Classes

Spring 2020 Course Offerings

Effective Communication II: Global Communication

HONO 2200: 4 units Amy Wong T/R 2:00 – 3:40 pm (Sect. 2)

Leslie Ross T/R 3:50 – 5:30 pm (Sect. 1)

Meets Effective Communication II requirement

Global Communication and Images offers an eye-opening exploration of written and visual communication modes from the past to present. Designed to enhance student awareness of and ability to navigate as effective communicators in today’s poly-modal world. Course builds upon the skills developed in EC1 (Honors) with an emphasis on how written/visual communications practices have shaped values, experience, identity, and social action in the past and present.

HY: World Religions

HONO 3192: 4 units Gay Lynch

MON 4:10-6:50 pm

Meets Purpose and Meaning requirement

World Religions provides a study of various traditions of answering humankind's enduring questions about what might be “really real.” The course will survey the world's dominant religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism), accenting both their commonalities and their distinctiveness.

SL: Social Justice and Ethical Action

HONO 3206: 4 units George Faithful

MON 2:20 – 5:00 pm

Meets Examined Life requirement

Examining social justice issues, their structural causes, and systemic solutions, students will bridge ethical theory to action through substantive community engagement and critical reflection.

SL: Books Not Bars

HONO 3202: 4 units Julia Van derRyn

THURS 3:50-6:30 pm

Meets Civic Knowledge and Engagement requirement

Just Learning is the process of critical consciousness that engages learners in understanding the larger social conditions and contexts that shape, often limit, our lives. Identifying these structural causes empowers us to transform this reality. Through the examination of the relationship between the education and prison systems, students will analyze systemic issues that disenfranchise individuals and communities, often funneling young people into the school to prison pipeline. Students will gain knowledge and skills to advocate on behalf of shared human right and engage with local organizations to create more inclusive opportunities for all.