Lower Division Courses numbered 1–99 are designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all students for lower division credit. (Graduate students requesting to enroll in lower-division undergraduate courses will not receive unit credit nor will the course fulfill degree requirements.) Upper Division Courses courses numbered 100–199 are open to all students who have met the necessary prerequisites as indicated in the catalog course description. Preparation should generally include completion of one lower division course in the given subject or completion of two years of college work.
GRADUATE COURSES
Courses numbered 200–299 are open to graduate students. (Undergraduate students must obtain the signature of the instructor, School Dean, and the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate level units will count towards the required 120 units for graduation; however students are urged to meet with their academic advisor in order to determine if graduate course units may be used to fulfill a graduation requirement.)
CROSS-LISTED/CONJOINED COURSES
Cross-listed Courses are the same course offered under different course subjects at the same level (either undergraduate or graduate) that share the same meeting time, requirements, units, etc. Conjoined Courses are the same course but one is undergraduate and one is graduate.
COREQUISITE COURSE
A corequisite course is a course that must be taken at the same time as another course.
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisites for courses should be followed carefully; the responsibility for meeting these requirements rests on the student. If you can demonstrate that your preparation is equivalent to that specified by the prerequisites, the instructor may waive these requirements for you. The instructor also may request that a student who has not completed the prerequisites be dropped from the course. If the prerequisite for a course is not satisfied, students must obtain the approval of the instructor (or school designee) of the course they wish to take.
For all undergraduate courses a “C-” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “P/NP” grade then a “P” grade is required.
For all graduate courses a “B” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “S/U” grade then a “S” grade is required.
WORLD LANGUAGES
No credit is allowed for completing a less advanced course after successful completion (C-or better) of a more advanced course in the world languages. This applies only to lower division world language courses, not upper division courses.
GRADING OPTIONS
Unless otherwise stated in the course description, each course is letter graded with a P/NP or S/U option (unless required for your major or graduate program). The policy regarding Grading Options, can be found in an alternate section of the catalog.
Exploration of linkages in environmental systems and tools to evaluate important features of those systems. This is done by examining the characteristics of different Earth compartments (pedosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere) in terms of mass and energy balance, residence times and interactions. To provide a context, we examine how each of these compartments interacts with the global water cycle.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to principles of soil science designed for graduate students in Environmental Systems and other groups. ES 201 examines the soil as a natural resource and soils as ecosystems. Soil is the reservoir on which most life on earth depends, as the primary source of food, feed, forage, fiber, and pharmaceuticals. Soil plays a vital role in sustaining human welfare, assuring future agricultural productivity and environmental stability. Environmental soil science explores the major physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, and fundamental processes that regulate interaction of the terrestrial biosphere with other components of the earth system.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ESS 170 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to principles of soil science designed for graduate students in Environmental Systems and other groups. ES 201 examines the soil as a natural resource and soils as ecosystems. Soil is the reservoir on which most life on earth depends, as the primary source of food, feed, forage, fiber, and pharmaceuticals. Soil plays a vital role in sustaining human welfare, assuring future agricultural productivity and environmental stability. Environmental soil science explores the major physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, and fundamental processes that regulate interaction of the terrestrial biosphere with other components of the earth system.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ESS 170L Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Concurrent Prerequisites: ES 201 Instructor Permission Required: No
Quantitative analysis of Earth systems using principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, and isotope geochemistry; solution-mineral equilibrium and phase relations; equilibrium and reactive transport approaches to modeling geochemical processes at ambient and elevated temperatures. Graduate requirements include individual student projects.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Focus on organic chemical reactions in soils and sedimentary environments. Topics include the formation and weathering of natural organic matter and reactions of natural organic matter with pollutants. Graduate requirements include individual additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Examines biogeochemical cycles in watersheds, streams, oceans, and lakes for the elements of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur and other metals such as mercury. Includes weekly lecture and discussion sections. Assignments consist of problem sets, reading and discussion of scientific articles, and student analysis of case studies.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ESS 105 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ES 206: Instrumental and Spectroscopic Methods in Environmental Systems
Units: 3
Instrumental and spectroscopic methods and quantitative analysis applied to the study of environmental materials, including inorganic, organic, and biological samples. Emphasis on practical applications and individual student research projects. Laboratory included.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No Prior knowledge of Environmental Chemistry recommended
The objective of this class is to provide students with probabilistic and statistical methods to analyze environmental data. This class emphasizes both theoretical and applied aspects of data analysis methods. Weekly lab exercises are from environmental applications. Topics include: distribution, hypothesis test, linear regression, multiple regression, uncertainty analysis, outlier detection, sample design, and spatial and temporal data analysis.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ES 208: Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Earth Materials
Units: 3
Surface, colloid, and interfacial chemistry related to soil, environmental, and microbial applications; properties, energetics, and reactivity of surfaces and interfaces of Earth materials; the role of mineral surfaces in promoting and catalyzing chemical phenomena at phase boundaries. Graduate requirements include individual additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ES 209: Chemistry and Mineralogy of Earth Materials
Units: 3
Chemical principles, structure, and bonding of minerals and Earth materials, including crystallography (symmetry, space groups, group theory), coordination chemistry, bonding models (valence bond, crystal field, and MO theories), and electronic and magnetic properties.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: Unlimited
Conjoined with: ESS 109 Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: ESS 100 and CHEM 010 Instructor Permission Required: No
Processes governing the distribution and transformation of anthropogenic organic chemicals in the environment. Topics include chemical-physical properties of organic chemicals, sorption processes, bioaccumulation, chemical transformations, photochemical transformations and modeling concepts.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ENVE 171 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: ENVE 100 or ESS 100 Instructor Permission Required: No
Hydrologic and geologic factors controlling the occurrence and use of groundwater on regional and local scales. Physical, mathematical, geologic, and engineering concepts fundamental to subsurface hydrologic processes. Introduction to ground-water flow and transport modeling, with emphasis on model construction and simulation.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ESS 112 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ES 214: Mountain Hydrology of the Western United States
Units: 3
Principles of snow formation, occurrence, and measurement; components of evapotranspiration; runoff generation; groundwater recharge processes; water resource assessments; and resource management. Focus on California and the southwestern US. Design project. Graduate requirements include more in-depth investigation of one or more topics and preparation of paper.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Addresses different global change processes (climate change, habitat fragmentation, ozone pollution etc.); their impacts on organisms; and interactions and feedbacks between various global change factors and biological processes. Readings are taken from the recent scientific literature. Students will write a review article on a topic of their choice.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: QSB 218 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Fundamentals of environmental microbiology: physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics, with application to both engineered and natural environmental systems. Specific applications to water, wastewater, and the environmental fate of pollutants. Graduate requirements include additional projects.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ES 222: Dynamics of Organic Matter in Soils and Sediments
Units: 3
A focus on dynamics of organic matter (OM) in soil and sediments. The course will explore the formation, storage, loss, and transformations of OM from physical, chemical, and biological perspectives. We will cover linkages of OM dynamics with atmospheric composition of greenhouse gases and their future climatic implications.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Ecosystem ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. Focus on energy, water and nutrient flows through the living (plants, animals, microbes) and nonliving (soils, atmosphere) components of ecosystems. We examine both natural and human-modified terrestrial ecosystems. Graduate requirements include preparation and peer review of a research proposal.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Introduction to the principles and methods of genomics as applied to the understanding of ecosystems. Topics include population genetics, adaptation to environmental change, and genomic analysis of environmental microbial communities; experimental and computational methods relevant to environmental genomics. Graduate requirements include additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to the plant diversity of California. It consists of lectures and labs focusing on plant identification in the foothills of the Central Sierra Nevada and covers concepts such as endemism, plant/soil interactions, and vegetation types.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: BIO 133, ESS 133 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An advanced study of modeling population dynamics and the flow of energy and matter in ecosystems. Graduate requirements include additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Introduction to the relationships of fossil organisms to one another and to their physical environment, focusing on terrestrial paleoecology of the past 2.5 million years. This class will introduce pass environments, discuss common proxies for studying paleoecology, and examine ecological principles as applies to the past. Recommended prior to enrollment: one upper division Ecology or Earth System Science course.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: BIO 129, ESS 129 Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: BIO 148 Instructor Permission Required: No
Reviews theory and experimental methods in quantitative genetics and molecular ecology to infer ecological, evolutionary, and genetic processes. Topic areas include natural selection and biological adaptation, the analysis or quantitative traits, landscape genetics, and conservation genetics among other topics.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: QSB 230 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to following major/minor(s):
Environmental Systems (Graduate) - ESYS, Quantitative & Systems Biology (Graduate) - QSB
Spatial and temporal patterns in climate and their association with land surface characteristics and processes. Methods for exploiting these for hypothesis testing, modeling, and forecasting. Applications include seasonal forecasting, ecological modeling, and analysis of processes such as flooding and wildfire.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ENVE 116, ESS 132 Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Atmospheric sciences and meteorology. Chemistry of air pollutants and its fate. Gas-to-particle conversion. Nucleation and coagulation of aerosol. Oxidizing power of the troposphere. Ozone pollution. Wet and dry pollutants deposition. Air quality modeling. Global climate change. Impact on human health and natural environment.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 1
Conjoined with: ENVE 130 Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Study of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, with applications to engineering problems. Graduate requirements include in-depth investigation of one or more topics and preparation of paper.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Steady and unsteady mass diffusion; mass convection, simultaneous heat and mass transfer; Fick’s law in a moving medium; similarity and integral methods in mass transfer; high mass transfer theory; research project in mass transport. Knowledge of Heat Transfer is essential for success in this course.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: ME 236 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Study of the Navier-Stokes equations; Stokes’ problems; creeping flows; internal and external flows; similarity and integral methods in boundary layer flows; stability and transition to turbulence.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 1
Crosslisted with: ME 251 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: ENGR 135 or ES 235 Instructor Permission Required: No
Physical and chemical principles for the capturing of air pollutants. Design of air pollution controls devices for particulate and gaseous pollutants emitted from stationary and mobile sources. State and Federal Regulations for point, mobile and area sources. Economics aspects of air pollution control to meet ambient air quality standards. In case studies, particular issues are addressed as they relate to the San Joaquin Valley.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ENVE 132 Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Basic concepts of and issues in water resources management, water resources planning, institutional and policy processes. Quantitative analytical methods in water resources planning and management; introduction to systems analysis, multi-objective planning, and risk assessment. Design project. Graduate requirements include preparation of a detailed case analysis.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Covers planning, policy, management and governance of natural resources. Includes topics on systems involving wildfire, water, climate change, recreation, conservation, and extractive industries. Emphasis on interdisciplinary frameworks that address human dimensions of environmental change and resource use. Emphasis on the greater Southern Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Valley region.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to following major/minor(s):
ES 244: Phylogenetics: Speciation and Macroevolution
Units: 4
Provides the theory behind reconstruction of evolutionary relationships and introduces the comparative methods and tools of phylogenetics. Topics include use of morphological, molecular, and fossil data in distance, parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian frameworks for investigating geographic patterns and rates of speciation, phenotypic evolution, diversification, extinction, and biogeography.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: QSB 244 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Explores a diversity of current topics in Biogeography, providing an overview of the field’s history, development, and a prospectus for its near future. We will consider relevant methods, advances in related fields, and application of biogeographic information in a changing world.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 3
Crosslisted with: QSB 245 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Major themes and current topics in community ecology, including patterns in the diversity, abundance, and composition of species in communities and the processes underlying these patterns such as environmental filtering, species interactions, evolutionary history, and neutral processes.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: QSB 246 Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No BIO 148 recommended
Utilizes directed readings and discussion of classical and current literature in ecology and evolutionary biology, focusing on literature that emphasizes systems concepts of population variation and linkages across scales from genes to ecosystems.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: QSB 248 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No Students are expected to have completed college-level, introductory courses in ecology and/or evolution before taking this course.
ES 249: Topics in the History, Philosophy, and Practice of Science
Units: 3
Explores special topics in the history, philosophy, and practice of science, such as the nature of interdisciplinary interactions, the concept of “paradigm shift”, relationships between politics and science, and the influence of new technologies. Does not fulfill the “third course requirement” of QSB degrees except by petition to QSB EPC.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 3
Crosslisted with: QSB 249 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Fundamental and advanced concepts of electromagnetic remote sensing, information extraction and applications in environmental monitoring. Advanced topics include principles of image extraction, image correction, image enhancement, classification methods, and new development of sensor techniques. Reading materials and final research projects are required for graduate students.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Survey of theoretical ecology, involving a tour through population dynamics, stochastic processes, and ecological networks. Both analytical and numerical (computational) approaches will be used to build and examine dynamic models, as well as to assess the role of theoretical vs. empirical approaches to understand the ecological processes.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: QSB 256 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel combustion. Graduate requirements include preparation of a detailed case analysis.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ENVE 160 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Concepts and applications of solar thermal processes; applications of solar collectors for water heating; active and passive building heating and cooling; fundamentals and design of wind energy systems; economics of solar energy. Graduate-level requirements include preparation of a detailed case analysis.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Properties and behavior of organic and metal contaminants, in soils, groundwater, surface waters, and air. Emphasis on phase transfer and transport for organic compounds; complexation and surface processes for metals. Topics include modeling of environmentally important compounds, photochemical reactions, natural organic matter, sorption phenomena. Graduate-level requirements include preparation of a detailed case analysis.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Students will learn about stable isotope systems including carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur and strontium. They will learn chemistry, physics, biology, and ecology of isotope compositions and fractionations. A lab component will teach sample preparation techniques. Students will measure samples and analyze data. Discussion period will discuss primary literature.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: BIO 174, ESS 174 Discussion and Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Natural treatment systems presents a comprehensive overview of engineered wetland-based systems to remove pollutants from wastewater. Focusing on nutrient removal in free water surface treatment wetlands. Special attention is paid to developing the P-k-C* model to predict pollutant removal and other methods to quantify uncertainty in pollutant removal.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to following major/minor(s):
Under faculty supervision, group of students meets each week for a semester in a student-led study group to pursue a specific topic of their choice that is not covered in other department courses.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: Unlimited
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
A review of French grammar with emphasis on building speaking and writing skills and on reading to build cultural understanding. Classes conducted in French.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: FRE 002 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
A review of French grammar with emphasis on building speaking and writing skills and on reading to build cultural understanding. Classes conducted in French.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: FRE 003 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
Provides oversight and structure for a student’s internship in a field related to French in community organizations, professional research projects, etc. connected to the study of French. Students are required to write an original research paper or relevant product that demonstrates how the internship advanced their knowledge of French.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 2
Pass/No Pass only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes
Develops students’ abilities to communicate in spoken and written French at an advanced level. Emphasizes the importance of the interaction between writer, reader, purpose and message. Focuses on the four major modes of writing and oral practice.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: FRE 004 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
Provides oversight and structure for a student’s internship in a field related to French in community organizations, professional research projects, etc. connected to the study of French. Students are required to write an original research paper or relevant product that demonstrates how the internship advanced their knowledge of French.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 2
Pass/No Pass only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
Teaches the value of geography as a basis for organizing and discovering information; the nature and meaning of maps, and the concepts and tools for spatial analysis: the description, organization, linkage, manipulation and communication of geographical information.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
In depth-analysis of environmental case studies. Focus on science critical to policy development and implementation, the policy-making process and policy outcomes. Special emphasis on interaction between scientific information and policy-making. Example topics include Western water resources, biodiversity conservation and global warming. Emphasis on written and oral communication and critical analysis.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: ENGR 141, ESS 141 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (WRI 010 or equivalent exam) and any lower-division BIO, ECON, ENVE, ESS, POLI, or PUBP course or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
Study of global arts with an integrated approach that examines visual arts, music, and a variety of other subjects offered by the Global Arts Studies Program.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Mechanics of musical structure and the proper language with which to describe it. Students will learn to hear and analyze music in terms of rhythm and meter, timbre, dynamics, form, texture, and pitch, with a special focus on melody and functional harmony.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to visual material in art and mass media from cultures throughout the world. Emphasizes the development of students’ own critical skills in analyzing and understanding visual culture. Topics include artworks from the antiquity to postmodernism, as well as issues in mass media, pop culture, and cyberspace.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
GASP 004: Introduction to Arts and Cultural Studies
Units: 4
Introduction to a range of debates in cultural studies concerned with the impact race, gender, sexuality and class, for example, exert on cultural production, cultural identity and representation and/or aesthetics.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Familiarizes students with academic debates regarding the relationship between technology writ large and artistic production, distribution and consumption - as well as creation, critique and pleasure.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Survey of global art and architecture from pre-history to contemporary times with an emphasis on the socio-cultural influence of the arts. Attention will be paid to developing skills of formal and contextual analysis. The aim is to establish a foundation in the study of art history.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: GASP 003 Instructor Permission Required: No
Studies the roles music can play in relation to social structures and institutions, individual and group relations, and identity formation as it relates to race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, nationality, and religion. Special attention will paid to issues of genre and style.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: GASP 002 Instructor Permission Required: No
Introduces students to conventional and unconventional techniques in two dimensional and three dimensional arts. Variety of techniques are covered such as screen printing, block printing, acrylic transfer, encaustic, casting, jewelry design, carving and construction, mixed media photography, illustration, and fiber art. Course work includes hands-on projects, research and writing.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
The ensemble is organized around the mission of exploring fundamental of social art and music-making by whatever means necessary. Each term the ensemble is rebuilt from scratch by the participants, based on their particular backgrounds, interests, and desires.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 9
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Develop an interrelated set of practical tools for writing and performing original songs. We will learn about songwriting in a variety of genres, styles, and forms, both as a theoretical concern and as practice.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Examines the history of cinema from its inception to the contemporary period. Deals with cinema’s relationship to new media and digital technology. Students will acquire general knowledge of film language that developed in multiple historical and cultural contexts.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Introduces students to making music with digital audio workstations, synthesizers, samplers, and other software tools. Students create compositions exploring approaches from popular genres such as hip hop and electronic dance music as well as noise, ambient, experimental, and avant-garde.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Designed to teach students a range of performative storytelling techniques, developing skills in movement, vocal expression, use of space, and audience engagement.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to Asian visual arts (modern-day Pakistan to Japan) from the early civilizations to the present. Given the breadth of the material, objects will be thematically contextualized. We will examine how political authority, religion, trade, gender, colonialism, and nationalism among other issues of identity politics influence artistic production.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: HIST 055A Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to the arts of the Islamic world (7th-century – present). Painting, architecture, metalwork, ceramics, and contemporary arts will be situated in their socio-cultural contexts. Issues of power and patronage, regionalism, identity, Orientalism, and cultural interaction within the framework of artistic production and reception will be examined.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: HIST 055 Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
GASP 055C: History of European Art and Architecture
Units: 4
Examines the cultures and history of Europe from the Paleolithic Period through contemporary art today. Addresses wide range of art production including architecture, sculpture, and painting. Explores works in their social context, addressing issues of patronage, class, gender, material culture, world exploration, and religious development and conflict, among other topics.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Students will examine critical texts on the history and theory of photography, study photographers from diverse backgrounds, and investigate cultural and socio-political issues in photographic practice and production. Students will also acquire some basic photographic techniques.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Introduces students to commercial Hindi cinema (“Bollywood”). Among other things, this course will address India’s nation building project, depictions of urban spaces, gender roles, the Indian diaspora, and the cultural politics of Hindi films and songs. Close attention will be paid to cinematic and musical production techniques.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Explores the relationship between the American musical and “American-ness.” Ideas about what it means to be an American have been expressed on the musical stage and have both reflected and helped form those ideas.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No