5 units
ART 101: Design
Studio series in the fundamentals of two-dimensional art with problems based on line, space, texture, shape and color theories. Includes practical applications of theories to design. Required for art majors.
5
Units
ART 102: Design
Continuation of ART 101. Intro to three-dimensional space organization using the elements of design. Construction in sculptural formats. Required for art majors.
5
Units
ART 103: Design
Tutorial in individual problems in design.
5
Units
ART 111: Drawing
Freshman level drawing. Study of line, value, space, perspective and composition through the use of a variety of drawing media.
5
Units
ART 112: Drawing
Exploration in subject and media including drawing from the human figure. Focus on composition, expression, and creative conceptualization.
5
Units
ART 113: Drawing
Continuation of ART 112. Further development of fine art drawing with an emphasis on expression and composition, including development of portfolio building or other project.
5
Units
ART 170: Photography As An Art
Traces the history and distinctive properties of photography. Includes camera, exposure, lighting, composition, black and white darkroom work and digital imaging. This course has a Photography Materials Course Fee.
5
Units
ART 201: Painting
Beginning painting in oil or synthetic media using still life. Emphasis on basics: composition, value studies, color mixing, canvas preparation, styles and techniques. Recommended: Drawing background.
5
Units
ART 210: Digital & Graphic Art - Photoshop + Illustrator
This course combines fine art and technical aspects of digital composition. Covers logo design, typography, and multi-page layout using vector (Adobe Illustrator) and pixel-based (Adobe Photoshop) programs. Students will be challenged to develop their own visual language. Includes lectures, software demos, digital image making exercises, projects and readings. Previous drawing/design and basic computer skills strongly recommended.
5
Units
ART 214: Digital & Graphic Art - Intermediate
Continuation of ART 210. Further explore fine art and technical aspects of digital composition using vector graphics (such as Adobe Illustrator) and pixel-based (such as Adobe Photoshop) programs. Students will be encouraged to further develop their own visual language. Includes lectures, software demos, digital image making exercises, projects and readings.
5
Units
ART 215: Digital Art and Graphic Design - Advanced
Continuation of ART 214. Further explore fine art and technical aspects of digital composition using pixel and vector based software (such as Adobe Creative Suite). Students will be encouraged to further develop their own visual language. Includes lectures, software demos, digital image making exercises, projects and readings. Software is available on campus. Online students are responsible for obtaining their own software.
5
Units
ART 216: Motion Graphics + Animation Art
This course introduces the dynamic world of digital animation and motion design for art and design fields. Combining theoretical concepts with practical hands-on experience, students will gain the skills and knowledge to create compelling visual effects and User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) projects. Software including Adobe After Effects, Animate, Photoshop, and Illustrator may be covered.
5
Units
ART 221: Ceramics
Explore a wide variety of ceramic ideas, techniques and materials as applied to sculptural and vessel forms. Students will develop an understanding of ceramics through hands-on experience working with the various ceramics processes while considering how it relates to contemporary art practices and lifeways. This course has an Art Lab Fee.
5
Units
ART 222: Ceramic Art
Develop throwing skills. Understand basic glaze composition and kiln operation. Continue studies in techniques of surface decoration. This course has an Art Lab Course Fee.
5
Units
ART 223: Ceramic Art
Continuation of ART 222. Advanced work on the wheel. Emphasis on combining methods of construction. Learn basic glaze skills. This course has an Art Lab Course Fee.
5
Units
ART 299: Special Problems In Art
Individual or seminar instruction. May be repeated to earn a maximum of 9 credits.
1 to 5 Units
ART& 100: Art Appreciation
Historical backgrounds and design fundamentals that have affected art using slide lectures, reading and practical studio applications.
5
Units
ART 204: Mural Art
Explore the stages of mural art from brainstorming and budgeting to community input and creation, with particular emphasis on the craft of mural execution. Hands-on experience requires ability to work outdoors 3+ hours at a time.
5
Units
ART 224: Advanced Ceramics
The third quarter of study in ceramics offers an introduction to various clay bodies and discussion of raw materials and effects on clay and glazes. Forming methods such as advanced handbuilding, use of the potter's wheel, the extruder, and molds, including mold making, press molding, and slip casting are explored. Assignments are specific to forming and decorating techniques and are guided by open-ended questions.
5
Units
DRMA 105: Introduction to World Theater
Intro to theatrical practices from different cultures. Analyze scripts, videotapes and live performances through theoretical, cultural, and historical readings. Examine how the performance or script reflects on the culture that produced it. Relate current theatrical practices to the larger global society.
5
Units
DRMA 125: 20/21st Century U.S. Theater & Race
Course explores the cultural, critical, and artistic works of Native American, Black, Arab American, Asian American, and Latinx theater artists/performers from the 20/21st centuries. Course considers the socio-historical, aesthetic, and political contexts engaged through these artists' works. Course explores the relationship between the construction of identity and strategies of performance to describe race, gender, sexuality, class, subjectivity, and ideas of belonging in the U.S. imagination.
5
Units
ENGL 107: Applied Composition
This course designed to help students from a variety of majors to master the composition skills needed for careers in business and industry. Students will learn the principles and conventions of technical writing and practice those conventions in a variety of assignments that would typically be encountered in the work place. Attention will also be paid to strengthening the surface and stylistic aspects of their writing.
5
Units
ENGL 116: Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels surveys visual storytelling literature such as graphic novels, manga, and comics. Covers a variety of genres (e.g. fantasy, science fiction, dystopian, classic literature, plays, short stories, autobiography, historic fiction, etc.) presented in graphic formats. Examines complex and culturally relevant literary themes related to history, politics, gender identity, ethnic diversity, sexuality, and many social justice issues.
5
Units
ENGL 151: Creative Writing
Creative Writing introduces a variety of creative writing forms, genres and techniques. Emphasis is on empowerment of personal voice and creative expression using genres such as fiction stories, creative nonfiction, poetry and playwriting. Students will read and discuss published works, engage in the writing process, and collaborate in inclusive student-centered workshops.
5
Units
ENGL 152: Fiction Writing
Students read, discuss and write short stories, flash fiction, and other short pieces in a variety of fiction genres. Introduces how to develop characters, setting, point of view, plot structure, description, and other crucial elements of fiction. Emphasizes process and progress over product, encouraging creative exploration.
5
Units
ENGL 231: Children's Literature
Explores a representative collection of children's and young adult literature from multiple cultures within the Western literary tradition. Includes close reading of texts such as fairy tales, traditional tales, illustrations, picture books, realistic and historical fiction, and fantasy. Emphasizes historical context, literary themes, cultural implications for reading audiences, and the role of children's narratives in the social construction of childhood.
5
Units
ENGL 232: Young Adult Literature
Exploration of young adult literature that represents culturally diverse populations within the United States with emphasis on the societal values reflected in the genre and the powerful influence of well-crafted stories. Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGL 099.
5
Units
ENGL 260: Asian American Literature
Examines memoir, fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and films by and about the people of Asian descent in the US and the diaspora. Focus on Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, South Asia, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander subjects and their works. Topics may include language and identity, history and memory, power and resistance, national and transnational identities, ways of belonging and non-belonging.
5
Units
ENGL& 111: Introduction to Literature
Study and analysis of fiction, poetry and drama with emphasis on understanding the art and techniques of each genre.
5
Units
ENGL& 112: Introduction to Fiction
Survey of 20th century fiction. Study and analysis of the art, elements, and techniques of short stories, novellas, and novels of American and international authors.
5
Units
ENGL& 235: Technical Writing
Explores basic formats and content of technical communication. Covers writing process; analysis of purpose and audience for various reports and documents; research, documentation, presentation of technical material; and communication in digital media. Projects include writing and editing, digital communication, and collaboration. Prereq: ENGL& 101.
5
Units
ENGL 119: Graphic Novels: Art, Identity, and Storytelling
This interdisciplinary course features comics, graphic novels, manga, and film to explore the diversity of graphic/sequential storytelling media as a product of culture. Students will put graphic storytelling media into conversation with meaningful aspects of human society, identity, and culture such as art, literature, history, and equity and social justice issues within a global context. They will develop creative, interdisciplinary, and multi-modal projects. Dual ENGL/HUM course.
5
Units
ENGL& 238: Creative Writing: Poetries
Introduces students to the craft of writing poetry with an emphasis on developing a writing practice and one's own poetic voice and style. Explores a diverse range of poetic forms and genres such as haiku, sonnets, ghazals, odes, elegies; free verse, experimental, and hybrid forms; and poetry in non-textual genres such as comic arts, visual art, film, music, and some poetic theory. Students will compose and workshop new drafts and assemble a final portfolio.
5
Units
ENGL& 236: Creative Writing: Explorations
Introduces a variety of creative writing forms, genres and techniques. Emphasizes empowerment of personal voice and creative expression, using genres such as fiction stories, creative nonfiction, poetry and playwriting. Students will read and discuss published works, engage in the writing process, and collaborate in inclusive student-centered workshops.
5
Units
ENGL& 237: Creative Writing: Stories
Introduces the craft of writing and telling stories with effective characters, setting, world-building, point of view, plot structure, description, and other crucial elements of fiction. Students read, discuss and write stories in various genres and from a diversity of cultural traditions while participating in inclusive, writer-centered workshops. Emphasizes process, progress, and personal creative expression.
5
Units
ENGL 293: Science Fiction
Examines selected readings in science fiction and fantasy from the 19th century to present. May include American, British, continental European, and other international writers.
5
Units
ENGL 261: Cultural Studies: Exile and Migration
Introduces key cultural studies methods while exploring a selection of 20th and 21st cultural texts such as literature, poetry, film, music, and art that represent experiences of migration, diaspora, and exile in US and global contexts. Students will analyze cultural texts across genres, situate them within their appropriate historical context, think comparatively across geographic and historical settings, and develop their own critical and creative responses to the course materials and themes.
5
Units
ENGL 269: Reading the Romance
This course takes a critical look at love stories in American books and films. While often dismissed as ¿guilty pleasures,¿ romance stories are powerful cultural texts that shape our ideas about gender, desire, race, sexuality, and power. We'll learn how to analyze U.S. romance texts as literature and as reflections of American society. Students will explore key questions like: Why do love stories matter? Who gets a happy ending? What does romance teach us about power, pleasure, and identity?
5
Units
HUM 105: Intercultural Communication
Examines the skills in communication and empathy required for intercultural communication. Includes an interdisciplinary study of diverse cultures and perspectives in the United States in the context of economic, political, and cultural globalization.
5
Units
HUM 110: Introduction to American Film
Examines Hollywood film-making as an art form, a business and a shaper of culture. View, discuss and critically analyze classics, features and documentaries for increased understanding of literary and artistic elements. Covers the impact of films on personal experience, American culture and the world.
5
Units
HUM 120: Asian Cinema
Introduces 20th and 21st century films/filmmakers of several Asian countries. Students will explore Asian film narratives that represent social, political and cultural movements in Asia. Invites students to connect AAPI identities and cultures to Asian cinema topics such as nationalism, representations of spiritual practice, borders/migration, war/empire, new technologies, storytelling, etc. Fulfills GS, IS, Comm, VLPA designations. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 Placement
5
Units
HUM 130: World Cinema
Survey of 20th and 21st century international films and filmmakers from around the globe. Course emphasizes the power of world cinema to tell culturally diverse stories representing and influencing social, political and cultural movements. Students learn basic terminology of film analysis and discuss representations of identity (ie: race, class, gender, nationality, and sexuality, etc.) within course films. Examines film techniques, themes, and narrative styles in global films.
5
Units
HUM 210: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
Introduces key themes and critical frameworks in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies. Topics include histories of sexuality; forms of oppression including heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia; resistance to oppression; violence against LGBTQ people; queer activism; diverse experiences of sexuality; and representations in literature, art, and popular media.
5
Units
HUM 299: Special Problems In Humanities
An independent study/research course in the interdisciplinary field of humanities. Prereq: Permission.
1 to 5 Units
HUM 119: Graphic Novels: Art, Identity, and Storytelling
This interdisciplinary course features comics, graphic novels, manga, and film to explore the diversity of graphic/sequential storytelling media as a product of culture. Students will put graphic storytelling media into conversation with meaningful aspects of human society, identity, and culture such as art, literature, history, and equity and social justice issues within a global context. They will develop creative, interdisciplinary, and multi-modal projects. Dual ENGL/HUM course.
5
Units
HUM 151: Introduction to Film
This class provides an introduction to the basic tools of film analysis. We will examine how elements like mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing and sound work together to create meaning in a range of films. We will also examine how these elements are put together in different types of films ¿ narratives, documentaries and experimental cinema ¿ and how films function in society to circulate ideas and ideologies.
5
Units
HUM 107: Introduction to Environmental Humanities
Why do we think of "nature" as something apart from human "culture"? How have past representations of this disconnect informed our attitudes today? How can the arts and humanities help to create and maintain a more resilient and biologically diverse world during global ecological crisis? This introduction to ecocriticism in the humanities explores these questions and a wide range of ethical & political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals, and environmental justice.
5
Units
HUM 201: Cities and Power
Examines the economic, political, and social organization of urban space. By studying current social issues like homelessness, gentrification, and police violence, students will explore the links between power, oppression in U.S. cities in the context of global capitalism. We will also explore how social movements have sparked important social changes. Prerequisite: English 099 eligibility
5
Units
HUM 220: Cultural Studies: Exile and Migration
Introduces key cultural studies methods while exploring a selection of 20th and 21st cultural texts such as literature, poetry, film, music, and art that represent experiences of migration, diaspora, and exile in US and global contexts. Students will analyze cultural texts across genres, situate them within their appropriate historical context, think comparatively across geographic and historical settings, and develop their own critical and creative responses to the course materials and themes.
5
Units
MUSC 109: World Beat: Global Studies Through Music
Examines societal beliefs, identity, history, world view, values and aspirations expressed by selected non-Western cultures (or groups within these cultures) through music. Features both traditional and contemporary popular music.
5
Units
MUSC 116: Rock Music I - Early Influences through 1970
Examines rock music as a musical, social, cultural, economic and political force. Emphasizes the early years of rock music development through 1970. Highlights include the first wave of rock & roll in the 1950s, black pop of the 1960s (Motown and Stax Records), and psychedelic rock. Fulfills the Integrated Studies and US Cultures requirement.
5
Units
MUSC 117: Rock Music II: Rock Music 1970 - Present
Examines rock music as a musical, social, cultural, economic and political force. Emphasizes rock music evolution post-1970. Highlights include heavy metal, punk rock, dance oriented pop, grunge, and indie - as well as rock music influences on other genres such as country and hip hop. Fulfills the Integrated Studies and US Cultures requirement. Rock Music I is not a prerequisite.
5
Units
MUSC 126: Group Piano - Level 1
As an introduction to piano in a group setting, students in this course develop foundations in piano technique and reading (music notation), along with improvisation and songwriting/composition basics. MUSC126 is the first in a sequence of group piano courses. No musical experience necessary. This course has an additional fee to cover course materials, practice room access, and take-home practice instruments.
5
Units
MUSC 127: Group Piano - Level 2
Students in this course continue to build their piano technique and reading (music notation) skills, and are introduced to new approaches to improvisation and songwriting/composition. MUSC127 is the second in a sequence of group piano courses. This course has an additional fee to cover course materials, practice room access, and take-home practice instruments.
5
Units
MUSC 128: Group Piano - Level 3
Students in this course continue to build their piano technique and reading (music notation) skills, and are introduced to new approaches to improvisation and songwriting/composition. MUSC128 is the third in a sequence of group piano courses. This course has an additional fee to cover course materials, practice room access, and take-home practice instruments.
5
Units
MUSC 130: Individual Instruction: Voice
Private instruction in vocal performance (singing) with a focus on technique, repertoire, and expressive musicianship. Instructor & student meet weekly for 10 lessons (1cr. = 30min/week; 2cr. = 60 min/week) and co-create curriculum based on student's interests & goals. Open to all levels & may be repeated for credit. ADDITIONAL FEE charged for all individual instruction.
1 to 2 Units
MUSC 135: Individual Instruction: Drums/Percussion
Private instruction in drum set, hand percussion, and mallet percussion (when available). Instructor & student co-create curriculum based on student's interests & goals. Open to all levels & may be repeated for credit. Credit hours vary. ADDITIONAL FEE charged for all individual instruction.
1 to 2 Units
MUSC 136: Individual Instruction: Songwriting/Composition
Private instruction in songwriting and composition. Instructor & student co-create curriculum based on student's interests & goals. Open to all levels & may be repeated for credit. Credit hours vary. ADDITIONAL FEE charged for all individual instruction.
1 to 2 Units
MUSC 160: Blues to Hip Hop
Explores the blues and other early African American musical styles, with a focus on how these styles influenced the development of rock, soul, funk, pop, and hip hop music and culture. Musical study in this course is placed within the historical context of social, economic and political forces within American society.
5
Units
MUSC 171: Individual Instruction: Piano
Private instruction in piano. Instructor & student co-create curriculum based on student's interests & goals. Open to all levels & may be repeated for credit. Credit hours vary. ADDITIONAL FEE charged for all individual instruction.
1 to 2 Units
MUSC& 105: Music Appreciation
Every culture on the planet creates and appreciates music. This course explores the deep human connections to music through the study of a variety of musical styles as they relate to history, culture, ethics, aesthetics, and technology. Students will develop listening skills and philosophical frameworks to increase their enjoyment and understanding of music.
5
Units
MUSC 167: Introduction to Songwriting
In this course, which is the first in a series of three songwriting courses, students learn how to play cover songs and write original songs in a variety of musical styles. No musical experience is necessary, just bring your excitement to create music!
5
Units
MUSC 133: Individual Instruction: Music Production
Individual instruction in music recording and production. Instructor and student will co-create curriculum based on each student's interests and goals. This course is open to all levels, may be taken for 1 or 2 credits, and may be repeated for credit. ADDITIONAL FEE is charged for all individual instruction. Instructor permission required.
1 to 2 Units
MUSC 190: Gospel Choir
Gospel Choir is a course where students learn and perform music in the African American sacred gospel tradition. Along with gospel repertoire, students will learn singing techniques, performance skills, and the historical importance of gospel and spirituals in the context of US historical and cultural movements. No musical experience is necessary. The course may be repeated for credit.
3
Units
MUSC 170: Music of Protest, Transgression, and Change
This course explores the role that music plays in liberative social movements globally. Through historical research students will learn about global systems of power and oppression and the liberation movements that emerge in response. In seeking out, sharing, and analyzing music, students will examine the ways that music confronts oppressive systems and initiates social change.
5
Units
MUSC 198: Choir II
Students in this course will continue building on the singing and musicianship skills learning in Choir I as they prepare and perform a concert of music from various cultures and styles, with a focus on the African American gospel tradition. This is the second in a series of three choir courses.
5
Units
MUSC 199: Choir III
Students in this course will continue building on the singing and musicianship skills learned in Choir II as they prepare and perform a concert of music from various cultures and styles, with a focus on the African American gospel tradition. This is the third in a series of three choir courses.
5
Units
MUSC 197: Choir I
Come and learn how to sing in a choir as we prepare a concert of music from various cultures and styles, with a focus on the African American gospel tradition. No previous musical experience is required, just an excitement to sing and create music. This is the first in a series of three choir courses.
5
Units