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Sociology - Upper Division |
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SOC 432 - Sociological Research Methods Upper Division
Prerequisites SOC 100 and SOC 301 ; Minimum grade C-. WRIT 200 or WRIT 201 or WRIT 205 or WRIT 210 or WRIT 215 or WRIT 220 or WRIT 225 or WRIT 230 or WRIT 308 ; Minimum grade C-. It is suggested that this course be taken in the last semester of the junior year.
This course will teach you the logic of social science research, teach you some specific methodological tools used by sociologists, and have you use these tools to collect data to answer a sociological research question.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 132
Course credits: 4 |
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SOC 432EL - Sociological Research Methods EL Upper Division
Concurrently SOC 432
Engaged Learning component to accompany SOC 432. Engaged learning, as an important aspect of Lasallian education, provides students opportunities to apply their academic knowledge and skills to serve a community and to learn in partnership with its members. Students are expected to spend 20-30 hours working with the community partner in addition to the related Engaged Learning coursework.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) EL - Engaged Learning
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 132
Course credits: 1 |
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SOC 433 - Senior Thesis Upper Division
Prerequisites SOC 432 ; Minimum grade C-. This should be taken in the senior year. A faculty sponsor is required.
Continuation of Research Methods course where honor students undertake individual research, culminating in the senior project.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 133
Course credits: 3 |
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SOC 495 - Special Study: Internship Upper Division
Prerequisites SOC 100 or SOC 104 or SOC 301 ; Minimum grade C-. Or Instructor Approval. Sponsorship by a sociology faculty member and approval of the department chair is required.
This course is usually taken by an upper-division student who wishes to complete their education with related work experience and is maintaining at least a C average. In addition to work experience (6-8 hours per week), outside research and a term project are usually required.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 195
Course credits: 1-3 |
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SOC 496 - Senior Research Seminar Upper Division
Prerequisites SOC 432 ; Minimum grade C-.
In this course you will take all that you have learned in sociology and weave it into an original research project of your own choosing. Using what you have learned of sociological methods you will design and conduct a research project. You will analyze the data and use sociological theory to explain it. You will also conduct a literature review in the relevant content area and integrate all of this in the final paper. The final paper will be written in the format of a sociological journal article.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 196
Course credits: 3 |
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SOC 497 - Independent Study Upper Division
Prerequisites SOC 100 or SOC 104 ; Minimum grade C-. Sponsorship by a sociology faculty member and approval of the department chair is required.
This course entails independent study or research for students whose needs are not met by courses available in the regular offerings of the department. The course usually requires the writing of a term project.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 197
Course credits: 1-3 |
SMC - Lower Division |
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CORE 125 - Introductory Laboratory Practicum in the Sciences Lower Division
Concurrently Science course without a lab
Prerequisites Permission of the instructor
This course is intended for transfer students who have fulfilled the science lecture coursework at another institution but are missing the lab requirement. This application-based science lab course teaches students the foundations of gathering and analysis of empirical data on a topic of natural and physical science. Students will learn how to draw a valid conclusion based on basic experimental research.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 100 - First Year Advising Cohort Lower Division
This course provides first-year students with timely advising support and connects them to academic, career, and professional resources in their first semester at SMC. The instructor is an experienced academic advisor, who will serve as a resource and mentor to you during this year of acclimation to college. Supported by the Advising Office, this course is designed to help each student further develop their academic interests and map a pathway based on those interests. Students will learn to navigate the Core Curriculum, campus resources and tools, and career/professional development. The course format combines class discussions with co-curricular activities and a variety of workshops to enhance your college experience with community-building and academic support.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 070
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 101 - HP Advising Cohort, Part 1 Lower Division
Prerequisites HP students only
This course will provide students in the High Potential Program with the important access you need to a faculty advisor and academic success coach, who will serve as a constant resource and mentor to you during this year of acclimation to college. It will also guide you and your HP cohort of first-generation college students through the many learning and living experiences you will encounter during your time at Saint Mary’s. It will combine class discussions with co-curricular activities and a variety of workshops to enhance your college experience and support you in achieving your highest potential.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 070
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 102 - HP Advising Cohort, Part 2 Lower Division
Prerequisites HP students only
This course will continue the Fall-semester advising and academic support provided to students in the High Potential Program. The Spring semester FYAC focuses on professional development, building social capital, and continuing to form bonds with HP peers and mentors.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 070
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 111 - Meditation and Prayer Techniques Lower Division
An exploration of meditation practices.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: TRS 013
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 121 - Gaels 4 Justice Lower Division
Prerequisites There are no prerequisites; instructor permission required for registration.
This is the required course associated with the Gaels 4 Justice living-learning community for first-year students. The course provides first year students an academic context in which students make meaning of the living-learning experience and deepen their learning in leadership, spirituality, and social justice within Catholic social thought and the five Lasallian core principles. The course combines classroom learning (90 minutes, every other week) with community engagement (12-14 hours/semester), an orientation retreat, and special events.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOC 008
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 130 - HP SAILS Lower Division
The Summer Academic Institute for Leaders and Scholars is an intensive two-week college orientation course for incoming High Potential Program students. SAILS consists of three “micro” classes, a series of CODE workshops in the Intercultural Center, daily meetings with Saint Mary’s College programs and institutional leaders, and travel to local cultural events and activities. Students live in the dorms for the duration of the class.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 030
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 140 - Project Success Lower Division
Many students begin college with unclear assumptions about what it takes to be successful.
This course encourages freshmen and first-year transfer students to undertake the journey of learning more about themselves as students in the classroom, as student leaders, as individuals adjusting to residential living with a diverse student body. Weekly discussions focus on helping freshmen to better understand the learning process and to acquire the basic academic survival skills that are key to mastery of the college experience. Readings, journal writing and field trips required.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 040
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 220 - Listening to Life: Living Lasallian Lower Division
Students in this course will engage in the Lasallian tradition and Catholic heritage of Saint Mary’s College by studying the life, educational mission, and spirituality of St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle; reviewing contemporary expressions of the Lasallian mission; exploring faith, prayer, and various spiritual practices and their intersections with service and community; and examining students’ own personal development and journeys through the lenses of faith, service, and community. This course involves weekly community engagement outside of class.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) EL - Engaged Learning
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: TRS 017
Course credits: 1 |
SMC - Upper Division |
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CORE 450 - Community Engagement Reflection and Analysis Upper Division
Prerequisites Permission of instructor
Community Engagement: A Retrospective Learning Experience - This course is intended for students who have already completed significant work/service/praxis (20 hours minimum) during college that is directly related to coursework, but did not receive Engaged Learning (EL) credit. Service experiences include, but are not limited to, completed volunteer work in a community setting (e.g., nonprofit organization, hospital, school, etc.), completed internships in fields related to coursework (e.g., teaching, business), and completed political action work. Students will actively and critically reflect upon these service experiences and integrate them with an academic experience in this course to fulfil the EL requirement. Instructor approval required.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) EL - Engaged Learning
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 150
Course credits: 1 |
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CORE 451 - Engaged Learning Internship Upper Division
Prerequisites Permission of instructor
This is a two-credit, upper division Engaged learning (EL) course. In CORE 451, students are unpaid interns (4-5 hours/week) at Bay Area nonprofits, and integrate their service with an academic component to explore theories of change, organizational theory, vocational exploration, and topics related to their majors. In this course, students will critically reflect, analyze, and discuss service experiences from a community engagement framework as they relate to a professional experience in a nonprofit setting. The aim is for students to contribute to serving low income and marginalized communities and/or to promote efforts of social justice and sustainability through direct service or capacity building while engaginng in personal and professional development.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) EL - Engaged Learning
Repeatable Yes
Course credits: 2 |
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SMC 300 - Transfer Advising Cohort Upper Division
This course provides an important space for transfer students to receive timely advising support and connect them to academic, career, and professional resources in their first semester at SMC. The instructor is an experienced academic advisor and is supported by the Advising Office to help each student navigate their unique transfer pathway and provide timely answers to questions on transfer coursework, the Core Curriculum, campus resources and tools, and career/professional development. The course format combines class discussions with co-curricular activities and a variety of workshops to enhance the transfer student college experience with community-building and academic support.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SMC 170
Course credits: 1 |
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SMC 310 - Student Leadership Upper Division
Prerequisites Permission of Student Life only
Students enrolled in the Leadership Seminar, which will be referred to as Exploring Leadership, will analyze their leadership and commitments in the context of leadership for the common good. Students will identify and reflect on definitions and theories of leadership as they study the application of these theories. Students will also increase awareness of their values, beliefs, and identity while developing competence with basic leadership skills.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous Course Number: EDUC 085
Course credits: 1 |
SOLA, School of Liberal Arts - Lower Division |
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SOLA 175 - Living a Life of Purpose Lower division
This course will help you get clear about your priorities as they relate to your professional, academic, and life goals. It will also give you time and space to listen to others and discuss what you are learning, week by week, about yourself, your passion and sense of calling, your strengths, and the complexity of the 21 Century world of work. It will be a highly interactive and engaging experience. You will leave having learned something important about getting quiet, managing anxiety, connecting to resources, and navigating your next steps. You will support your journey towards finding work that matters.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SOLA 075
Course credits: 1 |
Spanish - Lower Division |
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SPAN 101 - Elementary Spanish Lower Division
For students with no prior knowledge of Spanish. With instruction in basic grammar structures and communication strategies, students begin to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students who have some prior study of Spanish, but who need to review the basics, should enroll in Spanish 2.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 001
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 102 - Continuing Elementary Spanish Lower Division
Prerequisites SPAN 101 ; Minimum grade C-.; Or placement.
For students with one or two years of secondary study of Spanish (or the equivalent). This course continues the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, emphasizing conversation on everyday topics.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) LANG - Second Language Proficiency
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 002
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 110 - Conversation Lower Division
Conversational practice for students enrolled in first- or second-year Spanish.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 006
Course credits: 1 |
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SPAN 120 - Intensive Elementary Spanish Lower Division
An accelerated review of first-year college Spanish for students with some prior study of the language. Satisfactory completion of this course (minimum grade C-) gives credit for Spanish 2.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 021
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 160 - Spanish Civilization for Travel Courses Lower Division
In preparation for study in Spain, students read about major periods in history and analyze the principal currents in art. In addition this course examines cultural traits of everyday life.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 060
Course credits: 1 |
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SPAN 201 - Intermediate Spanish Lower Division
Prerequisites SPAN 102 ; Minimum grade C-.; Or placement.
For students with two or three years of secondary study of Spanish (or the equivalent). This course continues the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, fostering confidence in conversation and composition across a variety of subjects.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ARTS & HUM - Arts and Humanities Analysis, LANG - Second Language Proficiency
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 003
Course credits: 4 |
Spanish - Upper Division |
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SPAN 300 - Spanish for Spanish Speakers Upper Division
Prerequisites Placement exam.
A course designed specifically for Latino students who wish to improve their written language. Differences between written and spoken Spanish are emphasized. Reading and discussion of essays and short stories by Latino and Latin American writers; regular written assignments.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 009
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 301 - Conversation/Composition Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 201 ; Minimum grade C-.; Or placement.
This high intermediate level course prepares students for upper-division work by developing increased fluency in speaking and writing. The course uses a variety of texts, media, and film to focus on expansion of vocabulary and to explore the richness and diversity of the Spanish language and culture of which the U.S. is a part. A sound knowledge of Spanish grammar is expected, and the course targets grammatical items as needed. Required for Spanish majors and open to students from other disciplines who wish to improve their mastery of the language.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ARTS & HUM - Arts and Humanities Analysis
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 010
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 302 - Introduction to Literature Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 300 or SPAN 301 ; Minimum grade C-.
Introduction to literary analysis. This course requires close reading of texts and emphasizes extensive writing about literature. Examination of the notion of genre, narrative devices, structure, etc. Required of majors and minors.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ARTS & HUM - Arts and Humanities Analysis
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 011
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 306 - Advanced Conversation Upper Division
Conversation on contemporary issues. Source materials include newspaper articles, television and radio programs.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 106
Course credits: 1 |
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SPAN 311 - Phonetics and Dialectology Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 300 or SPAN 301 ; Minimum grade C-.
Students will study the sounds, intonation and rhythm of spoken Spanish as they explore general principles of phonetics and phonology, phonetic transcription, historical development of the Spanish sound system and differences between modern peninsular and Latin American dialects. The course also addresses the Spanish/English contrastive analysis and typical phonetic interference present in bilingual speech communities.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 100
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 312 - Advanced Spanish Syntax and Composition Upper Division
This course is a systematic review of essential aspects of Spanish syntax with a variety of writing exercises using texts as a point of departure. Students will analyze samples of mass media communication for content and style, including newspaper and magazine articles, essays and editorials, book reviews, film scripts, publicity and film and theater reviews. In the second half of the term, some emphasis is placed on creative writing.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 101
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 313 - Advanced Writing and Research Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 300 or SPAN 301 ; Minimum grade C-.
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WRIT 200 or WRIT 201 or WRIT 205 or WRIT 210 or WRIT 215 or WRIT 220 or WRIT 225 or WRIT 230 or WRIT 308 , previously or concurrently; Minimum grade C-.
In this course, students will further develop their Spanish skills in literary analysis and academic writing, with the opportunity to research and investigate themes related to literature using the library and other research tools. Students will be able to articulate clear theses and support them through primary and secondary research. Topics to be taught include bibliographies, footnotes and formatting a project using the standard MLA style guide for foreign languages and literatures.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) WID - Writing in the Discipline
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 102
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 314 - Spanish Linguistics Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
This course familiarizes students with the scientific study of the Spanish language. Areas covered include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and the history of the Spanish language from its roots in Vulgar Latin to its modern dialectal variations.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 103
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 315 - Workshop in Translation Upper Division
Concurrently SPAN 315EL
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Introduction to the linguistic and aesthetic problems of translation, with emphasis on learning through practice. Focus on various kinds of texts, both literary and technical. Equal emphasis given to translating from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 104
Course credits: 3 |
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SPAN 315EL - Workshop in Translation EL Upper Division
Concurrently SPAN 315
Engaged Learning component to accompany SPAN 315. Engaged learning, as an important aspect of Lasallian education, provides students opportunities to apply their academic knowledge and skills to serve a community and to learn in partnership with its members. Students are expected to spend 20-30 hours working with the community partner in addition to the related Engaged Learning coursework.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
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SPAN 320 - Special Topics in Literary Studies Upper Division
This course is an intensive study and analysis of a single salient feature or movement in Spanish/Latin American literature.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 130
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 321 - Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics Upper Division
This course is an intensive study and analysis of a particular topic of the Spanish language, including such areas as historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and methodologies of teaching language.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 131
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 322 - Special Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies Upper Division
Courses taught under this designation seek to provide students with an understanding of the history, cultures, and contemporary issues of Latin America, including the presence of Latinos in the United States.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 132
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 330 - Chicano/Chicana Literature Upper Division
An exploration and analysis of representative works by Chicano/Chicana writers and the vision they present of themselves. Samples of poetry, drama and prose are considered. May be repeated for credit as content varies.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 150
Course credits: 3 |
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SPAN 350 - Spanish Language Tutorial Upper Division
Concurrently WLC 300
Spanish language study that specifies and sharpens the Spanish content of WLC 300 .
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
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SPAN 370 - Business Spanish Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Composition and translation of Spanish/Hispanic business correspondence to develop familiarity with the Spanish commercial idiom. Reading and oral practice in Spanish using as source material current topics in world trade, economics, banking and industry, with focus on Latin America and Spain.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 170
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 420 - Spanish Literature: Middle Ages-18th Century Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Introduction and study of the major genres and writers from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, including Cantar de mío Cid, medieval ballads, early lyric and didactic poetry and readings in medieval prose and drama; selections from lyric and mystic Renaissance poetry; the picaresque novel. Golden Age prose and poetry, including Cervantes, Góngora, Lope de Vega and Calderón.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 120
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 421 - Spanish Literature: 18th-Mid-20th Cen Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Readings from the major writers and literary movements in Spain from 1700 to 1940. An overview of 18th-century ideological renewal as manifested in essays, the neoclassic theater and social satire. This course includes nineteenth-century Romanticism in poetry and drama, Realism and Naturalism in the 19th-century novel, the generation of 1898, and 20th-century modernism in prose, poetry and drama.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 121
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 422 - Literature of the Golden Age Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Topics covered include the theater of 17th-century dramatists: Lope de Vega, Calderón, Tirso de Molina and others; the poetry of Garcilaso, Herrera, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Góngora, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Santa Teresa; prose masterpieces such as Cervantes’ Don Quijoteand representative selections from hisNovelas ejemplares.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 122
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 423 - Contemporary Peninsular Literature Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Study of major literary trends in poetry, prose and drama of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 127
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 440 - Latin American Literature I Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
A study of the foundations of literature of Latin America, from the colonial period through neoclassicism; Mexico’s picaresque novel; the literature of the struggle for independence; romanticism in prose and poetry.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 140
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 441 - Latin American Literature II Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
An upper-division survey literature course designed to give students a wide scope of readings from the beginning of 20th century to more recent texts that have shaped Latin America’s social, cultural, and literary history. Students read representative authors; analyze texts using appropriate literary terminology; and engage with questions of regional and individual national identities.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 141
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 443 - Contemporary Latin American Literature Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Study of major literary trends in poetry, prose and drama of the 20th century.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 143
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 445 - 20th Century Mexican Literature Upper Division
Prerequisites SPAN 302 ; Minimum grade C-.
Major literary currents and primary works of the most prominent writers of the 20th century within the framework of the economic and social changes of the period: the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath; the feminist revolution; political developments.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 145
Course credits: 4 |
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SPAN 495 - Internship Upper Division
Prerequisites Permission of instructor.
Work-study program conducted in an internship position under the supervision of a faculty member.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 195
Course credits: 1-3 |
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SPAN 496 - Capstone Upper Division
Prerequisites Permission of instructor.
Required of all Spanish majors in the spring of their senior year. This course is designed to help seniors assess and integrate the knowledge they have acquired through their major courses, and consider what they have learned in the context of their overall undergraduate experience.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 196
Course credits: 1 |
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SPAN 497 - Independent Study Upper Division
An independent study or research course for students whose special needs are not met by the regular course offerings of the department.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPAN 197
Course credits: 1-3 |
Special Education - Upper Division |
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SPED 382 - Positive Behavior Support Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
SPED 282 is designed to teach candidates for the Educational Specialist teaching credential the competencies needed in order to maintain a safe and productive learning environment for all
students in the classroom. The purposes of the course are to provide students with (a) an understanding of the basic theory, terms and behavioral principles of human behavior, (b) the skills to apply those principles to teaching and effective classroom management, and (c) an opportunity to reflect on how evidence‐based practice in positive behavioral support and classroom management interfaces with cultural values, traditions, communication, learning styles, and relational patterns of culturally diverse students and their families.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 182
Course credits: 3 |
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SPED 389 - Assessment and Program Planning Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
This course is designed for candidates enrolled in the Preliminary Educational Specialist Mild/Moderate Disabilities credential program, and for candidates in the Reading Specialist certificate. The course includes an overview of the principles of testing, including measures of central tendency, variability, and correlation. The course will include evaluations of tests currently used in the public schools and in special education programs. Course assignments will include practice in the administration and scoring of representative samples of formal and informal assessment instruments. There will be an emphasis on the interpretation of assessment results and using assessment results to develop appropriate instructional programs, as well as a review of ethical and educational policy issues related to educational testing. This course requires fieldwork.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 189
Course credits: 3 |
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SPED 392 - Best Practices for the Education Special Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
This course provides an introduction to assessment, curriculum and instruction, and case management of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Candidates will also gain knowledge and skills related to the teaching of reading (standard 9), teaching English learners (standard 10), curriculum and instruction for students with disabilities (Standard 13), and the broad range of services delivery options in K-12 public schools.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 192
Course credits: 3 |
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SPED 442 - EdTPA Practicum Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
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SPED 487 - Consultation, Collaboration & Communication for the Ed Specialist Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
Candidates will develop the capacity to successfully build positive relationships with families, staff, colleagues, service providers and private or non-public agencies. Topics include effective communication skills necessary to successfully collaborate with parents, caregivers, professional and paraprofessional staff. Culturally and linguistically related issues experienced by families and parents of those with special needs will also be addressed. Course topics are based upon current federal and state laws and best practices realized by the educational community.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 187
Course credits: 2 |
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SPED 493 - Educational & Assistive Technology for Mild/Moderate Disabilities Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
This course provides opportunities for candidates to acquire the ability to use computer-based technology to facilitate the teaching and learning process. Each candidate demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the appropriate use of computer-based technology for information collection, analysis and management in the instructional setting. Candidates demonstrate knowledge of assistive technology including low and high equipment and materials to facilitate communication, curriculum access, and skill development of students with disabilities.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 193
Course credits: 1 |
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SPED 494 - Teaching & Learning for Mild/Moderate Disabilities I Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
This course is designed to introduce Education Specialists Candidates to issues, curricula, and best practices for teaching the core curriculum Standards in California public schools based on the Curriculum Frameworks and Content Standards approved by the California State Board of Education. In addition, candidates will continue to develop knowledge and skills in best practices associated with supporting access to General Education curriculum by students with mild/moderate disabilities. This course will extend candidates’ knowledge and skills to organize and implement instruction effectively for students with diverse backgrounds and with diverse learning needs, including English learners. Candidates will demonstrate skills in the use of differentiated instructional strategies that ensure that all students have access and achievement in relation to the content Standards. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to create a positive, inclusive climate of instruction for all students in a broad range of service delivery options. This course will also provide support, direction, and enrichment to candidates while in the first phase of student teaching or employed as interns.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 194
Course credits: 3 |
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SPED 496 - Health Education Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
Health Education examines concepts of health and health education in the schools. Emphasis will be placed on current health issues for children and adolescents viewed in the context of child development; on the responsibilities of teachers and the school community in promoting child health; and on curricular strategies that contribute to the healthful behavior of children.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
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SPED 498 - Teaching & Learning for Mild/Moderate Disabilities II Upper Division
Prerequisites TED 200 ; Minimum grade C-.
This course is designed to prepare Education Specialists Candidates for addressing issues, curricula, and best practices for planning, implementing, and evaluating transitional life experiences for students across the lifespan. This course also has a major focus on post-secondary transition planning, implementation and evaluation. The course also extends candidates’ knowledge of teaching the common core curriculum standards in California public schools based on the Curriculum Frameworks and Content Standards approved by the California State Board of Education. In addition, candidates will continue to develop knowledge and skills in best practices associated with supporting access to General Education curriculum by students with mild/moderate disabilities. This course will extend candidates’ knowledge and skills to effectively organize and implement instruction for students with diverse backgrounds and with diverse learning needs, including English learners. Candidates will demonstrate skills in the use of differentiated instructional strategies that ensure that all students have access and achievement in relation to the content standards. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to create a positive, inclusive climate of instruction for all students in a broad range of service delivery options. This course will also provide support, direction, and enrichment to candidates while in the first phase of student teaching or employed as interns.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: SPED 198
Course credits: 3 |
Teacher Education - Lower Division |
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TED 200 - Introduction to the Teaching Profession Lower Division
Concurrently TED 200EL
Prerequisites JCL 100 recommended
Presenting both historical and current views of teaching and education, this course encourages students to think more critically about what teaching is, what teachers do, and the complex interconnections between society, policy, culture, and schools. Providing a beginning foundation for the teaching profession, students will develop research and theory-based views of social justice education, the production of knowledge, multicultural contexts of schools as well as contemporary issues related to educational policy and educational reform.
This course is open to all undergraduate students interested in the teaching profession and is a requirement for students in undergraduate teacher education programs (SSTE, MSTE and SPED) and an option for the JCL Education Concentration.
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: EDUC 020
Course credits: 3 |
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TED 200EL - Introduction to the Teaching Profession: Field Practicum Lower Division
Concurrently TED 200
This Engaged Learning course is taken in conjunction with EDUC 200. Students participate in an immersive field placement at a K-12 school setting. These field placements promote collaboration and mutual benefit in a community setting while deepening student understanding of the multifaceted issues facing our nation’s schools.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
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TED 228 - STEM Education for a More Just World Lower Division
Concurrently TED 228EL
Prerequisites JCL 100 , recommended
This course engages a sociohistorical analysis of inequities in U.S. K-12 STEM education alongside the struggle to make STEM education more equitable and just. We begin by exploring our own K-12 STEM schooling experiences in relation to our intersecting social identities, acknowledging that how we interrogate our lived experiences shapes our perspectives on schooling. We will center issues of power, access, and agency in STEM education, examining the historical and present day status quo of STEM education. We will read and analyze a variety of critical and culturally relevant lessons, units, and projects in STEM education that explicitly strive to challenge inequities and empower students as change agents. Together, we will envision STEM classrooms as humanizing, inclusive spaces by visiting and supporting local classrooms and meeting STEM teachers. Furthermore, we will examine strategies for family and community engagement in STEM learning. Finally, we will investigate current efforts around the country to make education more equitable and just, particularly the work of teacher-activists shaping STEM education. At the end of the course, as blossoming STEM education scholars and future professionals (whether that be in a STEM industry, medicine, teaching, etc.), students of the class will be able to formulate a theory of change for how K-12 STEM education can be more equitable and just and share this with local school partners.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 3 |
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TED 228EL - STEM Education for a More Just World: Field Practicum Lower Division
Concurrently TED 228
This Engaged Learning course is taken in conjunction with TED 228. Students participate in an immersive field placement at a K-12 STEM classroom setting. These field placements promote collaboration and mutual benefit in a community setting while deepening student understanding of the multifaceted issues facing our nation’s schools.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 1 |
Teacher Education - Upper Division |
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TED 501 - Learning, Development and Culture Upper Division
This course examines how children and adolescents learn and develop cognitively, socially,
psychologically, and morally both as individuals and as members of the diverse range of families, cultures, and communities in California. We look at ways teachers can create positive, inclusive, and culturally responsive classroom learning communities. The development of the learner is examined from multiple theoretical perspectives, and candidates practice applying these theories to understanding what happens in the classroom. We examine the impact of race and socio-economic status on classroom equity, student self-esteem, and empowerment/ disempowerment. We also investigate critical thinking, creativity, and reflection, while beginning to learn how to create developmentally, linguistically, and culturally appropriate learning activities and assessments. This is a gradaute-level course open to undergraduate teacher education candidates.
Course credits: 3 |
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TED 502 - Teaching Emergent Multilingual Students Upper Division
This course prepares teacher candidates to support emergent multilingual students as general education elementary or secondary teachers or education specialists. The course introduces students to research and theory on additional language development, state and federal policies governing the education of English learners, and different instructional program models for serving multilingual students. Candidates learn how to scaffold and differentiate literacy and content instruction for students who are learning English and how to create opportunities for English language development across the curriculum. In addition, students learn how to use formative assessment practices and design culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy, as well as how to collaborate with multilingual families to support their children’s learning.This is a gradaute-level course open to undergraduate teacher education candidates.
Course credits: 3 |
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TED 503 - Introduction to Special Education Upper Division
This course provides a comprehensive survey of the field of special education. Information will be provided on special education history, legislation, programs, and service delivery models. The course will also include information on etiology, description, assessment, and program planning for students with mild to moderate disabilities by both general education teachers and education specialists. Additional topics include effective collaboration with parents and other caregivers, as well as other professional and paraprofessional staff. Culturally and linguistically responsive family/parent issues in serving all students with diverse academic and social abilities are also addressed.This is a gradaute-level course open to undergraduate teacher education candidates.
Course credits: 3 |
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THTR 110 - Theatre History I Lower Division
Through this course, students acquire a solid foundational knowledge of theater history, theatre literature, and theatre theory, from ancient civilizations through the end of the 18th century. While centered primarily on Western European theatre developments, the course also offers a look at important Asian theatre developments during the same timespan, such as Noh and Kabuki.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ARTS & HUM - Arts and Humanities Analysis
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 030
Course credits: 3 |
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THTR 120 - Acting I: Acting for Every Body Lower Division
In this course both beginners and more experienced performers are invited to explore the play-full art of acting. The course provides a space for discovery; through direct experiential learning students investigate the ways we use our bodies, voices, and imaginations as embodied storytellers, both as individual actors and as part of an ensemble. Students will grow in personal confidence and creativity, as they “step outside the box” of their everyday modes of self-presentation and relationship.The course will also expand students’ artistic lens through the practice of identifying and interpreting the clues a playwright has woven into a playtext – a process called script analysis. Through it, students learn to think like actors - but also like playwrights, dramaturgs, directors and designers, as they build a foundational, holistic understanding of the entire collaborative production process. The course culminates with the rehearsal and performance of scripted scenes, chosen to allow every student to bring a character to life through their own intersectional identities.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP, ARTS, HUM, HSP - Arts and Humanities Analysis and Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $60
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 033
Course credits: 3 |
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THTR 150 - Introduction to Technical Theatre Lower Division
Students learn the basics of theatrical production, including: roles of the production process; scene shop safety and the basics of tool use; introduction to carpentry and stagecraft; basics of electrics, sound and costume/wardrobe; and fundamentals of working on a stage crew. In addition to weekly class meetings, students have assigned readings and hands-on assignments to be completed during lab hours addressing each of the areas noted above.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $25
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 042
Course credits: 3 |
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THTR 201 - Theatre Lab: Selecting a Season Lower Division
Students will be asked to apply critical questions and season-selection criteria to a variety of playscripts: Why this play, now? How does this play speak to our present moment? Can this play be appropriately cast with our student population? Does this play offer sufficient roles for our student cohort, especially women, non-binary, and PoC-identified actors? Can scenery, costumes, and other technical elements necessary for this play be achieved with our existing resources? How well does this play align with our program’s learning objectives, and with the mission and vision of the larger institution? Who will be the audience for this play? What marketing challenges might this play pose? The goal of the course is to lead a student-driven process for generating a short list of 3-5 plays for production consideration in the following academic year.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 202 - Theatre Lab: Professional Development Lower Division
This course offers theatre students practical advice and resources to prepare them for taking “next steps” in their artistic and professional development. Topics addressed may include: auditioning and interviewing; graduate training programs; internships; pathways to union membership; and/or early career challenges and choices.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 203 - Theatre Lab: Stage Makeup Lower Division
Introductory training in the application of stage makeup. Topics may include basic highlight and shadow, character makeup, old age makeup, and/or injury makeup.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 209 - Theatre Lab: Variable Topic Lower Division
Introductory training and/or inquiry into a topic of relevance to both performers and designers/technicians, not otherwise specified.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037/047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 221 - Acting Lab: The Speaking Voice Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on breath, the speaking voice, and text work for the actor.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $25
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 222 - Acting Lab: Movement for Actor Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on movement and embodiment techniques for the actor.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 223 - Acting Lab: Stage Combat Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on partnering, safety, and storytelling in stage combat. May be offered with a focus on unarmed technique, or techniques utilizing prop weapons.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Fee $40
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 224 - Acting Lab: Acting on Camera Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on performance for the camera.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 225 - Acting Lab: Improv Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on the fundamental improvisation skills of invention, listening, and saying ‘yes-and.’ Improv skills are life skills!
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 226 - Acting Lab: Audition Monologues Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on the selection and rehearsal of material for auditions, chosen to allow every student to bring a character to life through their own intersectional identities.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Fee $40
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 229 - Acting Lab: Variable Topic Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in specialized performance skills and techniques. This course focuses on another performance technique not specified above.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 037
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 240 - Interactive Theatre Lower Division
Concurrently THTR 240EL
An introduction for experienced actors and beginners to the performance practice and underlying philosophy of the radical theatre-maker Augusto Boal. Through games, exercises, and performance projects, students will question and critique the dynamics of power, class, and privilege in contemporary society, and rehearse alternative actions aimed at social transformation. The course builds confidence and a sense of broader possibilities for improvisation, both on stage and in life.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP, ARTS, HUM, HSP - Arts and Humanities Analysis and Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $45
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 050
Course credits: 3 |
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THTR 240EL - Interactive Theatre: Engaged Learning Lower Division
Concurrently THTR 240
Engaged Learning component to accompany THTR 240 . Engaged learning, as an important aspect of Lasallian education, provides students opportunities to apply their academic knowledge and skills to serve a community and to learn in partnership with its members. Students are expected to spend 20-30 hours working with the community partner in addition to the related Engaged Learning coursework.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) EL - Engaged Learning
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 050
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 251 - Tech Lab: Lighting Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in technical and/or design skills applicable to stage lighting.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 252 - Tech Lab: Audio Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in technical and/or design skills applicable to audio design or production.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 253 - Tech Lab: Scenic Construction Techniques Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in scenic construction techniques: for example, stage carpentry, welding, computer-aided construction, or others.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 254 - Tech Lab: Scenic Painting Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in scenic painting. Topics may include painting textures, light and shadow, utilizing a grid to enlarge an image, and mixing color.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 255 - Tech Lab: Costuming Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in technical and/or design skills applicable to costuming and/or wardrobe management.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 256 - Tech Lab: Drafting Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in drafting for the stage, including the concepts of scale and orthographic projection.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable No
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 259 - Tech Lab: Variable Topic Lower Division
Introductory hands-on training in technical theatre/design skills not otherwise specified.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Fee $50
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 047
Course credits: 1 |
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THTR 280 - Theatre Production Lower Division
Practical hands-on experience working behind the scenes on a production. All enrolled students will serve as members of the backstage crew and/or build crew for one or more Performing Arts productions; either 1 or 2 CU is available. Beginners are welcome! Students may also enroll as a placeholder while awaiting the results of auditions.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP & HSP - Arts and Humanities Practice
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 142
Course credits: 1-2 |
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THTR 300 - Directing and Design: Building Collab Upper Division
Prerequisites SEM 150 and SEM 250 or SEM 327
This course examines the designers’ and director’s creative process, and their collaborative relationship, in the creation of theater. By exploring the dual perspectives of directing and design, students will be able to adopt various creative roles as they progress through a series of assigned projects. Through practical projects in world-building, staging, and design, we will try different techniques for eliciting an initial creative response to a text, and then developing those responses in support of dramatic storytelling.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways directors and designers (1) create a working group and navigate leadership in all facets of collaboration; (2) work together to imagine the fictional world(s) of theatrical productions; and (3) on the way design elements work synergistically with one another, with the work of the actors and director, and with the larger intellectual, emotional, and physical context of the work as a whole. Basic presentation skills and techniques, as well as a structure for giving and receiving constructive feedback, will be taught as crucial elements of artistic development.
Repeatable No
Course credits: 4 |
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THTR 310 - Theatre History II Upper Division
Prerequisites THTR 110 ; Minimum grade C-.
A continuation of the survey of major developments in theatre begun in Theatre History I. This course pays special attention to the rise of modern theatre, contemporary forms of theatre and various performance theories. Weekly analysis of specific social, historical, and cultural components provides opportunities for students to develop and broaden their understanding of how theatre arises out of, and is embedded within, a given time period.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ARTS & HUM - Arts and Humanities Analysis, WID - Writing in the Discipline
Repeatable No
Fee $40
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 130
Course credits: 4 |
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THTR 311 - Theatre in Performance: Bay Area Theatre Upper Division
Prerequisites WRIT 200 or WRIT 201 or WRIT 205 or WRIT 210 or WRIT 215 or WRIT 220 or WRIT 225 or WRIT 230 or WRIT 308 , previously or concurrently; Minimum grade C-.
A critical engagement with current theatre productions and practices. Students attend performances throughout the Bay Area, while studying the contributions made to each production by the playwright, director, designers and actors.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ARTS & HUM - Arts and Humanities Analysis
Repeatable No
Fee $200
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 135
Course credits: 3 |
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THTR 312 - Theatre & American Cultures Upper Division
Prerequisites WRIT 200 or WRIT 201 or WRIT 205 or WRIT 210 or WRIT 215 or WRIT 220 or WRIT 225 or WRIT 230 or WRIT 308 , previously or concurrently; Minimum grade C-.
By studying the contributions of theatre and performance artists, this course addresses the shared cultural legacies of the United States. The theory of intersectionality is used to examine the ways that gender, sexual orientation, race, class, religious affiliation, and physical ability impact individual and collective identities. While increasing their awareness of major contemporary artists, students also use theoretical models from dance/movement/spoken work composition to explore family histories and individual experiences.
Core Curriculum Designation(s) ACP, ARTS, HUM, HSP - Arts and Humanities Analysis and Practice, IPE - Identity, Power, and Equity in the United States
Repeatable No
Fee $60
Additional Notes Previous course number: PERFA 161
Course credits: 3 |
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