Available Classes in Social Sciences
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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: 23713 SECTION: 001 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 08:00 AM - 09:25 AM
LOCATION: 503 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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: 20363 SECTION: 002 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 09:40 AM - 11:05 AM
LOCATION: 503 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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: 20303 SECTION: 003 DAYS & TIMES: TTh, 08:00 AM - 09:25 AM
LOCATION: 503 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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ANTH 12: Magic, Religion, Witchcraft and Healing
Description: Cross-cultural perspectives on spirituality, religious practice, myth, ancestor beliefs, witchcraft and the variety of religious rituals and practitioners found in the cultures of the world. Examination of the cosmologies of different cultures through the anthropological perspective. Emphasis is placed on how knowledge of the religious practices and beliefs of others can help us to understand the multicultural world in which we live. Comparison of the ways in which diverse cultures confront the large and fundamental questions of existence: those dealing with the meaning of life, birth and death, and with the relationship of humans to each other and to their universe.
CRN: 20315 SECTION: ON1
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-09-14 - 2026-12-04
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ANTH 3: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Description: How human beings in different cultures meet basic biological, social and cultural needs, including kinship and marriage practices, political and social organization, economic institutions, religious and childrearing practices, social change, as well as other aspects of cultural behavior. Emphasis on understanding other cultures on their own terms. Includes the many subcultures making up North American populations.
CRN: 20895 SECTION: ON1
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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ECD 28: Approaches to Learning: Preschool/TK Foundations
Description: Introduction to the Approaches to Learning domain of the California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations including strands of Motivation to Learn, Executive Functioning and Goal-Directed Learning. Provides practical strategies for implementing curriculum 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: 23718 SECTION: EN1
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-31 - 2026-09-27
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ECD 31: Performing Arts: Preschool/TK Foundations
Description: Introduction to the performing arts domain of the California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations including strands of music, drama, and dance. Provides practical strategies for implementing curriculum 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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-31 - 2026-09-27
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ECD 36: Visual Arts: Preschool/TK Foundations
Description: Introduction to the visual arts substrand of the California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations including artistic expression and response, and skills using various art mediums. Provides practical strategies for implementing curriculum 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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-31 - 2026-09-27
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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: 001 DAYS & TIMES: TTh, 11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
LOCATION: 554 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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: 001 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 09:40 AM - 11:05 AM
LOCATION: 551 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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ECON C2001: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies.
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. Formerly ECN 1 and ECON 1
CRN: 23537 SECTION: HY1
LOCATION: HYBRID START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-10-16
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ECON C2001: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies.
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. Formerly ECN 1 and ECON 1
CRN: 23537 SECTION: HY1 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 09:40 AM - 11:05 AM
LOCATION: 552 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-10-16
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ECON C2001: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies.
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. Formerly ECN 1 and ECON 1
CRN: 23538 SECTION: HY2
LOCATION: HYBRID START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-10-16
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ECON C2001: Principles of Microeconomics
Description: An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies.
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. Formerly ECN 1 and ECON 1
CRN: 23538 SECTION: HY2 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
LOCATION: 552 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-10-16
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ECON C2002: Principles of Macroeconomics
Description: An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand
national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and
monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. Formerly ECN 2 and ECON 2.
CRN: 23542 SECTION: HY1
LOCATION: HYBRID START & END DATES: 2026-10-19 - 2026-12-11
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ECON C2002: Principles of Macroeconomics
Description: An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand
national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and
monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. Formerly ECN 2 and ECON 2.
CRN: 23542 SECTION: HY1 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 09:40 AM - 11:05 AM
LOCATION: 552 START & END DATES: 2026-10-19 - 2026-12-11
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ECON C2002: Principles of Macroeconomics
Description: An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand
national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and
monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. Formerly ECN 2 and ECON 2.
CRN: 23543 SECTION: HY2
LOCATION: HYBRID START & END DATES: 2026-10-19 - 2026-12-11
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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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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: ON2
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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ES 12: Chicanx and Latinx Expressive Cultures and Resistance
Description: This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x expressive cultures, whose composition spans differences along the lines of citizenship, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, language, and more. Readings and course material will cover Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x representation, identities, and the role of race, gender, nationality, sexuality, and class in creative expression in everyday life and social movements. Key topics include resistance, self-determination, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, transnationalism, imperialism, colonialism, and racial and social justice. We will explore these main topics through Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x cultural expressions.
CRN: 22422 SECTION: 001 DAYS & TIMES: MW, 01:00 PM - 02:25 PM
LOCATION: 556 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: This course is a spatial study of the Earth?s dynamic physical systems and processes. Topics include: Earth-sun geometry, weather, climate, water, landforms, soil, and the biosphere. Emphasis is on the interrelationships among environmental and human systems and processes and their resulting patterns and distributions. Tools of geographic inquiry are also briefly covered; they may include: maps, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS).
CRN: 21194 SECTION: 002 DAYS & TIMES: TTh, 11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
LOCATION: 507 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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GEO 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
Description: This course is a spatial study of the Earth?s dynamic physical systems and processes. Topics include: Earth-sun geometry, weather, climate, water, landforms, soil, and the biosphere. Emphasis is on the interrelationships among environmental and human systems and processes and their resulting patterns and distributions. Tools of geographic inquiry are also briefly covered; they may include: maps, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS).
CRN: 22533 SECTION: ON2
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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GEO 20: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Description: Computer-based information technology tools and techniques that analyze spatial relationships between locations and attributes of physical, cultural, and economic features. Visualization of geographic relationships to support decision-making through interactive linkages of maps, databases, images, and charts. Introduction to GIS theory, principles, concepts, applications, and operations. Field trips may be required.
CRN: 21950 SECTION: 001 DAYS & TIMES: F, 11:20 AM - 02:30 PM
LOCATION: 507 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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GEO 5: World Regional Geography
Description: Regions of the world and the way humans live within those regions. Includes physical, environmental, and cultural characteristics of world regions, how they are similar and how they are different, economic patterns, agriculture, industrial development, human-environment interactions, and population dynamics. Emphasis on contemporary major issues and their geographic impact.
CRN: 21200 SECTION: 001 DAYS & TIMES: TTh, 11:20 AM - 12:45 PM
LOCATION: 505 START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11
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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 Ni?o, 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
LOCATION: ONLINE START & END DATES: 2026-08-24 - 2026-12-11