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70 Units

ENGL& 101: English Composition I

English 101 is a college-level writing course that emphasizes academic writing and major strategies of reading and writing analytically. Writing assignments focus on engaging with and responding to a variety of texts. Instruction encourages students to develop, through revision and reflection, as readers, writers, and critical thinkers.

5 Units

ENGL& 102: Composition II

English 102 is a college-level research writing course that explores topics from a variety of sources and perspectives. Students learn to pose research questions and locate, evaluate, and integrate sources into written or multimodal compositions. Instruction encourages students to develop flexible research and writing strategies as well as exchange constructive feedback. The particular focus of sections of English 102 varies by instructor. Students pursuing any degree path are welcome.

5 Units

Quantitative/SymbolicReasoning

5 Units

PSYC& 100: General Psychology

Introduction to the scientific study of human behavior including research methods, brain and behavior, learning, cognitive psychology, development, personality, abnormal psychology, and social thinking and behavior. Additional topics may include: emotions, perception, motivation, intelligence, genes and evolution, and health.

5 Units

PSYC& 200: Lifespan Psychology

Survey of human physical, psychological, and sociocultural development from conception through death. Emphasis on major developmental theories, research and research methods of studying lifespan development.

5 Units

PSYC& 220: Psychological Disorders

Provides students with an overview of research and theories related to psychological disorders. Emphasis on the psychological, social, historical, cultural, and physiological research into psychological disorders. Addresses ethical issues of diagnosis and treatment and major diagnostic categories such as anxiety, mood, psychotic, dissociative, eating, and personality disorders, and disorders of childhood and older adulthood.

5 Units

PSYC 222: Survey of Physiological Psychology

Covers workings of the nervous system. Explores the brain's capacity in language, hunger and thirst, learning and memory, emotions, sexual behavior, depression, schizophrenia and repair after injury.

5 Units

PSYC 230: Human Sexuality

Provides an overview of research and theories in the broad field of human sexuality. Emphasis on the psychological, social, historical, cultural, and physiological research into human sexuality. May be taken as SOC 230.

5 Units

PSYC 245: Social Psychology

Explores how social settings influence the individual. Examines the effect of others on self-concept, social cognition, aggression, conformity, helping, loving and liking, competition and cooperation, and prejudice and discrimination. Research on contemporary issues around race, gender, and other social identities will be covered and discussed.

5 Units

SOC& 101: Introduction to Sociology

Introduces students to the scientific study of society and to several sociological concepts, including socialization, stratification, research methods, social theory, group dynamics, social class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, media, family, deviance, and social and cultural change. Students learn how to connect research to concepts and use the sociological imagination, the relationship between self and society, to deepen their understanding of social life.

5 Units

SOC 230: Human Sexuality

Survey of sexual behavior. Covers historical, physiological, psychological and social components of sexuality and its deviations. May be taken as PSYC 230.

5 Units

SOC 253: Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior as seen through sociological theory. Concepts show how managers can improve organizational effectiveness by attending to the human side of the enterprise. Topics such as leadership, conflict theory, motivation, social interaction theory, power, politics, group dynamics and organizational design are examined for the effects on employees and their performance.

5 Units

CMST& 101: Introduction to Communication

Introduction to human communication as a context-specific and transactional process, including interpersonal, intercultural, small group, and mass communication. Covers verbal and nonverbal messages, listening, self-concept and perception, and the role of technology, society, culture, and power in communication both in-person and online.

5 Units

CMST& 210: Interpersonal Communication

This course explores the fundamental principles and practices of effective interpersonal communication. Students will learn how to build and maintain healthy relationships, manage conflict, attend to power imbalances, and communicate ethically and effectively in various contexts. The course will cover theories, models, and practical skills to enhance self-awareness, listening, empathy, cognitive bias, and conflict resolution.

5 Units

CMST& 220: Public Speaking

Covers the process of getting started with confidence; topic selection and research; and preparation and delivery of informative, persuasive, special occasion and other forms of presentations.

5 Units

CMST& 230: Small Group Communication

Experience in and analysis of communication within groups, emphasizing interdependent thoughts and efforts, active listening and empathizing, cooperation, power and conflict management, and collaborative decision making/problem solving.

5 Units

CMST 205: Multicultural Communication

Study concepts of culture and the opportunities and challenges of multicultural communication in domestic settings. Focuses on the importance of culture in all human interaction; the variables which affect intercultural communication, including ethnicity, gender and multicultural identities; and the influences of American culture around the world.

5 Units

CMST 245: Media Communication and Criticism

Contemporary perspectives on the transformation of human interaction through media-based communication. Evaluates the content of modern criticism within the context of the cultural and economic marketplace of ideas and values.

5 Units

CMST 260: Race and Media Representations of Cannabis

This course explores how the mass media has represented marijuana use since the 1930s. Students will develop media literacy and analysis skills that will help them historicize and analyze how mass media representations of marijuana use has been used to both reinforce and challenge US drug policies and dominant ideologies that marginalize people of color. Course objects of study include movies, television shows, news articles, music, and advertisements.

5 Units