATER WORKSHOP This course offers an introduction to the principles, techniques, and practices of devised theater. Through a combination of theory, practical exercises, and creative exploration, students will learn the collaborative processes involved in creating original theatrical works. The course emphasizes ensemble-based creativity, experimentation, and the development of skills in improvisation, physicality, and collective storytelling. Popular examples of ensemble-based creativity include plays such as The Laramie Project and War Horse . --- # TA 12 — DIRECTING This course is an introduction to the role of the director in theatrical productions. The course explores the director's interpretation of dramatic literature, focusing on the communication of intellectual and emotional concepts through composition, picturization, movement, and rhythm. --- # TA 13 — DIRECTING PRACTICUM This course offers students an immersive experience in theatrical directing, enabling them to bring a play from script to stage under the guidance of an experienced mentor. Through a combination of practical exercises, and hands-on directing opportunities, students will develop the skills and insights necessary to effectively lead a production, make artistic choices, and collaborate with actors and production teams. --- # TA 15B — CONTINUATION OF REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: DRAMA This course focuses on the preparation of serious dramatic productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of dramatic productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 15B is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the second half of TA 15. TA 15 (or TA 15A and 15B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID… --- # TA 15A — INTRODUCTION TO REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: DRAMA This course focuses on the preparation of serious dramatic productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of dramatic productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 15A is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the first half of TA 15. TA 15 (or TA 15A and 15B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID:… --- # TA 15 — REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: DRAMA This course focuses on the preparation of serious dramatic productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of dramatic productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 15 is an open-entry/open-exit course. TA 15 (or TA 15A and 15B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: THTR 191 --- # TA 16A — INTRODUCTION TO REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: COMEDY This course focuses on the preparation of comic productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of comic productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 16A is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the first half of TA 16. Ta 16 (or TA 16A and 16B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: THTR 191 --- # TA 16 — REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: COMEDY This course focuses upon the preparation of comic productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of comic productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 16 is an open-entry/open-exit course. TA 16 (or TA 16A and 16B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: THTR 191 --- # TA 16B — CONTINUATION OF REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: COMEDY This course focuses upon the preparation of comic productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of comic productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 16B is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the second half of TA 16. TA 16 (or TA 16A and 16B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: THTR 191 --- # TA 17A — INTRODUCTION TO REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: MIXED GENRES This course focuses on the preparation of mixed genre productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of mixed genre productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 17A is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the first half of TA 17. TA 17 (or TA 17a and 17B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: T… --- # TA 17 — REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: MIXED GENRES This course focuses on the preparation of mixed genre productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of mixed genre productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 17 is an open-entry/open-exit course. TA 17 (or TA 17A and 17B) may be taken once for a maximum of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: THTR 191 --- # TA 17B — CONTINUATION OF REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: MIXED GENRES This course focuses on the preparation of mixed genre productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of mixed genre productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 17B is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the second half of TA 17. TA 17 (or TA 17A and 17B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: TH… --- # TA 18 — REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE-DANCE This course focuses on the preparation of theatrical productions with a strong dance element, such as dance concerts, musical theatre productions, and operas. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies of theatrical performance as they relate to the development of such productions. TA 18 (or TA 18A and 18B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # TA 18A — INTRODUCTION TO REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE-DANCE This course focuses on the preparation of theatrical productions with a strong dance element, such as dance concerts, musical theatre productions, and operas. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies of theatrical performance as they relate to the development of such productions. TA 18A is equivalent to the first half of TA 18. TA 18 (or TA 18A and 18B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # TA 18B — CONTINUATION OF REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE-DANCE This course focuses on the preparation of theatrical productions with a strong dance element, such as dance concerts, musical theatre productions, and operas. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies of theatrical performance as they relate to the development of such productions. TA 18B is equivalent to the second half of TA 18. TA 18 (or TA 18A and 18B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. --- # TA 19 — REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: MUSICAL THEATRE This course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of musical theatre productions. The course focuses on the preparation of musical theatre productions for public performance. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 19 is an open-entry/open-exit course. TA 19 (or TA 19A and 19B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID: THTR 191 --- # TA 19A — INTRODUCTION TO REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: MUSICAL THEATRE This course focuses on the preparation of musical theatre productions for public performance. The course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of musical theatre productions. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 19A is open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the first half of TA 19. TA 19 (or TA 19A and 19B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units. C-ID… --- # TA 19B — CONTINUATION OF REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE: MUSICAL THEATRE This course addresses performance techniques, theories, and philosophies as they relate to the development of musical theatre productions. The course focuses on the preparation of musical theatre productions for public performance. Students will both act and assist with technical work and production management. TA 19B is an open-entry/open-exit course and is equivalent to the second half of TA 19. TA 19 (or TA 19A and 19B) may be taken once for a total of 2 units. Students are limited to taking four of the rehearsal and performance courses (TA 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19) for a maximum of 8 units.… --- # TA 20 — THEATRE APPRECIATION-CLASSICAL OVERVIEW This course examines theatre history, the role of the actor and director, and exemplary plays from the ancient Greek through the 19th century. Students may be required to attend scheduled field trips to community and professional theatre performances, and to evaluate and critique productions. --- # TA 21 — THEATRE APPRECIATION-CONTEMPORARY This course studies important playwrights, genres, and technical aspects of 20th century, 21st century, and contemporary theatre. Students may be required to attend scheduled field trips to community and professional theatre performances, and to evaluate and critique productions. --- # TA 22 — INTRODUCTION TO THEATER Focuses on the relationship of theater to various cultures throughout history, and on the contributions of significant individual artists. This course introduces students to elements of the production process including playwriting, acting, directing, design, and criticism. Students will also survey different periods, styles and genres of theater through play reading, discussion, films and viewing and critiquing live theater, including required attendance of theater productions outside of normal class time. C-ID: THTR 111 --- # TA 25H — GREAT PLAYS-PRIMITIVE TO RENAISSANCE HONORS This reading and discussion course studies significant plays from the major eras of world drama, from primitive ritual through the 17th century. The course traces the development of the play in themes, characterization, and dramatic structure, considering philosophical and cultural backgrounds and production styles that have influenced the staging of plays. In this honors course student writing assignments are more rigorous than the non-honors course. Topics covered in more depth compared to the standard course may include acting, Shakespeare or stagecraft. Credit may be earned in either TA 2… --- # TA 25 — GREAT PLAYS-PRIMITIVE TO RENAISSANCE This reading and discussion course studies significant plays from the major eras of world drama, from primitive ritual through the 17th century. The course traces the development of the play in themes, characterization, and dramatic structure, considering philosophical and cultural backgrounds and production styles that have influenced the staging of plays. Field trips may be required. Credit may be earned in either TA 25 or 25H, but not both. C-ID: THTR 113 --- # TA 26 — GREAT PLAYS: RENAISSANCE TO CONTEMPORARY This reading and discussion course studies significant plays from the major eras of world drama, from the 18th century to contemporary works. The course traces the development of the play in themes, characterization, and dramatic structure considering philosophical and cultural backgrounds and production styles that have influenced the staging of plays. Field trips may be required. Credit may be earned in either TA 26 or 26H, but not both. --- # TA 26H — GREAT PLAYS: RENAISSANCE TO CONTEMPORARY HONORS This reading and discussion course studies significant plays from the major eras of world drama, from the 18th century to contemporary works. The course traces the development of the play in themes, characterization, and dramatic structure considering philosophical and cultural backgrounds and production styles that have influenced the staging of plays. In this honors course student writing assignments are more rigorous than in the non-honors course. Topics covered in more depth than the standard course may include acting, directing or stagecraft. Credit may be earned in either TA 26 or 26H,… --- # TA 27 — INTRO TO FINE ARTS AND MUSICAL THEATER This course introduces the fine arts disciplines that are found in musical theater, including studio art, dance, literature, architecture, and music. The course will explore various topics that unite all performing arts, including terminology, aesthetics, themes, objective and subjective analysis, and techniques of the critique. Attendance at live performances outside of class time may be required. --- # TA 29 — SCRIPT ANALYSIS In this course students fully explore an in-depth methodology for reading, analyzing and understanding play scripts intended for production in a variety of genres and styles. Students investigate techniques used to read a play for its structure, scrutinizing the playwright's methods of creating theatre through plot, character and imagery. Students examine play scripts from both an artist's and an audience member's point of view. Contrasts with other forms of literature are also considered.Credit may be earned in TA 29 or 29H, but not both. C-ID: THTR 114 --- # TA 29H — SCRIPT ANALYSIS: HONORS In this course students fully explore an in-depth methodology for reading, analyzing and understanding play scripts intended for production in a variety of genres and styles. Students investigate techniques used to read a play for its structure, scrutinizing the playwright's methods of creating theatre through plot, character, and imagery. Students examine play scripts from both an artist's and an audience member's point of view. Contrasts with other forms of literature are also considered. Additional content for the honors course includes topics such as archetypical, feminist, and psychologi… --- # TA 30 — INTRODUCTION TO ORAL INTERPRETATION This is a course in the presentation of literature. Students apply basic physical and vocal performance techniques to prose, poetry, and drama. The course includes the study of literary craft, a vital part of oral presentation. TA 30 is also listed as COMM 30; credit will be given in either area, not both. C-ID: COMM 170 --- # TA 35 — VOICE AND DICTION In this course students study the principles and practices of vocal and articulatory development and control. The course provides drills in phonation and drills for clarity, ease in articulation, resonance, and vocal variety. TA 35 is also listed as COMM 35; credit will be given in either area, not both. --- # TA 40 — INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE DESIGN This course explores the elements of scenic, costume, makeup, sound and lighting design in theater. Emphasis is placed on practical skills needed by theater designers, including drawing, drafting, script analysis and research. Students may be required to attend theatrical productions outside of normal class time. C-ID: THTR 172 --- # TA 41 — STAGE LIGHTING DESIGN This course introduces the theory and practice of stage lighting. The course covers lighting instruments and controls; the aesthetics of color; the distribution, intensity, and movement of light; and basic principles of electricity. Students gain practical experience in the work of lighting technicians for theatrical productions. C-ID: THTR 173 --- # TA 42 — COSTUME DESIGN This course studies the principles of costume design, the basic process of design and costume construction, character analysis, and rendering techniques. Lectures include a survey of fashion history and a study of textiles. C-ID: THTR 174 --- # TA 43 — SCENIC DESIGN FOR THE THEATRE This course introduces the principles and techniques of scenic design, stressing the design process and the dramatic use of space. The course explores the particular media, floor plan development, scale model making, rendering techniques, manual and computer aided drafting, and computer applications for set designers. Projects focus on the interpretation of plays through scenic elements. TA 43 was formerly offered as TA 40C. --- # TA 44 — STAGECRAFT TA 44 is an introduction to technical theater and the creation of scenic elements. Topics include the basic concepts and theories of design, painting techniques, set construction, set movement, prop construction, backstage organization, and career possibilities. C-ID: THTR 171 --- # TA 45 — SCENE PAINTING This course introduces students to techniques and materials used in the painting of scenery for the stage. Students learn techniques of faux painting, trompe l'oeil (trick the eye), and decorative motifs for theater. This course will include use of brush, roller, spray gun, texturing, rock background, wood graining, wallpaper, masonry, scenic backdrops and other scene painting techniques. Students study of the principles of color, paint mixing techniques, as well as the various types of paints used in the theater. Procedures for safe material usage and disposal are also covered. --- # TA 46 — INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL THEATER This course provides students with basic skills in stage lighting, live audio, stage scenery construction and scenic painting. Students learn to read and create design documentation such as ground plans and lighting plots. Elements of shop safety and safe use of materials is also covered. Field trips may be required. --- # TA 47 — SOUND REINFORCEMENT FOR LIVE ENTERTAINMENT This course examines the science of sound reinforcement and use of audio equipment for theatrical performances, concerts and other live events. Students study the aesthetics of sound in live performance and learn the technology of mixing consoles, speaker placement, microphone techniques, room equalization, reverb, delay, and other effects. Participation in field trips may be required. --- # TA 49 — STAGE MAKEUP DESIGN Students in this course will receive instruction and practice in all phases of makeup specifically designed for theatrical use. Course topics include: character analysis, design documentation, airbrush techniques, facial hair application, skin preparation, hairstyling, safety and hygiene. C-ID: THTR 175 --- # TA 51 — STAGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICUM This entry-level practicum course is focused on the responsibilities of the Assistant Stage Manager. Students will play a critical role in the rehearsal and performance process of a live production at the college Performing Arts Center. Students work with actors and stagehands. Coursework is modeled after professional practices in America's regional theaters. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 52 — STAGE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR This lecture course covers fundamental topics in stage and production management including, management theory, production hierarchy, safety protocols, and house management. Management of a broad range of live entertainment is covered. Coursework is modeled after professional practices in America's regional theaters including an in-depth look at Actor's Equity Association guidelines. --- # TA 53 — ADVANCED STAGE MANAGEMENT This applied stage management course provides practical experience managing a live production at the college Performing Arts Center. Each student works with faculty mentors to lead a cast, crew and artistic team through rehearsals and ultimately a series of performances. Rehearsals and performances are modeled after professional practices in America's regional theaters. --- # TA 54 — SPECIAL TOPICS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT This is an advanced course in stage management for musical theater, concert dance, ballet, opera, and other productions where music plays a central role. Students learn the skills necessary to work successfully with vocal directors, musical directors, musicians, choreographers, and dancers. Topics include the language and conventions of music, rehearsal and performance procedures, and working with the relevant labor unions. --- # TA 61 — THEATER CREW: SCENIC Students in this laboratory course learn the skills of a professional stagehand by participating in a theater department production. Students will learn about strategizing scenic shifts for accuracy and efficiency. Students will move and operate stage scenery in rehearsal and performance. This course usually meets evenings and some weekends, attendance at all class sessions is critical. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 62 — THEATER CREW: COSTUME Students in this laboratory course gain professional skills in wardrobe by participating in a theater department production. Students learn practical knowledge and experience necessary to work backstage preparing, changing, and maintaining, costumes before and during performances. This course usually meets evenings and some weekends, attendance at all class sessions is critical. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 63 — THEATER CREW: LIGHTING Students in this laboratory course learn the skills of a professional lighting technician by participating in a theater department production. Students will operate lighting equipment in rehearsal and performance. Course usually meets evenings and some weekends and attendance at all class sessions is critical. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 64 — THEATER CREW: AUDIO/VIDEO Students in this laboratory course learn the skills of a professional audio/video technician by participating in a theater department production. Students will operate audio or video equipment in rehearsal and performance. This course usually meets evenings and some weekends and attendance at all class sessions is critical. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 65 — THEATER CREW: MAKE-UP Students in this laboratory course learn the skills of a professional make-up technician by participating in a theater department production. Students will organize and apply make-up in rehearsal and performance. This course usually meets evenings and some weekends and attendance at all class sessions is critical. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 71 — COSTUME SEWING This practicum course covers the fundamentals of costume construction and its integration into live performances. Students learn basic hand sewing, machine sewing, and garment care. Students develop skills in measuring, marking, and basic alterations. Techniques for measuring the body to determine size are also covered. --- # TA 72 — COSTUME SEWING AND PRODUCTION This practicum course covers the fundamentals of costume construction and its integration into live performances. In addition to learning basic hand and machine sewing, students expand skills in seaming, closures, hemming, and other construction techniques. Students learn to interpret design criteria while working on costumes for theater department productions. --- # TA 73 — COSTUME SEWING, PRODUCTION, AND WARDROBE This practicum course covers the fundamentals of costume construction and its integration into live performances. In addition to learning hand and machine sewing students develop skills in seaming, closures, hemming and other costume construction techniques. Class projects involve building garments for theater department productions. Students study garment care and maintenance, emergency repairs, and quick costume change systemics. Students may serve as wardrobe crew on department productions. --- # TA 74 — SCENE SHOP BASICS This laboratory course offers students an opportunity to develop technical theatre skills by working on shows in production during the semester. The course focuses on basic production tools and materials used to construct a set. --- # TA 75 — SCENIC PRODUCTION PRACTICUM This laboratory course offers students an opportunity to develop technical theatre skills by working on shows in production during the semester. The course covers the tools, materials, and techniques used in the construction of stage scenery. In addition, basics of stage rigging and scene painting are covered. --- # TA 76 — SCENIC PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICUM This laboratory course offers students an opportunity to develop technical theater skills by working on shows in production during the semester. The course covers the tools, materials, and techniques used in the construction of stage scenery. In addition, basics of stage rigging and scene painting are covered. Students also have the opportunity to participate in performances as part of the stage crew. C-ID: THTR 192 --- # TA 168A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: LIVE ENTERTAINMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # TA 168C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: LIVE ENTERTAINMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience in live entertainment workplaces. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # TA 168B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: LIVE ENTERTAINMENT This course provides students an opportunity for supervised work experience. Students extend their classroom-based occupational learning by working at a job related to their major and to their occupational goal. Student, instructor, and employer will cooperatively develop a minimum of three learning objectives. One unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of volunteer employment for successful completion of learning objectives, and for attendance at scheduled seminar sessions. --- # TA 241B — IRVINE VALLEY CONSERVATORY This saturation course is an intensive program offered for the superior career-oriented student. By utilizing the conservatory method of education, guest artists, staff, and more mature student artists will educate the less experienced students in a continuing program of rehearsal, self-analysis, discussion, lecture, and performance. The student may be team-taught by company artists who are professionally competent in their particular area of specialty. --- # TA 241C — IRVINE VALLEY CONSERVATORY This saturation course is an intensive program offered for the superior career-oriented student. By utilizing the conservatory method of education, guest artists, staff, and more mature student artists will educate the less experienced students in a continuing program of rehearsal, self-analysis, discussion, lecture, and performance. The student may be team-taught by company artists who are professionally competent in their particular area of specialty. --- # TA 241A — IRVINE VALLEY CONSERVATORY This intensive course focuses on preparation for and public performance of fully realized stage productions. Each academic year, a fresh season of productions is selected. By utilizing the conservatory method of education, guest artists, faculty and staff lead students in a continuing program of rehearsal, self-analysis, discussion, and performance. Students are team-taught by company artists who are professionally competent in their particular area of specialty. Students participate as actors and stagehands in coursework that culminates in a series of public performances. --- # TA 415 — THEATRE REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE This course for older adults focuses on the preparation, rehearsal, and performance of public theatre productions. Students participate in selecting a production, analyzing the script, auditioning, acting, technical preparation, and production management. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # TA 416 — VOICE AND DICTION FOR THE MATURE ADULT In this course, adult students learn how to improve and maintain a healthy voice as they age. The course focuses on practical exercises to help students speak clearly, with ease and confidence. Students will practice techniques to improve pronunciation, voice control, and expression, with a special emphasis on making their English more easily understood. This course also includes tips for avoiding strain and keeping the voice strong and clear over time. --- # TA 417 — MUSICAL THEATER STUDIO This course is designed to empower older adults with a passion for musical theater to enhance their singing abilities and develop a solid foundation in vocal technique. Through a combination of practical exercises, guided instruction, and group collaboration, participants will strengthen their vocal skills, gain confidence, and explore the world of musical theater singing. --- # TA 445 — THEATRICAL SCENE PAINTING AND FAUX FINISHING FOR THE HOME In this course adult students learn skills in faux finishing techniques and mural painting. Students will create sample boards of techniques demonstrated by the instructor. Students will learn how to simulate wood, marble, stone, brick and fabric using a variety of paint techniques. Skills learned in this class are applicable to both theatrical and interior design practice. This is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # TU 301 — SUPERVISED TUTORING This course is designed to facilitate student learning by offering tutoring and supplemental instruction in a variety of subjects to facilitate the development of learning strategies. Tutors are trained in tutoring techniques. The course is recommended for all students experiencing difficulty in mastering study skills and concepts in their academic courses. Generally, tutoring is in small group settings. It is an open-entry/open-exit course. --- # WEE 167B — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: GENERAL This General Work Education Experience course provides college unit(s) for supervised work experience related to any type of job whether paid or unpaid; this is intended to assist students in acquiring and developing desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. General WEE need not be related to student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major offered by the college. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per semester, maximum of 16 WEE units. 1 unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of unpaid hours worked --- # WEE 167C — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: GENERAL This General Work Education Experience course provides college unit(s) for supervised work experience related to any type of job whether paid or unpaid; this is intended to assist students in acquiring and developing desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. General WEE need not be related to student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major offered by the college. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per semester, maximum of 16 WEE units. 1 unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of unpaid hours worked. --- # WEE 167D — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: GENERAL This General Work Education Experience course provides college unit(s) for supervised work experience related to any type of job whether paid or unpaid; this is intended to assist students in acquiring and developing desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. General WEE need not be related to student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major offered by the college. Students may earn up to 4 WEE units per semester, maximum of 16 WEE units. 1 unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of unpaid hours worked. --- # WEE 167A — WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION: GENERAL This General Work Education Experience course provides college unit(s) for supervised work experience related to any type of job whether paid or unpaid; this is intended to assist students in acquiring and developing desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness. General WEE need not be related to student's career goals or any specific vocational program or major offered by the college. Students may earn up to 4 CWE units per semester, maximum of 16 WEE units. 1 unit of credit will be awarded for each 75 hours of paid or 60 hours of unpaid hours worked. --- # WR 10 — INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING This course introduces students to the fundamental conventions of poetry and fiction, both as readers and as writers. Students write original poems and short fiction and critically evaluate writing in a workshop atmosphere. C-ID: ENGL 200 --- # WR 11 — WRITING SHORT FICTION Writing 11 is designed for student writers of short fictional narratives. Students will study the fundamentals of short fiction, write original fiction and evaluate the work of other student writers in a workshop setting. --- # WR 13 — WRITING POETRY Writing 13 provides instruction in the craft of writing poetry for both the beginning and the experienced writer. The course is organized and taught in the form of a traditional writer's workshop, a directed forum in which students read, discuss, and critique the poems they have written in response to weekly assignments. Students study modern and contemporary poems for evidence of poetic techniques put into practice. Students are thus directed to read closely, to write consciously, and to recognize a well-written poem. --- # WR 14 — INTERMEDIATE POETRY WRITING Writing 14 provides instruction in the craft of writing poetry for writers with some experience. The course is organized around lecture and workshop, a directed forum in which students read, discuss, and critique their poems and the poems of others. Intermediate students help direct the investigation and conversations about poetic craft techniques through study of already published poems, and further develop their abilities to recognize and produce well-crafted, publishable poems. --- # WR 15 — INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING FOR FILM/TV This course introduces students to fundamental dramatic conventions and formats of screenwriting for film and television. Students will identify, evaluate, and employ fundamental dramatic conventions such as structure, character development, dialogue, and setting as they analyze works of philosophical, historical, literary, aesthetic, and cultural importance, such as produced screenplays, and write their own original work. --- # WR 16 — WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION Writing 16 introduces students to creative writing nonfiction and provides instruction in writing various forms of the genre through extensive studying, modeling, discussing, and critiquing of representative texts composed by professionals, including but not limited to the memoir, essay, literary journalism, and audio storytelling. Through guided exercises, assignments, and workshops, students will compose, share, and revise original works of creative nonfiction. Course emphasis on form of creative nonfiction may vary depending upon instructor's expertise. --- # WR 17 — INTERMEDIATE SCREENWRITING WR 17 provides instruction in the craft and business of screenwriting for film and television for writers with some experience. Intermediate students help direct conversations about dramatic conventions such as structure, character development, dialogue, conflict, and setting as they continue to analyze works of philosophical, historical, literary, aesthetic, and cultural importance, such as produced screenplays to further develop their abilities to analyze produced screenplays and write their own original work. --- # WR 375 — WRITING CONFERENCE FOR APPLICATIONS ESSAYS This open-entry/open-exit, pass/no-pass course offers one-on-one conference instruction with English instructors for students working on personal statements and applications essays for transfer to 4 year colleges and universities, scholarships, and employment. Students must complete 12 hours in the Writing Center and two formal conferences with an instructor during Center hours to receive credit. --- # WR 376 — WRITING CONFERENCE FOR APPLICATIONS ESSAYS II In this open-entry/open-exit, pass/no-pass course, students will continue to receive one-on-one conference instruction with English faculty for their personal statements and applications essays for transfer to 4-year colleges and universities, scholarships, and employment. Students must complete 12 hours in the Writing Center and 2 formal conferences with an instructor during Center hours to receive credit. --- # WR 385 — WRITING CONFERENCE BEYOND THE COLLEGE WRITING COURSE This open-entry/open-exit course offers writing support and instruction for courses in any discipline that includes writing assignments. Students who are enrolled in College Writing 1 and 2 should enroll in the co-requisites for those courses (WR 181 and WR 182) and not WR 385. --- # ENG 435 — FILM GENRES A formal analysis of film as an art form for older adults. Films of various styles and periods will address issues of plot, character, setting, dialogue, imagery and symbolism. This is an open-entry/open-exit course.