Course Description:

An intensive writing course designed to introduce students to professional expository writing by using media content as models and a platform. Emphasis is on clarity, conciseness, and consistency in style, along with form, content, context, and effectiveness of communication. Writing for various audiences will feature the Internet, academic writing, persuasion, description and other rhetorical models.

Required Attendance: Sense of Place, April 24, 2025

Course Information:

Instructor: Stephen Caldes

• Offered in Fall and Spring

Course Description:

An investigation of Who gets What, When, and How in national, state, and local politics. Also includes principles of American governmental institutions, federal systems, congress, president, and courts. Fulfills California state graduation and credential requirements for the American Constitution. (Satisfies requirement in California Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 40404.)

Required Attendance: Town Hall Meeting, April 3, 2025

Course Information:

Instructor: Charles Turner

• Offered in Fall and Spring