Courses Offered in Future Years

ARCHAEOLOGY 99A. Historical Archaeology in the Archive, Lab, and Underground: Methods
This course teaches methodologies for the study of cultural landscapes with an emphasis on California landscapes. The practice of historical archaeology through methodologies including archival research, oral history, material culture analysis, and archaeological excavation. Students use these methods to analyze the history and archaeology of a local park, the Thornewood Open Space Preserve. This class will be of interest to students of American Studies, archaeology, anthropology, history, geography, and anybody whose interests include the management of public lands.
5 units

BIOLOGY, HOPKINS MARINE STATION 184H/248H.  Holistic Biology: Monterey Bay and the Sea of Cortez
For majors and non-majors. Complexity in natural systems from complementary points of view, including scientific, historical, philosophical, and literary. The work and writings of Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck and historical and contemporary works concerning marine ecology and fisheries. Field work, laboratory studies with living invertebrates, and an individual research project. Course includes a component in Baja California, Mexico. Only 6 units may count towards the Biology major. GER: DB-NatSci
16 units, alternate years, not given in 08-09

CHICANO STUDIES 121C. Chicana/o Film Practices
(Same as CSRE 121C.) The ideological parameters of Chicanismo, including migration, labor, organized state violence, collectivism, familialism, spirtual practices, gender, and sexual politics. The cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of film form, including formal and textual analysis.
5 units

CHICANO STUDIES 187C. Latino Children: Cultural and Social Contexts of Development
(Same as CSRE 187C.) Ecological contexts, including family, school, and society, that shape the psychosocial and educational outcomes of Latino children. Sources include developmental and cultural psychology, anthropology of education, and sociology.
5 units (Borsato)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RACE AND ETHNCITY 109B. Indian Country Economic Development
See NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES 109B.

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RACE AND ETHNICITY 121C. Chicana/o Film Practices
See CHICANO STUDIES 121C.

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RACE AND ETHNICITY 187C. Latino Children: Cultural and Social Contexts of Development
See CHICANO STUDIES 187C.

EARTH SYSTEMS 108/208. Coastal Wetlands
Ecological structure and function of wetlands emphasizing local, coastal wetlands. Topics include: wetland distribution, classification, and history; and interactions between biotic and abiotic components of wetland ecosystems. Labs and local field trips for exposure to landscape patterns, and common sampling equipment and methods. Recommended: 104 or CEE 166A. GER: DB-NatSci
3 units, Autumn (Myers, L), alternate years, not given in 08-09

EARTH SYSTEMS 104. The Water Course
(Same as GEOPHYS 104.) The pathway that water takes from rainfall to the tap using student home towns as an example. How the geological environment controls the quantity and quality of water; taste tests of water from around the world. Current U.S. and world water supply issues. GER: DB-NatSci
3 units

GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 49N. Field Trip to Death Valley and Owens Valley
Preference to freshmen. California's Death Valley and Owens Valley as natural laboratories for exploring a billion years of earth history: ancient ocean sediments, mountain building, earthquake faulting, glacial landscapes, volcanic eruptions, prehistoric climate changes, and historic human impacts. Six-day field trip to these areas during Spring Break. Term paper is written as a chapter for a field trip guidebook. Oral presentation on the outcrop at the field trip stop described in the guidebook chapter. The basics of plate tectonics and geology. Rock identification, reading topographic and geologic maps, and interpreting remote sensing imagery. Camping and moderate hiking required. GER: DB-NatSci
3 units, alternate years, not given in 08-09

GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 50Q. The Coastal Zone Environment
Preference to sophomores. The oceanographic, geological, and biological character of coastal zone environments, including continental shelves, estuaries, and coastal wetlands, with emphasis on San Francisco Bay. Five required field trips examine estuarine and coastal environments, and agencies and facilities that manage these resources. Students present original research. Prerequisite: beginning course in Biology such as BIOSCI 51, Chemistry such as CHEM 30 or 31, Earth Sciences such as GES 1 or 2, or Earth Systems such as EARTHSYS 10. GER: DB-NatSci
3 units

GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 183. California Desert Geology
Field seminar. For upper division undergraduates and graduate students in the earth sciences and archaeology. Six-day field trip over Spring Break to Mojave Desert, Death Valley, and Owens Valley. Basin-and-range faulting, alluvial fans, playas, sand dunes, metamorphic rocks, granites of the Sierra Nevada, obsidian lava flows and the deposits of major explosive eruptions, hot springs and ore deposits, and desert landscapes. Camping and moderate hiking. May be repeated for credit.
1 unit

GEOPHYSICS 104. The Water Course
See EARTH SYSTEMS 104.

HISTORY 59. Introduction to Asian American History
The historical experience of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. Immigration, labor, community formation, family, culture and identity, and contemporary social and political controversies. Readings: interpretative texts, primary material, and historical fiction. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul
5 units, not given in 08-09

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES 109B. Indian Country Economic Development
(Same as CSRE 109B.) The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.
5 units

POLITICAL SCIENCE 223D. Term Limits and American Democracy
Why voters place constitutional and statutory limits on the number of terms elected officials can serve in an office. Effects of term limits on elections and policy making in the U.S. Presidential, gubernatorial, and state legislative term limits, the congressional term limits movement, and the success of the movement in the American West.
5 units, Win (Frisby, T)

 

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