Course Descriptions


January Term - Quarter Credit
	• JAN 001 - West African Dance
	• JAN 002 - Ramen, Fast Food, Chips. Oh My!: Eating Clean in College?
	• JAN 003 - Coding is Fun!
	• JAN 004 - Beginner’s Meditation, the Silva Method
	• JAN 160 - Exploring Art Conservation and Restoration
	• JAN 162 - The Psychology of Happiness
	• PERFA 019 - Glee
	• PERFA 037 - Selecting a Season
	• PERFA 071 - Tap Dance
	• PERFA 175 - Advanced Modern Dance
January Term - Lower Division
	• JAN 020 - The Selfie: Self-Media in Context and Practice
	• JAN 021 - The Holocaust: Antisemitism Through the Ages and The Rescue of Jews
	• JAN 022 - Writing and Publishing a Romance Novel
	• JAN 023 - Welcome to the Atomic Age!
	• JAN 024 - French Food and Fashion
	• JAN 025 - Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture
	• JAN 026 - Dance for Camera
	• JAN 027 - Bay Area Racial and Social Justice Movements: Identity and Place-Based Activism
	• JAN 028 - Moving Towards Difference and Debate: Using Argumentation and Debate to Reimagine the World Together
	• JAN 029 - Laugh At Me, Please! An Intro to Stand Up Comedy
	• JAN 030 - Meritocracy, Education, and Philosophy
	• JAN 032 - Sports Writing: The “I” in Team
	• JAN 033 - My City Oakland
	• JAN 034 - Social Change Playlist
	• JAN 036 - Rock and Roll Visual Culture
	• JAN 037 - Feminist Pockets: Garment work, Self-expression, Gender and Environmentalism in Fashion
	• JAN 040 - Empires and Barbarians
	• JAN 041 - Your Creative Practice: Exploring Place, History, and Personal Experience
	• JAN 042 - Ceramics for Beginners: Pottery, Politics, & Place
	• JAN 043 - Discovering Italian Culture and Language in the Bay Area
	• JAN 044 - ABC’s of Adulthood
	• JAN 045 - The Great Silk Road
	• JAN 046 - Can Comedy Save Our Democracy? Understanding and Making News Satire
	• JAN 047 - Check All That Apply: Being Multiracial and Multiethnic in the US
	• JAN 048 - Real Estate Economics, Capital Markets, Investments, Finance and Development
	• JAN 049 - Great (…but what is Great?) Artists and Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries
	• JAN 050 - On with the Show: The American Musical Unleashed
	• JAN 051 - Beginning Choreography and Dance
	• JAN 052 - Mexican Pop Music
	• JAN 053 - The Art of Race: (Re)-Imagining Ethnicity and Identity in Literature, Art & Pop Culture
	• JAN 054 - Energy Sustainability - Build Passive Solar Home
	• JAN 055 - JRR Tolkien & The Rings
	• JAN 056 - Rwanda Rising: Gender, Leadership and Peacemaking
January Term - Upper Division
	• JAN 100 - Ecofeminism: Women, Land, & Resistance
	• JAN 101 - Turning On the Light Bulb: Illuminating, Unleashing and Managing Creativity
	• JAN 102 - Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism
	• JAN 103 - Comic Books & Existenz
	• JAN 105 - The Neo-Slave Narrative in Word and Film
	• JAN 106 - Finding Your Infinity Stones
	• JAN 107 - Great Company or Great Stock? How to Make the Investment Connection
	• JAN 108 - Fencing and Swords in History and Popular Culture
	• JAN 109 - Living in Stalin’s Russia: Daily Life in Extraordinary Times, 1928-1953
	• JAN 110 - God and Gangs: Redeeming the Streets and the Sacred
	• JAN 111 - Reading and Writing Young Adult Literature
	• JAN 112 - Nightmare Futures
	• JAN 113 - Finding Our Voices/Hearing Others’: Discovering Common Ground Across Differences
	• JAN 114 - Fences / Neighbors: Art & Literature of the US - Mexico Border
	• JAN 115 - Exploring Fairy Tales
	• JAN 116 - Perspectives on Tourism: Myths and Realities
	• JAN 117 - The Wild Women of Memoir
	• JAN 119 - There’s Always a Lighthouse: The Case For Literary Merit in Video Games
	• JAN 120 - Capoeira: The Brazilian Art of Resistance
	• JAN 121 - Introduction to Green Chemistry
	• JAN 122 - Eco-Drama for Young Audiences: Theatre and Environmental Literacy
	• JAN 123 - A Lasallian Education for All: Universal Design of Learning in Secondary Schools
	• JAN 125 - Understanding Jazz Essentials: Ragtime to Bebop
	• JAN 126 - Story Telling In a Digital World
	• JAN 127 - The Evolution & Role of Cacao in the Food, Drug & Beauty Industries
	• JAN 128 - Creative Geniuses or Hard Workers: Innovation Insights from South Korea
	• JAN 129 - The Science of Happiness and Well-Being
	• JAN 130 - The Science of Cooking
	• JAN 132 - STEM Education for a More Just World
	• JAN 135 - The African-American Experience Through Films
	• JAN 136 - Sex and Politics in Iranian Cinema
January Term - Travel
	• JAN 171 - Culture and Coral Reefs in Sri Lanka
	• JAN 174 - Lasallian Service Internship I (Local)
	• JAN 175 - Positive Psychology of Scandinavia
	• JAN 176 - Ancient Greek Athletics: Gael Odyssey
	• JAN 177 - History of Science: London and Paris
	• JAN 178 - Endangered Australia: Wildlife and Culture
	• JAN 179 - Religion and Culture in India
	• JAN 180 - Decadence in Venice
	• JAN 181 - Engaging Christian Art: France and Italy
	• JAN 182 - Globalized Mexico
	• JAN 183 - Spain: Identities Evolving through Art, Architecture and Culture
	• JAN 184 - The Web of Life on the Island of the Gods: Nature and Culture in Bali
	• JAN 185 - The Place of the University: Oxford
	• JAN 186 - Puerto Rico Se Levanta: Direct Hurricane Relief