Available Classes in Social Sciences
SUBJECTS
All Subjects
FEATURED CLASS
ANTH 1: Biological/Physical Anthropology
Description: Humans as a biological species through the examination of evolutionary biology and genetics, primate comparative anatomy and behavior, and fossil evidence. Emphasis on uniquely human biological and behavioral characteristics, as well as those shared with other animals. Current anthropological issues such as the biological meaning of race, genetic diseases, and the influence of evolution on human behavior.
CRN: 20363 SECTION: 2 DAYS & TIMES: MW 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 503 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ANTH 1: Biological/Physical Anthropology
Description: Humans as a biological species through the examination of evolutionary biology and genetics, primate comparative anatomy and behavior, and fossil evidence. Emphasis on uniquely human biological and behavioral characteristics, as well as those shared with other animals. Current anthropological issues such as the biological meaning of race, genetic diseases, and the influence of evolution on human behavior.
CRN: 20323 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
ANTH 1: Biological/Physical Anthropology
Description: Humans as a biological species through the examination of evolutionary biology and genetics, primate comparative anatomy and behavior, and fossil evidence. Emphasis on uniquely human biological and behavioral characteristics, as well as those shared with other animals. Current anthropological issues such as the biological meaning of race, genetic diseases, and the influence of evolution on human behavior.
CRN: 20303 SECTION: 3 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 503 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
ANTH 1: Biological/Physical Anthropology
Description: Humans as a biological species through the examination of evolutionary biology and genetics, primate comparative anatomy and behavior, and fossil evidence. Emphasis on uniquely human biological and behavioral characteristics, as well as those shared with other animals. Current anthropological issues such as the biological meaning of race, genetic diseases, and the influence of evolution on human behavior.
CRN: 20047 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: MW 09:00am-10:15am
LOCATION: C500 503 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
ANTH 1: Biological/Physical Anthropology
Description: Humans as a biological species through the examination of evolutionary biology and genetics, primate comparative anatomy and behavior, and fossil evidence. Emphasis on uniquely human biological and behavioral characteristics, as well as those shared with other animals. Current anthropological issues such as the biological meaning of race, genetic diseases, and the influence of evolution on human behavior.
CRN: 20610 SECTION: ON3 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
ANTH 1: Biological/Physical Anthropology
Description: Humans as a biological species through the examination of evolutionary biology and genetics, primate comparative anatomy and behavior, and fossil evidence. Emphasis on uniquely human biological and behavioral characteristics, as well as those shared with other animals. Current anthropological issues such as the biological meaning of race, genetic diseases, and the influence of evolution on human behavior.
CRN: 20091 SECTION: EP1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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ANTH 2: Introduction to Archaeology
Description: This course is an introduction to the study of concepts, theories, data and models of anthropological archaeology that contribute to our knowledge of the human past. The course includes a discussion of the nature of scientific inquiry; the history and interdisciplinary nature of archaeological research; dating techniques; methods of survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation; cultural resource management; professional ethics; and selected cultural sequences. This course may include a lab component.
CRN: 21159 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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ECD 31: Performing Arts: Preschool Foundations
Description: Introduction to the performing arts domain of the California Preschool Learning Foundations and Frameworks including strands of music, drama, and dance. Provides practical strategies for implementing the curriculum frameworks developed for this domain. Applicable to required or professional development units for Child Development Permit holders, pre-school, transitional kindergarten, and early-primary teachers.
CRN: 21221 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/25/2025 - 09/21/2025
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ECD 36: Visual Arts: Preschool Foundations
Description: Introduction to the visual arts domain of the California Preschool Learning Foundations and Frameworks including artistic expression and response, and skills using various art mediums. Provides practical strategies for implementing the curriculum frameworks developed for this domain. Applicable to required or professional development units for Child Development Permit holders, pre-school, transitional kindergarten, and early-primary teachers.
CRN: 21363 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/25/2025 - 09/21/2025
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ECD 50: Early Childhood Principles and Practices
Description: Historical contexts and theoretical perspectives of developmentally appropriate practice in early care and education for children and teaching strategies in supporting physical, social, creative and intellectual development of children birth through age eight. Explores the typical roles and expectations of early childhood educators emphasizing the key role of relationships, constructive adult-child interactions. Identifies professional ethics, career pathways, and professional standards. Introduces best practices for developmentally appropriate learning environments, curriculum, and effective pedagogy for young children including how play contributes to children's learning, growth, and development.
CRN: 20364 SECTION: 71 DAYS & TIMES: M 06:30pm-09:20pm
LOCATION: C500 506 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECD 59: Literacy in Early Childhood
Description: This course provides an overview of language and literacy development in children from infancy to school age. Practical aspects of fostering literacy development in children by improving teachers’ knowledge of literature in early years. It addresses the role of literature, the relationship between early language development and literacy opportunities and methods for developing language and positive attitudes toward literature. The student will develop knowledge and understanding of the normal development of language in the young child, including multi-language learners, and the teacher's role in fostering and facilitating this development by reading books, storytelling, story writing, and use of puppets, flannel boards and props.
CRN: 21561 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECD 62: Child, Family and Community
Description: The processes of socialization focusing on development of identity and the interrelationship of family, school, and community. Examines the influence of multiple societal contexts. Explores the role of collaboration between family, community, and schools in supporting children’s development, birth through adolescence.
CRN: 20458 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C3500 3521 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECD 68: Administration II: Personnel and Leadership in Early Childhood Education
Description: Effective strategies for personnel management and leadership in early care and education settings. Includes legal and ethical responsibilities, supervision techniques, professional development, and reflective practices for a diverse and inclusive early care and education program.
CRN: 22108 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECD 83: Adult Mentoring and Supervision
Description: Methods and principles of mentoring and supervising adults in early care and education settings. Emphasis on the role of experienced classroom teachers who function as mentors and leaders to new teachers and other adults while simultaneously addressing the needs of children, families and other staff.
CRN: 21022 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECD 210: Introduction to Infant/Toddler Care
Description: Growth and development of infants/toddlers aged 0-36 months: Physical, cognitive, psycho-social, and creative development; influence of environment on development; feeding concerns; and the child's impact on the family. Course topics include an introduction of different temperament tendencies; stages of social-emotional development and socialization and guidance, and practices/program policies that best support the healthy social-emotional development. The course also looks into families and family culture. ECD 210 is an introductory level (noncredit) course and is intended to provide students exposure to vocabulary and concepts in infant/toddler care. Students can use the skills gained from this class to transition to credit level ECD courses. This course is free and students may repeat this course until mastery of the skills is met.
CRN: 23009 SECTION: HY1 DAYS & TIMES: W 05:00pm-06:30pm To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 09/24/2025
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ECN 1: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.
CRN: 21173 SECTION: HY1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECN 1: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.
CRN: 20757 SECTION: 2 DAYS & TIMES: MW 01:00pm-02:15pm
LOCATION: C500 552 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECN 1: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.
CRN: 21358 SECTION: HY2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECN 2: Principles of Macroeconomics
Description: Economic analysis of the theory of income determination, including national income analysis, business cycles, the consumption function, the multiplier, fiscal policy, monetary policy, money and banking, the public debt, economic growth and
development, comparative economic systems and international trade.
CRN: 20758 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: MW 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 506 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ECN 10: General Economics
Description: Survey of the economic system of the United States, covering such macroeconomic and microeconomic topics as supply and demand, firms’ output and pricing decisions, international trade, comparative economic systems, economic growth, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, labor, and money and banking.
CRN: 21088 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: MW 09:00am-10:15am
LOCATION: C500 553 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ENST 1: Introduction to Environmental Studies
Description: An interdisciplinary survey of contemporary environmental issues, including the natural and human-induced causes of environmental change and degradation. Major issues related to preservation and use of natural resources, conservation, energy, and climate change are investigated from multiple perspectives in the social sciences.
CRN: 21327 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 01:30pm-02:45pm
LOCATION: C500 506 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ENST 1: Introduction to Environmental Studies
Description: An interdisciplinary survey of contemporary environmental issues, including the natural and human-induced causes of environmental change and degradation. Major issues related to preservation and use of natural resources, conservation, energy, and climate change are investigated from multiple perspectives in the social sciences.
CRN: 22420 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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ES 1: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Description: An introduction to Ethnic Studies: an interdisciplinary and comparative study of race and ethnicity with a special focus on four historically defined racialized core groups: Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latina/o/x/e Americans. The course will review core concepts and frameworks from Ethnic Studies disciplines, such as racism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, imperialism, self-determination, liberation, decolonization, intersectionality, abolition, anti-racism, and more. Students will apply theories and knowledge produced by communities of color and typically studied in: African American/Black Studies, American Indian/Native American Studies, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, and Chicana/o/x/e and Latina/o/x/e Studies. The course will also examine examples of struggle, solidarity and resistance while engaging in current justice and equity movements focused on dismantling white supremacy, colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression targeting communities of color.
CRN: 20947 SECTION: FY6 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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ES 5: Critiquing Race and Gender in Popular Culture
Description: A critical examination of representations of people of color in popular culture, from historically significant to contemporary examples. Using an intersectional lens of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality, students will analyze representations from mainstream films, independent cultural productions, music, visual art, and social media, and how characters and communities of color are portrayed and interpret these images as consumers of media.
Topics include Hollywood stereotyping, media influencing political and social events, cultural citizenship, and the role of new media, such as video games and social media platforms like YouTube. Students will learn how to critically examine and thoughtfully compare works, while using the lenses of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class to break down decode messages.
CRN: 21566 SECTION: FY4 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 551 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: Earth's natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth's climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. Field trips may be
included.
CRN: 22423 SECTION: HY1 DAYS & TIMES: M 01:30pm-02:45pm To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: C500 505 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: Earth's natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth's climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. Field trips may be
included.
CRN: 21189 SECTION: 3 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 507 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: Earth's natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth's climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. Field trips may be
included.
CRN: 21193 SECTION: ON2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: Earth's natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth's climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. Field trips may be
included.
CRN: 21194 SECTION: 2 DAYS & TIMES: MW 12:00pm-01:15pm
LOCATION: C500 505 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: Earth's natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth's climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. Field trips may be
included.
CRN: 22533 SECTION: HY2 DAYS & TIMES: W 01:30pm-02:45pm To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: C500 505 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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GEO 2: Cultural Geography
Description: Spatial analysis of human populations, their cultural traits, and activities. Emphasis on how diverse peoples, through their interactions and through their perceptions and use of the physical environment, create distinctive cultural landscapes. Social, political, and economic elements of geography which contribute to the evolution of these global and regional cultural patterns. Field trips may be included.
CRN: 21199 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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GEO 3: Economic Geography
Description: An introduction to the world’s major economic systems; their spatial distribution and characteristics; their relative contributions to regional development and global change; and related movements of people, goods, and ideas. Techniques and tools of spatial analysis applied to human-environment interactions, with emphasis on ecological problems associated with specific economic activities. Field trips may be included.
CRN: 22888 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 12:00pm-01:15pm
LOCATION: C500 505 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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GEO 5: World Regional Geography
Description: Regions of the world and the way humans live within those regions. Includes physical and cultural characteristics of world regions, how they are similar and how they are different, economic patterns, agriculture, industrial development and population dynamics. Emphasis on contemporary major issues and their geographic impact.
CRN: 21200 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 505 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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GEO 8: Introduction to Weather and Climate
Description: Introduction to weather and climate and their impact on and modification by human activities. Emphasis on weather elements, events, and processes; climate controls; and the techniques, tools, and instruments of atmospheric science. Includes atmospheric optics, weather prediction, severe storms, air pollution, global/regional warming/cooling, ozone depletion, acid rain, El Niño, deforestation, desertification, and other topics related to everyday experience and global climate change. Field trips and observational activities may be included.
CRN: 21568 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 3: World History: Beginnings to 1500
Description: A survey of world history from the beginning of civilization and ancient cultures to 1500 C.E. Interconnections and divergence among cultures and civilizations in a global context will be emphasized. During the classical period, up to 500 C.E., similarities and differences as civilizations developed will be examined. The postclassical period, 500 to 1500, will look specifically at contact and interaction among peoples. Broader forces that affect civilizations such as trade patterns, migration, nomadism, syncretism, and disease patterns will be studied.
CRN: 21570 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: MW 12:00pm-01:15pm
LOCATION: C500 502 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 7: U.S. History Through Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U.S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government.
CRN: 20670 SECTION: EN2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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HIS 7: U.S. History Through Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U.S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government.
CRN: 20265 SECTION: ON4 DAYS & TIMES: Th 06:30pm-09:20pm
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 7: U.S. History Through Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U.S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government.
CRN: 20813 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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HIS 7: U.S. History Through Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U.S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government.
CRN: 20786 SECTION: 2 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 554 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 8: U.S. History Since Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from 1877 to the present with a special emphasis on the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial/ethnic (African Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans), gender and socioeconomic groups in American History. Includes analysis of (1) the U.S. Constitution as a living document in the context of historical change, and (2) significant issues related to California state and local governments.
CRN: 20269 SECTION: EN2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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HIS 8: U.S. History Since Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from 1877 to the present with a special emphasis on the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial/ethnic (African Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans), gender and socioeconomic groups in American History. Includes analysis of (1) the U.S. Constitution as a living document in the context of historical change, and (2) significant issues related to California state and local governments.
CRN: 21365 SECTION: EP1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 10/13/2025 - 12/12/2025
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HIS 8: U.S. History Since Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from 1877 to the present with a special emphasis on the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial/ethnic (African Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans), gender and socioeconomic groups in American History. Includes analysis of (1) the U.S. Constitution as a living document in the context of historical change, and (2) significant issues related to California state and local governments.
CRN: 20896 SECTION: HY1 DAYS & TIMES: Th 09:00am-10:15am To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: C500 507 START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
HIS 8: U.S. History Since Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States history from 1877 to the present with a special emphasis on the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial/ethnic (African Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans), gender and socioeconomic groups in American History. Includes analysis of (1) the U.S. Constitution as a living document in the context of historical change, and (2) significant issues related to California state and local governments.
CRN: 20267 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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HIS 12: History of California
Description: Historical development of California, including Spanish exploration and settlement and the Mexican Revolution. Transformation of California under United States control: the American conquest, the Gold Rush, and dynamic expansion to the present day. Includes Native Americans, Mexican Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans and African Americans. Emphasis on political, economic, and social factors which transformed American California from a relatively simple rural society to a highly complex ethnically diversified agricultural-industrial system. Analysis of historical issues and current problems.
CRN: 22109 SECTION: ON2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 25: American Indian History and Culture
Description: Historical survey of American Indians in the United States from earliest times to the present day. Emphasis on Indian societies and cultures, Indian relations with predominant cultures, Indian movement for self-preservation, and historical background necessary to understand contemporary problems of the Indians. Emphasis on the Indians of California and the West.
CRN: 22895 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 33: Modern Latin America
Description: This introductory course provides an overview to twentieth-century Latin American history with a focus on the social circumstances and experience of people across social classes. We will consider how larger processes of change such as urbanization, revolution, civil war and U.S. intervention have all critically shaped everyday life in this region. Yet we will also focus on how Latin Americans have adapted and responded to these forces using an assortment of strategies. This course will seek to develop a critical perspective of modern Latin America by interpreting diverse forms of representation such as feature films, documentaries, literature, memoirs, and testimonios.
CRN: 21572 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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HIS 48: U. S. Women's History Through Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States women's history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasizes the interaction and experiences of diverse racial/ethnic groups that include at least three of the following groups: African-Americans, Chicana/Latina Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U. S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government.
CRN: 21389 SECTION: ON2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 10/13/2025 - 12/12/2025
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HIS 48: U. S. Women's History Through Reconstruction
Description: A survey of United States women's history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasizes the interaction and experiences of diverse racial/ethnic groups that include at least three of the following groups: African-Americans, Chicana/Latina Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U. S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government.
CRN: 21571 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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POSC 30: International Relations
Description: Introduction to the basic concepts, theories, and principles of international relations. Course will examine contemporary world affairs including the importance of nationalism, imperialism, ideology, alliance systems, development, and the nature of international organizations.
CRN: 20424 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: MW 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 558 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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PSY 2: Introduction to Psychological Methodology
Description: This course surveys various psychological research methods with an emphasis on research design, experimental procedures, descriptive methods, instrumentation, and the collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of research data. Research design and methodology will be examined through a review of research in a variety of the subdisciplines of psychology.
CRN: 22262 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 09:00am-10:15am
LOCATION: C500 551 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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PSY 4: Brain, Mind and Behavior
Description: This course introduces the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and its fundamental role in the neurosciences. Physiological, hormonal, and neurochemical mechanisms, and brain-behavior relationships underlying the psychological phenomena of sensation, perception, regulatory processes, emotion, learning, memory, neurological, developmental and psychological disorders will be addressed. The course also notes historical scientific contributions and current research principles for studying brain-behavior relationships and mental processes. Ethical standards for human and animal research are discussed in the context of both invasive and non-invasive experimental research. 3 hours.
CRN: 21575 SECTION: EPN DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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PSY 4: Brain, Mind and Behavior
Description: This course introduces the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and its fundamental role in the neurosciences. Physiological, hormonal, and neurochemical mechanisms, and brain-behavior relationships underlying the psychological phenomena of sensation, perception, regulatory processes, emotion, learning, memory, neurological, developmental and psychological disorders will be addressed. The course also notes historical scientific contributions and current research principles for studying brain-behavior relationships and mental processes. Ethical standards for human and animal research are discussed in the context of both invasive and non-invasive experimental research. 3 hours.
CRN: 20579 SECTION: EN3 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 10/13/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
PSY 4: Brain, Mind and Behavior
Description: This course introduces the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and its fundamental role in the neurosciences. Physiological, hormonal, and neurochemical mechanisms, and brain-behavior relationships underlying the psychological phenomena of sensation, perception, regulatory processes, emotion, learning, memory, neurological, developmental and psychological disorders will be addressed. The course also notes historical scientific contributions and current research principles for studying brain-behavior relationships and mental processes. Ethical standards for human and animal research are discussed in the context of both invasive and non-invasive experimental research. 3 hours.
CRN: 21160 SECTION: EN2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
PSY 4: Brain, Mind and Behavior
Description: This course introduces the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and its fundamental role in the neurosciences. Physiological, hormonal, and neurochemical mechanisms, and brain-behavior relationships underlying the psychological phenomena of sensation, perception, regulatory processes, emotion, learning, memory, neurological, developmental and psychological disorders will be addressed. The course also notes historical scientific contributions and current research principles for studying brain-behavior relationships and mental processes. Ethical standards for human and animal research are discussed in the context of both invasive and non-invasive experimental research. 3 hours.
CRN: 21169 SECTION: EH1 DAYS & TIMES: T 01:00pm-02:15pm To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: C500 504 START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
PSY 5: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Description: Statistics as applied to the behavioral and social sciences. Applications using data from disciplines including psychology, social sciences, business, life science, health science, and education. The use of probability techniques, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate decision-making. Topics include: descriptive and inferential statistics; probability and sampling distributions; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance (ANOVA), chi-square and t-tests; and application of technology for statistical analysis including the interpretation of the relevance of the statistical findings.
CRN: 21023 SECTION: FY4 DAYS & TIMES: MW 01:30pm-03:20pm
LOCATION: C500 557 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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PSY 6: Abnormal Psychology
Description: An overview of the field of abnormal psychology. Introduces students to the major classifications of mental health disorders from the perspective of symptoms and behavior, causes, diagnosis and treatment. Examines historical, socio-cultural and contemporary understanding of mental illness. Includes disorders of mood, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse, personality and other disorders in adults and children.
CRN: 22110 SECTION: 1 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 09:00am-10:15am
LOCATION: C500 558 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
PSY 6: Abnormal Psychology
Description: An overview of the field of abnormal psychology. Introduces students to the major classifications of mental health disorders from the perspective of symptoms and behavior, causes, diagnosis and treatment. Examines historical, socio-cultural and contemporary understanding of mental illness. Includes disorders of mood, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse, personality and other disorders in adults and children.
CRN: 20386 SECTION: 2 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 558 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 20193 SECTION: EN7 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 20702 SECTION: EN5 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 21126 SECTION: 5 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 504 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 20192 SECTION: FYE DAYS & TIMES: MW 01:30pm-02:45pm
LOCATION: C500 551 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 20477 SECTION: 4 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 10:30am-11:45am
LOCATION: C500 502 START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 20199 SECTION: EPN DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 1: Principles of Sociology
Description: Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Arab Americans and/or women.
CRN: 20535 SECTION: EN6 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 2: Social Problems
Description: This course is an introduction and analysis of contemporary social problems from a sociological perspective. Major social problems will be analyzed by recognizing the role of power and ideology in the definition of social problems, their causes and consequences, evaluations of proposed solutions, and methods of intervention. Focus on modern American society.
CRN: 20196 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 2: Social Problems
Description: This course is an introduction and analysis of contemporary social problems from a sociological perspective. Major social problems will be analyzed by recognizing the role of power and ideology in the definition of social problems, their causes and consequences, evaluations of proposed solutions, and methods of intervention. Focus on modern American society.
CRN: 21024 SECTION: E01 DAYS & TIMES: TTh 12:40pm-02:30pm
LOCATION: C500 551 START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 3: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
Description: Analysis of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. Includes race, ethnicity, racism, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping, as well as theories and patterns of intergroup relations. Focus on: African Americans, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.
CRN: 20782 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 3: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
Description: Analysis of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. Includes race, ethnicity, racism, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping, as well as theories and patterns of intergroup relations. Focus on: African Americans, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.
CRN: 23173 SECTION: EPN DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 3: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
Description: Analysis of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. Includes race, ethnicity, racism, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping, as well as theories and patterns of intergroup relations. Focus on: African Americans, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.
CRN: 20197 SECTION: EN2 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
FEATURED CLASS
SOCI 4: Marriage and Family Relations
Description: This course introduces students to the sociological analysis of family as an institution, including historical and recent changes, present nature(s), and the socio-cultural and economic forces shaping these changes. Areas of focus in this course include the sociological perspective of the family including mate selection, marital roles, marital adjustment, sexual adjustment, reproduction, child rearing, marital dissolution, and problems associated with the family in modern industrial society.
CRN: 20198 SECTION: ON1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 08/18/2025 - 12/19/2025
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SOCI 6: Introduction to Gender
Description: This course offers students a sociological analysis of the social construction of masculinity and femininity through history and cultures. Examines the debates on sex and gender and questions conventional gender assumptions and expectations. Students will have an opportunity to analyze the impact of economic and political change on gender expectations and practices. In this course students will analyze how institutions shape, enforce, and produce difference and inequality based on gender and sexuality, and they will also focus on how individuals are socialized and how they “do” and practice gender. In this course, students will also examine how the concept of gender changes as it intersects with race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality. Additionally, students are encouraged to incorporate their own sociocultural background and experiences to explain and analyze the influence of gender on their lives.
CRN: 23007 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025
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SOCI 7: Women of Color in the United States: Introduction to Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Description: Critical examination of the historical and socio-cultural experiences of African American, Latinx/a, Asian American, Native American, Arab American, and Pacific Islander women through a feminist perspective. The course will study gender and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexuality, religion, and other systems of difference and power. The course will consider various issues related to how racism, capitalism, patriarchy, war, sexual violence and other systems of power intersect to influence the lives of women of color in the United States, as they may relate to work, family, politics, identity, resistance, and artistic expression. Students will also be introduced to Women’s Studies and the study of gender and sexuality
CRN: 22263 SECTION: EN1 DAYS & TIMES: To Be Arranged -
LOCATION: CTBA ONLINE START & END DATES: 09/08/2025 - 12/12/2025