Winter Session Courses

Persuasion and its effects, ranging from individual influences to societal impacts. Various perspectives and models of persuasion are examined, including classical and modern approaches. Both theoretical and pragmatic considerations are introduced.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Jen Hoewe

Offered By: College of Liberal Arts

Department: Brian Lamb School of Comm

Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division

This course counts towards a Communication Minor

This course will provide knowledge and skills for young adults to be active, informed, and rational managers of their financial life. The course will particularly address the following 4 areas of personal finance. Managing money: Why it's useful to plan one's financial affairs, budgeting, being an informed manager of one's money and consumer of financial products. Financing large items using savings and credit: Know how credit works, how to use it wisely, and how to avoid over indebtedness. Learn savings strategies to maximize the growth of your money. Using financial markets: What are the different ways to invest, and how to make them work for you and your objectives (such as retirement). Managing risk: How to use financial tools (such as insurance) to protect yourself against risk. The course will emphasize age-relevant knowledge and practical advice, with the objective to help students make better financial decisions and adopt better financial behaviors for the long term.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Miyoung Yook

Offered By: College of Health & Human Sci

Department: Hospitality & Tourism Mgmt

Course Attributes: Lower Division

This course is designed for science and non-science majors alike to learn about the origin and characteristics of the bodies in our Solar System, including planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets beyond, and the search for extraterrestrial life. We'll discuss how solar systems form and die, the origin of the terrestrial versus giant planets and their orbits, the evolution of planetary surfaces due to asteroid impacts and volcanism, the development of atmospheres, the formation of planetary rings, the origin of moons, the hazards of space travel, and why Pluto IS a planet.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Andrew Freed

Offered By: College of Science

Department: Dept Erth Atmos & Planetry Sci

Course Attributes: Lower Division, UC-Science, GTC-Science

This course counts towards an Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Minor

Prosperity of the 20th century was based on abundant and cheap energy; during the 21st century we will be faced with difficult challenges. Our society will face higher energy prices, decline of petroleum based fuels supplies, increased environmental effects of fossil fuels usage, and the challenge of solving the technological problems of developing alternative fuels. This course will review the structure, economics, and geopolitical issues faced by fossil fuel industries and the mitigation strategies that will be needed to change to low fossil fuel use society based on low polluting renewable energy sources. Counts for Great Issues course in College of Science for Juniors and Seniors.
3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Dean Ballotti

Offered By: College of Science

Department: Dept Erth Atmos & Planetry Sci

Course Attributes: Upper Division

This course counts towards an Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Minor

Introduction to the movies from classic to contemporary films. Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of a range of topics and conventions related to classic and contemporary films. 2. Discuss those topics and conventions in relation to their diverse historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. 3. Produce well-reasoned written arguments about classic and contemporary films based on appropriate use of evidence.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Paul White

Offered By: College of Liberal Arts

Department: English

Course Attributes: Lower Division, S General Education, GTC-Humanistic-Artistic, UC-Humanities

This course counts towards an English Minor

A study of the development of American political, economic, and social institutions from the early explorations and colonial settlements through Reconstruction.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Trenton C Jones

Offered By: College of Liberal Arts

Department:  History

Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Lower Division, S General Education, Civics Literacy, Core Transfer Library, Dept Credit, UC-Humanities, GTC-Humanistic-Artistic

A study of the diplomacy, economic mobilization, and military operations of World War II, 1939-1945.
3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Randy Roberts

Offered By: College of Liberal Arts

Department: History

Course Attributes: Upper Division, M World History, S General Education, LA Hist European, LA Global Perspectives, LA Hist United States, S Language & Culture, UC-Humanities, GTC-Humanistic-Artistic

This course counts towards a History Minor

Introduction to the fundamental principles of psychology, covering particularly the topics of personality, intelligence, emotion, abnormal behavior, attention, perception, learning, memory, and thinking. As part of their learning experience, students participate in psychological experiments.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: George Hollich

Offered By: College of Health & Human Sci

Department: Psychological Sciences

Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Core Transfer Library, Lower Division, S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science

This course counts towards a Psychology Minor

A survey course designed to introduce the student to the scene of human society. Fundamental concepts, description, and analysis of society, culture, the socialization process, social institutions, and social change.

3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Dan Rudel

Offered By: College of Liberal Arts

Department: Sociology

Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Core Transfer Library, Dept Credit, Justice-Eqty-Divrsty-Inclusion, Lower Division, S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science

This course counts towards a Sociology Minor

(CRJU 32400) Nature and cause of crime; methods of dealing with adult and juvenile offenders, consideration of present programs for the social treatment of crime in the light of needed changes.
3.000 Credit hours

Instructor: Mark-Paul Pawson

Offered By: College of Liberal Arts

Department: Sociology

Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division

This course counts towards a Sociology Minor