The following is a list of course corrections appended to this catalog:
(alpha order by prefix)
AMCS 165B - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C3. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
AMCS 201 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area D. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
AMCS 225 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C2. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
AMCS 260 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C1. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
ARTH 160A - Humanities Learning Community: Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online
ARTH 160B - Humanities Learning Community: Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online
BIOL 308 - Environmental Toxicology: Unit(s): 3, Lecture: 3 hours. Information needed to formulate a philosophy of chemical use: the nature of the interaction of toxicants and living organisms; categories of toxicological activity; toxicological evaluation and environmental monitoring; and governmental regulations and procedures.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 110 - Biological InquiryCompletion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of B1, B2 and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division B, Typically Offered: Fall Only, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
New Course BIOL 343 - Stem Cell Biology: Unit(s): 3. An integrated examination of the fundamental principles of stem cell biology. This course will explore the basic biology of stem cells to better understand how they are currently being used in novel therapies to treat human disease. Designed for those pursuing careers in the life sciences. Satisfies upper division biology elective course requirement.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 321, Typically Offered: Spring Only, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
New Course BUS 454 - Entrepreneurial Finance: Unit(s): 4. This course covers valuation and funding of new and small businesses from the point of view of the entrepreneurs and their prospective investors. Particular emphasis is placed on the financial concepts, tools, software, and methods that are suited to resolve the unique challenges involved in making funding and investment decisions in new ventures. The course is ideal for students interested in new or small businesses, venture capital, and private equity investment.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 370, Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
CALS 165B - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C3. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
CALS 219 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area D. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
CALS 220 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C2. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
New Course CCJS 377 - Legal Reasoning and the LSAT: Unit(s): 4. This course will expose students to legal reasoning in order to prepare them for the LSAT. It builds skills in the kind of Analytical Reasoning and Logical Reasoning that constitute the core of the LSAT and covers logical concepts, analytical reading, application of legal concepts, oral arguments and reasoning.
Crosslisted: PHIL 377, POLS 377, Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
All CES course prefixes have been changed to ECE.
New Course CHEM 300 - Chemistry in Sustainability: Unit(s): 3. An upper division GE course covering the role of Chemistry in sustainability. This course will focus on our environment, and the central role chemistry plays. In order to understand the chemistry of the environment one must understand atoms and molecules and their chemical reactions. This course will focus on environment issues including: air quality, water quality, acid rain, climate change (global warming), the ozone hole, and the role of thermodynamics in our environment.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of lower division B coursework and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division B, Typically Offered Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online, Grading: Student Option
CHEM 301 - Racism, Sexism and Bias in Science: Unit(s): 3. This course will examine structural racism and sexism in science and medicine in America through readings, Ted-Talks, podcasts and case studies. Students will look at data concerning trends of representation in science and data on how science is accessed by various groups in the US. The data will form the basis for discussions about how current practices and structure that are in place in the US create inequitable access to careers in science and medicine and how this creates disparities for women and people of color in terms of health, wealth and access. Student teams will generate ideas to suggest sustainable change that could create an inclusive and equitable scientific community, technological and medical culture that are inclusive. These conclusions will be grounded in data communicated via a final assignment.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of B1, B2 and at least 45 units. GE Category: Upper Division B Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid Grading: Graded
EE 345 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers: Unit(s): 3. Probability and its axioms, conditional probability, sequential experiments, independence, counting, discrete, continuous and mixed random variables and distributions, functions of random variables, expectations, multiple random variables and joint distributions, central limit theorem, weak law of large numbers, estimation of random variables, random processes and their characterization.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 261 with a C- or better, or consent of instructor. Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of B1, B2 and at least 45 units. GE Category: Upper Division B, Typically Offered: Fall Only, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
EE 493 - Senior Design Project: Unit(s): 3. This is a capstone course. A major project designed to bring the knowledge gained from various courses together to analyze, design, and implement an electronic and/or communications system in an efficient and economic manner.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of lower division C coursework and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division C, Typically Offered: Spring Only, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
GEOL 105 - The Age of Dinosaurs: Unit(s): 3, Lecture: 3 hours. The life and death of dinosaurs as evidenced by the fossil record will be studied to show how geology and biology combine in the discipline of paleontology. The evolution of dinosaurs over a 150-million- year time span sets the stage to investigate several interesting and ongoing controversies surrounding dinosaurs, including: why dinosaurs became extinct, the metabolism of dinosaurs, and the relationship between birds and dinosaurs.
GE Category: B1 - Physical science, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Grading: Graded
GEOL 110 - Natural Disasters: Unit(s): 3, Laboratory: 3 hours. Geology 110 is a course examining the interaction between natural processes and human activities and the often costly and fatal results. Course emphasis will be on the principles underlying natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods, severe weather, coastal processes, asteroid impacts, fires, great dyings, and population growth. Many examples will draw from the west coast and northern California in particular.
GE Category: B1 - Physical science, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
GEOL 120 - Regional Field Geology: Unit(s): 3, Lecture: 1 hour. The heart of geology is in the field. The course is an examination of rocks, minerals, and landforms, and the processes that form them. This course includes a 10-day field trip taken during spring vacation, or multiple weekend field trips in the fall semester, where the natural world becomes our classroom.
GE Category: B1 - Physical science, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
New Course GEP 110 - Communication of Environmental Issues: Unit(s): 3. In this class students learn how to effectively communicate information about environmental issues through audio-visual presentation. The class will focus on researching, designing, and delivering presentations generally. Then, through the frame of four environmental injustice (such as climate change, deforestationm, agribusiness, urban environments and environmental injustice), students will research and design positioned and more objective individual and group presentations.
GE Category: A1 - Oral Communication, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
New Course GEP 201B - Global Environmental Systems Lab: Unit(s): 1. Introduction to physical earth processes through laboratory and field exercises. Lab includes observations, hands-on experiments, data collection and practical exercises involving weather, climate, soils, running water, landforms, and vegetation. Includes map fundamentals and interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): GEP 201 Co-requisite(s): GEP 201, GE Category: B3 - Laboratory Activity, Typically Offered Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Grading: Student Option
New Course GLBL 110 - Communication of Global Social Justice Issues: Unit(s): 3. In this class students learn how to communicate information about global social justice issues through audio-visual presentation more effectively. We first focus on researching, designing, framing and delivering presentations generally. Then, through the frame of four global social justice topics (such as precarious, child, sweatshop, and forced labor, fair trade, corporate social responsibility, and ethical consumerism, and activism), we improve our abilities to research and design both positioned and more objective
individual and group presentations. We will participate in group evaluation workshops following each presentation to engage our critical listening and critical thinking skills to improve our confidence with making public presentations.
GE Category: A1 - Oral Communication, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
New Course HIST 393 - Historical Source Lab: Digitising the Past: Unit(s): 4. Historians use artifacts like documents, films, and material objects to make sense of the past. History 378 introduces students to the evolving craft of digital humanities, which entails making historical sources available in digital form for scholarly and non-scholarly audiences. Working in teams, students will learn contextual research, description, transcription, annotation, copy-editing, content development, and copyright evaluation skills. Student projects will be subjected to professional peer review; successful projects will be published in digital format.
Typically Offered: Fall Odd Years, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
New Course HIST 394 - The Use and Abuse of History: Unit(s): 4. This class explores the various ways people have done history badly (Ancient Aliens! The Da Vinci Code! But more menacingly, the mobilization and distortion of the mythic past as propaganda in support of fascist and racist regimes). Through a series of case studies, which range from Ancient Egypt and Atlantis (spoiler alert: Atlantis did not actually exist) to Grail conspiracies and fascist archeology under Mussolini, students will study examples of how the past has been manipulated in service of the present. This will, in turn, require us to think about how we know what we know about history, how we evaluate evidence and ask (good) questions, and explore different approaches to historical problem solving.
Typically Offered: Spring Even Years, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
HIST 403 - Late Antiquity: Unit(s): 4. This course examines the history of the late antique Mediterranean from roughly the third century to the end of the sixth, a period marked by a series of political, economic, socio-religious, and military crises, and ultimately, the collapse of Roman political rule in the Latin West. This was a period of dramatic change, but also of important continuities, which continued well into the medieval period and beyond. Topics include political and military response to crises, the ‘barbarians,’ Greco-Roman polytheism and the rise of Christianity, growing divisions between Greek East and Latin West, the ‘fall of the Roman Empire,’ and the advent of the barbarian successor kingdoms in Italy, Spain, North Africa, Gaul and Britain.
Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
LIBS 101 - The Human Enigma: Unit(s): 9. This class is designed to introduce you to the interdisciplinary work of liberal studies and the unique community of the Hutchins School. It concentrates on developing oral and written communication skills by analyzing examples drawn from the aesthetic works of diverse cultures, from ancient to modern civilizations. Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to LIBS majors and minors. Co-requisite(s): LIBS 103
GE Category: This course fulfills GE Area C1 (Arts) and A2 (Written Communication), and GE Area A1 (Oral Communication).
Typically Offered: Fall Only
Grading: Credit/No-Credit
New Course LIBS 125 - The Art of Dialogue: Unit(s): 3. Anchored in the practice of dialogue, students learn to explore the use of personal voice and how to integrate performative and rhetorical strategies in order to communicate ideas to a variety of audiences. This course focuses on the development of students’ speaking and listening skill sets as well as creative presentation and writing.
GE Category: A1 - Oral Communication, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, May Be Repeated: No, Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online, Grading: Student Option
MATH 261 - Multivariable calculus: Unit(s): 4. Includes partial derivatives, multiple integrals, alternative coordinate systems, vector functions and their derivatives, line integrals, Green’s Theorem, Stokes’ Theorem, and Divergence Theorem. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in Math 211 or consent of instructor Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, Grading: Student Option
NAMS 165 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C2. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
NAMS 200 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area D. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
NAMS 205 - This course fulfills Area F OR Area C1. Course fulfills critical race studies and ethnic studies requirements.
NURS 412 - Community/Public Health Nursing Theory: Met in Major UDGE Area D
NURS 490 - The Sexual Imperative: History, Media, Culture, and Imagination: Unit(s): 3 Seminar: 3 hours. This on-line course examines historical, cultural, philosophical and artistic influences on relationships, gender expressions and sexuality among various lifestyles within the United States and the world. Specific perspectives within these foci include historical events and philosophies as they have influenced cultural mores, artistic expression and literature shaping human sexual health, values, beliefs and behaviors. If you feel sexual material could be offensive to you then you should not take this course.
GE Category: Upper Division C, Typically Offered: Fall & Spring, Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Student Option
PHIL 160A - The Heart of Wisdom: Unit(s): 4. The theme of this FLC is the role that compassion and related pro social dispositions play in wellness and human flourishing. The course introduces students to the latest scientific thinking on compassion from such disciplines as evolutionary biology and psychology, affective neuroscience, and moral psychology. The course introduces students to Buddhist philosophy and psychology, as Buddhism has a long and rich tradition of examining and reflecting on compassion and lovingkindness, including several training techniques for becoming more compassionate. Research universities are studying these meditation techniques and we expose students to this science as well. Students complete approximately 20 service hours each semester in which they apply course concepts to their own experiences working with disadvantaged populations in Sonoma County. Students receive their A3 critical thinking student learning outcomes in the fall, and their C2 student learning outcomes in the spring. Assignments throughout the two semesters reinforce all of these student learning outcomes.
GE Category: A3 - Critical Thinking, May Be Repeated: No
PHIL 160B - The Heart of Wisdom: Unit(s): 4. The theme of this FLC is the role that compassion and related pro social dispositions play in wellness and human flourishing. The course introduces students to the latest scientific thinking on compassion from such disciplines as evolutionary biology and psychology, affective neuroscience, and moral psychology. The course introduces students to Buddhist philosophy and psychology, as Buddhism has a long and rich tradition of examining and reflecting on compassion and lovingkindness, including several training techniques for becoming more compassionate. Research universities are studying these meditation techniques and we expose students to this science as well. Students complete approximately 20 service hours each semester in which they apply course concepts to their own experiences working with disadvantaged populations in Sonoma County. Students receive their A3 critical thinking student learning outcomes in the fall, and their C2 student learning outcomes in the spring. Assignments throughout the two semesters reinforce all of these student learning outcomes.
Prerequisite(s): PHIL 160A, GE Category: C2 - Humanities, May Be Repeated: No, Grading: Student Option
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