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1.00 Credits
This Dash-hosted one-day field trip visits Chinatown, Olvera Street, Union Station, the Arts district, Little Tokyo, Central Market and the Financial district. Students are introduced to urban setting observation tools used to grasp and record the unique social patterns of each visited zone. In addition, students are immersed in the local cultures of these areas via window shopping, lunch time, snack time, walking and the experience of riding on the Dash system in downtown Los Angeles. No grade equivalent allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Physical and sexual abuse of girls and women, rape, spousal battery, sexual harassment, and pornography all establish dominance over women. This course analyzes the various manifestations of violence against women in contemporary American culture. A feminist perspective of violence against women, which utilizes historical, psychological and sociological methodologies, is presented for the students' critical analysis. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This upper-division course uses a case study approach to address the issue of human rights and children. The rights of children are examined from a national and international perspective as well as from the point of view of political philosophy. The national perspective uses Supreme Court cases that have examined and established children's rights such as limiting or forbidding child labor, protection of the dependent and incompetent, constraints on parental authority, children's' rights to access to education and medical services. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the social and economic functions of prisons in contemporary American society. Students investigate how and why prisons have become the preferred solution to crises of global capitalism, the perceived fracturing of American identity, and radical protest politics over the last several decades. Students examine the proposal, increasingly advocated by the families and communities most affected by crime and mass incarceration, of abolishing the prison system altogether. The prison crisis demands that we take an active position and deal with the ethics of incarceration. Students engage with community groups in Los Angeles and beyond working for prison reform and abolition. Student projects are practical and action-oriented. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways women and mental disorder have been linked in American psychiatric and mental health literature. A gender perspective on several categories of mental disorder is offered, including depression, PMS, hysteria and borderline personality disorder. Clinical approaches to women, including psychoanalysis, feminist therapy and pharmacological treatment are considered. The historic gender bias of the psychiatric and other mental health professions is explored. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course offers ethnographic training in Naturalistic Observation, a sharp, unobtrusive fieldwork tool appropriate to the short-term study of concrete urban public behavior patterns. Students focus on the repeated and systematic observation of one single kind of public behavior taking place in Los Angeles. Examples of these may be standing in-line rituals, elevator riding etiquette, or cell phone multitasking. Through lectures, readings, one field trip, several fieldwork drills, educational media, and samples of ethnographic research reports, students learn to discern the larger, deeper cultural and political meaning of these deceivingly innocuous behaviors. The course cultivates the students' historical outlook, theoretical reasoning, research ethics, theory-grounded design of data collection protocols, systematic and selective application of observation and documentation skills, qualitative data coding, data-driven interpretation methods, as well as the command of appropriate formats to report and disseminate their findings. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course examines the theoretical contributions of urban sociology, urban anthropology and cultural studies relevant to situate the concepts of identity formation, agency, group identification, negotiation, activism and hegemony in urban settings. Through a combined exposure to lectures, readings, role-plays, world café-format conversation, discussion, educational media and on-line resources, students learn to detect, name, explore, describe, analyze and apply these theoretical concepts and their causal relationships. Weekly sessions will adhere to an inductive, scenario-driven learning model. Each class introduces a concrete urban experience of individuals and/or groups in Los Angeles, proceeds to assess its cultural and historical significance, gradually unfolds its theoretical backdrop, and concludes by revealing its overarching political design. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Los Angeles with a focus on social history, power and resistance. This course challenges students to think about Los Angeles and their own relationship to place. Readings for the course include fiction and non-fiction to explore how city boosters and writers on the region have blurred fact and fiction in creating Los Angeles. The course will also include field trips and features excerpts from LA films. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the complex issues of sexuality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and "normal" and "abnormal" sexual behavior/ practices through the lens of social constructionism. In so doing, the course investigates the philosophical underpinnings of "natural" sexuality while challenging the assumptions and beliefs upon which it is built. The course attempts to deconstruct the notion of an innate, transhistorical, and transcultural sexual body through the examination of the scientific, psychological, moral, cultural, and political constructs that have shaped this discourse. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the historical and social development of modern science and technology, from early nineteenth century to the present, as it applies to a wide variety of discoveries and innovations: steam engine, electronics, telecommunications, nuclear energy, the automobile, petrochemicals, and computers to name some of the most important. These studies reveal that it is impossible to study the role of science and technology without incorporating a number of other, related topics including bureaucracy, professionalism, the role of intellectuals, influence of corporations, the state, the military, and so forth. One major concern in this course is the process of social change, especially but not limited to the advanced industrial societies. The class analyzes the intricate web of relationships that brings science and technology into these realms of social existence. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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