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CHEM 211L - Organic Chemistry I Lab
Required lab course for CHEM 211 Organic Chemistry I. Emphasizes working safely with saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, halogenated compounds, alcohols and carbonyls, and the specialized equipment and techniques to run experiments on these and other organic molecules.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHEM 111 and CHEM 111L with a C- or better) AND (Prereq OR Coreq: CHEM 211 with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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CHEM 295 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 297 - Chemistry Independent Research
Student and faculty member select topic for a research project. (Instructor Consent Required)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-2
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CHEM 305 - General, Organic, and Biochemistry in Agriculture and Environmental Science
This course will develop an understanding of the chemistry of everyday living with an emphasis on molecules encountered in agriculture and both marine and terrestrial environmental settings. Topics include the fundamentals of chemical reactivity, structure in two and three dimensions, the movement of electrons, stoichiometry, and the relationships between structure and function. These tools will be used to introduce the biochemistry of metabolism.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 and B1 with C- or better]
General Education: UDB Integrated Scientific Inquiry and Quant Reason
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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CHEM 310 - Biochemistry I
Topics include bioenergetics, protein function; enzymes, DNA and RNA structure and function, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, signal transduction, and regulation, bioinformatics. (Cross-listed BIO 310 )
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHEM 210 or CHEM 211 or CHEM 312 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHEM 310L - Biochemistry Lab
Optional lab course for CHEM 310 . Lab course fee may be charged. (Crosslisted with BIO 310L )
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (BIO 310 or CHEM 310 with a C- or better) or (Coreq: BIO 310 or CHEM 310 )]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CHEM 312 - Organic Chemistry II
Synthesis, reactions, and analysis of organic compounds, with applications to biology, biogeochemistry, and environmental science.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHEM 211 and CHEM 211L with a C- or better) AND (Pre-req or Co-req: CHEM 312L with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CHEM 312L - Organic Chemistry Lab II
Required lab course for CHEM 312 Organic Chemistry II. Develops the technical skills and use of specialized equipment to synthesize, carry out reactions, and analyze organic molecules with applications to biology, biogeochemistry and environmental science.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHEM 211 and CHEM 211L with a C- or better) AND (Coreq OR Prereq: CHEM 312 with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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CHEM 320 - Environmental Chemistry
Examines chemistry in seminal environmental science case studies with analysis of the primary literature and quantitative methods as well as pertinent popular literature and news coverage. Topics are selected to form a sound basis for meeting the expectations of potential employers in environmental science with respect to background knowledge of the field at large and include atmospheric, terrestrial, marine, and aquatic studies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHEM 111 and STAT 250 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHEM 320L - Environmental Chemistry Lab
Laboratory course with topics and techniques selected from atmospheric, terrestrial, marine, and aquatic sciences. Emphasis will be placed on both laboratory methods and quantitative analysis of results.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CHEM 111 and CHEM 111L and STAT 250 with a C- or better) or (Prereq or Coreq: CHEM 320 with a C- or better)]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CHEM 350 - Analytical & Instrumental Chemistry
Lecture and laboratory course develops skill and understanding of analytical chemistry and instrumental analysis. Covers a range of spectrophotometry, chromatography, spectrometry, and titrimetry methods. Students are billed a materials fee.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (CHEM 111 and CHEM 111L ) and [(CHEM 210 and CHEM 210L ) or (CHEM 211 ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHEM 394 - Chemistry Internship
Students obtain practical experience in a chemistry-related (paid or unpaid) internship. Students must document academic learning through journals, annotated bibliography, and/or reports appropriate to the internship. May be repeated for credit for a total of six (6) units. (Graded Available)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2-4
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CHEM 395 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 397 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 410 - Biochemistry II
Covers metabolism and regulation of a variety of biomolecules and transport and signaling pathways.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHEM 310 or BIO 310 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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CHEM 420 - Bioorganic Chemistry Topics
Survey of selected topics from the current chemical literature in bioorganic chemistry. May be repeated for credit as topics change for a total of six (6) units.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHEM 310 or BIO 310 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 430 - Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry Topics
Selected topics from the current literature in environmental, analytical, and agricultural chemistry. May be repeated for credit for a total of six (6) units.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CHEM 350 ) and (CHEM 210 or CHEM 211 ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 432 - Aqueous Chemistry
Chemistry of molecules and materials in aqueous solutions relevant to marine, aquatic, and biological contexts. Topics may include pH and pOH, buffering, alkalinity, ionic strength, solvation and solubility, volume and mass fraction, osmolality and tonicity, and water activity.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHEM 310 or CHEM 320 or CHEM 350 or BIO 310 or BIO 320 or MSCI 331 or AGPS 315 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHEM 440 - Forensic Chemistry Topics
Selected topics from the current literature in forensic chemistry. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CHEM 350 ) and (CHEM 210 or CHEM 211 ) with a C- or better]
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 450 - Special Problems in Chemistry Laboratory
Covers theory and practical application of instrumental methods of analysis, culminating in a faculty guided lab research project. Students submit a written report summarizing the research findings. May be repeated for a total of four (4) units. Depending on research topic, students must complete either CHEM 350 or BIO 310L and or CHEM 312 .
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-2
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CHEM 495 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Chemistry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Letter Grade Available)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHEM 497 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 111 - Intro to Issues in Health & Human Services
Introduces students to topics related in the health and human services profession with the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 125 - Writing as Healing
Introduces students to writing as a way of healing within the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course. This course will explore the historical traditions of writing as healing as well as current practices of writing to heal with diverse populations.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 203 - Statistics for Social Science
This is an introductory statistics course that focuses on the types of analyses used most frequently in the social sciences. While the course covers the basic steps in calculating and obtaining statistical results, emphasis is given to the interpretation of results and the acquisition of an intuitive understanding of the logic and limitations of inferential statistics when studying social phenomena.
General Education: B4 Mathematics/Quant Reasoning
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 204 - Economics and Society
This is an introductory course in applied microeconomics that exposes students to current social and public policy events through an economics perspective. The course introduces the basic principles of microeconomic analysis and applies them to explain how economists study important social issues such as discrimination, health-care, labor, housing, and land.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 210 - Literature of Social Protest
Social protest movements have utilized a wide variety of literary genres to generate social concern and change. Students will learn to appreciate, analyze, and interpret multicultural works. Students will reflect on the human conditions that emerge across cultural boundaries. Students will explore these works in their social context, especially with a critical examination of the power structures. Students will be expected to apply their insights to issues in their own communities.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 212 - Ethics in Health Care
Focuses on investigating and analyzing ethical issues related to health care within the context of an integrated reading, writing, and speaking course.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 215 - Introduction to Human Services
Course provides an introduction to the human services including an overview of careers and settings, values and professional ethics, and theoretical approaches and skills utilized. Students will learn how the human services compares to related disciplines and will examine social issues, policy and services from historical, socio-economic, and global perspectives. Students will also be introduced to methods of inquiry in human services work.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 225 - Drugs, Society and Policy
Introduces students to the social, cultural, economic, and health aspects of drug use and abuse. We will discuss the influences drugs have on art, music, philosophy and social movements, and explore various perspectives on the use of psychoactive substances (both legal and illegal). Patterns of use among traditional societies and in modern settings will be reviewed especially as they relate to a variety of approaches (criminalization vs. human rights) to drug treatment and drug policy.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 230 - Social Justice and Global Health
Introduces students to the social epidemiology of health. Even in the wealthiest countries people who are less well off experience shorter life spans and more illness. We will explore the social justice and human rights aspects of attaining and maintaining health, as well as look critically at the “social determinants of health.” We will develop an understanding of the social, political and economic factors that contribute to health and develop strategies for improving the community’s health.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 260S - Social Justice and Health
Examines students’ and communities’ health, particularly as it relates to service and social responsibility, community and social justice and multicultural community building/civic engagement. Serving a marginalized population, students will engage in a minimum of 30 hours of service to develop an understanding of health disparities, the social determinants of health, and actions that individuals, communities, professionals, and institutions can take to foster equity and well-being.
General Education: E Lifelong Learning and Self-Development
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 295 - Special Topics
Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 300 - Major ProSeminar
Introduces students to the CHHS academic and field programs, CSUMB upper division graduation requirements, and the core competencies for the major learning outcomes (MLOs) of the Collaborative Health and Human Services (CHHS) major. Students also prepare their Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) and discover more about possible careers in health and human service fields.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 301 - Writing for Professional Development
Provides developmental instruction in the areas of writing, reading, and speaking. Students will learn about process-based writing approaches as well as sentence-level techniques for composing, drafting and revising texts.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 302 - Professional Communication for the Health & Human Services Professions
Develops writing and oral communication skills to increase competency in the health or human services professions. Builds confidence in writing for argumentation, applied research, advocacy, and reports. Students learn about themselves as writers, which assists them in the development of personal and professional writing and speaking skills. Compliments other critical thinking courses offered in the major.
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 Assessment Requirement
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3
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CHHS 305 - Information Management for Health & Human Services
Students learn and apply computer skills to health and human service delivery. Emphasizes hands-on experience using computers for electronic communication and presentations, and to improve skills in the use of database management, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Students participate in online research, information resources evaluation, correct citation of Internet resources, and weekly online discussions. Introduces state-of-the-art health and human service software.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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CHHS 330 - Collaborative Leadership & Community Building
This course introduces students to collaborative practice, social action, and political leadership. Students develop an understanding of the theories of community building, frameworks of collaboration and social entrepreneurship; and skills in interpersonal communication, teamwork, and building collaborative leadership skills necessary for guiding and motivating coalitions and partnerships successfully to achieve common goals.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 350 - Professional Ethics
This course aims to develop students¿ knowledge and analytical abilities in the philosophy and rhetoric of ethics. Professional ethics involves an interplay of self, language, and culture. It aims to help students apply their intellectual and moral aptitudes to commonly encountered ethical problems across a variety of professional disciplines. By drawing connections across diverse professional cultures, students can participate in multicultural professional communities locally, regionally, and globally.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 384 - Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data
This is a quantitative methods course that focuses on the types of quantitative analyses used most frequently in survey research. The course covers the basic steps in designing survey questionnaires, sampling, and calculating and reporting statistical results. Emphasis is given to creating descriptive statistics, understanding of the use and limitations of inferential statistics, and the interpretation of results when studying health, human services, and social phenomena using survey methods.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDB Integrated Scientific Inquiry and Quant Reason
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3
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CHHS 385 - Research Methods in the Social Sciences
This class is an introduction to the methods social scientists have developed to describe, explain, and better understand social phenomena. The methods of social research are used in a wide variety of fields ranging from public health to social welfare, from behavioral health to policy. This course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Students will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how given methods are employed in research practice. Through required readings and exercises, students will learn to appreciate the potential and limits of each method and by having to design their own mixed methods research project as a final project.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area B4 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 395 - Special Topics
Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 396S - Junior Field Practicum Seminar SL
Introduces CHHS students to the experiential learning process through the Field Practice Program. Course content includes application of the CHHS MLOs and Upper Division Service Learning Outcomes in an internship within a community-based agency, developing self-reflection techniques and social awareness, and exploring the roles and responsibilities of health and human services professionals engaged in creating greater equity and social justice.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [((Prereq: CHHS 300 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)) and (Prereq or Coreq: CHHS 302 and CHHS 384 and SW 310 and PH 320 and PANM 312 ) with a C- or better)]
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 397 - Independent Study
Offers students independent learning opportunities in a selected specialty area. May include fieldwork to meet the required number of hours.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 400A - Senior Capstone-A
Applying the 7 MLOs of the CHHS major, students work individually with field mentors and the course instructor to design a field-based project that addresses a community need. In Senior Capstone-A, students study a health or social problem affecting the community, formulate it in a way that is conducive for analysis, identify its causes, justify the need for action through an applied community-based project. The culmination is a project proposal that is submitted to their field mentor and CHHS faculty for approval.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 396S with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 496A )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 400B - Senior Capstone-B
Applying the 7 MLOs of the CHHS major, students work individually with field mentors and the course instructor to implement and evaluate a project that addresses a health or social problem in the community. In Senior Capstone-B, students implement the project plan they completed in Capstone-A. Students collect data to evaluate the impact of their projects in the community using appropriate evaluation designs and complete a final thesis report and presentation detailing the project’s findings and recommendations.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 400A with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 496B )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 401 - Senior Capstone
This seminar supports the development, implementation and assessment of a community-based project that focuses on an issue of importance to the public agency or community organization where the student is placed. Students develop an in-depth analysis of the agency, its communities and partners, learn “best practices” for interventions, and present findings at the end of the course. The student-led project is intended to provide tangible, sustainable benefits to the communities served.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 396S and CHHS 496A with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 496B )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 411 - Community Engaged Research
This is a project-based course that supports CHHS senior-level students’ development of a community-based applied research project. Students learn about an agency’s programs, develop an understanding of a health or social problem to be addressed, and develop basic applied research skills to implement a community-based intervention and provide action-oriented recommendations to an agency in support of its efforts to improve the community’s health and well-being.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHHS 496A )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 445 - Principles of Grantsmanship
This course introduces students to fund development in public and nonprofit organizations. Students explore the theoretical bases and contexts of grantmaking; logic models and their relationship to successful grant seeking; and the cycle of prospecting, proposal writing, project implementation, evaluation, and reporting. Students gain experience in identifying and qualifying grant opportunities, and requesting funding, by developing a grant proposal for a project of their choosing.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4) and (GWAR) with a C- or better) or (Department Consent)]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 462 - Equity, Justice & Public Trust
This course examines the principles of democracy, equity, and justice in the public sector, and the impact of systemic racism, colonialism, and racialization on historically disadvantaged communities. Using contemporary media, literature and case studies, this course explores the duality of race and privilege in the United States and their role in shaping public policymaking and the implementation of public policies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4) and (GWAR) with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 495 - Special Topics
Explores a particular topic in collaborative health and human services. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHHS 496A - Senior Field Practicum Seminar-A
Students practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a local agency. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the systems where they work, the relationships they develop in the organization and the populations they serve, and discuss their future roles as health and human service professionals.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 396S with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 400A )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 496B - Senior Field Practicum Seminar-B
Students continue to practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes within a local agency. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the systems where they work, the relationships they develop in the organization and the populations they serve, and discuss their future roles as health and human service professionals.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: CHHS 496A with a C- or better) and (Coreq: CHHS 400B )]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CHHS 497 - Independent Study
Offers students independent learning opportunities in a selected specialty area. May include fieldwork to meet the required number of hours.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CHIN 102 - Beg Chinese II (Mandarin)
Continues work on the four basic skills within a proficiency format. Emphasizes building lexicon in spoken and written forms, and using context and strategies to ascertain meaning without knowing the structures and lexicon of an authentic text.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CHIN 101 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 197 - Independent Study
Allows lower-division students to independently study a particular aspect of Chinese culture and language. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 297 - Independent Study
Individual study of a particular aspect of the culture, language, or civilization of the Chinese-speaking world. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CHIN 301 - Adv Chinese I (Mandarin)
Concentrates on language mastery using spoken and written materials such as newspaper articles, modern expository prose, TV, plays, and movies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHIN 202)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 302 - Adv Chinese II (Mandarin)
Continues concentration on language mastery using spoken and written materials such as newspaper articles, modern expository prose, TV, plays, and movies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CHIN 202)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 305 - History/Culture of China/Tibet
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CHIN 395 - Special Topics
Provides orientation and preparation for a study-abroad experience in the Chinese mainland.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CST 195 - Special Topics
Specialized study of a particular topic within the School of Information Technology and Communication Design. May be repeated for additional credit when topics vary and as subjects permit.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CST 196 - Field Studies
Students work with faculty to collect data and user feedback by going to the site of the user and unobtrusively observing the user function in their own environment. This course is usually conducted as part of a large research project.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CST 197 - Independent Study
Working with a faculty advisor, a student selects topic of study and number of credits appropriate to the student’s learning plan. An independent study proposal must be submitted and approved before registration.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CST 201 - Media Tools I
Explores computer-based tools used in the design and creation of electronic media. Includes designing, creating, and editing electronic images, sounds, videos, text, and motion.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 202 - Drawing for Digital Media
Drawing for Digital Media: This course covers concepts and drawing skills related to the use of drawing and visualization in both the studio and digital environment. The course integrates studio drawing and illustration with digital technology, covering hand rendering, scanning, auto-tracing, photo conversion, vector art and bitmap drawing using digital visualization and illustration hardware and software. Included topics are 2D and 3D design, drawing, storyboarding and illustration (traditional and digital). Co-requisite of CST 202L .
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CST 202L )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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CST 202L - Drawing for Digital Media Lab
Drawing for Digital Media Lab: This lab is offered as a co-requisite with the CST 202 lecture section. Students will use studio and digital tools to complete projects that relate directly to the lecture content. Students are expected to be comfortable with studio drawing tools as well as digital image software and have an ability to functionally adapt to new software. Students must take the lab during the same semester as the lecture. Students are expected to supply their own studio drawing materials, such as pencils, tablets of drawing paper, etc.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CST 202L)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1
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CST 203 - Digital Color
Digital Color: This course introduces students to the nomenclature, technical components, theories and principles, and cultural associations of color relevant to professional communication designers. Students will demonstrate understanding of key concepts by completing design projects using Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 203L - Digital Color Lab
Digital Color Lab: This course introduces students to the nomenclature, technical components, theories and principles, and cultural associations of color relevant to professional communication designers. Students will demonstrate understanding of key concepts by completing design projects using Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CST 204 - Introduction to Typography
Introduces the history of type, type fonts, principles of letterform design, professional typesetting skills, layout for screen and print delivery. Subjects include the history and construction of letter forms, typographic composition and typesetting principles and techniques.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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CST 205 - Multimedia Design and Programming
Introduces design, creation, and manipulation of interactive applications and electronic media for communication purpose. Focuses on creating media, understanding media concepts, and manipulating the created media using basic programming concepts of control flow, functions, expressions and data types in the Python language. Students acquire a basic understanding for digital media formats, how to design, create such media using basic programming skills.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 226 - Digital Photography
Teaches use of digitally based image acquisition and manipulation tools to capture and modify photographic images for use in print and screen-based media. Has two major instructional components. The initial instruction sets are based around conventional photographic principles such as lighting, composition, subject matter, and how digital capture processes affect these. The second component deals with image adjustment and delivery. Deals with aesthetic aspects of photography.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 227 - Design Fundamentals
This project-based course combines the study of visual design and aesthetic principles while developing skills to produce digital graphic media. Students study historic design trends, typography, color theory, and production for cross-media production. Students apply the steps of the Design Process to create original vector and bitmapped imagery to solve visual communication design problems.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 201 with a C- or better)
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 231 - Problm-Solving/Programng
This is an introductory programming course to develop problem-solving techniques for numerical and non-numerical problems from various disciplines. Students will design the solution to each problem and implement it in the C++ programming language. Coverage includes introduction to computer system, C++ basics, flow control, functions, I/O streams, arrays, strings, and classes.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 234 - Intro to Operating Systems
Introduces modern operating systems such as Unix and topics such as process management (creation, synchronization, and communication); processor scheduling; deadlock prevention, avoidance, and recovery; main-memory management; virtual memory management (swapping, paging, segmentation and page-replacement algorithms); control of disks and other input/output devices; file-system structure and implementation; and protection and security.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CST 236 - Computing for Designers
Introduction to the use of computers for digital media creations, this course covers the fundamentals of how computers work in the creation of digital media for commercial entertainment and fine art purposes; including hardware components, operating principles, software basics, memory management, storage, programming basics for vector and bitmap functions, compression schemes and basic scripting.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CST 237 - Intro to Computer Architecture
Provides students with the fundamental knowledge of computer architectures, hardware and software components of computer systems, interrelationship among different components. Coverage includes introduction to data representation, CPU, assembly programming, memory systems, input/output devices, pipelining, multi-processing systems, operating systems and network architecture.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 231 and MATH 170 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 238 - Introduction to Data Structures
Provides students with intermediate-level programming skills to make it possible for them to write clear, efficient, and high-quality code. Students learn basic data structures such as array, list, stack, queue, and tree. They also acquire several basic algorithms in programming such as searching, sorting, and recursion. Furthermore, students learn in-depth knowledge of C++ programming language such as classes, pointers, and dynamic memory management.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 231 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 251 - Web Tools
Introduces students to the tools and methods of web design and production. Students will learn basic HTML, web design tools, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and browser compatibility while applying the design principles of information architecture, color, layout, and type.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 252 - Scripting for Multimedia
Students learn HTML5 and related technologies including HTML, CSS3, Canvas, JavaScript and jQuery to create dynamic multimedia content. Students learn the fundamental concepts of web programming plus designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting of computer programs. Using JavaScript, students apply those concepts to create programs utilizing digital media, including images, animation, audio, video and text. This is a laboratory class using Windows or Macintosh computers.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 251 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 263 - Intro to Database Systems
This course is an introduction to Relational Database Management Systems. Topics covered will include relational database theory and the logical and physical design, implementation, and management of databases. Additional topics will include Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Normalization and an introduction to SQL (Structured Query Language).
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3-4
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CST 271 - Digital Culture
Focuses on the philosophical roots (as evidenced in literature) of contemporary digital culture. From Armageddon to the Matrix; from Frankenstein to Lawnmower man; from the library at Alexandria to the archives of the Internet; the world of the digital intelligentsia owes its vision and mythology to the resonant themes found in literature and philosophy. Explores the essence of humanity that defines the natural world and strives to remake it in a more perfect fashion.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 273 - Cyberdemocracy
Explores the implications of new communication technologies with regard to democracy, social activism, cultural identity, and social equity in the United States. Democracy cannot be separated from the issue of social identity since throughout our history many groups were excluded from political participation. Explores whether new media like the Internet will increasingly make identity irrelevant, or will create greater fragmentation.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 274 - History of Communication Technologies and Politics in America
Examines the history of communication technologies and how they shaped and have been shaped by politics throughout American history. The story begins in pre-revolutionary America, when newspapers united the colonies, and moves through the telegraph, the telephone, motion pictures, radio, broadcasting, network and cable television, personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and social media. Students leverage their understanding of communication history to address some of constitutive choices facing our nation, including foreign interference in elections, net neutrality, and data privacy.
General Education: DHIS US Histories
University Requirement: US1 U.S. Histories
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CST 286 - Physics of Computing
Introduces the basic principles of physical science and the application of these principles to electronics and computing. Students will learn fundamental concepts of physics in the first half of the course and build on it with topics that are relevant to the function of electronic devices and computers. Computational Physics tools and procedures will also be covered through assignments and project.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: MATH 130 with a C- or better) or (Coreq: MATH 130 )]
General Education: B1 Physical Science, B3 Laboratory Activity
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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CST 300 - Major ProSeminar
Helps students identify and articulate personal, professional, and social goals. Provides an integrated overview of the computer science and communication design majors and their requirements. Students develop a plan for their learning goals. Students learn writing, presentation, research and critical-thinking skills within the diversified fields of information technology and communication design. Students learn how to analyze, predict, and articulate trends in the academic, public service,
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 Assessment Requirement
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 302 - History of Communication Design
Surveys the development of communication design in modern history, viewed in the context of contemporary political, scientific, and cultural influences. Communication design includes disciplines such as graphic design, web design, advertising, instructional design, digital media, animation, digital illustration, interactive design and motion graphics.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CST 304 - Typography
Typography is the art of designing letterforms, alphabets and creating compositions with letters and words. This course explains typographic practices to develop an eye for type and how to use it effectively.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 227 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 311 - Intro to Computer Networks
Survey of Telecomm and Data Comm Technology Fundamentals, Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, Internet and internetworking protocols including TCP/IP, network security and performance, emerging industry trends such as voice over the network and high speed networking. Designed as a foundation for students who wish to pursue more advanced network studies including certificate programs. Includes hands-on networking labs that incorporate Cisco CCNA lab components.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 238 and MATH 130 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 312 - Network Security
Focuses on the theory, practice and technologies for securing computers on the web and the Internet. Students will learn cryptographic tools and how they are used by standard network security protocols like SSL/TLS, IPSEC, Kerberos, PGP, S/MIME, and wireless. Students will also learn about ethical hacking and policies and procedures to protect against such hacking.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 311 and MATH 170 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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CST 319 - Computing Across the Disciplines
Students will develop basic programming skills by writing Python programs. Besides learning programming concepts such as data types, functions, expressions and control flow, students will work with real-world data to practice their problem-solving techniques. The programs students write will also strengthen programming skills using concepts in probability, linear algebra, and modeling.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDB Integrated Scientific Inquiry and Quant Reason, UDB4 Math
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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CST 320 - Intro to Digital Games
Focuses on the fundamental issues in the development of digital games. Discusses components of modern digital games and their relationships, historical development of contemporary video and computer gaming, team member roles and tasks within the production process. Covers relationships of the conceptual creative and technical production to overall game development and analyzes the business, marketing and industry components of game development.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 238 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 321 - Game Design and Interactive Media I
Presents the principles of game and related interactive media design. Students design and create games and interactives using analog and digitally-based authoring tools. Includes project management, production, and asset management of images, text, sound, animation, and computer code.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 227 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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CST 322 - Environment Modeling
The course equips students with the fundamental skills needed for the development of games. After first developing with basic 3D modelling skills, student learn how to model, texture and light complex objects and scenes using industry standard tools.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2
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CST 323 - Character Design
The course equips students with the fundamental skills needed for the design of 3D character models. Students learn how to apply industry best-practice and tools to character designing and modeling process. Drawing skills are recommended, but not required to succeed in the class.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 202 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2
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CST 325 - Graphics Programming
This course teaches the students the fundamentals of game programming and skills needed for game development, including GPU programming, matrix and quaternion algebra for physics calculation, animation, lighting and basics of implementing 3D models into a framework.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 238 and MATH 130 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CST 326 - Game Development
This course provides students with fundamental and transferable game programming skills. Students will learn how to develop games using a game engine and a toolset of object-oriented programming techniques, design patterns and software engineering paradigms. Additionaly, the course discusses ethical considerations in game development, develops interpersonal and oral communication skills, and game design document writing.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 238 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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CST 327 - Experimental Typography
Explores creative communication and structural aspects of typography. Students experiment and challenge typographic conventions to produce innovative and dynamic communication designs.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CST 227 and CST 330 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CST 328 - Digital Art and Design
A survey course that combines the study of technology, design and aesthetic principles as they apply to twenty-first century visual media. Students learn how fundamental concepts of art and design apply to a broad range of commercial, expressive and entertainment forms. Students also study the democratization of the creative process through digital media, using current technology to produce sophisticated and expressive examples of personal digital creativity.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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