Winter Session Courses
Taking classes during winter session might help you graduate faster. Taking 3 credits during winter and 9 credits over the summer will allow you to complete 12 extra credits per year! Talk with your academic advisor to see if graduating early is a possibility.
2023 Winter Session Guaranteed Course Offerings (Asynchronous Online Only)
- COM 31800 Principles of Persuasion
- CSR 10300 Introduction to Personal Finance
- EAPS 10500 The Planets
- EAPS 37500 Great Issues - Fossil Fuels, Energy and Society
- ENGL 28600 The Movies
- HIST 15100 American History to 1877
- HIST 35100 The Second World War
- PSY 12000 Elementary Psychology
- SOC 10000 Introductory Sociology
- SOC 32400 Criminology
COM 31800 Principles of Persuasion
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
CSR 10300 Introduction to Personal Finance
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
EAPS 10500 The Planets
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
EAPS 37500 Great Issues - Fossil Fuels, Energy and Society
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
ENGL 28600 The Movies
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
HIST 15100 American History to 1877
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
HIST 35100 The Second World War
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
PSY 12000 Elementary Psychology
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
SOC 10000 Introductory Sociology
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
SOC 32400 Criminology
(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