Introductory Spanish language and culture course that is proficiency-oriented, communicative and task-based to help develop communicative competence in four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing. Transferable for UC credit.

Learn Spanish online through our first year college-level course to develop linguistic fluency and gain proficiency in all four communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) as well as cultural competence. 

Introductory Spanish language and culture course that is proficiency-oriented, communicative and task-based to help develop communicative competence in four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing), as well as cultural competence.

This course part of the Interpretation and Translation certificate enhances interpretation skills as well as accuracy and speed techniques required for the three modes of interpretation: sight, consecutive and simultaneous.

This course part of the Interpretation and Translation certificate trains students in simultaneous interpretation through strategies, techniques, exercises, accuracy and well-paced, natural interpretation.

Using audiotapes and a variety of documents, this course emphasizes practice in consecutive interpretation in adjudicatory hearings (ALRB, DSS, DMV, and others) and escort and interview interpretation.

Using actual trial transcripts and other legal documents, this course emphasizes techniques and practice in consecutive interpretation in courtrooms and in other settings in which consecutive is required.

This course emphasizes the acquisition of appropriate vocabulary and practice in solving problems of contrastive syntax.

This course emphasizes the acquisition of appropriate vocabulary and practice in solving problems of contrastive syntax.

This is a required course for students who have passed the fluency exam and plan to enroll in the interpretation and translation certificate program. This course is designed for highly bilingual students to improve language skills in both languages and elevate proficiency to professional levels.

This in-depth exploration of photographic portraiture covers approaching subjects, establishing a rapport, collaborating with your subject, and digital workflow.

This course explores how the U.S. educational system both promotes socioeconomic opportunities and maintains socioeconomic inequalities.

Examination of processes by which gender is socially constructed. Topics include distinction between biological sex and sociological gender, causes and consequences of gender inequality, and recent changes in gender relations in modern industrial societies. 

This course explores the past, present, and future of hip and cool. Examine the social psychology of the hipster; the roles of race, class, gender, and location; and see how hipness is marketed, purchased, and performed.

This course focuses on racial and ethnic relations that continue to permeate American lives, color our national character, and shape the structure of American society.

Through our everyday interactions, we make and remake our social worlds and these worlds make and remake us. This course examines social processes shaping experience, definition, and enactment of self and personal identity.

A new seminar that focuses on the different areas of managing a nonprofit business. 

This course examines the new field of the sociology of emotions from a constructionist and interactionist perspective. Instruction addresses such issues as definition and the social and cultural construction of emotion.

Survey of characteristics of social life, processes of social interaction and tools of sociological investigation.

This internship course provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity in the sustainability industry, all while being guided and mentored by an instructor.