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3.00 Credits
This course explores the influences of various cultures and individuals on the gradual evolution of the Christian perspective. It incorporates the findings of the recently discovered texts known as the Gnostic Gospels, as well as the newly translated Gospel of Judas. The course takes an historical approach, exploring the worlds of the ancient Egyptians, Canaanites and others as well as ancient Judaism. It takes up some of the Greek influences derived from Plato and Aristotle and show how they were intimately entwined into the matrix of Christian belief. The Romans, the medieval philosophers and the 20th century with its new discoveries of texts related to the New Testament are also considered. The course proceeds from the premise that Christianity did not develop in a vacuum but is deeply reflective of a confluence of many influences and ostensibly random historical events. Grasping this rich matrix that contained and shaped early Christianity leads to a better understanding of Christian belief. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The fundamentals of the central nervous system are presented through illustrated lectures and discussions, emphasizing implications for behavior (both normal and abnormal) so that students develop an awareness of biological contributions to psychological processes and experience. SCIENCE & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop students' conceptual, systemic understanding of the significance and role of chemistry and chemicals in life processes and the environment. The major topics explored include basic atomic theory, chemical bonding and types of chemical reactions, the elements involved in life processes, organic chemistry and biochemistry, environmental pollution and the biological effects of toxic chemicals on human health. Current events such as petroleum use, ethanol, and nuclear chemistry are also discussed. Utilizing an investigative approach to analyze everyday examples of chemistry, the course evokes and develops the personal experience of students in the class as participant-observers in an environmental system. This basic of understanding allows students to analyze critically issues that confront the environment on a daily basis and to become advocates for productive and sustainable solutions to those ideas. SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores constituent elements and the principles of general organization and functioning of the human body. By exercising analysis of the living body's functions and the role they play in everyday human life, the course involves students into a systemic vision of biological and physical reasons behind the structural and operational unity of the body. The major topics include the structures and functions of cells, tissues, and organs as the body's interrelated systems and fundamental aspects of their participation in life processes such as responsiveness, movement, reproduction, growth, respiration, digestion, and excretion. This course is built as a means of evoking and developing students' personal experiences with the normal and abnormal performance of the human body. On this ground, students will develop basic knowledge essential to effectively maintain the body's well-being and communicate about health related issues. SCIENCES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Los Angeles bioregion as an urban ecosystem. Urban ecosystem science is the primary lens through which students conduct an examination of natural energy flows and human-altered energy flows and their effects on the diverse ecosystem types found in the greater Los Angeles area. Social geography, mapping, and metrics serve as additional tools and lenses students deploy in the calculation of an "ecological footprint" of Los Angeles andother major urban centers throughout the world. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course develops students' conceptual understanding of the principles of physical laws that regulate and influence the functioning of urban systems. The major topics explored include energy transformation and flow, work and energy, how motion is measured and changed, heat, and systems. Utilizing an investigative approach, the course evokes and develops the personal experience of students in the class as participant-observers in an urban system. This basis of understanding allows students to critically analyze issues that confront urban systems on a daily basis, and to become advocates for productive solutions to those issues. SCIENCES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Ecopsychology holds that human beings create wellness for both themselves and for non-human beings through the process of connecting with nature. While ecopsychology itself is a relatively new development within mainstream psychology, the fields of wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, and therapeutic recreation provide a base of research, applied knowledge and experiential learning that extends back for more than 30 years. Through experiential exercises, students learn and practice skills to expand their ability to develop and maintain a deep connectedness with themselves, with others and with nature. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
While conducting observations of the natural world as found in an urban landscape, students study an American literary tradition that runs back beyond Thoreau and forward through John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Edward Abby, Terry Tempest Williams and others. Using the Ballona Wetlands -- its social and natural history as well as its status as a present day biotic community -- as a case study, students seek a greater understanding of our relationship to the natural world; some of the scientific methodologies employed in the investigation of the natural world; and advocacy for the restoration, preservation and protection of the natural world. Through an examination of the literary tradition in nature writing, students acquire an understanding of the through-line from observation, to understanding, to authorship, to audience, to advocacy and back again. HUMANITIES & SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The place we now call Los Angeles emerged 17,000,000 years ago from the Pacific Ocean. In the intervening years, mountains forced their way up from the land forming the boundaries of a large basin. Vast quantities of water coursed down the north and south sides of mountains and hills we now call Santa Monica, Simi, Santa Susanna, San Gabriel, and Verdugo. For all but 8,000 of those years, this place and those mountains needed no name. They just were. Then came the Tongva, the Chumash, and others-the first humans to settle here. Their names for this place were various: Kaweenga, Pasheekwnga, Komiivet, to name a few. After what seems to have been 8,000 relatively peaceful years, representatives of the Spanish King arrived in an area somewhere near the confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, declared this place to be El Pueblo de Nuestra Se ora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula. This course examines the changes in the land going forward from that time. HUMANITIES & SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The science of nutrition is a study of the processes by which an individual takes in and utilizes food. Today's American culture espouses many conflicting views on the ways nutrition affects your health and quality of life. This course introduces the science of nutrition; the basics of the relationship between diet, health, and society and its applications to daily life. It includes up-to-date coverage of the newest research and emerging issues in nutrition. SCIENCES DOMAIN
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