HCOM 112: ENCOM through Global Lit

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[prereq: (WRT 95 OR EPT4 with SCORE 147 or HIGHER)]
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HCOM 195: Special Topics

Description
Studies a particular topic in Human Communication. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Credit/ No Credit Available)
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 196: Field Studies

Description
Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism.
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 197: Independent Study

Description
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 201: Philosophy Hum Nature

Description
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)
Units:
4
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HCOM 211: Reading Writing Crit Thkg

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[prereq: (WRT 95 OR EPT4 with SCORE 147 or HIGHER)]
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HCOM 211S: Reading Writing Crit Thkg SL

Description
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.)
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[prereq: (WRT 95 OR EPT4 with SCORE 147 or HIGHER)]
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HCOM 212: Reasoning & Communication

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 213: Intro to Comm Ethics

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 214: Interpersonal Comm & Conflict

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 221: Global Narratives

Description
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.)
Units:
3
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 223: American Indigenous Lit/Cult

Description
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)
Units:
4
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HCOM 225: Literature,Film & Culture

Description
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.
Units:
4
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HCOM 226: Afro Cuba Hip Hop

Description
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.
Units:
4
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HCOM 227: Multicultural Poetry

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 230: Environmental Creative Writing

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 231: Latina/o Creative Wrtg Wrkshp

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 232: Creativity & Social Action

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 240: American Cultural Heritages

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 242: Intro to Women's Studies

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 244: Latino USA: Ident/Experiences

Description
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.)
Units:
4
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HCOM 245: Intro to Chicana/o Studies

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 247: African Legacy Worldwide

Description
(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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 250: The History of Rock & Roll

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 251: Introduction to US History

Description
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.)
Units:
3
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HCOM 253: Out of Many: Histories Of US

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 255: Global Social Movements

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 260: Politics & Participation

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 266: Histories of Democracy

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 267: US Political Histories

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 284: Newswriting

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 285: Intro to Photojournalism

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1)
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HCOM 300: Major ProSeminar

Description
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.)
Units:
2
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3) AND (EXCLUDE FRESHMEN)]
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HCOM 301: Ways Of Knowing

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 304: Relational Ethics

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 306: Gender & Communication

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 307: Social Impact of Mass Media

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 307S: Soc Impct Of Mass Media SL

Description
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.
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 309: Interracial Communication

Description
Students study the rhetorical construction of racial identity in the U.S. and its impact on contemporary interracial communication; they investigate and evaluate options for relating to interracial communication dilemmas ethically and effectively; and they develop ethical guidelines for interracial 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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and GE Area 2 and GE Area A3)
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HCOM 310: Free Speech & Resp

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 311: LS only:GWAR Pract Reason&Comm

Description
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.)
Units:
3
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 312: GWAR-Cooperative Argumentation

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 313: GWAR Assessment

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 315: Media for Social Change

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 316: Media Ethics

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 317S: Advanced Composition SL

Description
In 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.
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 318: GWARAdvCompTheory/PracK-8Teach

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 320: Grammar, Usage & Power

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 321: Rhetorical Traditions

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 322: Asian American Literature

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 323: American Drama

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 324: African American Narratives

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 325: 20th Cent Narr Amer Immgr

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 326: Jewish Holocaust Literature

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and C2)
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HCOM 327: Survey American Literature

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (coreq: HCOM 328L)]
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HCOM 328L: Latina Life Stories: Media Lab

Description
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.
Units:
2
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(coreq: HCOM 328)
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HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 330: Intro Creative Writing

Description
An introductory creative writing course that focuses on ethnicity, gender, and "witness" writing. Examination of the writing process, what roadblocks create silence, how to remove them. Cross-cultural readings in multicultural poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 and half of the Liberal Studies HCOM Concentration in Creative Writing. (Offered every semester.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 330S: Intro to Creative Writing SL

Description
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.)
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 331: Visual Art & Creative Writing

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 332: Poetry Writing Workshop

Description
Poems with "duende," as Federico Garc?a Lorca says, are poems that "burn the blood like powdered glass." An intermediate level course that explores forms of poetry, both traditional and contemporary. Students analyze the creative process; move toward publishing poems. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 8 (only with prior consent of instructor) or the concentration in Creative Writing and Social Action. (Offered every other year.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 330 OR HCOM 330S OR HCOM 339S OR HCOM 331)]
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HCOM 333: Women's Writing Workshop

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 330 OR HCOM 330S OR HCOM 331 OR HCOM 339S)]
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HCOM 334: Fiction/Creative NonFiction Wr

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 330 OR HCOM 330S OR HCOM 339S OR HCOM 331)]
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HCOM 335: Amer Ethnic Lit & Culture

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 336: Poetry & Gender

Description
A literature course in contemporary multicultural poetry, with a focus on gender issues. "A new kind of man / a new kind of woman," (in the words of poet Muriel Rukeyser) names a central theme of 20th century American literature and life the re-imagining of women's and men's lives. Students examine poets' perspectives of gender shifts. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies, or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and C2)
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HCOM 337: Women's Literature

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and C2)
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HCOM 338: Multicultural Adolescent Lit

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and C2)
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HCOM 339S: Creative Writing & Service

Description
Develops service learning sensitivity, creative writing competency and craft. Students develop original pieces and age-appropriate interdisciplinary creative projects 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.
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and GE Area A2)
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HCOM 340S: Topics in Social Movements SL

Description
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.
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 342: Feminist Theories & Methods

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 343: Race & Gender Justice

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 344: Chicana/Latina Experiences

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 345: Chicano Life & Culture

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 346: African American Life/History

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 348: Race, Colonialism & Film

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3) AND (D2 or D2)]
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HCOM 350S: Oral Hist/Comm Mem SL

Description
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.
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (D2 or D2)]
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HCOM 351: Modern World History

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 352: History According To Movies

Description
"It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you" (James Baldwin, African American writer, 1965). We learn a good deal about the past by watching movies. This course explores how film shapes and reflects U.S. history. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 7 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies; History, Oral History, and New Media; Journalism and Media Studies; or Literature and Film Studies. (Offered every year.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (D2 OR D2)]
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HCOM 353: California At Crossroads

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 354: Whose America?

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 356: Multicultural History

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (coreq: HCOM 356L)]
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HCOM 356L: Multicultural Hstry: Media Lab

Description
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.
Units:
2
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(coreq: HCOM 356)
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HCOM 357: Constitutional Law

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 358: Crit Perspect on Law inSociety

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 359: Sexuality, Law and History

Description
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; Comparative American Studies or Women's Studies. (Offered every other year.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 365: Chicana/o Latina/o History

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 384: Newswriting

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 385: Reporting

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 384 OR HCOM 389)]
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HCOM 387: Media Production Lab

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 388: Investigative Reporting

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and HCOM 284 and HCOM 384 and HCOM 389)
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HCOM 389: Otter Realm Workshop

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 390: Magazine Writing

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3) AND (prereq: HCOM 384 OR HCOM 389)]
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HCOM 395: Special Topics

Description
Studies a particular topic in Human Communication. (Offered occasionally.) (Letter Grade Available)
Units:
1 to 6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 395S: Special Topic:Service Learning

Description
With faculty sponsorship and oversight, students design, develop, and teach a particular topic in Human Communication. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 396: Field Studies

Description
Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 396S: Field Studies Service Learning

Description
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 397: Independent Study

Description
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 397S: Independent Study

Description
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 398: Legal Studies Internship

Description
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)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 403: Ethical Issues

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 403S: Ethics in the Professions:SL

Description
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.)
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 404: Restorative Justice

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 405: Philosophy & Sexualities

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 406: Philosophy Acrdng to Movies

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 412: Multicultural Conflict Resolut

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 420: Adv Studies Rhetorical Theory

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 421: Social History of English Lang

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 422: SelTop Multicultural Rhetorics

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 425: Post-Colonial Lit and Film

Description
Examines the emergence of non-Western voices and perspectives in literature and films from the post-colonial "South," that is, regions of the world that have experienced or continue to experience colonial or neo-colonial rule. Regions include: Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. Texts include autobiographies, testimonios, plays, novels, and films. Meets built-in assessments for HCOM MLO 6 (Comparative Literary Analysis) or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. Meets the Single Subject Waiver in History/Social Studies Non-Western requirement. (Offered every other year.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 426: Travel Narratives

Description
Travel narratives relate journeys to home audiences, portray the "other," and reveal the culture and "self" of the traveler. Examines the historical, literary, and cultural significance of narratives of discovery, conquest, colonization, exploration, and tourism in the Americas.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and D2)
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HCOM 427: Survey of British Literature

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 428: Contemporary Chicana Poetry

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 429: BritLit& Engl Lang Perspective

Description
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.)
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 432: Soc Action Wrtg

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 330 OR HCOM 330S OR HCOM 339S OR HCOM 331)]
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HCOM 432S: Social Action Writing

Description
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.
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 330 OR HCOM 330S OR HCOM 339S OR HCOM 331)]
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HCOM 433: Life Stories & Life Writing

Description
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.)
Units:
8
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 436: Literature of Sexualities

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 437: Shakespeare

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 438: Author(s): Canon & Context

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 440: Leadership & Community

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 443: Black Feminist Theory & Praxis

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 445: Slavery & Race in the Americas

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 446: EthnograpPortraits/Culture Cit

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and D1 and D2)
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HCOM 447: Explore the African Diaspora

Description
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)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 451: Transnational Migrations

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 452: Literature into Film

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 454: History of Victorian Britain

Description
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.
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A2 and A3)
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HCOM 455: Paradigms Of Chicano Comm

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 472: Adv Int Stdy:Pwr to the People

Description
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.)
Units:
8
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq:GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 473: Senior Seminar

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3)
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HCOM 474: Research Methods

Description
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)
Units:
2 to 4
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HCOM 475: Senior Capstone

Description
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.)
Units:
4
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HCOM 486: Mass Media Internship

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(prereq: HCOM 385 OR HCOM 389)
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HCOM 487: Mass Media Internship

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Units:
2
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HCOM 487S: Community Media Project SL

Description
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.)
Units:
6
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3) AND (HCOM 384 OR HCOM 389)]
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HCOM 489: Otter Realm Production

Description
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.)
Units:
2
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HCOM 495: Special Topics

Description
Studies a particular topic in Human Communication. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered occasionally.) (Credit/No Credit Available)
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 496: Field Studies

Description
Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 497: Independent Study

Description
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 546: Cultural Citizenship/Latino

Description
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.)
Units:
4
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
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HCOM 555: Paradigms Of Chicano Comm

Description
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.)
Units:
4
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HCOM 595: Special Topics

Description
For students interested in the oral history of the Fort Ord Conversion Project. (Offered occasionally.) (Credit/No Credit Available)
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 596: Field Studies

Description
Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
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HCOM 597: Independent Study

Description
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered occasionally.)
Units:
1 to 6
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