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HCOM 316 - Media Ethics
Develops media literacy and related knowledge, skills, and abilities. Explores the ethical implications of various social and economic forces on media production, distribution, and access, as well as on the content, context, consumption, and effects of media messages. Topics include media’s role in democracy, what citizens have a right to expect from media and how media reflect and reinforce their social contexts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 317S - Advanced Composition, Composition Theories, Service Learning
In a service learning context, students deepen communication skills, engage contemporary composition theories, and develop advanced written communication skills in a variety of genres. Students apply theories in area schools and literacy programs.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: GWAR Graduation Writing Assess, UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 5
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HCOM 319 - Global Communication and Culture
This course offers students a critical understanding of the role of media and communication technologies in the processes of globalization. Drawing from historical and contemporary perspectives students will discuss the social, cultural and political implications of media’s use and dissemination across the globe, and particularly in relation to issues such as identity formation, community belonging, people’s empowerment and political action around global challenges.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 320 - Grammar, Usage, and Power
Introduces the basic elements and diverse linguistic attributes of the English language, and language theories, including universals and differences. Commonly practiced grammatical concepts and conventions and theories of language acquisition are studied and applied within the contexts of imperialism and post-colonial analysis. Explores the dynamics of current issues in language, including the roles of grammar in the schools, language in advertising, and variations in language usage.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 321 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Culture
This course examines the role of communication in contemporary society. Students are introduced to rhetorical theories as tools to analyze and critique a variety of cultural and public texts such as literature, political speeches, social movement campaigns, films, television, and advertisements. The course develops understanding of rhetorical concepts, ability to interpret and critically analyze the diverse messages that surround us, and skill in using written and oral communication to establish community and/or advocate for change in the world.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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HCOM 322 - Asian American Literature
Develops students’ critical and analytical reading ability of literature from the perspective of the Asian American experience. Grounds the discussion of Asian American experiences, literatures, and cultures in history and theory.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 323 - American Drama
Examines the history of American drama. Explores the diverse cultures that have contributed to the shaping of the American drama. Introduces students to literary analysis through the study of the dialogical relationship between the “logical core” and the “non-logical texture.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 324 - African American Narratives
Examines the development of African American and African diaspora literature. Explores the quintessential role African American and African diaspora literature and culture have played in the development of American mainstream literature, culture, and identity. Looks at vernacular tradition, the call and response practice, and the lyrics of the blues-infused, African American literary expression.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 325 - Narratives of American Immigration
Explores immigration to the United States from different cultural perspectives. Integrates a historiographic approach as the primary method for reading and critically interpreting immigrant narratives; uses historical events such as The Great Depression, World War I and II, and the Civil Rights Movement as markers for analyzing the texts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 327 - Survey American Literature
Examines American literature through different historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements. Develops ability to compare and contrast social, historical, and cultural experiences represented in literature. Students gain cross-cultural knowledge of American literary history, an introduction to literary theory, and further development of literary analysis skills.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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HCOM 328 - Latina Life Stories
Explores intersections of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class through autobiographical and testimonial writings by Chicana, Mexican-origin, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and mixed-heritage Latinas in the U.S. Students produce multimedia digital stories about their own lives and identities.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 329 - Auto/Biografias
A course on Latinx identities as explored through life writing from multiple genres including memoir, testimonio, visual autobiography, and poetry. Students read and analyze written texts and films, and create their own autobiographical projects.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 330 - Intro Creative Writing
An introductory creative writing course that focuses on ethnicity, gender, and “witness” writing. Examination of the writing process, what roadblocks create silence, how to remove them. Cross-cultural readings in multicultural poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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HCOM 332 - Poetry Writing Workshop
Poems with “duende,” as Federico GarcÃa Lorca says, are poems that “burn the blood like powdered glass.” An intermediate level course that explores forms of poetry, both traditional and contemporary. Students analyze the creative process; move toward publishing poems.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) and (HCOM 330 or HCOM 339S ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 333 - Women’s Writing Workshop
An intermediate level creative writing workshop that examines women’s lives, and their relationship to the writing process. Includes in-class writing exercises, cross-cultural readings, discussions of the writing process, and creative writing. For women and men honing their craft of writing poetry, fiction, life-stories.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) and (HCOM 330 or HCOM 339S ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 334 - Fiction/Creative NonFiction Writing
An intermediate-level creative writing workshop that focuses on fiction writing and creative non-fiction. Students explore forms of fiction, and move toward publication.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) and (HCOM 330 or HCOM 339S ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 335 - Amer Ethnic Lit & Culture
This learning experience takes a comparative approach to the examination of American ethnic literature and cultures. It is designed to develop students’ ability to compare and contrast the social, historical, and cultural experiences as they are represented in literature. The interdisciplinarity nature of the course is accentuated not only through the introduction to the use of language and literary analysis, but also through the discussion of history, philosophy, culture, and social justice.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 3
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HCOM 336 - Poetry and Gender
A literature course in contemporary multicultural poetry, with a focus on gender issues. “A new kind of man/a new kind of woman,” (in the words of poet Muriel Rukeyser) names a central theme of 20th century American literature and life the re-imagining of women’s and men’s lives. Students examine poets’ perspectives of gender shifts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and C2 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 337 - Women’s Literature
Examines, through literature, how women writers are rewriting the myths and scripts of their/our lives, and how writing is a way of taking action. Explores how women have moved from repression to resistance, from silence to voice, from socially constructed divisiveness toward community.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and C2 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 338 - Multicultural Adolescent Lit
Examines multicultural adolescent literature through the study of issues related to identity, race, culture, equity, and social justice/injustice over time. In particular, the course will provide opportunities to discuss the difficulties that young people have in coming to terms with these complicated issues. Required course for the Single Subject in English Waiver concentration, meeting the Multicultural Adolescent Literature Requirement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and C2 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 339S - Creative Writing and Service Learning
Develops service learning sensitivity, creative writing competency and craft. Students develop original pieces and age-appropriate interdisciplinary creative projects for SL partners in the schools.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 5
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HCOM 340S - Topics in Social Movements Service Learning
Engages topical study of social movements in the service learning environment. Introduces various models of political organizing in movements that have addressed societal inequities from class, race, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and other positionalities, and students apply these models to contemporary problems of inequity. The service learning component connects students with community organizations in order to be participant observers in contemporary organizing strategies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 5
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HCOM 341 - Poetry & Pop Culture
An intermediate poetry class in which students examine the relationship between poetry and popular culture. Students will read and write within the landscape of pop-culture poetics and will develop an in-depth knowledge of the influence that media, music, popularity and style have in relation to contemporary poetry. With use of elements of craft, students will foster the skills to compose original works that exist as a part of the literary discussion of pop-culture poetry today.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (HCOM 330 or HCOM 339S) and (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 342 - Feminist Theories & Methods
Explores modes of analysis that engage the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, economic class, and (dis)ability. Readings and activities will ponder the ways that different feminist theoretical paradigms work to advance social justice.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 343 - Race and Gender Justice
This course examines how social and cultural contexts impact the formation and enforcement of laws, policies, and legal doctrine. We ask, how does the law define criminals, families, citizens, the nation, and gender? Rather than being clear-cut and timeless, the law defines these categories in ways that are racialized, gendered, classed, and historically contingent. Within this context, we examine how different racialized and gendered communities are denied, seek, and achieve justice.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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HCOM 344 - Chicana/Latina Experiences
Offers an intensive introduction to the roots, forms, and impacts of Chicana and Latina feminist discourses. Explores critical analyses of historical and contemporary Chicana/Latina life experiences while presenting theoretical frameworks such as transnationalism, intersectionality, and gender studies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 345 - Chicanx Life & Culture
Intensive introduction to Chicanx and Latinx cultural formations and experiences that have contributed to the shaping of Chicanx and Latinx communities and identities.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 346 - African American Life/History
An introduction to the historical and cultural narratives that shape African American identities and experiences. The course focuses on such themes as African roots of African-American culture, freedom and inequality, black folklore and artistic expressions, migration, family and kinship, community and identity.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 348 - Race, Colonialism, and Film
Students analyze the ways that film and literature have portrayed issues of colonialism, post-colonialism, race, culture, equity, power relationships, and identity. Includes films and literature from various countries and time periods and examines historical, social, political, and artistic backgrounds for each text.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 349 - Environmental Philosophy and Communication
This class explores diverse environmental philosophies, and traces contemporary environmental groups’ use of strategic communication. We study digital campaigns, branding tactics, public education programs, and theories of environmental justice. The course highlights a range of regional, national, and global case studies such as food systems, gas pipeline construction, commercial fish farms, climate change, and freshwater politics. Emphasizes the rhetorical foundations of environmental thought.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 350S - Oral Hist/Comm Mem SL
Through the intersection of Oral History and Service Learning theories, methods, practices, and reflections HCOM 350S is designed to address the gathering, exploration, and representation of individual and collective memory. The course seeks to foster greater cross-cultural awareness and a more inclusive public appreciation of the past, present, and future of interconnected cultural communities. This class is part of a multi-year oral history project to record and preserve local history and memory.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 5
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HCOM 352 - History According To Movies
Critical examination of how historical subjects, people, places and events have been depicted in film. Explores such themes as the politics of representation and the role of film in shaping historical memory.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 353 - California At Crossroads
Critical historical examination of contemporary issues shaping 21st century California, such as cultural diversity, immigration, the state’s relationship to the global economy and the environment.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies, US1 U.S. Histories
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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HCOM 354 - Critical Public Histories
Through partnership with local organizations and hands-on research projects, explores the theory and practice of public history through a critical examination of historical interpretation as framed for diverse public audiences in archives, museums, tourist sites, historic preservation efforts and in popular media representations.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 356 - Digital Multicultural U.S. Histories
Critically examines multicultural histories of the United States using the tools of the digital humanities.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 357 - Constitutional Law
Introduction to constitutional law through an in-depth examination of select U.S. Supreme Court cases. Close attention to how constitutional law has shaped and been shaped by the experience of ordinary people and the impact of the court’s decisions on the social, political, and economic histories of the United States from a multicultural perspective. Offers built-in assessment in the concentration Pre-Law.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 358 - Critical Perspective on Law in Society
Broadly introduces law in society from interdisciplinary global perspectives. Focuses on intersections of law with everyday life and how law is shaped by and shapes its social context. Special attention to how race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation relate to law and legal systems.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 359 - Law, Politics and LGBTQ History
Examines multicultural and intersectional histories of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and communities in the United States. Emphasis on the social, political and legal dimensions of those histories.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 361 - Crime and Communities
Explores relationship of the criminal justice system to various kinds of communities; includes a focus on the intersection of criminal justice with race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 362 - Constitutional History
Intensive study of the U.S and California Constitutions from a historical perspective, focusing on the relationship of social, political, and economic transformation to constitutional jurisprudence. The course explores the relationship of the states to the federal government, civil rights and liberties, and the contested meanings of freedom, liberty and equality under the law. Provides opportunities for students to use historical perspectives to understand and advocate for solutions connected.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
University Requirement: US23 Civics
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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HCOM 363 - Topics in Social History
Often described as history from the bottom up, social history has become critical to how many historians have approached the history of ordinary people. This course introduces students to commonly used theories, methods and practices in social history scholarship and historical writing with a primary emphasis on the history of the United States.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 365 - Chicanx Latinx History
Advanced introduction to the historical experiences of people of Mexican and Latin American descent in the U.S. Explores a variety of forces which have shaped and continue to shape the lives of these communities. Emphasizes the historical and sociological method used to analyze these experiences, with primary focus on the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 366 - History of Religion in the United States
Introduce students to the history of various religious traditions in the United States, particularly the intersection of religion with nationalism, legal and political institutions, identity formation, and the struggle over the meaning of religion in diverse multicultural communities.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 367 - Gender and United States History
This course explores the role of gender in shaping the historical experiences and analysis of those experiences by historians of the United States with an emphasis on the intersection of gender with other social categories, including race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation among others.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 368 - U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877, organized around four broad themes: the crisis of union and disunion in an expanding republic; slavery, race, and emancipation; the experience of modern, total war for individuals and society; and the political and social challenges of Reconstruction. The course explores national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, and/or moral dimensions of the period.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 369 - Asian American History
A survey of the major events, people, places and themes that have shaped Asian migration, racialization and resistance in the U.S. from the 1800s to the present. Provides both macro and micro vantage points, both national and transnational, revealing how changes in the world economy, legislation and racial attitudes reveal the interconnectedness between different Asian groups, between Asians and other groups and possibilities for conflict, resistance and agency in different historical contexts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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HCOM 370 - Media and the Military
This course is designed to provide both practical and theoretical frameworks in which to analyze communication and media work with the U.S. military. Students who wish to pursue careers in media, or with the military will learn practical skills for navigating media issues with the U.S. military. The course also is suitable for those who wish to participate in theoretical discussions about media representation of the military and military topics such as gender, race, and sexuality.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 371 - Community Journalism Studies
This course explores the roles we play today as both consumers and producers of media across multiple platforms. Students engage in the study of journalism’s role in reflecting a community voice and facilitating dialogue for community betterment, and are introduced to the craft of journalistic storytelling.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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HCOM 373 - Introduction to Public Relations
Introduces students to the history, evolution, principles and basic practices of modern public relations. Students study theories of the public and public relations and build skills in crafting and distributing effective communication campaigns.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 3
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HCOM 383 - Genres of Social Justice Writing
Intermediate level writing and research course where students engage in theory and practice of professional and technical genres for social advocacy. Students use primary and secondary research methods and collaborate to produce proposals, reports, visual and multimedia communication, and other professional and technical texts for community advocacy and outreach.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 385 - Reporting
Prepares students to conduct journalistic interviewing, newswriting and reporting from a local, community perspective. Outcomes include learning basic and advanced journalistic interviewing techniques, information gathering and independent research, and critical news source evaluation, ethical decision making; and journalistic writing of news, editorial, and feature articles for print and digital media.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 3
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HCOM 387 - Media Technology
This course introduces students to the technology used in modern journalism. This includes mobile reporting, social media, podcasting and other digital tools for reporting and community engagement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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HCOM 390 - Magazine Writing
Prepares students to report and write magazine articles about social issues. Outcomes include learning intermediate journalistic and creative nonfiction interviewing, reporting techniques, and writing short feature and in-depth magazine stories. Focuses on training students to create a magazine story from conception and pitch, through delivering the final copy for publication.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 393 - Race and Ethnicity in the United States
This course examines race and ethnicity, and the experiences of people of color in the United States. The course is intersectional and transnational, reflecting the global context of the U.S., and engaging other social categories such as class, gender, sexuality, and ability in studying people¿s experiences. Various ways race and ethnicity operate in culture and social life are surveyed, highlighting culture, institutions, and everyday life as sites where racial and ethnic dynamics are seen.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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HCOM 395 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Humanities and Communication.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 1-4
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HCOM 395S - Special Topic:Service Learning
With faculty sponsorship and oversight, students design, develop, and teach a particular topic in Human Communication.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 1-6
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HCOM 396 - Field Studies
Opportunities for independent field research projects involving oral history, social action writing, archival research, or investigative journalism.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 1-6
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HCOM 396S - Field Studies Service Learning
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 1-6
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HCOM 397 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-4
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HCOM 397S - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-6
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HCOM 398 - Legal Studies Internship
Opportunity for independent internship involving any area of legal studies.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 399 - Pathways to the Legal Profession
This course provides students an opportunity to explore pathways to law school and a career in the legal profession. Topics include a critical look at the role of lawyers in society, how to prepare for law school, the application process, and the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), as well as what to expect from the law school experience and what it means to practice law in such areas as civil litigation, criminal justice, civil legal aid, and others.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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HCOM 403 - Ethics and Communication
This course examines theories, perspectives, and practices that address ethical implications of communication in a variety of contexts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 404 - Restorative Justice
Students explore diverse models of justice as philosophies and practices. The epistemological, ethical, political, and spiritual dimensions of restorative justice are studied in cross-cultural contexts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 405 - Philosophy and Sexualities
Students explore the social construction of sexuality. Epistemological, ethical, political, and spiritual dimensions of sexuality are studied in cross-cultural contexts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 406 - Philosophy According to Movies
Introduces classical philosophical questions, such as the nature of good and evil, reality, and efforts to understanding self and community, through stories and film. Visual media integrate with classical and contemporary readings in philosophy enabling students to learn about the problems, methods and insights in philosophical analysis.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (Junior or Senior Standing) and (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 408 - Fact or Fiction?
Students will develop skills in media literacy to better determine the validity of news sources and information, with special attention given to online sources. Local, national and global topics and news sources will be explored to broaden students’ information gathering practices. Students will analyze how events impact their daily lives.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1
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HCOM 409 - Communication Theory
Students will learn theories of human communication, mass communication, new media and technology. Focus is on the relationships among communication theory, research, and practice. Topics include intra- and interpersonal communication, public communication, mass media, and contemporary issues associated with mediated communication. This is a research/theory intensive course.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 410 - Public Relations Ethics and Practices
Students study public relations models and theories, as well as practical public relations skills to better interact with myriad publics. Participants explore multiple ethical frameworks and apply them to the numerous issues facing public relations professionals.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 411 - Media Law and Policy
Students develop an understanding of laws and policies regulating media industries, and those related to the public as both producers and consumers of media content, by examining legal cases and contemporary case studies. The course covers the 1st Amendment, the FCC, defamation, privacy, fair use, social media and more.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 412 - Multicultural Conflict Resolution
Explores theories and methods of conflict resolution. Participants apply multicultural approaches to problem solving in personal, professional, and social contexts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 419 - Digital Publishing Practicum
This course provides a combination of theoretical background and practical experience in scholarly journal editing and publishing. Students will work collaboratively to produce Writing Waves, a writing-research journal and HCOM GE A2 course text. Students will engage in all aspects of the production of the journal include soliciting and evaluating submissions, editing, proofreading, document design, marketing, publicity, research, web design, and public relations, among others.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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HCOM 420 - Advanced Studies in Rhetorical Theory
Students interpret, analyze, and evaluate a selection of rhetorical theories or theoreticians in comparative, cultural, global, historical, and political frameworks. They consider their roles as practitioners, consumers, and critics of rhetoric; they apply elements derived from their study of the theories to rhetorical topics. The specific content will vary each semester.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 422 - SelTop Multicultural Rhetorics
Explores in-depth a selection of one or more rhetorical traditions outside the traditional Western rhetorical canon; utilizes interdisciplinary methodologies to investigate and analyze the cultural concept and role of rhetoric in relationship to epistemology, ethics, spirituality, economics, and politics; examines developments in cultural rhetorical traditions in relationship to cross-cultural encounters, including but not limited to colonialism and postcolonialism.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 423 - Rhetoric and Religion
This course examines ways in which religion plays a significant role in constituting both community and controversy in various contexts. Rhetorical theory and method, as well as a critical cultural studies perspectives, will be used to analyze how religious rhetoric and rhetoric about religion can draw groups of people together or divide them.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 424 - Latin American Media and Pop Culture
A bilingual English/Spanish course that explores the role and impact of multiple media platforms and cultural products in Latin America, along with the intersecting political and social movements, and technological advancements. Through an interdisciplinary framework students will critically examine mass media and pop culture in the 20th and 21st centuries and advance their Spanish language skills through readings, discussion, lecture and writing.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 426 - Travel Narratives
Travel narratives have played a powerful role in shaping social inequality by relating journeys to home audiences, portraying the “other,” and revealing the culture and “self” of the traveler. This course examines the historical, literary, and cultural significance of narratives that convey and reinforce themes of discovery, conquest, colonization, exploration, and tourism in the Americas.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (Junior or Senior Standing) and (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 427 - Survey of British Literature
Examines representative works by British writers from different periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Realist, Modern and Post-Modern.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Winter term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 428 - Contemporary Chicana Poetry
Analyzes the works of Chicana poets of the 20th and 21st centuries, among them Lorna Dee Cervantes, Pat Mora, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Demetria Martinez, and Diana Garcia. From the rural to the urban experience, students study the historical, cultural, and political determinants that define the work as Chicana.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 429 - BritLit& Engl Lang Perspective
Examines works by British writers from Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Realist, Modern, and Post-Modern literary periods. Explores literature as both literary and linguistic text. Applies postcolonial approaches to literature and explores current linguistic theories and sociolinguistic approaches.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 6
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HCOM 430 - Literary Journal Publication
Students will learn all aspects of literary journal publication, including calls for submission, thematic focus, editorial practice, layout, publication and marketing. Each semester students will produce an edition of the campus literary journal, In the Ords.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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HCOM 432 - Social Action Writing
An intermediate level creative writing and research intensive course. Students do collaborative research and interviews in the community. They create poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and mixed media work towards a final public presentation.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3 and (HCOM 330 or HCOM 339S ) with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 432S - Social Action Writing
Intermediate level Service Learning creative writing course in which students apply craft to a particular public issue, responding to a community need. Students do collaborative research and interviews, co-creating knowledge with community. They produce poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and visual representations of their writings. End-of-semester project is used to engage and educate a larger audience.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (Junior or Senior Standing) and (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) and (HCOM 330 or HCOM 339S ) with a C- or better]
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 5
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HCOM 433 - Life Histories & Creative Narrative
Multicultural approaches to the study and creation of life histories including analyzing narratives, informed creative storytelling, oral history, and public interpretation.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 434 - Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling
An advanced course in the creation of journalistic products that critically explore contemporary topics and public issues. These productions, strategically designed for community engagement, include interactive visual stories, podcasts, and infographics.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 435 - Community Media Project
Explores the technical, journalistic, and social empowerment aspects of mass media products. Students help a community group create a media project, such as a newsletter, public service campaign, or website. Outcomes include applying advanced concepts of visual communication and journalistic production, as well as digital media techniques.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 436 - Literature of Sexualities
Students analyze literary criticism that offers criteria for defining straight, cisgender, asexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transsexual, transgender and other sexual ways of being in literary tradition(s). We explore canonized, non-canonical, and marginalized texts in relationship to issues of sexuality and authorship, content, genre, and form. As well, students come to understand the long-standing politicization and censorship of the sexualized body in literature.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 437 - Shakespeare
Analyzes Shakespeare’s plays from classical, modern, postmodern, and postcolonial perspectives, and meanings in the colonial and postcolonial world. Covers Shakespeare’s plays from comedies and histories to tragedies and romances. Explores the symbiotic relationship between literature and film.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Units: 4
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HCOM 439 - Page to Stage
An introduction to the art of spoken word and reading/performing poems. Including dramatic techniques, theatrical methods, voice control, public speaking, slam, collaboration and writing with an audience in mind. This course will examine the works of accomplished spoken word artists and will call on students to produce, workshop and perform their own poems. This course will shatter the wall between page and stage and will in fact, link the two!
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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HCOM 440 - Leadership and Multicultural Communities
Study of leadership theories and practices within multicultural settings. Explores how cultural values and worldviews shape leadership definitions, styles, and communication. Emphasis on deliberative and decision-making processes, conflict resolution, and ethics.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 443 - Black Feminist Theory & Praxis
Explores the development of black feminism as both a conceptual framework and from a political practice. Examines black feminism from a comparative perspective and within a global context. Special attention will be given to black feminist thought and activism in Africa, the United States, England, and Brazil.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 445 - Slavery & Race in the Americas
Examines the cultural, social, and political dimensions of slavery and race relations in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Readings and class discussions explore the development of slavery in countries such as Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil. Examines the impact of nationalist ideologies on contemporary racial dynamics in the region.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 447 - Explore the African Diaspora
Explores African Diasporic societies and cultures including such issues as slavery, race and gender relations, political mobilizations, African Diasporic religions, music and literatures.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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HCOM 451 - Transnational Migrations
Examines recent theories related to migration including nationalism and the nation, transnationalism, diaspora, borders/borderlands, and globalization. Surveys key theories and compares histories of specific transnational communities, focusing primarily on migrations between Asia/Asia Pacific and the Americas.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 452 - Literature According to the Movies
This course explores how filmmakers translate literature into film, including depiction of characters, genres, and specific texts. Addresses how both literature and films examined represent race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, ability and other social identities; evaluates strengths and limitations of each form.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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HCOM 454 - History of Victorian Britain
This course examines the key social and ideological influences that shaped the dominant concerns of Victorian Britain. Among these concerns are the roles of men and women, industrialization, class struggle, sexuality, racial difference, poverty and disease, education, and social change. Drawing on a wide range of textual evidence, the course provides opportunities to explore and apply methods of socio-cultural historical research.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Summer term only
Units: 4
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HCOM 455 - Paradigms Of Chicanx Comm
Explores emerging intellectual paradigms in the Chicanx community and traces their antecedents and relationships. Provides an intensive foundation in Chicanx studies theory and emergent issues.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years
Units: 4
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HCOM 470 - Graduate Admissions Workshop
Students will get specialized mentoring in preparation for graduate school admissions to have a better understanding of the types of graduate programs that align with an interdisciplinary major. Students will prepare or revise writing samples, statements of purpose and applications.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2
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HCOM 471 - Professional Writing Workshop
In this course, students will be able to strengthen their writing skills for a variety of professional contexts. They will learn how to write cover letters, white papers, and business emails, while developing their academic writing. They will also have the opportunity to workshop writing assignments for other classes during the semester.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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HCOM 474 - Research Methods
HCOM research seminar designed to help students develop, commence and sustain the complex research skills expected of an HCOM graduate. Students deepen their research skills, including but not limited to the ability develop a scholarly research question and project, determine information required, identify where to find needed information, and the skills needed to obtain, synthesize, and integrate information. Subject focus may vary.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: HCOM 300 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2-4
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