Courses

ART2635 Gallery Techniques (3)

This course provides practical experience and a theoretical basis in the planning, design and installation of art exhibitions. Curation, work placement, lighting, and signage, will be addressed. Students will work directly with the gallery staff, exhibiting artist and curators at the Wiegand Gallery. Fulfills the Core Curriculum Arts Requirement. Fulfills two Career Development units. CBL. May be taken for one to three units. May be repeated for credit.

Instructor: Robert Poplack

BUS2216 Business Analysis Using Spreadsheets (3)

Addresses critical business problems via quantitative routines and electronic spreadsheets. Students will learn market survey techniques and the use of spreadsheets to analyze results.

Instructor: Sujata Verma/Jill Jay

COM2990 Internship (3/3)

Prerequisite: senior status or by permission of program director
Provides students with the opportunity to work in an industry to gain career-related experience. The internship will require 120 to 150 hours where the student will acquire further industry knowledge and develop skills necessary for professional advancement.
(Course may be repeated up to a maximum total of nine units of credit).

Instructor: Judy Buller

ENG4994 Community-Based Pedagogy/Teaching Assistanceship (3)

Students in this class have the opportunity to work as teaching assistants in a variety of settings including community college classrooms, juvenile detention facilities, and the women's jail. Each student works in the classroom with a mentor teacher for three hours per week. In addition, Community-Based Pedagogy will meet twice per month to enable students to share their experiences, role play, get support, and discuss assigned readings from the field of pedagogy.

Instructor: Jackie Berger

GPY4205 Advanced Human Development (3)

Prerequisite: PSY2141
Analyzes major approaches to the study of human development throughout the lifespan. Ability to recognize and understand theoretical presuppositions of various approaches to human development from a systemic point of view is emphasized.

Instructor: Laury Rappaport

HST2440 Environmental History/Environmental Justice (4)

Approaches contemporary environmental issues--ecological degradation to global warming, resource depletion to sustainability--by considering their historical antecedents.  Grounded in environmental history, mostly but not exclusively in the United States, it also examines the various contemporary struggles for environmental justice and the challenge of re-imagining a world less dependent on fossil fuels and less wasteful of its natural resources. Students will participate in a community-based learning placement to explore their particular area of interest. Fulfills Core Curriculum Social and Behavioral Science requirement and one unit of the Community Based Learning requirement.

Instructor: Stephen Cole

PHY2000 Science in Action (4)

Prerequisites: BIO1009 or PHY1009 or BIO1101 or CHE1101 or CHE1202 or by permission
Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory and classroom work. In this community-based learning course, students design and test science experiments for children and then partner with a local elementary school to work with/lead the elementary students through those experiments. Students choose projects from the physical, life, and earth sciences that support the learning outcomes outlined in the Science Content Standards found in the Science Framework for California Public Schools.

Instructor: Isabelle Haithcox

PSY2149 Developmental Psychology in the Classroom and Community (4)

Prerequisite: PSY1001.
Studies human growth and development from prenatal stages through adolescence. Attention is given to various developmental theories, interdisciplinary research, interconnected roles of biological and environment, and practical applications. PSY2149 allows students to choose a particular area of interest and participate in the community in some way exploring that interest. May be used to satisfy one unit of the Career Development/Community Based Learning Requirement. Students may not receive credit for both PSY2141 and PSY2149.

Instructor: Gretchen Wehrle

PSY2309 Community Psychology (4)

Prerequisite: PSY1001 for psychology majors; no prerequisite for non-majors.
Studies a wide variety of forces and structures in the community which affect the positive growth, development, and functioning of its members. As a service learning course, this class includes community work, theoretical discussions, and reflection activities. May be used to satisfy one unit of the Career Development/Community Based Learning Requirement.

Instructor: Gretchen Wehrle

REL2425 Liberation Theologies [CDiv] (3)

Focuses on theologies that strive to liberate oppressed and marginalized peoples, including Liberation Theology in Latin America, Dalit Theology in India, and Feminist and Black Theology.

Instructors: Marianne Delaporte/Ken Hamilton

SOC2117 Analyzing Social Settings (4)

Introduces the use of qualitative methods in the study of community issues by using such research techniques as participant observation, the interview, and focus groups. The class, acting as a research team, selects some aspect of a social setting to study. Past subjects have included social services in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, gay youth in San Francisco's Castro district, the Mexican-American community in the "Little Michoacán" neighborhood of Redwood City, and pathways for youth in the City of East Palo Alto.

Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel

SOC2201 Social Change Through Social Service I (3)

Provides students with the knowledge, skills, and encouragement to assist populations in need while learning from community-based experiences. Students learn about the histories and functions of various human service agencies in San Mateo/ San Francisco Counties as well as the characteristics and needs of the clients with whom they work. Students are required to intern on their own time, with a nonprofit organization of their choice for the duration of the semester. A community-based course. May be used to satisfy one unit of Career Development Requirement.

Instructor: Cheryl Joseph

SOC2205 Social Change Through Social Service II (3)

Students can either continue the internship they began in SOC2201 or start service anew. Supervised community-based learning provides valuable insights into social need response as well as career opportunities in the social services. Working with professionals, students put theories and skills into practice. One hour of class time per week focuses on specific situations that students encounter in their field work. Communications skills, assertiveness, conflict resolution, and coping techniques are typical topics explored in this class. May be used to satisfy two units of Career Development Requirement.

Instructor: Cheryl Joseph

SOC2501 The Inner City: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [CDiv] (4)

An exploration of the complex nature of San Francisco’s inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Why is it that street crime exists here? Why do the poor live here? Why do so many children love living here? How is this the place of both crime and creativity? What is the history of the Tenderloin? What is its connection to such artistic luminaries as Dashiell Hammett, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Truman Capote, Alice B. Toklas, Isadora Duncan, Billie Holiday, and Miles Davis? What are the physical and cultural boundaries of the Tenderloin and how are they maintained? What is the relationship of the Tenderloin, and inner city tenderloins everywhere, to the rest of American society? A community-based learning course.

Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel

SOC2502 Exploring the Inner World of the Inner City [CDiv] (4)

What is the structure of the inner city? What is its culture? What is its economy? What legal and illegal businesses take resources in and out of San Francisco's inner city Tenderloin district? How many children live here? How many families? How many homeless people? What ethnic groups live here? Who else lives here? What is the crime rate here? What kinds of crime? How many theaters? What kinds of theaters? How many art galleries? How many murals? What about graffiti? Who are the taggers? What do they have to say? What else is
here? Students in this course will conduct qualitative and quantitative studies of patterns of behavior that characterize the inner city, assessing and explaining them and the greater community's response to the world of the inner city. A community-based course. The amount of work required for upper-division credit will differ in both quantity and quality from that required for lower-division credit.

Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel

SOC2512 Sports, Service, and Society (1)

This course develops community leadership skills by integrating the sociological perspective with the practice and teachings of coach John Wooden and others who use athletics as a way of instilling teamwork, discipline, passion, and commitment. By directing the lessons and energy of the class toward community engagement, specifically by establishing and maintaining sports clinics in San Francisco's inner city, the student will develop an appreciation of the application of sociological theory and uses for knowledge and skills, developed in sports activities, in service of the common good. May be repeated one time for academic credit.

Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel

SOC2519 Streetwise Sociology [CDiv] (4)

Streetwise Sociology is designed to familiarize the student with the inner city culture by becoming a part of it. We do this by participating in projects that benefit the community and, in so doing, learn from individuals who live and work there. The goal is to use sociological theory and practice to understand and contribute to the resolution of urban social problems. Instruction involves on-campus classes and workshops and off-campus
community activities. Current projects include Halloween in the Tenderloin, College Night in the Tenderloin, and Miracle on 6th Street (a Christmas event for residents in a hotel for the formerly homeless). May be repeated for credit.

Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel

SOC2527 Urban Sociology [CDiv] (4)

Using a global and historical perspective, this course examines urban lifestyles, social organization, urban problems, and trends. Classroom work compares characteristics of cities around the world while out-of-class work focuses on Bay Area cities with independent field trips as part of the course experience.

Instructor: Cheryl Joseph

SOC2625 Animals, People, and the Environment [CDiv] (4)

By combining natural sciences with social sciences, this class explores the interactions between people, wildlife, and our ecological environment. Focus is given to the value of animal life and nature in such specific areas as conservation/wildlife management, food production, energy needs assessment, biomes and populations, urban sprawl, biomagnification and chemical pollution, environmental disease, endangerment, extinction, globalization and ecotourism within the context of social inequality and social justice. Particular emphasis is given to the deforestation of Africa and the Amazon; introduction of the kingfish to the Quechua and Aymara Indians of Southern Peru; the Arctic wilderness and oil drilling; mountaintop removal in West Virginia; chemical pollution of the Great Lakes; creation of compatible environments in Northern Minnesota; and the impact of tourism on Moorea. This course uses historical, biological, sociological, cultural, institutional, and environmental perspectives to examine the connections between animals, people and our environment. On-site visits are included in the course content.

Instructor: Cheryl Joseph

SOC2692 Animals, People, Environment-Field (1)

This course is a stand-alone, community-based learning class involving on-site visits to locations that facilitate learning about the connections between people, wildlife and our natural environment through direct involvement. Depending on the opportunities available during a given semester, on-site locations might include (but are not limited to) a botanical garden; humane farm; reservoir; wildlife hospital; nature center, museum, community garden project; marine laboratory; salt-marsh ecosystem; woodland preserve; urban restoration endeavor and animal sanctuary/reserve. Within the context of the class, students participate in one or more projects that benefit the eco-community and, in doing so, learn about their part in the local and global systems as well as the complexities of environmental issues. Topics are examined relative to various kinds of cultures including ethnic, social class, gender, region, lifestyle and especially species. Format centers on off-campus activities though classroom-style instruction is involved. This course is deliberately scheduled on weekend days to provide the flexibility and time for the on-site visits. (List of exact activities for the semester are available during early registration).

Instructor: Cheryl Joseph

THE2159 Introduction to Arts Management (3)

Provides an in depth and hands-on introduction to a wide range of Theatre management skills and procedures. Students participate in production selection, planning, financing, promotion, and staffing. Study includes a wide variety of performing arts organizations and events and focuses on how they are produced by arts organizations ranging from amateur to professional. Fulfills the Core Curriculum Arts Requirement.

Instructor: Michael Elkins