This is an introductory course to the appreciation of the visual arts drawn from a wide variety of media, cultures and time periods. Students will learn to analyze art forms in regards to the elements and principles of art, and will be introduced to various technical procedures and materials, allowing students to make connections regarding these formal attributes and the work's content or meaning. The function and communication of visual arts within societal contexts will also be examined.

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The field biology courses introduce students to the human and natural histories of a variety of ecosystems. This course explores the biodiversity, geology, and human history of the California deserts. The course entails on-campus lectures and field excursions. Course participation involves camping and hiking. Additional fees are required.

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Students are introduced to the business functions and practices as they have developed over time in the U.S. Students will be introduced to topics such as organizational structure and behavior, management, marketing, finance and accounting, operations and information systems, and ethical responsibilities of corporations. Special emphasis will be placed on the emergence of global business, its impact and the significance of small businesses.

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Students are taught the skills of speechmaking. Students focus on the following basic elements: rhetorical theory, researching, organizing and outlining a topic, analyzing an audience, effective use of language, ethics, effective presentation aids, critical listening, credibility, and physical delivery. Students will be required to attend speech activities outside of the classroom environment.

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This course is an introduction to basic computer programming concepts using both the procedural and an object-oriented paradigm. It is intended for non-computer science majors, and for students interested in COMSC 075 who would like a more gradual entry into computing fundamentals. Topics include hands-on practice with software engineering tools, simple programs, variables, control structures, functions, input/output, and introduction to abstraction. Specifications, adherence to style guidelines, and the importance of testing to ensure that programs are usable, robust, and modifiable, will be addressed throughout the course.

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This course is an introduction to computer science using an object-oriented programming language. Students will write computer programs that include control structures, iteration, methods and argument passing, and classes. Problem solving, documentation, programming style, and program design and development are addressed throughout the course.

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Students will explore dance from an aesthetic, historic, and cultural point of view. Students will examine the elements of dance including body, space, time, and dynamic qualities and develop a vocabulary with which to analyze and write critically about dance. Dance will be explored in many of its genres including social dance, jazz dance, ballet, modern, and dance from cultures around the globe from historical and contemporary perspectives. Attendance at a live dance performance may be required.

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Microeconomics focuses on economic behavior of individual economic units such as consumers, firms, and resource owners. It examines the market system as a means of solving the problems in the production and distribution of goods and services in a society. An analysis of the effectiveness of the price system in providing the society with an equitable distribution of goods, services and income is featured. It explores some of the more urgent micro-economic problems such as monopoly power of big business and big unions, government regulations and consumer protection, the energy crisis, taxes and welfare.

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Students will critically explore the phenomena of race and ethnicity in the history of the United States. Examining the socio-political realities of power, students analyze the processes by which racial stratification occur. Particular emphasis is placed on the socio-historical experiences of major, subordinate ethnic groups in America --African Americans, Latina/o Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Students critically analyze major theoretical approaches to understanding the circumstances that have shaped present race relations in America and various Ethnic Studies paradigms.

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This course surveys the political, economic, cultural, social, and intellectual development of the United States. The course emphasizes the interactions among Europeans, Africans, and American Indians in North America beginning with European colonization, through the creation of the U.S. Republic, its expansion west, and the developments leading up to the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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This course surveys the political, economic, cultural, social and intellectual development of the United States from Reconstruction to the present. The course emphasizes the U.S. expansion to the Pacific, its rise as a superpower through WW I and WW II, and the Cold War. Students will examine the role of major ethnic, gender and social groups in U.S. history. Along with History 017A, it meets the requirement in United States History, Constitution and state and local government. History 001 may not be combined with either History 017A or History 017B to meet the graduation requirement in United States History, Constitution and American Ideals.

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Students will learn necessary skills for performing in badminton at the advanced level including footwork and court positioning, reading the opponents' strengths and weaknesses and adjusting tactics, developing greater power with control in all shots. Students will learn techniques for improved quickness and shot anticipation. Competitive matches are played regularly.

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Students will learn necessary skills and strategies for performing in badminton tournaments. Tournament preparation for playing extended matches, maintaining readiness between games, team and tournament scoring, effective team communication, rest and nutrition.

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This course is designed to teach fitness walking. The student will learn fitness walking techniques, fitness walking exercise principles, and different fitness walking training programs. Students will participate in fitness walking throughout the semester and learn fitness walking measurement and evaluation techniques. This class is intended for walkers of any age, fitness level, and skill level.

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This course presents single variable calculus and an introduction to multivariable calculus and their applications for business and social science students. The content includes functions and graphs, limits, continuity, differential and integral calculus of polynomials, rational functions, power functions, exponential functions, logarithmic and natural logarithmic functions, partial differentiation and applications of these topics in business and social science.

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This course is an introduction to the study of statistics. Students will learn methods of collecting data, displaying data, descriptive statistics with emphasis on understanding variation, empirical probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and sample size, hypothesis testing, testing the difference between two independent population parameters, matched pairs analysis, one-way analysis of variance, chi-square tests, correlation and simple linear regression.

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Exploring the World of Music

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This behavioral science course is a basic introduction to the scientific study of the psychological, biological, and environmental influences on behavior. It is a survey of traditional and contemporary theories and attitudes about perception, consciousness, cognition, learning, memory, thinking, human development, intelligence, emotions, motivation, personality, stress/adaptation, abnormal behavior/ treatment, and the social world. It is designed to give insight into oneself and others.

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This course is an introduction to developmental psychology. Human development is traced from conception through death and dying. The biological, cognitive, psychological, social and cultural factors affecting development and the integration and interactions of these factors throughout the lifespan of human beings will be studied. The dynamic interrelationship of these factors to the uniqueness of, and differences between, individuals will also be considered. Development tasks and potential developmental crises in the contemporary multicultural society are identified for each age group.

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This is an introductory course in film studies in which students view films and learn to understand the artistic disciplines of film making. Film content is examined in relationship to cinematography, editing, visual design, special effects, sound design, acting, directing, social and cultural contexts.

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