Human Services: Pre-Social Work Option - Formerly Social Work Option – Major #7633

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The program map below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program. Individual circumstances might require some changes to this path. It is always recommended that you meet with your pathway counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.


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.


Upon completion of the program, students will:
  1. 1. Demonstrate a fundamental working knowledge of the social services system.
  2. 2. Be prepared for entry-level employment in a social service setting.
  3. 3. Understand who are the underrepresented within our society and what might be appropriate interventions to assist them.
  4. 4. Apply the multiple perspectives of a broad liberal arts foundation to their analysis of social problems.
Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester

Term 1

15 units

HS 20
Introduction to Social Welfare

3 units
Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
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:
  1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
    1. CSU Transfer Course
    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

    Introduction to Aging Studies

    3 units

    HS 10
    Introduction to Aging Studies

    3 units
    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
    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:
    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
    1. J: Sociology & Criminology
    1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
    2. CSU Transfer Course
    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
    2. E2 - Lifetime Skills
    or

    SOC 10
    Introduction to Aging Studies

    3 units
    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
    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:
    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
    1. J: Sociology & Criminology
    1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
    2. CSU Transfer Course
    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
    2. E2 - Lifetime Skills

    Computer Course

    3 units

    AT 10
    Technical Computer Applications

    3 units
    Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
    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:
        1. CSU Transfer Course
        1. D3 - Anaylitical Thinkning

        BT 1
        Computer Document Processing I

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2020 Spring Semester
        Producing basic correspondence, letters, memos, tables, and reports, using current word processing program, developing keyboarding speed and accuracy, and typing by touch. (A, CSU)

        CIT 12
        Computer Literacy

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
        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)

        CIT 15
        Computer Concepts

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
        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)

        Major Course

        6 units

        Select two courses from the following (12 units in total are required): 

        AFRAM 1
        Introduction to African American Studies

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
        Course Details:
        1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
        1. C: Ethnic Studies
        2. 7: Ethnic Studies
        1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
        2. F - Ethnic Studies
        3. CSU Transfer Course
        1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

        AFRAM 2
        African American Cultural Adaptation

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
        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:
            1. CSU Transfer Course
            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

            AMIND 31
            American Indian Culture

            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
            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:
            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
            1. C: Ethnic Studies
            2. 7: Ethnic Studies
            1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
            2. F - Ethnic Studies
            3. CSU Transfer Course
            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

            AMIND 34
            The American Indian in Contemporary Society

            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
            Course Details:
            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
            1. C: Ethnic Studies
            1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
            2. CSU Transfer Course
            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

            Cultural Anthropology

            3 units
            ANTHRO 2
            Cultural Anthropology
            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
            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:
            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
            1. A: Anthropology and Archaeology
            1. D1 - Anthropology and Archeology
            2. CSU Transfer Course
            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
            or
            ANTHRO 2H
            Honors Cultural Anthropology
            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
            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:
            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
            1. A: Anthropology and Archaeology
            1. D1 - Anthropology and Archeology
            2. CSU Transfer Course
            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

            ASAMER 25
            Asian American Social Issues

            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
            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:
            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
            1. C: Ethnic Studies
            2. 7: Ethnic Studies
            1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
            2. F - Ethnic Studies
            3. CSU Transfer Course
            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

            ASL 1
            Beginning American Sign Language

            4 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
            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:
              1. A: Languages other than English (UC Requirement Only)
              1. C2 - Humanities
              2. CSU Transfer Course
              1. C - Humanities

              CHDEV 5
              Parent Education

              3 units
              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)
              Course Details:
                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                    CHDEV 30 or SOC 31

                    3 units
                    CHDEV 30
                    Child and Family in a Diverse Community
                    3 units
                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                    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:
                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                    1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                    1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                    1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                    or
                    SOC 31
                    The Child in Society: A Social Problems Approach
                    3 units
                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                    Explores personal and social aspects contributing to the relationships and social problems facing children: socialization, the dysfunctional family, abuse, deprivation, disabilities and special needs, drugs, delinquency and sexuality. (A, CSU)
                    Course Details:
                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                      1. CSU Transfer Course
                      1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                      2. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                      Lifespan Development

                      3 units
                      CHDEV 38
                      Lifespan Development
                      3 units
                      Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                      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:
                      1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                      1. I: Psychology
                      1. D9 - Psychology
                      2. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                      3. CSU Transfer Course
                      1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                      or
                      PSYC 38
                      Lifespan Development
                      3 units
                      Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                      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:
                      1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                      1. I: Psychology
                      1. D9 - Psychology
                      2. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                      3. CSU Transfer Course
                      1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                      Child Growth and Development

                      3 units
                      CHDEV 39
                      Child Growth and Development
                      3 units
                      Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                      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)
                      Course Details:
                        1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                        2. I: Psychology
                        1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                        2. D9 - Psychology
                        3. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                        4. CSU Transfer Course
                          or
                          PSYC 39
                          Child Growth and Development
                          3 units
                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                          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)
                          Course Details:
                            1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                            2. I: Psychology
                            1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                            2. D9 - Psychology
                            3. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                            4. CSU Transfer Course
                            1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                            CLS 11
                            Introduction to Chicano-Latino Studies

                            3 units
                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                            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:
                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                            1. C: Ethnic Studies
                            2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                            1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
                            2. F - Ethnic Studies
                            3. CSU Transfer Course
                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                            CLS 13
                            Politics and the Chicano-Latino Community

                            3 units
                            Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
                            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:
                                1. CSU Transfer Course
                                1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                Communication

                                3 units
                                COMM C1000
                                Introduction to Public Speaking
                                3 units
                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches. Emphasis is placed on the organization and criticism of public discourse. (A, CSU, UC)
                                Course Details:
                                1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                1. C: Oral Communication
                                1. A1 - Oral Communication
                                2. CSU Transfer Course
                                  or
                                  COMM 4
                                  Persuasion
                                  3 units
                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                  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:
                                  1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                  1. C: Oral Communication
                                  1. A1 - Oral Communication
                                  2. CSU Transfer Course
                                    or
                                    COMM 8
                                    Group Communication
                                    3 units
                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                    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)
                                    Course Details:
                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                    1. C: Oral Communication
                                    1. A1 - Oral Communication
                                    2. CSU Transfer Course

                                      COMM 25 or PHIL 6

                                      3 units
                                      COMM 25
                                      Argumentation
                                      3 units
                                      Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                      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:
                                      1. Prerequisite: ENGL C1000
                                      1. B: Critical Thinking-English Composition
                                      1. A3 - Critical Thinking
                                      2. CSU Transfer Course
                                        or
                                        PHIL 6
                                        Introduction to Logic
                                        3 units
                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                        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:
                                        1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                          1. A3 - Critical Thinking
                                          2. CSU Transfer Course
                                          1. D3 - Anaylitical Thinkning

                                          Economics

                                          3 units
                                          ECON 25
                                          Introduction to Economics
                                          3 units
                                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                          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)
                                          Course Details:
                                          1. Advisory: MATH 201
                                          2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                            1. D2 - Economics
                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                            or
                                            ECON 40
                                            Introduction to Microeconomics
                                            3 units
                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                            Introduction to Microeconomics provides an introductory analysis focusing on the economic choices of households, businesses, and the government. Topics include supply and demand, market equilibrium, elasticity, gains from specialization and trade, consumer and producer welfare, production costs, market structures, factor markets and market failure. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                            Course Details:
                                            1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                            2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                            1. B: Economics
                                            1. D2 - Economics
                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                            or
                                            ECON 40H
                                            Honors Introduction to Microeconomics
                                            3 units
                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                            Honors Introduction to Microeconomics provides an introductory analysis focusing on the economic choices of households, businesses, and the government. Topics include: supply and demand, market equilibrium, elasticity, gains from trade, consumer and producer welfare, production costs, market structures, factor markets and market failure. Honors sections will discuss and analyze contemporary economic society in a historical context. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                            Course Details:
                                            1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                            2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                            1. B: Economics
                                            1. D2 - Economics
                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                            or
                                            ECON 50
                                            Introduction to Macroeconomics
                                            3 units
                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                            Introduction to Macroeconomics provides an introductory analysis of the economy as a whole. Topics include market-based economic systems, measurements of economic activity, macroeconomic equilibrium, money and financial institutions, monetary and fiscal policy, international economics and economic growth. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                            Course Details:
                                            1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                            2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                            1. B: Economics
                                            1. D2 - Economics
                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                            or
                                            ECON 50H
                                            Honors Introduction to Macroeconomics
                                            3 units
                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                            Honors Introduction to Macroeconomics provides an introductory analysis of the economy as a whole. Topics include: market-based economic systems, measurements of economic activity, macroeconomic equilibrium, money and financial institutions, monetary and fiscal policy, international economics and economic growth. Honors sections will discuss and analyze the works of historical economic figures. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                            Course Details:
                                            1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                            2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                            1. B: Economics
                                            1. D2 - Economics
                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                            ETHNST 10
                                            Introduction to Ethnic Studies

                                            3 units
                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                            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:
                                              1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                                              2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                                              1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                                              2. F - Ethnic Studies
                                              3. CSU Transfer Course
                                              1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                              Nutrition

                                              3 units
                                              FN 35
                                              Nutrition and Health
                                              3 units
                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                              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:
                                              1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                              2. Anti Requisite: FN 40
                                                1. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                                                2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                or
                                                FN 43
                                                Women's Nutrition
                                                3 units
                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                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)
                                                or
                                                WSTS 43
                                                Women’s Nutrition
                                                3 units
                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                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)

                                                HMONG 1
                                                Beginning Hmong

                                                5 units
                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                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:
                                                1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                1. A: Languages other than English (UC Requirement Only)
                                                1. C2 - Humanities
                                                2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                1. C - Humanities

                                                Assertiveness Training

                                                2 units
                                                HS 25
                                                Assertiveness Training
                                                2 units
                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                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)
                                                or
                                                WSTS 25
                                                Assertiveness Training
                                                2 units
                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                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)

                                                HS 44
                                                Drug Use: Physical and Psychological Effects

                                                3 units
                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                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:
                                                1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                  1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                  1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                  Philosophy

                                                  3 units
                                                  PHIL 1A
                                                  Theories of Knowledge and Reality
                                                  3 units
                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                  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:
                                                  1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                  1. B: Humanities
                                                  1. C2 - Humanities
                                                  2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                  1. C - Humanities
                                                  or
                                                  PHIL 1AH
                                                  Honors Theories of Knowledge and Reality
                                                  3 units
                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                  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:
                                                  1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                  1. B: Humanities
                                                  1. C2 - Humanities
                                                  2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                  1. C - Humanities
                                                  or
                                                  PHIL 1C
                                                  Ethics
                                                  3 units
                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                  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:
                                                  1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                  1. B: Humanities
                                                  1. C2 - Humanities
                                                  2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                    or
                                                    PHIL 1CH
                                                    Honors Ethics
                                                    3 units
                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                    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:
                                                    1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                    1. B: Humanities
                                                    1. C2 - Humanities
                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                    1. C - Humanities

                                                    Intro to Sociology

                                                    3 units
                                                    SOC 1AH
                                                    Honors Introduction to Sociology
                                                    3 units
                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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. Places a greater emphasis than SOC 1A 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:
                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                    1. J: Sociology & Criminology
                                                    1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                    or
                                                    SOC 1A
                                                    Introduction to Sociology
                                                    3 units
                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                    Course Details:
                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                    1. J: Sociology & Criminology
                                                    1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                    Sociology of Rape

                                                    3 units
                                                    SOC 5
                                                    Sociology of Rape
                                                    3 units
                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                    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. 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:
                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                      1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                      1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                      or
                                                      WSTS 5
                                                      Sociology of Rape
                                                      3 units
                                                      Effective Term: 2017 Fall Semester
                                                      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. 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:
                                                          1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                          1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                          Domestic Violence

                                                          3 units
                                                          SOC 7
                                                          Domestic Violence: Abuse Within the Family
                                                          3 units
                                                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                          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:
                                                          1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                            1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                            1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                            or
                                                            WSTS 7
                                                            Domestic Violence: Abuse Within the Family
                                                            3 units
                                                            Effective Term: 2017 Fall Semester
                                                            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:

                                                                    SOC 32
                                                                    Introduction to Marriage and Family

                                                                    3 units
                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                    1. J: Sociology & Criminology
                                                                    1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                    2. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                    SPAN 1
                                                                    Beginning Spanish

                                                                    5 units
                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                    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:
                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                    1. A: Languages other than English (UC Requirement Only)
                                                                    1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                    1. C - Humanities

                                                                    WSTS 10
                                                                    Changing Roles of Women

                                                                    3 units
                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                      1. D: Gender Studies
                                                                      1. D4 - Gender Studies
                                                                      2. CSU Transfer Course

                                                                        Term 2

                                                                        15 units

                                                                        HS 9
                                                                        Social Work and Human Services Seminar

                                                                        1 unit
                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                                                                        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:
                                                                        1. Prerequisite: HS 20
                                                                        2. Prerequisite: HS 24
                                                                        3. Corequisite: HS 19F
                                                                          1. CSU Transfer Course

                                                                            HS 19F
                                                                            Social Work and Human Services Fieldwork

                                                                            2 units
                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                                                                            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:
                                                                            1. Corequisite: HS 9
                                                                            2. Prerequisite: HS 20
                                                                            3. Prerequisite: HS 24
                                                                              1. CSU Transfer Course

                                                                                HS 24
                                                                                Fundamentals of Interviewing and Counseling

                                                                                3 units
                                                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                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)

                                                                                HS 30
                                                                                Group and Community Social Services

                                                                                3 units
                                                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                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)

                                                                                Major Course

                                                                                6 units

                                                                                Select two of the following courses (12 units in total are required): 

                                                                                AFRAM 1
                                                                                Introduction to African American Studies

                                                                                3 units
                                                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                Course Details:
                                                                                1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                1. C: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                2. F - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                AFRAM 2
                                                                                African American Cultural Adaptation

                                                                                3 units
                                                                                Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
                                                                                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:
                                                                                    1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                    AMIND 31
                                                                                    American Indian Culture

                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                    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:
                                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                    1. C: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    2. F - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                    AMIND 34
                                                                                    The American Indian in Contemporary Society

                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                    1. C: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                    Cultural Anthropology

                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                    ANTHRO 2
                                                                                    Cultural Anthropology
                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                    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:
                                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                    1. A: Anthropology and Archaeology
                                                                                    1. D1 - Anthropology and Archeology
                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                    or
                                                                                    ANTHRO 2H
                                                                                    Honors Cultural Anthropology
                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                    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:
                                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                    1. A: Anthropology and Archaeology
                                                                                    1. D1 - Anthropology and Archeology
                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                    ASAMER 25
                                                                                    Asian American Social Issues

                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                    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:
                                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                    1. C: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    2. F - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                    3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                    ASL 1
                                                                                    Beginning American Sign Language

                                                                                    4 units
                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                    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:
                                                                                      1. A: Languages other than English (UC Requirement Only)
                                                                                      1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                      2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                      1. C - Humanities

                                                                                      CHDEV 5
                                                                                      Parent Education

                                                                                      3 units
                                                                                      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)
                                                                                      Course Details:
                                                                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                            CHDEV 30 or SOC 31

                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                            CHDEV 30
                                                                                            Child and Family in a Diverse Community
                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                            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:
                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                            1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                            1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                            1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                                                            or
                                                                                            SOC 31
                                                                                            The Child in Society: A Social Problems Approach
                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                            Explores personal and social aspects contributing to the relationships and social problems facing children: socialization, the dysfunctional family, abuse, deprivation, disabilities and special needs, drugs, delinquency and sexuality. (A, CSU)
                                                                                            Course Details:
                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                              1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                              1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                              2. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                                              Lifespan Development

                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                              CHDEV 38
                                                                                              Lifespan Development
                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                              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:
                                                                                              1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                              1. I: Psychology
                                                                                              1. D9 - Psychology
                                                                                              2. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                                                                                              3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                              1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                                                              or
                                                                                              PSYC 38
                                                                                              Lifespan Development
                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                              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:
                                                                                              1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                              1. I: Psychology
                                                                                              1. D9 - Psychology
                                                                                              2. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                                                                                              3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                              1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                                              Child Growth and Development

                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                              CHDEV 39
                                                                                              Child Growth and Development
                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                              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)
                                                                                              Course Details:
                                                                                                1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                2. I: Psychology
                                                                                                1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                                                                                                2. D9 - Psychology
                                                                                                3. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                                                                                                4. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                  or
                                                                                                  PSYC 39
                                                                                                  Child Growth and Development
                                                                                                  3 units
                                                                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                  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)
                                                                                                  Course Details:
                                                                                                    1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                    2. I: Psychology
                                                                                                    1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                                                                                                    2. D9 - Psychology
                                                                                                    3. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                                                                                                    4. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                    1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                                                    CLS 11
                                                                                                    Introduction to Chicano-Latino Studies

                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                    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:
                                                                                                    1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                    1. C: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                                    2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                                    1. D3 - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                                    2. F - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                                    3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                                    CLS 13
                                                                                                    Politics and the Chicano-Latino Community

                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester
                                                                                                    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:
                                                                                                        1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                        1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                                        Communication

                                                                                                        3 units
                                                                                                        COMM C1000
                                                                                                        Introduction to Public Speaking
                                                                                                        3 units
                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                        In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches. Emphasis is placed on the organization and criticism of public discourse. (A, CSU, UC)
                                                                                                        Course Details:
                                                                                                        1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                        1. C: Oral Communication
                                                                                                        1. A1 - Oral Communication
                                                                                                        2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                          or
                                                                                                          COMM 4
                                                                                                          Persuasion
                                                                                                          3 units
                                                                                                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                          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:
                                                                                                          1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                          1. C: Oral Communication
                                                                                                          1. A1 - Oral Communication
                                                                                                          2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                            or
                                                                                                            COMM 8
                                                                                                            Group Communication
                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                            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)
                                                                                                            Course Details:
                                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                            1. C: Oral Communication
                                                                                                            1. A1 - Oral Communication
                                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course

                                                                                                              COMM 25 or PHIL 6

                                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                                              COMM 25
                                                                                                              Argumentation
                                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                              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:
                                                                                                              1. Prerequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                              1. B: Critical Thinking-English Composition
                                                                                                              1. A3 - Critical Thinking
                                                                                                              2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                or
                                                                                                                PHIL 6
                                                                                                                Introduction to Logic
                                                                                                                3 units
                                                                                                                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                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:
                                                                                                                1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                  1. A3 - Critical Thinking
                                                                                                                  2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                  1. D3 - Anaylitical Thinkning

                                                                                                                  Economics

                                                                                                                  3 units
                                                                                                                  ECON 25
                                                                                                                  Introduction to Economics
                                                                                                                  3 units
                                                                                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                  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)
                                                                                                                  Course Details:
                                                                                                                  1. Advisory: MATH 201
                                                                                                                  2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                    1. D2 - Economics
                                                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                    or
                                                                                                                    ECON 40
                                                                                                                    Introduction to Microeconomics
                                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                    Introduction to Microeconomics provides an introductory analysis focusing on the economic choices of households, businesses, and the government. Topics include supply and demand, market equilibrium, elasticity, gains from specialization and trade, consumer and producer welfare, production costs, market structures, factor markets and market failure. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                                                                    1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                                                                                                    2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                    1. B: Economics
                                                                                                                    1. D2 - Economics
                                                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                    or
                                                                                                                    ECON 40H
                                                                                                                    Honors Introduction to Microeconomics
                                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                    Honors Introduction to Microeconomics provides an introductory analysis focusing on the economic choices of households, businesses, and the government. Topics include: supply and demand, market equilibrium, elasticity, gains from trade, consumer and producer welfare, production costs, market structures, factor markets and market failure. Honors sections will discuss and analyze contemporary economic society in a historical context. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                                                                    1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                                                                                                    2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                    1. B: Economics
                                                                                                                    1. D2 - Economics
                                                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                    or
                                                                                                                    ECON 50
                                                                                                                    Introduction to Macroeconomics
                                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                    Introduction to Macroeconomics provides an introductory analysis of the economy as a whole. Topics include market-based economic systems, measurements of economic activity, macroeconomic equilibrium, money and financial institutions, monetary and fiscal policy, international economics and economic growth. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                                                                    1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                                                                                                    2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                    1. B: Economics
                                                                                                                    1. D2 - Economics
                                                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                    or
                                                                                                                    ECON 50H
                                                                                                                    Honors Introduction to Macroeconomics
                                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                    Honors Introduction to Macroeconomics provides an introductory analysis of the economy as a whole. Topics include: market-based economic systems, measurements of economic activity, macroeconomic equilibrium, money and financial institutions, monetary and fiscal policy, international economics and economic growth. Honors sections will discuss and analyze the works of historical economic figures. (A, CSU, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                    Course Details:
                                                                                                                    1. Prerequisite: MATH 103
                                                                                                                    2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                    1. B: Economics
                                                                                                                    1. D2 - Economics
                                                                                                                    2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                    1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                                                    ETHNST 10
                                                                                                                    Introduction to Ethnic Studies

                                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                    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:
                                                                                                                      1. G: Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                      2. 7: Ethnic Studies
                                                                                                                      1. D7 - Interdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Science
                                                                                                                      2. F - Ethnic Studies
                                                                                                                      3. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                      1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                                                      Nutrition

                                                                                                                      3 units
                                                                                                                      FN 35
                                                                                                                      Nutrition and Health
                                                                                                                      3 units
                                                                                                                      Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                      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:
                                                                                                                      1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                      2. Anti Requisite: FN 40
                                                                                                                        1. E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
                                                                                                                        2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                        1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                                                                                        or
                                                                                                                        FN 43
                                                                                                                        Women's Nutrition
                                                                                                                        3 units
                                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                        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)
                                                                                                                        or
                                                                                                                        WSTS 43
                                                                                                                        Women’s Nutrition
                                                                                                                        3 units
                                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                        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)

                                                                                                                        HMONG 1
                                                                                                                        Beginning Hmong

                                                                                                                        5 units
                                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                        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:
                                                                                                                        1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                        1. A: Languages other than English (UC Requirement Only)
                                                                                                                        1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                                                        2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                        1. C - Humanities

                                                                                                                        Assertiveness Training

                                                                                                                        2 units
                                                                                                                        HS 25
                                                                                                                        Assertiveness Training
                                                                                                                        2 units
                                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                        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)
                                                                                                                        or
                                                                                                                        WSTS 25
                                                                                                                        Assertiveness Training
                                                                                                                        2 units
                                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                        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)

                                                                                                                        HS 44
                                                                                                                        Drug Use: Physical and Psychological Effects

                                                                                                                        3 units
                                                                                                                        Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                        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:
                                                                                                                        1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                          1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                          1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                                                                          Philosophy

                                                                                                                          3 units
                                                                                                                          PHIL 1A
                                                                                                                          Theories of Knowledge and Reality
                                                                                                                          3 units
                                                                                                                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                          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:
                                                                                                                          1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                          1. B: Humanities
                                                                                                                          1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                                                          2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                          1. C - Humanities
                                                                                                                          or
                                                                                                                          PHIL 1AH
                                                                                                                          Honors Theories of Knowledge and Reality
                                                                                                                          3 units
                                                                                                                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                          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:
                                                                                                                          1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                          1. B: Humanities
                                                                                                                          1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                                                          2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                          1. C - Humanities
                                                                                                                          or
                                                                                                                          PHIL 1C
                                                                                                                          Ethics
                                                                                                                          3 units
                                                                                                                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                          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:
                                                                                                                          1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                          1. B: Humanities
                                                                                                                          1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                                                          2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                            or
                                                                                                                            PHIL 1CH
                                                                                                                            Honors Ethics
                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                            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:
                                                                                                                            1. Corequisite: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                            1. B: Humanities
                                                                                                                            1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                            1. C - Humanities

                                                                                                                            Intro to Sociology

                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                            SOC 1A
                                                                                                                            Introduction to Sociology
                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                            Course Details:
                                                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                            1. J: Sociology & Criminology
                                                                                                                            1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
                                                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                            or
                                                                                                                            SOC 1AH
                                                                                                                            Honors Introduction to Sociology
                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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. Places a greater emphasis than SOC 1A 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:
                                                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                            1. J: Sociology & Criminology
                                                                                                                            1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
                                                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences

                                                                                                                            Sociology of Rape

                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                            SOC 5
                                                                                                                            Sociology of Rape
                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                            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. 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:
                                                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                              1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                              1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                                                                                              or
                                                                                                                              WSTS 5
                                                                                                                              Sociology of Rape
                                                                                                                              3 units
                                                                                                                              Effective Term: 2017 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                              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. 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:
                                                                                                                                  1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                                  1. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                                                                                  Domestic Violence

                                                                                                                                  3 units
                                                                                                                                  SOC 7
                                                                                                                                  Domestic Violence: Abuse Within the Family
                                                                                                                                  3 units
                                                                                                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                                  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:
                                                                                                                                  1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                                    1. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                                    1. E2 - Lifetime Skills
                                                                                                                                    or
                                                                                                                                    WSTS 7
                                                                                                                                    Domestic Violence: Abuse Within the Family
                                                                                                                                    3 units
                                                                                                                                    Effective Term: 2017 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                                    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:

                                                                                                                                            SOC 32
                                                                                                                                            Introduction to Marriage and Family

                                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                                            Course Details:
                                                                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                                            1. J: Sociology & Criminology
                                                                                                                                            1. D10 - Sociology and Criminology
                                                                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                                            1. B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
                                                                                                                                            2. E2 - Lifetime Skills

                                                                                                                                            SPAN 1
                                                                                                                                            Beginning Spanish

                                                                                                                                            5 units
                                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                                                                                            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:
                                                                                                                                            1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                                                                                            1. A: Languages other than English (UC Requirement Only)
                                                                                                                                            1. C2 - Humanities
                                                                                                                                            2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                                            1. C - Humanities

                                                                                                                                            WSTS 10
                                                                                                                                            Changing Roles of Women

                                                                                                                                            3 units
                                                                                                                                            Effective Term: 2025 Fall 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, UC, Cal-GETC)
                                                                                                                                            Course Details:
                                                                                                                                              1. D: Gender Studies
                                                                                                                                              1. D4 - Gender Studies
                                                                                                                                              2. CSU Transfer Course
                                                                                                                                                Total: 30 units