Course Descriptions


100 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 100 - African American Art and Cultural Expression
	• JAN 101 - Atlantis and Aliens: Examining History’s Biggest Hoaxes, Myths, and Pseudoscientific Claims
	• JAN 102 - Beyond #Cottagecore: Self-Sufficiency as a Sustainable Lifestyle
	• JAN 103 - Check All That Apply: Being Multiracial and Multiethnic in the US
	• JAN 104 - Coding is Fun!
	• JAN 106 - Designing the Quest Board Game: Heroes, Heroines, Healers
	• JAN 107 - Energy Sustainability: Build Passive Solar Home
	• JAN 108 - Experiencing Museums
	• JAN 109 - Experiments in Stop Motion Animation & Video
	• JAN 110 - Hamilton, Waitress, and Rent Oh My! Deconstructing the Broadway Musical
	• JAN 111 - Hands-on STEM Exploration for the Science Inspired
	• JAN 112 - How to Live, What to Do: Ten Short Films about the Ten Commandments
	• JAN 113 - Introduction to Magic
	• JAN 114 - Japanese in the Bay Area: Culture, History, and Language
	• JAN 115 - Local Pilgrimage: Encounters with a Catholic Sacred Geography of the Bay Area
	• JAN 116 - Sports Writing: The “I” in Team
	• JAN 117 - Taylor Swift as Mirrorball: Reflections of Ourselves & Culture
	• JAN 118 - The Art of Correspondence
	• JAN 119 - The Art of Race
	• JAN 120 - The Case for Literary Merit in Video Games
	• JAN 121 - The Netflix Effect
	• JAN 122 - Time and Time-Timekeeping
	• JAN 124 - Welcome to the Atomic Age!
	• JAN 125 - West African Dance, Drumming, and Culture
	• JAN 126 - Writing and Publishing a Romance Novel
200 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 200 - Banned in the USA: Books Some Consider Too Dangerous to Read
	• JAN 201 - Can Comedy Save Our Democracy? Understanding and Making Comedy News
	• JAN 202 - Choice: Can Video Games Teach Empathy?
	• JAN 203 - Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
	• JAN 204 - Devising Defiance: An Introduction to Devised Performance for Social Change
	• JAN 205 - Screenwriting: Core Elements & Writing Your 1st Act
	• JAN 206 - Stories of the Universe
300 Level (3 Units)
	• CORE 320 - Film Music: Sounding the Screen and the Pursuit of the Extra-Narrative
	• JAN 300 - ”Nothing About Us Without Us”- Unpacking the History, Policy, and Cultural Implications of the Disability Community
	• JAN 301 - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
	• JAN 302 - Bay Area Social Justice Movements and Student Leadership
	• JAN 304 - Capoeira Angola: A Liberatory Practice From Somatic Movement Approach
	• JAN 305 - Decoding the Subtext of Labels
	• JAN 306 - Digital Storytelling
	• JAN 307 - Ecofeminism: Women, Land, and Resistance
	• JAN 308 - Fencing and Swords in History and Popular Culture
	• JAN 309 - Finding the Human Place in Nature
	• JAN 310 - Great Company or Great Stock? How to Make the Investment Connection
	• JAN 311 - How Modernism Made Our World
	• JAN 312 - Introduction to Green Chemistry
	• JAN 313 - Lasallian Service Internship
	• JAN 314 - Love Poetry, Philosophy, and God
	• JAN 315 - Nightmare Futures
	• JAN 316 - Reading and Writing Young Adult Literature
	• JAN 317 - The Holocaust: Antisemitism Through the Ages and The Rescue of Jews
	• JAN 318 - The Science of Cooking
	• JAN 319 - The Science of Well-Being and Happiness
	• JAN 320 - Tolstoy: Art, Faith, Philosophy, Politics
	• JAN 321 - Why Work? Finding Work’s Place in our Lives
400 Level (Travel, 3 Units)
	• JAN 401 - TRAVEL: Broadway: Behind the Scenes
	• JAN 402 - TRAVEL: New Horizons: Empowering Refugee & Migrant Entrepreneurs in Greece
	• JAN 403 - TRAVEL: Living in the Costa Rican Blue Zone: The Art of Being Whole through Yoga, Food, Nature, & Community
	• JAN 404 - TRAVEL: History of Science: London & Paris
	• JAN 405 - TRAVEL: Endangered Australia: Wildlife & Culture
	• JAN 407 - TRAVEL: Indian Aesthetics: Education, Religion, & Culture in India
	• JAN 408 - TRAVEL: Decadence in Venice
	• JAN 409 - TRAVEL: Engaging Christian Art: Italy & France
	• JAN 410 - TRAVEL: Globalized Mexico
	• JAN 411 - TRAVEL: Coral Reefs & Culture in the Philippines
	• JAN 412 - TRAVEL: Creative Geniuses or Hard Workers: Innovation Insights from South Korea
200 Level (1 Unit)
	• JAN 250 - Confections of a Chocoholic
	• JAN 251 - Mobility and Injury Prevention for Athletes
300 Level (1 Unit)
	• JAN 350 - The Psychology of Becoming Happier
	• JAN 351 - Lessons from the Ramayana