2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Any course listed in this catalog with a prerequisite assumes a grade of C– or better in the prerequisite course, unless specified otherwise by the department or program in its course listings.
Courses numbered 1 to 99 are lower-division; courses numbered 100 to 199 are upper-division; courses numbered 200 to 599 are graduate. Course numbers which are hyphenated (e.g., ACCTG 160 -ACCTG 161 ) indicate that the course is continued from the previous term, and that the first part is normally prerequisite to the second part. Credit is given for each part.
Final information concerning course offerings and class schedules will be issued at the time of registration for each term. January Term courses are listed separately in a special on-line catalog published each fall. The College reserves the right to cancel any course for enrollment or administrative purposes.
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History - Upper Division Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
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HIST 101 - Historical Methods and Practices
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Drawing upon historical narratives, theoretical essays, and primary-source documents covering a wide range of periods and places, this course engages students with key concepts of historical method and practice. These include issues of analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and inquiry into varied approaches and genres, from recent scholarly innovations to popular and public history. Attention is also given to students’ research strategies and skills of writing and documentation. Taught mainly by discussion in a small-group setting, the course aims to facilitate history majors and minors’ transition from lower-division study to upper-division work.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; WID - Writing in the Disciplines
Term Offered
Offered once a year.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 104 - Historical Interpretation
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This seminar on historiography addresses questions of historical methods, focusing on methodological controversies and interpretations within a specific area of history. Topics vary according to instructor.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 105 - Modern Approaches to History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the development of history as a scholarly discipline beginning with fundamental questions of method and research, followed by analysis of major controversies stemming from contemporary approaches to historical research and to public history. In addition, resident historians discuss the problems they encounter in their research and writing.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
WID - Writing in the Disciplines
Course credits: 1
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HIST 106 - Seminar in Historical Research
Upper Division
Prerequisites
HIST 010 or HIST 101 . Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
The capstone of the History department, this seminar expects students to demonstrate that they have mastered the skills of the discipline: using primary sources and interpreting them to make a historical argument that contributes to the historiography. Each student does a research paper (30 pages of text) under the guidance of the professor. Topics vary according to instructor.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 110 - Topics in Ancient and Medieval European History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department.
Repeatable
May be repeated as topics vary.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 111 - The Birth of Europe
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the early development of medieval society and institutions, emphasizing the formative influences of classical, Christian, and Germanic culture in the creation of the Middle Ages. The course traces the Middle Ages from A.D. 300 to 1000, considers such issues as medieval monasticism and the papacy, the rebirth of empire under Charlemagne, the origins of feudal society, and the effects of Byzantine culture and the rise of Islam upon the Latin West.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 112 - Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the years A.D. 1000 to 1450, that period in which the seeds of medieval culture, sown during the 700 preceding years, come into full flower-the age of the Crusades and chivalry, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, St. Francis, St. Thomas and Dante. The course is divided into thematic sections treating the relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds, papal-imperial politics, social and economic changes, the rise of the universities, and the waning of the Middle Ages.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 113 - The Age of the Renaissance
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
An exploration of the rise of humanism in Europe between 1350 and 1550. The course focuses upon the educational and artistic movements that began in Italy and spread north to the rest of Europe. Attention is given to providing a social and political context for the cultural achievements of the period. Renaissance culture will be examined in light of its classical and medieval roots.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 114 - Warfare in Medieval Europe
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the broad developments of medieval warfare in its many aspects including but not limited to the rules of warfare from terrorism to chivalry; the fate of non-combatants in scorched-earth policy and siege warfare; technological and strategic developments; social classes; women and warfare; infantry and cavalry; the moral cost of war; perceptions of the enemy; the warrior ethos; and pacifism.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 120 - Topics in Modern European History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department.
Repeatable
May be repeated as topics vary.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 121 - Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course focuses on case studies of violence and disorder in Western Europe from the late fifteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth century. Described in many standard histories as an age of religious wars, our study will take a broader view and examine social, political, and economic developments as equally important factors in the tumults and disturbances of the period.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 122 - 19th Century Europe
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A survey of the formation of modern European society from the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, emphasizing political, social, and cultural responses to industrialization, urbanization, and nationalism.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 123 - 20th-Century Europe
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A survey of European society from the outbreak of World War I to the present. Major themes include the failures of international stability, the problems of technological society, the effects of the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism, the phenomenon of decolonization, and the development of the European Community, World War II and the Holocaust, the Cold War, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet system.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 124 - Transnational Origins of the Welfare State
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
The European welfare state of the post-World War II era has been praised as the hallmark of post-war socio- economic recovery and stability, generous state-funded systems of education, health-care, and social safety nets, and models of social justice and human equity. Yet, critics see a system plagued by inefficiency, bloated government bureaucracies, discredited forms of socialism, and ongoing threats to individual liberty. This course will explore the origins and development of European social welfare out of the early industrialized economies of Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, and modern debates over the ideal level of government intervention and obligations to its citizens and non-citizens.
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 125 - Women in European History, 1500-Present
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course traces the foundations and evolution of gender theories and patterns of everyday life for women of various classes, regions, and eras in Europe since 1500. It illuminates particular moments of significant historical change in how European women were viewed and how they viewed the world around them, such as democratic revolutions, European imperialism, women’s suffrage movements, welfare state formation, and human rights. Scholarly essays introduce students to the historical context and debates from a diversity of scholars’ perspectives. Primary sources highlight the historical contributions of individuals and groups of women, and offer students their own opportunities to practice critical thinking and analytic skills necessary for independent historical interpretation and synthesis through written and oral communication.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good
Course credits: 1
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HIST 126 - Nations, Nationalism, and Citizenship
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course will address major theoretical and historiographic debates over national identities, nation-state formation, and citizenship. Drawing upon the case studies of France and Germany, we will trace the processes of defining European nationhood and citizenship since the end of the eighteenth century. Themes will include revolutions, the unification of people and political entities, imperialism and irredentism, domestic tensions between majority and minority interests, and steps toward European integration culminating in the European Union. We will examine changing definitions of French, German, and European citizenship to discuss how nations perpetually construct and redefine boundaries of inclusion and exclusion based on gender, class, race, ethnicity, and religion.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 127 - The Victorian Empire
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
The “sun never set” on the global British empire of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but its scale alone makes it difficult to comprehend from the multiplicity of local and global perspectives involved in its construction, contestation, and evolution. This course will trace the development of the British Empire before, during, and after the heyday of Queen Victoria’s empire (1837-1901) from geographic, demographic, and temporal vantage points. We will explore the intertwined nature of imperial, national, and racial identities in the British Empire, political contestations over citizenship and belonging, imperial wars and revolutions, industrialization and class conflicts, changing gender roles and sexual mores, and the flourishing of popular imperial literature and culture around the world. Students will also engage independently and collaboratively with children’s and adult literature, historical and contemporary films, museum and cultural exhibits, and both scholarly and primary texts from and about the Victorian Era that continue to shape our own historical consciousness of the British, their empire, and the era.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 128 - German History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
If national histories serve to reinforce common identities and traditions within the context of the modern nation- state, then what are we to make of the diverse central European peoples tied together by the questionable force of the German imperial state in 1871, only to be characterized by brutal dictatorship(s) and re-fragmented states throughout the twentieth century? This course seeks to understand how aspects of tradition within the predominantly German-speaking regions of central Europe were weighed and mobilized in order to answer the questions of who are the Germans and what is or where is Germany? To this end, our course materials will explore the making of what have become trademark German political, social, and cultural traditions (poetry, fairy tales, music, militarization, environmentalism, and beer drinking) within particular eras of German history since 1500.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 130 - Topics in American History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 131 - Colonial History of the United States
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course examines the collision of peoples in colonial North America from the first contacts between Europeans and Native Americans through the importation of African slaves to the establishment of enduring white colonial settlement. Emphasis is placed on the global context of European expansion, the changing nature of Indian-white relations, the diversity of colonial settlements, the rise of North American slavery, Britain’s ascendancy over its European rivals, and colonists’ connections to British imperial and mercantile systems.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 132 - The American Revolution and the Early Republic
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Spanning the period from the 1750s to the 1830s, this course examines the transformations brought to colonial America by the Revolution, the establishment of nationhood and the Constitution, and the development of political and social democracy. Emphasis is placed on the international context of revolution and independence, the founding generation’s debates and documents, the course of American race relations, and the rise of popular religion and politics.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Course credits: 1
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HIST 133 - Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
An examination of American society and politics from the Age of Jackson to the end of Reconstruction. Major focus is on the Civil War as the great crisis of national unity. Topics include slavery and other sectional differences that underlay the conflict; the political events that led to war; the struggle on the battlefield and home fronts; emancipation and its effects; and the new nation that emerged after the “failed revolution” of Reconstruction.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 134 - Recent History of the United States
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the United States from 1890 to the present with an emphasis on America’s rise (and potential fall) as a global superpower, and its struggle to address inequalities of race, gender and income, and competing visions of the “American dream.”
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 135 - America in the World: The History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
An examination of the nation’s foreign relations, broadly defined, from commerce, wars, and imperialism in the 19th century through the challenges of war, hegemony, and global integration in the 20th century. The roots of U.S. policies are traced to domestic political, economic, and cultural influences as well as geopolitical considerations, and America’s growing impact abroad is examined and assessed.
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 136 - Immigration and Ethnic Relations in American History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of immigrant groups in the United States from early nationhood to the present, assessing their response to and impact upon American society. Topics discussed include the global context of migration to America, “colonized” vs. immigrant minorities, problems of adjustment and assimilation in comparative perspective, ethnic politics and culture, nativism and conflicts over citizenship, black migration to the North, and competing theories of American ethnic and race relations.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 137 - United States History in Comparative and Transnational Perspective
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course integrates American history into global frameworks of analysis by exploring connections and comparisons between the United States’ historical development and that of other nations. Topics include common experiences with European colonization, revolution and nation-building, political systems, frontiers and native peoples, slavery and race, reform and women’s movements, transatlantic and transpacific migration, industrialism, imperialism, and the rise and fall of the welfare state. Attention is also paid to the impact of American culture abroad.
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 138 - The Development of Modern American Culture
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course draws on documentary sources that illustrate and dissect American ways of life from the late 1800s to the present. It analyzes popular novels, movies, oral histories, art, and social criticism to determine the changing shape of American culture, the various subcultures that compose it, and the relationship of culture to social and economic forces. Special attention will be given to race, region, class, gender, and religion as agents of diversity, and conversely, the influence of ideology, mobility, consumerism, and mass culture in unifying Americans. Offered in alternate years.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Course credits: 1
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HIST 139 - History of Women in America
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A survey of American women’s history from 17th century colonial encounters to the present with an emphasis on ethnic and class diversity, shifting definitions and cultural representations of womanhood, and the efforts of women to define their own roles and extend their spheres of influence.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Course credits: 1
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HIST 140 - African-American History: 1619 to 1865
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A survey of African American history from the late 15th century through the Civil War with an emphasis on comparative slave systems, slave culture and resistance, free black communities, black abolitionist thought and its connections to the broader Atlantic world, and the transition from slavery to freedom.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 141 - African-American History: 1865 to the Present
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A survey of African American history from Reconstruction to the present with an emphasis on structural barriers to full equality, black migration, institution building, the enduring struggle for economic, political, and social equality, and the transnational dimensions of the black freedom struggle.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 142 - History of California
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A chronological survey of California history from its pre-contact beginnings to the present, with an emphasis on ethnic diversity, national and transnational interactions, environmental problems, social movements, competing visions of the “California dream,” and contestations over the allocation of economic, social, and political power.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 150 - Topics in Latin American History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 151 - Women in Latin American History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
An examination of the participation of women in struggles for social justice in Latin America, asking what motivates women to abandon traditional roles and how they shape debates about human rights, democracy, feminism, ecology, and socialism in selected Latin American countries.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives; TCG - The Common Good
Course credits: 1
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HIST 152 - Revolution in Latin America
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the struggle for social justice in Latin America, with an emphasis on origins, class and gender participation, global contexts, successes and failures of revolutions in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and selected contemporary countries.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives; TCG - The Common Good
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 153 - The African Diaspora in Latin America
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
The course follows the African heritage of the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Atlantic coast of Central and South America. It examines the origins of the African population, the roles it has played in economic, political, and cultural developments in the region, as well as the ongoing struggle for social justice against racism and discrimination.
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 154 - Latin America, the United States, and the Drug Trade
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
An examination of the origins and development of the north-south drug trade, exploring the roles played by countries like Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico; and the impact of the trade and the drug wars on U.S.-Latin America diplomatic relations, democracy, women, and human rights.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 155 - Latin American Environmental History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A review of the latest scholarship in the field, including topics such as the role of disease in the Spanish conquest, monocrop plantation agriculture, conservation, the destruction of the tropical rainforest, the ecological effects of oil extraction, nuclear power, chemical and pesticide use, and the meanings of sustainable development. Countries covered will vary from year to year.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Additional Notes
This course is Sustainability related.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 160 - Topics in Asian History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 161 - Modern Japan
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
The course begins in 1603 with the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate and ends with present-day Japan. Emphasis is placed on social, cultural, environmental and economic history. Special attention is given to the transformations of Japanese society and the changing nature of its interactions within the region of Asia and across the globe over the course of this historical period.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 162 - Modern China
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
The course begins in 1911 with the toppling of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty and ends with the split identity of present-day Communist China and the Republic of China in Taiwan. Emphasis is placed on social, cultural, environmental, political, and economic history. The course examines one of the most tumultuous eras of Chinese history and traces China’s emergence from a struggling young republic to a growing superpower.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 163 - Ethnic Identity and Conflict in China
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
This course explores how ethnicity played a role in the construction of empire and nation in Chinese history during ancient, imperial, modern, and contemporary periods. The course explores concepts of difference, race, ethnicity, and identity and how the definitions of these ideas changed over time. We will examine the ways that specific groups tried to become part of mainstream Chinese society and/or tried to distinguish themselves from it to demonstrate the historical complexities of the multicultural societies in China and Taiwan.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 170 - Topics in African History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 171 - African History to 1850
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of human origins in Africa, black migration, the expansion of Islam in Africa, the slave trade, and the rise of ancient kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Zulu. The course searches for and establishes the cultural identity of Africa before slavery, and the influence of ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Meroe cultures on subsequent sub-Saharan civilization.
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 172 - African History Since 1850
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
A study of the major themes of state building, Islamic revolutions, colonialism, nationalism and pan-Africanism, the role of the military in recent decades, African decolonization and economic development in the context of the modern world. The course emphasizes the development of African contemporary culture in comparison with that of select nations and regions of the developed world.
Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.
Course credits: 1
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HIST 181 - Public History
Upper Division
Prerequisites
ENGL 005
Public history studies the preservation, interpretation, and (re)presentation of historical narratives in public spaces such as museums, multi-media, memorials, popular literature, genealogy projects, and commercial use of historical themes or narratives. The content of the course is the specific experiences and narratives of immigration, ethnic identity, community and social movement formation, political citizenship, cultural traditions, economic and labor patterns, and popular culture of ethnic groups in the Bay Area
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
CE - Community Engagement; SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding
Course credits: 1
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HIST 182 - History Mentors
Upper Division
This History Mentors course is a .25 unit Community Engagement class designed to train our students to engage in teaching and outreach with local primary and secondary school students who will be participating in the annual National History Day competition hosted each year in March by SMC. Students will first learn pedagogical techniques for working with culturally diverse and underserved elementary and secondary school students in conducting historical research and in creating a formal display of their projects. This is a Fall-Spring sequence for a total of one .25 unit class with the majority of class meetings during the Fall semester and the .25 units appearing on the student’s schedule during the Spring semester.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
CE - Community Engagement
Course credits: 0.25
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HIST 195 - Internship
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Permission of instructor and department chair required.
Work-study program conducted in an internship position under the supervision of a faculty member.
Course credits: Credit may vary
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HIST 197 - Special Study
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Students must submit a proposal the semester prior. HIST 101 and approval by the instructor and department chair required.
An independent study or research course in subject matter not offered by the department.
Additional Notes
See the department chair for details and forms.
Course credits: Credit may vary
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HIST 199 - Special Study - Honors
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Students must submit a proposal the semester prior. HIST 101 and approval by the instructor and department chair required.
An independent study or research course for upper-division history majors with at least a 3.0 GPA in history.
Additional Notes
See the “Independent Study in History” section on the departmental website before meeting with the department chair.
Course credits: Credit may vary
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AH 001 - Survey of World Art: Europe and the United States
Lower Division
This course, intended for beginning students in any major, examines the evolution of the arts in Europe and the United States, from prehistory until the 20th century. The course offers students a general introduction to the history and methodology of art inquiry in the West. Students will also complete an individual hands-on art project and explore making art in different styles.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); CP - Artistic Understanding (Creative Practice)
Term Offered
Course offered once a year
Fee
$30
Course credits: 1
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AH 002 - Survey of World Arts: Africa, and the Americas
Lower Division
This interdisciplinary course, intended for beginning students in any major, examines the evolution of the arts, design, and architecture of Asia, Africa and the Americas. The course offers students a general introduction to the methodology of art history in non-Western countries.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Course offered once a year
Fee
$30
Course credits: 1
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AH 100 - Women and Art
Upper Division
Prerequisites
ENGL 005
This course focuses on women both as subjects and creators of art in Europe and the United States. It is organized chronologically and thematically, involving a historical survey of women artists and their artistic contributions, as well as an examination of the religious, mythological and secular images of women in art. Extensive attention will be given to the creation, modification and persistence of these images throughout history, due to social, economic, psychological and intellectual conditions. This course trains students in art history writing and research, continuing the work begun in ENGL 005 .
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
WID - Writing in the Disciplines
Fee
$20
Course credits: 1
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AH 144 - Issues in Non-Western Art
Upper Division
This interdisciplinary course examines a variety of topics within the history of visual and performing arts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central and South America. This course provides students with a focused study of a specific movement or time period within the history of art. Topics include The Silk Road, Islamic Art, Asian Art, Museum and the Construction of the Other, Non-Western Film, North African Art, Art of the Americas.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); GP - Global Perspectives
Term Offered
Course offered every term.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Fee
$30
Course credits: 1
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AH 145 - Issues in Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque Art
Upper Division
AH 145 is a general reference number for a sequence of three separate courses on European art. Each individual course covers either Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque art history. The courses are offered on a three-year rotation and do not need to be taken in sequence, although chronological order is recommended. AH 145 can be taken up to three times, covering the three different artistic periods. Each course satisfies the creative practice designation by introducing hands-on art practice exercises, from illuminations, to portraiture, perspective, landscapes and still life.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); CP - Creative Practice
Term Offered
Offered every year, three-year rotation.
Repeatable
Can be taken up to three times.
Fee
$30
Course credits: 1
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AH 165 - Issues in American Art
Upper Division
This course examines a variety of topics within the history of art in the United States. This course provides students with a focused study of a specific movement or time period of art within the history of American art. Topics include Politics and the American Artistic Landscape, Popular Culture, and the American Imagination.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); AD - American Diversity
Term Offered
Course offered every other year.
Fee
$30
Course credits: 1
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AH 166 - Issues in Modern Art
Upper Division
This course examines the history of avant-garde art movements in the 19th and 20th century, with a specific focus on Modern and Contemporary Art.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)
Term Offered
Course offered every other year.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Fee
$30
Course credits: 1
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AH 188 - Applied Research: Community Service
Upper Division
This community-based research course bridges art historical research methodology with the research needs of local non-profit arts organizations. By doing research for grant proposals, documenting community-based art initiatives and creating arts assessment instruments, students are able to apply their in-class research methodologies to assist community arts organizations serving diverse populations.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
CE - Community Engagement
Course credits: 1
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AH 190 - Research and Writing Methods in Art History
Upper Division
This course is intended primarily for majors and minors in the History of Art. Students will be introduced to some of the major methodologies that have shaped the field: formalism, biographical analysis, iconographical analysis, psychoanalysis, Marxism and the social history of art, feminism, post-colonialism and semiotics.
Course credits: 0.25
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AH 193 - Museum Internship
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor and department chair , required.
Work-practice program conducted in an appropriate, museum internship position. Normally open to junior and senior art and art history majors. Permission of instructor and department chair required.
Course credits: 1
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AH 194 - Interdisciplinary Topics in Art History
Upper Division
This course examines a specific Art History topic in depth. The course provides students with a focused study of a theme within the different practices involving art history, including issues of conservation, restoration, valuation, theft and repatriation.
Fee
$30 to $100 according to course needs.
Course credits: 1
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AH 195 - Academic Internship
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor and department chair required.
Work-practice program conducted in an appropriate art- related internship position. Normally open to junior and senior art practice majors.
Repeatable
May be repeated as content varies.
Course credits: 1
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AH 196 - Senior Thesis
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor and department chair required.
As a capstone to their studies, art history majors are required to complete a thesis that displays their ability to think, read and write about art, as well as create works of art that express their own beliefs and interests.
Term Offered
Once a year
Course credits: 1
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AH 197 - Independent Study
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor and department chair required.
An independent study or research course for students whose needs are not met by the regular course offerings of the department.
Course credits: 1
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AH 199 - Special Study Honors
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor and department chair required.
Directed capstone project under the supervision of a department faculty member, culminating in the production of an honors-level arts history project.
Course credits: 0.25
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INTEG 011 & 012 - First-year Seminar
Lower Division
Homer, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 031 & 032 - First-year Mathematics
Lower Division
The Elements of Euclid, the Almagest, Book 1, of Ptolemy.
Additional Notes
INTEG-031 is Mathematical Understanding designated (NOT INTEG-032).
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 051 & 052 - First-year Language
Lower Division
Grammar and expression: introduction to Greek vocabulary, morphology and syntax, the nature and function of parts of speech, phrases and clauses; thought and the author’s language: exercises taken from Herodotus, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, the New Testament, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sappho.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 071 & 072 - First-year Laboratory
Lower Division
Observation, description and measurement in optics, astronomy, statics, and acoustics. Field and laboratory study of plants and birds. Readings: Aristotle, Galen, Archimedes, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Harvey.
Fee
Fee: $75 per term.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 074 - Music I
Lower Division
Introduction to basic terminology, notation, diatonic scale, rhythm, and chords. Reading of early texts on music and group participation in making music.
Fee
Fee: $75.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 082 - Introduction to Choral Singing
Lower Division
An introduction to choral singing and the basics of musical notation and terminology. For students in the Integral Program without prior musical training, this course prepares for success in the Music Tutorial (INTEG 074 ).
Course credits: 0.25
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INTEG 053 & 054 - Sophomore Language
Lower Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 011 & 012 , INTEG 031 & 032 , INTEG 051 & 052
Logic and dialectic: analysis and translation of Greek authors, with emphasis on dialectical investigation in Plato’s Phaedo, Theatetus, Sophist, Phaedrus, and in Aristotle’s Prior and Posterior Analytics.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 113 & 114 - Sophomore Seminar
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 011 & 012 , INTEG 031 & 032 , INTEG 051 & 052
The Law and Prophets, Psalms, Gospels and selected Epistles, Virgil, Lucretius, Tacitus, Plotinus, Epictetus, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Rabelais, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 115 & 116 - Junior Seminar
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 053 & 054 , INTEG 113 & 114 , INTEG 133 & 134
Cervantes, Descartes, Milton, Pascal, Racine, Moliére, Hobbes, Swift, Locke, Berkeley, Fielding, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Blake, and the Federalist Papers.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 117 & 118 - Senior Seminar
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 115 & 116 , INTEG 135 & 136 , INTEG 155 & 156
Goethe, Austen, Hegel, Flaubert, Marx, Dostoevski, Kierkegaard, Melville, Twain, Tolstoi, Nietzsche, William James, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Heidegger, and a selection of modern authors.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 133 & 134 - Sophomore Mathematics
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 011 & 012 , INTEG 051 & 052 , INTEG 031 & 032
The Almagest, the Conic Sections of Apollonius, selections from Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, and The Geometry of Descartes.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 137 & 138 - Senior Mathematics
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 115 & 116 , INTEG 135 & 136 , INTEG 155 & 156
Lobachevsky’s Theory of Parallels, Dedekind’s Theory of Numbers (selections), Einstein’s Relativity, selections from Hilbert, Poincaré, Coexter, and Feynman.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 155 & 156 - Junior Language
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 053 & 054 , INTEG 113 & 114 , INTEG 133 & 134
English and American poetry and rhetoric; close reading and discussion of a comedy, a tragedy and a romance of Shakespeare, poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson, Stevens, Yeats; political rhetoric in Jefferson, Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.; works on prejudice by Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass, and O’Connor.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 157 & 158 - Senior Language
Upper Division
Prerequisites
INTEG 115 & 116 , INTEG 135 & 136 , INTEG 155 & 156
Dialectic ancient and modern; occidental and oriental: Plato’s Philebus, Cratylus, and Parmenide; Aristotle’s Metaphysics; the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu; Analects of Confucius, and selections from Chuang Tzu and the Upanishads; Kant’s Perpetual Peace; Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (selections); Shusaku’s The Silence; the Qur’an (selections).
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 174 - Music II
Upper Division
An optional extension to the Music I class for more careful treatment of theory and performance.
Additional Notes
This course is not required for the degree.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 178 - Junior Laboratory: Physics & Chemistry
Upper Division
This Laboratory combines readings and discussion with practical experiments. It is the examination of first principles of physics and chemistry. Readings range from Galileo, Black, Lavoisier, Dalton, Thompson, Gay Lussac, Avogadro, Cannizzaro, Berzelius, Faraday, Mendeleev, and others, concluding with a look at quantum theory.
Fee
Fee: $75.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 179 - Junior Laboratory: Evolution, Heredity & Genetics
Upper Division
This Laboratory focuses on the biological, beginning with Darwin and moving to heredity and genetics with Mendel, Sutton, Morgan, Wilson, Dawkins, Ruse and others.
Fee
Fee: $75.
Course credits: 1
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INTEG 180 - Preceptorial
Upper Division
An elective, 0.25 credit examination, or re-examination, of a text or topic of interest to students and tutor.
Repeatable
May be repeated as texts or topics vary.
Course credits: 0.25
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INTEG 196 - Senior Essay
Upper Division
The writing and defense of an essay under the direction of a tutor chosen by the student. This course is directed by the leader of the Senior Seminar.
Course credits: 0.25
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IFL 120 - Interfaith Leadership Praxis
Upper Division
Prerequisites
BUSAD 108 ; ANTH 001 or ES 001 ; COMM 106 or ES 155; JCL 150 , BUSAD 131 , or PSYCH 172 .
A field-based course required for students who plan to complete the Interfaith Leadership Minor. Through the integration of the Interfaith Leadership Minor learning outcomes, students receive hands-on experience in developing and conducting a project that involves building bridges of understanding and cooperation across boundaries of religious, spiritual, and/or non-faith differences. The course instructor and the enrolled student(s) work together in the development of the project, the implementation of which will be the student(s)’ primary responsibility. Depending on the number of eligible students, this course may be conducted as an independent study or involve students working together in teams.
Term Offered
Offered annually spring semester.
Course credits: 0.25
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IFL 195 - Internship
Upper Division
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor and program director required.
Work-study program conducted in an internship position under the supervision of a faculty member.
Course credits: 1
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ITAL 001 - Elementary Italian
Lower Division
For students with no prior knowledge of Italian. With instruction in basic grammar structures and communication strategies, students begin to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Course credits: 1
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ITAL 002 - Continuing Elementary Italian
Lower Division
Prerequisites
ITAL 001 or equivalent.
For students with one or two years of secondary study of Italian (or the equivalent). This course continues the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, emphasizing conversation on everyday topic.
Course credits: 1
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ITAL 003 - Intermediate Italian
Lower Division
Prerequisites
ITAL 002 or the equivalent.
For students with two or three years of secondary study of Italian (or the equivalent). This course continues the development of reading, writing, listening and speaking, fostering confidence in conversation and composition across a variety of subjects.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
TCG - The Common Good
Course credits: 1
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ITAL 004 - Continuing Intermediate Italian
Lower Division
Prerequisites
ITAL 003 or the equivalent.
For students with three or four years of secondary study of Italian (or the equivalent). This course offers an abbreviated review of primary structures and concentrates heavily on developing communicative ability through readings, music and visual resources. For students who have completed an overview of basic grammar and are ready to combine and apply their language skills in most settings.
Core Curriculum Designation(s)
CE - Community Engagement
Course credits: 1
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ITAL 006 - Basic Conversation
Lower Division
Conversational practice using the vocabulary and basic grammatical structures of Italian 1, 2 sequence. Topics include cooking, pastimes and hobbies, politics, the family, travel, fashions, Italian film, sports, art, etc.
Lecture and/or Lab Hours
Meets one hour per week.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit.
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 021 - Intensive Elementary Italian
Lower Division
An accelerated review of first-year college Italian for students with some prior study of Italian.
Additional Notes
Satisfactory completion of this course (minimum grade C-) results in credit for ITAL 002 .
Course credits: 1
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ITAL 060 - Italian Civilization for Travel Courses
Lower Division
In preparation for travel in Italy, students will be introduced to various aspects of contemporary Italian culture, art and history so they can better appreciate the country and its people. The course will cover such topics as social manners, means of transportation, personal safety, laws and legal rights, medical resources, money and food. Students will also learn basic Italian language skills.
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 60-01 - Italian Civilization for Travel Courses
Lower Division
Taught in Italy during January for students who are to study in Italy in the Spring
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 60-02 - Italian Civilization for Travel Courses
Lower Division
Taught in the spring semester on campus, for students who are to study in Italy in the Fall
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 081 - Elementary Italian Praxis
Lower Division
Concurrently
Must be enrolled concurrently in ITAL 001 .
Required praxis to accompany ITAL 001 .
Lecture and/or Lab Hours
One hour per week.
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 082 - Continuing Elementary Italian Praxis
Lower Division
Concurrently
Must be enrolled concurrently in ITAL 021 .
Required praxis to accompany ITAL 021 .
Lecture and/or Lab Hours
One hour per week.
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 083 - Intermediate Italian Praxis
Lower Division
Concurrently
Must be enrolled concurrently in ITAL 003 .
Required praxis to accompany ITAL 003 .
Lecture and/or Lab Hours
One hour per week.
Course credits: 0.25
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ITAL 084 - Continuing Intermediate Italian Praxis
Lower Division
Concurrently
Must be enrolled concurrently in ITAL 004 .
Required praxis to accompany ITAL 004 .
Lecture and/or Lab Hours
One hour per week.
Course credits: 0.25
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Italian - Upper Division Note: Upper-division courses in Italian are offered as World Languages in Translation.
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ITAL 106 - Intermediate/Advanced Conversation
Upper Division
Conversation on contemporary issues. Meets once a week. Recommended for minors in Italian Studies and students who have studied in Italy.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit.
Course credits: 0.25
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