Emphasizes the life sciences using readings, hands-on activities and lab assignments to learn about the diversity of life forms on this planet, their evolutionary origins and relationships to one another; the structure of living cells and their functions (principles of biochemistry and cell biology); and cell cycles, reproduction, and evolution. This course is not open to first semester freshmen without instructor approval.

Examines the evolutionary and ecological relationships of organisms with their environment, as well as the breadth of biological diversity. Required for all Biology majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Required lab course for BIO 240. Focuses on doing scientific experiments and writing in the scientific style. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Introduces structure and function of biological molecules, cellular and molecular biology, cell metabolism including respiration and photosynthesis, principles of genetics, immunity, biotechnology, and genomics. Required for all Biology majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Laboratory course for BIO 241. Enrollment in or completion of BIO 241 necessary to take lab. BIO 241L encouraged because of writing element. Lab course fee may be charged.

Provides an introduction to the relationship between form and function in plants and animals. Covers comparative anatomy, physiology, and development of different plant and animal structures and organ systems. Required for all Biology majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Required lab course for BIO 242. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Studies a particular topic in Biology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/No Credit Available)

Develops library research, writing, oral and critical analysis skills needed to link science to ethics in biology. Covers current issues that involve biology, ethics and society. Students develop a learning plan that integrates their Biology concentration, capstone and internship interests, and personal and professional goals. (Offered spring semester.)

Focuses on the methodology of science appropriate to K-12 education. Familiarizes future teachers with observing, questioning, testing, and interpreting by using the neighborhood as a laboratory. Engages in problem-solving activities and the design of experiments children will understand. Uses current technology to develop bicultural/bilingual instructional materials. (Offered as demand warrants.)

Required lab course for BIO 305. (Offered as demand warrants.)

Covers biomolecular structure and function, biological oxidation and reduction, metabolism including respiration and photosynthesis, membrane transport, and biotransformation. (Offered spring semester.)

Optional lab course for BIO 310. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered spring semester.)

Applies the principles of Mendelian inheritance and the chromosomal basis of heredity in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Covers recombination, biochemical genetics, mutation, DNA, genetic code, gene regulation, genes in populations. Introduces the molecular genetics of four systems: bacteria, yeast, Drosophila, and mouse/humans. (Offered fall semester.)

Introduces the biology of microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, protozoa, algae, fungi), their significance as model systems for understanding fundamental cellular processes, and their role in human affairs. Also introduces the biological properties of bacterial and animal viruses, replication, methods of detection, interactions with host cells and multicellular hosts.

Lecture and lab course covers structure and function of major animal organ systems, with an emphasis on mammalian physiology. Offered as demand warrants

Introduces ecological concepts and theory by exploring the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of Monterey Bay. A systems approach teaches how organisms interact with one another and with the natural world around them. Emphasizes population, community, and ecosystem level ecology. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Emphasizes mechanisms and models of population genetics and evolutionary biology, including allelic frequency, genetic drift, adaptation and fitness, microevolutionary and macroevolutionary change, speciation, and the history of life. (Offered when demand warrants.)

Surveys terrestrial ecosystems across California. Emphasizes the biotic and abiotic factors that determine the extents of these ecosystems. Plant identification and distribution in ecosystems of the Monterey Bay area. May include one or more weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester of even years.)

Laboratory course covering techniques for prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA purification, amplification, subcloning, and sequence analysis, used in the context of providing earth systems information. Additional knowledge and skills acquired include microbial cell culture, primer design, proposal writing. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered spring semester of odd years.) (Formerly known as BIO 444L)

Focuses on the living organisms found in marine habitats. Examines the physical, biological, and evolutionary factors influencing the organisms in the many diverse marine habitats on earth. Introduces marine research topics and environmental issues by exploring the natural history of local marine habitats. (Offered fall and spring semester.)

Explores current topics and careers working with marine mammals. Topics include practical knowledge of captive marine mammal husbandry (care and maintenance), training, basic physiology, an overview of common research topics and techniques, as well as public display, education, and current issues in marine mammalogy. Students intern at least one day at Moss Landing Marine Labs assisting in the care of research-trained California sea lions. Fee charged for course materials. (Offered summer semester through Extended Education.)

Explores the field of animal training from a psychological and a technical perspective. Provides a theoretical background in relevant animal behavior and psychological principles related to the practical goal of modifying captive animal behavior. Topics include the history and ethics of animal use and training, and practical animal training techniques. Students intern at least one day at Moss Landing Marine Labs assisting in the care and training of research-trained sea lions. Fee charged for course materials. (Offered summer semester through Extended Education.)

Students learn about classification, field identification, habitats, behaviors, protection status, and methods used to study common or otherwise noteworthy mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish of central California.

Advanced project-based lab and lecture course develops skills and understanding of current techniques in eukaryotic genetics and molecular biology. Six hours lab and two hours lecture per week.

This course will cover medical services available to people in Monterey County. Students will discuss how class, ethnicity, language, and immigration status relate to health care access. Through service, journaling, readings, and panel discussions students will explore medical access issues and discuss the factors that lead to social injustice and inequity. Students will explore their own understanding for improving equality and access to medical care for all Monterey County residents.

Addresses strategies for supporting equitable educational opportunities for all students, regardless of their cultural, linguistic, or economic background. Service learning placements in schools help students deepen their understanding of basic biology principles and methodologies for facilitating learning by diverse students.

Upper division seminar course based on lectures from visiting faculty and biology professionals from Research 1 institutions, biotechnology, and other biology-related careers. Includes reading and critical analysis of peer reviewed literature, seminar and journal club discussion, and attendance in seminar series. May be repeated for credit up to three times.

Studies a particular topic in Biology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Introduces the major biological databases with a focus on the human genome project. Uses a variety of computational tools for database access and data analysis. Students understand the principles of phylogenetics, proteomics, genomics and metabolomics.

Cell structure, membrane transport, cell division, molecular genetics, recombinant DNA, mechanisms of evolution, and the basis of classification. Applies fundamental principles and experimental approaches in four areas of cell biology: cell cycle regulation, signal transduction, intracellular protein transport, and structure and function of cytoskeleton, including cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions. Explores recent advances in the fields of molecular and cell biology. (Formerly known as BIO 314)

Advanced survey of the biology of invertebrates, stressing comparative functional morphology, evolution, phylogeny, systematics, natural history, behavior, and aspects of physiology and development. Emphasizes the living animal and its habitat.

In-depth exploration of freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, including aquatic organisms and their taxonomy, and the ecology, geochemistry, and sediments of freshwater ecosystems. Will include weekend or odd-hour field trips with concurrent field/laboratory section. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)

Course explores the ecology of marine fishes and associated conservation and management efforts. Focuses upon fish distribution and the environmental drivers underlying that distribution in California and other locales. Students complete a semester-long project involving field sampling along the central coast using a suite of tools, including remotely operated vehicles, towed camera sleds, and SCUBA. Course project may be used as a course-based capstone project. (Cross listed with BIO 555)

Introduces the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a standard microbial model for studying eukaryotic gene expression and cell biology. Students work on instructor-supervised projects focusing on yeast genetics and molecular biology in such areas as the yeast life cycle, mutant isolation, tetrad analysis, transformation, the control of gene expression with galactose regulation and mating-type control.

Uses taxonomy and systematics of higher plants of California with a focus on morphology, development, and other characteristics to classify plants.

Assists students in completing the Capstone project developed in previous or concurrent course, including a written Capstone report and an oral presentation to BIO faculty and students. Requires prior completion of three upper-division BIO courses with grades of C or above.

Assists students in completing their biology research capstone project.

Assists students enrolled in a capstone project course in preparing their final written report, poster, and/or oral presentation for their Senior Capstone Project. Students must enroll concurrently in an approved Biology Capstone Project Course.

Students work with practicing professionals in the community in a volunteer or paid internship that requires biology knowledge and skills. Academic credit is awarded for documented learning that takes place during the internship and that meets individualized and core internship outcomes.

Studies a particular topic in Biology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Designed to mimic the research cycle in a typical molecular biology laboratory. Students isolate DNA from marine organisms, amplify specific regions, subclone, and purify plasmid DNA. Bioinformatic techniques are used to analyze sequenced regions, including homology searches, multiple alignments, primer design, and 3D comparison. Assessment consists of a lab notebook review, a final exam, and a detailed standards-based lesson plan. (Offered summer session through Extended Education.)

Required lab course for BIO 541. Lab course fee may be charged.

Graduate-level lecture course designed for an in-depth exploration of aquatic and wetland ecosystems. Learning activities include lectures on the major patterns and processes influence various aquatic systems, i.e. streams, lakes, wetlands, and estuaries; a literature review on one particular aquatic ecosystem; and oral presentation to the class about the system. Concurrent enrollment in the field/laboratory section is required. (Offered spring semester, during odd years).

Explores the ecology of marine fishes and associated conservation and management efforts. Focuses upon fish distribution and the environmental drivers underlying that distribution in California and other locales. Students will complete a semester-long project involving field sampling along the central coast using a suite of tools, including remotely operated vehicles, towed camera sleds, and SCUBA. Course project may be used as a course-based capstone project. (Cross listed with BIO 455)

Studies a particular topic in Biology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

A study of the basic principles of chemistry with special emphasis on problem solving and chemistry in the environment. Designed especially for the student who plans to enroll in CHEM 110 but lacks the necessary prerequisites. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Develops problem-solving skills related to the nature of matter, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, energy transformations, atomic and molecular structure, quantum theory, chemical bonding, and periodic properties. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Required lab course for CHEM 110. Emphasizes qualitative and quantitative experiments, data analysis, and error propagation. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Develops problem-solving skills related to solutions, phase changes, gas laws, thermodynamics, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, organic chemistry, electrochemistry, metal complexation, and nuclear chemistry. Required of all ESSP majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Required laboratory course for CHEM 111. Emphasizes qualitative and quantitate experiments, data analysis, and error propagation. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Survey of organic compounds, with an emphasis on biological and environmental processes. Nomenclature, structure in two and three dimensions, and relationships between structure and reactivity.

Required lab course for CHEM 210.

Nomenclature, structure, bonding, reactivity, and formation of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, halogenated compounds, and alcohols. Includes intro to spectroscopy. (Offered fall semester.)

Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Letter Grade Available)

Synthesis, reactions, and analysis of organic compounds, with applications to biology, biogeochemistry, and environmental science.

Lecture and laboratory course develops skill and understanding of analytical chemistry and instrumental analysis. Covers a range of spectrophotometry, chromatography, spectrometry, and titrimetry methods. Students are billed a materials fee. Offered when demand warrants.

Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Letter Grade Available)

Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Letter Grade Available)

Introduces students to topics related in the health and human services profession with the context of an integrated reading , writing, and speaking course. (Offered every semester.)

Introduces students to writing as a way of healing within the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course. This course will explore the historical traditions of writing as healing as well as current practices of writing to heal with diverse populations.

This is an introductory statistics course that focuses on the types of analyses used most frequently in the social sciences. While the course covers the basic steps in calculating and obtaining statistical results, emphasis is given to the interpretation of results and the acquisition of an intuitive understanding of the logic and limitations of inferential statistics when studying social phenomena.

This is an introductory course in applied microeconomics that exposes students to current social and public policy events through an economics perspective. The course introduces the basic principles of microeconomic analysis and applies them to explain how economists study important social issues such as discrimination, health-care, labor, housing, and land.

Social protest movements have generated utilized a wide variety of literary genres to generate social concern and change. Students will learn to appreciate, analyze, and interpret multicultural works. Students will reflect on the human conditions that emerge across cultural boundaries. Students will explore these works in their social context, especially with a critical examination of the power structures. Students will be expected to apply their insights to issues in their own communities.

Investigating and Analyzing Issues in Health and Human Services: This course focuses on investigating and analyzing topics related to the health and human services professions within the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course. (Offered every semester.)

Course provides an introduction to the human services including an overview of careers and settings, values and professional ethics, and theoretical approaches and skills utilized. Students will learn how the human services compares to related disciplines and will examine social issues, policy and services from historical, socio-economic, and global perspectives. Students will also be introduced to methods of inquiry in human services work.

Introduces students to the social, cultural, economic, and health aspects of drug use and abuse. We will discuss the influences drugs have on art, music, philosophy and social movements, and explore various perspectives on the use of psychoactive substances (both legal and illegal). Patterns of use among traditional societies and in modern settings will be reviewed especially as they relate to a variety of approaches (criminalization vs. human rights) to drug treatment and drug policy. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Introduces students to the social epidemiology of health. Even in the wealthiest countries people who are less well off experience shorter life spans and more illness. We will explore the social justice and human rights aspects of attaining and maintaining health, as well as look critically at the "social determinants of health."" We will develop an understanding of the social

Examines students' and communities' health, particularly as it relates to service and social responsibility, community and social justice and multicultural community building/civic engagement. Serving a marginalized population, students will engage in a minimum of 30 hours of service to develop an understanding of health disparities, the social determinants of health, and actions that individuals, communities, professionals, and institutions can take to foster equity and well-being.

Introduces students to the CHHS academic and field programs, CSUMB upper division graduation requirements (ULRs and GLOs), and the core competencies for the major learning outcomes (MLOs) of the Collaborative Health and Human Services (CHHS) major. Students also prepare their Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) and discover more about possible careers in health and human service fields. (Offered every semester.)

Provides developmental instruction in the areas of writing, reading, and speaking. Students will learn about process-based writing approaches as well as sentence-level techniques for composing, drafting and revising texts.

Develops writing skills to increase competency in writing in the CHHS major and in the health or human services professions. Builds confidence in writing for argumentation, applied research, advocacy, and reports. Students learn about themselves as writers, which assists them in the development of personal and professional writing skills. Complements other critical thinking courses offered in the major. (Offered every semester)

Students learn and apply computer skills to health and human service delivery. Emphasizes hands-on experience using computers for electronic communication and presentations, and to improve skills in the use of database management, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Students participate in online research, information resources evaluation, correct citation of Internet resources, and weekly online discussions. Introduces state-of-the-art health and human service software. Formerly CHHS 303. (Offered every semester.)

Develops competency in collaborative practice, social action, and political leadership. Presents theory and methodology of collaboration in health and human service settings, and of building coalition models. Teaches how to facilitate groups, and provides an understanding of the foundations of American and California government and citizenship. (Offered every semester.)

Develops basic skills and knowledge in interpersonal and interorganizational conflict resolution, negotiation, and mediation techniques through readings, extensive role playing and scenario development, and discussion with speakers from the field. Students participate in experiential exercises, learning how to facilitate collaborative negotiations. (Offered every semester.)

Presents an interdisciplinary and multicultural introduction to professional ethics. Using a developmental approach, this course has two functions. The first is to provide students with a survey of moral theories. The second function is to apply these theories to professional codes of ethics and the ramifications of ethics for appropriate interactions with clients, colleagues, organizations, and society. We will focus specifically on the knowledge and skills related to analyzing and managing ethical predicaments in the helping professions. (Offered every semester.)

Applied Statistics/Research Methods for Health & Human Services: Introduces the fundamentals of research methods and applies basic data analysis skills in health and human service case studies. Introduces and utilizes appropriate software programs and their application in health and human service delivery and in designing student projects. (Offered every semester.)

Research Methods for Health & Human Services Lab: Introduces the fundamentals of research methods and applies basic data analysis skills in health and human service case studies. Introduces and utilizes appropriate software programs and their application in health and human service delivery and in designing student projects. (Offered every semester.)

Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered every semester.) (Letter Grade Available)

Introduces new students in the CHHS major to the field practice process. Discussion includes the application of academic work and MLO competencies in field practice settings, self-reflection, the roles and responsibilities between the student and field mentor, and the relationships in a field practice setting. CHHS 396S is approved to meet the upper division service learning requirement. (Offered every semester.)

Offers students independent learning opportunities in a selected specialty area. May include fieldwork to meet the required number of hours.

Applying the 13 MLOs of the CHHS major, students work closely with field mentors, a writing instructor, and the instructor to design an applied project that addresses a health or social problem in the community. In the first semester, students formulate a field-based problem that is conducive for analysis, identify its causes, and justify the need for action through a literature review. The culmination is a proposal that is submitted to their field mentor and CHHS faculty for approval. (Offered every semester.)

Applying the 13 MLOs of the CHHS major, students work closely with field mentors, a writing instructor, and the instructor to implement and evaluate an applied project that addresses a health or social problem in the community. In the second semester, students intervene and collect data to evaluate the impact of their projects in the community using appropriate evaluation designs. The final thesis report and presentation provide the projectÀs findings and recommendations. (Offered every semester.)

This course will augment students' knowledge, skills and attitudes in reading and understanding budgets and financial statements. Students will deepen their understanding of: the budgeting and financial reporting processes of public and nonprofit organizations; revenue-generating strategies and regulatory issues pertaining to these kinds of agencies; and the value of creating a culture of transparency and accountability in the public and nonprofit sectors.

This course introduces students to the basic methods of program planning, and design in the public and non-profit sectors. Students will critically examine, discuss and apply planning methods and models in a case study format, advance their skills in community needs assessment, and produce a data-driven program plan.

This course introduces students to program evaluation in the health and human services field. This includes needs assessments, formative research, process evaluation, monitoring of outputs and outcomes, impact assessment, and cost analysis. Students gain practical experience through exercises and a major evaluation project that will include the design of a conceptual framework, development of indicators, statistical analysis, and development of an evaluation plan to measure impact.

This course introduces students to the concepts, principles and practices necessary to effectively manage public and nonprofit organizations and systems. Students will develop an understanding of organizational structures and cultures; the importance of prioritizing services in consideration of budget constraints and resource scarcity; and the roles of and relationships among federal, state and local governments, community-based organizations (CBOs) and not-for-profit agencies. They will gain basic knowledge and skills in budget development, reading and understanding financial statements, risk management, personnel management, and program evaluation. (Offered every semester)

This course introduces students to community building, local development strategies and regional economic issues (especially focused on small and rural communities). Students will study the economic conditions that strengthen community opportunities for employment growth. Topics include community history and capacity for growth and job creation, the role of community-based organizations and public economic development agencies.

Provides an introduction to the process of seeking and securing grant funding for public and nonprofit organizations. By researching and preparing a submittable grant proposal, students will develop knowledge and skill in the areas of: qualifying prospective grantors and evaluation requests for proposals, developing letters of intent, and preparing key components of a successful funding application (e.g., statement of need, scope of work/ project description, evaluation plan, proposal budget and budget justification, statement of organizational capacity). Topics will also include fund raising as relationship building, using logic models to portray a project's intent, creating program sustainability through diversification of funding, and special issues pertaining to collaborative grant applications. (Offered every semester) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Provides students with an opportunity to develop advanced policy analysis knowledge and skills through intensive case study and hands-on experience in formulating policy for specific health and human service issues. (Offered every semester.) (Credit/No Credit Available)

This course will explore the use of Geographic Information Systems, Social Media and other emerging to facilitate constituent engagement, fundraising, program planning and service delivery. Issues to be covered include cost-benefit analyses, data security/confidentiality, technological infrastructure development and resource management.

Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Students practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a local agency. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the systems where they work, the relationships they develop in the organization and the populations they serve, and discuss their future roles as health and human service professionals. In the first semester, students design a professional e-folio as a useful framework for lifelong professional development. (Offered every semester.)

Students continue to practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a local agency. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the systems where they work, the relationships they develop in the organization and the populations they serve, and discuss their future roles as health and human service professionals. In the second semester, students complete a professional e-folio as a useful tool for lifelong professional development. (Offered every semester.)

Offers students independent learning opportunities in a selected specialty area. May include fieldwork to meet the required number of hours. (Offered every semester.)

Studies a particular topic in Environmental Science Technology & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Independent study for first-year students. Students must obtain the signature/approval of their independent study supervisor before enrolling in ENVS 197. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Teaches the skills and knowledge needed to create captivating still photographs of animals, plants, landscapes, and other natural subjects. Explores the art, history, and science of nature photography as a tool for discovery and communication. Students must have a digital SLR camera (or other digital camera featuring manual exposure control and either interchangeable lenses or optical zoom) and tripod. Contract instructor or see course website for detailed equipment requirements. Three full-day field trips scheduled during weekends. Does not cover digital image editing techniques or video. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

This interdisciplinary introduction to environmental science course introduces science as a method of studying and understanding the natural world through offering an overview of topics needed to understand key environmental challenges of today's world. Promotes critical thinking, problem solving, scientific and environmental literacy. For non-science majors and Environmental Studies majors.

Surveys current scientific and environmental topics students should understand to make informed decisions in their lives. Topics may include genetically modified organisms, cloning, human population growth, water resources, pesticides, and global warming. For nonscience majors. (Offered spring semester.)

Develops college-level reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills in a science and environmental policy context. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Uses ethical theory to examine and analyze personal behavior and public policy in the context of social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Develops reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills.

Uses ethical theory and service-learning to examine and analyze personal behavior, local community action, and public policy in the context of social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Develops reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills.

An introduction to practical electronics and environmental measurement for students enrolling through the Marine Advanced Technology and Education (MATE) Center. Students design, build, and test their own electronic instruments to record environmental variables. (Offered fall semester of even years.)

Required lab course for ENVS 230. (Offered fall semester of even years.)

This course prepares students for the conduct of science underwater while using SCUBA, including transects, quadrats, and photography.

Introduction to the major physical, chemical, biological, and geological features and processes of the Earth's ocean. Special emphasis is placed on developing an integrated understanding of physical and biological processes and the interactions of people with the marine environment. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Introduction to the chemical and physical nature of the atmosphere. Topics include weather and climate, storms, general air circulation, descriptive meteorology, clouds, and atmosphere-ocean interactions. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Introduction to the major physical, chemical, biological, and geological features and processes of global oceanography, with emphasis on the Monterey Bay area. Discusses the human impacts on the region and the state and federal policies in-place that have been designed to protect the Monterey Bay area through the establishment of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. For non-science majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Covers fundamentals of government, particularly how the US Constitution and the structure and processes of democracy affect current environmental and natural resource issues. Provides comparisons between US, California state and local government and how each of these affect their lives. Students track media coverage of governmental and environmental issues to understand how government works. Students learn how to engage in politics to make change. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Covers principles of microeconomics and applies these to environmental valuation and management of natural resources. Students apply economic theory to evaluate environmental problems and policies, particularly in marine and coastal ecosystems. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Course assists students in writing a case study that analyzes the science, policy, and stakeholder information needed to make a recommendation in response to a normative question about an environmental issue.

Studies a particular topic in Environmental Science Technology & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Letter Grade Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students explore concepts of well-being and apply theoretical models to personal engagement in behaviors that promote and detract from well-being. Current health issues are used to probe concepts of well-being. Students also explore how historical relationships between disease, technology, and agriculture influence the socio-economic status of people and nations, developing a deep understanding of how one's race, gender, etc., influence contraction of disease & access to social services. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Students develop library research, writing, and critical analysis skills they will need to link science to policy decisions. Students develop a learning plan that integrates their ENVS concentration, capstone interests, and personal and professional goals. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Workshop focuses on materials and writing assignments that parallel the ENVS 300 case study assignment. Develops strategies for accurate and effective reading and writing of scholarly, academic works that synthesize complex information from a variety of sources.

Optional computer lab course for ENVS 300. Designed for students in ENVS 300 who have not previously fulfilled the Tech/Info ULR. Provides hands-on experience with information literacy and literature searches, reference evaluation, advanced word processing, electronic presentations, spreadsheet design and manipulation, and webpage development. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Analyzes the services and goods provided by natural ecosystems in Monterey Bay. Explores the scientific framework of ecosystem services, their disruption or disturbance, economic and ecological values, methods of analyzing these values, and policy implications. (Offered fall semester.)

Mandatory orientation for ENVS 303L. This classroom component of California Transect prepares students for the summer field course (ENVS 303L) by introducing topics in California's scientific, cultural, and political history and current issues that will be examined in detail during the summer field course (ENVS 303L). May require one weekend field trip. (Offered spring semester.)

Two-week summer field course. Students explore California's unique ecosystems using a case-studies framework emphasizing the interaction between natural processes and human impacts. Involves camping and hiking. Course fee charged for food, transportation, and camping. (Offered spring semester or summer session.)

Examines the scientific, economic, and political dimensions of global climate change. Examines the greenhouse effect, global climate change, and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and IPCC reports in reducing human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Focuses on trends in population, dynamics, development policy and environmental heath impacts. (Offered spring semester of even years.)

Soils and the Environment: Lecture/lab course surveys the importance, composition, and formation of soils; soil chemistry, mineralogy, and organic matter; soil physical properties and water movement and retention; soil biology and microbiology; soil fertility and plant growth; reactions and movement of nutrients, trace metals, and pesticides in soils; factors influencing soil erosion and salinization; and soil taxonomy and surveys.

Theory and application of spatial data acquisition, analysis, and display using an integrated, hands-on, project-based approach. Covers geographic information systems (GIS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS). Course completion results in ArcGIS certification from ESRI and GPS Mapping certification from Trimble Navigation (TerraSync). (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Focuses on techniques for teaching the natural and cultural history of the Monterey Bay area to different age and cultural groups. Students develop and/or present interpretive products from organizations such as CA State Parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Return of the Natives for school groups. (Offered fall semester.)

Project-oriented course covers techniques in statistics, experimental design, and field methodology to characterize the ecological patterns in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. May include one or more weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester.)

Project-oriented course covers techniques in experimental design, data analysis, and field and laboratory methods of soil and water analysis in the context of local soil and water chemistry problems. May include one or more weekend field trips. (Offered as demand warrants.)

This course addresses the meta question: "How can community-based environmental restoration address issues of social and environmental justice?"" The course examines: waves of culture affecting Monterey County's significant social issues

Environmental Wildlands Studies: Field investigations study of environmental problems affecting natural and human-impacted ecosystems, including the role of human interactions. Extended field study of flora, fauna, biotic communities, and ecological relationships at selected sites in the United States or international locations. Students participate in field research and evaluation of environmental policy options.

Environmental Field Survey: Field based course that conducts onsite examinations and analyses of environmental problems affecting North American/international wildlands and wildlife populations. Concepts and principles of environmental studies, wildlife management and public land planning methods are incorporated during assessment of the study area's environmental characteristics. Data collection techniques, quantification and analysis of field data, and environmental report writing are components of the research activities that students will pursue.

Wildlands Environment&Culture: Field Studies course involves off-campus travel to a variety of locations, studying the relationships among people and the environment. Region and culture specific case studies and assessment of historical and current cultural and environmental uses of wildland and/or wildlife communities. Examination of consequences and outcomes of environmental policies and wildland/wildlife management.

Engages in philosophical works on social justice theory, ecological justice theory, and responsibility theory; uses an integrated social and ecological justice framework for analyzing social and environmental problems and for developing, analyzing, and promoting sustainable and equitable practices and policies.

Uses an integrated social and ecological justice framework for developing an understanding of self and social awareness; service and social responsibility; community and social justice; multicultural community building; and civic engagement; deepens and critically applies learning through placements and activities with local community organizations.

Evaluates development of water use/management throughout history. Critiques how geography, economics, culture, and politics guide people's decision-making and use and management of water. Analyzes and compares U.S. and California constitutions based on historic, geographic, political, economic, and cultural context and influences relating to water regulation. Students participate in historically informed political project applying political participation in the local community.

Students work with practicing professionals in the community in a volunteer or paid internship that requires critical thinking and specialized science, policy, or technical skills. Academic credit is awarded for documented learning that takes place during the internship and that meets individualized and core internship outcomes. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Studies a particular topic in Earth Systems Science & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/No Credit Available)

Students work with public and private organizations on projects that integrate scientific skills with needs of multicultural communities. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Students work with the instructor, their faculty Capstone advisor, and other students to develop a proposal for their Senior Capstone project. Capstone projects must demonstrate an ability to use a systems approach to analyze and/or solve problems in Environmental Science & Policy. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Assists students in completion of faculty-guided Honors Capstone research project. Requires A- or above in both ENVS 400 and ENVS 495.

Assists students in completing the Capstone project developed in ENVS 400, including a written Capstone report and an oral presentation to faculty and students associated with the ESTP Program. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Assists students enrolled in a capstone project course in preparing their final written report, poster, and/or oral presentation for their Senior Capstone Project. Students must enroll concurrently in an approved ESTP Capstone Project Course.

(Formerly titled: Applied Remote Sensing for Coastal & Marine Systems) Seafloor Mapping: Project-based course applies advanced technologies for data acquisition, analysis, and display to current marine research initiatives and environmental issues. Hands-on application of sidescan and multibeam sonar, geographic information systems (GIS), quantitative video habitat mapping, computer modeling, remote sensing, image processing, hydrographic mapping, and Global Positioning System (GPS). (Offered fall or spring semester.)

Applications of geospatial information technology and geodata manipulation and analysis in the management of natural resources, including remote sensing, aerial photography, image processing, georeferencing, georecertification, and quantitative information extraction from multispectral and other image data. (Offered fall semester.)

Teaches the process of designing, building, and using computer models for use within applied environmental science. Covers key examples within ecological and hydrological modeling e.g. population dynamics, and water flow. Introduces students to different modeling paradigms, including: systems dynamics, statistical habitat selection, and simulated vs analytical solutions. Software usage draws from Stella, VenSim, Excel, Visual Basic, and statistical packages. Includes individual student projects. Must have received a grade of B- or better in Math 151. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)

This field-oriented course is an in-depth exploration of a local, threatened ecosystem. Students get experience doing science research projects and reading primary scientific literature on vernal pool organisms, ecology, chemistry, and soils. Focuses on organismal taxonomy. May include weekend or odd-hour field trips. (Offered spring semester of even years.)

This course draws from multiple disciplines to address first hand issues of science and science policy management integration in the marine environment.

Studies a particular topic in Environmental Science Technology & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Enables students to integrate citizenship, academic subjects, skills, and values into their Senior Capstone projects. Students work with public and private organizations on projects that integrate scientific skills with needs of multicultural communities. Students maintain weekly journals covering self, community, public education, and professional community responsibility. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

A seminar that familiarizes students with the Coastal and Watershed Science & Policy program components and assists them in developing research proposals. Takes a case-study approach to understanding the process of developing and approving environmental policy, and in identifying and comparing major stakeholders, their interests, and their roles in the development and approval of policies that address current environmental problems. (Offered fall semester.)

In this seminar students will examine the integrative roles of science, technology, and economics in policy development, and compare and criticize alternate policy recommendations based on the perspectives and evidence of primary stakeholder groups.

Walks educators through each step of creating their own GIS project. Participants gather data from a variety of sources, including GPS, and create a marine and coastal map that communicates a variety of issues. Issues can include marine protected areas, coastal development, invasive species, water quality, ocean observing systems, and marine fisheries. Participants also create a lesson plan to use with their interactive map.

Provides a forum for educators, especially those interested in participating in MATE student ROV competitions, to: (1) acquire the knowledge and skills needed to implement an ROV design and building curriculum that is aligned with the country's workforce needs; (2) gain an understanding of the type of work that ROV technicians do; and (3) learn about the many career opportunities available in the submersible-technology field. (Offered through Extended Ed.)

Theory and application of advanced spatial data acquisition, analysis, and display using an integrated, hands-on, project-based approach. Use of geographic information systems (GIS) for spatial analysis, hypothesis testing, and decision making. Theory and practice of advanced GIS topics and methods such as raster analysis, dynamic segmentation, geocoding, spatial statistics, and geodatabase design. (Offered spring semester.)

(Formerly titled Applied Remote Sensing for Coastal & Marine Systems) Seafloor Mapping: Applies current hydrographic survey techniques to marine habitat mapping. Utilizes the CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab seafloor mapping system and vessel for survey design, data acquisition, analysis, and display. Technologies include sidescan sonar, multibeam bathymetry, hydrographic survey design, ROV, acoustic tracking, motion correction, GIS, GPS and vessel navigation. (Offered fall or spring semester.)

Applications of geospatial information technology and geodata manipulation and analysis in the management of natural resources, including remote sensing, aerial photography, image processing, georeferencing, georecertification, and quantitative information extraction from multispectral and other image data. (Offered fall semester.)

Teaches the process of designing, building, and using computer models for use within applied environmental science. Covers key examples within ecological and hydrological modeling e.g. population dynamics, and water flow. Introduces students to different modeling paradigms, including: systems dynamics, statistical habitat selection, and simulated vs analytical solutions. Software usage draws from Stella, VenSim, Excel, Visual Basic, and statistical packages. Includes individual student projects. Must have received a grade of B- or better in Math 151. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)

This graduate-level field-oriented course is an in-depth exploration of a local, threatened ecosystem. Students get experience doing science research projects and reading primary scientific literature on vernal pool organisms, ecology, chemistry, and soils. Focuses on organismal taxonomy. May include weekend or odd-hour field trips. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)

Examines the fundamentals of marine ecology, emphasizing experimental design and use of technologies that are appropriately scaled to answer management questions. Lectures emphasize the processes contributing to the structure and organization of marine communities, the role of humans as a major source of disturbance, and the efficacy of current management paradigms. Laboratories emphasize current technologies and analytical approaches used in the study of sub-tidal marine communities. (Offered spring semester.)

Covers the concepts of scientific method (theories, propositions, hypotheses, etc.); how to design research questions; practical techniques of experimental design, statistical inference, and information theoretic methods; successful proposal; and communication of scientific results. Emphasizes effective linkage between science policy with respect to achieving levels of scientific quality, clarity, and relevance appropriate to real-world situations. (Offered fall semester.)

Develops interdisciplinary skills to address complex environmental issues. Skill sets will be in the fields of hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, water quality, and ecology. Topics include environmental policy/agency framework, current environmental issues, and physical/ecological processes in natural and impacted wateshed systems. May require weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester.)

Explores the rehabilitation and management of damaged ecosystems focusing on rivers, estuaries, and wetlands. Covers the systems approach, ecologic principles, hydrologic processes, soils, erosion, and improvement structures. Emphasizes real situations using case studies and experimental restoration work. Includes several weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)

Required lab course for ENVS 561.

Students use a standard input/output model framework to estimate economic values at regional scales. Develops economic growth and bio-economic models in a dynamic and spatial framework applied to management of California's marine resources. Introduces statistical (econometric) estimation and analyses of linear regression models, time-series models, travel cost models, and random utility models. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)

Policy course draws upon student skills of research, writing, analysis, and creative thinking. Offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the principles and strategies for managing the coastal zone. Combines the disciplines of policy, economics, planning, geology, biology, ecology, a bit of chemistry, and organizational management. (Offered fall semester.)

Studies a particular topic in Environmental Science Technology & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Studies a particular topic in Environmental Science Technology & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Environmental Science, Technology and Policy. Offered as interest warrants.

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Faculty-mentored, independent research leading toward completion of the MS thesis. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits that count toward the degree. Requires approval of the thesis advisor. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Draws on the tenets of marine conservation biology, and related disciplines, to prepare scientists for engagement in policy formulation and management at a variety of levels. Provides a detailed assessment of the field of marine conservation biology, link ecological processes to threats and solutions, and define the human and legal dimensions of marine conservation. Explores specific conservation scenarios with case studies from the Monterey Bay region and beyond. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)

Addresses current watershed environmental issues using advanced research methods and sound science. Considers issues from multiple perspectives, including legal, political, diverse stakeholders, and natural science. Students present project results in both written and oral formats, utilizing innovative visualizations, as necessary, to communicate technical science to decision-makers or non-specialists. (Offered fall semester.)

Focuses on earth science content and scientific investigation and experimentation abilities required for the multiple-subject teaching credential. Topics include Earth's atmosphere and water, structure and composition of the solid Earth, processes that change the Earth (with emphasis on plate tectonics and California geology), Earth's resources, and Earth's place in the solar system and universe. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Introduces geology and hydrology. Includes the rock cycle, weathering and erosion, soil formation, mass wasting (landslides), the hydrologic cycle, and plate tectonics. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Focuses on earth science content and scientific investigation and experimentation abilities required for the multiple-subject teaching credential. Topics include Earth's atmosphere and water, structure and composition of the solid Earth, processes that change the Earth (with emphasis on plate tectonics and California geology), Earth's resources, and Earth's place in the solar system and universe. (Offered when sufficient demand warrants.)

Required lab course for GEOL 304. Emphasizes inquiry-driven earth science investigations. Teaching science in a local school or afterschool program may be required. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Examines past and current geologic processes as reflected in the shape of landforms. Focuses on theory and application of landform equilibrium and evolution, weathering, erosion, hillslope processes, river processes, active tectonics, coastal processes, landslides, and how landforms reflect change in climate. May include one or more weekend field trips. (Offered fall semester.)

Applied topics in watershed, stream, and hillslope hydrology within the context of river management. Covers physical river assessment and monitoring, and the physical equations and field measurement of surface and subsurface flow, hydraulics, flood frequency, landscape erosion, and sediment transport. (Offered spring semester.)

Studies a particular topic in Global Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Individualizes student placement for field study as related to global studies. Offered as interest warrants.

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. Offered as interest warrants.

Looks at contemporary political life by recognizing the public, historical, and political dimensions of daily life. Examines American and California government and politics by analyzing historical and political events that affect people's daily lives. Focuses on domestic and global influences and their interaction on the laws and structures that govern people's lives. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Globalization is an uneven process. It is the intensification of economic, political, social and cultural relations across international borders. Students will understand the history and the key features of the pro and anti-globalization debates. They will follow how popular struggles for social justice and equity have shaped the global order. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Seeks to place the historical experience of the United States in a comparative and global framework. Compares selected themes in US history (colonial experience, revolution, slavery, racial conflict, industrialization) with similar experiences elsewhere in the world. Focuses attention on US interaction with other regions of the world through immigration, imperialism, and the emergence of the United States as a global superpower. (Offered spring semester.)

Explores the history of humankind from the early city states of the Middle East through the advent of global connections around 1500. Focuses on the major civilizations (China, India, Middle East, Americas, Europe) as expressed through the arts, religion and trade relations. (Offered fall and spring semesters).

Explores the history of humankind from roughly 1500 to 2000. Highlights the processes of globalization on the diverse populations of the world as expressed through the arts, religion, intellectual discourses, economic activity, and cultural self determination. Explores issues of the rise of European domination and the era of revolutions and independence movements. (Offered fall and spring semester.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

This course examines the "global voices"" of those affected by ""global flows and disjunctures"" through fiction

Reviews salient periods of U.S. territorial expansion from the Mexican-American war to the declared and undeclared interventions to the present. Analyzes domestic and international charges of neo-colonialism and economic imperialism versus recurrent open calls for a civilizing American Empire, benign conquest, humanitarian interventions, and regime change. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

This class will introduce students to a number of religious traditions in their classical and contemporary practices. Through academic study of religion, students consider how various disciplines approach the myths, stories, symbols, rituals, ideas, and ethical practices of these religions. This introduction will provide a framework within which to reflect on one's own experiences. Traditions include: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (Credit/No Credit Available)

If you ask most people where globalization occurs, they will tell you `out there' - not in the US. We consider how local problems are set in systems of inequity and discrimination -- linking the US to their expression elsewhere.

Students acquire a basic foundation in globalization and social theories and methods through exploration of current issues. Required entry into the Global Studies major.

Preparatory to advanced theory and research methods, students engage in hands-on practice to develop introductory skills and techniques for globalization in the social sciences. Students begin preparation of a Graduation Portfolio and complete an Individualized Learning Plan. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Offered as interest warrants.

Examines contemporary and historical processes of globalization from a variety of perspectives: conceptual, historical, geographic, economic, political, cultural, and sociological. Covers how capitalism, Western imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, racism, sexual exploitation, religion, environmental destruction, war, trade, technological development, international agreements, social movements, democratization, human rights, and popular struggles for social justice and equity have shaped the global order. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Focuses on U.S. foreign policy in the Asia Pacific region, the Caribbean, Central America, and selected developing countries. Pays particular attention to U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military relations with Korea, China, Japan, Viet Nam, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island countries, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Liberia, and Iraq. (Offered fall semester.)

Examines the application of historical approaches to themes related to past and contemporary societies. Demonstrates the role that theoretical approaches can aid in an understanding of past and contemporary societies. Introduces students into how societies have used these methods to foster political, economic, cultural and religious aims. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Identifies and critiques various important global issues that have particularly adverse effects on the Global South countries. Students comprehend, analyze, and evaluate the role played in the Third World or Global South by the more powerful states, corporations and civil society of the First World or Global North. (Offered spring semester.)

This course critically examines theories and practices of humanitarianism - the principles of foreign intervention in situations of crisis, and in `weak,' `failing,' and post-conflict states. The course assesses the effects of humanitarian intervention on local realities and global relations in the post-Cold War period. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Offers a historical route through both grand theories and mini-narratives of international development, covering Modernization theory, Dependency Theory, the Basic Needs movement and the Human Development Index, 'Anti-developmentalism,' Sen's capabilities approach and Nussbaum's contributions to that framework, the neoliberal structural adjustment period, and its backlash. Students are challenged to question what is meant by 'development,' and to assess critically the ideas that have shaped approaches to international development in the 20th century. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Reviews salient periods of U.S. territorial expansion from the Mexican-American war to the declared and undeclared interventions to the present. Analyzes domestic and international charges of neo-colonialism and economic imperialism versus recurrent open calls for a civilizing American Empire, benign conquest, humanitarian interventions, and regime change. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Introduces diverse philosophical, ideological, religious, spiritual, scientific, technological, and gender views or perspectives. Focuses on the similarities and differences between worldviews and how those people interact with the world. Students study the adverse effects of ethnocentrism, reflect on their own worldview, and empathize with people with differing worldviews. (Offered fall semester.)

We now live in a "post-secular"" world. We will cover the nature and debates of the ""post secular"" - what it means and how we arrived here. This course will cover the politics of pluralism

Compares the dominant forms of government that have endured into the 21st century and the political ideologies and economic institutions that have created them. Addresses the contest over emerging forms of global governance embodied in the two poles of neo-liberal corporate commercial/financial institutions (WTO/IMF/World Bank) on one side, and a growing global network of civil society alliances that have arisen to challenge them on the other. Examines issues of national sovereignty. Covers the K-12 History/Social Science Content Standards. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Social networking technologies have brought with them new types of mediated interaction: collaboration and consumption. Students will think critically about the influence of social networking technologies on political events and government policies, cultural norms, and social movements. They will develop media literacy through immersion in various social cyberspaces. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

The proliferation of film industries throughout the globe has challenged the west's grip on representing the 'other' through cinema. Students will analyze films, television shows, and soap operas from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The course will also examine the economics of these film industries including the rise of Nollywood, and of 'media cities' throughout the Middle East. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Introduces students to selected political theories and philosophies and discusses how, where, and when they have influenced intellectual thought and cultural practices in the past and the present. Explores political philosophies from different parts of the world and connects them to relative climates of social diversity, political dissent, and religious tolerance. Examines the relationship between political thought and the problem of identification-individual, cultural, and national. Covers the K-12 History/Social Science Content Standards. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

The Soliya Connect Program uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. Through dialogue, students discuss culture and everyday life and controversial topics ultimately arriving at a better understanding of other cultures and perspectives. A media module on current events is the final project. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Students learn how to analyze, and evaluate the role of women and gender violence in global life. Examines gender, race, class, and culture in relation to issues of security, power, production, reproduction, and activism in global life and related forms of violence. (Offered fall semester.)

Studies the history and recent proliferation of politically motivated religious violence and interreligious conflicts-Muslim-Christian, Christian-Jewish, Jewish-Muslim, Hindu-Muslim, Buddhist-Hindu. Investigates religious violence, particularly Christian, Jewish, and Muslim contexts: What are the theories of religious violence? How is it different than other forms of political violence? What is the relationship between religious conflict and nationalism, terrorism? What is a holy war, just war, jihad? Considers religious sources for reconciliation: What are the theological arguments for nonviolence across religion? How have religious actors assisted in peace building in protracted conflicts? (Offered spring semester.)

Examines intercultural communications through a global/historical lens that encompasses encounters in colonial, post-colonial, and global contexts. A series of novels, essays, and short stories from the postcolonial world are read in which the authors project their sense of individual and collective identities formed through the colonial interface and its aftermath. Examines relationships between author/audience and student/text in a cross-cultural dialog. (Offered every semester.)

Examines origins of global economy. Analyzes and evaluates the interrelationship among global, political, and economic conditions. Studies global economy through 1) historical development, 2) current patterns of changes, 3) effects of globalization on the quality of life, 4) solutions and alternatives to inequity, and 5) the students' place in the global economy. Examines major structures, processes, and effects of evolving global economy. (Offered every semester.)

Introduces students to core concepts of ecological political economy that focus on the interrelationships between humans and nature in a non-hierarchial manner. Takes an ecological political economy approach to study issues of planetary resources, their distribution, allocation, and concentration. Engages perspectives on conservation of planetary resources referred to as global commons that are beyond the jurisdiction of nation-states, international agreements, and institutions. Engages issues of consumption and the use of resources to analyze alternative accounts of Northern ecological debt and Southern ecological credit. (Offered every spring semester.)

Introduces the workings of the U.S. economy in political and global context. Examines recent changes in income and wealth distribution, as well as economic policies and shifts in power fueling the growing divide between rich and poor. Examines the decline of organized labor, conditions of work, and the current climate of outsourcing jobs, executive excess, defective corporations, and indefinite war. Includes health, education, environment, and consumption and a growing national debt. Shows how ordinary citizens have been reclaiming polluted, bankrupt communities, resources, and human dignity by taking actions to create a Fair Economy. (Offered every other spring semester.)

This learning experience provides a critical examination of the structure, workings, and politics of global governance and global civil society. Students explore interactions between inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and grassroots organizations working locally and across borders on current issues of local and global import. As they complete their upper division service learning requirement at local organizations, students map their activities in and through networks while engaging network analysis methods.

Integrates study of earth systems with social systems by examining global natural and social systems. Combines perspectives, concepts, and methods of physical, biological, and social sciences in a holistic analysis and evaluation of issues related to resource access, use, pollution, and conservation by human communities locally and globally. Used to denote equivalent courses fulfilled through study abroad, field studies, approved upper-division ESSP courses, and approved graduate courses at MIIS to fulfill GS MLO 9. (Offered every semester.)

Introduces students to the main political concepts and ideologies that constitute the discourse of global politics. Explores the global realm of: 1) interstate and transnational political relations; 2) Western and non-Western schools of thought about international politics; 3) gendered discourses of international relations including contributions from women, especially Global South; 4) environmental politics; and 5) the structure and role of intergovernmental organizations and 6) global security discourses. (Offered spring semester)

Studies a particular topic in Global Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Global Studies. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Students research and develop a capstone proposal. They will complete major elements of a graduation portfolio. The portfolio provides evidence that a student is making satisfactory progress toward meeting Global Studies Major Learning Outcomes. Offered Spring Semester. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Students synthesize, research, and write a Capstone project that integrates: 1) course-based and experiential learning completed for the major; 2) a major research paper that demonstrates knowledge of theoretical, methodological, and philosophical undercurrent of intellectual production in Global Studies.

Student and faculty member in consultation select topic of study, reading list, and number of credits. (Offered spring semester.)

Offered as interest warrants.

Studies a particular topic in global studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Individualizes student placement for field study as related to global studies. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Through portfolio assessment, introduces students to college-level reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking. Further develops reading skills through an examination of unique, transnational values represented in all literary genres from throughout the world. Develops the capability to understand, analyze, interpret, and appreciate literature of diverse cultures through written responses, oral presentations, and research papers. (Offered every semester.)

Studies a particular topic in Human Communication. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism.

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.

What does it mean to be human? How might we live meaningfully and well together? This course surveys representative theories and philosophical reflections that explore human nature and the nature of society, the state, and government with an emphasis on the experiential elements of meaningful human existence and notions of an ideal society. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Through portfolio assessment, introduces students to college-level reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Further develops reading skills through a focus on divergent perspectives. Emphasizes the writing process to develop writings and a research paper. Develops empathic and critical listening skills through class discussion, peer workshops, interviews, and group presentations within a collaborative, interactive, and intercultural environment.

Introduces students to college-level reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Explores issues of identity, diversity, social justice, and service learning through academic study and participation in local community service settings. Further develops reading skills through a focus on divergent perspectives on themes of social responsibility, literacy, and educational equity. Emphasizes the writing process and develops empathic and critical listening skills through class discussion, peer workshops, community service, and group presentations within a collaborative, interactive, and intercultural environment. Requires a minimum of 30 hours community service work in addition to class time. (Offered every year.)

Introduction to practical reasoning and argumentation. Students develop empathic and critical listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills for cooperative deliberation and problem solving practices. They anticipate and assess various perspectives, alternatives, and their consequences for all who are affected by the decision-making process. (Offered every semester.)

Introduction to the ethics of communication practices. Students identify, comprehend and interpret communication dilemmas in interpersonal, small group, intercultural, organizational or mass media contexts; they analyze the ethical controversies in these contexts and evaluate the communicative options suggested by different ethical frameworks. Students generate a personal and communal ethic to guide communication conduct.

This course introduces students to the dynamics of interpersonal communication and conflict resolution. Participants identify, comprehend, and interpret significant controversies, assess communicative options from different ethical frameworks, and develop knowledge and skills required to engage ethically and effectively across disagreement and other forms of difference.

Examines unique and transnational cultural values represented in novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and film from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Develops the capability to understand, analyze, interpret, and appreciate literature and diverse cultural forms, including film, as artistic and cultural representation. Meets the Subject Matter Requirement for the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for English/Literature. (Offered every semester.)

Students study the literary expressions of Native peoples of the Americas. The course engages the literature as aesthetic, spiritual, and political expression. Examines the indigenous ways of being and knowing represented in the texts. Cultural aesthetics are studied within social and historical contexts, including but not limited to colonization, removals, assimilation, and resistance. Questions of cultural identity and sovereignty are central. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Introduces literary and film analysis through readings and viewings of selected global and/or American writers and films. Examines these authors' cultural heritage and traditions. Develops analytical and critical reading and viewing ability of literature and film through discussion of themes, characters, techniques, images, and structures. Explores the symbiotic relationship between literature and film in transmitting cultural values.

Explores the social history of music and dance throughout the African Diaspora. Students learn specific styles from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the United States including Afro-Cuban liturgical dance, rumba, salsa, samba, and hip hop. Students dance the music they study. Students become familiar with basic concepts in African Diaspora music and dance; identify and analyze trends therein; and develop a choreography based on the movements taught in class.

Students focus on multicultural poetry as artistic and cultural representation. Students read works by poets of many cultures, watch poets read and talk about their work on video, and create their own original poetry. Students develop the tools to do literary and cultural analysis of poetry, as well as write their own poems.

Students explore environmental cross-cultural literature as artistic and socially conscious representations. Students read works by writers of diverse cultures and watch films and videos regarding environmental issues. Students develop the tools to do literary, cultural and environmental analysis. Students create original pieces about the environment using the basic elements of creative nonfiction, poetry and fiction.

Students study the fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry of leading contemporary Latina/o authors with an emphasis on the historical, cultural, and socioeconomic influences on their work. Students use the work of these authors as models to create their own original pieces, incorporating the elements of craft.

Examines the creative process and its application to social action. Uses guest writers and artists from local communities, videos, field trips, and cross-cultural readings to understand and analyze creativity and social action. Students produce collaborative creative projects. (Offered every two years.)

Traces the history of cross-cultural contact in the North American continent from the colonial period to the present. The course focuses on the formation and evolution of American cultures and identities, emanating from the lived experiences of everyday people. Students explore these histories using an interdisciplinary framework of United States multicultural heritages. (Offered every other year.)

Introduces the basic concepts and perspectives in multicultural feminisms with special emphasis on the changing status of women in relationship to the U.S. and California Constitutions and political life. This learning experience provides the opportunity for students to develop analyses of the current political conditions for women and to strategize their own political participation in relation to these conditions. (Offered every other year.)

Examines and compares the political experiences, cultural practices, and literary expressions of diverse Latino populations in the U.S. Topics include immigration, citizenship, demographics, work, religion, education, language, gender, and cultural rights. Readings include ethnographies, histories, novels, and films. Students design political projects. Crosslisted with SBS 244. (Offered every other year.)

Introduces students to the experiences of Chicana/o communities in the United States and in a transnational context. Students learn about Chicanos/as in relationship to issues of race, ethnicity, citizenship, class, gender, and other social formations. Students are introduced to Chicano/a historical experiences with an emphasis on understanding the struggles and social movements for justice and equality that have been foundational to the development of Chicano/a identities.

(Formerly titled Intr. African Diaspora Studies) Examines how historical, cultural, and social processes have influenced the development of African diaspora communities in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. Special attention will be given to the impact of race and culture on the formation of diasporic communities. (Offered every year.)

Survey United States social and cultural history of the 20th century as analyzed through some of its popular music. Students use various methods employed by ethnic studies, history, and literature frameworks to analyze the roles that popular culture plays in the modern U.S. experience. Special emphasis is placed on the experiences of communities of color. (Offered every two years.)

Meets the Subject Matter Requirement for the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for U.S. history. Covers a time period from the Colonial Era, the War of Independence and the Early Republic, Manifest Destiny and the expansion westward, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Immigration at the turn-of-the-century and the response of Nativists, Industrialization and Urbanization, through the Progressive Era. Takes a multicultural perspective and looks at the histories of diverse peoples in the struggle to realize democracy and freedom. Develops historical thinking skills as students deepen their understanding of the cultural, economic, political and social dynamics that characterized each era. (Offered every year.)

Explores the complex histories of the diverse peoples of the United States from the U.S.-Mexican War to the present. Examines the past through the eyes of people often excluded from national narratives. Includes autobiographies, music, films and on-line field research. (Offered every other year.)

Students will study twentieth and twenty-first century global social movements through social movement theory and case studies to evaluate the claims, strategies, and efficacies of movements. Utilizing social movement theory out of cultural studies and sociology, normative political science, and ethnographic theoretical strategies students will familiarize themselves on a basic level with these social science approaches both singly and in interdisciplinary iterations.

Explores the impact of movements for social and political justice on the interpretation and content of the U.S. Constitution. Students will develop their ethical understandings of democratic participation through historical and contemporary texts and then apply these new understandings through the creation of collective political projects. (Offered every semester.)

The course explores the changing meaning of democracy and freedom from a multicultural perspective. It covers major events between the Colonial and Civil Rights eras, with a focus on the 1860s-1960s. The origins, key developments, and philosophies of the US and California Constitutions are studied as well as the role of social movements in struggles for social justice. Students also organize a political project that enables them to directly participate in the democratic process.

Historical view of the United States through analysis of the changing political process from the Revolutionary War and drafting of the Constitution to the social movements of the 20th century, with emphasis on various struggles for civil rights and liberties as waged in the courts, through direct political participation, and by civil disobedience; provides students an opportunity to apply tools of political action in practice.

Prepares students to write news articles for the mass media. Covers concepts of journalistic interviewing, information gathering, critical understanding of news sources, ethical decision making, and the process of writing news, editorial, and feature articles for print and electronic media.

Introduces the use of photography as a tool in reporting and interpreting news for print media. Students learn basic camera techniques and concepts of visual storytelling. Outcomes include learning to photograph subjects for the news media and telling stories through photography. (Offered every year.)

Introduces interdisciplinary, outcomes-based education in the humanities and communication. Explores content in the major learning outcomes and investigates the areas of specialization in the degree's concentrations. Students develop Individual Learning Plans. Examines opportunities in graduate education as well as related professional and career paths. (Offered every semester.)

Surveys the changing relationships among knowledge, truth, and reality in different cultural and historical contexts; investigates, evaluates, and apply different ways of knowing such as analytic, rational, creative, spiritual, emotional, and intersubjective to substantive topics or themes. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 4 or the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics, Pre-Law, or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every semester.)

Students survey ethical decision-making processes through various relational philosophical frameworks. They also investigate, evaluate, and apply relational communication guidelines to the ethical dilemmas examined in interpersonal, small group, intercultural, and organizational situations.

Explores theoretical explanations for the construction of gender. Identifies and examines the ways individuals communicate their gender identity to themselves and to others; identifies, examines, and analyzes the construction and communication of gender in media, interpersonal, intercultural, or rhetorical contexts in order to ethically and effectively interact with others. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 3 or the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics, Women's Studies, or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.)

Explores the relationship between the mass media and contemporary social problems. Issues such as media violence are explored from the perspective of consumers. Outcomes include raising awareness of the impact of media messages, developing effective media literacy tools, and preparing to critically analyze the cultural products we consume. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics or Journalism and Media Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Explores the relationship between the mass media and contemporary social problems. Media ownership, media and violence, and media representations of cultural identities will be examined. Students develop effective media literacy tools, and critically analyze media products. Involves students in media literacy programs in local schools and community organizations. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics or Journalism and Media Studies.

Students study the historical construction of white identity and racial privilege in the United States and its impact on contemporary intercultural communication dynamics; they investigate and evaluate communicative options for relating to whiteness and their implications for moral and relational conduct; and they develop ethical guidelines for intercultural communication practices. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 3 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Comparative American Studies, Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.)

Students survey the history of free speech in the United States; they examine past and present controversies such as obscenity, hate speech, and media sensationalism; they identify, evaluate, and assess human rights and responsibilities surrounding the freedom of expression from various philosophical perspectives. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 3 or the concentrations in Pre-Law; Practical and Professional Ethics; Journalism and Media Studies or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every year.)

Develop and apply abilities in oral and written communication and related critical thinking skills. Develops empathic and critical listening, reading, viewing, writing, and speaking skills for deliberation, problem solving, and community building. Students apply and assess reasoning and argumentative skills in oral, written, and visual communication contexts on various topics. For Liberal Studies students only. (Offered every semester.)

Introduces cooperative argumentation. Develops empathic and critical listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills for cooperative deliberation and problem solving practices; applies and assesses reasoning and argumentative skills in oral and written communication contexts on various topics. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Pre-Law, Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every semester.)

Alternative portfolio-based assessment of the Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR). Provides no instruction in writing, oral communication, or critical thinking. Assumes students have already attained mastery of the outcomes. It is not an independent study. GWAR is required to graduate and should be completed at the beginning of the junior year. The recommended pathway for the fulfillment of GWAR is a GWAR-certified course. Students who believe they have completed written work that demonstrates fulfillment of the GWAR outcomes may seek instructor consent to enroll.

Examines social transformation and the role of media initiatives and communication strategies in local and global contexts. Explores how media can promote social justice and democracy, teach sustainable living, foster dialogues on diversity, catalyze peace building, advocate for equality, and promote conversations on issues of social exclusion. This class offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Journalism and Media Studies and Practical Professional Ethics.

Develops media literacy and related knowledge, skills, and abilities. Explores implications of globalization on media production, distribution, and access, as well as on the content, context, consumption, and effects of media messages. Topics include media's role in democracy, what citizens have a right to expect from media and how media reflect and reinforce their social context. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Journalism and Media Studies, or Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every year.)

IntrIn a service learning context, students deepen communication skills, engage contemporary composition theories, and develop advanced written communication skills in a variety of genres. Students apply theories in area schools and literacy programs. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 or the concentration in Writing and Rhetoric. Fulfills the English Subject Matter Preparation requirement in Communication Skills and the Field Experience requirement.

Introduces students to writing conventions, contemporary composition theories, and major forms of written expression such as expressive, interpretive, technical, rhetorical, argumentative, invitational, and creative. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 for Liberal Studies students only. (Offered every other year.)

Introduces the basic elements and diverse linguistic attributes of the English language, and language theories, including universals and differences. Commonly practiced grammatical concepts and conventions and theories of language acquisition are studied and applied within the contexts of imperialism and post-colonial analysis. Explores the dynamics of current issues in language, including the roles of grammar in the schools, language in advertising, and variations in language usage. Offers built-in assessment for the concentration in Writing and Rhetoric. Required for the Single Subject in English Waiver Language Theories and Praxis Requirement. (Offered every other year.)

Covers a diverse selection of rhetorical traditions from antiquity through contemporary times; investigates, analyzes, and evaluates major and recuperated historical figures and movements; explores the role of rhetoric in a variety of historical and cultural contexts; considers the relationships of rhetoric to epistemology, ethics, economics, spirituality, and politics. Offers build-in assessment for the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.)

Develops students' critical and analytical reading ability of literature from the perspective of the Asian American experience. Grounds the discussion of Asian American experiences, literatures, and cultures in history and theory. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies, or Literary and Film Studies. A literature course from GE Area C2 is recommended. (Offered every year.)

Examines the history of American drama. Explores the diverse cultures that have contributed to the shaping of the American drama. Introduces students to literary analysis through the study of the dialogical relationship between the "logical core"" and the ""non-logical texture."" Offers built in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. (Offered every year.)"

Examines the development of African American and African diaspora literature. Explores the quintessential role African American and African diaspora literature and culture have played in the development of American mainstream literature, culture, and identity. Looks at vernacular tradition, the call and response practice, and the lyrics of the blues-infused, African American literary expression. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Africana Studies, Literary and Film Studies, Comparative American Studies or History, Oral History and New Media. (Offered every other year.)

Explores immigration to the United States from different cultural perspectives. Integrates a historiographic approach as the primary method for reading and critically interpreting immigrant narratives; uses historical events such as The Great Depression, World War I and II, and the Civil Rights Movement as markers for analyzing the texts. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies; Comparative American Studies; or History, Oral History & New Media Studies. Satisfactory completion of the U.S. Histories ULR, the Literature/Popular Culture ULR, and the Culture and Equity ULR also recommended. (Offered every other year.)

Explores immigration to the United States from different cultural perspectives. Integrates a historiographic approach as the primary method for reading and critically interpreting immigrant narratives; uses historical events such as The Great Depression, World War I and II, and the Civil Rights Movement as markers for analyzing the texts. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies; Comparative American Studies; or History, Oral History & New Media Studies. Satisfactory completion of the U.S. Histories ULR, the Literature/Popular Culture ULR, and the Culture and Equity ULR also recommended. (Offered every other year.)

Examines American literature through different historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements. Develops ability to compare and contrast social, historical, and cultural experiences represented in literature. Students gain cross-cultural knowledge of American literary history, an introduction to literary theory, and further development of literary analysis skills. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Literary Histories, Theories, and Praxis Requirement. A literature course from GE Area C2 is highly recommended. (Offered every other year.)

Explores intersections of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class through autobiographical and testimonial writings by Chicana, Mexican-origin, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and mixed-heritage Latinas in the U.S. Students produce multimedia digital stories about their own lives and identities. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in History, Oral History, and New Media; Chicana/o Latina/o Studies; Comparative American Studies; Women's Studies; or Literature and Film Studies. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Technology requirement. A literature course from the Literature/ Popular Culture ULR is recommended. (Offered every year.)

A multimedia lab in digital history/storytelling. Instruction in digitizing, editing and creation of images, audio, and video; online media research and copyright fair use. Recommended for students enrolled in HCOM 328 who are unfamiliar with I-Movie, Photoshop, sound editing, and online media research.

A bilingual English/Spanish course on autobiography, testimonio, life histories, and telenovelas (soaps). Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and do life writing or multimedia production in either Spanish or English. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or concentrations in Chicana/o Latina/o Studies; or a Spanish Major Learning Outcome in World Languages and Cultures. Requires the ability to understand spoken Spanish. (Offered every other year.)

An introductory creative writing course that focuses on ethnicity, gender, and "witness"" writing. Examination of the writing process

Provides students the opportunity to be actively involved in the community. Students research and examine a particular public issue, and gain hands-on experience, knowledge, and skills about community sites. Students learn how to enter and exit communities sensitively, and participate in a multicultural community setting. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 and half of the Liberal Studies HCOM Concentration in Creative Writing. (Offered every other year.)

An introductory creative writing course focusing on ethnicity, gender, and social change, in relationship to visual arts. Cross-cultural readings in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. No previous art experience necessary. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8. (Offered every other year.)

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An intermediate level creative writing workshop that examines women's lives, and their relationship to the writing process. Includes in-class writing exercises, cross-cultural readings, discussions of the writing process, and creative writing. For women and men honing their craft of writing poetry, fiction, life-stories. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 (only with prior consent of instructor) or the concentrations in Creative Writing and Social Action, or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)

An intermediate-level creative writing workshop that focuses on fiction writing and creative non-fiction. Students explore forms of fiction, and move toward publication. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 (only with prior consent of instructor) or the concentrations in Creative Writing and Social Action, Journalism and Media Studies or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.)

This learning experience takes a comparative approach to the examination of American ethnic literature and cultures. It is designed to develop students' ability to compare and contrast the social, historical, and cultural experiences as they are represented in literature. The interdisciplinarity nature of the course is accentuated not only through the introduction to the use of language and literary analysis, but also through the discussion of history, philosophy, culture, and social justice.

A literature course in contemporary multicultural poetry, with a focus on gender issues. "A new kind of man / a new kind of woman

Examines, through literature, how women writers are rewriting the myths and scripts of their / our lives, and how writing is a way of taking action. Explores how women have moved from repression to resistance, from silence to voice, from socially constructed divisiveness toward community. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies, or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Examines multicultural adolescent literature through the study of issues related to identity, race, culture, equity, and social justice/injustice over time. In particular, the course will provide opportunities to discuss the difficulties that young people have in coming to terms with these complicated issues. Required course for the Single Subject in English Waiver concentration, meeting the Multicultural Adolescent Literature Requirement. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Develops service learning sensitivity, creative writing competency and craft. Students develop original pieces and age-appropriate interdisciplinary creative writing exercises for SL partners in the schools. Offers built-in assessment for HCOM MLO 8, the Concentration in Creative Writing and Social Action, HCOM Service Learning, and the CTC requirement in advanced writing in the classroom. Meets the English Subject Matter Preparation Program field experience requirement.

Engages topical study of social movements in the service learning environment. Introduces various models of political organizing in movements that have addressed societal inequities from class, race, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and other positionalities, and students apply these models to contemporary problems of inequity. The service learning component connects students with community organizations in order to be participant observers in contemporary organizing strategies.

Explores modes of analysis that engage the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, economic class, and (dis)ability. Readings and activities will ponder the ways that different feminist theoretical paradigms work to advance social justice. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Women's Studies or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every year.)

Examines the legal practices and scholarship that have intersected race and gender. We will read court cases that have shaped legal doctrine and essays that analyze and interpret that doctrine in order to understand the differing experiences of and conditions for women of all colors in relationship to gender justice. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Women's Studies, Pre-Law. (Offered every year.)

Offers an intensive introduction to the roots, forms, and impacts of Chicana and Latina feminist discourses. Explores critical analyses of historical and contemporary Chicana/Latina life experiences while presenting theoretical frameworks such as transnationalism, intersectionality, and gender studies. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, History, Oral History and New Media, Comparative American Studies, or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Intensive introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural formations. Course has two objectives: to equip students with the analytical skills necessary to interpret the variety and particularity of the Mexican American and Latin American experiences; and, to expose students to an array of cultural experiences that have contributed to the formation of Chicana/o and Latina/o identities. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies, or Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies. (Offered every year.)

An introduction to the historical and cultural narratives that shape African American identities and experiences. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Africana Studies; Comparative American Studies; or History, Oral History, and New Media. (Offered every year.)

Provides an opportunity to analyze and discuss the ways that film has portrayed issues of colonialism, race, culture, equity, power relationships, and identity over the past 100 years. We view films from various countries around the world, and we examine the historical, social, political, and artistic background of each film. Offers built-in assessment for HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies, History, Oral History and New Media or Literary and Film Studies. Also satisfies the Liberal Studies requirement in Multicultural Literature(s). (Offered every year.)

Students design and conduct oral history projects in surrounding communities. Projects address social issues of significance to the student and the community involved. Interviews are archived in the CSUMB Oral History and Community Memory Archive. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or, depending on the topic, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Technology requirement. (Offered every year.)

Working in a local community, students design and conduct a collaborative oral history project of significance to students and community alike. Interviews will become part of the CSUMB Oral History and Community Memory Archive.

Critical and comparative survey of modern world history since the 18th century. Focuses on social, political, and cultural histories of ordinary people and how they shaped and were shaped by state formation, global trade and exchange, capitalist transformation, industrialization, political ideologies, and nationalism. Incorporates history of the U.S. - its formation and transformation into global history framework. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7, or the concentration in Single Subject in History and Social Sciences Waiver. (Offered occasionally.)

"It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and

Brings a historical perspective to contemporary issues facing California, from immigration and racism to the future of public culture and the environment. Students explore the cross-cultural history of California and participate in hands-on research into California's past. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies; or History, Oral History, and New Media. Meets the Single Subject Waiver in History/Social Science requirement in California History. (Offered every year.)

Explores struggles over whom and what will be remembered in national and local history by involving students in hands-on research into the past. Covers the culture wars taking place in politics, the media, museums, and state parks across the country. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies; or History, Oral History, and New Media. Meets the Single Subject History/Social Science Waiver in Modern U.S. History. (Offered every year.)

Explores the complex experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicana/os, European Americans, and Native Americans in U.S. history. Combines the use of traditional written sources, such as autobiographies, with new media technologies, such as the Internet, and multimedia presentations. Requires basic computer experience. Offers built-in assessment in for HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies; Literary and Film Studies; or History, Oral History, and New Media. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Teaching with New Media Requirement and Technology Requirement. Meets the Single Subject History/Social Science Waiver in Modern U.S. History. (Offered every year.)

A multimedia lab in digital history/storytelling. Instruction in digitizing, editing and creation of images, audio, and video; online media research and copyright fair use. Recommended for students enrolled in HCOM 356 who are unfamiliar with I-Movie, Photoshop, sound editing, and online media research.

Introduction to constitutional law through an in-depth examination of select U.S. Supreme Court cases. Close attention to how constitutional law has shaped and been shaped by the experience of ordinary people and the impact of the court's decisions on the social, political, and economic histories of the United States from a multicultural perspective. Offers built-in assessment in the concentration Pre-Law. (Offered every other year.)

Broadly introduces law in society from interdisciplinary global perspectives. Focuses on intersections of law with everyday life and how law is shaped by and shapes its social context. Special attention to how race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation relate to law and legal systems. Offers built-in assessment in the concentrations in Pre-Law or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Examines the historical, legal, and social construction of sexuality from the perspective of multicultural communities in the United States. Emphasis on histories of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Pre-Law; History, Oral History, and New Media; or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Advanced introduction to the historical experiences of people of Mexican and Latin American descent in the U.S. Explores a variety of forces which have shaped and continue to shape the lives of these communities. Emphasizes the historical and sociological method used to analyze these experiences, with primary focus on the 20th century. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7, or the concentrations in Chicana/o- Latina/o Studies; History, Oral History, and New Media; or Comparative American Studies. (Offered occasionally.)

Prepares students to write news articles for the mass media. Outcomes include learning basic concepts of journalistic interviewing; information gathering; critical understanding of new sources; ethical decision making; and writing news, editorial, and feature articles for print and electronic media. Students working on the Otter Realm are strongly encouraged to enroll. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Journalism and Media Studies or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every year.)

Prepares students to conduct journalistic interviewing and reporting. Outcomes include learning basic and advanced journalistic interviewing techniques, information gathering, and critical understanding of news sources, as well as journalistic writing and independent research. The course focuses on the exploration of current social, economic, political and environmental issues. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentration in Journalism and Media Studies. Requires instructor consent. (Offered every year.)

Prepares students to successfully design, layout, and publish journalistic products. Outcomes include learning the basic concepts of visual communication and journalistic production, including magazine and newspaper publishing, as well as desktop publishing techniques and software. Students working on the Otter Realm are strongly encouraged to enroll. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentration in Journalism and Media Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Prepares students to conduct in-depth and investigative reporting. Outcomes include learning advanced journalistic interviewing techniques, information gathering, and critical understanding of news sources. Focuses on the journalistic exploration of current social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Offers built-in assessment in the concentration in Journalism and Media Studies. Requires instructor consent. (Offered every other year.)

Students produce The Otter Realm campus newspaper. Outcomes include learning journalistic writing and reporting techniques such as interviewing, information gathering, and writing news and feature stories, as well as media analysis skills. Upon prior consent of instructor, offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentration in Journalism and Media Studies. (Offered every semester.)

Prepares students to report and write magazine articles about social issues. Outcomes include learning advanced journalistic and creative nonfiction interviewing, reporting techniques, and writing short feature and in-depth magazine stories. Focuses on training students to write a magazine story from conception and pitching the story to a magazine through reporting, organizing, writing, rewriting, and editing. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Journalism and Media Studies or Writing and Rhetoric. Requires instructor consent. (Offered every other year.)

Studies a particular topic in Human Communication. (Offered occasionally.) (Letter Grade Available)

With faculty sponsorship and oversight, students design, develop, and teach a particular topic in Human Communication. (Offered occasionally.)

Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism. (Offered occasionally.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)

Opportunity for independent internship involving any area of legal studies. Offers built-in assessment for HCOM Pre-Law concentration or elective in Pre-Law minor. (Offered every semester)

Through exploration and application of diverse moral frameworks, students acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to identify and ethically resolve complex moral issues commonly associated with a variety of professions. Participants also gain insight into how to help establish and sustain environments conducive to ethical reflection and practice. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 3 or the concentrations in Pre-Law or Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every year.)

Participants develop and apply knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to identify and ethically address moral challenges commonly experienced in professional life. Reciprocal partnerships within the community provide opportunities for students to engage in projects designed to foster ethical and effective communication, to empower recipients of public services, and to facilitate fulfillment of organizational goals and commitments. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 3 or the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics or Pre-Law. (Offered every year.)

Students explore diverse models of justice as philosophies and practices. The epistemological, ethical, political, and spiritual dimensions of restorative justice are studied in cross-cultural contexts. Offers built-in assessment for HCOM MLO 4 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Pre-Law, or Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every other year.)

Students explore the social construction of sexuality. Epistemological, ethical, political, and spiritual dimensions of sexuality are studied in cross-cultural contexts. Offers built-in assessment for HCOM MLO 4 or the Concentration in Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every other year.)

Introduces classical philosophical questions, such as the nature of good and evil, reality, and efforts to understanding self and community, through stories and film. Visual media integrate with classical and contemporary readings in philosophy enabling students to learn about the problems, methods and insights in philosophical analysis.

Explores theories and methods of conflict resolution. Participants apply multicultural approaches to problem solving in personal, professional, and social contexts. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 3 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Pre-Law, or Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every other year.)

Students interpret, analyze, and evaluate a selection of rhetorical theories or theoreticians in comparative, cultural, global, historical, and political frameworks. They consider their roles as practitioners, consumers, and critics of rhetoric; they apply elements derived from their study of the theories to rhetorical topics. The specific content will vary each semester. Offers build-in assessment for the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.)

A study of the history of the English language within imperialism and post-colonialism, emphasizing morphological changes in the language. Explores sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and current linguistic theory and makes practical applications. Analyzes language development theories and current issues in language, including standardization, bilingualism, language variations, gender, literacy, and language in the schools, and methods of teaching reading. Offers built-in assessment in MLO 6 or meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Language and Linguistic Theories and Praxis Requirement. (Offered every other year.)

Explores in-depth a selection of one or more rhetorical traditions outside the traditional Western rhetorical canon; utilizes interdisciplinary methodologies to investigate and analyze the cultural concept and role of rhetoric in relationship to epistemology, ethics, spirituality, economics, and politics; examines developments in cultural rhetorical traditions in relationship to cross-cultural encounters, including but not limited to colonialism and postcolonialism. Offers build-in assessment in MLO 5 or the concentration in Writing and Rhetoric or or Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every other year.)

Examines the emergence of non-Western voices and perspectives in literature and films from the post-colonial "South

Travel narratives relate journeys to home audiences, portray the "other

Examines representative works by British writers from different periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Realist, Modern and Post-Modern. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Literary Histories, Theories, and Praxis Requirement. A literature course from the Literature/Popular Culture ULR is recommended. (Offered every other year.)

Analyzes the works of Chicana poets of the 20th and 21st centuries, among them Lorna Dee Cervantes, Pat Mora, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Demetria Martinez, and Diana Garcia. From the rural to the urban experience, students study the historical, cultural, and political determinants that define the work as Chicana. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies; Chicana/o- Latina/o Studies; or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Examines works by British writers from Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Realist, Modern, and Post-Modern literary periods. Explores literature as both literary and linguistic text. Applies postcolonial approaches to literature and explores current linguistic theories and sociolinguistic approaches. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6. Meets requirements in the Single Subject English Waiver concentration for English Literary Histories, Theories, and Praxis, and for Language and Linguistic Theories and Praxis. A ULR literature course from Literature/Popular Culture is recommended. (Offered every other Fall semester.)

An intermediate level creative writing course in which students apply their craft to a particular public issue. Students do collaborative research and interviews in the community. They produce poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and visual representations of their writings. End-of-semester project is used to educate the community. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 (only with prior consent of instructor) or the concentrations in Creative Writing and Social Action; History, Oral History and New Media or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.)

Intermediate level creative writing course in which students apply craft to a particular public issue. Students do collaborative research and interviews in the community. They produce poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and visual representations of their writings. End-of-semester project is used to educate the community. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 (With prior consent) or the concentration in Creative Writing and Social Action or History, Oral History and New Media Studies.

Read, analyze, and create life stories. Explores memory and intersecting identities of ethnicity, race, class, gender, and sexuality through multicultural life narratives about family, migration, work, education, and community. Develops creative writing, literary analysis, and multimedia skills. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 and MLO 8, or the concentrations in Creative Writing and Social Action; History, Oral History and New Media Studies; or Literary and Film Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Students analyze the literary criticism that offers criteria for defining multicultural gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, and transgender literary tradition(s). They then explore canonized, non-canonical, and marginalized texts in relationship to issues of sexuality and authorship, content, genre, and form. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Analyzes Shakespeare's plays from classical, modern, postmodern, and postcolonial perspectives, and meanings in the colonial and postcolonial world. Covers Shakespeare's plays from comedies and histories to tragedies and romances. Explores the symbiotic relationship between literature and film. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Literary Histories, Theories, and Praxis Requirement. (Offered every other year.)

Students analyze the works of one or two authors and study the historical, social, and political contexts of their work in-depth. Varying content each semester. Please contact professor about which authors will be studied. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Explores the dynamics of American social and political structures and the relationship to culture. Examines the roots of racism, sexism, and classism with a special emphasis on leadership development and community participation. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies; Practical and Professional Ethics; Women's Studies; Pre-Law; or Peace Studies (Offered occasionally.)

Explores the development of black feminism as both a conceptual framework and from a political practice. Examines black feminism from a comparative perspective and within a global context. Special attention will be given to black feminist thought and activism in Africa, the United States, England, and Brazil. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Africana Studies, Comparative American Studies, Literary and Film Studies, or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Examines the cultural, social, and political dimensions of slavery and race relations in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Readings and class discussions explore the development of slavery in countries such as Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil. Examines the impact of nationalist ideologies on contemporary racial dynamics in the region. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Africana Studies; History, Oral History, and New Media; or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Through theoretical readings, films, and ethnographic case studies, students explore how racialized, colonized, and other excluded indigenous or transnational communities construct, claim, and struggle for human, social, and cultural rights and identities. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies; Comparative American Studies; or History, Oral History, and New Media. (Offered every other year.)

Exploring the African Diaspora is a 4-week course, which includes a two-week study trip. It provides an introduction to African Diasporic societies and cultures. Students attain an overview of slavery, race and gender relations, political mobilizations, African Diasporic religions, music and literatures. Learning activities include language study, guided tours and museum visits, lectures, performances, and meetings with anthropologists, historians, and artists. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5. (Offered periodically)

Examines recent theories related to migration including nationalism and the nation, transnationalism, diaspora, borders/borderlands, and globalization. Surveys key theories and compares histories of specific transnational communities, focusing primarily on migrations between Asia/Asia Pacific and the Americas. Offers built-in assessment for HCOM MLO 7 Historical Analysis, and concentrations in Comparative American Studies; Chicana/o Latina/o Studies; and History, Oral History, and New Media. Also applicable to the Chicana/o Studies Minor. (Offered every other year.)

Students analyze literature such as the novels of Henry James, E.M. Forster, William Burroughs, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, and Stephen King, and they also view critically the films made from such literature. Throughout the course, students explore and revise criteria for determining both the strengths and the limitations of each art form. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. (Offered every other year.)

This course examines the key social and ideological influences that shaped the dominant concerns of Victorian Britain. Among these concerns are the roles of men and women, industrialization, class struggle, sexuality, racial difference, poverty and disease, education, and social change. Drawing on a wide range of textual evidence, the course provides opportunities to explore and apply methods of socio-cultural historical research and offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7.

Explores emerging intellectual paradigms in the Chicano community and traces their antecedents and relationships. Provides an intensive foundation in Chicano studies theory and emergent issues. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies; or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every other year.)

Students explore an advanced interdisciplinary issue in the humanities from at least two perspectives. The course is team-taught by two faculty members. Offers built-in assessment in two MLOs or concentration(s) determined by the instructors. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered every other year.)

Students explore an advanced specialty issue in Human Communication in a small, interactive, seminar format. The in-depth study required directly relates to the professor's current research or pedagogy in Human Communication. Counts toward the concentration(s) determined by HCOM. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered occasionally.)

Senior level HCOM research seminar designed to helps students develop, commence and sustain the complex research skills expected of an HCOM graduate. Students deepen their research skills, including but not limited to the ability develop a scholarly research question and project, determine information required, identify where to find needed information, and the skills needed to obtain, synthesize, and integrate information. Subject focus may vary. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Students produce a complex, interdisciplinary senior research project related to an issue or topic within the Human Communication major and their Depth Concentration. Students present their project in a public Capstone Festival. Required for all HCOM majors applying for graduation. Instructor Consent required. (Offered every semester.)

Students receive class credit for working in a real news organization, such as the public relations office of a business or community organization, in an advertising agency or any other media organization. They learn with support from both an internship adviser and a mentor at the organization where they work. Requires 300 hours of work and participation in online class. Offers built-in assessment of concentration or credit in Journalism and Media Studies. (Offered every semester.)

Explores the technical, journalistic, and social empowerment aspects of creating a mass media product. Students help a community group create a media project, such as a newsletter, public service campaign, or website. Outcomes include learning the basic concepts of visual communication and journalistic production, as well as digital media techniques when appropriate. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentration in Journalism and Media Studies. (Offered occasionally.)

Students learn design by doing design, mentoring each other and exchanging ideas as they put out the campus newspaper. Taken in conjunction with a related two-unit course, this two-unit credit/no credit course fulfills a concentration credit for the Journalism and Media Studies concentration in Human Communication or for the minor in Journalism and Media Studies. (Offered every semester.)

Studies a particular topic in Human Communication. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered occasionally.) (Credit/No Credit Available)

Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism. (Offered occasionally.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)

A graduate course on the theory and practice of cultural citizenship. Explores how Latina/o and other marginalized or excluded communities claim rights to human, social, and cultural equality through cultural difference. Open to any CSUMB graduate student. (Offered occasionally.)

Explores emerging intellectual paradigms in the Chicano community and traces their antecedents and relationships. Provides an intensive foundation in Chicano studies theory and emergent issues. Open to any CSUMB graduate student. (Offered occasionally.)

For students interested in the oral history of the Fort Ord Conversion Project. (Offered occasionally.) (Credit/No Credit Available)

Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism. (Offered occasionally.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)

This course introduces economic and social contexts of traditional heritage based and innovative arts through observing visual art and theatre, interactions with arts professionals, creative projects, writing assignments, readings and analysis of local and global art movements. During this class, students will engage in a series of creative, reflective and analytical exercises, gaining deeper understanding for the process of cultural and artistic production and its economic and aesthetic power.

Provides leadership and mentoring opportunities and develops related leadership skills for California Mini-Corps students as they work in the classrooms and in the homes of migrant students in K-12. Must be admitted to the mini-corps program. (Offered as interest warrants). May be repeated for credit.

Introduces the arts and art education in public school and community contexts. Emphasizes investigating art, art criticism, and the aesthetics of various artists across dance, music, theater, and visual arts. Addresses the selection of materials, techniques, tools, art concepts, and strategies appropriate for teaching art to multiple "communities"" of students

Assessment of Early Field Experience allows students who have extensive elementary school classroom experience to demonstrate having met the outcomes of LS 298S, the early field experience course required by State guidelines for future teachers. Students must complete CSU GE Area D prior to transfer to CSUMB to be eligible for this course.

Special Topics courses study a particular topic in the liberal studies majorfor lower division students. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Introduction to Teaching & Learning introduces students to the teaching profession and classroom work by examining the daily work of classroom teachers in multicultural schools. Explores student and youth issues and schooling, the dynamics of school/parent/community relationships, and the effects of educational policies and practices on culturally and linguistically diverse populations. For Liberal Studies majors only.

Introduction to Teaching & Learning introduces students to the teaching profession and classroom work by examining the daily work of classroom teachers in multicultural schools. Explores student and youth issues and schooling, the dynamics of school/parent/community relationships, and the effects of educational policies and practices on culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Students complete approximately 30 hours of early field experience through service learning activities. (Offered every semester.)

Major ProSeminar: Orientation, Perspectives & Lifelong Learning focuses on academic orientation and lifelong learning skills that are applicable in academic and professional contexts: basic and advanced writing skills, critical thinking, collaborative learning, academic self-development, research, and multicultural education. Students develop an Academic Learning Plan to guide their learning. (Offered every semester.)

An analysis of the key political, legal and sociocultural issues in the K-16 education of Latino students, the largest and fastest growing Àmajority-minorityÀ population in the U.S. The course examines the historical and contemporary ways that Latino students are socially constructed along race, gender, language, and immigration status within the public schools. The Latino K-16 experience is tied to family and community involvement and examines how educational equity is a critical aspiration.

An analysis of the key political, legal and sociocultural issues in the K-16 education of Latino students, the largest and fastest growing Àmajority-minorityÀ population in the U.S. The course examines the historical and contemporary ways that Latino students are socially constructed along race, gender, language, and immigration status within the public schools. The Latino K-16 experience is tied to family and community involvement and examines how educational equity is a critical aspiration.

Introduces multicultural concepts of diverse groups by examining equity issues & perspectives among immigrants, including their historical struggles & power determinists for social, economic & political stratification associated with race, gender, sexual orientation & abilities. Examines 5 Southeast Asian (SEA) groups that migrated to the U.S. by exploring U.S. policies towards SEA region. Presented are the social constructs from various disciplines, e.g. history, sociology, spirituality, etc.

In Teaching for Social Change, students learn the skills and theories of how to be agents of change, as educational professionals, in their communities. Students gain knowledge in integrating social action into K-8 school curriculum. Students engage in a social justice project relevant to a local issue or community. (Offered every semester.)

Innov Approaches to Schling: Issues in Education expands students' understanding of alternative education models and philosophies (e.g., Montessori, Waldorf, etc.). Students also explore the social environment in classrooms, and current trends and obstacles in teaching and learning. (Offered every semester.)

Issues in Comparative and International Education: The course introduces students to issues in comparative and international education in the context of a changing interrelated global society, by examining the historical events and processes that have impacted international education and the views of U.S. educators on issues of national security, development, development education, globalism, colonialism, nationalism, and ethno-nationalism of some globally representative national school systems in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Culture and Cultural Diversity introduces cross-cultural analysis of U.S. based social ethnic groups; power relations; and equity in social, political, and historical contexts. Explores contemporary issues of generational acculturation; construction of gender, race, class, abilities, and sexual identity; and environmental justice in the contexts of power, privilege, and discrimination. (Offered every semester.)

Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: Familiarizes students with diverse and high quality children's literature across socio-cultural groups. Engages students in interpreting, from multiple perspectives, representations and socio-cultural patterns and symbols found across various authors and literary genres. Introduces students to various pedagogical approaches for the teaching of multicultural literature for children and young adults.

Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: Familiarizes students with diverse and high quality children's literature across socio-cultural groups. Engages students in interpreting, from multiple perspectives, representations and socio-cultural patterns and symbols found across various authors and literary genres. Introduces students to various pedagogical approaches for the teaching of multicultural literature for children and young adults. Requires completion of an approved service learning project.

Special Topics courses study a particular topic in the liberal studies major. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Allows upper-division students to pursue courses on special topics. May involve such activities as readings and reaction papers, term papers, reports on life experiences, and action research. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Allows upper-division students to complete independent service learning experiences in the major. Students follow LS guidelines and requirements for service learning reflections, portfolio development, and assessment. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Social Foundations of Multicultural Education: Service Learning examines issues, problems, and solutions to equitable schooling in a pluralistic society. Viewing schools as social institutions that transform the cultural and political dynamics of society. The course focuses on history, politics, and theories of education for culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

Social Foundations of Multicultural Education: Service Learning examines issues, problems, and solutions to equitable schooling in a pluralistic society. Viewing schools as social institutions that transform the cultural and political dynamics of society. The course focuses on history, politics, and theories of education for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Requires completion of approved service learning hours (approximately 20 hours) and community projects. (Offered every semester.)

The culminating learning experience in the major, Senior Capstone requires students to demonstrate and synthesize their learning across the disciplines through a well-defined research paper or project. Emphasizes both depth of content knowledge and reflection on students' growth through their coursework. Students may reflect on learning experiences, such as a learning Portfolio, begun in LS300 Major ProSeminar. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the GWAR. (Offered every semester.)

Students are introduced to science as a method of studying and understanding human biology from an evolutionary perspective. Examines the foundations of life and evolutionary theory and the principles of genetics, human adaptation, and primate behavior. Explores the fossil record of human bicultural evolution over the last sixty million years. Students will also consider the anthropological understanding of the concept of human "races"" today. (Credit/ No Credit Available)"

This course is a general introduction to the discipline of Anthropology and its distinct sub-fields. Anthropology is the study of the human experience; as such, it explores four major areas with emphasis on social and cultural dimensions. The course explores the central importance that the comparative approach has had in each of the sub-fields.

Introduces students to college-level reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through an exploration of and student responses to written and visual source materials covering the history of the US from pre-contact Native America to 1920. Further develops reading skills through a focus on divergent perspectives. Central themes this course focuses on include race relations, class, ethnicity, and gender. (Offered Spring semester.)

Taught in conjunction with SBS 111: The United States to 1920. Students must be enrolled in SBS 111 to take this course. Designed to develop reading, writing, critical thinking, and emphatic comprehension and communication skills through the discipline of history. (Offered spring semester.)

Student and faculty member select lower division topics of study and the total number of credit hours. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and total number of credit hours.

Students develop critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using concepts and current issues in the social sciences and global studies. Through participating in class-based workshops on writing mechanics, reading scholarly and creative works, and writing literature reviews, students develop their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Students acquire knowledge of diverse peoples and politics of the United States in historical and contemporary social contexts through collaborative explorations of the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and environment. They develop the skills to become their own historians, and to effectively use the tools of political action reflecting knowledge of the constitutions and political systems of California and the United States. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Optional lab for SBS 212, Social and Political Histories of the U.S. Provides opportunities for students to focus in depth on one or more topics or themes covered in SBS 212.

Examines the social and psychological foundations of violence and aggression in the context of cross-cultural perceptions of violence explored by way of a variety of martial arts styles and programs. Reviews the interrelationships obtaining between intellectual, psychological, spiritual, aesthetic, and physical health as it applies to one's life through the philosophy of the martial arts. Provides an interdisciplinary review of the sources of social and interpersonal violence. Formerly known as SBSC 230.

This course integrates psychological, physiological, and sociological domains across the lifespan as they relate to personalÀpsychological and physicalÀsafety. Students practice through mental imagery and simulation how they might deal with mental and physical violence as it is patterned in our culture. Stress management techniques include breathing, stretching, and mental visualization using the latest findings from cognitive psychology, with martial arts traditions and aerobic exercises.

Examines and compares the political experiences, cultural practices, and literary expressions of diverse Latino populations in the U.S. Topics include immigration, citizenship, demographics, work, religion, education, language, gender, and cultural rights. Readings include ethnographies, histories, novels, and films. Students design political projects.

Examines Native American societies and cultures in North America, more precisely, the geographic areas of Mexico, the United States and Canada. Emphasizes the development of Native Americans and their societies over time, their influence on North America and the broader global community, and Native Americans & relationship with US political and social institutions. Gender, identity, and comparative indigenous world views will be central themes. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Covers basic micro and macroeconomic principles in relation to policies and real-world case studies from gender, ethical, and global perspectives. Students learn key economic concepts that affect their lives, along with the social/cultural contexts of major economic thinkers who coined those economic principles. It presents social scientific methods of inquiry in multiple social science lenses. Students learn feminist, environmental, and Global South perspectives. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Applies a geographical perspective to the study of environment, culture, human societies, and their interactions. Examines world regions using a thematic approach to population, language, religion, economic development, social customs, urbanization, and resource problems. Focuses on spatial concepts, principles, and contemporary issues. Formerly known as SBSC 252. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Students acquire a basic foundation in social and globalization theories and methods through exploration of current issues. Required entry into the Social and Behavioral Sciences major. Successful completion of both lecture and lab is required to earn GE A4 credit. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Preparatory to advanced theory and research methods, students engage in hands-on practice to develop introductory skills and techniques for the social sciences. Students become conversant with common research methodology language, research design, and ethical considerations. The course specifically addresses the requirements of the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS). Students begin preparation of a Graduation Portfolio, and complete an Individualized Learning Plan. Successful completion of both lecture and lab is required to earn GE A4 credit. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

California Indian Societies: This course examines California Indian Societies through the lenses of the Social Sciences. Students will be introduced to and discuss various historic and contemporary issues confronting California Native American tribal communities residing within urban and rural areas. Issues this course focus on include regional distinctions, gender roles and relations, inter- and intra-tribal relations, different historical eras and periods, economic systems, political systems, tribal relations with the state and the federal government, laws and policies, repatriation.

Contemporary American Indian Policy: This course examines contemporary American Indian Policy from the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 to the present day. Policy issues will include Indian-white relations, Self Determination, Termination, Relocation, Federal Recognition, NAGPRA, Indian responses to federal laws, Sovereignty, natural resources and economic development. Attention will be paid to reservation policies, urban issues, cultural resources and maintenance, and inter-tribal relations.

Students gain first- hand knowledge of the main theorists and major schools of social theory over the last 100 years. Offered as interest warrants.

This writing lab provides an essential introduction to technical or scientific writing for archaeologists and other social scientists. Though course content may vary, course objectives center on imparting those basic skills necessary for producing accurate technical descriptions, scientific reports, abstracts and annotations and clear and concise lab and field reports and written documentation.

Examines how globalization, global labor migration, global supply chains, multinational corporations and global civil society organizations have affected working conditions and labor rights around the world from the late 20th to early 21st centuries. Emphasizes social, political and economic effects of globalization and outsourcing on workers in the U.S., Mexico, and Asia Pacific. Explores the abuses, challenges and opportunities for migrant workers. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Examines the development of U.S. society, government institutions, and economic expansion from the colonial period to 1920. Starts students on a teaching pathway thinking about how they might teach this content, while also serving the needs of non-teaching pathway students. Emphasizes research and analysis of primary sources within the context of the broad outline for eighth grade U.S. History contained in the most recent History Social Science Framework from the State Board of Education. (Credit/No Credit Available)

A practicum-based approach to those essential photographic skills and methods necessary for documenting objects, specimens, and human subjects from within a social sciences framework. Provides archaeology and other social sciences students with the necessary skills for producing effective images in film, print, and digital media. Specific methods addressed include studio and museum lighting, copy-work, and digital image manipulation for historic photo restoration and artifact reconstruction. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

The global economy is a very complex system linking countries and regions through the trade and flow of goods, services, and information. Geographers are interested in how globalization affects the spatial arrangement of economic activities; how this arrangement affects local and national economies; and how local and national economies contribute to the form and function of the global economy.

Covers fundamentals of the current technology necessary for success in both academia and industry. Students attain competency in the use of software and electronic communication tools to analyze and manipulate data, and present research findings. Emphasizes using multimedia technologies in the context of the social and behavioral sciences, including Web page development and design, photographic image manipulation, and web-based portfolios. Formerly known as SBSC 318. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Explores the art and architecture of the Spanish missions of California and the US Southwest from 1542 to 1848. Draws on firsthand accounts, primary documents, historic site visits to area missions, presidios, and adobes, and oral histories to explore indigenous and Hispanic communities of California and the Southwest. Emphasis on the art and architecture of the missions. Considers consequences of secularization and decline of the California missions the reduction of indigenous populations.

Ancient peoples and places of the American Southwest frame this exploration of the archaeologists and explorers who trekked the landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah for archaeology and science. Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest and their cultural legacies are central to this exploration of ancient towns. This survey of the archaeology of the American Southwest spans Paleo-Indian origins and sedentary agricultural villages, chiefdoms, and state-level societies. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

A lab or practicum devoted to experimental archaeology projects ranging from modern material culture or garbology studies through to the reduction and manufacture of lithics and stone tools. Required lab course for SBS 324S.

Introduces methods, principles, and practices of lab and field archaeology, stressing strategy, interpretation, description, information management, archaeological technologies, and scientific inquiry. Lab and service learning options include museum exhibitions, multimedia development, on-site field excavations, analysis of artifacts from area missions, historic ceramics and lithics analysis, or "garbology"""

The Aztec, or Aztlaneca Mexica, took to capturing and collecting the art and culture of all those domains that they conquered and subjugated. As a result, Aztec art, thought, and culture reflect an eclectic mixture of the many peoples and cultures of the empire. Explores the origins, art, language, and culture of a Mesoamerican civilization that was unique for its emphasis on human heart excision, but exclusively Mesoamerican in its art, architecture, and ideology. Formerly known as SBSC 325.

Emphasizes in-depth theory-based analyses of topics and themes shared across the social sciences, but within special theoretical frameworks and paradigms of two disciplines. Specific disciplinary frameworks vary based on the disciplines of faculty teaching the course. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

An overview of health issues, and different theoretical perspectives of the biological, behavioral, and social factors that influence health and health management. Health psychologists focus on prevention of illness and promote wellness through research and clinical interventions designed to foster good health and to reduce the risk of disease. Health psychology emphasizes the biopsychosocial model for prevention.

Examines the social and psychological foundations of violence and aggression in the context of cross-cultural perceptions of violence explored by way of a variety of martial arts styles and programs. Reviews the interrelationships obtaining between intellectual, psychological, spiritual, aesthetic, and physical health as it applies to one's life through the philosophy of the martial arts. Provides an interdisciplinary review of the sources of social and interpersonal violence. Formerly known as SBSC 330.

This course integrates psychological, physiological, and sociological domains across the lifespan as they relate to personalÀpsychological and physicalÀsafety. Students practice through mental imagery and simulation on how they might deal with mental and physical violence as it is patterned in our culture. Stress management techniques include breathing, stretching, and mental visualization, using the latest findings from cognitive psychology, with martial arts traditions and aerobic exercises.

Explores the origins and consequences of the Paleolithic through Neolithic periods of human cultural development that underlie the rise of civilization and the origins of the modern state. The domestication of plants and animals, early village life, the development of metallurgy and the arts, the origins of writing and the earliest dynastic traditions, and the rise of urbanism and the state serve as the primary cultural backdrop. Formerly known as SBSC 332.

This course combines cold case studies from archaeology, forensics, and biological anthropology in the analysis of the signs for blunt force trauma, strangulation, projectile wounds, dismemberment, disease, conflict-related violence, cannibalism, and mass murder. Peri-mortem and post-mortem indications from hard and soft anatomy underpin our examination of the coldest cases. The Forensic Anthro Lab is a practicum to SBS 333, and is a hands-on approach to the study of human skeletal anatomy.

The Forensic Anthropology Lab provides students with a hands-on approach to the study of human skeletal anatomy and forensic methods and approaches. While each lab will focus on hard or skeletal anatomy, both perimortem and post-mortem indications from both hard and soft anatomy will guide our examination of the coldest cases on record.

Reviews contemporary scholarship on anthropological research and praxis. Students actively participate in the discussion of assigned readings, and in the review and edition of a peer-reviewed online journal Culture, Society and Praxis. Students collaborate in the organization of at least one event (praxis) during the semester at the campus level. Meets Major Learning Outcomes 1 and 3 and is a required course for the Anthropology Concentration. Recommended for upper level division students. (Offered Spring and Fall).

Provides in-depth understanding of cultural anthropology. Introduces students to contemporary issues being discussed in cultural anthropology and subdisciplines such as economic, political, and social anthropology. Reviews selected perspectives such as structuralism and symbolic, interpretive, developmental, Marxist, feminist, transnational, and visual anthropology. Explores the concept and changing meaning of "culture"" as the central paradigm in anthropological analysis. Formerly known as SBSC 336."

Examines various psychologies and sociologies, and identifies theoretical and methodological similarities between them. From a psychological paradigm, derives shared meanings about the interpretation of the Self. And, from a sociological paradigm reaches an understanding of the role of Self in society, as well as the role society has on shaping the Self. Students experience a set of tasks that allow them to discover the "role of the other."" Offered both in-class and online. Formerly known as SBSC 338."

Analyzes worker agency (class, race/ethnicity, gender, place, religion), forms of labor organizing and protest from historical, political economy, U.S. and global perspectives. It traces the development of labor organizing and union strategies in the industrial and post-industrial periods in todayÀs global economy.

Analyzes worker agency (class, race/ethnicity, gender, religion), forms of labor organizing and protest from historical, political economy, U.S. and global perspectives. It traces the development of labor organizing and union strategies in the industrial and post-industrial periods and todayÀs global economy. Through real-life case studies, students earn upper-division service learning credits by servicing the needs of local labor unions and workers. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Examines psychological and social development using a multicultural perspective. Students engage in ethical reflection and practice through self-assessment and examination of those with different backgrounds. Explores interrelations among the personal, cognitive, and social development of the individual. Students learn the basic concepts and applications of counseling psychology and demonstrate cross-cultural competence in basic counseling skills through applied learning and experimental work. Formerly known as SBSC 340.

Explores political economy from historical, critical, global, and feminist perspectives. Students analyze relationships among economic systems and institutions, as well as cultural, political and social institutions, and a wide array of ideologies. Issues addressed include global economic crises, labor activism, labor migration, government, global civil society, poverty and inequality, corporate social and environmental responsibility, imperialism and war, and cultural transformations. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Examines the concept of culture as key to an understanding of the diversity and depth of the human experience. Emphasizes the comparative approach as a method to understanding cultural identity and the underpinnings of the relationships of power, equity, and social justice. The connections between informal and formal relations of power are in turn reviewed. Students will recognize and compare diverse approaches to ethical decision making in the context of the understanding of culture. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Examines the art, ideology, society, and culture of the ancient Maya dynastic tradition in comparative and cross-cultural terms and from the perspective of landmark archaeological projects, ethnohistorical studies, and glyph interpretation. Studies their respective significance in deciphering the larger Maya life way. Will review recent advancements in Maya glyph translation, astronomy, calendrical computation, as well as the literary, artistic, and historical traditions as conveyed through ancient texts and monuments.

Students acquire knowledge of systems of power and resistance movements in the U.S. since 1880. They develop the ability to use contemporary critical theories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and ecology for understanding conquests, colonial power, imperialism, and resistance to domination. Satisfies state requirement in recent U.S. history for teaching credential subject matter preparation. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Optional lab for SBS 350, Domination and Resistance: US since 1880. Provides opportunities for students to focus in depth on one or more topics or themes covered in SBS 350. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

This advanced course covers two components: 1. the fundamental framework and theories of neoclassical micro and macro economics; 2. global, gender and cross-disciplinary perspectives to critique the neoclassical framework. Using a policy-oriented and applied approach, we examine real-life case studies from feminist, environmentalist, Global South, informal economy, and other alternative perspectives.

Optional lab for SBS 351. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Applies a geographical perspective to the study of environment, culture, human societies, and their interactions. Examines world regions using a thematic approach to population, language, religion, economic development, social customs, urbanization, and resource problems. Focuses on spatial concepts, principles, and contemporary issues. Formerly known as SBSC 352.

Provides a small-group forum for the consideration of key anthropological theories and methods that inform contemporary archaeological thought and practice in the Americas. This intellectual history of American archaeology addresses essential social science theories and applications that dominate American archaeology and cultural resource studies. Primary themes and topics include evolutionary, environmental, structural, functional, economic, processural and post-processual approaches and applications. Required for all SBS majors in concentrations in archaeology and museum studies.

Using the latest instructional technology, introduces scientific principles of modern geography. Features both the cultural and environmental aspects of geography at global, regional, and local levels. Teaches perspectives that go beyond a concern with "where things are

An archaeology lab practicum or hands-on study of authentic artifacts and specimens recovered from past or ongoing archaeological investigations on the California central coast. Specific projects vary. Current analysis is centered on California Indian and Spanish colonial specimens, including bone, stone tools, ceramics, glassware, metal works, and military hardware recovered from early California mission and presidio contexts. Required for all students participating in SBSC 360S or other lab and field archaeology projects offered through the CSUMB Institute of Archaeology.

An archaeology lab and field program that places students on the front lines and in archaeological investigation in Mission era sites of the California central coast. Ethnohistorical and archival research methods permits students to explore firsthand issues in Mission studies. Students will undertake an archaeological excavation in missions or Contact era indigenous settlements. Lab and field options include the study of archaeological and historical collections related to Mission archaeology.

Provides an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the context of social and behavioral sciences. Covers basic GIS concepts as well as mapping applications across disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology. Students learn to examine the patterns and processes of social, economic, political, and cultural features on Earth's surface with the assistance of GIS technology. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

This is a required lab course for SBS361. It gives students opportunities to learn GIS software and to work on real world GIS projects. (Credit/No Credit Available)

This course presents various research methods, primarily qualitative and some quantitative methods. It explores different paradigms and appropriate methodologies. It allows students to engage in the whole research process of research design, data collection and data analyses in the social sciences. Students learn how to make professional presentations of findings.

This lab trains students in the systematic management of qualitative data. Students learn and practice the use of qualitative data collection and analysis software such as NVIVO8. Students learn how to use the software to organize, categorize, codify and report on data of primarily qualitative nature. (Offered spring semester.)

Examines the Black Civil Rights Movement of the South during the 1950s and 1960s in the larger context of Black struggles for justice throughout the Twentieth Century. The centerpiece of the course is a 12-day tour of key places in the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Participants will see social movements in their historical, social and geographical contexts.

This class uses multi-method approach to explore different paradigms and appropriate quantitative and some qualitative methodologies. Students engage in the research process: research design, hypothesis testing, data collection, data analysis and presentation of findings in written and oral formats. Students practice selecting appropriate research methods given different types of data. They can pilot test part of their capstone projects.

Research Methods for SBS: Quantitative Emphasis Lab - Students get hands-on practices on projects that they select, formulate the research question and hypotheses, collect the data (using survey, observation, interviews, databases, archival resources, and content analysis), and analyze data (using descriptive and inferential statistics). Students will learn how to use a valuable, powerful and marketable computer software, SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science), to analyze small and large datasets, as well as presenting the findings in a professional manner.

Student leaders from each of the 23 California State University campuses examine politics and public service life in politics. Explores theories and strategies to attract thoughtful men and women to lives of public service in politics, to inspire them to a high standard of conduct, and to equip them with the practical skills of self-government. Formerly known as SBSC 369.

Prepares students to apply social science theories and research methods to the writing and presentation of research papers in the social sciences. Students prepare written projects for presentation in an undergraduate research conference and/or for publication in an undergraduate research journal. Formerly known as SBSC 370.

Academic and business communities are rapidly becoming major users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Introduces the fundamentals of GIS-supported social science and business applications. Provides students with hands-on experience solving common social and business problems with innovative GIS technology. Some examples are census data analysis, city and regional planning, crime mapping, business site selection, and marketing analysis and social science education for K-12 schools. Formerly known as SBSC 371.

Students acquire knowledge of revolutions and people's mass movements for justice and human rights in the context of global developments since the start of the 20th century. Through specific case studies, they develop the analytical skills to understand how and why movements have succeeded or failed.

Tattoos Makeup and Burkas: This course provides students with an introduction to the western and non-western anthropological literature and film on cultural elements of distinction across cultures of the world. People all around the world use tattoos, piercing and makeup and dress codes are symbolic tools to represent their ideas of self, gender or as a means of gender, ethnicity, and class control domination. This course will challenge students to understand this phenomenon as a universal one, and to explore its ethical dimensions, fostering the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for them to recognize, and analyze the ethical problems inherent to symbolic representations of self, gender and power explored in the course.

Analyzes the relations of the United States to Asia Pacific, especially Vietnam and the Philippines, from social, political-economy, cultural and historical perspectives. Key themes include colonization, conflicts, and resource exploitation in the Asia Pacific. Examines significant ethical concerns drawing from guest speakers, official documents, memoirs, fiction, poetry, films, photography, public and visual arts, and music.

Highlights the changing relationship of African societies to the larger world since about 1500 with a particular focus on the 20th century. Deals with Africa and the world of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the world of European expansion and colonial rule, the world of anti-colonial struggles, and the world of nation-building and development. Focuses on the lives of African peoples and the societies they have created.

A comparative survey of the ancient arts, cultures, and civilizations of sub-Saharan or Black Africa and Egypt. Reviews the archaeology and history of the spectacular civilizations of sub-Saharan African and their economic, technological, and cultural impact on the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Egypt, Axum, Meroe, Zimbabwe, Benin, Kush, Zulu, and the East and West African kingdoms will constitute the primary case studies, while discussions will review the emergence of the African Iron Age, the Black Pharaohs of Egypt, the spread of Islam, and the origins of the Atlantic slave trade.

A project-based learning lab taken in conjunction with SBS 384S involving hands- on work with immigrant bilingual groups in U.S. and Mexican public schools. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Introduces the study of schooling in California making emphasis in the perspective of minority groups and explores the concept of transnational cultural experiences. Explores the cultural similarities and differences within such immigrant groups and compares the learning experiences of U.S. and Mexican teachers and their students.

Applies theories of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and qualitative methodologies to study historical relationships between the human and nonhuman worlds of California. Focuses on past and present human societies and their respective relationships to the land. Explores the ways in which history can aid in understanding present-day policy issues. Formerly known as SBSC 385.

A project based learning lab in US and California politics and government with special emphasis on the intersections of environmental and social issues. It is linked to SBS 385, Environmental History of California. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Applies theories of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and qualitative methodologies to study historical relationships among the human populations of California. Focuses on past and present human societies and their respective systems of governance and politics. Explores the ways in which history can aid in understanding present-day policy issues. Formerly known as SBSC 386.

Examines the "communist experiment"" in the 20th century comparing the Soviet Union and China

Focuses on such issues as emigration to the United States, the impact of NAFTA and U.S. private investment in the Mexican economy and society, the affects of international agribusiness on peasant communities, Mexico's electoral politics and politics of protest, and the possible affects of electronic technology on Mexico's educational system. An Internet-based course involving participants from CSUMB and the University of Queretaro in Mexico.

Student and faculty member select upper-division topics of study and total number of credit hours. Formerly known as SBSC 395. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select upper-division topics of study and total number of credit hours. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and total number of credit hours. Formerly known as SBSC 397. (Credit/NoCredit Available)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credit hours. Formerly known as SBSC 397S.

Students complete a capstone proposal and major elements of a graduation portfolio. The portfolio provides evidence that a student is making satisfactory progress toward meeting Major Learning Outcomes in Social Theory, Research Methods, a Social Science concentration, and Application. Required for all students seeking a baccalaureate degree in the social and behavioral sciences. (Offered fall and spring semesters).

Students may enroll with a capstone adviser (instructor consent only) and design and propose a capstone project usually in a field of study such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems, Political Economy, Social History and Sociology. (Offered as demand warrants).

Students complete a capstone and a graduation portfolio. The portfolio provides evidence that a student has met Major Learning Outcomes in Social Theory, Research Methods, a Social Science concentration, and Application. Required for all students seeking a baccalaureate degree in the social and behavioral sciences. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Students enroll with their capstone adviser (instructor consent only) for advice on completion of a capstone project usually in a field of study such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems, Political Economy, Social History and Sociology. (Offered as demand warrants.)

Students meet with and faculty and community partners in supervised learning activities related to their capstone topic and complete a contracted number of off-campus service hours with the sponsoring agency. Geared to students interested in action-oriented research. Requires pre-approved individualized learning plan and/or capstone proposal. (Offered fall and spring semesters.) (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Students present their capstone research projects in a professional public setting. Students assemble and present evidence of completion of program requirements as determined by the approved Individualized Learning Plan. SBS majors entering the second semester of the Senior Capstone curriculum must enroll in this course. Requires pre-approved Individualized Learning Plan and/or Capstone proposal. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Participants examine administrative organization, methods, systems and procedures, problem solving, and systems analysis. Formerly known as SBSC 450.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Students examine political processes by which public policy is formulated, adopted, and implemented; political activity; election of public officials; and the political organization of government. Formerly known as SBSC 451.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Participants examine the leadership of congressional committee operations and processes. Formerly known as SBSC 452.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Participants examine government budgets, budgetary process and analysis, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and monetary and fiscal policy. Formerly known as SBSC 453.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Students examine the nature, extent, and influence of the press on the nation's governmental process. Formerly known as SBSC 454.

A project-based exploration of the social history of Fort Ord. Students participate in the creation of an archive and virtual museum housed in the CSUMB Library. Activities include gathering letters, diaries, oral histories, photographs, and other documents and memorabilia from people who once lived on Fort Ord. Participants also inventory, catalog, and digitize the collected documents, and assist in building an online archive and museum. Formerly known as SBSC 475.

Focuses on the history, culture, and economy of Mexican peasant society, and mestizo-Indian interaction in Quer?taro, Mexico. Complements the study opportunities in Quer?taro, Mexico program for SBSC students. Formerly known as SBSC 480.

Optional lab for SBS 480, The Queretaro Project. Provides opportunities for students to focus in depth on one or more topics or themes covered in SBS 480. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Field study of rural communities. Explores a variety of areas that are critical to rural communities in the global age, including the impact of globalization on local economies, the formation of transnational cultural identities, and the revitalization and decline of local cultures. Students reside in at least one local community a rural area and collect firsthand ethnographic field data, meeting as a group on a weekly basis to discuss their progress.

Studies a particular topic in Social & Behavioral Science. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered as interest warrants.)

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Participants examine administrative organization, methods, systems and procedures, problem solving, and systems analysis. Formerly known as SBSC 550.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Students examine political processes by which public policy is formulated, adopted, and implemented; political activity; election of public officials; and the political organization of government. Formerly known as SBSC 551.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Participants examine the leadership of congressional committee operations and processes. Formerly known as SBSC 552.

Students are assigned to the office of a U.S. Representative who is a member of the California congressional delegation in Washington D.C. and spend a semester participating firsthand in American government. Students examine the nature, extent, and influence of the press on the nation's governmental process. Formerly known as SBSC 554.

Studies a particular topic in Social & Behavioral Science. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)

Student and faculty member select topic of study and total number of credit hours. Formerly known as SBSC 597.

Studies a particular topic in Teledramatic Arts & Technology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Letter Grade Available)

Ottermedia: Students create and host web and cable-casted programs meant to enrich the CSUMB community and the world.

Seminar class addresses creative concept development and feasibility assessment of ideas. (Offered fall semester.)

Seminar class outlines planning process, roles, tasks, timelines, budgets, and deliverables. (Offered fall semester.)

Seminar class outlines production management role, responsibilities, and tasks. (Offered fall semester.)

Seminar class provides overview of marketing, promotions, and press planning and execution. (Offered fall semester.)

Seminar class examines distribution research resources and opportunities for local and global reach with a focus on an entrepreneurial approach. (Offered spring semester.)

Seminar class provides overview of general business skills for creative production, such as not-for-profit and contractor status, contracts, etc. (Offered spring semester.)

Introduction to Animation: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques, theory, history and cultural significance of animation. Students will explore the history of animation as an entertainment and art form as well as demonstrate and apply basic skills in traditional (cell/stop motion) and digital animation techniques. The course also covers basic pre-production, production and distribution skills for small and larger scale (collaborative) projects. Incoming students are expected to be comfortable with drawing, group work and have familiarity with basic digital media tools.

Introduction to Animation Lab: This lab is offered in conjunction with the TAT209 lecture section. Students will use studio and digital tools to complete projects that relate directly to the lecture content. Students are expected to be comfortable with studio drawing tools as well as digital image software and have an ability to functionally adapt to new software. Students must take the lab during the same semester as the lecture.

Introduces the theoretical and practical fundamentals of audio production, technology, and terminology. The may include exercises using available equipment, an introduction to the lexicon of audio production, and an understanding of the selection and use of audio tools that support radio, television, video, film and multimedia production. Students will have practice in the field and studio for broad/podcast and screen.

A historical survey examining the depiction of the environment in the arts. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

The course examines representations of armed conflict in cinema across different cultures. Fictionalized accounts of war, documentaries and satires are viewed and analyzed, examining social and psychological effects of armed conflict, attitudes toward nationalism and heroism, power structures, the morality of violence, and the ethical responsibilities of the individual. (Credit/No Credit Available)

Survey course examines the impact of digital and networked technology on cinematic narrative. (Offered fall semester.)

Survey course examining contemporary formats in popular TV, such as the reality TV genre, innovative production techniques, and programming formats. (Offered fall semester.)

Survey course examines current topics in radio production existing outside a corporate scope, such as pirate radio for political rights, or independent production online. (Offered fall semester.)

Students examine the relationship of viewers and users to electronic media and contemporary social and cultural development.

Horror films are mirrors of social anxieties, playing an influential but disreputable role in contemporary culture. The course analyzes cinematic techniques used to induce responses of fear in an audience and examines the themes of international horror cinema. Students analyze how horror films represent identity, ideology, gender, sexuality, and violence. The course explores the audienceÀs fascination with fear, the evolution of horror and its role in creating contemporary mythologies. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Intensive workshop course provides basic production skills in DVD distribution. Students learn to output existing content on DVD for simple playback.

Intensive workshop course provides basic production skills in Web distribution. Students learn to prepare and deliver video for broadband distribution.

Survey of film history from early cinema to 1960. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Introduces fundamental concepts of storytelling. Explores various story forms using sound, image and text to investigate the storytelling components of character, plot, action, theme, metaphor, dramatic structure, spectacle, language, rhythm and audience.

Explores film genres by theme that may change each semester, e.g. rock 'n roll cinema, film noir, gangster movies, spaghetti westerns. Course outcomes foster independent, critical perspectives on the films viewed and help students develop a deepened understanding and appreciation of the art and craft of film making.

Powerful films have changed culture, impacted the Celluloid medium and can change viewers! This course introduces the practice of narrative film analysis and appreciation through a unique combination of screenings, creative projects, writing assignments, readings and close case studies of film sequences. During the course of this class, students will engage in series of creative, reflective and analytical exercises, gaining deeper understanding for the way moving images exercise social and emotional power.

Introduces concepts and practice of video and media production, both in the studio and in the field. Students learn skills in camera operation, lighting, audio, and editing, produce various video productions. In this class, students will learn the fundamentals of digital video based media production by creating meaningful, innovative and contemporary projects. While reading and discussing theory and analysis of contemporary media practice, students will be introduced to the technology of video production and non-linear editing. Students will develop methods of research, planning and pre-production. New Media integration into the video process will be incorporated into discussions of video production.

Required lab course for TAT 237.

Studies a particular topic in Teledramatic Arts and Technology. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Foundation course for TAT majors. Addresses ethical issues in media, including the role of intellectual property rights, morality/censorship, privacy, free expression, and the power of images. Emphasizes writing, reading, and critical thinking.

Practical Application: Students develop collaborative production skills while working on interdisciplinary projects, including senior projects, campus-wide productions and community-based projects.

Students learn basics of production lighting design. Basic principles of light. Includes script analysis, basic 3 point lighting, fill, key, differences between perceived (live, stage) light, and recorded light (video, film). Addresses various formats including lighting production for video and film. (Offered spring semester.)

Sound Design: Students learn basics of production sound design. Includes script analysis, recording of original sound, and acquisition of existing audio; introduces foley production. Addresses various formats including sound postproduction for video, film, and new media. (Offered fall semester.)

Introduction to spatial and temporal visual design. Includes fundamentals of graphic design and aesthetic principles. Outlines basic visualization techniques, and design communication for moving-image media. Introduces art and creative direction, and set and production design. (Offered fall semester.)

Students learn the motion graphics design and production process, including principles of spatial and temporal graphic design for animation, film titles, TV graphics, and broadband content. Introduces compositing and special effects techniques. (Offered fall semester.)

Students gain fluency in the fundamental concepts and skills of hypertext narrative, web video, and animation for creation and distribution of new media narratives.

Students focus on video art, web video, animation, and experimental narrative. Students develop aesthetics and techniques for conceiving, producing, and distributing experimental works. May address audio/video, still image and handheld devices. Explores emergent forms of media.

Study of select history, theory, and practice of live performance integrating technology. Explores production techniques for incorporating prerecorded and live-feed video in live performance. Explores applications such as real-time video manipulation.

Students create special effects for film and video by combining images from different sources such as live-action digital video, digitized film, computer generated 3-D, 2-D animations, painted backdrops, digital still photographs, and text. Topics include color keying, rotoscoping, matte painting, motion tracking, and lighting. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Survey of the history, aesthetics, production technologies and cultural impact of media arts from 1960 to present.

Students are introduced to the principles of narrative theory as well as the expressive tools of cinema. Students analyze media to understand how framing, camera movement, mise en scene lighting and sound are used to express character and tell stories, applying this understanding during short exercises. Students build a repertoire of cinematic tools and techniques.

Introduces media principles and tools to help make learning more creative, alive, interactive, and fun. Using theatre games, improvisations, story dramatizations, and creative dramatics, student collaborative groups learn the process for producing plays that stretch their imaginations and their problem-solving skills. (Offered fall semester.)

Introduces the basic theory, concepts, and practice of video and television production, both in the studio and in the field. Students learn skills in camera operation, lighting, audio, and editing, to produce various video/TV productions.

Required lab course for TAT 337.

Introduces the history, theory, and practice of both broadcast and Internet radio in today's global society. Includes the study of the history, uses, and current status of radio and Internet audio throughout the world. Students learn the basics of audio production, including field and studio production, internet streaming, nonlinear editing, research, and interviewing skills. (Offered fall semester.)

A production course in which students make industry-standard music videos, while exploring this mode of production's history in Avant-Garde Narrative and Documentary practice. Focusing on early and contemporary works avant-garde cinema, music video, and experimental documentary. (Offered spring semester.)

Required lab course for TAT 339. (Offered spring semester.)

An overview of the script writing process focusing on the basics of dramatic writing across cinematic disciplines. Provides preparation for narrative and short-format screenwriting. Requires extensive reading and creative writing.

Teaches the tools of the narrative film/video director's art. Working in small production groups, students learn to break down scripted material in order to prepare to shoot dramatic scenes and sequences on camera. Students learn techniques for working with actors on camera. Applies production planning and management skills. (Offered spring semester.)

Required lab course for TAT 341. (Offered spring semester.)

An intensive workshop course that develops skills and techniques for directing actors. Through participation in the acting process and directing exercises, students will learn how to establish collaborative relationships with actors and how to give effective direction.

Training in the principles of effective vocal production and articulation for performing actors on stage, in broadcasting, and before the camera. Involves exercises designed to free the natural voice: removing tension, increasing resonance, facilitating breathing response, and maximizing effectiveness of speech. (Offered spring semester.)

Students learn digital nonlinear editing and the concepts of digitizing, editing, and outputting content using industry-standard software packages. Includes script analysis and working with directors. Applies techniques and principles for editing various types of projects including music video, documentary, and narrative.

Students learn how to work with 16mm motion picture film, including how to operate professional synch and non-synch 16 cameras, film lighting, and film equipment. Students write and shoot several exercises and short films during the semester. (Offered fall semester.)

Students will explore the expressive possibilities of moving pictures, through aesthetic and formal investigations of lenses, shot duration, screen direction, camera movement and lighting. Students develop the skills required of a professional camera and lighting crew, with particular attention to the role of director of photography. Students will shoot on both celluloid film and HD video.(Offered spring semester.)

Combines study of documentary history, theory, and practice. Students learn how to plan, organize, and produce documentaries. Students produce a short documentary on video. (Offered fall semester.)

Select project is researched, developed, produced, and distributed through one or two semesters of this repeatable course. Integrates teledramatic concepts of convergence, integration, and digital distribution. Investigates cross-disciplinary media production. (Offered spring semester.)

Produces content for broadcast on KAZU public radio and OtterStream. Includes live studio talk shows, live music programs, radio theatre, and weekly internet DJ programming. Students learn field and studio production, nonlinear editing, on-air vocal techniques, and radio administration. (Offered spring semester.)

Focuses on the production and broadcast of various types of studio TV programming such as talk show, drama, and situation comedy. Students collaborate with other courses to develop content, then produce, crew, edit, and broadcast programming on the TAT channel. (Offered fall semester.)

Project based course developing and producing content in collaboration with other courses, the community, university, or others. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Student proposed Internship as part of an approved Individualized Learning Plan.

Student proposed course of study on select topic in Teledramatic Arts and Technology as part of an approved Individualized Learning Plan.

Students receive experience in the basics of presenting, promoting, and distributing teledramatic events (film festivals, Internet streaming of TV, radio, and theatre productions). Students are required to select, coordinate, supervise, and facilitate all aspects of teledramatic presentation, including leading a lecture and discussion.

Working with community-based organizations, students will participate in service activities or projects with external communities and integrate the service experience with specific outcomes, written reflections, discussion, and evaluation.

Short format, animated production. Course developing aesthetic and technical skills to manipulate live-action video and produce 2D animation. Includes delivery to Internet, film/video, and broadcast. (Offered spring semester.)

Students create films with environmental themes or topics. (Credit/ No Credit Available)

Focuses on media support of digital studio productions, broadcasts, and live performances. Students learn advanced techniques such as live compositing, live fiber transmission and switching, computer projection, site-specific support, etc. Configures multimedia playback systems. Operates and maintains TAT networked lab.

Focuses on the programming and distribution (broadcast, streaming) of digital studio productions. Students are assigned to review, select, and prepare programming; develop programming schedule; and operate and maintain TAT communications (cable channel, Internet stream).

A workshop-format class which guides students through the process of outlining and writing a feature length screenplay or television pilot. Extensive writing required.

Students learn form, style, pacing, and advanced techniques in editing including titles and effects work, and output in various formats. (Offered spring semester.)

Research and Development: Students practice research skills, engage in creative writing, and develop marketing and pitching proposals. The major outcome is a preproduction portfolio.

Students complete the Capstone project as conceived and planned in TAT 490. Students complete the TAT MLO processes of production, postproduction, and distribution. Completed projects are presented to the public at the TAT Capstone Festival.