Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counseling Option - Major #7951

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
Introduction to African-American Studies: a critical interdisciplinary study of African American culture, history, and heritage from Pre Colonial West Africa through the 21st Century. This course will include an introduction to West African societies of the 15th and 16th centuries, prior to European Colonial Expansion; an examination of the transition into the era of African enslavement in Colonial America; an exploration of African American cultural development during the era of Reconstruction; an evaluation of African American political movements in response to social injustice and African American creative production; an analysis of the assimilation of African American culture into mainstream American culture during the 20th century; and finally, to examine and evaluate the African American community of the 21st Century. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
American Indian in North America after the Second World War to the present; emphasis on current events and legislation; issues involving the inherent sovereignty of American Indian nations, civil rights, cultural preservation, and place in modern global society. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2024 Fall Semester
This course is an introduction to the skills needed for effective parenting and the importance of nurturing young children. This course will also address the developmental needs of children and the use of effective communication skills, positive discipline strategies and effective use of discipline; and family structure and function. (A, CSU)

Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Systematic analysis of the social factors that influence human behavior and mental processes, including culture and gender. Focus on the mutual influence between the individual and the social environment. Emphasized topics include research methods and ethical principles, the self, social perception, social cognition, attitudes, persuasion, conformity and obedience, attraction and relationships, prosocial behavior, aggression, prejudice and discrimination, group phenomena, norms, and social neuroscience. (A, CSU, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Psychological, sociocultural, and biological bases of abnormal behavior. Definitions of abnormality; current models of etiology, classification, therapy, and prevention; critical analysis of research techniques and findings. (A, CSU, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Explores human sexual behaviors and values in contemporary society from a biological, psychological, social, cultural, historical and lifespan perspective. Topics include research methods, sexual anatomy and physiology of males and females, gender development and socialization, contraception and abortion, conception and prenatal development, sexual orientation, love, communication and relationships, sexual patterns and techniques, sexual dysfunctions, sexually transmitted infections, the causes and consequences of sexual victimization, atypical sexual behavior and the commercialization of sex presented in an explicit and scientific manner. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Summer Semester
Provides a foundation of knowledge about psychological principles and concepts important to personal and social adjustment. Topics include personality, lifespan development, psychological factors that affect physical health and illness, the effects of stress, stress management, gender roles, interpersonal relationships, sexuality, work and leisure, psychological disorders, and therapy. Topics are explored with an emphasis on both theory and practical application in everyday life. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Fall Semester
Critical thinking is an important component of sociology; the sociological imagination requires us to step back, to ask questions, and to evaluate evidence. Using critical thinking, this course will identify and analyze contemporary social problems including causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Application of critical thinking skills, specifically taught in the course, is designed to result in heightened critical thinking ability as well as strengthened social awareness concerning social problems. In the study of social problems, theoretical perspectives and sociological methods of research and analysis will be applied. This course uses both inductive and deductive forms of reasoning, including identifying formal and informal fallacies and analyzing the evidence on which conclusions are based. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Overview of sociological, institutional, demographic, and social-psychological aspects of ethnicity and race. Examination of non-dominant groups in the United States. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Sociological analysis of marriage and the family, including historical and contemporary changes, and the socio-cultural and economic forces shaping these changes. Topics may include but are not limited to: love, courtship, mate selection, sexuality, family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, sexually transmitted diseases, family conflict, conflict resolution, communication skills, divorced families, step-families, aging and widowhood. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
The traditional and changing roles of women in Western society, including the effects of these roles on women as individuals, in their personal relationships, and their status in society. The contributions and contrasting perspectives of minority/ethnic women are an integral part of the course content. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
Introduction to African-American Studies: a critical interdisciplinary study of African American culture, history, and heritage from Pre Colonial West Africa through the 21st Century. This course will include an introduction to West African societies of the 15th and 16th centuries, prior to European Colonial Expansion; an examination of the transition into the era of African enslavement in Colonial America; an exploration of African American cultural development during the era of Reconstruction; an evaluation of African American political movements in response to social injustice and African American creative production; an analysis of the assimilation of African American culture into mainstream American culture during the 20th century; and finally, to examine and evaluate the African American community of the 21st Century. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
American Indian in North America after the Second World War to the present; emphasis on current events and legislation; issues involving the inherent sovereignty of American Indian nations, civil rights, cultural preservation, and place in modern global society. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2024 Fall Semester
This course is an introduction to the skills needed for effective parenting and the importance of nurturing young children. This course will also address the developmental needs of children and the use of effective communication skills, positive discipline strategies and effective use of discipline; and family structure and function. (A, CSU)

Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Systematic analysis of the social factors that influence human behavior and mental processes, including culture and gender. Focus on the mutual influence between the individual and the social environment. Emphasized topics include research methods and ethical principles, the self, social perception, social cognition, attitudes, persuasion, conformity and obedience, attraction and relationships, prosocial behavior, aggression, prejudice and discrimination, group phenomena, norms, and social neuroscience. (A, CSU, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Psychological, sociocultural, and biological bases of abnormal behavior. Definitions of abnormality; current models of etiology, classification, therapy, and prevention; critical analysis of research techniques and findings. (A, CSU, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Explores human sexual behaviors and values in contemporary society from a biological, psychological, social, cultural, historical and lifespan perspective. Topics include research methods, sexual anatomy and physiology of males and females, gender development and socialization, contraception and abortion, conception and prenatal development, sexual orientation, love, communication and relationships, sexual patterns and techniques, sexual dysfunctions, sexually transmitted infections, the causes and consequences of sexual victimization, atypical sexual behavior and the commercialization of sex presented in an explicit and scientific manner. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Summer Semester
Provides a foundation of knowledge about psychological principles and concepts important to personal and social adjustment. Topics include personality, lifespan development, psychological factors that affect physical health and illness, the effects of stress, stress management, gender roles, interpersonal relationships, sexuality, work and leisure, psychological disorders, and therapy. Topics are explored with an emphasis on both theory and practical application in everyday life. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Fall Semester
Critical thinking is an important component of sociology; the sociological imagination requires us to step back, to ask questions, and to evaluate evidence. Using critical thinking, this course will identify and analyze contemporary social problems including causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Application of critical thinking skills, specifically taught in the course, is designed to result in heightened critical thinking ability as well as strengthened social awareness concerning social problems. In the study of social problems, theoretical perspectives and sociological methods of research and analysis will be applied. This course uses both inductive and deductive forms of reasoning, including identifying formal and informal fallacies and analyzing the evidence on which conclusions are based. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Overview of sociological, institutional, demographic, and social-psychological aspects of ethnicity and race. Examination of non-dominant groups in the United States. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Sociological analysis of marriage and the family, including historical and contemporary changes, and the socio-cultural and economic forces shaping these changes. Topics may include but are not limited to: love, courtship, mate selection, sexuality, family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, sexually transmitted diseases, family conflict, conflict resolution, communication skills, divorced families, step-families, aging and widowhood. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
The traditional and changing roles of women in Western society, including the effects of these roles on women as individuals, in their personal relationships, and their status in society. The contributions and contrasting perspectives of minority/ethnic women are an integral part of the course content. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester
Overview of social, economic, biological and psychological aspects of aging. Exploration of challenges and strengths of the aging people with emphasis on consumerism, housing, health, leisure time, family roles, retirement, widowhood and sexuality. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester
Overview of social, economic, biological and psychological aspects of aging. Exploration of challenges and strengths of the aging people with emphasis on consumerism, housing, health, leisure time, family roles, retirement, widowhood and sexuality. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
Introduction to African-American Studies: a critical interdisciplinary study of African American culture, history, and heritage from Pre Colonial West Africa through the 21st Century. This course will include an introduction to West African societies of the 15th and 16th centuries, prior to European Colonial Expansion; an examination of the transition into the era of African enslavement in Colonial America; an exploration of African American cultural development during the era of Reconstruction; an evaluation of African American political movements in response to social injustice and African American creative production; an analysis of the assimilation of African American culture into mainstream American culture during the 20th century; and finally, to examine and evaluate the African American community of the 21st Century. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
American Indian in North America after the Second World War to the present; emphasis on current events and legislation; issues involving the inherent sovereignty of American Indian nations, civil rights, cultural preservation, and place in modern global society. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2024 Fall Semester
This course is an introduction to the skills needed for effective parenting and the importance of nurturing young children. This course will also address the developmental needs of children and the use of effective communication skills, positive discipline strategies and effective use of discipline; and family structure and function. (A, CSU)

Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Systematic analysis of the social factors that influence human behavior and mental processes, including culture and gender. Focus on the mutual influence between the individual and the social environment. Emphasized topics include research methods and ethical principles, the self, social perception, social cognition, attitudes, persuasion, conformity and obedience, attraction and relationships, prosocial behavior, aggression, prejudice and discrimination, group phenomena, norms, and social neuroscience. (A, CSU, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Psychological, sociocultural, and biological bases of abnormal behavior. Definitions of abnormality; current models of etiology, classification, therapy, and prevention; critical analysis of research techniques and findings. (A, CSU, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Explores human sexual behaviors and values in contemporary society from a biological, psychological, social, cultural, historical and lifespan perspective. Topics include research methods, sexual anatomy and physiology of males and females, gender development and socialization, contraception and abortion, conception and prenatal development, sexual orientation, love, communication and relationships, sexual patterns and techniques, sexual dysfunctions, sexually transmitted infections, the causes and consequences of sexual victimization, atypical sexual behavior and the commercialization of sex presented in an explicit and scientific manner. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Summer Semester
Provides a foundation of knowledge about psychological principles and concepts important to personal and social adjustment. Topics include personality, lifespan development, psychological factors that affect physical health and illness, the effects of stress, stress management, gender roles, interpersonal relationships, sexuality, work and leisure, psychological disorders, and therapy. Topics are explored with an emphasis on both theory and practical application in everyday life. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2023 Fall Semester
Critical thinking is an important component of sociology; the sociological imagination requires us to step back, to ask questions, and to evaluate evidence. Using critical thinking, this course will identify and analyze contemporary social problems including causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Application of critical thinking skills, specifically taught in the course, is designed to result in heightened critical thinking ability as well as strengthened social awareness concerning social problems. In the study of social problems, theoretical perspectives and sociological methods of research and analysis will be applied. This course uses both inductive and deductive forms of reasoning, including identifying formal and informal fallacies and analyzing the evidence on which conclusions are based. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Overview of sociological, institutional, demographic, and social-psychological aspects of ethnicity and race. Examination of non-dominant groups in the United States. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)

Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester
Sociological analysis of marriage and the family, including historical and contemporary changes, and the socio-cultural and economic forces shaping these changes. Topics may include but are not limited to: love, courtship, mate selection, sexuality, family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, sexually transmitted diseases, family conflict, conflict resolution, communication skills, divorced families, step-families, aging and widowhood. (A, CSU-GE, UC)

Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
The traditional and changing roles of women in Western society, including the effects of these roles on women as individuals, in their personal relationships, and their status in society. The contributions and contrasting perspectives of minority/ethnic women are an integral part of the course content. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)