Human Services: Pre-Social Work Option - Formerly Social Work Option – Major #7633 - Certificate of Achievement
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certificate obtainment and is for reference only. Please schedule an appointment with a counselor to develop your individualized Student Education Plan.
It is also important to discuss your transfer options with a counselor because each
university will require specific courses.
This certificate of achievement is designed to prepare students for entry-level employment in a social service setting or with additional general education courses, to transfer as a junior to a baccalaureate degree program in Social Work. This program is for the person who has a strong desire to help people who traditionally have been underrepresented within the larger society and require interventions and assistance in increasing control of their personal destinies. These introductory courses will give the student a good fundamental working knowledge of the social services system.The certificate of achievement offers course work leading to a certificate of achievement in Human Services: Pre- Social Work Option. Students must take the required courses listed in the Core (see below), and select 12 units from the list of options.
1. Demonstrate a fundamental working knowledge of the social services system.
2. Be prepared for entry-level employment in a social service setting.
3. Understand who are the underrepresented within our society and what might be appropriate interventions to assist them.
4. Apply the multiple perspectives of a broad liberal arts foundation to their analysis of social problems.
Program Map
Term 1
18 units
HS 20
Introduction to Social Welfare
This course is the introduction to the social, economic, political, historical and philosophical components important in the development of the US social welfare system and the social work profession. Instruction maintains an emphasis on the knowledge base, value systems, and specific fields of social work practice. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
HS 24
Fundamentals of Interviewing and Counseling
This course presents principles of interviewing and counseling, focusing on both theory and practice. Specific skills for use within a human service setting are taught. Along with the essential skill of analyzing the dynamics between counselor and client. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Introduction to Aging Studies
This course presents an overview of social, economic, biological and psychological aspects of aging. Course study includes exploration of challenges and strengths of aging people with emphasis on consumerism, housing, health, leisure time, family roles, retirement, widowhood and sexuality. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course presents an overview of social, economic, biological and psychological aspects of aging. Course study includes exploration of challenges and strengths of aging people with emphasis on consumerism, housing, health, leisure time, family roles, retirement, widowhood and sexuality. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Computer Course
This course is an introduction to computers, elements of computer hardware and software and how they are used in the workplace, and the social impact of computers. Students will experience a hands-on introduction and develop general computer skills for technical programs such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation applications, and email. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
This course will teach students to produce correspondence, letters, memos, tables, and reports using the current word processing program. Students will develop keyboarding speed and accuracy, and typing by touch. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
This course is designed as an introduction to computers and their use in business. Students are taught the basic principles of hardware and software; networking, e-commerce, shopping for a personal computer; social issues, such as ethics and security, associated with the role of computers in the world today; and an introduction to word processing, spreadsheets, and internet principles and usage. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is designed as an introduction to computer concepts and their use. The topics in this course include the basic principles of hardware and software, application programs, systems software, telecommunications, networks, program design, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. Students will work with Windows and the Internet, word processing, spreadsheet, database programs, and a programming language. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Major Course
Select one courses from the following (12 units in total are required):
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, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course provides a chronological in-depth examination of how the systems and social institutions of the United States of America have influenced and impacted the lives of African Americans and their communities from the Colonial Era through the first decade of the 21st Century. This course will examine and analyze cultural norms and value systems retained from traditional African societies that were adapted for survival in the United States; evaluate and analyze the impact of the Great Migration from 1865 through 1975, compare and contrast the social political and economic bases of the Reform Movement, Civil Rights Movement, and Pan African Liberation Movement, and evaluate and interpret how the underlying economic, political, and ethnocentric issues of racism in the United States have impacted African American communities and social institutions from Reconstruction to the election of President Barack Obama. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
The Native nations of North American (American Indians) from antiquity to the present. An interdisciplinary approach to examining pre- and post settler-colonial American Indian societies and cultures. Studying the effects of invasion and colonization with an emphasis on self-preservation and maintaining tribal sovereignty. This course analyzes the racialization of American Indians, Eurocentrism, relationship to place, forced assimilation, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous cosmology and ceremony, social justice, and self-determination. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
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, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the diversity of human experience, focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through marriage, family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (religion and belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (the arts and expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves; how they have shaped and been shaped by the past; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is an enhanced exploration of how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the diversity of human experience, focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through marriage, family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (religion and belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (the arts and expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves; how they have shaped and been shaped by the past; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. The Honors section of this course places greater emphasis on various anthropological theories and data-gathering methods, as well as historical and contemporary debates within the discipline of anthropology. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
Issues of contemporary relevance related to Asian Americans, including: stereotypes, anti-Asian violence, educational inequities, workplace discrimination, media representations, race relations, community leadership, law and public policy, and civic and political engagement. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This is a beginning course which introduces American Sign Language (ASL) as used by Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf-Blind people in the United States and parts of Canada. The focus is on the basic vocabulary, grammar, and culture of the Deaf community. Students will become familiar with the literary and artistic contributions of this culture. It is designed for students with no knowledge of American Sign Language. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
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)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
This course emphasizes the processes of socialization focusing on the interrelationship of family, school, and community. The course examines the influence of multiple societal contexts including race, equity, and language. Students will explore the role of collaboration between family, community, and schools in supporting children’s development, birth through adolescence. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores personal and social aspects contributing to the relationships and social problems facing children. Some of the topics covered include socialization, the dysfunctional family, abuse, deprivation, disabilities and special needs, drugs, delinquency and sexuality. This course examines the social problems children face and how these problems affect them, their families, and society as a whole. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course examines basic theories, research concepts, and principles of typical and atypical physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development at each major stage of life from conception to death are examined. All major topics of human development (e.g. human behavior, sexuality, nutrition, health, stress, key relationships of humankind to the social and physical environment, and implications of death and dying) are presented in an integrated manner. Observations of children, adolescents and adults are required. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course examines basic theories, research concepts, and principles of typical and atypical physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development at each major stage of life from conception to death are examined. All major topics of human development (e.g. human behavior, sexuality, nutrition, health, stress, key relationships of humankind to the social and physical environment, and implications of death and dying) are presented in an integrated manner. Observations of children, adolescents and adults are required. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
(A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
Students examine the progression of development in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains and identify developmental milestones for children from conception through adolescence. Emphasis is on interactions between biological processes, environmental, and cultural factors. Students may engage in various methods of observing children's development to evaluate individual differences and analyze development characteristics at various stages according to developmental theories. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
The introductory course explores the Chicano/a/x and Mexican American community, culture(s) and heritage(s) in American society from an interdisciplinary approach. Focus on sociocultural challenges, struggles, and social justice movements that define the Chicano/a/x experience. Examination of the ancestral roots, dynamic migration/immigration trends, conflict, racialization processes, liberation struggles, socialization process, and sociopolitical patterns from ancient Indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica to the present. Overview of trends and patterns in Latino/a/x populations at-large will also be explored. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
An examination of Chicano-Latino political issues, interaction with governmental and political structures, legislation, political parties, pressure groups, political socialization, and political change. In-depth discussion of the Chicano Movement and Chicano-Latino political organizations. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
Emphasis is placed on the organization and criticism of public discourse. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores the theories and practices of influence, advocacy, and reasoning from the perspective of both persuader and audience. Rhetorical and social theories of persuasion are studied, and historical and contemporary persuasive messages are analyzed. Students also practice by preparing effective and ethical persuasive speeches and other appeals. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is an introduction to group communication as a vehicle for solving problems, reaching decisions, making recommendations on policy and communicating group decisions to a larger audience. Students will study and practice the theories, behaviors and processes of group communication. (A, CSU, UC)
This course covers the analysis, reasoning, advocacy, and criticism of ideas. It emphasizes derived conclusions based on valid evidence and sound inferences without using fallacies of thought and language. Students demonstrate basic principles through a variety of oral presentations and written assignments, and students are required to write a minimum of 5000 words during the semester. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is an introduction to methods of reasoning, including instruction in induction and deduction included, with an emphasis on deduction. The topics covered will include formal and informal fallacies, as well as symbolization, syntax, and natural deduction for sentential and predicate logic. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Introduction to Economics provides an introduction to market economies and contemporary economic issues through a survey of microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts. Topics include supply and demand, gains from specialization and trade, the role of government in the economy, market failures, measuring the macroeconomy, economic policy, and economic growth. This course is not designed for students majoring in Business or Economics. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: MATH 201 AND
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
(A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Honors courseswill discuss and analyze contemporary economic society in a historical context. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
(A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Honors courses will discuss and analyze the works of historical economic figures. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
Interdisciplinary examination of race, ethnicity, racism, and racial and ethnic identity in U.S. society with focus on African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latina and Latino American communities. Emphasis on comparative and relational analysis and exploration of the intertwined histories of racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., institutional racism, resistance against racism, solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, and social and racial justice movements. Introduction to the history of Ethnic Studies as a discipline and key concepts in the field, such as the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, and/or age in African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latina and Latino American communities. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
Nutrition and diet patterns throughout the life cycle play an integral role in physical health, emotional health, and the prevention of chronic disease. Students will study this relationship through learning about nutrients and their interactions in the human body. Nutrition will be discussed through the lens of different social, psychological, and cultural considerations. This course includes consumer information on food distribution systems and food safety. Not open to students with credit in Food and Nutrition 40. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- Anti Requisite: FN 40
- CSU Transfer
Women have unique nutrition needs, particularly in relation to certain life stages such as adolescence, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause. In addition to life cycle nutrition, students will explore the relationship between food and the development of heart disease, obesity, breast cancer, eating disorders, osteoporosis and other nutrition related conditions in women. Research articles are used as the primary materials to study current trends. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Women have unique nutrition needs, particularly in relation to certain life stages such as adolescence, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause. In addition to life cycle nutrition, students will explore the relationship between food and the development of heart disease, obesity, breast cancer, eating disorders, osteoporosis and other nutrition related conditions in women. Research articles are used as the primary materials to study current trends. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This introductory course teaches beginning language acquisition in a cultural context through listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will interact with authentic language in a cultural context. It is designed for students who have no knowledge of Hmong. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Becoming more effective and creative in expressing oneself in a courteous and dignified manner. Discovering the communication options available in various life situations. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Becoming more effective and creative in expressing oneself in a courteous and dignified manner. Discovering the communication options available in various life situations. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course teaches the physical and psychological aspects of drug use, including abuse and addiction, physical and psychological dependencies, physiological effects of commonly used drugs, and treatment and prevention. (It is not open to students with credit in Human Services 45.) (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores some of the deepest questions about human life. What does it mean to be human? How can God coexist with evil? What is the evidence for God’s existence anyway? Do we have free will or are our thoughts and actions determined by forces outside our control? What is your mind? Is it nothing more than activity in your brain, or is your mind a soul? What is a soul, and are there good reasons to think souls are real? What is knowledge, why is it valuable, and how can you tell when you have it? Can we know anything with certainty, and does that matter? This class will provide an opportunity to explore these and similar questions, in conversation with texts from some of the greatest minds in human history. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores some of the deepest questions about human life. What does it mean to be human? How can God coexist with evil? What is the evidence for God’s existence anyway? Do we have free will or are our thoughts and actions determined by forces outside our control? What is your mind? Is it nothing more than activity in your brain, or is your mind a soul? What is a soul, and are there good reasons to think souls are real? What is knowledge, why is it valuable, and how can you tell when you have it? Can we know anything with certainty, and does that matter? This class will provide an opportunity to explore these and similar questions, in conversation with texts from some of the greatest minds in human history. Honors sections may also focus on an historical overview, or a more in-depth study of a significant branch of philosophy, e.g., philosophy of race, gender, or global issues. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
This course examines the concepts of morality and values, representative ethical theories, and their applications to contemporary moral problems. Ethical theories covered may include the good life, moral relativism, deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and feminist and social justice approaches to ethics. Contemporary moral problems may include abortion, environmental ethics, racial and gender justice, euthanasia/assisted suicide, etc. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course examines the concepts of morality and values, representative ethical theories, and their applications to contemporary moral problems. Ethical theories covered may include the good life, moral relativism, deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and feminist and social justice approaches to ethics. Contemporary moral problems may include abortion, environmental ethics, racial and gender justice, euthanasia/assisted suicide, etc. Honors sections may also involve a more in-depth study of a significant area of ethics or moral philosophy, and will require additional writing. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
This course also includes the analysis and explanation of social structure, socialization, the self and social interaction, deviance, stratification, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course also includes the analysis and explanation of social structure, socialization, the self and social interaction, deviance, stratification, social problems, and global dynamics. SOCI C1000H places a greater emphasis than SOCI C1000 on methods of conducting scientific research in the field of sociology. Additional emphasis is placed on contemporary social issues as explored through supplemental readings. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
This course takes a micro and macro overview of rape including the history of rape, a study of what creates a rape culture, social and psychological characteristics and pathology of rapists, sociological impact upon and psychology of the survivor. This course includes examination of various forms of sexual assault such as acquaintance rape, marital rape, male rape, gang rape and child sexual assault. The sociological foundation and history of current laws and their execution are also explored in this course. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course takes a micro and macro overview of rape including the history of rape, a study of what creates a rape culture, social and psychological characteristics and pathology of rapists, sociological impact upon and psychology of the survivor. This course includes examination of various forms of sexual assault such as acquaintance rape, marital rape, male rape, gang rape and child sexual assault. The sociological foundation and history of current laws and their execution are also explored. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
A micro and macro study of the historical and contemporary problem of domestic violence. Overview of the battered spouse syndrome, characteristics of the survivor and the batterer, therapeutic approaches and development of legislation. Various forms of domestic violence such as child abuse, elder abuse, and violence in same gender relationships are also studied. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
A micro and macro study of the historical and contemporary problem of domestic violence. Overview of the battered spouse syndrome, characteristics of the survivor and the batterer, therapeutic approaches, and development of legislation. Various forms of domestic violence such as child abuse, elder abuse, and violence in same gender relationships are also studied. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course emphasizes the 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This introductory course teaches beginning language acquisition in a cultural context through listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will interact with authentic language in a cultural context. This course is not recommended for students who understand and/or speak Spanish at home. This course is not open to students qualified for or with credit in Spanish 2NS, 3NS, or 4NS. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
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, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
Term 2
12 units
HS 9
Social Work and Human Services Seminar
This course is taken in conjunction with the student's supervised field experience that is directly related to Social Work and Human Services professional practice. This class provides a weekly class meeting studying the course text and its application to the professional experiences the student has at the field site. The goal for this course is to provide the student with an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills that would facilitate gaining employment in Human Services by learning interpersonal problem solving and communication skills; office dynamics and adapting to change; group interaction; collaborative learning activities; and application of the profession's code of ethics. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite: HS 20 AND
- Prerequisite: HS 24
- Corequisite: HS 19F
- CSU Transfer
HS 19F
Social Work and Human Services Fieldwork
This course is the supervised field experience portion of human services. Students will be working in the field allowing the student to apply knowledge and learn new skills outside of the classroom environment. This course is designed to provide the student with an opportunity to serve, practice, and develop skills that would facilitate gaining employment in the human services field. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Corequisite: HS 9
- Prerequisite: HS 20 AND
- Prerequisite: HS 24
- CSU Transfer
HS 30
Group and Community Social Services
This course presents principles of interviewing and counseling, focusing on both theory and practice. Specific skills for use within a human service setting are taught. Along with the essential skill of analyzing the dynamics between counselor and client. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Prerequisite: HS 20
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Major Course
Select three of the following courses (12 units in total are required):
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, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course provides a chronological in-depth examination of how the systems and social institutions of the United States of America have influenced and impacted the lives of African Americans and their communities from the Colonial Era through the first decade of the 21st Century. This course will examine and analyze cultural norms and value systems retained from traditional African societies that were adapted for survival in the United States; evaluate and analyze the impact of the Great Migration from 1865 through 1975, compare and contrast the social political and economic bases of the Reform Movement, Civil Rights Movement, and Pan African Liberation Movement, and evaluate and interpret how the underlying economic, political, and ethnocentric issues of racism in the United States have impacted African American communities and social institutions from Reconstruction to the election of President Barack Obama. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
The Native nations of North American (American Indians) from antiquity to the present. An interdisciplinary approach to examining pre- and post settler-colonial American Indian societies and cultures. Studying the effects of invasion and colonization with an emphasis on self-preservation and maintaining tribal sovereignty. This course analyzes the racialization of American Indians, Eurocentrism, relationship to place, forced assimilation, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous cosmology and ceremony, social justice, and self-determination. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
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, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the diversity of human experience, focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through marriage, family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (religion and belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (the arts and expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves; how they have shaped and been shaped by the past; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is an enhanced exploration of how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the diversity of human experience, focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through marriage, family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (religion and belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (the arts and expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves; how they have shaped and been shaped by the past; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. The Honors section of this course places greater emphasis on various anthropological theories and data-gathering methods, as well as historical and contemporary debates within the discipline of anthropology. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
Issues of contemporary relevance related to Asian Americans, including: stereotypes, anti-Asian violence, educational inequities, workplace discrimination, media representations, race relations, community leadership, law and public policy, and civic and political engagement. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This is a beginning course which introduces American Sign Language (ASL) as used by Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf-Blind people in the United States and parts of Canada. The focus is on the basic vocabulary, grammar, and culture of the Deaf community. Students will become familiar with the literary and artistic contributions of this culture. It is designed for students with no knowledge of American Sign Language. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
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)
Course Details:
- CSU Transfer
This course emphasizes the processes of socialization focusing on the interrelationship of family, school, and community. The course examines the influence of multiple societal contexts including race, equity, and language. Students will explore the role of collaboration between family, community, and schools in supporting children’s development, birth through adolescence. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores personal and social aspects contributing to the relationships and social problems facing children. Some of the topics covered include socialization, the dysfunctional family, abuse, deprivation, disabilities and special needs, drugs, delinquency and sexuality. This course examines the social problems children face and how these problems affect them, their families, and society as a whole. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course examines basic theories, research concepts, and principles of typical and atypical physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development at each major stage of life from conception to death are examined. All major topics of human development (e.g. human behavior, sexuality, nutrition, health, stress, key relationships of humankind to the social and physical environment, and implications of death and dying) are presented in an integrated manner. Observations of children, adolescents and adults are required. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course examines basic theories, research concepts, and principles of typical and atypical physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development at each major stage of life from conception to death are examined. All major topics of human development (e.g. human behavior, sexuality, nutrition, health, stress, key relationships of humankind to the social and physical environment, and implications of death and dying) are presented in an integrated manner. Observations of children, adolescents and adults are required. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
This course examines the progression of development in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains and identifies developmental milestones for children from conception through adolescence. An emphasis will be on the interactions between biological processes and environmental factors. Students will observe children of varying ages to evaluate individual differences and analyze characteristics of development at various stages according to developmental theories. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
Students examine the progression of development in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains and identify developmental milestones for children from conception through adolescence. Emphasis is on interactions between biological processes, environmental, and cultural factors. Students may engage in various methods of observing children's development to evaluate individual differences and analyze development characteristics at various stages according to developmental theories. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- CSU Transfer
The introductory course explores the Chicano/a/x and Mexican American community, culture(s) and heritage(s) in American society from an interdisciplinary approach. Focus on sociocultural challenges, struggles, and social justice movements that define the Chicano/a/x experience. Examination of the ancestral roots, dynamic migration/immigration trends, conflict, racialization processes, liberation struggles, socialization process, and sociopolitical patterns from ancient Indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica to the present. Overview of trends and patterns in Latino/a/x populations at-large will also be explored. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
An examination of Chicano-Latino political issues, interaction with governmental and political structures, legislation, political parties, pressure groups, political socialization, and political change. In-depth discussion of the Chicano Movement and Chicano-Latino political organizations. (A, CSU, UC)
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- CSU Transfer
Emphasis is placed on the organization and criticism of public discourse. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores the theories and practices of influence, advocacy, and reasoning from the perspective of both persuader and audience. Rhetorical and social theories of persuasion are studied, and historical and contemporary persuasive messages are analyzed. Students also practice by preparing effective and ethical persuasive speeches and other appeals. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is an introduction to group communication as a vehicle for solving problems, reaching decisions, making recommendations on policy and communicating group decisions to a larger audience. Students will study and practice the theories, behaviors and processes of group communication. (A, CSU, UC)
This course covers the analysis, reasoning, advocacy, and criticism of ideas. It emphasizes derived conclusions based on valid evidence and sound inferences without using fallacies of thought and language. Students demonstrate basic principles through a variety of oral presentations and written assignments, and students are required to write a minimum of 5000 words during the semester. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Prerequisite: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course is an introduction to methods of reasoning, including instruction in induction and deduction included, with an emphasis on deduction. The topics covered will include formal and informal fallacies, as well as symbolization, syntax, and natural deduction for sentential and predicate logic. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Introduction to Economics provides an introduction to market economies and contemporary economic issues through a survey of microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts. Topics include supply and demand, gains from specialization and trade, the role of government in the economy, market failures, measuring the macroeconomy, economic policy, and economic growth. This course is not designed for students majoring in Business or Economics. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: MATH 201 AND
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
(A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Honors courseswill discuss and analyze contemporary economic society in a historical context. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
(A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Honors courses will discuss and analyze the works of historical economic figures. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Prerequisite:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
Interdisciplinary examination of race, ethnicity, racism, and racial and ethnic identity in U.S. society with focus on African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latina and Latino American communities. Emphasis on comparative and relational analysis and exploration of the intertwined histories of racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., institutional racism, resistance against racism, solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, and social and racial justice movements. Introduction to the history of Ethnic Studies as a discipline and key concepts in the field, such as the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, and/or age in African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latina and Latino American communities. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- CSU Transfer
Nutrition and diet patterns throughout the life cycle play an integral role in physical health, emotional health, and the prevention of chronic disease. Students will study this relationship through learning about nutrients and their interactions in the human body. Nutrition will be discussed through the lens of different social, psychological, and cultural considerations. This course includes consumer information on food distribution systems and food safety. Not open to students with credit in Food and Nutrition 40. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- Anti Requisite: FN 40
- CSU Transfer
Women have unique nutrition needs, particularly in relation to certain life stages such as adolescence, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause. In addition to life cycle nutrition, students will explore the relationship between food and the development of heart disease, obesity, breast cancer, eating disorders, osteoporosis and other nutrition related conditions in women. Research articles are used as the primary materials to study current trends. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Women have unique nutrition needs, particularly in relation to certain life stages such as adolescence, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause. In addition to life cycle nutrition, students will explore the relationship between food and the development of heart disease, obesity, breast cancer, eating disorders, osteoporosis and other nutrition related conditions in women. Research articles are used as the primary materials to study current trends. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This introductory course teaches beginning language acquisition in a cultural context through listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will interact with authentic language in a cultural context. It is designed for students who have no knowledge of Hmong. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Becoming more effective and creative in expressing oneself in a courteous and dignified manner. Discovering the communication options available in various life situations. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
Becoming more effective and creative in expressing oneself in a courteous and dignified manner. Discovering the communication options available in various life situations. (A, CSU)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course teaches the physical and psychological aspects of drug use, including abuse and addiction, physical and psychological dependencies, physiological effects of commonly used drugs, and treatment and prevention. (It is not open to students with credit in Human Services 45.) (A, CSU)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores some of the deepest questions about human life. What does it mean to be human? How can God coexist with evil? What is the evidence for God’s existence anyway? Do we have free will or are our thoughts and actions determined by forces outside our control? What is your mind? Is it nothing more than activity in your brain, or is your mind a soul? What is a soul, and are there good reasons to think souls are real? What is knowledge, why is it valuable, and how can you tell when you have it? Can we know anything with certainty, and does that matter? This class will provide an opportunity to explore these and similar questions, in conversation with texts from some of the greatest minds in human history. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course explores some of the deepest questions about human life. What does it mean to be human? How can God coexist with evil? What is the evidence for God’s existence anyway? Do we have free will or are our thoughts and actions determined by forces outside our control? What is your mind? Is it nothing more than activity in your brain, or is your mind a soul? What is a soul, and are there good reasons to think souls are real? What is knowledge, why is it valuable, and how can you tell when you have it? Can we know anything with certainty, and does that matter? This class will provide an opportunity to explore these and similar questions, in conversation with texts from some of the greatest minds in human history. Honors sections may also focus on an historical overview, or a more in-depth study of a significant branch of philosophy, e.g., philosophy of race, gender, or global issues. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
This course examines the concepts of morality and values, representative ethical theories, and their applications to contemporary moral problems. Ethical theories covered may include the good life, moral relativism, deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and feminist and social justice approaches to ethics. Contemporary moral problems may include abortion, environmental ethics, racial and gender justice, euthanasia/assisted suicide, etc. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course examines the concepts of morality and values, representative ethical theories, and their applications to contemporary moral problems. Ethical theories covered may include the good life, moral relativism, deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and feminist and social justice approaches to ethics. Contemporary moral problems may include abortion, environmental ethics, racial and gender justice, euthanasia/assisted suicide, etc. Honors sections may also involve a more in-depth study of a significant area of ethics or moral philosophy, and will require additional writing. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Corequisite: ENGL C1000
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
This course also includes the analysis and explanation of social structure, socialization, the self and social interaction, deviance, stratification, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course also includes the analysis and explanation of social structure, socialization, the self and social interaction, deviance, stratification, social problems, and global dynamics. SOCI C1000H places a greater emphasis than SOCI C1000 on methods of conducting scientific research in the field of sociology. Additional emphasis is placed on contemporary social issues as explored through supplemental readings. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000 AND
- Advisory:
- CSU Transfer
This course takes a micro and macro overview of rape including the history of rape, a study of what creates a rape culture, social and psychological characteristics and pathology of rapists, sociological impact upon and psychology of the survivor. This course includes examination of various forms of sexual assault such as acquaintance rape, marital rape, male rape, gang rape and child sexual assault. The sociological foundation and history of current laws and their execution are also explored in this course. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course takes a micro and macro overview of rape including the history of rape, a study of what creates a rape culture, social and psychological characteristics and pathology of rapists, sociological impact upon and psychology of the survivor. This course includes examination of various forms of sexual assault such as acquaintance rape, marital rape, male rape, gang rape and child sexual assault. The sociological foundation and history of current laws and their execution are also explored. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
A micro and macro study of the historical and contemporary problem of domestic violence. Overview of the battered spouse syndrome, characteristics of the survivor and the batterer, therapeutic approaches and development of legislation. Various forms of domestic violence such as child abuse, elder abuse, and violence in same gender relationships are also studied. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
A micro and macro study of the historical and contemporary problem of domestic violence. Overview of the battered spouse syndrome, characteristics of the survivor and the batterer, therapeutic approaches, and development of legislation. Various forms of domestic violence such as child abuse, elder abuse, and violence in same gender relationships are also studied. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This course emphasizes the 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
This introductory course teaches beginning language acquisition in a cultural context through listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will interact with authentic language in a cultural context. This course is not recommended for students who understand and/or speak Spanish at home. This course is not open to students qualified for or with credit in Spanish 2NS, 3NS, or 4NS. (A, CSU, UC)
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- Advisory: ENGL C1000
- CSU Transfer
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, UC, Cal-GETC)
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- CSU Transfer