HISTORY COURSES

Lecture 3 hours. May be offered as an honors section.

The course teaches historically the major elements in the Western heritage from the earliest Mesopotamian civilizations through the religious reformations of the sixteenth century. Introduces students to the ideas and institutions central to western civilization, and acquaints them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest.

Lecture 3 hours. May be offered as an honors section.

The course teaches historically the major elements of the Western heritage from the Age of Absolutism in the 17th century to the present. Introduces students to the ideas and institutions central to western civilization, and acquaints them, through reading and critical discussion with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest.

Lecture 3 hours.

Course surveys the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Latin America from the Age of Exploration, conquest of the indigenous people of the Americas, through the colonial period.

Lecture 3 hours.

The course explores the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Latin America and the development of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with special emphasis on their interpolitical relationship.

Lecture 3 hours. May be offered as an honors section.

The course surveys the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times to 1865. Devotes particularly attention to political and social events as well as the development of America’s central institutions.

Lecture 3 hours.

The course surveys the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War through the Twentieth Century.

Lecture 3 hours.

This course covers the main events, actors, and themes of the 20th century, primarily focusing on their impact on American history (i.e. cultural, political, and social movements), including a discussion of America’s central institutions.

Lecture 3 hours.

Surveys United States history and major American institutions from the early Colonial Era through the Civil War with special emphasis on the contributions of African-American to the nation’s political and social development.

Lecture 3 hours.

Traces the historical evolution of the Mexican and his culture and institutions to 1865, and surveys the contributions of the Mexican- American to the United States, with particular emphasis on the Southwest, and the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American War.

Lecture 3 hours.

Traces the historical evolution of the Mexican-American since the 1850s, and analyzes the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, legal and illegal immigration from Mexico, the civil rights movement, and the contributions of the Mexican-Americans to the American experience. Includes a discussion of basic American institutions.

Lecture 3 hours.

The course explores the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of women in the development of the United States from the early colonial era to the present day with special emphasis on their contributions as well as their problems.

Lecture 3 hours.

This course traces the development and interrelationships of the major world civilizations and their cultural traditions and contributions from the earliest times to the era of European expansion in the sixteenth century.

Lecture 3 hours.

The course traces the development and interrelationships of the major world civilizations and their cultural traditions and contributions from the era of European expansion in the sixteenth century to the present.

RPT 2

Conference 1 hour per unit.

Allows students to pursue Directed Study in History on a contract basis under the direction of a supervising instructor.

*UC Credit Limit: History 11, 41 and 43 combined, maximum one course.
**UC Credit Limit: History 12, 13 and 44 combined, maximum one course.

Lecture 3 hours

Students analyze some of the fundamental issues of philosophy and humanity that includes topics such as knowledge and reality, the foundations of truth and science, and the nature of human consciousness/self.

Lecture 3 hours

Students study and evaluate some of the traditional and contemporary theories in social and political philosophy, covering topics such as rights, governments, social institutions, citizenship, and distributive justice.

Lecture 3 hours

Students develop and refine the critical thinking skills necessary to formulate and evaluate argumentative essays. Critical writing about philosophical and logical concepts that are applicable to any systematic thinking is emphasized.

Lecture 3 hours  

Students learn how to understand, evaluate, and distinguish arguments and explanations by applying accepted standards of good reasoning. Students will learn techniques to recognize deductively valid arguments and avoid fallacies. They will also consider what is required for inductively strong arguments in order to avoid informal fallacies. There is particular emphasis on the appeals made in advertising and political rhetoric.

Lecture 3 hours

Students analyze techniques for representing truth-functional statements using letters and symbols, determining the validity of arguments using such statements, and demonstrating validity through formal proofs using a natural deduction system. Covers both propositional and quantificational logic through to first-order predicates and identity.

Lecture 3 hours

This course introduces the student to a rigorous overview of ancient Greek thought starting with pre-Socratic philosophers and ending with Greco-Roman philosophy of the later ancient period. Major emphasis is placed on the works of Plato and Aristotle.

Lecture 3 hours 

Students study western philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The course explores the rise of modern science, continental rationalism and British empiricism, and Kant.

Lecture 3 hours

This course studies recent philosophical developments in Continental and/or Anglo-American philosophy with readings from such figures as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Ricouer, Habermas, Russell, Wittgenstein, Dewey, Quine, Davidson, and Rorty.

Lecture 3 hours

Students are introduced to some of the traditional ethical theories and how they apply to contemporary biomedical ethical problems. Topics to be discussed will include some of the following; abortion, euthanasia, suicide, organ donation, informed consent, allocation of scarce resources, genetic engineering, human and animal research, stem cell research, and cloning.

Lecture 3 hours

Students consider human conduct, study the rules and institutions of moral order, and philosophically examine a range of today's moral issues, such as the just distribution of the social good, abortion, euthanasia, the environment, war, and world hunger.

Lecture 3 hours

Students study the relationship between human beings and the environment, in particular human obligations to the environment. The focus is on "traditional" normative theories of ethics, morality, and rights, as applied to issues involving the environment and animals, and on a critical examination of environmental ethical theories with consideration of the value and moral status of the environment (animals, plants, ecosystems).

Lecture 3 hours

Philosophy 30 presents the history and key teachings of the philosophical traditions of East and South Asia with emphasis on Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

Lecture 3 hours 

This course offers a study of the history and doctrines of those religions that have emerged from the tradition of the prophet, Abraham. The course will consider other major influences on their early development, including, but not limited to, Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Religions, Zorastianism, Greek Philosophy and Hellenic Mystery Religions. Representative sacred texts will be read.

Lecture 3 hours

Students are introduced to the meaning of art, the meaning of beauty, truth in art, creativity and art, various philosophical theories regarding the nature of art.

Lecture 3 hours

Studies the literary medium as it is employed to express and explore philosophical themes such as freedom, determinism, moral responsibility, and alienation. Each particular class also allows for a review of literature of a relatively specific milieu, for example, twentieth century existentialism. Cognate concepts from literary criticism, psychology and religion are utilized for understanding selected literary works, although no background in any of these fields is required.

Lecture 3 hours 

Students examine film as philosophy, as a philosophical statement by the filmmaker via his or her art form, covering the traditional philosophical problems within the human condition, such as the very meaning of that human condition, reality, self, morality, mortality, along with other questions within the human quest that come under the role of philosophy. Students also examine film philosophically, as a topic for philosophical inquiry.

Lecture 1 hours

Students study Philosophy on a contract basis under the direction of a supervising instructor.