PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 1 hours per week.

Introduces students to college environment, educational opportunities, college services, academic procedures and policies, graduation and transfer requirements. College survival skills such as educational planning, goal-setting, learning styles, time management, and interpersonal skills are key components.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU for elective credit only.

Reference Number: 3004
Section Number: 70
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Reference Number: 3006
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Philosophy and history of the criminal justice system, including the roles, function of the local, state and federal jurisdictions. The roles, functions and interrelationships among law enforcement agencies, courts and corrections. Crime causation, correctional theory, analysis, and the social impact of crime.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): AJ 2

Reference Number: 3042
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

The focus is on human behavior, studied through the approaches of archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology. Selected topics cover the range of cultural phenomena including material culture, social organization, and religion. This course qualifies for continuing education credit for nurses.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): ANTH 4

Reference Number: 3054
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

The systematic study of humans as biological organisms including the origin and antiquity of humanity, our place in nature, modern biological diversity including race, and the future prospects for the human species.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): ANTH 2

Reference Number: 3060
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3062
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

A survey of Western architectural history from the early Egyptians to the Gothic Period, including a comparative study of architecture and architects with emphasis on the people, locations, structures, materials, and methods of construction.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3064
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3066
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Survey of Western architectural history, including a comparative study of architecture and architects, with emphasis on the people, locations, structures, materials, and methods of construction. Includes Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Rococo, Native American, American Colonial, Neoclassicism, Romantic Revival, 19th Century Industrialization, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Late 19th Century, Chicago School, Sullivanesque, Arts and Crafts, International Style, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Art Moderne, German Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, Late Modernism, and Postmodernism.

Associate Degree Applicable.
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3068
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Covers the history and cultural influences of the American Cinema, including the origins of the motion picture, the rise and dominance of Hollywood, the decline of the Studio Era, and the emergence of the independent film. Topics include the historical context of the motion picture industry and its relevance to the contemporary viewer, the aesthetics of film, the director, and the studio system.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3072
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3074
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Introduction to the fundamental concepts of business in a changing world. Includes an overview of such areas as economic systems, management, marketing, accounting, finance, ethics, ownership, organization of business, the legal aspects and regulation of business, as well as globalization.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU.

Reference Number: 3142
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 2
LABORATORY: 3 hours per week.

Fundamentals of keyboarding including operation of a standard keyboard by touch. Instruction and practice in formatting a variety of personal and business documents, such as letters, reports, and tables. Use of speed and accuracy drills designed to develop a keyboarding speed of 30 words per minute for five minutes. This is a combined Part I and Part II course students can complete in one semester.

Associate Degree Applicable

Reference Number: 3196
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: CIT 091
LECTURE: 2 hours per week and
LABORATORY: 3 hours per week

This course is the second in a series of four semester courses designed to prepare the student to test for the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. CCNA certification includes a foundation in and apprentice knowledge of networking for the small home/office market. Topics covered include router fundamentals, router setup and configuration, network management, routing and routed protocols, and network troubleshooting.

Associate Degree Applicable

Reference Number: 3198
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: CIT 092.
LECTURE: 2 hours per week and
LABORATORY: 3 hours per week

The third semester of the Cisco Academy provides students with classroom and laboratory experience in configuring routers for various industry standard protocols. It includes, but is not limited to segmentation of LANs using bridges, routers and switches; and virtual LANs, Fast Ethernet, cut-through and store and forward LAN switching.

Associate Degree Applicable

Reference Number: 3200
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: CIT 093.
LECTURE: 2 hours per week and
LABORATORY: 3 hours per week

This course provides the fundamentals in Wide Area Network topologies, interfaces, protocols, linking technology, frame encapsulation, design, internetworking structure and theory, ISDN and ISDN components, configuration, frame relay, and subinterfaces. Learn through theory and hands-on application in the process of designing, configuring, installing and implementing a Wide Area Network.

Associate Degree Applicable

Reference Number: 3202
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
DEPARTMENTAL ADVISORIES: CIT 010 or CIT 008
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

The course covers basic computer concepts including hardware components and application software programs. Topics include components of a computer system (CPU, memory, ports, busses, etc.), operating systems and utilities programs, communication and network, ethical issues, and usage of the Internet. The course covers also the use of word processing software to generate business documents, the use of the spreadsheets. Students will learn how to create, modify, insert formulas, use what-if-analysis/goal seek concepts, and format worksheets professionally. In addition the course covers the use of database software and covers concepts such as creating tables, queries, forms, and reports, and the use of presentation software and personal information management software such as Outlook.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and *UC
CAN (California Articulation Number): BUS 6

Reference Number: 3212
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
DEPARTMENTAL ADVISORIES: CIT 100 or CIT 101
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Production of workbooks using EXCEL, which integrates spreadsheet analysis, information management, and graphics. Includes the design and the use of worksheets; how to enter labels, numbers, formulas, and create graphs; how to format worksheets professionally; how to use Excel functions in different applications and understand the concept of data management in Excel; how to use the concept of what-if-analysis; how to consolidate data in a 3-D workbook and establish File Linking; and how to integrate Excel with the Web.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU.

Reference Number: 3216
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
DEPARTMENTAL ADVISORIES: CIT 105
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Introduction to a presentation graphics program for those who plan to make effective and compelling presentations. Instruction includes developing and customizing presentations by using charts, clip art, pictures, presentation templates, WordArt, and information and graphics from Word, Excel, and Access.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU.

Reference Number: 3218
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: CS 120
LECTURE: 2 hours per week and
LABORATORY: 3 hours per week.

Advanced programming using Visual Basic.NET with emphasis on software development and maintenance. Topics include object-oriented design, multiple class modules, interface and linking, windows and Internet controls, and database access.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3222
Section Number: 01
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PREREQUISITE: ENGL 015 or eligibility for ENGL 101 as determined through the SBVC assessment process.
LECTURE: 4 hours per week.

A writing course which emphasizes expository and argumentative essays. Includes reading and analysis of various forms of writing, instruction in library research and preparation of documented papers.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfer to CSU, *UC.
* Contact a counselor for details.
CAN (California Articulation Number): ENGL 2

Reference Number: 3276
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3277
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: ENGL 101
LECTURE: 4 hours per week.

Further work in the expository and argumentative essay with emphasis on the critical examination of literature and on analytical and explicatory writing.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfer to CSU, *UC.
* Contact a counselor for details.

Reference Number: 3286
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

General survey of the history of the United States with an emphasis on political, economic, social and cultural developments from the discovery of the United States through the Civil War and Reconstruction period.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): HIST 8

Reference Number: 3322
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3324
Section Number: 71
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OR

Reference Number: 3326
Section Number: 72
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

A general survey of the history of the United States from the Reconstruction era to present times. This course will emphasize the various social, political, cultural and economic forces which shaped North American history.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): HIST 10

Reference Number: 3340
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3342
Section Number: 71
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OR

Reference Number: 3344
Section Number: 72
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Explores the origin and development of civilizations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Near East and East Asia. Using a global perspective and a comparative approach between the world's major civilizations, students will examine social structure and daily life, evolution of complex political systems, cultural values and economic development to 1500.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): HIST 14

Reference Number: 3352
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3354
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Survey of the modern world from 1500 to the present. The course emphasizes the unique characteristics of world cultures as they entered into a critical period of increasing interaction, a process that led to the shaping of the modern world. Specific themes include religious, economic and political revolution; the development of modern science; industrialism; imperialism; rise and fall of super powers: colonization and de-colonization, fascism, communism, world wars, and contemporary history.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): HIST 16

Reference Number: 3358
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3360
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: MATH 952, MATH 952D or eligibility for MATH 090 as determined through the SBVC assessment process.
LECTURE: 4 hours per week.

Covers the basic concepts typically presented in an introductory algebra course; operations with polynomials and rational expressions; rules of exponents; methods of factoring polynomials; solving linear, literal, and rational equations; solving linear inequalities; and solving applications modeled by linear equations.

Associate Degree Applicable

Reference Number: 3460
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3462
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: MATH 090 or eligibility for MATH 095 as determined through the SBVC assessment process OR BUSCAL 091.
LECTURE: 4 hours per week.

This is a second course in algebra which builds on the skills of solving equations. This course includes finding rational solutions to quadratic, absolute value and rational equations, solving linear and absolute value inequalities, rational exponents and radicals, graphic linear equations and inequalities in two variables, and solving systems of linear equations.

Associate Degree Applicable

Reference Number: 3484
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: MATH 095 or eligibility for MATH 102 as determined through the SBVC assessment process.
LECTURE: 4 hours per week.

This course includes the study of quadratic equations and inequalities and their applications, an introduction to functions including operations and inverses, exponential functions and their graphs, logarithmic functions and their graphs and properties, in depth work graphing functions with transformations, an introduction to sequences, series, and the Binomial Expansion Theorem. This course is designed for students with a strong foundation in algebra.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfer to CSU, *UC.
* Contact a counselor for details.
CAN (California Articulation Number): MATH 10

Reference Number: 3500
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

General introduction to the major problems of philosophy with attention directed to classical and modern philosophical literature as a basis for discussion of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and/or aesthetics.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfer to CSU, *UC.
* Contact a counselor for details.
CAN (California Articulation Number): PHIL 2

Reference Number: 3570
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Introduction to the techniques of critical thought including language analysis, inductive and deductive logic, symbolic logic and the development of scientific method.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): PHIL 6

Reference Number: 3574
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Moral philosophy with an analysis of the basic ideas and principles involved in moral conduct and including the concepts of good, right, obligation and conscience. Problems of truthfulness, race, sex, marriage and war are examined in relation to moral philosophy. Special attention is given to contemporary problems of value pertinent to the interests of students majoring in medical arts and in administration of justice.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): PHIL 4

Reference Number: 3576
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Basic introduction to American government and politics designed to meet the state requirement in United States and California constitution and government, primarily concerned with American national government. Includes an introduction to democratic political theory, the scope of modern government, and state and local government in CaliforniaBasic introduction to American government and politics designed to meet the state requirement in United States and California constitution and government, primarily concerned with American national government. Includes an introduction to democratic political theory, the scope of modern government, and state and local government in California..

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): GOVT 2

Reference Number: 3700
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3702
Section Number: 71
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OR

Reference Number: 3706
Section Number: 72
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Survey of the nature of human behavior and a consideration of theories and principles pertaining to the topics of experimental design, perception, thinking, learning, personality, psychological testing, emotion and motivation. Includes essential features of the biological and neurological bases of behavior.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfer to CSU, *UC.
* Contact a counselor for details.
CAN (California Articulation Number): PSY 2

Reference Number: 3722
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3724
Section Number: 71
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OR

Reference Number: 3726
Section Number: 72
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OR

Reference Number: 3728
Section Number: 73
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OR

Reference Number: 3730
Section Number: 74
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OR

Reference Number: 3731
Section Number: 75
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Introduction to the major traditions of the world with an emphasis on the beliefs, practices, and histories of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3580
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3578
Section Number: 71
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Principal figures, groups, issues and trends in religion from colonial times to the present including such topics as the Puritans, growth of religious liberty in America; religion and social protest; the African-American religious experience; the Catholic, Protestant and Jews, and contemporary religious phenomena. This course is also offered as HIST 135.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3582
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Examination of the social influences on human behavior focusing on American social patterns and process; structure and function; conflict and change in society; multicultural conflicts; and a comparison of these processes with international and global patterns.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfer to CSU, *UC.
* Contact a counselor for details.
CAN (California Articulation Number): SOC 2

Reference Number: 3768
Section Number: 70
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OR

Reference Number: 3770
Section Number: 71
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OR

Reference Number: 3772
Section Number: 72
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OR

Reference Number: 3774
Section Number: 73
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OR

Reference Number: 3776
Section Number: 74
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OR

Reference Number: 3778
Section Number: 75
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PREREQUISITE: None.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

An analysis of issues of concern in American society such as crime, racism, sexism, aging, substance abuse, divorce, social inequality and social change.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.
CAN (California Articulation Number): SOC 4

Reference Number: 3784
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
DEPARTMENTAL ADVISORIES: ENGL 015 or eligibility for ENGL 101.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

Examines the changing roles of women and men in contemporary American society. A sociological and humanistic approach will be utilized to analyze gender roles in major social institutions: the family, religion, education, work, mass media, law, medicine, and political and economic structures.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3786
Section Number: 70
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PREREQUISITE: None.
DEPARTMENTAL ADVISORIES: ENGL 015 or eligibility for ENGL 101 as determined through the SBVC assessment process.
LECTURE: 3 hours per week.

This course explores the gender differences evident in communication. Students will examine the theories concerning gender differences, issues of gender in a variety of contexts (families, relationships, the workplace, the media, school), and the differences in the communication patterns resulting from gender. Students will evaluate their own communication for evidence of gender patterns, and will discuss effective communication skills.

Associate Degree Applicable
Course credit transfers to CSU and UC.

Reference Number: 3814
Section Number: 70
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