# MiraCosta College — full catalog > Generated 2026-06-21T19:43:14.815Z from a crawl of miracosta.edu. 817 records (8 programs · 809 courses · 0 resource pages). # Associate Degree for Transfer Requirements **Degree** The Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT) provides students with a clear pathway to a California State University (CSU) major and baccalaureate degree. Students who wish to earn an Associate in Science for Transfer (AS-T) or Associate in Arts for Transfer (AA-T) from MiraCosta College must meet the following requirements: Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/associatedegreefortransfer/ --- # Bachelor's Degree Requirements **Degree** The bachelor's degree in biomanufacturing builds upon the associate degree program in biomanufacturing, allowing students who complete the associate degree or equivalent coursework from other colleges to enter as juniors and earn a baccalaureate. Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/bachelorofsciencereq/ --- # Certificate Requirements **Certificate** Certificates of achievement are designed to prepare students for employment in specific career areas. In developing certificates, MiraCosta faculty collaborate with employers who describe the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for success in all aspects of a trade or occupation. Students should have basic knowledge in reading, writing, and math to master the work and to advance in the occupation they select. Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/certs/ --- # Graduation & Commencement Students completing degree or certificate of achievement requirements should submit a petition by the deadline of their final semester or session. Petition deadlines are as follows: Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/commencement/ --- # MCGE The MCGE pattern will satisfy general education requirements at MiraCosta College but will not satisfy all general education requirements for transfer to a CSU or UC campus and is not intended for students transferring to a four-year institution. ## Courses - ADM 100 — : Introduction to the Administration of Justice - ADM 200 — : Concepts of Criminal Law - ANTH 102 — : Cultural Anthropology - ANTH 103 — : Introduction to Archaeology - ANTH 105 — : Evolution of Human Behavior - ANTH 107 — : Gender, Sex, and Sexuality - ANTH 120 — : Global Health - ANTH 135 — : Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion - ANTH 190 — : Primate Behavior and Ecology - ART 100 — : Drawing and Composition - ART 101 — : Design and Color - ART 103 — : 3D Design - ART 104 — : Artists & Designers Now - ART 201 — : Objects and Ideas in Contemporary Art - ART 232 — : Video Art - ART 244 — : Digital Media for the Visual Artist - ART 254 — : Understanding and Appreciating the Photographic Image - ART 290 — : Landmarks of Art - ARTH 157 — : Art Orientation - ARTH 158 — : Indigenous Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas - ARTH 159 — : Indigenous Arts of Central and South America - ARTH 260 — : History of Modern Art - ARTH 260H — : History of Modern Art (Honors) - ASTR 120 — : Life in the Universe - AUTO 110 — : History of the Automobile - BIO 102 — : Introductory Biology: Ecology and Environmental Biology - BIO 103 — : Introductory Biology: Animal Diversity - BIO 104 — : Introductory Biology: Botany (Plant Life) - BIO 105 — : Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society - BIO 107 — : Introductory Biology: Marine Biology - BIO 108 — : Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability - BIO 108L — : Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability Lab - BIO 110 — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lecture/Lab) - BIO 111 — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lecture) - BIO 111L — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lab) - BIO 202 — : Foundations of Biology: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Organismal Biology - BIO 204 — : Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology - BIO 220 — : Human Physiology - BLST 100 — : Introduction to Black Studies - BTEC 180 — : Biostatistics - BUS 147 — : Personal Finance - BUS 204 — : Business Statistics - CCS 100 — : Introduction to Chicana/o Studies - CCS 232 — : Critical Issues in Chicana and Latina Studies - CDEV 235 — : Children in a Diverse Society - CHEM 103 — : Chemistry and Society: For Non-Science Majors - CHEM 103L — : Chemistry and Society: For Non-Science Majors (Lab) - CHEM 112 — : Introductory General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: For Allied Health Majors - CHEM 115 — : Introductory General Chemistry: For Allied Health Majors - CHEM 140 — : Preparation for General Chemistry: For Science Majors - CHEM 150 — : General Chemistry I: For Science Majors - CHEM 151 — : General Chemistry II: For Science Majors - COMM 106 — : Group Communication - COMM 111 — : Narrative Performance - COMM 120 — : Principles of Human Communication - COMM 135 — : Gender Studies in Communication - COMM 212 — : Argumentation - COMM 215 — : Intercultural Communication - COMM 220 — : Introduction to Mass Communication - COUN 115 — : Introduction to Multicultural Counseling - CSIT 123 — : Introduction to Data Analytics - CSIT 160 — : Technology, the Individual, and Society - CSIT 165 — : Living in an Online World - DESN 107 — : History of Western Architecture-A Sustainable Perspective - DESN 108 — : World Architecture - DNCE 100 — : Dance Appreciation - DNCE 101 — : Dance History - DNCE 102 — : Introduction to Mexican Folkloric Dance: History, Culture, and Performance - DNCE 104 — : Dance on Film - DNCE 105 — : Dance Cultures of the World - DRAM 105 — : Introduction to Theatre - DRAM 130 — : Acting I - DRAM 134 — : Introduction to Performance - DRAM 222 — : Introduction to Black Theater - EART 106 — : Earth and Space Science - ECON 100 — : Survey of Economics - ETHN 100 — : Introduction to Ethnic Studies - ETHN 100H — : Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Honors) - ETHN 200 — : Introduction to Pacific Islander and Oceania Studies - ETHN 207 — : Race and Ethnic Relations - FILM 101 — : Introduction to Film - FILM 101H — : Introduction to Film (Honors) - FILM 106 — : Study of Cinematic Adaptation - FILM 111 — : Film History I: 1880-1948 - FILM 112 — : Film History II: 1948-Present - FILM 211 — : Identity and Film: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality - FILM 212 — : Women and Gender in Film - FREN 101 — : Elementary French (First Semester) - FREN 102 — : Elementary French (Second Semester) - FREN 121 — : Introduction to French Culture - FREN 201 — : Intermediate French (Third Semester) - FREN 202 — : Intermediate French (Fourth Semester) - GEOG 101 — : Earth's Dynamic Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography - GEOG 101L — : Earth's Dynamic Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography Lab - GEOG 102 — : People, Place, and Time: Introduction to Human Geography - GEOG 104 — : World Geography - GEOG 108 — : Environmental Sustainability and Society - GEOG 155 — : Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Techniques with Lab - GEOL 101 — : Physical Geology - GEOL 101L — : Physical Geology Laboratory - GERO 101 — : Introduction to Aging - GERO 250 — : Intergenerational Issues - GRMN 101 — : Elementary German (First Semester) - GRMN 102 — : Elementary German (Second Semester) - GRMN 121 — : Introduction to German Culture - HIST 100 — : World History to 1500 - HIST 100H — : World History to 1500 (Honors) - HIST 101 — : World History Since 1500 - HIST 101H — : World History Since 1500 (Honors) - HIST 102 — : History of the Modern Middle East - HIST 103 — : Early European History and Culture - HIST 104 — : Modern European History and Culture - HIST 107 — : East Asian Societies - HIST 113 — : American Military History - HIST 115 — : Women in American History - HIST 116 — : History of the Americas to 1830 - HIST 117 — : History of the Americas Since 1830 - HIST 141 — : Mexican American History Through 1877 - HIST 142 — : Mexican American History Since 1877 - HIST 145 — : African American History to 1877 - HIST 146 — : African American History Since 1877 - HIST 150 — : History of Mexico - HIST 165 — : California History - HORT 115 — : Soil Science - HORT 116 — : Plant Science - HUMN 101 — : Introduction to the Arts - HUMN 202 — : Humanities of the Western World: The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century - HUMN 205 — : Women in Western Art and Literature - ITAL 101 — : Elementary Italian (First Semester) - ITAL 102 — : Elementary Italian (Second Semester) - ITAL 121 — : Introduction to Italian Culture - ITAL 201 — : Intermediate Italian (Third Semester) - ITAL 202 — : Intermediate Italian (Fourth Semester) - JAPN 101 — : Elementary Japanese (First Semester) - JAPN 102 — : Elementary Japanese (Second Semester) - JAPN 121 — : Introduction to Japanese Culture - JAPN 123 — : Japanese Anime and Manga - JAPN 201 — : Intermediate Japanese (Third Semester) - JAPN 202 — : Intermediate Japanese (Fourth Semester) - LIT 100 — : Introduction to Chicano Chicana Literature - LIT 122 — : Introduction to African American Literature - LIT 250 — : American Literature: First Contact Through the Civil War - LIT 251 — : American Literature: Mid-1800s to the Present - LIT 260 — : English Literature Through the 18th Century - LIT 261 — : English Literature: Romantic to Contemporary - LIT 265 — : Shakespeare Studies - LIT 270 — : World Literature to 1600 - LIT 271 — : World Literature Since 1600 - MAT 105 — : History of Graphic Design - MATH 102 — : Math Fundamentals: Mathematics for Life - MATH 102A — : Mathematics for Life - MATH 110 — : Principles of Data Science - MATH 112 — : Algebraic Concepts for Problem Solving - MATH 115 — : Calculus with Applications - MATH 126 — : Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra - MATH 126S — : Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra with Integrated Support - MATH 131 — : Pre-Calculus II: Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry - MATH 135 — : Precalculus Mathematics - MATH 210 — : Mathematical Concepts and Structures for Teachers I: Number Systems and Number Sense - MATH 212 — : Mathematical Concepts and Structures for Teachers II: Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Reasoning - MATH 260 — : Calculus and Analytic Geometry III - MUS 110 — : Theory/Musicianship I - MUS 112 — : American Popular Music - MUS 113 — : The Music of America - MUS 114 — : History of Rock and Roll - MUS 115 — : History of Classical Music - MUS 116 — : A Survey of World Music - MUS 119 — : Jazz History - NAIS 100 — : Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies - NURS 153 — : Pathophysiology for Health Professions - NURS 201 — : Pharmacology Essentials for Nursing Practice - NUTR 100 — : Nutrition Today - NUTR 120 — : Principles of Food Science with Lab - OCEA 101 — : Introduction to Oceanography - OCEA 101H — : Introduction to Oceanography (Honors) - OCEA 101L — : Introductory Oceanography Laboratory - PHIL 100 — : Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing - PHIL 101 — : Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality - PHIL 101H — : Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality (Honors) - PHIL 102 — : Ethical Problems - PHIL 110 — : Introduction to Logic - PHIL 221 — : Philosophy of Religion - PHSN 106 — : Introduction to Physical Science: Physics and Chemistry - PHYS 111 — : Introductory Physics I - PHYS 112 — : Introductory Physics II - PHYS 151 — : Principles of Physics I - PHYS 152 — : Principles of Physics II - PHYS 253 — : Principles of Physics III - POLS 101 — : Introduction to Political Science - POLS 101H — : Introduction to Political Science (Honors) - POLS 103 — : Comparative Government - POLS 150 — : Introduction to International Relations - PSYC 100 — : Psychology of Personal Growth - PSYC 103 — : Social Psychology - PSYC 104 — : Statistics for Behavioral Science - PSYC 104H — : Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) - PSYC 114 — : Abnormal Psychology - PSYC 115 — : Human Sexuality - PSYC 121 — : Human Development - PSYC 125 — : Psychology of Women - PSYC 170 — : Psychology of Aging: Adult Development and Aging - PSYC 211 — : Learning and Behavior Modification - PSYC 260 — : Physiological Psychology - READ 100 — : Critical Reading and Thinking - RELG 101 — : World Religions - RELG 101H — : World Religions (Honors) - RELG 103 — : Religion in America - RELG 105 — : Eastern Religions - SOCI 102 — : Contemporary Social Problems - SOCI 103 — : Social Psychology - SOCI 105 — : Introduction to Justice Studies - SOCI 120 — : Introduction to Women's Studies - SOCI 125 — : Introduction to Statistics in Sociology - SOCI 130 — : Introduction to Gender Studies - SOCI 140 — : Introduction to LGBT Studies - SOCI 207 — : Race and Ethnic Relations - SOCI 250 — : Introduction to Pacific Studies - SPAN 101 — : Elementary Spanish (First Semester) - SPAN 102 — : Elementary Spanish (Second Semester) - SPAN 121 — : Introduction to Hispanic Cultures - SPAN 201 — : Intermediate Spanish (Third Semester) - SPAN 202 — : Intermediate Spanish (Fourth Semester) - SPAN 221 — : Spanish for Native Speakers - SPAN 222 — : Spanish for Native Speakers II Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/generaleducationplans/plana/ --- # Cal-GETC Two courses and a minimum of 7 semester units are required. Select one course from 5A and one course from 5B. One course must include a corresponding laboratory. (Laboratory courses in 5A and 5B are noted with the # symbol. Courses in 5A and 5B noted with the * symbol have a corresponding lab course listed in 5C.) ## Courses - ADM 100 — : Introduction to the Administration of Justice - ADM 200 — : Concepts of Criminal Law - ANTH 102 — : Cultural Anthropology - ANTH 103 — : Introduction to Archaeology - ANTH 105 — : Evolution of Human Behavior - ANTH 107 — : Gender, Sex, and Sexuality - ANTH 120 — : Global Health - ANTH 190 — : Primate Behavior and Ecology - ART 104 — : Artists & Designers Now - ART 201 — : Objects and Ideas in Contemporary Art - ART 234 — : Kinetic Art - ART 254 — : Understanding and Appreciating the Photographic Image - ART 290 — : Landmarks of Art - ARTH 157 — : Art Orientation - ARTH 158 — : Indigenous Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas - ARTH 159 — : Indigenous Arts of Central and South America - ARTH 260 — : History of Modern Art - ARTH 260H — : History of Modern Art (Honors) - ASTR 120 — : Life in the Universe - BIO 102 — : Introductory Biology: Ecology and Environmental Biology - BIO 103 — : Introductory Biology: Animal Diversity - BIO 104 — : Introductory Biology: Botany (Plant Life) - BIO 105 — : Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society - BIO 107 — : Introductory Biology: Marine Biology - BIO 108 — : Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability - BIO 108L — : Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability Lab - BIO 110 — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lecture/Lab) - BIO 111 — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lecture) - BIO 111L — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lab) - BIO 202 — : Foundations of Biology: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Organismal Biology - BIO 204 — : Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology - BIO 220 — : Human Physiology - BIO 230 — : Introduction to Microbiology - BLST 100 — : Introduction to Black Studies - BTEC 180 — : Biostatistics - BUS 204 — : Business Statistics - CCS 100 — : Introduction to Chicana/o Studies - CCS 232 — : Critical Issues in Chicana and Latina Studies - CDEV 112 — : The Developing Child: Conception through Early Childhood - CDEV 210 — : Child, Family, and Community - CDEV 235 — : Children in a Diverse Society - CHEM 103 — : Chemistry and Society: For Non-Science Majors - CHEM 103L — : Chemistry and Society: For Non-Science Majors (Lab) - CHEM 112 — : Introductory General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: For Allied Health Majors - CHEM 115 — : Introductory General Chemistry: For Allied Health Majors - CHEM 140 — : Preparation for General Chemistry: For Science Majors - CHEM 150 — : General Chemistry I: For Science Majors - CHEM 151 — : General Chemistry II: For Science Majors - COMM 120 — : Principles of Human Communication - COMM 135 — : Gender Studies in Communication - COMM 215 — : Intercultural Communication - COMM 220 — : Introduction to Mass Communication - CSIT 123 — : Introduction to Data Analytics - CSIT 160 — : Technology, the Individual, and Society - CSIT 165 — : Living in an Online World - DESN 107 — : History of Western Architecture-A Sustainable Perspective - DESN 108 — : World Architecture - DNCE 100 — : Dance Appreciation - DNCE 101 — : Dance History - DNCE 104 — : Dance on Film - DNCE 105 — : Dance Cultures of the World - DRAM 105 — : Introduction to Theatre - DRAM 134 — : Introduction to Performance - DRAM 222 — : Introduction to Black Theater - EART 106 — : Earth and Space Science - ECON 100 — : Survey of Economics - ETHN 100 — : Introduction to Ethnic Studies - ETHN 100H — : Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Honors) - ETHN 207 — : Race and Ethnic Relations - FILM 101 — : Introduction to Film - FILM 101H — : Introduction to Film (Honors) - FILM 106 — : Study of Cinematic Adaptation - FILM 111 — : Film History I: 1880-1948 - FILM 112 — : Film History II: 1948-Present - FILM 211 — : Identity and Film: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality - FILM 212 — : Women and Gender in Film - FREN 121 — : Introduction to French Culture - FREN 201 — : Intermediate French (Third Semester) - FREN 202 — : Intermediate French (Fourth Semester) - GEOG 101 — : Earth's Dynamic Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography - GEOG 101L — : Earth's Dynamic Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography Lab - GEOG 102 — : People, Place, and Time: Introduction to Human Geography - GEOG 104 — : World Geography - GEOG 108 — : Environmental Sustainability and Society - GEOL 101 — : Physical Geology - GEOL 101L — : Physical Geology Laboratory - GERO 101 — : Introduction to Aging - GERO 250 — : Intergenerational Issues - GRMN 121 — : Introduction to German Culture - HIST 100 — : World History to 1500 - HIST 100H — : World History to 1500 (Honors) - HIST 101 — : World History Since 1500 - HIST 101H — : World History Since 1500 (Honors) - HIST 102 — : History of the Modern Middle East - HIST 103 — : Early European History and Culture - HIST 104 — : Modern European History and Culture - HIST 107 — : East Asian Societies - HIST 113 — : American Military History - HIST 115 — : Women in American History - HIST 116 — : History of the Americas to 1830 - HIST 117 — : History of the Americas Since 1830 - HIST 141 — : Mexican American History Through 1877 - HIST 142 — : Mexican American History Since 1877 - HIST 145 — : African American History to 1877 - HIST 146 — : African American History Since 1877 - HIST 150 — : History of Mexico - HIST 165 — : California History - HORT 115 — : Soil Science - HORT 116 — : Plant Science - HUMN 101 — : Introduction to the Arts - HUMN 202 — : Humanities of the Western World: The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century - HUMN 205 — : Women in Western Art and Literature - ITAL 121 — : Introduction to Italian Culture - ITAL 201 — : Intermediate Italian (Third Semester) - ITAL 202 — : Intermediate Italian (Fourth Semester) - JAPN 121 — : Introduction to Japanese Culture - JAPN 123 — : Japanese Anime and Manga - JAPN 201 — : Intermediate Japanese (Third Semester) - JAPN 202 — : Intermediate Japanese (Fourth Semester) - JAPN 210 — : Intermediate Conversation I and Reading - LIT 100 — : Introduction to Chicano Chicana Literature - LIT 122 — : Introduction to African American Literature - LIT 250 — : American Literature: First Contact Through the Civil War - LIT 251 — : American Literature: Mid-1800s to the Present - LIT 260 — : English Literature Through the 18th Century - LIT 261 — : English Literature: Romantic to Contemporary - LIT 265 — : Shakespeare Studies - LIT 270 — : World Literature to 1600 - LIT 271 — : World Literature Since 1600 - MAT 105 — : History of Graphic Design - MATH 112 — : Algebraic Concepts for Problem Solving - MATH 115 — : Calculus with Applications - MATH 126 — : Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra - MATH 126S — : Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra with Integrated Support - MATH 131 — : Pre-Calculus II: Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry - MATH 135 — : Precalculus Mathematics - MATH 260 — : Calculus and Analytic Geometry III - MUS 112 — : American Popular Music - MUS 113 — : The Music of America - MUS 114 — : History of Rock and Roll - MUS 115 — : History of Classical Music - MUS 116 — : A Survey of World Music - MUS 119 — : Jazz History - NUTR 100 — : Nutrition Today - NUTR 108 — : Cultural Aspects of Foods and Nutrition - OCEA 101 — : Introduction to Oceanography - OCEA 101H — : Introduction to Oceanography (Honors) - OCEA 101L — : Introductory Oceanography Laboratory - PHIL 100 — : Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing - PHIL 101 — : Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality - PHIL 101H — : Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality (Honors) - PHIL 102 — : Ethical Problems - PHIL 221 — : Philosophy of Religion - PHSN 106 — : Introduction to Physical Science: Physics and Chemistry - PHYS 111 — : Introductory Physics I - PHYS 112 — : Introductory Physics II - PHYS 151 — : Principles of Physics I - PHYS 152 — : Principles of Physics II - PHYS 253 — : Principles of Physics III - POLS 101 — : Introduction to Political Science - POLS 101H — : Introduction to Political Science (Honors) - POLS 103 — : Comparative Government - POLS 150 — : Introduction to International Relations - PSYC 100 — : Psychology of Personal Growth - PSYC 103 — : Social Psychology - PSYC 104 — : Statistics for Behavioral Science - PSYC 104H — : Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) - PSYC 114 — : Abnormal Psychology - PSYC 115 — : Human Sexuality - PSYC 121 — : Human Development - PSYC 125 — : Psychology of Women - PSYC 145 — : Psychology/Sociology of the Family - PSYC 170 — : Psychology of Aging: Adult Development and Aging - PSYC 211 — : Learning and Behavior Modification - PSYC 260 — : Physiological Psychology - RELG 101 — : World Religions - RELG 101H — : World Religions (Honors) - RELG 103 — : Religion in America - RELG 105 — : Eastern Religions - SOCI 102 — : Contemporary Social Problems - SOCI 103 — : Social Psychology - SOCI 105 — : Introduction to Justice Studies - SOCI 120 — : Introduction to Women's Studies - SOCI 125 — : Introduction to Statistics in Sociology - SOCI 130 — : Introduction to Gender Studies - SOCI 140 — : Introduction to LGBT Studies - SOCI 145 — : Psychology/Sociology of the Family - SOCI 207 — : Race and Ethnic Relations - SOCI 250 — : Introduction to Pacific Studies - SPAN 121 — : Introduction to Hispanic Cultures - SPAN 201 — : Intermediate Spanish (Third Semester) - SPAN 202 — : Intermediate Spanish (Fourth Semester) - SPAN 221 — : Spanish for Native Speakers - SPAN 222 — : Spanish for Native Speakers II Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/generaleducationplans/planc/ --- # Instructional Services Instructional Services, located on the Oceanside Campus in Building 1000, is responsible for the administration of the various educational programs offered by MiraCosta College. Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/instructionalservices/ --- # Associate Degree Requirements **Degree** The associate degree at MiraCosta College provides a framework within which students complete patterns of learning experiences designed to develop capabilities and insights to support their academic and career goals. Among these capabilities and insights are competencies that comprise a general education curriculum. These competencies include the ability Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/degreecertificatetransferinfo/requirements/ --- # ACCT 101 — : Practical Accounting This introduction to the field of accounting includes completion of an accounting cycle and related bookkeeping for sole proprietorship service and merchandising businesses. Topics include analyzing and recording business transactions, end-of-period adjustments, preparation of financial statements, and the closing process. The course also covers cash receipts, disbursements and control, and payroll, and it emphasizes a practical approach to accounting through problem solving. --- # ACCT 102 — : Practical Accounting II This course continues the introduction to accounting studied in ACCT 101 . Topics include bookkeeping for sole proprietorship, partnership and corporate merchandising businesses with an emphasis on bad debts, notes receivable and payable, inventory, property, plant, equipment, and intangible assets, financial statement analysis, and cash flow. The course emphasizes a practical approach to accounting through problem solving. --- # ACCT 104 — : Payroll Accounting This course provides a comprehensive overview of federal and state payroll laws and their effect on payroll records and required government reports. Topics include laws affecting employers, human resource department procedures and record keeping, payroll accounting system procedures, and payroll forms and publications. --- # ACCT 145 — : Individual Income Tax This course covers federal and California individual income tax preparation and planning. Topics include filing status, exemptions, income and exclusions, business expenses, itemized deductions, credits, capital gains, depreciation, tax payments, California tax, IRS and FTB, and audits. This California Tax Education Council (CTEC) approved course fulfills the 60-hour "qualifying education" requirement for California tax preparers and prepares students to meet the federal guidelines for paid tax preparers. --- # ACCT 146 — : Taxation of Business Entities This course introduces the tax issues facing the various types of business entities that operate in the United States. It emphasizes the US tax code and regulations that relate to these entities, and it examines the transactions that most commonly affect them. This course also assists students in preparing to sit for the IRS Enrolled Agent exam. --- # ACCT 147 — : Ethics, Representation, Practice, and Procedures This course covers income tax issues that relate to the requirements of individuals who have the legal right to prepare tax returns on behalf of individuals, business entities, and estates and trusts. These requirements include ethical conduct, practice privileges, and assessment and appeal procedures that must be followed in representing clients before the IRS and other tax agencies. This course also assists students in preparing to sit for Part 3 of the IRS Enrolled Agent exam. --- # ACCT 148 — : QuickBooks This course teaches students how to apply fundamental accounting concepts and principles and analyze business events using commercial business accounting software. Students enter accounting transactions, make adjustments and corrections, create and analyze financial reports, produce and compare financial statements, create a company file, calculate payroll, use advanced software features for loan and asset tracking, and make end-of-year adjustments. --- # ACCT 149 — : IRS Volunteer Preparation The IRS volunteer programs, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Facilitated Self Assistance (FSA), offer accounting and business majors the opportunity to learn the valuable skill of tax preparation in a real world setting. Students apply their knowledge about existing tax law to prepare tax returns using IRS professional tax preparation software. Upon successful completion of the components of this course, students are eligible to become IRS-certified volunteers. --- # ACCT 158 — : Business Mathematics This course meets the needs of business students who wish to gain proficiency in mathematical applications used in the business world. It prepares students for the study of accounting as well as for pre-employment mathematics tests common to office employment. Applications include trade and cash discounts, markups and markdowns, simple interest and simple discount, compound interest, annuities and sinking funds, consumer credit, building wealth through investments, mortgages, and insurance. --- # ACCT 201 — : Financial Accounting This course explores what financial accounting is, why it is important, and how it is used by investors and creditors to make decisions. It covers the accounting information system and the recording and reporting of business transactions with a focus on the accounting cycle, the application of generally accepted accounting principles, the classified financial statements, and statement analysis. Topics include issues relating to asset, liability, and equity valuation, revenue and expense recognition, cash flow, internal controls, and ethics. C-ID ACCT-110. --- # ACCT 202 — : Managerial Accounting This course examines how managers use accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing operations, and controlling. It focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost behavior, cost structure, and cost-volume-profit analysis. Topics include profit planning, standard costs, operations and capital budgeting, cost control, and accounting for costs in manufacturing organizations. C-ID ACCT-120. --- # ACCT 204 — : Intermediate Accounting I Students study the conceptual framework of accounting as it relates to the recording, reporting, and disclosing of financial information related to asset valuation and income determination based on generally accepted accounting principles. The course emphasizes corporate financial statements and the accounting procedures used for measuring, recording, and reporting assets. It also covers recent developments in accounting standards and practice. Topics include the acquisition, valuation, and disposition of assets as well as income determination. This course is intended for students majoring in… --- # ACCT 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ACCT 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ADM 100 — : Introduction to the Administration of Justice This course explores the roots of our current justice system and the interaction of its various subsystems (law enforcement/prosecution, judicial, and corrections). It emphasizes the organizational structure and legal consideration relevant to each subsystem. Topics include the origin of law, theories of crime causation, criminal procedure, and sentencing philosophies and alternatives. The course also introduces students to sources of criminal justice information and statistics. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ADM 100 /ADM 100H, SOC 105, or SOCI 105 . C-ID AJ-110. --- # ADM 107 — : Introduction to Computer/Digital Forensics This course introduces students to computer/digital crime and abuse and the methods used to properly conduct a computer/digital forensics investigation. Designed for law enforcement investigators, corporate security officials, and network and computer security administrators, the course includes an overview of computer/digital forensics as a profession; the computer investigation process and related legal issues; the type and frequency of computer/digital-related crime; a basic overview of the Internet, networks, and network infrastructure protection; operating systems, data and disk structur… --- # ADM 200 — : Concepts of Criminal Law The course explores the basic concepts of criminal law, including its philosophy and development, relationship to the US government's structure, elements of a crime, inchoate offenses, and capacities and defenses. The course covers specific violations and legal issues related to crimes against persons, property crimes, organized crime, white collar crime, environmental crime, public safety and terrorism offenses, alcohol and drug offenses, and offenses against justice and public administration. C-ID AJ-120. --- # ADM 210 — : Criminal Procedures The course explores the basic concepts of criminal procedure with special emphasis on constitutional principles that apply to investigative techniques involving search and seizure, electronic surveillance, temporary detention, arrest, identification procedures, and interrogation. The course also covers legal issues that relate to initial entry into the judicial system, pre-trial, trial, sentencing, punishment, appeal, and post conviction relief. C-ID AJ-122. --- # ADM 220 — : Criminal Evidence This course focuses on the various types of evidence and the rules governing admissibility in criminal proceedings with an emphasis on the Federal Rules of Evidence and the California Evidence Code. Topics include relevance, materiality, witness testimony, hearsay, impeachment, competence, chain of custody, and privileges. The course also addresses admissibility of evidence related to confessions, searches, in/out of court identifications, and other investigative techniques, including the criminal processes where admissibility is determined. C-ID AJ-124. --- # ADM 230 — : Policing in a Diverse and Multicultural Society This course examines how diverse populations and multicultural communities affect the organization of law enforcement agencies and the relationships between police and the communities they serve. It emphasizes the history, issues, and challenges associated with policing in communities of diverse and multicultural populations, considering such factors as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, social class, and culture. The course also explores strategies for improving communication skills and relationships between police and the community. C-ID AJ-160. --- # ADM 240 — : Written and Oral Communication in the Administration of Justice This course focuses on the written and oral communication skills necessary for success in the criminal justice system to include the application of relevant legal considerations. It emphasizes incident report writing, interview/interrogation documentation, and note-taking. The course also identifies and develops oral communication skills related to voluntary citizen contact, crisis intervention, custodial situations, and testimony. --- # ADM 250 — : Police Field Operations This course focuses on the duties, responsibilities, and ethical considerations of patrol officers during field operations. It emphasizes the different types of patrol and investigations, commonly encountered situations, techniques employed to address those situations, and the legal authorities related to such actions. Topics include written and oral communication skills, interview/interrogation, report writing, use of force, trial preparation and testimony, and the officer's role in community policing practices and the criminal justice system in general. --- # ADM 260 — : Organized Crime, Gangs, and Terrorism This course traces the origins and evolution of domestic and transnational organized criminal and terrorist enterprises. It emphasizes their illicit activities, including drug trafficking, vices, gangs, and international and domestic terrorism. The course explores the impact such activities and enterprises have had on society, law enforcement, homeland security, and US transnational relations. --- # ADM 270 — : Crime and Delinquency This course focuses on the nature and extent of the most significant types of criminal and delinquent behavior of juvenile offenders as well as the major theories and factors that may explain such behavior. The course also explores the origin and development of the juvenile justice system and examines the relevant crime control strategies, treatment and rehabilitation programs, and the criminal justice processes applicable to juvenile procedures. C-ID AJ-220. --- # ADM 280 — : Criminal Investigation This course focuses on the fundamentals of criminal investigations, including investigative techniques relevant to particular types of crime (e.g., fingerprint/DNA collection, other scientific evidence, surveillances, eyewitness identification, interviews, interrogations, and searches) and the relevant legal and ethical considerations related to such techniques. The course reviews crime scene management and processing, including chain of custody issues and available scientific tests, with an emphasis on recording, collecting, and preserving physical evidence. Students also learn the importanc… --- # ADM 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ADM 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ANTH 102 — : Cultural Anthropology This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures, including variation in subsistence patterns, social and political organization, economic systems, systems of communication, kinship and family structure, belief systems, aesthetic expression, and recognition of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Cultural anthropology also explores how cultures have been impacted by colonialism and are being shaped by globalization and demonstrates the value of the discipline in the form of applied anthropology. Anthropologists employ high ethical standards while exploring diversit… --- # ANTH 103 — : Introduction to Archaeology This course explores archaeological theory and method, including techniques of field excavations and laboratory analysis. It also uses archaeological data to understand cultures of the past, including Stone Age lifeways, early farming cultures, and emergent civilizations around the world, such as the ancient Egyptians, Maya, and Inca. The course also examines current issues in cultural resource management, ethics in archaeology, and the role of archaeology within the broader field of anthropology. C-ID ANTH-150. --- # ANTH 105 — : Evolution of Human Behavior This course explores the biological basis and evolutionary value of human behavior. Students explore current research in genetics and epigenetics, neuroanatomy and endocrinology, along with studies of human culture and animal behavior, to understand phenomena such as human emotions, personality, parenting strategies, mating behaviors, and lifetime responses to stress. --- # ANTH 107 — : Gender, Sex, and Sexuality This course explores and compares the diverse cultural categories of gender and sex, including their grounding in biological functions, belief systems, kinship, and popular representation across the globe. It explores sexuality as more than a biological process, viewing sexuality as a human cultural expression. This course contextualizes gender, sex, and sexuality within broader cultural systems as well as global interactions to understand how these categories are shaped and, in turn, shape our lives. --- # ANTH 120 — : Global Health This course explores contemporary human health problems around the world, focusing on economic, political, historical, sociocultural, and environmental factors that underlie disparities. Global health analyzes the causes and consequences of the unequal burden of disease and disability, including infectious disease, climate change, women's health, and food insecurity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this course introduces major concepts, principles, and research methodology in global health. --- # ANTH 135 — : Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion This course explores small-scale and customary supernatural beliefs, practices, and traditions from prehistory to the present. Focusing on indigenous and alternative spiritualities around the world, topics include shamanism; mysticism and divination; mortuary rituals; brujeria and magic; Vodou, Santeria, and other indigenous and syncretic religions; Paganism; supernatural healing including Curandurismo; magico-religious art; Vedic, Chinese, and Western astrology; peyote and other sacred entheogens; and new religious movements (NRMs). --- # ANTH 190 — : Primate Behavior and Ecology This course explores principles of animal behavior and ecology from an evolutionary perspective. Topics include predator avoidance, foraging strategies, mating behaviors, mother-infant bonding, the development of social groups, culture and cognition, and current issues in conservation. The course also emphasizes research methodology through a semester-long project observing primates at the San Diego Zoo or through online alternatives. --- # ANTH 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ART 100 — : Drawing and Composition This beginning course develops basic drawing skills. Students explore a variety of media and creative approaches, and they improve their perceptual abilities and personal expression. The course covers problems of value, structure, and composition using a variety of themes. It also integrates art history, theory, and criticism. C-ID ARTS-110. --- # ART 101 — : Design and Color Introduction to the two-dimensional arts. Students explore and learn the language of design principles and color theory through visual problem solving. They create design projects using critical analysis of art elements to visually communicate ideas. They also research, analyze, and evaluate elements of design and color in a range of art disciplines, while focusing on those of historical, theoretical and cultural relevance. Students are required to visit exhibitions, in person or online, at museums and/or the MiraCosta College gallery. C-ID ARTS-100, ARTS-270. --- # ART 102 — : Drawing and Composition II This course provides for the continued development of basic drawing skills introduced in ART 100 . It emphasizes a creative approach using black and white and color media while exposing students to a variety of contemporary approaches toward space, scale, and content. The course also encourages students to develop personal expression through the combined manipulations of subject matter and materials. C-ID ARTS-205. --- # ART 103 — : 3D Design In this sculpture course, students examine the language of three-dimensional form, structure, and space. The course develops personal expression, using a variety of themes and subject matter by ordering three-dimensional space through basic materials, such as clay, plaster, metal, and wood. It offers experiences with differing approaches within cultural contexts and integrates history, theory, and criticism, showing the interrelationship of the creative arts, humanities, and the self in Western and non-Western cultures. Materials Fee: $35. C-ID ARTS-101. --- # ART 104 — : Artists & Designers Now This course examines contemporary ideas and processes of art and design through the study of living artists and designers. A historical overview provides context to movements and issues in art since the 1960s as preparation for visiting artists' and designers presentations, video screenings, and visits to art and design exhibitions and/or studios. Students gain insight into ideas and material methods in diverse media including, but not limited to painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, 2D and 3D design production, and electronic media. This course is for beginnin… --- # ART 200 — : Drawing III This advanced drawing course focuses on contemporary drawing practices and conceptual thinking in the development of an individualized portfolio. Students apply subjective perspectives to selected subject matter and content using a variety of drawing media and large scale formats. --- # ART 201 — : Objects and Ideas in Contemporary Art Students create three-dimensional art projects using unconventional materials in tandem with traditional materials and methods. This course examines the ideas, concepts, and processes in contemporary art through presentations of vanguard artwork of the twenty-first century. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of contemporary art and artists in western and non-western cultures. Students are required to attend field trips (in the event of unforeseen cancellations, online investigations maybe assigned). Materials Fee: $35.00. --- # ART 202 — : Painting I: Acrylic This course covers composition, techniques, and theory of painting using acrylic paint. Students investigate various acrylic painting techniques, art historical traditions, and theoretical positions. Coursework includes lecture, lab, critique, and independent projects. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 203 — : Figure Drawing I This beginning drawing course focuses on representation of the human figure. Students work from nude models and digital resources using materials such as charcoal, pencil, ink, and pastels. They learn how to depict action in quick gesture drawings as well as produce more complex tonal drawings with emphasis on composition and expression. Topics include basic anatomy, structure, and proportion with equal emphasis placed on line quality, value, and media control. C-ID ARTS-200. --- # ART 204 — : Painting I: Oils Students study past and present practices in painting and work from various subjects, including still life, landscape, figures, portraits, or mixed imagery, either from life or two-dimensional references. Learning to be creative and analytical in painting images and forms, students develop skills in painting techniques, color mixing, composition, design, and personal concepts using traditional or water-soluble oils. C-ID ARTS-210. --- # ART 205 — : Painting I: Watercolor This course investigates and experiences the unique characteristics of watercolor painting. Course topics explore compositional strategies, practical techniques, and theoretical concepts of painting using watercolor. Students study and apply various painting techniques, art historical traditions, and theoretical positions. Coursework includes lecture, lab, critique, and independent projects. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 206 — : Mixed Media Figure Studies I Working from a posed model, students explore various approaches to representing the human figure using a choice of media, including oils, acrylics, ink, or pastels. Students study form and structure, inspired by the rich world traditions of art history, contemporary art practices, and individual creativity. --- # ART 207 — : Film Photography I This film photography course provides an in-depth study of the camera and its functions, working with film processing and printing techniques, lighting techniques, compositional and conceptual techniques, presentation, and exhibition of finished work. Areas of emphasis include black-and-white-photography, working with light-sensitive materials, exploring analog processes, and developing and executing photographic projects. Note: This is not a digital photography course, but in extreme or unusual circumstances, use of digital media may be integrated into instruction. --- # ART 208 — : Film Photography II This course builds upon skills learned in Film Photography I ( ART 207 ). Topics include intermediate and advanced techniques using a range of cameras and photographic processes. Students explore photography as a means of visual communication and creative expression, using darkroom materials, alternative photographic techniques, hybrid digital, and other analog processes to produce photographic work within a contemporary context. The course culminates with a professional portfolio of finished work. --- # ART 210 — : Printmaking I This course introduces woodcut, etching, lithography, and contemporary printmaking techniques. It emphasizes craftsmanship and individual expression and encourages experimentation in the use of materials. --- # ART 211 — : Mixed Media Figure Studies II This course provides students an opportunity to further their investigation of the human figure in contemporary painting. Objectives include the development of personal vision and alternative venues of expression. Students study twentieth and twenty-first century figurative artists, and they work from both live models and photographic references using a variety of mixed media, including oil or acrylic paint. --- # ART 212 — : Painting II: Acrylic This course emphasizes intermediate practices in acrylic painting. Students create expressive works using a variety of techniques and materials unique to acrylics. Students study historic and current painters and contemporary painting trends. The course utilizes digital technology for artistic research and development. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 213 — : Figure Drawing II In this intermediate life drawing course students create drawings of human figures, promoting visual acuity while exploring expressive drawing techniques and concepts in contemporary studio practice. The visual forms of the figure are strengthened through continued applications of two-dimensional drawing methods and practice. Figurative subjects are derived from nude models in the classroom, digital resources, and photos. --- # ART 214 — : Painting II: Oils This course emphasizes intermediate practices in oil painting to create artwork in a context of personal meaning, narrative, and relevance for portfolio development. Students study artworks specific to the history of oil painting and contemporary practice while building technical skill and exploring alternative methods and materials. The course introduces digital technology as a preparatory tool for artists. --- # ART 215 — : Painting II: Watercolor This course emphasizes intermediate practices in watercolor painting. Students continue to explore compositional methods while developing a portfolio of expressive paintings using techniques and materials unique to watercolor. Students study historic traditions and contemporary painters, trends, theoretical positions, and methods. This course utilizes digital and traditional technology for artistic research and development. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 216 — : Sculpture This course concentrates on the exploration and refinement of a wide range of sculptural techniques and strategies, and it includes three-dimensional art theory. Students work with traditional mediums, such as clay, wood, and metal. The course also introduces students to installation and public works as well as time-based and kinetic art. Materials Fee: $35.00. --- # ART 218 — : Printmaking II Students study past and present practices in printmaking and a variety of techniques to further their skills in the medium. This course furthers students' knowledge of woodcut, etching, lithography, and contemporary printmaking techniques. It emphasizes print studio operations, particularly press maintenance and the formulation of wet materials. --- # ART 221 — : Printmaking III In this advanced-level printmaking course, students study past and present practices in printmaking and a variety of techniques to further their skills in the medium and their knowledge of woodcut, etching, lithography, and contemporary printmaking techniques. The course covers non-traditional print methods as well as mixed media printing and emphasizes print studio operations, particularly press maintenance, and the formulation of wet materials. --- # ART 222 — : Printmaking IV This course is designed for semi-professional students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in printmaking. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's artwork. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Students are required to visit exhibitions and attend field trips to view artworks. --- # ART 223 — : Woodworking and Furniture Design I This course teaches woodworking skills and covers the nature of hardwoods and softwoods, the mechanics of shaping/joining, and the proper and safe use of hand and power tools. It examines both traditional and contemporary work and emphasizes the creation of individual, unique designs. Students are required to pay a materials fee. Materials Fee: $60. --- # ART 224 — : Woodworking and Furniture Design II Students continue developing their woodworking skills by examining traditional and contemporary woodworking designs and practices and by learning intermediate-level hand and power tool techniques. The course emphasizes studio operations, particularly safety and electric and hand operated machine maintenance. It requires students to express concepts and ideas through the wood medium. Materials Fee: $65. --- # ART 225 — : Ceramics I This introductory ceramics course explores techniques, materials, and traditions of pottery. It emphasizes hand building and/or use of the potter's wheel and encourages the creative use of clay, glaze, technique, and firing. Materials Fee: $40. --- # ART 226 — : Ceramics II Students study past and present practices in ceramics with a variety of techniques and clay bodies to further their skills in the medium. The course places a strong emphasis on ceramics studio operations, particularly the formulation of clay bodies and glazes. Topics include firing and construction of kilns. The course emphasizes combining hand building and throwing techniques to produce artworks. Materials Fee: $40.00. --- # ART 227 — : Ceramics III This advanced-level ceramics course focuses on ceramics studio operations, particularly the formulation of clay bodies and glazes. Topics may include alternative firings and construction of kilns. The course emphasizes combining hand building and/or throwing techniques to produce artworks. The course covers a broad definition of ceramics as a medium and investigates mixed medium designs. Materials Fee: $40.00. --- # ART 228 — : Ceramics IV This course is designed for advanced students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in ceramics. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's artwork. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Materials Fee: $40.00. --- # ART 229 — : Woodworking and Furniture Design III This advanced woodworking and furniture design course requires students to express concepts and ideas through the wood medium. Students continue developing their woodworking skills by examining traditional and contemporary woodworking designs and practices and applying these references into their work. Topics include advanced-level hand and/or power tool techniques, studio operations, particularly safety and electric and hand operated machine maintenance, and mixed media woodworking techniques. Materials Fee: $60. --- # ART 232 — : Video Art This course introduces video as a medium of artistic expression, personal narrative, and cultural inquiry. Students examine the art-historical origins of video and its evolution over time as well as its place in contemporary art. Through a project-based structure, students learn historical, theoretical, and creative uses of video art through hands-on video capture, editing, and presentation in a gallery setting. --- # ART 234 — : Kinetic Art This course covers the history and practice of movement in art. It combines the use, study, and practice of movement, machines, and performance as a means of personal expression, social intervention, political act, and cultural reclamation and as a noncommercial strategy of contemporary art. Students design, plan, and exhibit kinetic artworks that pertain to the historical movements covered. --- # ART 239 — : Woodworking and Furniture Design IV This course is designed for semi-professional students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in woodworking and furniture design. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's artwork. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Materials Fee: $60.00. --- # ART 241 — : Painting III: Acrylic This course teaches advanced acrylic painting practices. Students further develop technical and conceptual skills acquired in previous sections, learn new techniques, and produce a series of works that exhibit awareness of contemporary painting. Lectures interpret historic and current painters. Students continue to develop their own style and their portfolios. The course utilizes digital technology, such as cameras, computers, and projection devices. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 242 — : Painting III: Watercolor This course teaches advanced watercolor painting practices. Students further develop technical and conceptual skills acquired in previous sections, learn new techniques, and produce a series of works that exhibit awareness of contemporary painting. Lectures interpret historic and current painters. Students continue to develop their own style and their portfolios. The course utilizes digital technology, such as cameras, computers, and projection devices. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 244 — : Digital Media for the Visual Artist This studio art course investigates the intersection of visual representation, contemporary art, digital imaging, and time-based artwork from an aesthetic, historical, and artistic perspective for the contemporary artist. Technical instruction, through the use of digital imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop, supports the study of artistic and theoretical principles. Students develop problem-solving and visual strategies that deepen their understanding of the connection between technology, personal expression, and the universal language of art. Projects emphasize the creation of original a… --- # ART 245 — : Digital Art and Media This course provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of digital art as well as hands-on production of digital art using a broad range of applications and computer hardware. The course introduces students to raster, vector, web, and time-based applications that allow them to learn the fundamentals of visual communication, website production, manipulation of images, design elements, animation, sound, video and the production of multimedia artworks. Students create digital projects that fuse the theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects of digitally based art th… --- # ART 251 — : Digital Photography This course uses digital cameras and the computer as tools to create photographic imagery. Students explore camera controls, principles of composition, and photographic theory and techniques using industry standard hardware and software. Students learn editing techniques appropriate for print and electronic presentations. The course addresses ethical considerations regarding image manipulation and ownership. Students may use digital camera images, scanned negatives, or slides to produce a final print portfolio. --- # ART 253 — : Applied Digital Photography This course provides students with the opportunity to apply skills acquired in ART 251 while developing a personal style. It offers a continued study of photographic theory, composition, content development, digital camera/hardware handling, studio lighting, and industry standards for color management, along with archival inkjet printing techniques. Students explore photography as a visual language and expressive medium, and they observe industry practices through onsite visits to local business, galleries, and service bureaus. The course culminates with the creation and production of a profe… --- # ART 254 — : Understanding and Appreciating the Photographic Image This course surveys the history of still photography from the discipline's inception to the present digital age. It explores the medium of photography as a form of visual communication in historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts. Topics include the evolution of photographic images, process, delivery, and meaning. Students develop visual literacy through verbal and written analyses. --- # ART 255 — : Painting IV: Watercolor This course is designed for advanced students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in painting. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of watercolor paintings for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's work. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 261 — : Mixed Media Figure Studies III Students advance their methods and practice in the investigation of the human figure as a departure point for personalized content. Objectives include the advancement of conceptual strategies and a mastery of mixed media practice to create a portfolio of introspective figurative artworks. Students study contemporary and historical figurative artists as they work from both live models and photographic references using a variety of selected wet and dry mixed media along with alternative materials. --- # ART 262 — : Introduction to Silkscreen This course introduces silkscreen, or serigraphy, within contemporary printmaking applications for the creation of multicolor prints using water-based techniques. The course includes instruction in direct and indirect methods of screen production, focusing on photo-based processes, as well as manual and digital applications. Course content includes demonstrations of technique, critiques, discussions, lectures, studio work, and visiting artist lectures. It emphasizes craftsmanship and individual expression and encourages experimentation in the use of materials. --- # ART 263 — : Figure Drawing III Students in this advanced course create drawings of human figures in the classroom and from invented, found, and appropriated sources. Students further develop technical and conceptual skills acquired in previous courses, learn new techniques, and produce a series of works that exhibit awareness of contemporary figure drawing. The course emphasizes self-expression and experimentation as students develop their own style and portfolios. Field trips to gallery and museum exhibitions are required. --- # ART 264 — : Painting III: Oils This course furthers the development of contemporary painting practices in oil paint at an advanced level. Students develop a series of paintings based on a conceptual narrative and apply learned techniques and paint applications as explored through individual investigations and collective research. The assigned projects integrate digital technology into the design, production, and documentation of the coursework. --- # ART 265 — : Painting IV: Oils This course is designed for advanced students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in painting. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of oil paintings for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's work. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 266 — : Painting IV: Acrylic This course is designed for advanced students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in painting. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of acrylic paintings for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes documenting and analyzing one's work. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Students are required to view exhibitions in person and/or online. --- # ART 268 — : Film Photography III This course builds upon skills learned in Film Photography II ( ART 208 ). In this advanced-level photography course, students study historical and contemporary practices in image-making and a variety of techniques to further their skills in the medium. The course covers non-traditional and alternative printing processes as well as incorporating digital tools and mixed-media approaches, and it emphasizes the development of a broader definition of photographic practice within the student's skill set. The course culminates with a professional portfolio of finished work. --- # ART 269 — : Film Photography IV This course is designed for advanced students wishing to major in art with an emphasis in photography. Students work closely with the instructor to create a cohesive body of work for a portfolio or exhibition. The course emphasizes production, documentation, and analyzing one's artwork and is intended to aid in preparing a portfolio for application for transfer into a university program. Students should contact the instructor prior to enrollment to discuss topics related to the medium. Students are required to visit exhibitions and attend field trips to view artworks and advance their underst… --- # ART 270 — : History and Theory of Museum and Gallery Exhibition This course introduces students to the history of museum and gallery exhibitions as well as to the theories behind historical and contemporary museum and gallery exhibition design. It relates these ideas to art exhibitions and to those in anthropological and science collections. Topics include the history of exhibition and display, exhibition design and layout, collections management, and publicity. Museum visits may be required. --- # ART 271 — : Museum and Gallery Exhibition This course introduces students to the practical requirements of operating a museum or gallery. It provides detailed information about museum and gallery departments and roles as well as experiences with planning, designing, installing, and publicizing exhibitions. The class is responsible for an end-of-semester professional exhibition. --- # ART 290 — : Landmarks of Art This course examines art and architecture on-site within cultural and historical contexts. It surveys selected periods of Western and non-Western traditions and emphasizes understanding the visual arts representing the tradition and evolution of a culture, from ancient to contemporary periods. The course incorporates field trips to local artistic landmarks and emphasizes art appreciation in travel experiences. The course includes preparatory lectures and on-site discussions. Students are required to attend several field trips and provide their own transportation to each site. Field trip dates… --- # ART 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ART 295 — : Visual Art/Professional Practice Designed for the student artist, this course examines professional practices, career goals, and educational choices in the visual arts. Students produce a professional portfolio that includes documentation of artwork, resume, an artist statement and biography, digital image files, and printed images. Students also collaboratively organize, prepare, and produce an exhibition in a gallery setting. Field trips are required. --- # ART 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ARTH 157 — : Art Orientation This basic art appreciation course introduces world art forms, techniques, traditions, and aesthetics. It emphasizes global art in historical and cultural contexts. Students examine visual artworks from a variety of cultures related to religion, politics, identity, and the natural and built environments. Formerly ART 157. --- # ARTH 158 — : Indigenous Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas This course introduces the indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. It explores methodology and materials in diverse media as they reflect various cultures from ancient to contemporary periods. Formerly ART 158. C-ID ARTH-140. --- # ARTH 159 — : Indigenous Arts of Central and South America This course covers the arts of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and South America. It surveys the various cultures of those areas from ancient periods to the points of European contact, emphasizing content and style of materials in diverse media. Formerly ART 159. C-ID ARTH-145. --- # ARTH 260 — : History of Modern Art This course covers European and American art forms, primarily painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the beginning of modernism in the mid-19th century to contemporary art in the 21st century. Students learn to delineate themes, styles, and techniques indicative of various time periods and to differentiate among 20th and 21st century art movements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ART 260, ART 260H, ARTH 260 , or ARTH 260H . Formerly ART 260. C-ID ARTH-150. --- # ARTH 260H — : History of Modern Art (Honors) This honors course introduces students to European and American art forms, primarily painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the beginning of modernism in the mid-19th century to contemporary art in the 21st century. Students learn to delineate themes, styles, and techniques indicative of various time periods and to differentiate among 20th and 21st century art movements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ART 260, ART 260H, ARTH 260 , or ARTH 260H . Formerly ART 260H. C-ID ARTH-150. --- # ASTR 120 — : Life in the Universe This introductory course surveys the study for life in the universe from the Big Bang to implications of contact with an extraterrestrial civilization while emphasizing the nature and process of physical science. Topics include the formation and evolution of the universe; origin, evolution, and nature of life on Earth; the definitions of "life" and "habitability"; potential in our solar system and beyond; methods of interstellar communication and travel; implications of contact; science vs. pseudoscience; and the status of the search to-date. --- # ASTR 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ATHL 100 — : Volleyball Techniques This activity class integrates volleyball theory with practice in game situations. Topics include volleyball techniques, strategies, and rules. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 102 — : Intercollegiate Volleyball, Women This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in volleyball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students develop team-playing skills by interacting with opponents, teammates, coaches, and officials. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 103 — : Intercollegiate Beach Volleyball, Women This course emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in beach volleyball. Students develop skills, techniques, and strategies that are applied to intercollegiate beach volleyball competition. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 104 — : Beach Volleyball Techniques This activity class integrates beach volleyball techniques with practice of in-game situations. Topics include beach volleyball fundamental techniques, strategies, and rules. (May be repeated three times.) --- # ATHL 105 — : Beach Volleyball Competition This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in beach volleyball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students apply beach volleyball rules to game situations and integrate strategies into competition and team play. (May be repeated three times.) --- # ATHL 117 — : Basketball Competition This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in basketball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students apply basketball rules to game situations and integrate strategies into competition and team play. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 118 — : Basketball Techniques This activity class integrates basketball theory with practice in game situations. Topics include basketball techniques, strategies, and rules. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 134 — : Soccer This soccer class emphasizes basic fundamentals of individual play such as ball control, dribbling, trapping, shooting, and passing. The course exposes students to the basic rudiments of offensive and defensive tactics through participation in game situations, often using modified rules to emphasize specific skills, and it introduces and reviews the rules of the game in context. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 135 — : Soccer Competition This class emphasizes advanced-level instruction and training in soccer skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students apply soccer rules to game situations and integrate strategies into competition and team play. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 171 — : Intercollegiate Basketball, Men/Women This class emphasizes an intermediate level of instruction and training in basketball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students develop team-playing skills by interacting with opponents, teammates, coaches, and officials. Students develop increased proficiency and skill development with each repetition. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 172 — : Intercollegiate Basketball, Men/Women (Advanced) This class emphasizes instruction and training in advanced basketball skills, techniques, strategies, and leadership. Students develop team-playing skills by interacting with opponents, teammates, coaches, and officials. Students develop increased proficiency and skill development with each repetition. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # ATHL 188 — : Intercollegiate Soccer, Men/Women This class emphasizes an advanced level of instruction and training in soccer skills, techniques, and strategies. Students demonstrate increased proficiency and skill attainment with each repetition. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # AUTO 100 — : Basic Motorcycle Maintenance and Small Engine Repair This introductory course combines theory with practical experience to provide students with the necessary skills to perform two- and four-cycle small engine maintenance, tune-up, and repair. The course covers the operation, maintenance, and repair of landscaping management equipment as well as an intensive study of the theory and repair of motorcycle systems. The course is designed for students without small engine experience and those who wish to acquire entry level skills in motorcycle maintenance and repair. --- # AUTO 102 — : Preventive Maintenance and Engine Performance Designed to develop an understanding of the operation, care, preventive maintenance, and light repair of the automobile, this course covers all major systems and components, including tires, wheels, brakes, suspensions, characteristics of fuel, oil, and lubricants; maintenance of smog devices; basic engine performance, automotive electronics procedures; and safety factors. Students apply hands-on service, diagnostic, and light repair procedures to prepare them for entry level positions in the automotive industry. C-ID AUTO-110X. --- # AUTO 105 — : Automotive Reconditioning and Detailing This course covers interior and exterior detailing processes, including identification of paint condition and types, use of car-care chemicals, machine polishing, maintenance of the paint surface, and customer communication. The course also covers inspection procedures for roadworthiness and safety, including an overview of the retail certification processes for used vehicles prior to sale. --- # AUTO 110 — : History of the Automobile This course surveys the history, culture, and societal impact of the automobile in the United States from the early twentieth century through present times. Students examine how the automobile has transformed American society and how it continues to influence social status, consumer purchasing, advertising, consumption, transportation choices, urban design, technological innovations, market competition, environmental concerns, and governmental regulations. --- # AUTO 125 — : CA Smog Technician Engine and Emission Control - Level 1 This course (plus other requirements and course work) prepares students to qualify for the California Smog Check Technician Examination using Nissan and other Asian manufacturer-specific and standard Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) materials. The course covers the following BAR-certified course: Engine and Emission Control Training Level 1 (formerly known as the Clean Air Car course). --- # AUTO 130 — : Basic Engine Performance This course introduces students to the theory and operation of the internal combustion engine. Topics include cooling, lubrication, ignition, fuel systems, and emission control systems, as well as maintenance and servicing procedures. It also introduces students to hybrid technology and computerized systems, and prepares them for AUTO 141 Automotive Engine Performance and Driveability. --- # AUTO 135 — : Auto Electronic Fundamentals This course prepares students for the study of automotive electrical and electronic computer control systems. It covers the fundamentals of electricity, electromagnetism, electromagnetic induction, electronics, and D/C and A/C current theory. The course provides in-depth coverage of voltage, amperage, resistance, and Ohm's Law, and it emphasizes electronic principles and proper use of a Digital Volt Ohm Meter (DVOM). Topics include the overall theory, service, and testing of the battery, charging system, starter, and ignition. This class prepares students for the ASE A6 Exam and California St… --- # AUTO 140 — : Automotive Engine Technology This course introduces students to automotive engine mechanical theory and repair. Topics include four-cycle engine theory and operation, lubrication and cooling system service and repair, and engine removal and installation. In the on ground or hybrid course students disassemble, inspect, and assemble engine blocks and cylinder heads to factory specifications. In the 'online only' course students perform the same lab tasks in a virtual environment. This course prepares students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A1 Engine Repair examination. --- # AUTO 141 — : Automotive Engine Performance and Drivability This engine performance course covers diagnostics, service, and repair of fuel, ignition, starting, charging, emission, and computer systems. Students use state-of-the-art equipment to diagnose and repair problems using proper repair techniques, automotive safety, and service protocol. This course helps prepare students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A8 Engine Performance examination and entry-level employment as engine performance technicians. --- # AUTO 155 — : Manual Transmissions and Transaxles This course introduces the theory, service, and repair of manual transmissions (RWD) and manual transaxles (FWD). Students learn to identify, evaluate, service, remove, and replace transmissions and transaxles. Topics include theory, service, and repair of manual and hydraulic clutch systems and driveline components. (Note: When the course is taught online, the lab tasks and instructor demonstration are performed in a virtual environment.) The course helps students prepare for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A3 Manual Transmission examination. C-ID AUTO-130X. --- # AUTO 156 — : Automatic Transmissions and Transaxles This course introduces the theory, service, and repair of automatic transmissions (RWD) and automatic transaxles (FWD). Students learn to identify, evaluate, service, remove, and replace transmissions and transaxles. Topics include theory, service, and repair of electronic assist automatic transmission components and related driveline components. (Note: When the course is taught online, the lab tasks and instructor demonstration are performed in a virtual environment.) This course helps prepare students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A2 Automatic Transmission examination. C-ID AU… --- # AUTO 160 — : Automotive Suspension, Steering, and Alignment This course covers automotive passenger car and light truck alignment, steering, and suspension systems. It emphasizes the theory and function of modern front- and rear-wheel drive suspension systems and equipment, safety procedures, proper service techniques, component failure analysis, and repair. Students practice alignment procedures on state-of-the-art alignment equipment. This course prepares students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A4 Suspension and Steering examination. Note: When the course is offered online, lab tasks and instructor demonstration are performed in a virtu… --- # AUTO 161 — : Automotive Brake Service and Repair This course covers the theory, service, and repair of hydraulic brake, antilock brake, traction control, and regenerative brake systems. Students learn complete service and repair of front and rear brake systems. The course includes measuring and machining brake rotors and drums to factory specifications, using proper safety protocols, diagnostic strategies, and repair techniques. Students practice these techniques on state-of-the-art stationary and on-the-car brake lathe equipment. This course prepares students for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A5 Brakes examination. --- # AUTO 200 — : Automotive Electric and Hybrid Vehicles This course covers the theory, safety procedures, service, and repair of automotive hybrid, electric, and hydrogen powered vehicles. The course emphasizes design, specialized tools, equipment, and component failure analysis. Students learn the complex theories of high voltage DC electrical systems, AC synchronous traction motors, regenerative braking, hydrogen fuel cell technology, and the unique characteristics of hybrid internal combustion engines coupled with manufacturer-specific service and repair protocol. This course introduces students to existing and future alternative fuel technolog… --- # AUTO 201 — : Alternative Fuel Vehicles This alternative fuel vehicles course emphasizes biodiesel, natural gas, propane, biofuels derived from algae, alcohol/ethanol products (cellulosic and crop-based), and new propulsion sources currently under development. Students learn basic diesel and biodiesel technology, including oil titration and biodiesel production. The course covers the properties of gasoline, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, pressurized fuels such as natural gas and propane, and how crude oil is derived from algae production for use as a carbon-neutral internal combustion alternative. It also examines the environmental, e… --- # AUTO 205 — : Automotive Reconditioning and Paint Fundamentals This course covers procedures for automotive reconditioning and paint refinishing fundamentals. Topics include exterior and interior cosmetic reconditioning processes consisting of paint touch-up, bumper repair, interior surface repair, rotary polishing, and introduction to paintless dent removal (PDR). The course also covers automotive business start-up procedures. --- # AUTO 220 — : HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning This course covers the fundamental theories, diagnosis, service, and repair practices of automotive air conditioning and heating systems. Topics include the procedures of recovering the refrigerant, replacing parts, evacuating, charging the air conditioning units, retrofitting, and computer-controlled climate control systems. This course helps prepare students to pass the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) A7 heating, ventilation, and air conditioning test. C-ID AUTO-170X. --- # AUTO 225 — : Smog Check Training Inspection Procedures - Level 2 This course (plus other requirements and course work) prepares students to qualify for the California Smog Check Technician Examination using Nissan and other Asian manufacturer-specific and standard Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) materials. The course covers the Smog Check Training Inspection Procedures Level 2 BAR-certified course. --- # AUTO 235 — : Electronic Engine Controls and Accessories This course covers automotive drivetrain computer control systems as they interact with air/fuel, timing, idle speed and emission controls. Topics include OBD 2 diagnosis and electrical accessory systems, such as airbag, Bluetooth, infotainment and Hybrid/EV safety. The course prepares students for the ASE (A6) certification test in electricity and electronics. --- # AUTO 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # AUTO 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BIO 102 — : Introductory Biology: Ecology and Environmental Biology This general education life science course is intended for non-science track students. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students explore ecology and address current environmental issues, while seeking sustainable solutions. Course activities may include lectures, group discussions, lab observations and experimentation, simulation exercises, field work, case studies, and research projects. --- # BIO 103 — : Introductory Biology: Animal Diversity This course introduces non-science track students to animal diversity and incorporates biological concepts such as evolution, ecology, behavior, physiology, and development. Course activities may include lectures, assessments, class discussions, research projects, reflection and/or application assignments, and observational activities. --- # BIO 104 — : Introductory Biology: Botany (Plant Life) This introductory course examines plant anatomy, physiology, and classification. It provides a broad perspective of biological concepts and principles and covers both unicellular and multicellular systems. Topics include structure and function of life, metabolism and manipulation of energy, cell division, genetics, taxonomy, and the evolution and adaptation of living organisms. Required field trips support the development of observational and analytical skills aligned with course objectives. --- # BIO 105 — : Introductory Biology: Biotechnology in Society This introductory course relates basic biology to the emerging field of biotechnology. Topics include fundamental chemical processes common to all cells, biomolecular chemistry, cellular and molecular biology, classical and molecular genetics, and the molecular basis of immunology and cancer. The course highlights current advances in biotechnology, such as cloning, recombinant DNA technology, and gene therapy as well as the applications, social consequences, and ethical implications of biology and biotechnology in medicine and agriculture. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 103 , BIO 105 ,… --- # BIO 107 — : Introductory Biology: Marine Biology From plankton to whales, this general education life science course explores the diversity of life in the ocean and examines the biological and environmental factors that influence ocean ecosystems. Designed for non-science majors, the course emphasizes human impacts on the ocean and issues related to our local marine communities. The laboratory provides hands-on experience with scientific observation, data collection, and the use of field and lab equipment. Required field trips support the development of observational and data analysis skills aligned with course objectives. --- # BIO 108 — : Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability This introductory life science course examines the ocean from an ecological perspective with an emphasis on environmental sustainability. Topics include patterns in the marine realm, interactions between organisms and their environment, the flow of energy through food webs, the structure of marine communities and issues related to environmental sustainability and human impacts on ocean ecosystems. Students discuss climate change, reducing our carbon footprint, the impacts of plastics and other pollution, and exploitation of marine resources. This class prepares students for moving forward tow… --- # BIO 108L — : Introductory Biology: Ocean Ecology and Sustainability Lab This general education life science lab course offers students an experimental approach to examining current topics in the field of ocean ecology with a strong emphasis on sustainability. The course introduces students to current laboratory and field-based research methods, allowing them to develop skills in experimental design and then practice their skills by engaging in instructor-led independent research. This course supports the content of BIO 108 and includes local field trips. --- # BIO 110 — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lecture/Lab) This entry-level course provides a broad perspective of biological concepts and principles with an emphasis on human health. Topics include the process of scientific inquiry, the biochemistry of biomolecules, metabolism and manipulation of energy by plants and animals, cell division, classical and molecular genetics, development, and the evolution and adaptation of living organisms. The laboratory component of this course provides direct participation in experiments, demonstrations, and discussions related to fundamental concepts in biology. This course is designed for pre-health profession s… --- # BIO 111 — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lecture) This entry-level course provides a broad perspective of biological concepts and principles with an emphasis on human health. Topics include the process of scientific inquiry, the biochemistry of biomolecules, metabolism and manipulation of energy by plants and animals, cell division, classical and molecular genetics, development, and the evolution and adaptation of living organisms. This course is designed for pre-health profession students. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BIO 103 , BIO 105 , BIO 110 , or BIO 111 . --- # BIO 111L — : Introductory Biology: Preparation for Pre-Health Professions (Lab) This laboratory accompaniment to BIO 111 provides direct participation in experiments, demonstrations, and discussions related to fundamental concepts in biology. This course further develops the student's understanding of topics introduced in the lecture. --- # BIO 202 — : Foundations of Biology: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Organismal Biology This course surveys the organismal/meta-organismal half of biological disciplines. Topics include the taxonomy and physiology of prokaryotes and basal eukaryotes; the taxonomy, developmental biology, and physiology of plants and animals; and single-species population dynamics and interspecies interactions in communities. The laboratory emphasizes evolutionary process and mechanism, phylogeny reconstruction, comparative anatomy/physiology/survey of plants and animals, and life history evolution. Required field trips support the development of observational and data analysis skills aligned with… --- # BIO 204 — : Foundations of Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology This course surveys the molecular half of biological disciplines. Topics include biological molecules, metabolic biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and genetics. The laboratory emphasizes modern methods in cell and molecular biology, classical genetics, and experimental design. C-ID BIOL-135S (with BIO 202 ) and BIOL-190. --- # BIO 210 — : Human Anatomy This course follows a systemic approach by combining microscopic studies of tissues (histology) and organs along with gross/visual anatomical studies of the human body. Students learn mammalian and human anatomy by working with preserved mammalian specimens and human cadavers. Because the course presents applied clinical situations, it is recommended for students majoring in the health sciences: massage therapy, kinesiology, physical therapy, nursing, and physician assistant. C-ID BIOL-110B. --- # BIO 220 — : Human Physiology This course presents the interrelationships of the various organ systems, based upon the molecular and cellular activities of the organs that comprise those systems. It emphasizes the integration of body systems for maintaining homeostasis through regulated metabolism and coordinated flow of information. This course is designed for students majoring in pre-medicine, pre-nursing, allied health fields, and physical education. C-ID BIOL-120B. --- # BIO 230 — : Introduction to Microbiology This course introduces the fundamental concepts of microbiology and the use of the scientific method applied to the study of bacteria and other microorganisms. Topics include the history, morphology, genetics, and physiology of microbes. The laboratory emphasizes methods for isolating, culturing, identifying, enumerating and controlling bacteria. --- # BIO 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BIO 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BIO 340 — : Molecular Mechanisms of Disease This course focuses on the molecular basis of human disease. Topics include genetic, metabolic, signaling, developmental, and infectious diseases as well as the biological mechanisms of immunity, cancer, and aging. This course develops students' understanding of the biological basis of human disease that will allow them to evaluate technological advances in therapeutics and diagnostics. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 107 — : Exploring Biotechnology: Emerging Trends, Careers, and the Local Industry This course introduces students to the emerging role of biotechnology in modern society. It examines the origins and impact of the biotechnology industry from physiological and socio-cultural aspects, including how biotechnology advances have transformed individual lives and communities. Topics include new technologies in development and the role of biotechnology in addressing societal challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Students are oriented to biotechnology careers, employment trends, and the required high-tech, high-touch workforce skills necessary for success in… --- # BTEC 110 — : Basic Techniques in Biotechnology This course focuses on the basic laboratory skills needed for employment in the biotechnology/biomanufacturing industry. Students learn laboratory safety and documentation while acquiring skills in the maintenance and calibration of basic lab equipment, calculation and preparation of lab solutions and media, and routine handling of cell cultures. Students also develop fundamental skills in spectroscopy, centrifugation, performance of assays, gel electrophoresis, and the purification and handling of biological molecules, such as proteins. (Materials Fee: $30.00) --- # BTEC 120 — : Business and Regulatory Practices in Biotechnology This course examines basic business principles and practices utilized in the discovery, development, and production phases of new product development. It explores the role of governmental oversight and regulation in assuring the safety, efficacy, and quality of a biotechnology product. --- # BTEC 180 — : Biostatistics This introductory statistics course covers the principles and practice of statistical design and analysis for scientific experimentation. Topics include hypothesis formation, experimental design and execution, data analysis, and communication with application to scientific fields, such as the biological and health sciences. The course includes laboratory application with extensive use of computer software for statistical analysis and simulation. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180 , BUS 204 , PSYC 104 / PSYC 104H , SOC 125, or STAT C1000 / STAT C1000E / STAT C1000H . Some CSU campuses m… --- # BTEC 201 — : Advanced Cell Culture This advanced course teaches skills in the proper handling of cells from higher organisms, such as plants, mammals, and insects, that are routinely maintained in culture in the biotechnology laboratory. Instruction focuses on growth and manipulation techniques and long-term maintenance of various laboratory cell cultures that may include anchorage-dependent and suspension cell lines as well as stem cell cultures. --- # BTEC 203 — : Techniques in DNA Amplification This advanced course provides skills in the performance of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a technique commonly used to amplify DNA in forensics and the biotechnology laboratory. Instruction focuses on understanding the process; potential applications of DNA amplification; and the skills related to the setup, performance, and evaluation of the technique's outcome. The course assumes some prior knowledge of solution preparation and gel electrophoresis. --- # BTEC 204 — : Recombinant DNA This advanced course provides skills in recombinant DNA technology used to analyze and manipulate DNA in the biotechnology laboratory. Students learn about the process of cloning and analyzing DNA and acquire the skills necessary to cut, piece together, and introduce new DNA molecules into prepared host bacterial cells. --- # BTEC 206 — : Principles of Separation and HPLC This advanced course provides skills in the separation of biomolecules from complex mixtures using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Instruction focuses on understanding the principles of separation, acquiring skills in the separation of various biomolecules, and analyzing the outcome for the purpose of determining system performance and biomolecular purification. The course assumes some prior knowledge of solution preparation, assays, and spectroscopy. --- # BTEC 207 — : Techniques in Immunochemistry and ELISA This advanced course provides skills in the use of antibody reagents as a tool in the biotechnology laboratory. It focuses on the nature and specificity of antibody reagents for the identification and quantification of biological molecules. Students learn how to set up, perform, and analyze techniques utilizing antibodies, such as Westerns and ELISAs. --- # BTEC 210 — : Data Analysis with Excel This course teaches students how modern spreadsheet programs can be used to collect and organize data for subsequent tabulation, summarization, and graphical display. It utilizes various forms of scientific data to teach the techniques and skill that facilitate the capture, analysis, and management of data. Topics include importing and organizing data, filtering and sorting, graphing, and statistical analysis functions. --- # BTEC 211 — : Technical Writing for Regulated Environments This course provides the requisite tools to understand why technical writing exists and how that writing works in conjunction with the many types of documents found in regulated environments. It also develops the techniques needed to deliver clear and complete passages with precise language. Students apply best practices for technical writing to a variety of documents, including reports, standard operating procedures (SOP), and investigations. --- # BTEC 221 — : Bioprocessing: Cell Culture and Scale-up This laboratory course develops the skills and knowledge related to the culture of cells in increasingly larger scales for the production of biological molecules. Students grow and monitor a variety of cells (bacterial, yeast, and/or mammalian) on a laboratory scale that emulates the large-scale production used in industry. They become familiar with the cleaning, sterilization, aseptic inoculation, operation, and monitoring of fermenters and bioreactors. The course emphasizes the use of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and process control strategies, and students gain experience f… --- # BTEC 222 — : Bioprocessing: Large Scale Purification This laboratory course develops the skills and knowledge related to purification of biological molecules produced on a large scale. Students utilize the most common types of separation equipment, including tangential flow filtration, centrifugation, and column chromatography. They become familiar with the cleaning, sanitization, calibration, operation, and monitoring of large-scale purification equipment. The course emphasizes the use of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and process control strategies, and students gain experience following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). --- # BTEC 231 — : Gene Editing Techniques: CRISPR-Cas9 This advanced course provides skills in the performance of the revolutionary genome editing technique CRISPR-Cas9. Instruction focuses on a deep understanding of this powerful and popular gene-editing technique to better appreciate the promise, risks, and ethics behind its many applications. Laboratory activities develop skills related to the setup, performance, and evaluation of the technique's outcome. The course assumes some prior knowledge of solution preparation and aseptic streak-plating of bacterial cultures. --- # BTEC 232 — : Principles of Flow Cytometry This advanced course addresses the basic theory and practice of flow cytometry. Instruction focuses on understanding the principles of flow cytometry, acquiring skills in the detection and measurement of physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells, and analyzing the outcome for the purpose of determining system performance and cell characteristics. The course assumes some prior knowledge of solution preparation, assays, and cell culture. --- # BTEC 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BTEC 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BTEC 300 — : Supply Chain and Enterprise Resource Planning in Biomanufacturing Students gain knowledge of how companies manage the complete flow of materials in a supply chain from suppliers to customers. This course covers the design, planning, execution, monitoring, and control of raw materials, personnel resources, inventory management, and distribution. At the end students will have the knowledge required to take the CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) certification test administered by APICS (the American Production and Inventory Control Society). This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 310 — : Biomanufacturing Process Sciences This lecture/laboratory course examines the biological, physical, and chemical scientific principles that support the design, development, and optimization of key parameters in a biomanufacturing process. Process sciences covers the essential theories that underpin the biomanufacturing operations from product formation through product purification and how those operations scale up and scale down. The topics include fermenter and bioreactor design and the design of downstream processes that maximize the yield, safety, and efficacy of a protein pharmaceutical. This course is open only to studen… --- # BTEC 320 — : Design of Experiments for Biomanufacturing This course teaches formalized design of experiments (DOE), a system that optimizes a process through the methodical varying of key parameters and a formalized approach to analyzing, interpreting, and applying the results. DOE is designed to make any process more robust and minimize variability from external sources. The course builds upon the statistical concepts required for DOE, including hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, statistical models, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The DOE approach systematically varies the parameters of a biomanufacturing process to improve its operation… --- # BTEC 330 — : Advanced Topics in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs This course builds upon previous knowledge of quality assurance and regulatory affairs to study the harmonized quality system approaches of the International Council for Harmonisation Q8 through Q11. The course pays special attention to the topics of quality risk management, qualification, and validation. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 340 — : Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing This course covers the Six Sigma approach to the maintenance and improvement of biomanufacturing processes. It incorporates the DMAIC phases: define, measure, analyze, improve, and control. The course covers the use and implementation of lean manufacturing tools that biomanufacturing companies use to reduce waste. At the end of the course, students will be prepared to take the certification test for qualification with a yellow belt in Six Sigma. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 360 — : Design of Biomanufacturing Facilities, Critical Utilities, Processes, and Equipment Students evaluate how the design of a biomanufacturing facility maintains appropriate levels of cleanliness and sterility and promotes the production of safe and effective products. Students analyze the design of the processes, equipment, and instrumentation used in biological production to generate critical utilities, aseptic systems, environmental control and monitoring, upstream production, and downstream (recovery and purification) production within a regulated environment. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 400 — : Bioprocess Monitoring and Control This course covers the measurement, monitoring, modeling, and control of biomanufacturing processes and the statistical methodology used for measuring, analyzing, and controlling quality during the manufacturing process, including control charts and the analysis of process capabilities. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 410 — : Methods in Quality, Improvements, Investigations, and Audits This course examines investigational methods used by quality assurance departments to analyze process deviations and make decisions about severity of deviation. Students learn to write industry-standard corrective and preventive action (CAPA) reports to conclude what corrective and preventive actions result from the investigation. The course also covers how a company would perform an audit in anticipation of an inspection by the Food and Drug Administration or for the supplier of a key raw material. Course content is aligned with the American Society for Quality's Body of Knowledge for a Cert… --- # BTEC 460 — : Capstone Seminar in Biomanufacturing Technologies This course examines the breadth of products that are produced through biological processes. The course will focus on the advances and emerging technologies in biological production and purification operations. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BTEC 470 — : Capstone Seminar in Biomanufacturing Quality This course examines the process by which the quality systems of biomanufacturing evolve by examining a selected current trend in the laws and regulations governing biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Students evaluate the effectiveness of the laws and regulations governing biopharmaceutical manufacturing. This course serves as a capstone experience for students in biomanufacturing quality. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # BLST 100 — : Introduction to Black Studies This course provides students with an introduction to the principal concepts and methods of Black and African American Studies. Topics include the social, political, creative aspects, philosophies, traditions, and economic experiences of Black people in America and throughout the world. Students explore the full scope of the African Diaspora and their experiences and responses to the economic, political, and socio-cultural production of; "Blackness" Key topics include African origins, African diaspora, colonization, slavery, race, racialization, anti-blackness, migration, civil rights, power,… --- # BUS 117 — : Human Resources Management This course introduces human resource management in business. Topics include the role and scope of human resource management in an organization, strategic human resource management planning, employment law, recruiting, training, employee development, employee communication, performance management, compensation and benefits programs, managing diversity and global operations, collective bargaining, and using human resources as a competitive advantage. --- # BUS 120 — : Introduction to Business This course introduces the trends and opportunities in today's dynamic business environment as they relate to economics, global markets, ethics and social responsibility, business ownership forms, entrepreneurship, management responsibility, human resources management, marketing, operations, accounting, and financial management. Students gain important business context and discover business career and educational opportunities. C-ID BUS-110. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BUS 120 or BUS 120H. --- # BUS 128 — : Introduction to Supply Chain Management This course provides an overview of key supply chain management and logistics processes, concepts, and methodologies. The course explores the framework for supply chain management, major issues and challenges, main cost and service elements, key strategies and practices, and strategic role of information technology. Students gain important global business context and explore supply chain management career and educational opportunities. --- # BUS 130 — : Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management In this business start-up and management course, students learn about conducting preliminary research, analyzing trends and competition, buying and starting a business or franchise, developing a business plan, considering legal issues, target marketing, accounting, managing personnel, and responsible business practices. --- # BUS 131 — : Management Principles This course explores contemporary management application issues. Topics include management theories, finding and developing leaders, motivating employees, strategic planning, hiring and training employees, developing workplace teams, dealing with organizational change, diversity, and ethical and social responsibilities of managers. --- # BUS 132 — : Marketing This course introduces students to the principles of marketing. Topics include segmenting, targeting, market research, buyer behavior, distribution, retailing, promotional mix elements, and digital media issues. Students gain an understanding of the marketing mix (product, distribution, promotion, and price) for a defined target market. --- # BUS 133 — : Project Management This course introduces students with varying backgrounds to the fundamental principles of contemporary project management in personal and professional environments. The course covers the principles and methods necessary to create an effective plan and schedule for a project; the techniques to monitor, control, and measure performance of the project once it is underway; and the competing demands of time, scope, and resources. Topics also include project management software, communication, web resources, certifications, and lifelong learning. --- # BUS 134 — : Retail Management This course introduces the principles and practices used in managing retail businesses. Topics include site selection, layout, organization, staffing, positioning, customer service, promotional techniques, and all aspects of the critical buying function. --- # BUS 135 — : Personal Selling This course covers professional selling skills and techniques. Topics include career opportunities, understanding buyer behavior, communication skills, prospecting, interviewing, motivating, persuading, handling objections, negotiating, closing, obtaining referrals, and addressing legal and ethical concerns. --- # BUS 136 — : Human Relations in Business This course covers the major themes of human relations, including self-awareness, communication, motivation, and conflict resolution, from psychological, sociological, and physiological perspectives. It emphasizes interpersonal, or soft, skills that promote personal and professional success in a culturally diverse, global, and high-tech business environment. Topics include the identification of values, ethics, teamwork, and leadership-skill development. The course also examines strategies that can be utilized to attain physical and emotional well-being within the workplace. --- # BUS 138 — : Business Promotion This course provides students with an overview of the promotion function within marketing. Topics include segmenting, buyer personas, positioning, customer journey mapping, creative content creation for both digital and traditional advertising, public relations, and sales promotion tactics. --- # BUS 140 — : Legal Environment of Business This course introduces business-related law, ethics, social responsibility, and government regulations. Topics include dispute resolution, legal system and laws, torts, crimes, contracts, sales, warranties, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, bankruptcy, agency, employment, business entities, real and personal property, cyberlaw, and intellectual property. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BUS 140 or BUS 140H. C-ID BUS-120, BUS-125. --- # BUS 141 — : Logistics and Transportation Management This course provides an overview of the principles and practices of transportation and its role within supply chain management. The course emphasizes physical transportation systems within the context of logistics management. Students gain important global supply chain context and explore transportation and logistics career and educational opportunities. --- # BUS 143 — : Warehousing and Inventory Management This course provides an overview of warehousing operations and the processes, technologies, and equipment within a warehouse facility as enablers for an efficient, effective, and comprehensive supply. Students gain important global supply chain context and explore warehousing operations career and educational opportunities. --- # BUS 144 — : Budgeting Basics This course addresses the preparation of an operating budget for businesses. Students prepare an integrated set of pro forma financial statements and analyze budget-versus-actuals reports. --- # BUS 147 — : Personal Finance This course assists students in gaining the knowledge, tools, attitude, and skills needed to make informed lifelong financial decisions that will empower their lives. Students explore the social, psychological, and physiological issues related to planning and managing a personal financial plan. Topics include goal setting, budgeting, money management, taxes, savings, consumer credit, automobiles, housing, insurance, investment vehicles, retirement and estate planning, and the financial impact of marriage and divorce. --- # BUS 152 — : Business Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis This course focuses on identification of potential business opportunities and the development of a feasibility study of a proposed business idea. --- # BUS 153 — : Business Startup Fundamentals This course addresses all logistical elements of business startup. Students complete required paperwork to start and operate a small business in California. --- # BUS 154 — : Funding the Entrepreneurial Venture This course introduces students to the various options available to fund a new or on-going business. --- # BUS 155 — : Business Plan Development This course focuses on the development of a professional business plan for the purpose of obtaining funding. It emphasizes development of the business plan document, incorporating effective writing techniques, research, data analysis, and presentation. Students meet and collaborate with Small Business Development Center (SBDC) coaches either in person, or online throughout the course during the development process. --- # BUS 160 — : International Business This course covers international business, trade, and globalization. Topics include politics, laws, economics, cultures, ethics, foreign trade/investment/exchange, internationalizing a business, entering foreign markets, strategizing, structuring, and managing in a global economy with social responsibility. --- # BUS 204 — : Business Statistics This course examines the use of descriptive statistics, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis, chi-square, t-tests for one and two populations, and applications of technology-based statistical analysis using data from business, economics, political science, health science, information technology, and education, including the interpretation of the relevance of statistical findings for business problem solving and decision making. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180 , BUS 204 , PSYC 104 / PSYC 104H , SOC 125, or ST… --- # BUS 205 — : Manufacturing and Operations Management This course focuses on the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. It emphasizes methodologies and processes for effective and efficient management of manufacturing and services operations. Students gain important global business context and explore operations management career and educational opportunities. --- # BUS 289 — : Career Mentoring This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in a mentor/protege relationship under the instruction of a faculty coordinator. It introduces students to aspects of successful transfer, completion, and transition to a successful career. --- # BUS 290 — : Business Communication This course focuses on the principles of effective written, oral, and electronic communication. It emphasizes solving problems and eliciting positive response through carefully organized and designed memos, letters, reports, and presentations. C-ID BUS-115. --- # BUS 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BUS 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # BUS 302 — : Leadership and Personal Development This course explores how leaders influence organizations. It focuses on leadership and management topics related to communication, groups and teams, motivation, personal values, professional behavior, organizational structure, and diversity. The course integrates theory and practice. This course is open only to students enrolled in the biomanufacturing bachelor's degree program. --- # CRLP 101 — : Introduction to Career Planning This course introduces students to the career planning process. It explores the student's interests, values, skills, and personality preferences as they relate to potential career and major options. Topics include career research, decision-making styles, goal setting, and job search strategies. The course emphasizes the process for actively managing one's own career journey. --- # CCS 100 — : Introduction to Chicana/o Studies This course is an introductory survey of the field of Chicana and Chicano studies, including its origins, evolution, current status, and academic and career path possibilities. It uses a critical interdisciplinary approach to mobilize a robust array of research methods, theoretical frameworks, and applied practices to analyze the historical development, contemporary issues, intellectual traditions, and cultural expressions of Chicana and Chicano populations in the US. The course is designed for all students interested in interdisciplinary approaches, community engagement, cultural competency,… --- # CCS 232 — : Critical Issues in Chicana and Latina Studies This course examines critical themes in Chicana and Latina feminist scholarship and the lived experiences of Chicana and other Latina women in American society. It applies an interdisciplinary approach to examine power within and resistance to the family, religion, education, economics, culture, social conditions, health, and other areas. --- # CHEM 103 — : Chemistry and Society: For Non-Science Majors This course explores chemical concepts and their applications to everyday life, real world problems, and sustainability. It reviews the properties of matter and energy, chemical bonding and reactions, acids and bases, and the chemistry of water, the earth, and the atmosphere. Sustainability topics explored include energy production and consumption, the depletion of natural resources, renewable energy, pollution, climate change, and their effects on society and diverse populations. Students also discuss current scientific research to overcome problems in society. --- # CHEM 103L — : Chemistry and Society: For Non-Science Majors (Lab) This course is designed to accompany CHEM 103 . It offers hands-on experiences with chemical techniques in both the laboratory and the field. Lab topics include water analysis, acid rain, forensic analysis, acids and bases, and soap synthesis. Required field trips can include visits to a winery, brewery, the beach, a cosmetic chemistry lab, a garden center/nursery, ocean water desalination plant, and an environmental conservation site. --- # CHEM 112 — : Introductory General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: For Allied Health Majors This course surveys concepts and skills of the chemistry of living organisms with an emphasis on the human body. Topics include the structure of the atom, chemical bonding, chemical reactions, the structure and reactions of organic compounds, carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and proteins, nucleic acids, and metabolism, with applications in the physiology, nutrition, and pharmacology of the human body. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after CHEM 116. --- # CHEM 115 — : Introductory General Chemistry: For Allied Health Majors This introductory course for non-chemistry majors teaches students the language, materials, mathematics, and principles of chemistry. It covers properties of matter, atomic theory, use of the periodic table of the elements, naming of compounds, formulas and equations, metric measurement, physical states of matter, chemistry of solutions, acids and bases, and organic and nuclear chemistry. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CHEM 115 or CHEM 140 . No credit if taken after CHEM 150 . --- # CHEM 140 — : Preparation for General Chemistry: For Science Majors This introductory chemistry course focuses on developing problem-solving skills needed for success in CHEM 150 . It emphasizes the application of the scientific method, modern ideas concerning atomic structure and chemical bonding, the periodic table and its relationship to chemical properties, principles of stoichiometry, including chemical ratio calculations, chemical nomenclature, properties of the states of matter, and chemical reaction principles. The laboratory component of this course provides direct participation in experiments, demonstrations, learning activities, and discussions rel… --- # CHEM 150 — : General Chemistry I: For Science Majors This first semester of a one-year general chemistry sequence focuses on the fundamental principles of chemistry. Students learn the application of these principles with special significance placed on chemical computation. Topics include atomic structure, the periodic table, nomenclature, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and bonding. The course emphasizes critical thinking, writing, problem-solving, and analytical skills, and it meets the requirements of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics, pre-dental, pre-medical, and pre-engineering majors. C-ID CHEM-110 and CHEM-120… --- # CHEM 151 — : General Chemistry II: For Science Majors This continuation of CHEM 150 studies the fundamental principles of chemistry and their applications. Topics include intermolecular forces, solutions, kinetics, equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, aqueous ionic equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and coordination chemistry. The laboratory includes a variety of experiments to supplement and reinforce the class work. It also includes a section on qualitative analysis. C-ID CHEM-120S (with CHEM 150 ). --- # CHEM 210 — : Organic Chemistry I: For Science Majors This first course in a standard one-year organic chemistry sequence is designed for students majoring in chemistry and other sciences. Major themes include bonding, molecular structure, isomerism, conformational analysis, nomenclature, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis. The lecture emphasizes the mechanisms, reactions, and synthesis of aliphatic compounds, such as alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, and alcohols; the lab emphasizes the determination of physical properties and the separation, purification, and identification of organic compounds using spectroscopic techniq… --- # CHEM 211 — : Organic Chemistry II: For Science Majors This continuation of the one-year organic chemistry sequence emphasizes the application of organic chemistry reactions, mechanisms and synthesis learned in CHEM 210 to other compounds. It examines new reactions for different functional groups, including alcohols, thiols, aldehydes, ketones, arenes, carboxylic acid and its derivative, amines, and their application in biological molecules. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CHEM 211 or CHEM 211H. C-ID CHEM-160S (with CHEM 210 /CHEM 210H). --- # CHEM 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # CDEV 104 — : Family Child Care Business Essentials This course focuses on developing and operating a high-quality family child care program. It emphasizes core theoretical principles of early childhood education, business management, relationship-based care, family engagement, culturally responsive practices, curriculum development, and implementation designed for mixed-age groups in a home-based setting. Other topics include licensing regulations, health and safety requirements, developmentally appropriate practices, observation and assessment, and strategies for creating a nurturing and inclusive learning environment. --- # CDEV 105 — : Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Children This course introduces working with young children in early care and education programs. It examines the theories and principles of developmentally appropriate practice in early learning environments and emphasizes positive relationships; constructive adult-child interactions; program planning; and culturally responsive, effective teaching strategies that draw upon cultural funds of knowledge in children and families. Topics include the historical roots of early childhood programs; contemporary curriculum models; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and the evolution of professional practices pr… --- # CDEV 106 — : Introduction to Curriculum in Early Childhood This course introduces teachers of young children (birth to age eight) to designing early learning environments and planning curriculum in early care and education settings. It covers the relationship of theory and practice, the contributions of current research, the influence of different curriculum models and approaches, the role of observation, documentation and assessment in the curriculum planning process, and the incorporation of reflective teaching practices across the curriculum to meet the needs of all learners. Students examine the teacher's role in supporting development and engage… --- # CDEV 109 — : Child Behavior and Guidance This course relates children's behavior to appropriate teaching and parenting strategies and interventions. It explores effective techniques for interacting with children, including children with special needs, and addresses issues such as separation from parents, new experiences, routines, peer interaction, fears, frustrations, and aggression. Students learn how to access community agencies and family services to provide specialized support. Formerly CHLD 109. --- # CDEV 111 — : Programs for Infants and Toddlers This course is specifically designed for caregivers of infants and toddlers. It focuses on the growth and development of the child, prenatal through three years of age, within various social contexts. Topics include fostering relationships, implementing health and safety practices, designing early learning environments and activities, accommodating individual differences, and creating partnerships with parents and families. This course meets state licensing requirements for child care providers. Formerly CHLD 111. --- # CDEV 112 — : The Developing Child: Conception through Early Childhood This course examines the major physical, cognitive, language, and social-emotional developmental milestones for children, both typical and atypical, from conception through age six. It emphasizes the interactions between maturational processes and environmental factors within cultural and family contexts. While studying developmental theory and research methodologies, students observe children, evaluate individual differences, and analyze characteristics of development at various stages. Formerly CHLD 112. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CHLD 112, CHLD 113, CDEV 112 , CDEV C1000 , or PSYC 12… --- # CDEV 130 — : Science and Math for Young Children This course provides teachers with knowledge and skills related to science and mathematics curriculum in early care and education settings. It focuses on understanding the ways in which children learn science and mathematics, the stages of children's cognitive development, the scientific process, content and standards of science and mathematics education, the teacher's role in the scientific process, and ways in which science and mathematics can be integrated across the early childhood curriculum. Formerly CHLD 130. --- # CDEV 140 — : Language and Literacy in Early Childhood This course gives teachers of young children the skills and knowledge needed to effectively plan, document, and implement language and literacy activities in the early childhood classroom. It focuses on understanding how our image of the child reflects the methods and materials provided for language and literacy. Topics include the developmental stages of children's language and communication skills, the teacher's role in language and literacy, and ways in which language and literacy can be integrated across the early childhood curriculum. Formerly CHLD 140. --- # CDEV 150 — : Art for Young Children This course prepares early childhood educators with the skills and knowledge to foster creativity, identity development, and aesthetic awareness through exploration of diverse art media and developmentally appropriate experiences. Emphasis is placed on how educators' image of the child shapes teaching strategies, the progression of children's art, and the design of inclusive, culturally sustaining, anti-bias environments. Topics include studio and art center design; planning, observing, documenting, and exhibiting children's artwork; the teacher's role in the creative process; and integrating… --- # CDEV 160 — : Music and Movement for Young Children This course equips early childhood educators with the skills and knowledge to meaningfully incorporate music and movement into the early learning environment to support self-expression, belonging, and holistic development. Topics include how educators' image of the child influences the selection of methods and materials; developmental stages of musical and bodily expression; and the creation of music and movement experiences that are culturally sustaining, developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and inclusive of all learning needs. Students will explore the teacher's role in facilitatin… --- # CDEV 200 — : Observation & Assessment in Early Childhood This course focuses on the appropriate use of observation and assessment strategies to document child growth and development, appraise child behavior, and plan for learning in quality early childhood programs. The course also explores recording strategies, rating systems, portfolios, documentation, and various assessment methods. Students are required to conduct and analyze in-person child observations. Formerly CHLD 200. C-ID ECE-200. --- # CDEV 205 — : Health, Safety, and Nutrition This course provides those who care for children (birth through middle childhood) with an overview of health, safety, and nutrition issues. Students develop skills and techniques in ways to promote physical and mental health, identification and management of common childhood illnesses, menu planning and nutritional analysis, safety management and injury prevention, child abuse identification and prevention, and program planning. Topics also include the teacher's role in prevention strategies, culturally and developmentally appropriate practice, integration of health, safety and nutrition expe… --- # CDEV 210 — : Child, Family, and Community This course examines the developing child in a societal context and focuses on the interrelationships of family, school, and community as agents of socialization from historical, socio-cultural, and contemporary perspectives. The course highlights the processes of socialization and identity development, demonstrating the importance of respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families in a culturally diverse society. Formerly CHLD 210. C-ID CDEV-110. --- # CDEV 212 — : Advanced Issues in Infant-Toddler Care This course helps infant and toddler caregivers and directors interpret and apply the guidelines for quality care for children birth through three years of age. Topics include the role of the infant care teacher, new insights into early learning and development, the central role of families, guidelines for operating quality infant/toddler programs, facilitating learning and development with infants and toddlers, and program leadership and policies. This course meets state licensing requirements for child care providers and is aligned with the California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development… --- # CDEV 230 — : Family Engagement in Early Childhood Programs This course examines the ways in which early care and education program staff can build ongoing, reciprocal, and respectful relationships with program families. The course focuses on identifying communication methods and interactional strategies that promote successful family engagement and parent/professional partnerships from a strength-based approach. Topics include family dynamics and well-being; parenting styles; families as life-long educators; cultural, linguistic, gender, and developmental diversity; community resources; and support systems. Formerly CHLD 230. --- # CDEV 235 — : Children in a Diverse Society This course examines the historical and current perspectives on diversity and inclusion and the impact of systemic societal influences on children's development, learning, and school experiences. It also explores anti-bias strategies that can be utilized in the classroom and/or in social settings to support children from diverse cultures, as well as approaches to promote inclusive, anti-racist classroom communities along with the promotion of language and identity development of multilingual children. The course includes self-reflection on the influence of teachers' own culture and life exper… --- # CDEV 240 — : Children with Special Learning Needs This course focuses on learning to work with children with a wide range of abilities, challenging behaviors, and other special learning needs in inclusive early childhood settings. Topics include attention to relevant special education legislation and family-focused practices. The course emphasizes adapting programming, curriculum and classroom teaching strategies to meet the needs of all young children, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds. Formerly CHLD 240. --- # CDEV 245 — : Adult Supervision and Mentoring in Early Care and Education Teachers of young children study the methods and principles of supervising and mentoring teachers, assistant teachers, student teachers, parents, and volunteers in early childhood classrooms. The course emphasizes the knowledge, skills, and competencies of classroom teachers who must function as new teacher mentors and address the needs of children, parents, and other adult learners. Topics include effective communication, problem solving, and negotiation in establishing positive interpersonal relations. Formerly CHLD 245. --- # CDEV 250 — : Administration I: Programs in Early Childhood Education This course is designed for directors and assistant directors of early childhood programs. Topics include program types, budget, management, licensing and state regulations, development and implementation of policies and procedures, working with diverse populations, and health and safety guidelines. Students examine administrative tools, philosophies, and techniques needed to organize, open, and operate an early care and education program. Formerly CHLD 250. --- # CDEV 251 — : Administration II: Personnel and Leadership in Early Childhood Education This course is designed for directors and assistant directors of early childhood programs. Topics include effective strategies for personnel management, legal and ethical responsibilities, supervision techniques, professional development, and in-service training. Additional focus includes strategies for partnering with parents, motivating staff, and fostering effective community relations within diverse cultural contexts. Formerly CHLD 251. --- # CDEV 270 — : Practicum - The Student Teaching Experience Teachers of young children apply developmentally appropriate early childhood teaching competencies under guided supervision in the campus Child Development Center or in a community early childhood program. Students use their practicum experience to connect theory and practice as they develop professional behaviors and build a comprehensive understanding of children and families. The course emphasizes child-centered, play-oriented approaches to teaching, learning, planning, and assessment. Formerly CHLD 270. C-ID ECE-210. --- # CDEV 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # CDEV 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # COMM 106 — : Group Communication This course provides students with the foundational knowledge and practice of speech making and the necessary role of public address in a democratic society, while simultaneously emphasizing theory and research about communication in a variety of group contexts. This course exposes students to rhetorical theory, group theory, and public speaking fundamentals within the context of their group communication processes and live presentations (including informative and persuasive speeches). Students will learn historical roots and key rhetorical theories that ground the study and practice of publi… --- # COMM 111 — : Narrative Performance This course introduces narrative performance and analysis of narrative works of art in their intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic forms. Class readings include traditional and contemporary approaches to storytelling and types of narratives, such as prose, poetry and drama. Students develop methods for constructing narratives and performance strategies for telling stories, including vocal and physical expressiveness, variety, and flexibility through narrative performance. C-ID COMM-170. --- # COMM 120 — : Principles of Human Communication This course introduces human communication concepts and theories. It focuses on the role and significance of communication in and across different contexts, and it covers the basic structures and processes of communication. Topics include message production, message reception, and varying influences on human communication, such as interpersonal, intercultural, and mediated contexts. C-ID COMM-180. --- # COMM 135 — : Gender Studies in Communication This course examines the different gender communication patterns. It studies differences and similarities in verbal and nonverbal behaviors, perception, conflict, leadership, and interpersonal relationships. Students develop an awareness and appreciation of gender as an important variable in human communication, in both public and private settings. --- # COMM 144 — : Race and Ethnicity in Communication This course provides both a theoretical and a practical exploration of how we communicate race and ethnicity in the United States. Topics include how contemporary and historical constructions of race and ethnicity influence identity construction, everyday interactions, and intercultural social dynamics. The course emphasizes developing racial and ethnic awareness concerning situations where perceived racial or ethnic differences factor into communication outcomes. Students engage with qualitative analysis, social, cultural, and political theories, and power relations related to the representa… --- # COMM 186 — : Social Media Strategies for Communication Studies This course explores the growing need for social media technology from a communication perspective within and across multiple online contexts. Students gain the knowledge and skills to effectively apply communication theories and concepts to social media and digital contexts to gain an understanding of online behaviors and practices. Students learn how to communicate messages for an intended audience within social media environments and are introduced to social media technologies and digital communication methods, such as branding, content creation, team organization, distribution channels, s… --- # COMM 212 — : Argumentation This course examines the psychological and logical basis of argument and principles of effective organization. It teaches the development and application of critical thinking skills as well as the practice of creating and evaluating arguments so students can become more skilled and responsible advocates. C-ID COMM-120. --- # COMM 215 — : Intercultural Communication This course analyzes the cultural factors and variables that influence human-communication choices and actions. It focuses on perception, language, reasoning, nonverbal messages, values, beliefs, attitudes, and rules. Students learn to identify the cultural principles and variables of communication so as to act effectively and responsibly when interacting with diverse persons in various contexts. C-ID COMM-150. --- # COMM 220 — : Introduction to Mass Communication This course covers the history, role, and impact of mass media in the United States. It demonstrates various media operations in the US and their societal and cultural effects. The course enables students to be informed, critical consumers of mass media and to understand how the media influence attitudes, values, beliefs, and perceptions. C-ID JOUR-100. --- # COMM 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # COMM 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # CS 101 — : Introduction to Computer Science Principles This course introduces beginning or exploring students to core principles, theories, and topics in computer science while emphasizing their relevance in society. Topics include general computational problem-solving techniques, design of digital devices, how computers work, and how to design, implement, test, and document programs in both an interactive and a high-level programming language (Python). This course is highly recommended for students prior to taking a beginning programming class ( CS 111 , CS 150 , CS 138 , or CS 155 ), non-computer science majors, or those interested in exploring… --- # CS 111 — : Introduction to Computer Science I: Java This course introduces object-oriented programming and concepts designed primarily for students majoring in computer science and engineering who have some programming fundamentals. The course uses topics of personal and social relevance to investigate the impacts of computing through exploring language basics, including control structures, data types, input/output, operators, classes, methods and parameters, basic inheritance, and documentation practices as well as testing and verification techniques. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit for CS 111 if taken after CS 112 . C-ID COMP 122, ITIS-130. --- # CS 112 — : Introduction to Computer Science II: Java This course uses topics of personal and social relevance to investigate the impacts of computing through exploring advanced object-oriented programming concepts such as abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation. Topics include recursion, generics, event-driven programming, graphical user interfaces, file input and output, and exception handling. --- # CS 113 — : Basic Data Structures and Algorithms The course uses topics of personal and social relevance to investigate the impact of computing through efficient algorithms and properly designed data structures. Students explore the software development process by developing effective solutions using industry-standard tools. Topics include searching, sorting, hashing, algorithm analysis, object-oriented design, collections, lists, stacks, queues, trees, sets, dictionaries, and graphs. C-ID COMP-132. --- # CS 134 — : Mobile Application Development This course covers how to develop applications for smartphones and tablets with the Android open-source platform. Topics include the Model-View-Controller architecture, designing and handling user input, defining activity layouts, application events, displaying images, managing navigation, and core device features, such as GPS, the Google Maps API, accelerometers, and touch gestures. Students leverage and expand their programming knowledge to build mobile applications from start to finish. --- # CS 138 — : Programming with Python This course introduces the Python programming language and its features. Python, a dynamic, object-oriented, extensible language, is perfect for the beginner and also meets industry needs. Python is well-suited for applications ranging from simple data manipulation to large, complex applications. C-ID COMP-122. --- # CS 139 — : Advanced Programming with Python This course continues with the Python programming language, using topics of personal and social relevance to investigate the impact of computing. This course includes data structures and libraries for modularization, data extraction and visualization, web APIs, server applications, and an introduction to machine learning. --- # CS 150 — : C++ Programming Using an object-oriented approach to design and programming in the C++ language, this course covers data input/output, data types, control structures, operators, functions, and the operating environment. Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to construct moderately complex programs in C++. C-ID COMP-122. --- # CS 151 — : Advanced C++ Programming In this advanced programming course, students design and implement increasingly complex C++ programs that build upon skills acquired in C++ Programming ( CS 150 ). Students also develop appropriate and efficient methods to test their programs. Topics include polymorphism, inheritance, class libraries, the standard template library, pointers, advanced file input/output operations, recursion, virtual functions, exception handling, dynamic memory management, bitwise operators, and data structures, such as linked lists, stacks, queues, and binary trees. --- # CS 155 — : Introduction to Game Development This course provides an introduction for students who have an interest in combining skills in programming, software development, and game development in C# and the Unity platform to create interactive games that reflect people and cultures, most especially those minoritized in the gaming industry. Students think critically about the industry while exploring how representation and their intentional choices change the impact of their work. The C# language encompasses functional, generic, object-oriented, and component-oriented programming disciplines, which students apply within Unity to create… --- # CS 210 — : Software Engineering This course introduces students to team-based software development and engineering methods, including specification, design, implementation, testing, and process. It emphasizes team development, agile methods, software design, and use of software engineering tools, such as integrated development environments, version control, automated test framework, build automation, and software containers. As a culminating project, each team produces three deliverables: a Software Requirements Specification document, a Software Design Specification document, and an executable application satisfying stakeh… --- # CS 220 — : Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems This course introduces how computer hardware and software interact, focusing on the design, organization, and performance of computer architecture. Topics typically include computer organization, instruction sets, memory addressing, representation of numeric and non-numeric data, interrupts, computer arithmetic, and interfacing with hardware and programming in assembly language and other low-level languages to build embedded systems. C-ID COMP-142. --- # CS 226 — : Discrete Structures Designed for students majoring in computer science, this course introduces discrete mathematics, including logic, methods of proof, number theory, sets, counting, relations, recursion, recurrence relations, Boolean algebra, graphs, trees, and networks. Topics are illustrated with applications to computer science, including design and analysis of algorithms, undecidability, program correctness, and digital logic design. C-ID COMP-152. --- # CS 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # CS 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # CSIT 101 — : Introduction to Computers This course is intended for students wishing to develop or strengthen their basic computer skills. Topics include basic computer techniques and literacy in computer concepts, Windows, working with files and folders, word processing, spreadsheets, browsing and searching the web, safe and ethical computer and Internet practices, email, computer maintenance, security, purchasing a computer, and academic online course management systems, such as Canvas. --- # CSIT 110 — : Computer Applications This course provides an in-depth, hands-on introduction to computer applications and fundamentals. Topics include computer concepts, the operating system, and word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and Web browser applications. The course emphasizes applied computer applications skills and techniques, computer concepts and ethical considerations, and the use of computer applications as integrated tools to perform professional-level analyses. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CSIT 110 or CSIT 120 . --- # CSIT 120 — : Fundamentals of Computer Information Systems This course covers the concepts of information systems in business, including the integration of information systems, organizational strategy, systems analysis, data storage, data processing, security, cloud computing, and communications. The course applies information system concepts by developing solutions to business problems using financial analysis and database management tools, such as Microsoft Excel and Access. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CSIT 110 or CSIT 120 . C-ID ITIS-120 and BUS-140. --- # CSIT 123 — : Introduction to Data Analytics This course introduces students to data science through the operational lens of AI-driven data analytics tools, AI programming languages, and advanced statistical modeling techniques. It focuses on the nexus of the data science field and advanced AI-driven data analysis. The data-first mindset promotes knowledge and understanding through the use of advanced visualization tools, statistical tools, and statistical programming languages to derive actionable information from various data sources to solve complex business, information systems, and analysis challenges. Students access and evaluate… --- # CSIT 125 — : Microsoft Word for Business Students learn how to use Microsoft Word, the industry-standard tool for word processing in business environments. This comprehensive course includes fundamentals, such as document design, section breaks, table of contents, graphics, columns, citations, and tables, as well as more advanced features, such as document collaboration, workgroup tools, template customization, mail merge, macros, object linking, forms, security, and Web enabling. This course helps prepare students for the Microsoft Certification Exam. --- # CSIT 128 — : Microsoft Excel for Business Students learn how to use Microsoft Excel, the industry standard tool for spreadsheet and chart creation in a business environment. This comprehensive course includes fundamentals, such as workbook and worksheet design, formulas, functions, and charts, as well as more advanced features, such as pivot tables, what-if analysis, three-dimensional worksheets, goal seek, and collaboration tools. This course helps prepare students for the Microsoft Certification Exam. --- # CSIT 131 — : Microsoft Access for Business Students learn how to use Microsoft Access, the industry standard tool for database creation in a business environment. This comprehensive course includes fundamentals, such as relational database design theory, tables, queries, reports, and forms, as well as more advanced features, such as complex validation rules, action queries, report controls, form automation, database customization, and data integration tools. This course helps prepare students for the Microsoft Certification Exam. --- # CSIT 134 — : Microsoft PowerPoint for Business Students learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint, the industry standard tool for creating electronic presentations in business environments. This comprehensive course includes fundamentals, such as electronic presentation design and delivery concepts, slide layout, graphics, diagrams, charts, and sound, as well as more advanced features, such as complex animation, transitions, action buttons, video, custom backgrounds, and collaboration tools. This course helps prepare students for the Microsoft Certification Exam. --- # CSIT 137 — : Google Apps for Business In this course, students learn how to use Google Apps, a collection of free Web-based productivity tools, in a business environment. Topics include Google Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Sites, and emerging trends in Google Apps. Students use the Internet to access their files and tools to manipulate and collaborate with the instructor and classmates. --- # CSIT 146 — : E-Commerce and Web Presence This course teaches the principles and technologies involved in e-commerce and creating a Web presence for a small or medium-sized business (SMB). It addresses the needs of both online and traditional brick and mortar businesses and provides students with a basic working knowledge of how to sell products and services on the Web. It covers aspects of business and marketing planning, a survey of Web technologies, such as HTML, XHTML, HTML5 and CSS, use of digital media, building an online store, e-commerce security, electronic payment systems, international and legal issues, Search Engine Optim… --- # CSIT 149 — : Microsoft Windows This course introduces students to the current Microsoft Windows operating system. Students learn how to install the operating system, create and manage user accounts, view system components and properties, install applications, switch between different application windows, manage files and folders, and customize the Windows environment. The course also covers networking, file and folder sharing, computer security, malware, and safe Internet use. --- # CSIT 150 — : Artificial Intelligence: Concepts This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including its history, techniques, and applications. Students explore the fundamental concepts and methodologies in AI, including problem-solving, knowledge representation, reasoning, ethics, and learning. Students gain an understanding of AI algorithms, techniques, and tools currently being used in this area of study. --- # CSIT 151 — : Artificial Intelligence: Applications This course equips students with the hands-on skills needed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools into real-world work environments. It delves into actionable insights and practical application of a range of AI technologies. The course also fosters an understanding of not just the algorithms that power AI, but also their ethical implications and productivity enhancements. --- # CSIT 152 — : Artificial Intelligence: Strategies and Solutions This course delves into the cutting-edge research and techniques of artificial intelligence through the exploration of state-of-the-art AI models, methodologies, and ethics. Students gain exposure to current research and practical experience in implementing and evaluating advanced AI algorithms and systems for a wide range of complex tasks and real-world applications. --- # CSIT 155 — : Social Media for Business This course explores social media use from a business perspective. Students learn how to develop a social media strategy to promote business, build stronger customer relations, target a broad base or niche audience, and develop effective marketing and advertising techniques that enhance Web presence and coordinate a common message across multiple channels. Students explore historical development as well as emerging trends in Web applications and services that facilitate creativity, collaboration, and information sharing among users and business. --- # CSIT 160 — : Technology, the Individual, and Society This course critically examines the interrelationships among technology, the individual, and society. Students investigate the historical, political, and economic factors that influence the growth and development of technology and assess how individuals and society respond to the challenges and consequences of the technology revolution. Appropriate for both technical and non-technical majors, the course explores principles, methodologies, and value systems from a technology and social science interdisciplinary perspective. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CSIT 160 or CSIT 165 . --- # CSIT 165 — : Living in an Online World This course considers human behavior in relation to the challenges and opportunities presented by an increasingly online society. It places special emphasis on critically evaluating and managing one's online presence within this environment in a healthy way throughout various life stages. Appropriate for both technical and non-technical majors, this course explores the psychological, sociological, and physiological consequences for individuals and societies that result from the global use of the Internet in everyday life. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CSIT 160 or CSIT 165 . --- # CSIT 180 — : Fundamentals of Computer Hardware and Software This course provides students with fundamental knowledge covering PC hardware and peripherals, mobile device hardware, networking and troubleshooting hardware, network connectivity issues, installing and configuring operating systems, including Windows and Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android operating system configurations, security, fundamentals of cloud computing, and operational procedures. This course helps prepare students for CompTIA A+ certification examinations. C-ID ITIS-110. --- # CSIT 181 — : Fundamentals of Computer Networking This course presents an overview and introduction to computer networking components, network design, operations, management, protocols, and network operating systems. Students learn the layered functions of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) stack and how they relate to Internet architecture. Topics include TCP/IP addressing, subnetting, host and domain name resolution, routing considerations, and practical management of TCP/IP protocols and services. These concepts are applied in hands-on labs leveraging network servers, firewalls, clients, the Internet, virtualiz… --- # CSIT 182 — : Fundamentals of Computer Security This course presents an overview and introduction to essential principles for network security and risk management. Students learn the core foundations of network security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Topics include threats, operating system hardening, security in context of applications, network, network perimeter, and physical spaces, access control methods, encryption, monitoring and auditing, and redundancy/disaster recovery. These concepts are applied in hands-on labs leveraging network servers, firewalls, clients, the Internet, virtualization, and networked application… --- # CSIT 183 — : Windows Server This course provides students with an understanding of Microsoft Windows Server. It focuses on administrative tasks including routine and troubleshooting scenarios, such as data and system recovery, operating-system selection, installation, and configuration, active directory design and implementation, user management, group policy and organizational units, virtualization, remote access, network services, especially domain name system (DNS), and system security, monitoring, and optimization. Students develop skills and apply their knowledge through hands-on projects and case-study assignments… --- # CSIT 184 — : Linux Server This course provides students with an understanding of Linux operating systems with an emphasis on Linux Server operating systems. It focuses on the installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting of Linux operating systems. Topics covered include administration of Linux systems, application servers, such as web, mail, ftp, and file/print servers, basic scripting, interworking services, such as TCP/IP and secure shell, as well as file sharing in hybrid environments using SAMBA with Windows, system performance and tuning, system security, package installation and removal, logging,… --- # CSIT 186 — : Cybersecurity: Analyst This course applies the principles and technologies to prevent, detect, combat, and recover from cybersecurity threats including behavior analytics to improve and harden the overall state and posture of an IT Security environment. Building upon their knowledge of networks and cybersecurity, students are exposed to threat management, vulnerability management, cyber incident response, and security architectures. The tools and techniques used in this course are approached from a vendor-neutral perspective, as these are open source tools commonly found on the Internet used by attackers. This cour… --- # CSIT 188 — : Cybersecurity: Ethical Hacker This course teaches the principles and technologies involved with looking for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems from a network security perspective including the five phases of penetration testing. Students are exposed to the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker and learn how to assess the security posture of target systems in a lawful and legitimate manner building upon their knowledge of networks and security. The tools and techniques used in this course are approached from a vendor-neutral perspective many times using open source tools commonly found on the Interne… --- # CSIT 191 — : Fundamentals of Cisco Networking This course provides an overview and introduction to Cisco networking components (routers and switches), network design, operations, management, protocols, and Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS). Students learn how to cable and connect routers and switches and then use IOS to configure and manage the equipment. Topics include TCP/IP addressing, subnetting, packet routing, troubleshooting, and practical management of TCP/IP protocols and services as it pertains to Cisco networking equipment. These concepts are applied in hands on and virtualized labs and Cisco Packet Tracer simulation… --- # CSIT 195 — : IT Career Exploration and Portfolio Development This course teaches students how to create a portfolio to professionally display their best work and to increase job opportunities. Topics include defining an audience, organizing and adapting a body of work, and formatting and creating a finished portfolio designed to reflect the student's vision and highlight the quality of his or her accomplishments. The course also explores effective career studies and services. Note: Students should complete most courses within their chosen Computer Studies certificate program before enrolling in CSIT 195 . --- # CSIT 286 — : Professional Certification Preparation Attaining a professional certification can help employers further validate a student's MiraCosta degree, certificate, or course work. This course provides an overview of industry-based third-party professional certifications, credentials, and licenses specific to a student's discipline of study. Topics include goal setting, a survey of professional certifications relevant to the discipline, industry trends and certification value assessment, exam preparation and exam strategies, practice exams, resolving any skill deficiencies, and life-long learning. Under the instruction of a faculty-mentor… --- # CSIT 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # CSIT 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # COUN 100 — : College and Career Success This course teaches success strategies to enhance academic and lifelong learning while integrating career and academic planning. The course evaluates theories and strategies of college success, including time management, study skills, health and wellness, diversity and global awareness, communication, and critical thinking. Students analyze career-related assessments, research careers and majors, and develop an academic plan. Recommended for first-time and returning students or those undecided on a major or goal. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for COUN 100 , COUN 105 , or INTR 100. --- # COUN 101 — : Orientation to College This course prepares new and returning students to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors necessary for academic and personal success during a student's first semester in college. Topics include college expectations, the function of higher education, study skills, campus resources and policies, and personal development skills. --- # COUN 105 — : Transfer Success This course promotes academic success by providing students with information that will clarify the transfer process, identify support services on campus, and assist them in developing a comprehensive transfer plan. Topics include a review of higher education options, the process for determining a major, applications and admissions timelines, and criteria for establishing educational goals. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for COUN 100 , COUN 105 , or INTR 100. --- # COUN 115 — : Introduction to Multicultural Counseling This survey course provides an exploration of major multicultural counseling theories and research focusing on racial and cultural identity, values, and how people behave across different cultures. The course emphasizes critical thinking and self-awareness, and it explores how understanding cultural identity shapes the way people interact with others. Students will learn about culturally responsive approaches to connect with people and handle conflicts, tying in theory with real-life counseling situations involving diverse communities. --- # COUN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # DNCE 100 — : Dance Appreciation This course examines the aesthetics of dance using the elements of time, space, and energy. It introduces students to the origins of dance within cultural contexts. Topics include dance genres, movement vocabulary, notation symbols, and dance-production elements that choreographers use to convey their creative intent. Students are required to attend a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 101 — : Dance History This course provides a historical survey of dance in western civilization from antiquity to the present. It emphasizes the cultural context and historical development of ballet and modern dance, and it relates dance to other art forms within various historical periods. Students are required to attend a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 102 — : Introduction to Mexican Folkloric Dance: History, Culture, and Performance This academic course explores the evolution of Mexican folkloric dance from its pre-Hispanic roots to its modern expressions in Mexico and the US. The course covers regional styles, cultural symbols, and the socio-political contexts shaping these dances. Students examine the relationship between dance, music, and costumes and how folkloric dance preserves culture, builds community, and empowers education. Additionally, the course highlights the impact of colonialism on Mexican dance and the resilience of Indigenous forms, offering insights into dance as a tool for cultural survival, resistanc… --- # DNCE 104 — : Dance on Film This course explores the influence of dance as entertainment in musical films from the 1920s to the present. It examines how dance as art has influenced and responded to societal issues such as race, gender, war, class, politics, and other significant socio-cultural topics of this time period. Students are required to attend a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 105 — : Dance Cultures of the World This course surveys dance around the world in a cultural and social context. It emphasizes the different ways dance is used to express ideas about the relationship between a person and the body, gender roles, religion, cultural traditions, and ritual. Cultures include Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, North America, and Eastern Europe. Students are required to attend a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 121 — : Hip Hop I This course is an introduction to hip-hop dance, focusing on styles used for movies, television, and video productions. It includes popping, locking, b-boying, rocking, and other hip-hop styles at a beginning level. --- # DNCE 122 — : Hip Hop II This continuation of hip-hop dance focuses on styles used for movies, television, and video productions. It includes popping, locking, b-boying, rocking, and other hip-hop styles at a beginning-intermediate level. --- # DNCE 134 — : Pacific Island Dance I This course introduces the dance and music of the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Specific countries may include but are not limited to Samoa, Hawai'i, Guam, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Naru, and Palau. Students learn basic dance steps, postures, rhythms, timing, songs, and movements of different Pacific Island dance in contemporary and traditional forms using Pacific Island movement terminology. The course examines the function and aesthetic of dance as ritual, social discourse, edu… --- # DNCE 135 — : Pacific Island Dance II This course continues the exploration of dance and music of the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Specific countries may include but are not limited to Samoa, Hawai'i, Guam, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Naru, and Palau. Students learn intermediate dance steps, postures, rhythms, timing, songs, and movements of different Pacific Island dance in contemporary and traditional forms using Pacific Island movement terminology. The course examines the function and aesthetic of dance as ritual,… --- # DNCE 136 — : Dance Practices Across Cultures and Borders This dance technique course focuses on the dance and music traditions of world cultures such as Africa, Asia, Central America and the Caribbean, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Europe. Students learn fundamental dance movements, postures, and rhythms. The course also examines the cultural roles and aesthetics of dance, including ritual, social, and artistic expression. --- # DNCE 140 — : Ballroom Dance Technique I This course introduces beginning principles and techniques of American ballroom dances, which may include the slow waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot, swing, and quickstep. Students learn and perform basic ballroom dances while improving alignment, timing, coordination, and partnering techniques. --- # DNCE 143 — : Ballroom Dance Technique II This continued study of ballroom dance principles and techniques focuses on beginning-intermediate level American ballroom dances, including the slow waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot, swing, and quickstep. Students learn and perform beginning-intermediate ballroom dance combinations while improving alignment, musicality, styling, and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 146 — : Latin Dance Technique I This course introduces beginning dance principles and techniques of Latin partnering dances, such as the cha cha, salsa, samba, and rumba. Students learn and perform basic Latin dances while improving alignment, timing, coordination, and partnering techniques. --- # DNCE 147 — : Latin Dance Technique II This continued study of Latin dance principles and technique focuses on beginning-intermediate Latin partnering dances, such as the cha cha, salsa, samba and rumba. Students learn and perform Latin partnering dances while improving alignment, rhythm, footwork, and styling. --- # DNCE 150 — : Pilates Mat & Reformer I This beginning-intermediate level Pilates-based program utilizes mat and reformer exercises designed to improve strength, flexibility, enhance dance performance, movement coordination, and physical conditioning. May be repeated once. --- # DNCE 152 — : Ballet I This course focuses on the fundamentals of ballet technique, principles, and terminology. It prepares students for more advanced study in ballet. Topics include terminology, variations of ballet barre, center, petite allegro, adagio, turns, and grand allegro work. Students develop increased proficiency and skill attainment with each repetition. May be repeated three times. --- # DNCE 154 — : Ballet II This course focuses on intermediate ballet technique, principles, and terminology. It prepares students for more advanced study in ballet. Topics include terminology, variations of ballet barre, center, petit allegro, adagio, turns, and grand allegro work. May be repeated three times. --- # DNCE 166 — : Jazz Dance I This course focuses on the fundamentals of jazz-dance technique, principles, and terminology. It prepares students for a more advanced study in jazz dance. Topics include terminology, warm-up, stretches, on-the-diagonal progressions, and dance combinations center floor. Students develop increased proficiency and skill attainment with each repetition. Students are required to attend a live dance performance. May be repeated one time. --- # DNCE 168 — : Jazz Dance II This course provides study in intermediate jazz dance technique, principles, and terminology. It prepares students for more advanced study in jazz dance. Topics include warm-up, stretches, on-the-diagonal progressions, and dance combinations center floor. Students are required to attend a live dance concert. May be repeated one time. --- # DNCE 172 — : Musical Theater Dance I This course provides study in beginning dance technique, principles, and terminology appropriate for musical theater dance. It prepares students to audition for the MiraCosta College musical and for more advanced study in musical theater dance. Topics include warm-up, across-the-floor progressions, and center-floor dance combinations. Students are required to attend a live dance concert. --- # DNCE 174 — : Musical Theater Dance II This course provides study in intermediate dance technique, principles, and terminology appropriate for musical theater dance. It prepares students to audition for the MiraCosta College musical and for more advanced study in musical theater dance. Topics include warm-up, across-the-floor progressions, and center-floor dance combinations. Students are required to attend a live dance concert. --- # DNCE 176 — : Modern Dance I This course introduces modern dance principles and techniques, exploring the elements of time, space, energy, and shape. Students learn correct body alignment, rhythm, breath, and balance through the study and practice of modern dance combinations. Students are required to attend a live dance performance. May be repeated three times. --- # DNCE 178 — : Modern Dance II This course is a continued study of modern dance, based on the principles of contraction and release, fall and recovery, and effort/shape. Students learn movement combinations and group choreography, utilizing intermediate modern dance technique, improvisation, and choreographic variations. Students are required to attend a live dance concert. May be repeated three times. --- # DNCE 179 — : Musical Theatre Dance Production This course focuses on dance techniques within the context of historical and contemporary Broadway musicals and/or plays. Students assess how movement, energy, stage presence, and musicality affect level of performance, and they integrate these techniques into choreography of a theatrical performance. May be repeated two times. --- # DNCE 200 — : Contemporary Dance Production I This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of contemporary dance forms for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at a beginning level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 201 — : Contemporary Dance Production II This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of contemporary dance forms for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at the intermediate level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 202 — : Contemporary Dance Production III This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of contemporary dance forms for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at the intermediate-advanced level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 203 — : Contemporary Dance Production IV This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of contemporary dance forms for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at the advanced level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 204 — : Classical Dance Production I This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of classical dance genres for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at a beginning level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 205 — : Classical Dance Production II This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of classical dance genres for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at the intermediate level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live, in-person dance performance. --- # DNCE 206 — : Classical Dance Production III This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of classical dance forms for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at the intermediate-to-advanced level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live, in-person dance performance. --- # DNCE 207 — : Classical Dance Production IV This course explores the choreographic, rehearsal, and performance process of classical dance genres for dance concerts, outreach, and community events at an advanced level. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. This course culminates in a live dance performance. --- # DNCE 221 — : Hip Hop III This continuation of hip-hop dance, focusing on styles used for movies, television, and video productions. It includes popping, locking, breakdancing, rocking, and other hip-hop styles at an intermediate level. --- # DNCE 222 — : Hip Hop IV This continuation of hip-hop dance focuses on styles used for movies, television, and video productions. It includes popping, locking, b-boying, rocking, and other hip-hop styles at an intermediate-advanced level. --- # DNCE 234 — : Pacific Island Dance III This course studies the dance and music of the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia at the intermediate-advanced level. Specific countries may include but are not limited to Samoa, Hawai'i, Guam, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Naru, and Palau. Students learn intermediate-advanced dance steps, postures, rhythms, timing, songs, and movements of different Pacific Island dances in contemporary and traditional forms using Pacific Island movement terminology. The course examines the function and ae… --- # DNCE 235 — : Pacific Island Dance IV This course continues the study of dance and music of the Pacific Islands, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia at the advanced level. Specific countries may include but are not limited to Samoa, Hawai'i, Guam, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Naru and Palau. Students learn advanced dance steps, postures, rhythms, timing, songs, and movements of different Pacific Island dance in contemporary and traditional forms using Pacific Island movement terminology. The course examines the function and aesthetic of dance… --- # DNCE 240 — : Ballroom Dance Technique III This continued study of ballroom dance principles and techniques focuses on the intermediate level of American ballroom dances, including slow waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot, swing, and quickstep. Students learn and perform intermediate ballroom dance combinations while improving musicality, styling, and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 243 — : Ballroom Dance Technique IV This continued study of ballroom dance principles and techniques focuses on the intermediate-advanced level of American ballroom dances, including slow waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot, swing, and quickstep. Students learn and perform intermediate-advanced ballroom dance combinations while improving musicality, styling, improvisation, and partnering skills. --- # DNCE 246 — : Latin Dance Technique III This continued study of Latin dance principles and technique focuses on intermediate Latin partnering dances, such as the cha cha, salsa, samba, mambo, and rumba. Students learn and perform Latin partnering dances while improving alignment, musicality, footwork, and styling. --- # DNCE 247 — : Latin Dance Technique IV This continued study of Latin dance principles and technique focuses on intermediate-advanced Latin partnering dances, such as the cha cha, salsa, samba, mambo and rumba. Students learn and perform Latin partnering dances while improving alignment, musicality, footwork, and styling. --- # DNCE 250 — : Contemporary Dance Intensive I The dance intensive focuses on contemporary dance as an expressive art form at the beginning/intermediate level. Guest artists may be brought in and work on building technical skills, improvisational skills, and partnering skills. Repertory may be taught from the guest artists' experiences. The course evaluates movement phrases in space, effort, and time and focuses on establishing kinesthetic awareness and the ability to find one's own groove. --- # DNCE 253 — : Contemporary Dance Intensive II The summer dance intensive focuses on contemporary dance as an expressive art form at the intermediate level. Guest artists may be brought in and work on building technical skills, improvisational skills, and partnering skills. Repertory may be taught from guest artists' experiences. The course evaluates movement phrases in space, effort, and time and focuses on establishing kinesthetic awareness and the ability to find one's own groove. --- # DNCE 254 — : Contemporary Dance Intensive III The summer dance intensive focuses on contemporary dance as an expressive art form at the intermediate-advanced level. Guest artists may be brought in and work on building technical skills, improvisational skills, and partnering skills. Repertory may be taught from their company experiences. The course evaluates movement phrases in space, effort, and time and focuses on establishing kinesthetic awareness and the ability to find one's own groove. --- # DNCE 256 — : Contemporary Dance Intensive IV This summer dance intensive focuses on contemporary dance as an expressive art form at the advanced level. Guest artists may be brought in and work on building technical skills, improvisational skills, and partnering skills. Repertory may be taught from their company experiences. The course evaluates movement phrases in space, effort, and time and focuses on establishing kinesthetic awareness and the ability to find one's own groove. --- # DNCE 260 — : Dance Touring Ensemble This course allows students to study traditional and contemporary choreography through rehearsal and competitive performance. Dancers participate in concerts and festivals on campus and throughout the community and region, including American College Dance Association (ACDA) competitions. Students experience different repertoire each semester the course is offered. May be repeated three times. --- # DNCE 263 — : Contemporary Dance Workshop and Performance A This course offers students and choreographers a beginning-level experience working in a collaborative workshop setting. Students participate in the creative process throughout the workshop, which culminates in a public performance. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. --- # DNCE 264 — : Contemporary Dance Workshop and Performance B This course offers students and choreographers a beginning-intermediate level experience working in a collaborative workshop setting. Students participate in the creative process throughout the workshop, which culminates in a public performance. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. --- # DNCE 266 — : Jazz Dance III This course provides study in intermediate/advanced jazz-dance technique, principles, and terminology. Topics include musicality and a variety of jazz styles. --- # DNCE 267 — : Contemporary Dance Workshop and Performance C This course offers students and choreographers an intermediate-advanced level experience working in a collaborative workshop setting. Students participate in the creative process throughout the workshop, which culminates in a public performance. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. --- # DNCE 268 — : Jazz Dance IV This course provides study in advanced jazz dance technique, principles, and terminology. Topics include musicality and a variety of jazz styles. --- # DNCE 269 — : Contemporary Dance Workshop and Performance D This course offers students and choreographers an advanced-level experience working in a collaborative workshop setting. Students participate in the creative process throughout the workshop, which culminates in a public performance. Students work under professional working conditions and requirements. --- # DNCE 278 — : Dance as a Profession This course is designed for the student planning to pursue dance as a career. Components of this course include audition techniques, resume building, professional headshots, costume design, light design, music/sound editing and creation, and other aspects of dance as a profession. --- # DNCE 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # DNCE 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # DESN 100 — : Fundamentals of Design This course introduces the fundamentals of the design process as students develop and apply design skills using visual elements and principles of two- and three-dimensional design. It includes solving visual problems and creating authentic designs using black and white and color media in both two- and three-dimensions. Students also study design in historical, social, and multicultural contexts. --- # DESN 101 — : Computer-Aided Design and Drafting This course introduces students to the fundamentals of computer graphics and two and three-dimensional modeling on computer-aided design and drafting systems. Students use AutoCAD and other software and online computer systems to design and display various objects. Students learn principles and techniques that enable them to create, modify, annotate, scale, and output two- and three-dimensional drawings, renderings, and models. --- # DESN 102 — : Architectural Drawing This course provides the methods and techniques required for architectural drawing. It covers freehand sketching, line work, lettering, geometric constructions, orthographic and isometric projections, and construction drawings, which include floor plans, elevations, sections, and details. --- # DESN 103 — : Architectural Communications This course provides students the fundamentals of architectural presentation, rendering, and model making. It introduces standards and applications of design language, color theory, pen and ink, freehand drawing, two-point perspective, and model making technique. --- # DESN 105 — : Construction Materials This course provides an overview of the processes and materials used in construction. Topics include elements of planning, designing, and contracting of the work. The course emphasizes site preparation and the materials used in residential and commercial projects, including wood, concrete, steel, glazing, and masonry as applied to the interiors and exteriors of buildings. --- # DESN 107 — : History of Western Architecture-A Sustainable Perspective This course introduces the history of Western architecture from the ancient Near East to the present day with an emphasis on the timeless principles of sustainable design. It examines selected significant historical works of architecture to shed light on the technological, religious, and social forces that shaped these works. Students are introduced to important buildings as they examine past exemplars of architectural design through the lens of present day sustainability guidelines. --- # DESN 108 — : World Architecture This survey of non-Western architectural history examines how non-Western building traditions evolved during and after Western and Islamic colonialism. The course focuses on the cultural conditions and forces that shaped the indigenous architecture of the pre-Columbian Americas, the Islamic empires, India, China, South-East Asia, and Japan. --- # DESN 109 — : Introduction to Engineering and Design This course introduces students to engineering and design. Students learn about engineering as a field of study and profession. Through tours, guest speakers, text reading, and group discussions, students learn about the campus resources, organizations, academic planning, time management, and study skills necessary for success in engineering. Students develop a plan to achieve their own academic, personal, and professional goals as well as an understanding of design through a project- and team-based learning experience. --- # DESN 110 — : Graphics Communication This course introduces graphics as a fundamental means of communicating technical information for product design, manufacturing, and construction. Students develop an understanding of graphics communication in the design process and gain hands-on experience using computer-aided design software to produce models, assemblies, and drawings according to industry standards. --- # DESN 111 — : Engineering Design Graphics This course prepares engineering and design students to use the graphic communication tools used by engineers in industry. Students develop an advanced understanding of these tools in the engineering design process and gain hands-on experience using modern computer-aided solid modeling software to produce complex part models, assemblies, and drawings. --- # DESN 120 — : Manufacturing Processes This course provides students a basic understanding of the properties of materials and how these materials, including plastics, metals, ceramics, and composites, are transformed into finished products. Students study basic and advanced manufacturing processes, including material removal, joining, assembly, casting, surfacing, and finishing. Other topics include numerical control, rapid prototyping, measurement and gaging, geometric dimensions and tolerancing, and statistical methods --- # DESN 200 — : Architectural Design I This course introduces the basics of architectural design. Students learn and apply fundamental form and space concepts to a design project using visual communication, spatial communications, and creative problem solving. --- # DESN 201 — : Advanced AutoCAD Computer-Aided Design and Drafting This course focuses on applying advanced AutoCAD skills in the design process to create models, drawings, and related documentation for a variety of applications and industries. Topics include blocks, attributes, external references, solid, mesh, and surface modeling, presentation, and photorealistic rendering. Students develop and apply skills in visualizing, creating, and editing 3D shapes for modeling, testing, rapid prototyping, and marketing. The course emphasizes improving productivity and developing modeling and presentation skills. --- # DESN 203 — : Solid Modeling This course introduces engineering and design students to 3D parametric solid modeling, including basic and intermediate parts, assemblies, and drawings. From their models, students produce CAD drawings to include orthographic, pictorial, section, and detail views. The course also covers dimensioning, dimensional tolerancing, and thread notation per ASME Y14.5M-2009 and uses SolidWorks software. --- # DESN 204 — : Modeling, Prototyping, and Manufacturing This course provides theory and hands-on application of the design process, 3D modeling, prototyping, and manufacturing to beginning and intermediate design students. Building upon drafting fundamentals, students develop skill in computer-aided solid modeling, Autodesk Fusion, additive manufacturing, and conventional manufacturing processes. Students develop and refine modeling skills, produce prototypes, enhance presentation models, and use simulation and 3D printing tools to solve design problems individually and in teams. Additional topics include problem identification, concept generation… --- # DESN 207 — : Revit Building Information Modeling This course prepares intermediate design students to create, detail, and present CAD models of the built environment using Revit building information modeling software. Students create and modify building models, produce presentations including renderings and animated walk-throughs, manipulate parametric objects, create schedules and details from the data base, and generate construction documents from the model. The course is intended for students pursuing careers in architecture, engineering, construction, drafting, and landscape and interior design. --- # DESN 286 — : Professional Certification Preparation Attaining a professional certification can help employers further validate a student's MiraCosta degree, certificate, or course work. This course provides an overview of industry-based third-party professional certifications, credentials, and licenses specific to a student's discipline of study. Topics include goal setting, a survey of professional certifications relevant to the discipline, industry trends and certification value assessment, exam preparation and exam strategies, practice exams, resolving any skill deficiencies, and life-long learning. Under the instruction of a faculty-mentor… --- # DESN 290 — : Portfolio and Presentation Students develop a professional portfolio using their best work from previously completed architecture and drafting courses to highlight their design and drawing achievements. The course also covers how students can market themselves for the workforce through resume writing, job search strategies, and presentation and interview skills. --- # DESN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # DESN 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # DRAM 105 — : Introduction to Theatre This course exposes students to fundamental practices and creative processes in dramatic arts, focusing on the relationship of theatre to various cultures throughout history and on the contributions of significant individuals. It introduces elements of the production process, including collaboration, playwriting, acting, directing, design, and criticism, and it explores differing periods, styles, and genres of theatre through reading, discussion, films, and live theatre critique. C-ID THTR-111. --- # DRAM 107 — : Introduction to Design for Performance This course explores the principles, elements, techniques, and practices of design for performance. Topics include analysis of space, movement, mood, period, style, texture, materials, and color using industry-standard techniques of rendering, model-making, drafting, and presentation. The classroom experience stresses the importance of working collaboratively on projects and understanding critique as part of the design process. Materials Fee: $45.00. C-ID THTR-172. --- # DRAM 109 — : Practicum of Voice and Diction This course emphasizes vocal training for actors. It includes the basics of vocal training: projection, articulation, expression, breathing techniques, and relaxation as needed for theatrical productions. --- # DRAM 110 — : Voice and Diction This course introduces students to techniques for improving the quality, flexibility, and effectiveness of the speaking voice. Students examine and practice clear articulation of American English sounds. Topics include vocal expressiveness and variety, physical relaxation, posture, breath control techniques, and the International Phonetic Alphabet. --- # DRAM 123 — : Script Analysis for Performance and Design This course explores the principles, theories, and techniques of play script analysis and script scoring for theatrical production. Students learn how to read and break down a play for textual analysis, script scoring, dramatic structure, imagery, and character development. C-ID THTR-114. --- # DRAM 126 — : Shakespearean Acting Lab This lab course focuses on the basics of classical acting techniques, including comprehension and delivery of Shakespeare's works. It includes ensemble work, exercises, games, and the examination of universal themes. --- # DRAM 130 — : Acting I This course focuses on the fundamentals of acting and performance techniques based on Stanislavski's principles. It emphasizes the ability to express thought, emotion, and character through the effective use of voice, movement, and script analysis. C-ID THTR-151. --- # DRAM 131 — : Audition Preparation for the Stage This course teaches theatre audition techniques: monologue and song presentation; staging; cold-reading techniques; self-directed rehearsal; presentation; self-marketing through cover letters, resumes, and headshots; material selection; audition etiquette and professionalism. --- # DRAM 133 — : Performance and Design Portfolio Practicum This course focuses on the study and practical application of theatre techniques in competitive performance and design. Students enter by audition/interview or nomination by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. May be repeated three times. --- # DRAM 134 — : Introduction to Performance This course explores the theories, principles, techniques, and practices of performance. Topics include ritual, play, performativity, performing, performance process, and global and intercultural performances. The classroom experience requires performance application and includes performances to entertain, create beauty, mark or change identity, make or foster community, heal, teach, or persuade. --- # DRAM 139 — : Stage and Concert Management This course introduces the skills and procedures involved in stage managing a theatrical, dance, or music production. Through hands-on experience and observation, students learn to develop the knowledge and skills involved in managing a live performance. They also learn how to properly devise and design scheduling systems to prep, organize, and run rehearsals; design and develop a production book and prompt script; run appropriate dimmer and sound checks; design, organize, and format scenic shifts and their execution; and develop systems for calling lighting and sound cues during live perform… --- # DRAM 141 — : Lighting Design for Theatre, Television, and Film This course introduces students to the technique and practices of theatrical stage lighting and lighting for film and television. It develops skills relative to common applications in these fields. Students engage in both lecture and practice (live or virtually), creating and designing lighting projects in class as well as working on current MiraCosta College Theatre productions. Students evaluate and analyze their skills and creations and critically reflect on their execution. Materials Fee: $25. C-ID THTR-173. --- # DRAM 146 — : Costume Design for Theatre, Television, and Film This course provides students with the opportunity to study costume history, design, and basic construction techniques, serving as an introduction to costuming for theatre, television, and film. Students learn about fabrics and conventional and non-conventional costume materials C-ID THTR-174. --- # DRAM 148 — : Acting for the Camera This course introduces performance for the camera concerning the mediums of film, video, and television. Students examine practical approaches and techniques specifically required for each different medium to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between performance and media. --- # DRAM 201 — : Rehearsal and Performance: Dramatic Theatre This course provides students with the opportunity to perform in non-musical, dramatic theatrical productions. Students are instructed in research, textual analysis, and fundamental basic-to-advanced acting skills required to accomplish dramatic acting techniques. All students participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival academic theatre competition. The course emphasizes the rehearsal process and culminates in public performances. May be repeated two times. C-ID THTR-191. --- # DRAM 202 — : Rehearsal and Performance: Comedic Theatre This course provides students with the opportunity to perform in non-musical, comedic theatrical productions. It provides students with comic devices, physicality, timing, and styles work that is required for the performance of comedic texts. All students participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival academic theatre competition. The course emphasizes the rehearsal process and culminates in public performances. May be repeated two times. C-ID THTR-191. --- # DRAM 203 — : Rehearsal and Performance: Classical Theatre This course allows students to explore a classical theatrical text and the historical context of a chosen play. Students are instructed in the special vocal and movement skills required to accomplish classical acting techniques. All students participate in the American College Theater Festival academic theatre competition. The course emphasizes the rehearsal process for classical acting and culminates in public performance. May be repeated two times. C-ID THTR-191. --- # DRAM 204 — : Rehearsal and Performance: Musical Theatre This course provides students with the opportunity to perform in main-stage musical productions. All students participate in the American College Theater Festival academic theatre competition. The course emphasizes the rehearsal process and culminates in public performances. May be repeated two times. C-ID THTR 191. --- # DRAM 210 — : Rehearsal and Performance: Technical Theatre This course provides students with theatre production experience. All students participate in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival academic theatre competition. Production crew positions include stage or house management, construction, scenery, properties, costume, lighting, sound, and running crews. The course emphasizes the rehearsal process and culminates in public performances either in person or online. May be repeated three times. C-ID THTR- 192 --- # DRAM 222 — : Introduction to Black Theater This course explores Black theatre from the pre-Civil War era to the present. It is designed to give students of all backgrounds an introductory understanding of this genre. Topics covered include elements of style, design, and criticism. The course also examines issues of politics, race, and gender in historic and contemporary American theatre. --- # DRAM 226 — : Advanced Performance Lab This advanced performance lab course focuses on advanced process and methodology, performance styles, and performance approaches. --- # DRAM 227 — : Dramatic Improvisation Students explore in-depth personal connections to issues, ideas, and themes through dramatic improvisation. These dramatic improvisations stimulate questions about characterization and provide answers toward defining a character's motivations, actions, and traits within these imaginary circumstances. Process drama develops an actor's creativity, positive choice-making, flexibility, and ability to improvise dialogue, act, react, connect, and disconnect in a real, truthful human experience. This advanced course is offered in conjunction with The Actor's Academy. --- # DRAM 231 — : Acting II This course provides an in-depth application of Stanislavski's principles with an emphasis on characterization, scene study, methodology, and process. Acting studies focus on performance from varied acting philosophies (e.g., Meisner, Michael Chekhov, Hagen), styles, and genres. May be repeated one time. C-ID THTR-152. --- # DRAM 232 — : Movement for the Stage This course creates an environment in which students explore dynamic movement. It emphasizes not only physical control, strength, flexibility, and creative imagination but also the integration of mind, body, and emotion. May be repeated one time. Materials Fee: $20.00. --- # DRAM 253 — : Makeup for Theatre, Television, and Film This course introduces students to the technique and practices of makeup for theatre, television, and film and develops skills relative to the common applications for stage and film. Students engage in the practice hands-on and create looks ranging from basic corrective makeup to fantasy character creation. Students evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of their makeup, reflect on their skills, produce proper design documentation, and put makeup design and application into practice. Materials Fee: $85.00. C-ID THTR-175. --- # DRAM 256 — : Stagecraft for Theatre, Television, and Film This course introduces students to the technique and practices of stagecraft for theatre, television, and film, and it develops skills relative to the common applications found backstage. Students engage in both lecture and practice, gaining hands-on experience while demonstrating skills learned in course work. Creating scenic environments for current MiraCosta College Theatre productions, students evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of their creations, critically reflect on their skills, and put them into practice. Materials Fee: $50.00. C-ID THTR-171. --- # DRAM 273 — : Acting, Voice, and Movement Workshop This course explores the study of acting techniques, scene study, ensemble performance, and the development of voice and movement skills. This course culminates in a live theatrical performance. --- # DRAM 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # DRAM 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # EART 106 — : Earth and Space Science This course introduces the essentials of Earth science, including the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and solar system. It focuses on the interactions between physical and chemical systems of the Earth, such as the tectonic cycle, rock cycle, hydrologic cycle, weather, and climate. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after a college-level course in astronomy, Earth science, or geology. --- # ECON 100 — : Survey of Economics This course provides a non-technical introduction to economics. Designed for the non-major, it shows the application of basic economic principles to contemporary social issues and public policy. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after ECON 101, ECON 102, ECON C2001 , or ECON C2002 . --- # ECON 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # EDUC 115 — : Foundations of Teaching as a Profession This course introduces teaching careers in primary and secondary education and involves 15 hours of in-person supervised fieldwork in community K-12 settings. Topics include the historical, sociological, and philosophical foundations of education; contemporary issues in public education; teaching pedagogy, curriculum, and instruction; teacher and student roles in the teaching/learning process; teacher qualifications and dispositions, California schools, and the credentialing system; and the contributions of culture, ethnicity, race, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, motivation, and l… --- # EDUC 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # EE 100 — : Introduction to Electrical Engineering This first course for electrical engineering majors covers the basic principles of electrical engineering and exposes students to the electronics and laboratory environment. Students learn about different areas of electrical engineering in the analog and digital worlds. They become familiar with the safety, measurement, and basic units in the laboratory environment. The course provides introductory skills required for advanced electrical engineering coursework. --- # EE 110 — : Electrical Engineering Clinic I This course focuses on developing a comprehensive understanding of the laboratory environment, covering topics such as laboratory safety protocols, basic equipment operation, requirements interpretation, and test plan creation and implementation. Students gain practical experience using Programmable Logic Control (PLC) programming and LabVIEW. Each module combines theoretical knowledge with hands-on exercises to ensure the development of essential electrical engineering skills. --- # EE 210 — : Electrical Engineering Clinic II This course covers current industry knowledge and skill sets in demand in the area of Electrical Engineering and associated technologies regarding simulation modeling, software and hardware interfaces. Topics include learning MATLAB, Simulink Toolbox, introduction to object-oriented programming, and interfacing with Arduino/ELEGOO development kits. --- # ENGR 130 — : Statics This course covers the fundamental principles of engineering statics to help understand and analyze static forces on a variety of structures and engineering applications. Topics include forces, moments, analysis of trusses and beams, center of gravity, friction, and mass moments of inertia. --- # ENGR 230 — : Dynamics This course covers the fundamental principles of engineering dynamics to help students understand and analyze the motion of bodies under the action of forces. Topics include kinematics, Newton's second law, and work-energy and momentum methods as they apply to both particles and rigid bodies. --- # ENGL 280 — : Creative Writing This course focuses on the elements of creative writing, particularly through the study and creation of prose fiction and poetry. It offers practice in various genres and forms, based on instructor approach, and it promotes the writing process through a combination of drafting exercises and revision strategies. Utilizing workshops as the primary mode of instruction, this course offers the opportunity to produce creative works for publication, performance, and/or personal enrichment. C-ID ENGL-200. --- # ENGL 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ESL 149 — : Introduction to Academic Writing for Students from Multilingual Backgrounds This course is designed for students from diverse language backgrounds who are making a transition to the use of academic English and who desire the development of writing skills. Building on students' unique personal, linguistic, and cultural experiences, the course emphasizes critical thinking, reading, and writing. It provides practice in gathering, organizing, and communicating information and in applying the principles and conventions of academic writing. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ESL 149 or ACE 149. --- # ESL 150 — : Introduction to College Composition for Students from Multilingual Backgrounds This course, designed for students from diverse language backgrounds, offers intensive practice in the writing process, critical reading, and critical thinking. It also provides practice in acquiring, synthesizing, and communicating information and in applying the principles and conventions of analytical writing. The course focuses on the development of analytical writing skills through the lens of the student's own heritage, cultural identity, and unique experiences. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ESL 150 or ACE 150. --- # ESL 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ETHN 100 — : Introduction to Ethnic Studies This course provides a comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of historical connections among race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, and gender inequality. It introduces significant theories, philosophies, concepts, issues, and social movements related to racial and social justice and liberation in the US. Students examine diverse perspectives on empowerment, identity, equity, self-determination, agency, and anti-racism within contemporary American society as well as the effects of institutional racism and marginalization on the African American, Native American, Asian American,… --- # ETHN 100H — : Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Honors) This course provides a comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of historical connections among race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, and gender inequality. It introduces significant theories, philosophies, concepts, issues, and social movements related to racial and social justice and liberation in the US. Students examine diverse perspectives on empowerment, identity, equity, self-determination, agency, and anti-racism within contemporary American society as well as the effects of institutional racism and marginalization on the African American, Native American, Asian American,… --- # ETHN 200 — : Introduction to Pacific Islander and Oceania Studies This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of Pacific Islands, Pacific Islander, and Oceania studies. Students examine historical and contemporary issues and experiences related to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States and across the Pacific diaspora. Students learn island and ocean geographies by studying maps and discussing the cartographic politics that formed the regions of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. This course focuses on the experiences of Pacific Islanders from Hawai'i, Samoa, American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Tonga, Palau, Marshall Islands,… --- # ETHN 207 — : Race and Ethnic Relations This course provides a systematic examination of how race and ethnic relations are affected by the concepts of power, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and racism. It introduces significant theories, issues, and social movements related to racial/ethnic justice, to understand the effects of institutional racism and marginalization on the African American, Native American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Latinx/Chicanx racial and ethnic groups. The course also examines the institutions and other factors involved in establishing, sustaining, and changing systems of racial and ethnic inequality an… --- # FILM 101 — : Introduction to Film This course introduces students to the art of film and the critical vocabulary of film studies through analysis of filmmaking techniques and the meanings they create. It explores film as a synthetic art form by examining the various individuals and elements involved in the production process. Feature, documentary, and genre films may be used to analyze artistic techniques, cultural impact, and socio-political implications. Film viewing is required both inside and outside of class. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for FILM 101 or FILM 101H . --- # FILM 101H — : Introduction to Film (Honors) This honors course offers students an enriched introduction to the art of film and the critical vocabulary of film studies. Students examine, research, and present content as they explore film as a synthetic art form. Feature, documentary, and genre films may be used to analyze artistic techniques, cultural impact, and socio-political implications. Film viewing is required both inside and outside of class. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for FILM 101 or FILM 101H . --- # FILM 105 — : Introduction to Screenwriting This course introduces students to scriptwriting for film and episodic television, including script format, story structure, character development, tension, conflict, and themes. Students workshop their original ideas to develop a completed short screenplay. This writing course builds upon existing knowledge of film art and skills in English composition to create effective screenplays. --- # FILM 106 — : Study of Cinematic Adaptation This course explores cinematic adaptations of literature. It uses various adaptation theories to critically examine how literary styles are translated into the language of film. Students engage in structural, character, and thematic analysis through class discussion and writing assignments. --- # FILM 111 — : Film History I: 1880-1948 This course traces the history of motion pictures from 1880 to 1948 through a critical examination of the technical, aesthetic, social, political, and economic factors that had an impact on this emerging art form. It explores the cinema from its conception as an entertainment novelty, through major international movements of the silent era, to the development of the American studio system, the transition to sound, and the effect of two world wars. --- # FILM 112 — : Film History II: 1948-Present This course traces the history of motion pictures from 1948 to the present through a critical examination of the technical, aesthetic, social, political, and economic factors that have an impact on production, distribution, and exhibition of film. It explores the cinema of the post-WWII era, through major international movements of the 1950s and 1960s, to the development of the new Hollywood of the 1970s, concluding with the globalization and digitalization of film culture in the twenty-first century. --- # FILM 211 — : Identity and Film: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality This course explores the impact of identity on film as an art form and cultural artifact by confronting ideologies of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation as they are reflected in cinematic representation. The course uses American film as the primary lens through which to view how social, political, and cultural values have been formulated over the last century. Students analyze major films, figures, character types, and narrative strategies to evaluate the relationship between film and identity. --- # FILM 212 — : Women and Gender in Film This course explores the dynamic portrayal of gender in film by examining the ways men and women interact and work in tandem to create conflict and collaboration both on screen and within the film industry. Topics include Feminist film theory, the depiction of masculinity and femininity, and the contributions of women film artists. Students analyze films throughout film history and across genres to evaluate patterns of representation and the cultural, social, and political impact of women in film. --- # FILM 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # FREN 101 — : Elementary French (First Semester) This introductory course develops French language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It covers basic French pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course also provides for increased awareness of the Francophone worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the first two years of high school French. --- # FREN 102 — : Elementary French (Second Semester) This course continues to develop French language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in FREN 101 , and it develops the students ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in French. The course also provides for increased awareness of the francophone worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the third year of high school French. --- # FREN 121 — : Introduction to French Culture This course introduces students of French to various aspects of French and Francophone culture and civilization. Areas of study include history, music, literature, philosophy, political ideas, customs, and France's influence in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The course examines the present and future of the Francophone world in general and does not require prior study of the French language or culture. --- # FREN 201 — : Intermediate French (Third Semester) This course continues to develop French language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in FREN 101 and 102, and it develops the students ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in French. The course also provides for increased awareness of the French-speaking worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the fourth year of high school French. --- # FREN 202 — : Intermediate French (Fourth Semester) This course continues to develop French language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in FREN 201 . It also develops the students ability to express opinions and make recommendations in French-language debates and discussions. The course provides for increased awareness of the French-speaking worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts through extensive reading and writing assignments as well as oral presentations. --- # FREN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # GEOG 101 — : Earth's Dynamic Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography This course provides a spatial study of the Earth's dynamic physical systems and processes. Topics include Earth-sun geometry, weather, climate, water, landforms, soil, and the biosphere. The course emphasizes the interrelationships among environmental and human systems and processes and their resulting patterns and distributions. --- # GEOG 101L — : Earth's Dynamic Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography Lab This course is intended to accompany GEOG 101 . It emphasizes map reading and the collection, presentation, and interpretation of physical geographic data. C-ID GEOG-111. --- # GEOG 102 — : People, Place, and Time: Introduction to Human Geography This course takes a broad view of geographic patterns of human behavior, including the development, distribution, ecological relationships, and landscapes of cultural features and processes, at scales ranging from local to global. Topics include population dynamics, economic activity, politics, language, religion, folk and popular culture, ethnicity, and urban settlement. C-ID GEOG-120. --- # GEOG 104 — : World Geography This global survey course examines the distinguishing features of major culture regions and the interrelationships among culture regions set in the context of physical and human geography. Principal areas of focus include economic development, geopolitics, ecological relationships, socio-cultural issues, and globalization. C-ID GEOG-125. --- # GEOG 108 — : Environmental Sustainability and Society This course examines a broad range of environmental issues from multiple perspectives by using a geographic framework to study natural resources and environmental degradation in relationship to politics, economics, ethics, and other socio-cultural processes. It addresses the basic science behind environmental issues while emphasizing the social dimensions of problems and sustainable solutions. Topics include basics of physical geography and demography, exploitation of water, mineral, energy, and biological resources, and the degradation of life, land, water, and air, including climate change.… --- # GEOG 155 — : Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Techniques with Lab This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of geospatial technology, including geographic information systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), cartography, remote sensing, and spatial analysis, through a series of hands-on computer-based exercises and on-site field exercises. Participants learn how to utilize geospatial technology to address social and environmental issues. Course content is based upon the US Department of Labor's Geospatial Technology Competency Model for entry-level geospatial occupations, including geospatial or GIS technicians and technologists. --- # GEOG 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # GEOL 101 — : Physical Geology Physical geology introduces the processes at work changing the earth today. Within the context of global tectonics, it explores the origins of rocks and minerals and the dynamics of processes, such as igneous activity, seismicity, and crustal deformation, driven by the release of Earth's internal heat. It also examines how air, water, and ice move in response to gravity and energy from the sun, sculpting Earth's surface by eroding, transporting, and depositing weathered rock materials. C-ID GEOL-100. --- # GEOL 101L — : Physical Geology Laboratory This course, which is intended to accompany GEOL 101 , provides hands-on experience in identifying mineral samples, rock samples, and fossils, interpreting geologic and topographic data from various maps, and analyzing geologic exposures. Field trips to study local geology are required. C-ID GEOL-100L. --- # GEOL 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # GRMN 101 — : Elementary German (First Semester) This introductory course develops German language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It covers basic German pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. It also explores the history, geography, and customs of the German-speaking countries. This course corresponds to the first two years of high school German. --- # GRMN 102 — : Elementary German (Second Semester) This course continues to develop German language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in GRMN 101 , and it develops the students ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in German. The course also provides for increased awareness of the German-speaking worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the third year of high school German. --- # GRMN 121 — : Introduction to German Culture This course introduces students to various aspects of German culture and civilization. Areas of study include history, music, literature, philosophy, political ideas, customs, and Germany's influence on and contribution to the civilization of America and the world. The course does not require prior study of the German language or culture. --- # GRMN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # GERO 101 — : Introduction to Aging This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of gerontology and the study of aging, with an emphasis on biology/physiology, psychology, and sociology. It emphasizes the impact of increased life expectancy and aging on individuals, families, and health-care providers and systems. Topics include factors linked to gender, race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity as well as changes and challenges for social and public services, public policy, and the politics of aging. Gerontology is a growing field with practical applications in health care, fitness and wellness, social work, and social ser… --- # GERO 130 — : Caregiving: Techniques for Working with the Frail Elderly This course provides practical and theoretical information on age-related physical and cognitive changes and how to work with the elderly who are frail due to advanced age and/or chronic illness. It explores cultural diversity and its affect on caregiving, health consequences of caregiving, and available community resources. This course is specifically designed for students interested in working in the field of aging or those who are caregivers for family members. --- # GERO 250 — : Intergenerational Issues This course examines interpersonal relations between older adults and other age groups in the United States. It explores policies and related programs that impact intergenerational relationships and care-giving interactions. It highlights societal, cultural perspectives and issues and real-world outcomes. --- # GERO 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HEAL 101 — : Principles of Health This course focuses on the exploration of major health issues and behaviors in the various dimensions of health. It emphasizes individual responsibility for personal health and the promotion of informed, positive health behaviors. Topics include exercise, weight control, nutrition, mental health, stress management, violence, substance abuse, reproductive health, human sexuality, disease prevention, aging, and environmental hazards and safety. C-ID PHS-100. --- # HEAL 108 — : Meditation This course introduces students to the practice of meditation to reduce stress and enhance wellness. Students learn a variety of meditation styles, breathing techniques, relaxation practices, and cognitive tools for practicing mindfulness. Topics include the health benefits of meditation, the history of meditation, and tools to adopt a regular practice of meditation. --- # HEAL 180 — : Introduction to Public Health This course introduces the public health discipline and the factors that influence health and disease from a population-based perspective. It provides an overview of public health profession functions and institutions as well as an in-depth examination of the core public health disciplines. Topics include the epidemiology of infectious and chronic diseases; prevention and control of diseases; social determinants of health; illness and health disparities among various populations; community organizing and health promotion programming; environmental health and safety; global health; healthcare… --- # HEAL 200 — : First Aid and Safety This course acquaints the individual with emergency first aid procedures. It teaches the knowledge and skills needed to give immediate care to an injured or ill person and to decide whether advanced medical care is needed. Topics include musculoskeletal injuries, controlling external bleeding, burns, breathing emergencies, diabetic emergencies, seizures, fainting, epilepsy, stroke, and environmental emergencies. Students who successfully pass all first aid requirements have the opportunity to become certified in first aid by the American Red Cross (valid for 2 years). --- # HEAL 201 — : CPR and AED This course prepares students to perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills consistent with the American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) course. The AHA BLS course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.The AHA BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, and provide early us… --- # HEAL 205 — : Integrative Health and Wellness This course examines health, disease, healing, and medicine from a theoretical, psychological, sociological, biological, historical, and cultural perspective. It examines concepts and philosophies from traditional cultural healing systems and contemporary Western medicine from interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics include the history of Western medical practices; principles of Indigenous healing systems; the role of gender in healing; the effects of personality and emotions on health and disease; mind-body sciences; integrative medicine/nutrition; botanicals/herbal medicine and aromatherapy/… --- # HEAL 222 — : Stress Management This course introduces students to the concepts of stress management and prevention. It emphasizes the analysis of stressful events, application of appropriate techniques, and development and implementation of a stress reduction/prevention plan. Topics include the physiology of the stress response, adaptive and maladaptive behaviors, stress-prevention strategies, stress-reduction techniques, and how to implement a self-care stress-reduction plan. C-ID PH-107. --- # HEAL 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HEAL 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HIST 100 — : World History to 1500 This course traces the historical development of the world to 1500. It emphasizes the interaction between the environment and people, the development of religious and philosophical systems, and the internal evolution and interaction within and among cultures. Students experience a variety of learning techniques designed to promote greater cross-cultural understanding. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for HIST 100 or HIST 100H . C-ID HIST-150. --- # HIST 100H — : World History to 1500 (Honors) This course emphasizes the historical interaction between the environment and people, the development of religious and philosophical systems, and the internal evolution and interaction within and among cultures from early civilizations to 1500. As an honors course, it offers an enriched experience for students through challenging course work, emphasis on the use of sources as evidence, and the development of analytical historical theses. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for HIST 100 or HIST 100H . C-ID HIST-150. --- # HIST 101 — : World History Since 1500 This course traces the historical development of the world since 1500. It emphasizes the relationship between technology and society, the development of rationalism and imperialism, and the movement toward independent nationhood and global interdependence. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for HIST 101 or HIST 101H . C-ID HIST-160. --- # HIST 101H — : World History Since 1500 (Honors) This course emphasizes the historical interaction between the environment and people, the development of religious and philosophical systems, and the internal evolution and interaction within and among cultures from 1500 to present. As an honors course, it offers an enriched experience for students through challenging course work, emphasis on the use of sources as evidence, and the development of analytical historical theses. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for HIST 101 or HIST 101H . C-ID HIST-160. --- # HIST 102 — : History of the Modern Middle East This course surveys of modern Middle Eastern history from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 until the present time. Topics include the Ottoman Empire, World War One and the making of the modern Middle East, the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Islamist movements, the Iranian Revolution, the U.S. in the Middle East, and the Arab uprisings in the early twenty-first century. The course emphasizes giving students the necessary historical background to understand current events in the Middle East. --- # HIST 103 — : Early European History and Culture This course covers the history of Western civilization from earliest times to 1648 with an emphasis on Western culture and humanities. It explores social, economic, political, and artistic trends as well as the history of gender, sexuality, and ideas during the ancient and medieval eras. C-ID HIST-170. --- # HIST 104 — : Modern European History and Culture This course covers the history of Western civilization from 1648 to contemporary times with an emphasis on Western culture and humanities. It explores social, economic, political, intellectual, and artistic trends as well as the history of gender, sexuality, and culture during the early modern, modern, and contemporary eras. C-ID HIST-180. --- # HIST 107 — : East Asian Societies This course surveys East Asian history from its earliest origins to the present. It examines the social, political, and economic foundations of China, Japan, and Korea and their connection to other countries in the region using historical, religious, and literary documents. --- # HIST 113 — : American Military History This course surveys American military history from the colonial period to the present. It emphasizes the institutional, technological, social, political, and cultural contexts in times of peace and conflict. The course reviews all major American conflicts and emphasizes the military's influence upon foreign policy, domestic affairs, and diplomacy. --- # HIST 115 — : Women in American History This course surveys the history of women in America from the colonial period to the present. It emphasizes the historical roles of women in the family, community, labor force, and political system. The course also emphasizes the similarities and differences based on class, race, and ethnic identities. --- # HIST 116 — : History of the Americas to 1830 This course surveys the histories of the American continent as an integrated whole. It examines major pre-Columbian Indian cultures, Native American heritage, European exploration, conquest, and colonization, and the growth of independence movements. It also studies the diverse cultures, societies, economies, political structures, and constitutions of Latin America, Canada, and the United States from a comparative perspective. --- # HIST 117 — : History of the Americas Since 1830 This course presents an integrated history of American nations in the modern period. It emphasizes the American histories of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries including Latin American wars of independence, U.S. foreign policy with Latin America, Canada's relations with the Western hemisphere, Latin American society in the 20th century, and the impact of globalization on the American continent. --- # HIST 141 — : Mexican American History Through 1877 This course emphasizes a Chicano/a, Latino/a perspective as it examines Mexican American history through the Mexican- American War and the late nineteenth century. It focuses on major political, social, economic, and cultural factors and explores the roles played by the diverse peoples and cultures who shared in the development of US history. The course emphasizes the contributions of ancient Indians and civilizations and the influences of Spanish institutions and cultures. --- # HIST 142 — : Mexican American History Since 1877 This history of the United States from Reconstruction to the present emphasizes the Chicano/a, Latino/a experience. It explores the economic, social, cultural, and political developments and impacts on diverse peoples of the US with an emphasis on the Mexican American experience. --- # HIST 145 — : African American History to 1877 This course covers the historical development of the role of African Americans in US history from colonial origins through Reconstruction. It emphasizes the Black experience within political, social, economic, and cultural frameworks. --- # HIST 146 — : African American History Since 1877 This course covers the historical development of the role of African Americans in United States history from Reconstruction to the present. It emphasizes the Black experience within political, social, economic, and cultural frameworks. --- # HIST 150 — : History of Mexico This course surveys Mexican history from ancient civilizations to the present. It emphasizes social, political, and cultural developments in Mexican history and highlights the racial and ethnic diversity of Mexico's peoples. --- # HIST 165 — : California History This course addresses the social, economic, political, and cultural history of California. It begins with an overview of the indigenous, Native American populations and continues through the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras. --- # HIST 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn m… --- # HORT 115 — : Soil Science This course examines the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil and covers soil conditions that restrict plant growth. Students learn to solve soil problems that may exist in the field, greenhouse, and landscape with a focus on sustainable practices. The course emphasizes problem-solving techniques that apply to Southern California soils, including fertility, salinity, pH, high calcium, specific toxicities, and physical problems. Students are required to participate in field labs and trips. C-ID AG-PS-128L. --- # HORT 116 — : Plant Science This introductory course offers students an opportunity to learn the basic principles of plant science pertaining to food and ornamental plants. The course emphasizes plant morphology, anatomy and function, plant physiology, reproduction, biotic and abiotic environmental factors that impact plant growth and development, plant-soil-climate interrelationships, plant taxonomy and nomenclature, and plant diversity and adaptations. Learning activities include plant studies in the field, greenhouse, and landscape. Students are required to attend field labs and field trips. C-ID AG-PS-104, AG-PS-106… --- # HORT 117 — : Plant Identification: Trees, Shrubs, and Vines This course covers the identification, growth habits, culture, and ornamental use of plants found in Southern California landscapes. Topics include botanical and common names, plant family relationships, drought tolerance, and other environmental adaptations. Students learn to identify by sight memory more than 200 plants from professional certification test and local plant lists. Students are required to attend field trips both on and off campus. C-ID AG-EH-108L, AG-EH-112L. --- # HORT 118 — : Arboriculture This course introduces the care and management of landscape trees in urban settings. It covers soil, water, and nutrient management, integrated pest management, and tree biology. Topics include tree selection, protection, fertilization, pruning basics, urban forest management, safety, and risk management. This course prepares students for the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Certification exam and provides ISA Continuing Education Units (CEUs). C-ID AG-EH 130 000X. --- # HORT 121 — : Sustainable Landscape and Turf Management This course introduces landscape ecosystems and emphasizes sustainable management practices of turfgrass, trees, and landscape plantings. Students learn best management practices, including soil preparation, nutrient management, irrigation, mowing, pruning and growth control, integrated pest management, and fire safety. Students practice basic skills needed for successful maintenance of landscaped areas in accordance with sustainable and ecological principles. Participation in field trips and field labs is required. --- # HORT 122 — : Horticulture Laws and Regulations This course covers the laws and regulations that apply to the agriculture and horticulture industries, including possible legal issues for nursery owners, landscape managers, farmers, and others engaged in crop production and landscape planning. Topics include U.S., California, and local agencies and ordinances governing contracts, environmental and natural resource issues, agricultural employees, and pesticide regulations. This course prepares students to pass the Laws and Regulations section of the California Department of Pesticide Regulations licensing exams and others. --- # HORT 126 — : Irrigation and Water Management This course introduces the design, installation, and maintenance of water-efficient irrigation systems. Topics include water supply, basic hydraulics, climate, soil and plant characteristics, component identification and terminology, auditing, scheduling, pipe sizing, layout, electrical components, and water conservation practices appropriate for southern California. Participation in field exercises, field trips, and other lab activities is required. C-ID AG-EH 144X. --- # HORT 127 — : Landscape Design This course introduces the principles and practices of landscape design. Topics include the principles and process of design, drafting, hand drawn graphics, and presentation methods. Projects emphasize residential and small commercial sites. Students are required to attend field trips. --- # HORT 128 — : Landscape Construction This course introduces the fundamentals of landscape construction. Topics include soil preparation, paving and construction materials, hand and power tool use, turf and plant installation, plan reading, estimating, and bid preparation. The course also covers local codes, state requirements, and new technologies. It prepares students to pass the C-27 Landscaping Contractor's License exam. Students are required to participate in lab activities and attend field trips. C-ID AG-EH 132X. --- # HORT 134 — : Integrated Pest Management This course examines the common pests that invade ornamental plantings and nursery crops in Southern California, including weeds, invertebrate pests, and plant diseases. Students learn to diagnose pest problems and design solutions to these problems based upon an integration of approved pest management techniques and practices including cultural, biological, mechanical/physical, and chemical control methods. This course is designed to assist students in preparing for California licensing exams in pest management or to earn continuing education hours to maintain their license. C-ID AG-EH 120X. --- # HORT 140 — : Subtropical Fruit and Plant Production This course examines the principles and practices involved in subtropical fruit and plant production, such as citrus and avocados, and other emerging crops. Topics include propagation, site selection, planting, fertilization, irrigation, and pest control. The course also covers harvest techniques, marketing, and industry economic trends. Field trips to local orchards and groves are required. --- # HORT 144 — : Nursery Management and Production This course analyzes the operation and management of plant nursery facilities and personnel, including cultural practices, scheduling of nursery crops, marketing, and legal and environmental issues. Students examine the relationships of light, temperature, moisture, humidity, and fertility as well as their impact on plant production. Topics include pruning, transplanting, propagation, and pest control methods. Students are required to attend field trips to local nurseries. --- # HORT 147 — : Wines of California This course introduces the wines and major wine producing regions of California. It covers history, viticultural practices, winemaking styles, and sensory evaluation techniques of representative California wines. Students must be at least 21. --- # HORT 149 — : Vineyard Production and Management This course covers responsibilities of vineyard management. Topics include climate zones, soil selection, financing, farm organization, irrigation systems, field layout, varietal selection, nutritional needs, harvesting, labor management, marketing, and budgeting. Students are required to attend field trips to local vineyards. --- # HORT 150 — : Winery Operations and Management This introductory level course on starting and managing a winery business covers permits, annual plans and budgets, marketing, tasting room operations, and legal compliance. Students are required to attend field trips. --- # HORT 162 — : Organic Crop Production This course introduces the principles and practices of organic crop production. It applies sustainability principles and ecological concepts to field-based exercises and hands-on practices in the production of edible and ornamental crops. Topics emphasized include selecting, starting, and maintaining crops, irrigation methods, organic weed and pest control strategies, harvesting, farm management, and crop marketing and sales. Students are required to attend in-person field trips. --- # HORT 166 — : Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture This course introduces sustainable agriculture and agro-ecological theory from a multi-disciplinary scientific perspective. It will focus on the application of sustainability concepts to growth and production of edible, ornamental, and specialty crops in the temperate southern California climate. Diverse agricultural systems and practices and their relative sustainability are analyzed for suitability to site and environment. Topics include the history and evolution of agriculture as well as historical, conventional, and alternative farming systems with a focus on modern applications and prese… --- # HORT 220 — : Computer-Aided Landscape Design Applications This course introduces the application of computer-based design software packages, including image manipulation, modeling, multimedia, and drafting combined with hand graphics for the development of landscape plans, perspectives, elevation drawings, and presentation graphics. --- # HORT 230 — : Landscape Architecture This project-based class offers continued study in the field of landscape architectural design. It emphasizes site analysis, sensory evaluation, sustainable design principles, cost considerations, rendering, site details, model building, and oral presentation. Students work both individually and in groups on projects at the urban and community scale, and they are required to attend field trips. --- # HORT 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HORT 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HOSP 100 — : Introduction to Hospitality Management This course provides an overview of the structure and financial performances of the hospitality industry, including food and lodging, resorts, tourism enterprises, attractions, and related operations. It emphasizes orientation to customer service, cultural/economic trends, and career opportunities. Students may be required to visit various hospitality sites. C-ID HOSP-100 --- # HOSP 114 — : Hospitality Law This course covers the legal principles that apply to the hospitality industry, including possible legal issues for hotel and restaurant operators as well as rights and responsibilities of hospitality establishments. Topics include how U.S. laws and regulations affecting the lodging industry have increased and how hoteliers and restaurant operators can avoid lawsuits. This course allows students to gain Hospitality Law certification from the Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. C-ID HOSP-150. --- # HOSP 130 — : Conference and Special Event Management This course introduces students to the field of conference and special event management. Students examine the different types of conferences and special events and the types of organizations that stage those events. The course also covers the role of the planner, including setting objectives, program design, budgeting, site selection, negotiations, contracts, speaker selection, registration, on-site logistics, transportation, and security and legal issues. --- # HOSP 133 — : Introduction to Hotel Management This course introduces students to the operating system and components of a hotel-resort facility. Topics include front office, housekeeping, food and beverage, sales and marketing, accounting, property maintenance, human/resource management, and information systems. C-ID HOSP-140. --- # HOSP 150 — : Hospitality Cost Control This course introduces students to the analysis and management of food, beverage, labor, and other costs within a hospitality operation. It emphasizes problem solving and applying cost-control techniques to maximize profits while managing expenses. Topics include establishing standards, cost-volume-profit-analysis, forecasting, purchasing and storage controls, menu costing and pricing, theft prevention, and labor control. C-ID HOSP-120. --- # HOSP 153 — : Introduction to Food and Beverage Management This course explores management techniques and procedures as they relate to commercial and institutional food and beverage facilities. Topics include functions of management, food and beverage marketing, menu development, nutrition and food service operations, cost controls and pricing strategies, and labor and service techniques. C-ID HOSP-130. --- # HOSP 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HOSP 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # HUMN 101 — : Introduction to the Arts This course introduces students to interdisciplinary humanities. The course explores at least six humanities subjects, such as cinema, dance, music and opera, architecture, theater, literature, painting and other two-dimensional art, and sculpture. An entr e to cultural literacy, this course studies both genres and examples of the arts to better understand various art forms, the cultures, eras, and styles which they exemplify, and essential elements of our individual humanness, including creativity and a sense of the aesthetic. --- # HUMN 202 — : Humanities of the Western World: The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century This interdisciplinary course surveys major works, figures, styles, concepts, and techniques in the liberal and fine arts of the Western world. It draws from the Renaissance, baroque era, neoclassicism, romanticism, Industrial Age, modernism, and postmodernism. Students study examples of creative genius in such fields as art, literature, music, philosophy, history, theater, and architecture to better understand the heritage of Western civilization, the cultures of multiple peoples, and ways that the past and its arts are relevant to themselves and contemporary life. --- # HUMN 205 — : Women in Western Art and Literature This interdisciplinary course surveys and examines the art and literature of Western civilization form an intersectional feminist lens, with an emphasis on the construction of gender and the framework of historiography throughout the centuries. --- # HUMN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # ITAL 101 — : Elementary Italian (First Semester) This introductory course develops Italian language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It covers basic Italian pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. It also explores the history, geography, and customs of the Italian-speaking world. This course corresponds to the first two years of high school Italian. --- # ITAL 102 — : Elementary Italian (Second Semester) This course continues to develop Italian language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in ITAL 101 , and it develops the student's ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in Italian. The course also provides for increased awareness of the Italian world's history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the third year of high school Italian. --- # ITAL 121 — : Introduction to Italian Culture This course introduces students of Italian to various aspects of the Italian culture and civilization. Areas of study include history, music, literature, philosophy, political ideas, customs, and Italy's influence on and contribution to the civilization of America and the world. The course does not require prior study of the Italian language or culture. --- # ITAL 201 — : Intermediate Italian (Third Semester) This course continues to develop Italian language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in ITAL 101 and ITAL 102 , and it develops the student's ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in Italian. The course also provides for increased awareness of the Italian history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the fourth year of high school Italian. --- # ITAL 202 — : Intermediate Italian (Fourth Semester) This course continues to develop Italian language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in ITAL 201 . It also develops the students ability to express opinions and make recommendations in Italian-language debates and discussions. The course provides for increased awareness of the Italian-speaking worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts through extensive reading and writing assignments as well as oral presentations. --- # ITAL 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # JAPN 101 — : Elementary Japanese (First Semester) This course introduces contemporary Japanese and the Japanese writing system (hiragana, katakana, and selected kanji characters). It examines the languages structure and emphasizes the development of language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students learn about Japanese history, geography, and customs as well as about the relationship between language and culture. This course corresponds to the first two years of high school Japanese. --- # JAPN 102 — : Elementary Japanese (Second Semester) This second course in the Japanese language sequence continues to promote Japanese language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing at the novice-high level. The prerequisite first-semester level skills are practiced for fluency and improvement in communication success, and integrated into the introduction of more advanced grammar, vocabulary and kanji characters. The course also continues to develop the student's ability to read, interpret, and discuss Japanese-language narratives about newly introduced cultural aspects of the Japanese-speaking world. This course corres… --- # JAPN 121 — : Introduction to Japanese Culture This course introduces students to various aspects of Japanese culture and society. Areas of study include history, music, literature, philosophy, political ideas, customs, and Japan's influence on and contribution to the civilization of America and the world. The course does not require prior study of the language or culture. --- # JAPN 123 — : Japanese Anime and Manga This course introduces students to anime and manga (Japanese cartoons and comics) and explore various aspects of Japanese culture and society through the lens of anime and manga. Areas of study include history, music, literature, technology, customs, traditions and their interrelationship with the cultures and societies of America and the world. The course does not require prior study of the language or culture. --- # JAPN 201 — : Intermediate Japanese (Third Semester) This third course in the Japanese language sequence continues to promote Japanese language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate-low level. The prerequisite first-year level Japanese language skills are practiced for fluency and improvement in communication success, and integrated into the introduction of more advanced grammar, vocabulary and kanji characters. The course also continues to develop the student's ability to read, interpret, and discuss Japanese-language narratives about newly introduced cultural aspects of the Japanese-speaking world.… --- # JAPN 202 — : Intermediate Japanese (Fourth Semester) This fourth semester course in the Japanese language sequence continues to develop Japanese language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate-mid level. Students practice writing in Japanese with kanji characters, review grammar and syntax, and expand their vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic constructions. The course also continues to develop the student's ability to read, interpret, and discuss Japanese-language narratives about Japanese history, geography, and culture. --- # JAPN 210 — : Intermediate Conversation I and Reading This course stresses oral communication and reading comprehension through cultural materials in order to improve and expand the student's conversational skills in Japanese. It emphasizes practical topics, fundamental and expanded vocabulary, and commonly used idioms. Students learn to employ Japanese in general discussions of assigned topics and simple dialogues. The course also reviews communicative functions. --- # JAPN 211 — : Intermediate Conversation II and Writing This continuation of JAPN 210 is intended for students who want to further enhance their skills in Japanese. The course stresses oral and written communication through cultural materials in order to improve and expand the student's conversational skills in Japanese. It emphasizes practical topics, fundamental and expanded vocabulary, and commonly used idioms. Students learn to employ Japanese in general discussions of a variety of culturally relevant topics and dialogues. The course also reviews and practices communicative functions. --- # JAPN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # KINE 100 — : Beginning Weight Training This course implements the latest scientific functional training methodologies to enhance activities of daily living, weight loss, body appearance, bone density, stress reduction, core strength, balance, and coordination while decreasing the risk of orthopedic injury and low back pain through functional resistance training. It is designed for students interested in increasing muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, and movement performance. May be repeated three times. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 101 — : Intermediate Weight Training This stabilization training course addresses physical structural imbalances and emphasizes stabilization endurance training. Students perform stabilization training exercises in a proprioceptively enriched environment to improve alignment of the kinetic chain. They focus on increasing their ability to stabilize their joints, improve posture, and enhance neuromuscular efficiency. Students perform weight training exercises in the stabilization training phase using various modalities including thera-bands, medicine balls, body weight, physio balls, dumbbells, or equivalent. UC CREDIT LIMITATION:… --- # KINE 102 — : Advanced Weight Training This strength endurance course improves stabilization endurance and increases prime mover strength. Students perform exercises in strength endurance, hypertrophy, and maximal strength phases to improve overall work capacity, enhance joint stabilization, and increase lean body mass. Students perform weight training exercises in the strength endurance, hypertrophy, and maximal strength phases using thera-bands, medicine balls, body weight, physio ball, dumbbells, barbells, kettle bells, or the equivalent. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 110 — : Walking for Fitness Students enhance their individual health and well-being and develop positive attitudes toward life-long fitness and wellness through fitness walking. The course focuses on improving an individual's cardiopulmonary functioning, body composition, goal setting, nutritional awareness, and weight management through behavior management. Students must provide their own activity-tracking device or application. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 112 — : Beginning Cardio Training This cardiorespiratory stabilization training course is designed to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in students through a variety of low-level intensity cardiovascular conditioning activities. Students learn how to develop cardiorespiratory stabilization training programs. Topics include the benefits of cardiorespiratory stabilization training, the cardiovascular system, and cardiorespiratory stabilization acute training variables, modalities, guidelines, and methods. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 113 — : Intermediate Cardio Training This cardiorespiratory strength training course is designed to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in students through a variety of moderate-to-high level intensity cardiovascular conditioning activities. Students learn how to develop cardiorespiratory strength training programs. Topics include the benefits of cardiorespiratory strength training, the cardiovascular system, and cardiorespiratory strength acute training variables, modalities, guidelines, and methods. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 114 — : Advanced Cardio Training This cardiorespiratory power training course is designed to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in students through a variety of high-level intensity cardiovascular conditioning activities. Students learn how to develop cardiorespiratory power training programs. Topics include the benefits of cardiorespiratory power training, the cardiovascular system, and cardiorespiratory power acute training variables, modalities, guidelines, and methods. Students perform advanced cardio workouts utilizing speed ladders, hurdles, cones, plyometric boxes, medicine balls, and battle ropes or the equivalent. UC… --- # KINE 145 — : Yoga Teacher Training Foundation This course focuses on the fundamentals of yoga that are essential for both practice and teaching. Students learn proper body mechanics, anatomy, alignment principles, and breathing techniques as they relate to the performance and instruction of beginning yoga poses. Topics include the history and philosophy of yoga, Sanskrit terminology, injury prevention, and vocational opportunities. --- # KINE 147 — : Yoga Teacher Training Development This course provides students with the tools to design and teach an intelligently sequenced 60-minute yoga class with verbal clarity. Topics include the history and philosophy of yoga, Sanskrit terminology, body mechanics and alignment, breathing styles, flow sequences, and principles of teaching yoga poses. Students learn about applying yogic principles as well as lifestyle choices and ethics for yoga teachers. --- # KINE 149 — : Yoga Teacher Training Integration This course provides students with the tools to deepen their independent yoga practice in order to strengthen their teaching and develop a personal teaching style. Topics include designing, integrating, and implementing knowledge and teaching of asanas, pranayama techniques, meditation, and yogic history and philosophy. Students learn about Ayurveda, the subtle body, and yoga for special populations. --- # KINE 150 — : Beginning Yoga This course introduces students to the beginning practice of yoga. Students learn the practice of gentle, restorative, and vinyasa flow to improve concentration, physical endurance, flexibility, balance, and posture. The course integrates basic breathing techniques to increase oxygen intake, enhance the mind-body connection, and reduce stress. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 154 — : Intermediate Yoga This course introduces students to the intermediate practice of yoga. Students learn the practice of gentle, restorative, and vinyasa flow to improve concentration, physical endurance, flexibility, balance, and posture. The course integrates intermediate breathing techniques to increase oxygen intake, enhance the mind-body connection, and reduce stress. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 155 — : Advanced Yoga This course introduces students to the advanced practice of yoga. Students learn the practice of restorative and vigorous vinyasa flow to improve concentration, physical endurance, flexibility, balance, and posture. The course integrates advanced breathing techniques to increase oxygen intake, enhance the mind-body connection, and reduce stress. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 156 — : Beginning Flexibility Training This corrective flexibility course is designed to increase joint range of motion, improve muscle imbalances, correct altered joint motion, and address posture distortions. Correct flexibility includes self-myofascial release and static stretching. Students perform flexibility training exercises utilizing therabands, straps, foam rollers, and physio ball or the equivalent. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 157 — : Intermediate Flexibility Training This active stretching course is designed to use agonists and synergists to dynamically move the joint into a range of motion. This form of stretching increases motorneuron excitability, creating reciprocal inhibition of the muscle being stretched. Students perform flexibility training exercises utilizing therabands, pulley systems, foam rollers, and physio ball or the equivalent. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 158 — : Advanced Flexibility Training This functional flexibility course is designed to use force production of a muscle and the body's momentum to take a joint through the full available range of motion. Dynamic stretching uses the concept of reciprocal inhibition to improve soft tissue extensibility. Students perform flexibility training exercises utilizing therabands, stretch cages, foam rollers, speed ladders, hurdles, and medicine balls the equivalent. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 159 — : Yoga Teacher Training Implementation This course provides students with the advanced knowledge and skills to design and implement all-level yoga classes and yoga-based educational workshops. It integrates in-depth study of yogic philosophy and Sanskrit terminology with injury management and the use of props for asana progressions and regressions as well as intelligent sequencing and theming to create purposeful class experiences. Students also learn about the business aspects of teaching yoga. --- # KINE 161 — : Beginning Martial Arts This course introduces students to the beginning skills of martial arts, which is a non aggressive yet highly effective form of self-defense. Students learn about the history and philosophy of martial arts, safety procedures, standards of etiquette, body dynamics, and precise beginning-level movements in a setting of diligent training. NOTE: A Gi uniform is required. Please attend the first class before purchasing. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 162 — : Intermediate Martial Arts This course introduces students to intermediate skills of martial arts, which is a nonaggressive yet highly effective form of self-defense. Students learn about intermediate movements and body dynamics, safety procedures, and standards of etiquette in a setting of diligent training. NOTE: A Gi uniform is required. Please attend the first class before purchasing. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 163 — : Advanced Martial Arts This course introduces students to advanced skills of martial arts, which is a non-aggressive yet highly effective form of self-defense. Students learn about advanced movements and body dynamics, safety procedures, meditation techniques, and advanced defense strategies in a setting of diligent training. NOTE: A Gi uniform is required. Please attend the first class before purchasing. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all activity courses, maximum credit, 4 units. --- # KINE 190 — : Introduction to Kinesiology This course introduces students to the field of kinesiology and nutrition, including its history, scope, and sub-disciplines. Students explore principles of kinesiology and career opportunities within kinesiology and nutrition/dietetics as well as professional characteristics and ethical responsibilities of those who work in the field. Topics include nutrition, biomechanics, fitness/posture assessments, assessment tool use (body fat, flexibility, cardiorespiratory), exercise prescriptions, and behavior management. C-ID KIN-100. --- # KINE 200 — : Physical Education in the Elementary School This course teaches students how to develop physical education curriculum to best meet the needs of elementary school children based on national and state physical and health education content standards for California public schools. The course emphasizes the role and significance of physical education, instructional methods, and motor skill, movement, and total wellness concepts, including nutrition, disease prevention, and the adverse effects of drug/narcotic, alcohol, and tobacco use. --- # KINE 203 — : Techniques in Athletic Training This course explores the basic fundamentals of athletic injury health care. It emphasizes prevention, recognition, basic assessment, immediate care, treatment, and rehabilitation of common athletic injuries. Topics include theory and application of taping and wrapping, basic first aid, emergency field care, and anatomical landmark recognition. Students are required to purchase athletic taping supplies. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all KINE theory courses, maximum credit, 8 units. --- # KINE 204 — : Techniques and Analysis of Fitness and Weight Training In this introduction to personal fitness training, students design a comprehensive fitness program that includes muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory and core training to meet individual client needs. The course emphasizes program design, fitness assessment, posture analysis, biomechanics, exercise physiology, muscle anatomy, professional development, nutrition, goal setting, and behavior modification. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Any or all KINE theory courses, maximum credit, 8 units. --- # KINE 210 — : Exercise Programs for Special Populations This course examines the exercise implications for special populations related to age, medical condition, and level of fitness. Topics include resistance, cardio, flexibility/yoga, and balance programs for heart conditions, stroke, diabetes, orthopedic problems, obesity, hyperlipidemia, pregnant, asthmatic, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, older adult populations, and children. The course also covers the role of exercise in risk factor modification as well as contraindications to exercise for special populations. --- # KINE 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # KINE 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # LIBR 101 — : Introduction to Library Research This hands-on course in college-level research provides students with a basic understanding of library research methods and the skills by which they can find, organize, evaluate, and cite sources effectively and ethically. These skills help students become strong researchers and life-long learners. Students are introduced to the variety of information resources and information retrieval tools available through academic libraries, with an emphasis on online resources. --- # LIBR 201 — : Media & Information Literacy This course explores the evolving media landscape and how technology, manipulation, and bias shape online behavior. Students develop information literacy skills in order to deconstruct media messages, conduct specialized research, critically evaluate information, and use information ethically. Topics include artificial intelligence, misinformation, digital citizenship, consumerism, and privacy. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for LIBR 201 or LIBR 201H . --- # LIBR 201H — : Media & Information Literacy (Honors) This honors course explores the evolving media landscape and how technology, manipulation, and bias shape online behavior. Students develop information literacy skills in order to deconstruct media messages, conduct specialized research, critically evaluate information, and use information ethically. Topics include artificial intelligence, misinformation, digital citizenship, consumerism, and privacy. The course emphasizes critically evaluating and analyzing appropriate sources as well as responsible and ethical uses of information. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for LIBR 201 or LIBR 201H . --- # LIBR 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # LING 110 — : English Language Structure and Function This course familiarizes students with the grammatical patterns of English syntax. Using traditional grammatical terminology, students learn to identify the parts of speech of words in written and orally produced sentences, analyze the structure of phrases and clauses, integrate sentences into their logical and rhetorical contexts, and identify and understand sources of sentence-level writing concerns. --- # LIT 100 — : Introduction to Chicano Chicana Literature This course introduces the literary, social, historical, and cultural aspects of the novel, short story, poetry, testimonio, drama, and oral traditions created by Chicano Chicana writers. Students engage an intersectional critical lens to deepen their understanding of the Chicana Chicano literary tradition. --- # LIT 122 — : Introduction to African American Literature This introduction to African American literature emphasizes how African American writers have expanded the traditional American literary canon. The course examines issues between, race, ethnicity, and writing as an African American from slavery until the present. Students read a variety of genres, literary and extra-literary, including poetry, fiction (both the novel and shorter fiction), belle lettres, sermons, and speeches. --- # LIT 250 — : American Literature: First Contact Through the Civil War This course explores American writers and significant literary movements and themes from the oral and literary narratives of Native peoples to the nation-building literary projects of the Civil War. In this course, students problematize what has been commonly defined as "American literature" by exploring diverse authors and genres. Genres may include oral histories, slave narratives, abolitionist writings, protest literature, and popular print culture. C-ID ENGL-130. --- # LIT 251 — : American Literature: Mid-1800s to the Present This course examines various literary genres and oral histories that narrate the complex social transformations of the 19th century to the present within local and globalized contexts. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this survey course seeks to expose students to a wide range of U.S. authors that examine the paradox between ideas of nationhood and a sense of belonging. Students learn to make distinctions between the wide range of literary and intellectual movements that influenced localized forms of storytelling, popular fiction, performance texts, and other cultural productions. C-ID EN… --- # LIT 260 — : English Literature Through the 18th Century This course surveys writers in English literature from the Anglo-Saxon era to the eighteenth century. It covers works of at least two of the three most influential writers in the language (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton) as well as their historical and cultural backgrounds. Students read plays; epic, religious, romantic, and satiric poetry; ballads; and non-fiction prose, including essays and biography. Eras include medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment. C-ID ENGL-160. --- # LIT 261 — : English Literature: Romantic to Contemporary This course surveys major writers in English literature from the late 18th to the 21st century. It covers some of the best-known poetry, essays, drama, and prose fiction written in modern English as well as the historical and cultural backgrounds of these works. Eras include romantic, Victorian, modern, post-colonial, and postmodern. C-ID ENGL-165. --- # LIT 265 — : Shakespeare Studies This course introduces students to selected works by William Shakespeare with the goal of enhancing their understanding and appreciation of his writing. The course emphasizes not only the intrinsic value of the works themselves but also the historical, intellectual, political, social, and psychological forces that influenced Shakespeare and which are manifested in his extraordinary art. --- # LIT 270 — : World Literature to 1600 This course surveys world literature--including the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas--from the ancient period up to the 1600s. Students study the selected literature for its expression of the human experience and for its generation of cultural and artistic values. C-ID ENGL-140. --- # LIT 271 — : World Literature Since 1600 This course surveys world literature--the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Americas--from the 1600s up to the present. Students study the selected literature for its expression of the human experience and for its generation of cultural and artistic values. C-ID ENGL-145. --- # LIT 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MATH 102 — : Math Fundamentals: Mathematics for Life This course covers the fundamentals of logic, including fallacies, inductive and deductive reasoning, conditional statements, and the evaluation of arguments; the basic ideas of finance, including simple and compound interest, amortized loans, and retirement accounts; ideas of probability and applications of probability to realistic situations; and problem solving. The course provides students with a strong foundation in quantitative reasoning and mathematical concepts applicable to everyday life situations and long-term decision-making strategies. --- # MATH 102A — : Mathematics for Life The course provides students with a strong foundation in quantitative reasoning and mathematical concepts applicable to everyday life situations and long-term decision-making strategies. This course covers linear and exponential equations and the basic ideas of finance, including simple and compound interest, amortized loans, and retirement accounts. Elementary probability theory to calculate the likelihood of events and descriptive statistics are used to organize and make sense of data sets. --- # MATH 110 — : Principles of Data Science This course combines an introductory look into the fundamental skills and concepts of computer programming and inferential statistics with hands-on experience analyzing datasets using common tools within the industry. Additionally, the course investigates ethical issues surrounding data science, such as data privacy. --- # MATH 112 — : Algebraic Concepts for Problem Solving This course uses algebraic concepts to solve applied problems. It addresses application problems that incorporate linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. The course covers some applied modeling, including break even analysis, market equilibrium, linear modeling, and exponential growth, decay, and their models. The course also addresses mathematical topics such as optimization, rates of change, and linear systems. --- # MATH 115 — : Calculus with Applications This course relates calculus to real-world applications in social science, economics, and business. Topics include an extensive and just-in-time algebra review, graphing, limits, derivatives of polynomials of one variable, maxima and minima, integration, derivatives of logarithmic and exponential functions, development of integration techniques, an introduction to multi-variable calculus, and their application to problems. This course is designed primarily for students majoring in social science, economics, and business who require calculus and is not recommended for mathematics, physical sci… --- # MATH 126 — : Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra This course covers advanced algebra topics including functions and their properties. Topics include linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their applications, graphs of functions, inverse functions, and systems of equations and inequalities. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for one college algebra or pre-calculus course, MATH 126 , MATH 126S or MATH 131 . --- # MATH 126S — : Pre-Calculus I: College Algebra with Integrated Support This course covers advanced algebra topics including functions and their properties. Topics include one unit of intermediate algebra review, linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their applications, graphs of functions, inverse functions, and systems of equations and inequalities. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Maximum credit MATH 126S 4 units. Credit for one college algebra or pre-calculus course, MATH 126 , MATH 126S or MATH 131 . --- # MATH 131 — : Pre-Calculus II: Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry This course covers basic concepts of analytic geometry and trigonometry, including definitions and properties of trigonometric functions. Topics include solutions of applied problems involving right triangles; graphs of trigonometric functions; trigonometric identities; trigonometric equation solving; evaluation of inverse trigonometric functions, polar coordinates, and vectors. The course also covers conics, systems of non-linear equations, and sequences and series. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for one college algebra or pre-calculus course, MATH 126 , MATH 126S , MATH 131 , or MATH 131H. --- # MATH 131L — : Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry Laboratory This optional laboratory course is for students concurrently enrolled in MATH 131 . Students work with others to integrate key topics from Precalculus I that are necessary for and connect to the concepts in Precalculus II. --- # MATH 135 — : Precalculus Mathematics This course covers functions and their properties as well as basic concepts of analytic geometry and trigonometry. Topics include linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; systems of equations and inequalities; solving applied problems with right triangles; trigonometric identities; polar coordinates; conics; vectors; and sequences and series. This course prepares students for MATH C2210 / MATH C2210H . --- # MATH 150L — : Calculus and Analytic Geometry I Laboratory This laboratory course is for students concurrently enrolled in MATH C2210 . Students work with others to explore algebra and trigonometric topics necessary for success in Calculus I. --- # MATH 155L — : Calculus and Analytic Geometry II Laboratory This optional laboratory course is for students concurrently enrolled in MATH C2220 . Students work with others to integrate key topics from Calculus I that are necessary for and connect to the concepts in Calculus II. --- # MATH 210 — : Mathematical Concepts and Structures for Teachers I: Number Systems and Number Sense This course covers set theory, problem-solving, systems of numeration, elementary number theory, numerical operations, and arithmetic algorithms. It emphasizes cognitive learning and the development of problem-solving strategies and techniques as well as connections to algebra and algebraic thinking. Students work collaboratively in groups and/or independently using manipulatives and models to explore structures and formulate concepts. It is required for students working toward a multiple subject credential in elementary education. Formerly MATH 105. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 105,… --- # MATH 212 — : Mathematical Concepts and Structures for Teachers II: Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Reasoning This continuation of MATH 210 covers the mathematical concepts needed for teaching elementary school mathematics. Core topics include solving equations with algebra and graphs of linear functions, geometry and geometric proofs, Pythagorean theorem, measurement in both the English and metric systems, transformations, and symmetry. Students must demonstrate their understanding of the algebraic and geometric concepts and structures using critical thinking. It is required for students working toward a multiple-subject credential in elementary education. (Formerly MATH 106). UC CREDIT LIMITATION:… --- # MATH 226 — : Discrete Mathematics Designed for students majoring in mathematics or computer science, this course introduces discrete mathematics, including logic, methods of proof, number theory, sets, counting, discrete probability, relations, recursion, recurrence relations, Boolean algebra, graphs, trees, and networks. Topics are illustrated with applications to computer science, including design and analysis of algorithms, undecidability, program correctness, and digital logic design. --- # MATH 260 — : Calculus and Analytic Geometry III This third course in a three-semester calculus sequence covers vectors in two- and three-dimensional space, quadratic surfaces, vector-valued functions of several variables, partial differentiation and multiple integration, vector fields, line integrals, and conservative fields. The course is designed for mathematics, science, and engineering majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 260 or MATH 260H. C-ID MATH-230. --- # MATH 265 — : Differential Equations This course introduces the theory and applications of ordinary differential equations of first and higher (mostly second) order as well as systems of linear differential equations. It includes both quantitative and qualitative methods. The course deals with theoretical aspects of existence and uniqueness of solutions as well as techniques for finding solutions using analytical, numerical, method of power-series, and Laplace transformations. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 265 or MATH 265H. C-ID MATH-240. --- # MATH 270 — : Linear Algebra This course introduces students to the concepts of linear algebra. Topics include matrix algebra, Gaussian elimination, determinants of a matrix, properties of determinants, vector spaces and their properties with an introduction to proofs, linear transformations, orthogonality, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and computational methods. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for MATH 270 or MATH 270H. C-ID MATH-250. --- # MATH 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MAT 105 — : History of Graphic Design The course surveys the origin and evolution of graphic design from the nineteenth century to the present day. It explores the development and influence of graphic communication through genre, design, style, and format from historical, multicultural, and global perspectives. Topics include the influence of art and technology on graphic design, types of graphic representation, significant historical design movements, and the importance of graphic design in contemporary culture and a global economy. --- # MAT 110 — : Digital Imaging 1: Adobe Photoshop This foundation course introduces students to the aesthetic, technical, and conceptual practices of digital imaging. Students use Adobe Photoshop to edit imagery and create artwork and graphic designs for print or web output. Students generate artwork that involves photo editing, tonal and color correction, masking, layer adjustments, painting techniques, blending, and advanced compositing. Through hands-on instruction and multiple projects, students explore efficient workflows, professional practices, layout and design techniques, typography, application of color, and more. --- # MAT 120 — : Media Design 1: Production This course introduces the fundamental skills needed for the design and production of multimedia projects. Topics include effective messaging and storyboarding, capturing and editing media assets, creating short-form video and motion graphics, and utilizing basic 3D concepts. The course also covers digital media presentation formats, services, platforms, and media rights as well as project file management. --- # MAT 125 — : Web Design 1: Fundamentals This course introduces the fundamentals of creating webpages through an integrated design-and-development approach. Primary topics include user interface design, foundational HTML and CSS, and an introduction to using web content management system (CMS) software such as WordPress. Students will learn principles and techniques for layout design, wireframing, image optimization, web typography, responsive design, and how to implement these concepts through both hand-coded websites and content management systems. --- # MAT 135 — : Graphic Design 1: Principles This course introduces the visual communication principles and concepts of successful graphic design. Topics include form, color palettes, text/image relationships, typography, grid structures, and layout design. The course develops and refines each student's personal design sensibility by applying appropriate and conceptual design thinking within cultural and historical contexts. --- # MAT 140 — : 3D Modeling and Animation: Maya This course introduces students to the fundamentals of computer-generated three-dimensional design using Autodesk Maya. Students learn modeling, texturing, materials, shaders, VFX, particle effects, and animation. Additional topics include visualization, 3D environment design (including lighting and camera angles), simple object and camera animation, and rendering considerations. --- # MAT 145 — : UI/UX Design This course provides an introduction to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design and prototyping. Students learn user-centered design approaches to research, design, prototype, and test user interfaces for screen-based media, such as websites and apps. Topics include design thinking, UX research and strategy, user personas and user scenarios, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, and industry tools and techniques. Students collaborate to design and prototype digital products. --- # MAT 150 — : Animation and Interactivity This course introduces students to 2D animation and interactive media design techniques and tools. Students learn to integrate animation, text, graphics, audio, and video to create rich, interactive user experiences. The course emphasizes design principles for time-based media and effective user interface and interaction design. Students produce animation projects and interactive applications for delivery on the Web and other platforms. --- # MAT 155 — : Graphic Design 2: Typography This course covers the essential concepts of typographic design and its incorporation into all forms of visual communication. Topics include historical development and cultural impacts, type design, the anatomy of letterforms and the use of words, and structural and experimental design. Students develop a solid understanding of how to use type and letterforms to solve design and typographic problems. --- # MAT 160 — : Video 1: Production This course teaches creative and technical aspects of hands-on, project-based video production. It covers the video creation process, including concept-development, storyboarding, planning, video capture, audio recording, and asset collection. It also covers post-production video editing processes in depth, culminating in a complete digital video work. Topics also include proper formats for delivery through various mediums and platforms. --- # MAT 165 — : Web Design 2: WordPress and Site Production This intermediate-level course builds on the skills developed in MAT 125 and introduces students to WordPress and other content management systems (CMS). Students plan and design websites using UI/UX tools and gain skills authoring and implementing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in hand-coded sites and within CMS platforms.Topics include site planning, content strategy, image preparation, web animation, responsive design, CMS solutions, hosting platforms, and site management. --- # MAT 170 — : Digital Illustration 1: Adobe Illustrator This course addresses vector-based illustration topics, tools, and techniques related to visual art and design. Particular focus is placed on project ideation, iterative process, and application of elements and principles of art and design. Technical topics include digital vector tools for drawing, pattern development, application of texture and color, grid-based design, and workflow using Adobe Illustrator and related software. --- # MAT 175 — : Web Design: JavaScript and jQuery This course introduces students to JavaScript and jQuery for interactive web development, including how JavaScript can be used in conjunction with HTML and CSS to add interactivity, animation, visual effects, and advanced functionality to web pages. Students explore interface design and core programming concepts in JavaScript and jQuery to create rich user experiences, manage dynamic content, create animation, and make web pages more interactive and intuitive. Students learn the fundamentals of programming and computational thinking and how to design and script user interface elements common… --- # MAT 180 — : Digital Publishing: Adobe InDesign This course introduces students to Adobe InDesign, the page layout software program used by professional graphic designers to publish ads, business cards, brochures, postcards, newsletters, magazines, books, and more. It involves considerable hands-on instruction and projects similar to those faced by today's designers. Students learn how to prepare documents for professional publication, how to format type, import images, use styles, generate tables, create swatches, and apply shortcuts. Students learn typographic and publishing techniques, basic design principles, and how to apply spot and… --- # MAT 185 — : Graphic Design 3: Design and Layout This course covers the process of creating effective, efficient, and dynamic layouts to solve complex design problems. Students explore every stage of the design process, including research, concept and design development, and applying intuitive design, structural hierarchy, and grid systems. The course emphasizes developing a conceptual problem-solving approach and refining a personal design sense. --- # MAT 190 — : Programming for Animation, Interactivity, and Games This course emphasizes creative coding and programming for interactive media, including 2D games, web, and multimedia applications. Students learn to code within the context of the visual arts using JavaScript, Processing, and/or JavaScript frameworks such as p5.js, CreateJS, or PhaserJS. Students explore the creative and technical aspects of designing interactive user experiences that integrate media, animation, and interactivity. Additional topics include user interface design, experience design, interactive storytelling, game design, animation techniques, and developing content for deliver… --- # MAT 200 — : Video 2: Motion Graphics and Post-Production This course teaches students motion graphics and video post-production processes that bridge the gap between traditional animation and video production. Students will explore advanced editing techniques through combining video, graphics, audio, rotoscoping, keyframing and tweening, motion tracking, 3D elements, and more by using Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and other software. The course utilizes creative project-based work so that students gain hands-on motion graphics experience for various presentation platforms. --- # MAT 210 — : Advanced Digital Imaging & Illustration This course explores advanced imaging and illustration concepts and techniques. Students will use a variety of creative digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and related software to produce portfolio-ready work and develop higher-level compositing and illustration skills, with particular focus on: creative processes, advanced technical processes, workflow integrations, and conceptual development. --- # MAT 225 — : Web Design 3: Custom Sites and Professional Practices In this advanced course, students plan, design, and develop complex, real-world, custom websites in a team environment using modern web standards, professional practices, and workflows. Students integrate HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP programming skills and learn how to customize and create WordPress themes. Additional topics include working with clients, user experience design (UX), site planning and research, content strategy, information architecture development, user interface design (UI), usability analysis, and emerging industry trends. --- # MAT 230 — : Advanced Publishing: Output for Print This advanced publishing course takes students through the process of producing and printing a press-ready publication at a professional printing company. Students explore print technologies (e.g., offset printing, variable-data printing, and direct digital printing), learn the steps required for prepress, production, binding, trimming, and finishing, and apply prepress techniques using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. The course includes a professional print bureau tour. --- # MAT 270 — : Advanced Design Studio This capstone course provides advanced students firsthand experience in the function of a professional studio environment where they create real-world projects for real-world clients. Students build their portfolio and experience client relations, project development and management, problem solving, team management, asset management, and business practices. --- # MAT 290 — : Portfolio Development Students develop a professional portfolio that strategically showcases their design, media, and/or artistic skills and best work. Students focus on developing a personal brand to guide professional decisions and position themselves effectively as a freelancer, prospective employee, or transfer student. Topics include the design of integrated brand identity and marketing materials, such as a logo and stationery package, website, resume, business card, cover letter, case studies, and presentation slide deck. Students are required to formally present their portfolio for review by faculty and adv… --- # MAT 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MAT 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MAP 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MAP 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MUS 110 — : Theory/Musicianship I This basic music theory and ear training course teaches students to read and write musical notation and develops related listening skills. The course incorporates the following concepts: rhythm, meter, and pitch notation; basic properties of sound; intervals; diatonic scales and triads; key signatures; diatonic chords, basic cadential formulas and phrase structure; and dominant seventh. Students can contact the Music Department for a placement exam to test into higher levels. C-ID MUS-125. Formerly MUS 100. --- # MUS 111 — : Music Theory II This course incorporates the concepts from Music Theory I. In addition, through guided composition and analysis, the course includes an introduction to two-part counterpoint; voice leading involving four-part chorale writing; diatonic harmony; and an introduction to secondary/applied chords and modulation. Formerly MUS 101. --- # MUS 111L — : Musicianship II This lab course provides intermediate-level ear training for musicians. It applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory II through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. Students can contact the Music Department for a placement exam to test into this level. C-ID MUS-135. Formerly MUS 103. --- # MUS 112 — : American Popular Music This course surveys popular music in America from colonial times to the present. Students analyze the broad variety of music particular to American heritage in context with the social, cultural, and musical developments of the times. Genres examined include folk, religious, blues, Tin Pan Alley, jazz, rhythm and blues, country, soul, rock, disco, hip-hop, rap, and electronica. --- # MUS 113 — : The Music of America This course surveys a variety of music genres that evolved from the merging of different cultural traditions into distinctively new American music styles. The styles students examine include the music of the early colonists to spirituals, the blues, and jazz as well as Norte o, salsa, zydeco, Hawaiian, and klezmer. --- # MUS 114 — : History of Rock and Roll This course surveys the history of rock and roll from its origin in American popular music to the present. It relates the stylistic changes that have occurred in rock and roll to the social events that surround them. The course also examines historic and current rock subcultures and the attitudes surrounding them. --- # MUS 115 — : History of Classical Music This course introduces students to the canon of Western classical music through a survey of great composers from the medieval period to the present. Methods include historical analysis of each style period and extensive guided listening. The course also considers sociological influences on art and music. --- # MUS 116 — : A Survey of World Music This course introduces students to selected musical cultures from around the world, exploring their stylistic features, organology, and cultural significance, along with the historical, social, political, and geographical factors that shaped them. It emphasizes approaching music from an ethnomusicological perspective-questioning how and why human beings are musical and how their musics relate to broader questions of identity, communication, and belief systems. Through exploration of these musics, students refine listening and critical skills related to music. --- # MUS 119 — : Jazz History This course assists students in developing an appreciation and respect for jazz and blues as original and uniquely American art forms. The topic, viewed through historical, cultural, and sociological lenses, focuses upon the evolutionary development of the music and artists responsible for its creation. Students gain an understanding of basic and jazz-specific musical concepts, the profound impact of African-American artists, and how jazz influenced all American popular music. --- # MUS 120 — : Piano I This beginning piano class develops piano skills through the use of standard songs and appropriate-level piano literature. It also introduces fundamental musical notation. Students are required to attend a professional piano performance. --- # MUS 121 — : Piano II This piano class continues to develop beginning piano skills through the use of standard songs and appropriate level piano literature. The course continues to develop student knowledge of music fundamentals, including notation, scales, and chords. Students are required to attend a live professional piano performance. --- # MUS 128 — : Piano for Music Majors I This course provides technical knowledge and skills of piano for all music majors. Students learn to play scales, arpeggios, and chords. The course emphasizes the construction of triads and seventh chords. Students prepare and play beginning-level piano repertoire in classical and jazz/contemporary styles, and they are required to attend a live professional or educational piano performance. C-ID MUS-170. --- # MUS 129 — : Piano for Music Majors II This course provides technical knowledge and skills of piano for all music majors at an intermediate level. Students play more advanced scales, arpeggios, and chords. Students also prepare and play intermediate-level piano repertoire in classical and jazz/contemporary styles, and they are required to attend a live professional piano performance. C-ID MUS-171. --- # MUS 130A — : Guitar I This course provides fundamental guitar performance training and music reading for students with any level of prior experience on the instrument, including those with no experience. Topics include music theory, guitar ergonomics, musicianship skills, and note reading performance in the first position in an ensemble and as a soloist. Students are required to possess a steel string or classical guitar. Formerly MUS 130. --- # MUS 130B — : Guitar II This course focuses on intermediate-level guitar techniques, skills, and repertoire studies. Course topics include intermediate-level music theory, as it relates to the guitar, improvisation, fretboard roadmaps, fingerpicking, and transcription. Students study, practice, and perform songs and exercises in classical, jazz, and popular musical styles. Students are required to possess a steel string or classical guitar. Formerly MUS 131. --- # MUS 141A — : Vocal Fundamentals I This voice class introduces functional techniques in singing for students seeking to develop specific vocal and musical abilities. Areas covered include breathing, voice placement, diction, phrasing, and interpretation. Students are required to attend a live musical concert. Formerly MUS 141. --- # MUS 141B — : Vocal Fundamentals II This course is a continuation of MUS 141A . Singers further explore techniques to develop vocal tone, range, diction, and expression through a broader selection of repertoire. Students are required to attend a live musical concert. --- # MUS 144A — : Individual Instruction I This course is the first semester of private study for music majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on beginning-level classical or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and repertoire in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID MUS-160. --- # MUS 144B — : Individual Instruction II This course is the second semester of private study for music majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on intermediate-level classical or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and repertoire in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID MUS-160. --- # MUS 145A — : Performance Lab I This first course in a four-semester sequence introduces performance techniques in a group environment. Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer musicians and complete other performance-related activities. The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is open to all students. --- # MUS 145B — : Performance Lab II This second in a four-course series further explores performance techniques in a group environment. Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer musicians and complete other performance-related activities. The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is open to all students. --- # MUS 150A — : Contemporary Big Band I This first course in a four-course series concentrates on the preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big band jazz. Beginning students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to contemporary styles. The course introduces aspects of large jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, instrumental blend, sight reading, and correct intonation. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-180. --- # MUS 150B — : Contemporary Big Band II This second course in a four-course series concentrates on the preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big band jazz. Intermediate students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of large jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, instrumental blend, sight reading, and correct intonation. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-180. --- # MUS 152A — : Studio Jazz Ensemble I This first course of a four-course series focuses on the beginner-level preparation, performance, and recording of jazz and jazz-influenced commercial music styles for variable-sized ensembles, with an emphasis on the standard jazz big band. Musical styles range from the 1930s to the present. C-ID MUS-185. --- # MUS 152B — : Studio Jazz Ensemble II This second course of a four-course series concentrates on intermediate-level preparation, performance, and recording of jazz and jazz-influenced commercial music styles for variable-sized ensembles with an emphasis on the standard jazz big band. Musical styles range from the 1930s to the present. C-ID MUS-185. --- # MUS 155A — : Popular Music Ensemble I This first course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire of popular music styles. Students are required to play an instrument or sing and participate in on- and off-campus performances. --- # MUS 155B — : Popular Music Ensemble II This second course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire of popular music styles. Students are required to play an instrument and/or sing and participate in on- and off-campus performances. --- # MUS 164 — : Musical Theater Ensemble This course provides students with the opportunity to perform in main-stage musical productions. Topics include vocal production, story and character development, and ensemble skills. The singing cast is selected by audition, and all students participate in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival competition. (May be repeated three times.) --- # MUS 165A — : Chamber Choir I In this first in a four-course series, students learn how to perform representative choral music literature with basic technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics include beginning-level vocal production, ensemble skills, music history and theory, and performance skills. Students are required to participate in on- and off-campus performances and concert tours. --- # MUS 165B — : Chamber Choir II In this second in a four-course series, students learn how to perform representative choral music literature with intermediate-level technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics include intermediate-level vocal production, ensemble skills, music history and theory, and performance skills. Students are required to participate in on- and off-campus performances and concert tours. --- # MUS 166A — : Vocal Jazz Ensemble I Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout the community as well as concert tours. Students develop beginning vocal or instrumental skills, sight-reading skills with basic intervals and rhythms, and perform at least one solo using basic melodic shaping and jazz improvisation concepts. Students are required to attend professional jazz performances. First level of four semester enrollments. Students must audition on their voice or instrument for placement into t… --- # MUS 166B — : Vocal Jazz Ensemble II Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout the community as well as concert tours. Students develop beginning-intermediate vocal or instrumental skills, sight reading skills with beginning-intermediate intervals and syncopated rhythms, and perform at least one solo using melodic shaping and intermediate improvisation concepts, using a student-prepared lead sheet. Students are required to attend professional jazz performances. Second level of four semester enro… --- # MUS 170A — : Symphony Orchestra I This beginning course in a four-course series concentrates on the preparation and performance of symphonic orchestral literature. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary styles. The course introduces beginning-level characteristics of classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balance, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. --- # MUS 170B — : Symphony Orchestra II This second course in a four-course series concentrates on intermediate-level preparation and performance of symphonic orchestral literature. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. --- # MUS 188 — : Technology for Music Majors This survey course presents an introduction to technological tools for students in music performance, music education, and general education. It is designed to introduce basic studio recording concepts, live sound systems, digital audio workstations, MIDI, and music notation software for the performance of classical and jazz/commercial music. --- # MUS 210 — : Music Theory III This course incorporates the concepts from Music Theory II. In addition, through writing and analysis, the course includes an introduction to chromatic harmony; secondary/applied chords; modulation; borrowed chords; and an introduction to Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords. Formerly MUS 102. C-ID MUS-140. --- # MUS 210L — : Musicianship III This lab course provides intermediate-to-advanced level ear training for musicians and applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory III through ear training, sight-singing, analysis, and dictation. Formerly MUS 104. C-ID MUS-145. --- # MUS 211 — : Music Theory IV This course incorporates the concepts from Music Theory III. In addition, through writing and analysis, the course includes post-Romantic techniques, such as borrowed chords and modal mixture; chromatic medians; Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords; 9th, 11th, and 13th chords; altered chords and dominants; and twentieth-century techniques, such as Impressionism, tone rows, set theory, pandiatonicism and polytonalism, and meter and rhythm. Formerly MUS 201. C-ID MUS-150. --- # MUS 211L — : Musicianship IV This lab course provides advanced-level ear training for musicians. It applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory IV through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. Formerly MUS 203. C-ID MUS-155. --- # MUS 228 — : Classical Piano This course provides piano and advanced musicianship skills training. Topics include complex notation, scales, chords, transposition, and sight reading. Students develop advanced-level piano performance skills using appropriate literature, and they study prominent piano composers and different eras of piano literature. Students are required to perform in public at least once and attend a live professional classical piano performance. C-ID MUS-172. --- # MUS 229 — : Jazz/Commercial Piano This course provides jazz piano performance training and covers advanced musicianship skills. It includes contemporary notation, scales, chords, transposition, and sight reading. Students continue to develop advanced level jazz piano performance and accompanying skills using appropriate literature, and they study prominent pianists and the different eras of jazz piano history. Students are required to attend a live professional piano performance and perform in public at least once. --- # MUS 230A — : Guitar III This course delves into advanced techniques and concepts for semi-professional and professional guitar players. Students explore advanced scales, modes, and more intricate chord progressions. The course also covers music theory in greater depth, enabling students to analyze, deconstruct, and improvise over complex songs. --- # MUS 230B — : Guitar IV This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the guitar fretboard. Topics include advanced techniques, advanced music theory, and in-depth improvisation. Students also explore genre-specific playing styles and work on a final project showcasing their mastery of the instrument. --- # MUS 241A — : Advanced Vocal Techniques I This voice course covers advanced techniques in singing for students seeking to further develop specific vocal training and musical abilities. Topics include tone color, vowel modification, diction for languages, and interpretation for varying musical styles. Formerly MUS 241. --- # MUS 241B — : Advanced Vocal Techniques II This course is a continuation of MUS 241A . Experienced singers further explore advanced techniques for performance of traditional and contemporary repertoire. --- # MUS 244A — : Individual Instruction III This course is the third semester of private study for music majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on classical or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and repertoire at an intermediate-advanced level in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID MUS-160. --- # MUS 244B — : Individual Instruction IV This course is the fourth semester of private study for music majors. Instrumentalists and vocalists focus on advanced classical or jazz/commercial technique, performance practice, and repertoire in preparation for transfer auditions. Repertoire is performed in concerts and in performance lab classes. C-ID MUS-160. --- # MUS 245A — : Performance Lab III This third in a four-course series explores intermediate-advanced performance techniques in a group environment. Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer musicians and complete other performance-related activities. The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is open to all students. --- # MUS 245B — : Performance Lab IV This final course in a four-semester series explores advanced performance techniques in a group environment. Students observe and evaluate performances by guest and peer musicians and complete other performance-related activities. The course is closely affiliated with the individual instruction courses. It is required of all music performance majors but is open to all students. --- # MUS 250A — : Contemporary Big Band III This performance group concentrates on the preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big band jazz. Intermediate-advanced students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of large jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, instrumental blend, sight reading, and correct intonation. Improvisation is introduced. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. Third level of fo… --- # MUS 250B — : Contemporary Big Band IV This fourth in a four-course series concentrates on the preparation and performance of large jazz ensemble/big band jazz. Advanced students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the 1920s swing style to contemporary styles. The course reinforces aspects of large jazz ensemble performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balances, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and improvisational skills. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. C-ID MUS-180. --- # MUS 252A — : Studio Jazz Ensemble III This third course in a four-course series focuses on the intermediate to advanced level preparation, performance, and recording of jazz and jazz-influenced commercial music styles for variable-sized ensembles, with an emphasis on the standard jazz big band. Musical styles range from the 1930s to the present. C-ID MUS-185. --- # MUS 252B — : Studio Jazz Ensemble IV This final course in a four-course series focuses on advanced-level preparation, performance, and recording of jazz and jazz-influenced commercial music styles for ensembles of varying sizes, with an emphasis on the standard jazz big band. Musical styles range from the 1930s to the present. C-ID MUS-185. --- # MUS 253 — : Jazz/Commercial Improvisation This course introduces students to melodic improvisational techniques used in jazz and many commercial musical styles. Participants study the art of constructing an appropriate linear melodic solo in a variety of common styles, including swing, Latin, bop, funk, fusion, and soul. The course relates music theory and improvisation to chord/scale relationships and modes, modal chord progressions, blues, rhythm changes, and standard major and minor chord progressions. --- # MUS 255A — : Popular Music Ensemble III This third course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire of popular music styles. Students are required to play an instrument and/or sing and participate in on- and off-campus performances. --- # MUS 255B — : Popular Music Ensemble IV This fourth course in a four-course series, designed for acoustic and electric instrumentalists as well as percussionists and vocalists, focuses on preparing and performing the repertoire of popular music styles. Students are required to play an instrument and/or sing and participate in on- and off-campus performances. --- # MUS 265A — : Chamber Choir III In this third in a four-course series, students learn how to perform representative choral music literature with intermediate-advanced technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics include intermediate-advanced-level vocal production, ensemble skills, music history and theory, and performance skills. Students are required to participate in on- and off-campus performances and concert tours. --- # MUS 265B — : Chamber Choir IV In this final course in a four-semester series, students learn how to perform representative choral music literature with advanced technical vocal skill in a small ensemble. Topics include advanced-level vocal production, ensemble skills, music history and theory, and basic performance skills. Students are required to participate in on- and off-campus performances and concert tours. --- # MUS 266A — : Vocal Jazz Ensemble III Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout the community as well as concert tours. Students develop intermediate vocal or instrument skills, sight reading skills with chromatic intervals and advanced rhythms, and perform at least two solos with jazz phrasing and advanced improvisation, using student-prepared lead sheets on music notation software. Students are required to attend professional jazz performances. Third level of four semester enrollments. --- # MUS 266B — : Vocal Jazz Ensemble IV Students study classic and contemporary vocal jazz repertoire through vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal and performance. They present concerts and festivals on campus and throughout the community as well as concert tours. Students develop advanced vocal or instrumental skills, sight reading skills with all intervals and advanced syncopated rhythms, and perform at least two solos with jazz phrasing and advanced improvisation, using fully arranged student-prepared lead sheets on music notation software. Students are required to attend professional jazz performances. Fourth level of four semester en… --- # MUS 270A — : Symphony Orchestra III This performance group concentrates on intermediate-advanced level preparation and performance of symphonic orchestral. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary styles. The course reinforces many aspects of classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balance, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. Third level of four semester enrollments. --- # MUS 270B — : Symphony Orchestra IV This fourth course in a four-course series concentrates on advanced-level preparation and performance of symphonic orchestral literature. Students study music from a wide variety of historical eras, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary styles. The course introduces and reinforces many aspects of classical performance, including stylistic interpretation, rhythmic interpretation, section and ensemble balance, instrumental blend, sight reading, correct intonation, and individual practice strategies. Students are required to attend both on- and off-campus and/or virtual performances. --- # MUS 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MTEC 110 — : Recording Arts I This first in a sequence of four recording arts courses presents an introductory overview of the audio production process. Topics include the physics of sound, transducers, audio processors, and recording-studio logistics. C-ID CMUS130X. --- # MTEC 111 — : Recording Arts II This is the second in a series of four courses designed as the study of the theory and application of methods and tools in the field of recording arts and audio production. --- # MTEC 120 — : Digital Audio Production I This course is a survey of the various procedures and technology used in contemporary audio production in the digital domain. Course work includes the Avid Pro Tools 101 Certification Test. Students are required to own or have ongoing personal access to a working copy of the Avid ProTools Digital Audio Software application and a suitable computer. C-ID CMUS-120X. --- # MTEC 125 — : Sound for Visual Media Students learn the theory and practice of audio production for film, television, and visual media. Topics include fundamentals of acoustics, microphones, digital audio workstations (DAWs), audio editing, and mixing. --- # MTEC 130 — : Electronic Music I This survey course explores the full range of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) capable software and hardware including associated production techniques for music composition, performance, and recording. --- # MTEC 140 — : Sound Reinforcement I This course provides an overview of the theory and application of live concert sound reinforcement. Topics include the physics of sound, the individual sound system components and their functions, and the application and use of microphones, mixers, amplifiers, and speaker systems. Field trips are required for successful completion of the course. --- # MTEC 150 — : Acoustics and Audio Electronics This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of acoustics and audio electronics principles. Students will explore key concepts such as sound wave properties, electronics theory, signal path, basic circuitry, transduction, and audio equipment maintenance. Participants will gain a theoretical understanding of audio theory that is used in music production, and practical hands-on experience in the application of those concepts in different acoustic environments. --- # MTEC 160 — : Business of Music and Media I This course explores the essential topics relevant to participation in the contemporary music and media industry: intellectual property rights, copyright law, publishing administration, performing rights organizations, music licensing, contracts, and artist representation. C-ID CMUS-140X. --- # MTEC 210 — : Recording Arts III This third in a four-course sequence provides an in-depth technical and applied study of recording techniques covered in the previous recording arts courses. Topics include complex signal path routing, effects and dynamics processing, mixing and file export. Students work within a group and utilize studio time to complete assignments within a given timeline. --- # MTEC 211 — : Recording Arts IV This fourth and final course in the recording arts sequence focuses on the technical, creative, and logistical aspects of commercial music production. Students are required to individually organize and complete several recording projects that meet specific contemporary music marketplace criteria. --- # MTEC 220 — : Digital Audio Production II This course is an in-depth study of advanced digital audio production techniques in the Avid Pro Tools software environment. Specific topics include system setup, recording, editing, processing, mixing and synchronization of audio with video. Course work includes the Avid Pro Tools certification tests. Students are required to have access to a working copy of the Avid ProTools digital audio software application installed on a suitable computer. --- # MTEC 230 — : Electronic Music II This course provides an exploration and in-depth study of the various techniques of synthesis and sound creation, and the art and science of their application in contemporary music and audio-post production. Students will learn how to design and edit natural and electronic sounds that can be used in music composition, or in conjunction with visual media. --- # MTEC 240 — : Sound Reinforcement II This course covers advanced topics in sound system design and operation, wireless theory and optimization, audio networking software, and advanced mixing techniques. Topics include audio software, audio system tuning, audio networking protocols, speaker theory and optimization, and festival planning and implementation. Field trips are required for successful completion of the course. --- # MTEC 260 — : Business of Music and Media II This second in a two-course series covers effective methods of exploitation and monetization of creative works in the current industry marketplace. Specific topics include careers in music and media, independent music production and distribution, synchronization and licensing, music submissions, marketing and publicity, and attaining relevant goals. --- # MTEC 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # MTEC 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # NAIS 100 — : Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Native American and Indigenous studies through Native epistemologies and place-based learning. Students learn the diversity of traditional Native Americans across Turtle Island (i.e., the continent of North America), with a focus on tribes in California and San Diego. Topics include the history of settler colonialism, genocide, manifest destiny, displacement, reservations, and forced assimilation and are framed within the contexts of decolonization and self-determination. Students engage with the complex legal and political exp… --- # NURS 100 — : Basic Pharmacology--Dosages and Calculations This course introduces important concepts, methods, and principles of administering medications. Topics include drug action and drug interaction, drug classifications, terminology, pertinent abbreviations, legalities, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics as well as problem solving for accurate measurement of medications using the apothecary and metric systems, conversion of these systems, ratio, proportion, and other formulas. Formerly PHAR 100. --- # NURS 151 — : Body Systems Survey for Health Professions This basic anatomy and physiology course is intended for students who are preparing for a career in health professions. The content is presented from simple to complex, beginning with cellular functioning and progressing through the various organ systems. Students learn how an organ is anatomically designed to perform a specific physiological task and how each organ system plays a role in maintaining homeostasis. --- # NURS 153 — : Pathophysiology for Health Professions This pathophysiology course is intended for students who are preparing for a career in health professions. The course focuses on disease processes in the human body from a systems approach and includes an analysis of the most common and significant diseases. Students use appropriate medical terminology to examine the signs, symptoms, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. --- # NURS 155 — : Basic Medical Terminology This course covers the origin, correct spelling, pronunciation, meaning, and correct usage of common medical terms and their application to clinical records and reports. It emphasizes the roots, prefixes, suffixes, medical abbreviations, symbols, and terms commonly used in medical records. --- # NURS 160 — : Certified Nursing Assistant This course covers basic nursing skills, including fundamentals of nursing, nutrition, gerontology, and home nursing. It is a prerequisite for MiraCosta's Licensed Vocational Nursing program and has been approved by the California Department of Public Health for the Certified Nursing Assistant certification. Upon successful completion of the course, students may seek employment in long-term and skilled nursing facilities, acute care, and in-home care. Students with prior convictions for misdemeanors or felonies will need to be cleared by the California Department of Public Health. This is don… --- # NURS 170 — : Licensed Vocational Nursing I This course introduces the beginning vocational nursing student to therapeutic communication, the nursing profession, basic nursing skills, basic pharmacology, and the nursing process. Materials Fee: $550.00. --- # NURS 171 — : Licensed Vocational Nursing II This course introduces the vocational nursing student to nutrition, medication administration, gerontology, adult growth and development, the diabetic patient, and the integumentary system. Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, psychosocial, and nutrition considerations of the patients. Materials Fee: $310.00. --- # NURS 172 — : Licensed Vocational Nursing III This course introduces the vocational nursing student to perioperative and medical-surgical nursing, the genitourinary and gastrointestinal systems, and communicable diseases. Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, psychosocial, pharmacology, and nutrition considerations. --- # NURS 173 — : Licensed Vocational Nursing IV This course introduces vocational nursing students to the nursing care of the neurological, endocrine, oncology, orthopedic, and rehabilitation patient as well as the patient with a hematological and lymphatic disease. Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, psychosocial, pharmacology, and nutrition considerations. Materials Fee: $310.00. --- # NURS 180 — : Fundamentals of Nursing This entry-level nursing course introduces students to the core concepts, principles, and clinical skills common to all areas and levels of the nursing practice. It provides the platform upon which all subsequent nursing courses build. Its integration of clinical experiences may include acute, long-term, and perioperative/ambulatory care settings as well as college laboratory simulations. Materials Fee: $1477.00. --- # NURS 181 — : Medical Surgical Nursing I This course introduces the basic concepts required to care for adult patients with stable and/or less complex medical-surgical health problems. It emphasizes the management of unmet needs and the nursing process as organizing frameworks for providing nursing care. Students integrate and apply theoretical concepts and clinical skills in acute, long-term, and perioperative/ambulatory care settings as well as college laboratory simulations. --- # NURS 182 — : Maternal-Child Nursing This course relates the nursing process to the needs of maternity and pediatric patients and their families. Students adapt previously learned skills and knowledge to the observation and direct care of normal- and high-risk populations. The integration of students' clinical experiences may include acute, long-term, and perioperative/ambulatory care settings as well as college laboratory simulations. Non-clinical and clinical activities may be presented in an online format. --- # NURS 183 — : Medical Surgical Nursing II This course continues the study of caring for adult patients with unmet medical needs. It emphasizes perioperative health care needs across the adult life span and respective nursing interventions. Clinical simulations and experiences provide students with opportunities to apply theoretical concepts, improve clinical judgment, and broaden clinical skills in acute, long-term, perioperative/ambulatory, and/or college nursing lab care settings. Non-clinical activities in this course may be presented in an online format. Materials Fee: $549.00. --- # NURS 185 — : Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory I This course gives students the opportunity to apply related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of fundamental patient care skills and procedures that are presented in beginning nursing courses. Topics include the nursing process, patient assessment, fundamental nursing skills, and medication administration. This course is intended for beginning nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program, Licensed Vocational Nursing Program (LVN), and LVN-RN Nursing Program. This course is also open to accepted re-entry students who need to remediate skills prior to returning to… --- # NURS 186 — : Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory II This course provides students with the opportunity to apply related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of patient care skills and procedures related to specialty patient populations. Topics include the nursing process, patient assessment, intermediate nursing skills, and medication administration. This course is intended for nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and LVN-RN nursing program. Offered pass/no pass only. --- # NURS 201 — : Pharmacology Essentials for Nursing Practice This course covers pharmacology principles and major drug groups. It emphasizes applying the nursing process to the utilization of therapeutic drugs to address health problems. Students develop quantitative reasoning skills necessary for accurate drug dosage calculations and safe medication administration. Topics include pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, dosage calculations, principles of medication administration, and variables that impact drug therapy. This course satisfies a major requirement for the registered nursing programs. Formerly PHAR 201. --- # NURS 274 — : Licensed Vocational Nursing V This course introduces the advanced vocational nursing student to the nursing care of patients with circulatory and respiratory diseases and disorders as well as home health/hospice and leadership. Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, psychosocial, and nutrition considerations. The course also covers leadership, supervision skills, and interpersonal relationships. --- # NURS 275 — : Licensed Vocational Nursing VI This course introduces the advanced vocational nursing student to the nursing care of obstetric, gynecologic, pediatric, and mentally ill patients as well as growth and development of the child and adolescent. Each unit integrates related anatomy, pathophysiology, psycho-social, pharmacology, and nutrition considerations. The course includes professional adjustment to prepare the nursing student for employment. --- # NURS 280 — : Transition from LVN to RN This course facilitates the transition of the licensed vocational nurse (LVN) into the roles and responsibilities of the registered nurse (RN). It introduces the philosophy and conceptual framework of the RN as member of the discipline and provider of care. The course content focuses on competencies expected of the graduate Associate Degree Nurse (ADN), including clinical reasoning skills, role development, clinical skills, and the nursing process. Materials Fee: $1245.00. --- # NURS 281 — : Medical Surgical Nursing III This course continues the study of caring for adult patients with unmet medical needs. It examines the effect of complex and chronic health problems on the physiologic and psychosocial integrity of the adult and elderly patient. Students apply theoretical concepts, improve clinical judgment, and broaden clinical skills in acute, long-term, perioperative/ambulatory, and/or college nursing lab settings. Non-clinical activities may be presented in an online format. Materials Fee: $549.00. --- # NURS 282 — : Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing This course introduces students to the theory and practice of nursing as related to mental health and illness. It examines how mental healthcare problems impact client integrity in various healthcare settings, and it emphasizes how therapeutic communication establishes and maintains effective nurse-client relationships. Non-clinical activities may be presented in an online format. --- # NURS 283 — : Medical Surgical Nursing IV This course focuses on the theory and practice of nursing necessary to assist the acute and critically ill across the lifespan in achieving client integrity. It emphasizes refining use of the nursing process to provide nursing care for individuals with complex and acute health problems. Students apply advanced theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, and psychomotor skills in practical situations. Non-clinical activities may be presented in an online format. Materials Fee: $549.00. --- # NURS 284 — : Contemporary Nursing Practice and Leadership This course facilitates the student's transition to entry-level registered nursing practice. It presents management and leadership concepts that are applicable to a variety of healthcare settings. Topics include transitioning from student to registered nurse, decision-making, organization, values clarification, resource allocation, and health care trends. --- # NURS 285 — : Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory III This course provides students with the opportunity to apply related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of patient care skills and procedures for patients across the lifespan. Topics include the nursing process, patient assessment, advanced nursing skills, and medication administration. This course is intended for nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and LVN-RN nursing programs. Offered pass/no pass only. --- # NURS 286 — : Nursing Skills/Simulation Laboratory IV This course provides students with the opportunity to apply related theoretical concepts with supervised practice of patient care skills and procedures for critically ill patients. Topics include the nursing process, patient assessment, critical care nursing skills, and medication administration. This course is intended for nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and LVN-RN Nursing Programs. Offered pass/no pass only. --- # NURS 288 — : Nurse Externship This course provides registered nursing (RN) students an opportunity to obtain clinical experience in the application of all previously learned knowledge and skills. Students work collaboratively with a faculty mentor, RN supervisor, and members of the health care team to meet job-oriented learning objectives. Under an RN's supervision, students are provided opportunities to increase their nursing judgment and enhance their nursing skills as preparation for their role as professional graduate nurses. --- # NURS 290 — : Critical Care This course introduces students to critical care concepts and care of critically patients experiencing varied disorders. It discusses the relationship of pathophysiology to clinical manifestations that patients experience and the interventions the registered nurse needs to implement to improve patient outcomes. Topics include rhythm and 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and treatment, shock syndromes, medications used to maintain hemodynamic stability and perfusion, maintenance of artificial airways, and mechanical ventilation. --- # NURS 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # NURS 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # NUTR 100 — : Nutrition Today This course is an introduction to nutrition science, integrating concepts from anatomy, physiology, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, and psychology to explain the interaction between nutrients and the human body. It explores the biological basis of nutrient standards and examines the effects of nutrition, behavior, and exercise on human health and disease. Students will explore scientific inquiry—from scientific investigation, observation, and hypothesis development to evidence-based reasoning—while applying foundational principles of nutrition science. Topics include functi… --- # NUTR 105 — : Human Performance and Sports Nutrition This course introduces nutrition concepts to individuals interested in sports, fitness, and health for various stages of the life cycle. It emphasizes current theories and practices related to nutrition and athletic performance. Topics include macro and micro nutrient intakes, hydration, pre- and post-event food, supplements and ergogenic aids, weight control, and body composition related to performance. The course also examines the cultural, sociological, and psychological influences related to nutrition, fitness, and athletic achievement. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for NUTR 100 , NUTR 105… --- # NUTR 108 — : Cultural Aspects of Foods and Nutrition This course examines the regional, ethnic, cultural, religious, historical, and social influences on food patterns, cuisines, and health as well as how food is viewed as an expression of cultural diversity. Students discuss, sample, and assess traditional foods of geographic areas and cultures. They also explore geographic factors in food availability, global food issues, dietary habits, religious influences on food culture, and nutrition problems of various ethnic groups. The course also addresses nutrition consequences of ethnic food choices and sanitation and safety practices. --- # NUTR 120 — : Principles of Food Science with Lab This course focuses on the application of food science principles with emphasis on chemical, physical, and microbiological properties of foods, ingredient function and interaction, food science techniques, sensory analysis of food products, fresh and processed food technologies, food safety and sanitation, and nutrient and phytochemical composition of food. Students will explore scientific inquiry – from scientific investigation, observation, and hypothesis development to evidence-based reasoning – while applying scientific food principles. Students will practically apply these sc… --- # NUTR 125 — : Nutrition and Aging This course focuses on the specific nutritional needs and problems in older adults. Topics include nutritional requirements, diet modifications, body system changes, body weight issues, nutrition-related chronic diseases, barriers to proper nutrients, drug/nutrient interactions, and community resources to assist the aging population. Diet and nutritional issues related to aging in a contemporary society are examined from physiological, sociological, psychological, and economic perspectives. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for NUTR 100 , NUTR 105 , or NUTR 125 . --- # NUTR 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # NUTR 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # OCEA 101 — : Introduction to Oceanography This course explores the major processes and features of the world's oceans. Topics include the origin and history of the ocean basins, atmospheric circulation and weather, ocean circulation, and the dynamics of waves, tides, and coastlines. The course also reviews marine life (including plankton, nekton, benthos, and marine mammals), explores the oceans as a resource for people, and considers human impacts on marine environments. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for OCEA 101 or OCEA 101H . --- # OCEA 101H — : Introduction to Oceanography (Honors) This course offers students an enriched introduction to the scientific study of the oceans. The course explores the major processes and features of the world's oceans, including plate tectonics, the origin and history of the ocean basins, atmospheric circulation, weather and climate, ocean circulation, and the dynamics of waves, tides, and coastlines. The course also reviews marine life (including plankton, nekton, benthos, and marine mammals), explores the oceans as a resource for people, and considers human impacts on marine environments. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for OCEA 101 or OCEA 10… --- # OCEA 101L — : Introductory Oceanography Laboratory This course is designed to accompany Oceanography 101 or 101H. It offers experience with oceanographic materials and methods in both the laboratory and field. Topics include reading navigational charts, interpreting sea floor features, analyzing marine sediments and seawater chemistry, and studying waves and tides. --- # OCEA 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # PHIL 100 — : Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing This course develops critical thinking skills that can be applied in all areas of life. It emphasizes effectively understanding, evaluating, and constructing written arguments. Topics include inductive and deductive reasoning, cognitive biases, fallacies, credibility, and explanations. Using examples from the news and social media, the Internet, advertising, political speeches, and other real-life examples from a variety of culturally diverse sources, students learn to distinguish between good and bad arguments and practice producing coherent argumentative essays in support of their beliefs. --- # PHIL 101 — : Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality This introduction to philosophical inquiry emphasizes problems of knowledge and reality through the analysis of classical and contemporary works on such issues as free will, personhood, knowledge and belief, the existence of God, and the nature of reality. The course encourages students to think independently and formulate their own tentative conclusions. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for PHIL 101 or PHIL 101H . C-ID PHIL-100. --- # PHIL 101H — : Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality (Honors) This course introduces students to the methods and topics of philosophy through the analysis and discussion of classical and contemporary works. It explores metaphysical and epistemological questions, such as free will, personhood, knowledge and belief, the existence of God, and the nature of reality. The course encourages students to think independently and rationally and to formulate their own tentative conclusions after considering several alternatives and objections to their positions. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for PHIL 101 or PHIL 101H . C-ID PHIL-100. --- # PHIL 102 — : Ethical Problems How do we know the right thing to do? Do we owe anything to others? What does a good life look like? This course examines these questions and others through exploration of ethical theories and the ethical problems that arise in our world. The course helps students develop skills to assess moral concepts, identify and analyze ethical problems and their potential solutions, and formulate their own ethical commitments. C-ID PHIL-120, LPPS-120. --- # PHIL 110 — : Introduction to Logic This course introduces propositional and predicate logic. Topics include deductive and inductive reasoning, validity, truth tables, translations, quantifiers, and proofs. This course is open to any student, but it may be of particular interest to philosophy, math, and computer science majors. --- # PHIL 221 — : Philosophy of Religion This course introduces the philosophical study of both religion and the central concepts found in Eastern and Western religious traditions, as well as traditions that fall outside the boundaries of such classical distinctions (e.g., Indigenous and Africana traditions). It encourages students to think rationally, critically, and independently about the beliefs of religious adherents. Topics include arguments for theism and atheism, the validity of religious experience, the problem(s) of evil, the meaning of karma, concepts of God and Ultimate Reality, the possibility of miracles, and the value… --- # PHIL 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # PHIL 302 — : Bioethics This course examines the application of ethical theory to issues in biology and medicine through case studies and classical and contemporary readings in ethical theory and applied ethics. It explores major ethical theories, including utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, natural law theory, social contract theories, and feminist ethics, as they apply to contemporary issues in biology and medicine, such as cloning, transplantation, defining life and death, genetic testing and manipulation, the ethical conduct of research and experimentation, and the just distribution of scarce medical resources. Thi… --- # PHSN 106 — : Introduction to Physical Science: Physics and Chemistry This course introduces the non-scientist to the fundamental concepts of physics and chemistry. Physics topics include motion, force, work, energy, gravity, electricity, magnetism, light, and subatomic particles and forces. Chemistry topics include chemical and physical properties of elements and compounds, the periodic table, atomic theory and structure, chemical bonding, and nuclear structure and processes. This course also teaches students how to analyze and solve problems using critical thinking and the scientific method. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after college course in che… --- # PHSN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # PHYS 111 — : Introductory Physics I This first course of a two-semester physics sequence covers the properties of matter, mechanics, heat, and waves, including sound. It is intended for students majoring in pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-optometry, and similar areas. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , and PHYS 253 . C-ID PHYS-105, PHYS-100S (with PHYS 112 ). --- # PHYS 112 — : Introductory Physics II This second of a two-course physics sequence covers light, electricity, magnetism, and atomic physics. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , and PHYS 253 . C-ID PHYS-110, PHYS-100S (with PHYS 111 ). --- # PHYS 151 — : Principles of Physics I This course provides a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of physics in the area of mechanics and fluids. It is intended primarily for engineering, physics, mathematics, and science majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , and PHYS 253 . C-ID PHYS-205 and PHYS-200S (with PHYS 152 and PHYS 253 ). --- # PHYS 152 — : Principles of Physics II This course provides a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of physics in the areas of thermodynamics, electricity, electrical circuits, magnetism, and electromagnetic fields. It is intended for engineering, physics, mathematics, and science majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , and PHYS 253 . C-ID PHYS-210 and PHYS-200S (with PHYS 151 and PHYS 253 ). --- # PHYS 253 — : Principles of Physics III This course provides a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of physics in the areas of vibrations, waves, sound, optics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, and atomic and nuclear physics. It is intended for engineering, physics, mathematics, and science majors. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for either series PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 or PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , and PHYS 253 . C-ID PHYS-215 and PHYS-200S (with PHYS 151 and PHYS 152 ). --- # PHYS 280 — : Introduction to Electronics This combined lecture and lab course offers an introduction to the theory and design of electrical circuits. Topics include DC and AC circuit analysis, diodes, transistors, operational amplifiers, and digital circuits. --- # PHYS 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # POLS 101 — : Introduction to Political Science This course introduces students to the field of political science and to politics itself. It covers government, the nation-state, and political ideologies that affect modern politics and society. In particular, this course examines the following ideologies from historical, social, and economic perspectives: Conservatism, Liberalism, Anarchism, Democracy, Capitalism, Marxism/Communism, and Fascism. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for POLS 101 or POLS 101H . C-ID POLS-150. Formerly PLSC 101. --- # POLS 101H — : Introduction to Political Science (Honors) This honors course offers students an advanced introduction to the field of political science and to politics itself. It covers government, the nation-state, and political ideologies that affect modern politics and society. In particular, this course examines the following ideologies from historical, social, and economic perspectives: Conservatism, Liberalism, Anarchism, Democracy, Capitalism, Marxism/Communism, and Fascism. As an honors course, it offers expanded analysis of lecture materials, increased dependence upon student participation on a daily basis, and the opportunity for students… --- # POLS 103 — : Comparative Government This course provides a comparative survey of selected foreign governments, including their political institutions, theories of government, and economic and social development. Countries surveyed include western and non-western democracies and communist nations or dictatorships. C-ID POLS-130. Formerly PLSC 103. --- # POLS 150 — : Introduction to International Relations This course introduces students to the major explanations for international conflict, cooperation, and other important dynamics of global affairs. It also examines the relationships between selected countries and the resulting political, economic, and social consequences. The course emphasizes the analytical skills and techniques used by practitioners in this field. C-ID POLS-140. Formerly PLSC 150. --- # POLS 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. Formerly PLSC 292. --- # PSYC 100 — : Psychology of Personal Growth This course introduces the principles of human behavior with a combined emphasis on the scientific method, personal growth, and the application of psychology to everyday life. Topics include adjustment, personality, friendship and intimate relationships, human sexuality, the self, psychological disorders and psychotherapy, and health psychology. The course emphasizes the scientific basis of psychological knowledge and the application of such knowledge to achieve personal growth. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: No credit if taken after PSYC C1000 or PSYC C1000H . C-ID PSY-115. --- # PSYC 103 — : Social Psychology Social psychology examines the influence that society, contexts, groups, and others have on individuals. This course emphasizes the sociological and psychological factors in socialization, self-concept, interpersonal relationships, and group dynamics. The course pays special attention to social cognition, attitudes, social influence, language, and cross-cultural differences in social psychology. C-ID PSY-170. --- # PSYC 104 — : Statistics for Behavioral Science This course introduces statistical methods for analyzing data in the behavioral sciences. Topics include basic research design; descriptive statistics, probability and sampling distributions; statistical inference and power; linear correlation and regression; t-test and one-way analysis of variance; chi-square. Students use appropriate technology (e.g., calculators and SPSS) to analyze real-world data and report results using American Psychological Association style. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180 , BUS 204 , PSYC 104 / PSYC 104H , SOCI 125 , or STAT C1000 / STAT C1000E / STAT C100… --- # PSYC 104H — : Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) This course introduces statistical methods for analyzing data in the behavioral sciences. As an honors course, it offers an enriched experience for students through a pro-seminar format and more in-depth coverage of course topics. Topics include research design; descriptive statistics, probability, and sampling distributions; statistical inference and advanced power analysis; linear correlation and regression; t-test and one-way analysis of variance; chi-square. Students use appropriate technology (e.g., calculators and SPSS) to analyze real-world data and report results using American Psycho… --- # PSYC 114 — : Abnormal Psychology This course introduces psychological disorders and their diagnosis, causes, and treatments. Topics include anxiety, mood, personality, eating, sexual, gender identity, psychotic, and substance-related disorders. Students examine the causes and treatments of disorders based on scientific research. C-ID PSY-120. --- # PSYC 115 — : Human Sexuality This course examines human sexuality from three perspectives--the biological, the psychological, and the social--and is applicable to students of all majors. The biological topics include sexual anatomy, the sexual response cycle, sexual behaviors, sexual dysfunctions, pregnancy, birth control, and prenatal development. The psychological topics include attraction, communication, intimacy, and love. The social topics include gender, the law, morality, sexual educational, and ethical issues. C-ID PSY-130 --- # PSYC 121 — : Human Development This course examines the psychological and physical development of the individual from conception through childhood, adolescence, and maturity. It covers major theories of intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development and explores cultural differences in development. The course emphasizes the interdependence of various periods of the individual's life and considers scientific methods, behavioral disorders, death, and spirituality. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for CDEV 112 , CDEV C1000 , or PSYC 121 . C-ID PSY-180. --- # PSYC 125 — : Psychology of Women This course examines psychological and feminist theories of women's development across the lifespan. It includes biological and cultural factors that shape and define women's daily experience. Students study the influences of sexism, socialization, sexuality, personal relationships, health, education, employment, aging, and violence against women in relationship to their impact on women's self-concept, attitudes, relationships, achievements, and overall well-being. The course also explores cross-cultural assessment of gender and the current state of women's rights within the world. --- # PSYC 145 — : Psychology/Sociology of the Family This course examines the family as a social institution and applies sociological and psychological theories and concepts to couples, intimate relationships, marriage, and families. These theories and concepts provide frameworks for examining love, sexuality, and commitment and for identifying problems and adjustments for couples and family relationships. The course also studies changing models of the family, historical perspectives, cross-cultural comparisons, and the influences of changes in contemporary society affecting family life. Topics include partner selection, becoming parents, commu… --- # PSYC 170 — : Psychology of Aging: Adult Development and Aging This course explores normal and abnormal characteristics of aging on physical, cognitive, personality, and mental health processes as they occur in late adulthood. Topics include marriage, family and friends, intergenerational issues, and intimacy and sexuality. It probes late-adult transitions, such as retirement and widowhood, and end-of-life issues. --- # PSYC 205 — : Research Methods in Psychology This course emphasizes an appreciation of the scientific method, the development of research skills, knowledge of research ethics, and the evaluation of scientific research. It focuses on research design, experimental procedures, descriptive methods, instrumentation, and the collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of research data. Students conduct library research, design and implement research projects using appropriate methodologies and controls, analyze and interpret data using the SPSS statistical computer program, and write research reports using the APA format. In laborator… --- # PSYC 211 — : Learning and Behavior Modification This course surveys the principles of learning and the research applications of behavior modification. Topics include the historical origins of learning theory; classical and operant conditioning; cognitive aspects of complex learning tasks; and biological factors in learning. The course also covers the principles of behavior modification, including reinforcement and punishment, schedules of reinforcement, and applications of behavior modification in an educational environment. --- # PSYC 260 — : Physiological Psychology This course introduces the biological basis of behavior. Students gain an appreciation of how the human brain creates a perception of the physical world, develop the ability to critically evaluate research in biological psychology, and understand the biological mechanisms that underlie psychological phenomena. Topics include research in biological psychology, anatomy of the nervous system, development of the nervous system, neurons and action potential, communication at the synapse, effects of psychoactive drugs, sensory systems, motivation and emotion, sleep/wake cycles, learning and memory,… --- # PSYC 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # PSYC 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # READ 100 — : Critical Reading and Thinking This course is designed to improve students' skills and techniques in critical reading, critical thinking, analysis, and logical reasoning in academic texts. Topics include advanced critical reading, logical reasoning and thinking, argument validation, analysis of extended argument, examination of valid and invalid inferences, and problem solving skills. --- # READ 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # RELG 101 — : World Religions This course introduces students to the religious studies discipline. It provides an overview of the history, beliefs, and practices of a diversity of ethnic and religious groups from both Eastern and Western hemispheres, including Indigenous traditions of North America, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. It explores the differences and similarities of the central tenets in the world's major religions and analyzes the close relationship among religion, society, and culture/ethnic groups. It evaluates multidisciplinary methodological approaches to the… --- # RELG 101H — : World Religions (Honors) This honors course encourages students to engage the discipline of religious studies through the lens of world religions. It asks students to critically investigate the ethnic, historical, theological, and ritualistic aspects of various contemporary religious traditions, including Indigenous traditions of North America, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Additionally, students evaluate a variety of multidisciplinary methodological approaches to the study of religion and religions in order to evaluate the intersectional relationship among religion, e… --- # RELG 103 — : Religion in America This course focuses on the interaction between religion(s), culture, ethnicity, and society in the United States, beginning with the pre-Columbian ethnically indigenous traditions of North America and ending with an overview of the diversity of the contemporary American religious landscape. Students explore broad social movements, particular historical developments, theological responses, and the ongoing relationship between religion and politics in the US. Topics include uniquely American religions (e.g., Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Scientology), American religious movements (e.g., Great A… --- # RELG 105 — : Eastern Religions This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of East and South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Sikhism. It emphasizes the different religions' philosophical foundations and their practical application in Asian societies. --- # RELG 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # SOCI 102 — : Contemporary Social Problems This course analyzes social problems in a diverse society. It emphasizes economic, racial, and gender inequality, crime, poverty, the family, education, health care, and other issues pertaining to society's major social issues. Students evaluate the causes, consequences, and solutions to the problems of our society. Formerly SOC 102. C-ID SOCI-115. --- # SOCI 103 — : Social Psychology Social psychology examines the influence that society, contexts, groups, and others have on individuals. This course emphasizes the sociological and psychological factors in socialization, self-concept, interpersonal relationships, and group dynamics. The course pays special attention to social cognition, attitudes, social influence, language, and cross-cultural differences in social psychology. Formerly SOC 103. C-ID PSY-170. --- # SOCI 105 — : Introduction to Justice Studies This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of justice studies as a lens to examine social justice movements. Critical race theories and social conflict theories are examined to provide a basis for a better understanding of the socio-economic, cultural and political conditions that create and maintain inequalities which affect marginalized, disadvantaged, and oppressed social groups in the United States. It explores these social, economic, political, and criminal justice issues by means of sociological, philosophical, and legal perspectives and methodologies. Students critically assess… --- # SOCI 120 — : Introduction to Women's Studies This course introduces students to women's studies through sociological theories, concepts, and sociological research. The course examines the status and roles of women in social institutions, social organizations, and social classes. It compares and contrasts similarities and differences in women's experiences based on race and ethnic groups, different cultures, and subcultures - with particular considerations of culturally specific notions of femininities. It is guided by sociology's emphases on cultural relativism, diversity, and the effects of inequality. Topics include institutional disc… --- # SOCI 125 — : Introduction to Statistics in Sociology This course covers the application of statistical methods to interpret, analyze, and describe quantitative sociological data. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics; probability topics, populations and samples, the normal distribution, the central limit theorem; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; comparing two means; F distribution and ANOVA; correlation and linear regression; and chi-square. Students use statistical software (SPSS) to analyze data and report results using American Sociological Association (ASA) style. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for BTEC 180 /BTEC 180H… --- # SOCI 130 — : Introduction to Gender Studies This course examines gender construction and gender inequities in contemporary society using both a foundation of relevant theories and concepts from sociology and an interdisciplinary lens, including historical, anthropological, economic, political, queer, feminist, and cultural studies perspectives. The course also addresses the development of contemporary gender topics, applications of theory, and discussions related to men's studies, queer studies, and the LGBTQIA community. Formerly SOC 130. C-ID SOCI-140. --- # SOCI 140 — : Introduction to LGBT Studies This interdisciplinary course introduces students to concepts, theories, and research findings through a sociological perspective in the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) issues with particular attention to the operation of social institutions. Topics include politics, policy and governance of LGBT issues, social movements and resistance, biological and environmental impacts on identity, equity, equality and inclusion, privilege and disadvantage, queer activism; diverse experiences of sexuality; and representations in literature, art, and popular culture. The class emphasize… --- # SOCI 145 — : Psychology/Sociology of the Family This course examines the family as a social institution and applies sociological and psychological theories and concepts to couples, intimate relationships, marriage, and families. These theories and concepts provide frameworks for examining love, sexuality, and commitment and for identifying problems and adjustments for couples and family relationships. The course also studies changing models of the family, historical perspectives, cross-cultural comparisons, and the influences of changes in contemporary society affecting family life. Topics include partner selection, becoming parents, commu… --- # SOCI 205 — : Introduction to Research Methods in Sociology This course introduces the fundamental methods of research and how sociologists use them to examine, investigate, and think critically on topics related to the discipline. It emphasizes an appreciation of the scientific method, the development of research skills, knowledge of research ethics, and the evaluation of scientific research. Students conduct library research, design and implement research projects using appropriate methodologies and controls, analyze and interpret data using a statistical computer program, and write research reports using APA format. Students with MATH 103, STAT C10… --- # SOCI 207 — : Race and Ethnic Relations This course provides a systematic examination of how race and ethnic relations are affected by the concepts of power, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and racism. It introduces significant theories, issues, and social movements related to racial/ethnic justice, to understand the effects of institutional racism and marginalization on the African American, Native American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Latinx/Chicanx racial and ethnic groups. The course also examines the institutions and other factors involved in establishing, sustaining, and changing systems of racial and ethnic inequality an… --- # SOCI 250 — : Introduction to Pacific Studies This course introduces students to the geography, histories, cultures, and societies of the Pacific Islands (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia). Topics include traditional and contemporary religious practices, languages, arts, and athletics in the Pacific. The course emphasizes Pacific Islander perspectives and experiences as it examines the effects of colonization, resistance and rights movements, and current challenges to the health and well-being of Pacific Island communities. Formerly SOC 250. --- # SOCI 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. Formerly SOC 292. --- # SOCI 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. Formerly SOC 299. --- # SPAN 101 — : Elementary Spanish (First Semester) This introductory course develops Spanish language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It covers basic Spanish pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. It also explores the history, geography, and customs of the Spanish-speaking world. This course corresponds to the first two years of high school Spanish. C-ID SPAN-100. --- # SPAN 102 — : Elementary Spanish (Second Semester) This course continues to develop Spanish language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in SPAN 101 , and it develops the students ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in Spanish. The course also provides for increased awareness of the Spanish-speaking worlds history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the third year of high school Spanish. C-ID SPAN-110. --- # SPAN 121 — : Introduction to Hispanic Cultures This course explores the diverse cultures of Spain and Spanish America through film, music, art, literature, and traditions. Students will examine how cultural and artistic expressions evolve through historical exchanges, migrations, and creative contributions, including those of Indigenous, African, and other global cultures. The course considers how cultural traditions and artistic expressions adapt, transform, and persist through cross-cultural interactions, colonial legacies, and cultural and social movements. Emphasis is placed on understanding and appreciating cultural diversity over ti… --- # SPAN 201 — : Intermediate Spanish (Third Semester) This course continues to develop Spanish language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 , and it develops the student's ability to engage in casual conversation, express opinions, and make suggestions in Spanish. The course also provides for increased awareness of the Spanish-speaking world's history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts. This course corresponds to the fourth year of high school Spanish. UC CREDIT… --- # SPAN 202 — : Intermediate Spanish (Fourth Semester) This course continues to develop Spanish language acquisition through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It reviews and expands upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures introduced in SPAN 201 . It also develops the student's ability to express opinions and make recommendations in Spanish-language debates and discussions. The course focuses on increasing awareness of the Spanish-speaking world's history, geography, and customs, including its socio-political practices and cultural artifacts, through extensive reading and writing assignments as well as oral presentations. C-ID SPAN… --- # SPAN 221 — : Spanish for Native Speakers This intensive course prepares native Spanish speakers with little or no formal training in Spanish for more advanced courses. It addresses listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing while emphasizing the improvement of reading and writing skills. Students also learn about regional variations in standard Spanish, Spanglish and code-switching, and the relationship between language and cultural identity. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: SPAN 201 and SPAN 221 combined maximum credit, 1 course. C-ID SPAN-220. --- # SPAN 222 — : Spanish for Native Speakers II This continuation of SPAN 221 prepares native Spanish speakers with little or no formal training in Spanish for more advanced courses. It develops the student's ability to express opinions and make recommendations in Spanish-language debates and discussions. It addresses listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing while emphasizing the improvement of reading and writing skills. Students also learn about regional variations in standard Spanish, Spanglish and code-switching, and the relationship between language and cultural identity. C-ID SPAN-230. --- # SPAN 292 — : Internship Studies This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # SPAN 299 — : Occupational Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to apply the theories and skills of their discipline to their position and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment. --- # SWHS 110 — : Introduction to Social Work and Human Services This course introduces the profession of social work and the field of social welfare through historical and contemporary lenses. It includes an overview of U.S. societal institutions that structure the provision of social services. The course emphasizes current service delivery systems, social welfare policies and procedures, contemporary social problems, and culturally responsive professional skills of social workers and human service workers within social welfare institutions and programs. C-ID SWHS-110. --- # SWHS 120A — : Social Work and Human Services Seminar This course provides students who are participating in a supervised field experience in a community organization, agency, or institution with a weekly class meeting that provides the academic element to the experiential course offering. The course emphasizes the application of concepts gained in the prerequisite or corequisite course to the field experience. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop skills that would facilitate gaining employment in the human services field. C-ID SWHS-120A. --- # SWHS 120B — : Social Work and Human Services Fieldwork This course offers students a supervised field experience in a community organization, agency, or institution, allowing them to apply knowledge and learn new skills outside of the classroom environment. The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to observe, practice, and develop skills that would facilitate gaining employment in the human services field. --- # WKEX 233 — : General Work Experience Education This course is intended for students who are employed in a job not directly related to their major or career area of interest. It allows such students the opportunity to explore various work environments and to undertake new responsibilities and learn new skills at work. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment.