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Course Descriptions

 

Accounting

Courses are designated as ACCT in the class schedule.
  

  • ACCT 201A - Financial Accounting (3)

    Accounting concepts and techniques essential to the administration of a business enterprise: analyzing and recording financial transactions; accounting valuation and allocation practices; preparation, analysis and interpretation of financial statements; international accounting issues.
  

  • ACCT 201B - Managerial Accounting (3)

    Prerequisite: ACCT 201A  with a “C” (2.0) or better. Introduction to managerial accounting; product costing; budgetary control and responsibility accounting; analysis and techniques for aiding management planning and control decisions; basic income tax concepts for planning business transactions.
  

  • ACCT 301A - Intermediate Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 201B  and completion of all lower division business administration core courses with a “C” (2.0) or better in each course. Corequisite: BUAD 301 . Accounting theory; preparation of income statements, balance sheets and statements of accounting theory; preparation of income statement, balance sheets and statements of cash flows, and comprehensive income; IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards); present value concepts; assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity; revenue recognition and investments.
  

  • ACCT 301B - Intermediate Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: “C” (2.0) or better in ACCT 301A  and BUAD 301 . Accounting theory; IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards); present value concepts; assets, liabilities and stockholder equity; pensions; leases; earnings per share; financial statement analysis; accounting changes and error analysis.
  

  • ACCT 302 - Cost Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 201B  and completion of all lower-division business administration core courses, each with a “C” (2.0) or better. Corequisite: BUAD 301 . Accounting information for management of manufacturing and service enterprises; cost records; cost behavior and allocation; product costing and inventory valuation; flexible budgeting; standard costs; responsibility accounting; cost planning and control; and operating decision analysis.
  

  • ACCT 307 - Accounting Information Systems (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 201B  and completion of all lower-division business administration core courses, each with a “C” (2.0) or better. Corequisite: BUAD 301 . Organization and implementation of information technology for the collection, organization, and presentation of accounting information with an emphasis on enterprise resource planning systems.
  

  • ACCT 308 - Concepts of Federal Income Tax Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 201B  and completion of all lower-division business administration core courses, each with a “C” (2.0) or better in each course. Corequisite: BUAD 301 . Federal income taxation relating to federal tax system; federal income taxation relating to individuals, corporations, partnerships, fiduciaries, and Federal estate and gift taxes.
  

  • ACCT 401 - Advanced Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 301B  with a “C” (2.0) or better, BUAD 301 . Business combinations; meaning, usefulness and methodology of consolidated financial statements; investments in non-subsidiary affiliates and corporate joint ventures; consolidated financial statements for overseas units of U.S.-based multinational companies; translations of foreign currencies, derivatives.
  

  • ACCT 402 - Auditing (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 301B , ACCT 302 , ACCT 307 , each with a “C” (2.0) or better, and BUAD 301 . Auditing standards and procedures used by financial and operational auditors. Management information and computer systems, internal control, audit evidence, professional responsibilities and legal liabilities, standards of reporting financial information.
  

  • ACCT 403 - Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 301B  with a “C” (2.0) or better, BUAD 301 . Fund accounting as applied to governmental and nonprofit entities; state and federal governments, municipalities, hospitals and universities. Budgets, tax levies, revenues and appropriations, expenditures and encumbrances, various types of funds, and accounting statements.
  

  • ACCT 405 - Forensic Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 307  and ACCT 301B  with a “C” (2.0) or better. Methods to prevent and detect fraud. Current cases dealing with accounting fraud, and appropriate methods to prevent or detect fraudulent behavior.
  

  • ACCT 408 - Problems in Taxation (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308  with a “C” (2.0) or better and BUAD 301 . Federal income tax as it applies to corporations, partnerships, fiduciaries, and federal estate and gift taxes as they apply to taxable transfers.
  

  • ACCT 420 - Advanced Cost Accounting (3)

    Prerequisite: ACCT 302  with a “C” (2.0) or better. Advanced topics in accounting: strategic profitability analysis; cost allocation and resources; quality and Just-In Time Inventory; and investment decisions and management control.
  

  • ACCT 422 - Internal Audit and Control (3)

    Prerequisite: senior standing for accounting majors; departmental permission for other undergraduates and all graduate students. Survey of internal auditing principles and concepts. Intended for students who are interested in internal auditing.
  

  • ACCT 445 - Valuation Concepts and Topics for Accountants (3)

    Prerequisite: ACCT 301B  with a “C” (2.0) or better. Conceptual framework for valuation. Application of framework in a number of settings likely to be encountered as accounting professionals.
  

  • ACCT 460 - Seminar in Financial Statement Analysis (3)

    Prerequisite: ACCT 301B  with a “C” (2.0) or better. Analysis of demand and supply forces underlying the provision of financial statements; distributional, cross-sectional and time series properties of financial statement numbers; financial decision-making processes and the uses of financial statement information for decision making.
  

  • ACCT 463 - Financial Controls for Entrepreneurs (3)

    Prerequisites: entrepreneurship concentration only; ACCT 201B , FIN 320 . Accounting system design for new ventures, including budgeting, purchasing, collections, payroll taxes, safeguards against error and embezzlement, financial reports, cash management, and banking relationships. Casework, research and fieldwork with selected local businesses. Not applicable for graduate degree credit.
  

  • ACCT 470 - Tax Research, Practice and Procedures (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308  with a “C” (2.0) or better, BUAD 301 . Methodology of tax research, including case studies; the management of a tax practice; administration procedures governing tax controversies; rights and obligations of taxpayers and tax practitioners.
  

  • ACCT 495 - Internship (1-3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 301A , ACCT 302 , BUAD 301 , each with a “C” (2.0) or better; a concentration in accounting, consent of the department internship adviser, 2.5 GPA and one semester in residence at the university. Planned and supervised work experience. Credit/No Credit only. May be repeated for credit up to a total of six units.
  

  • ACCT 499 - Independent Study (1-3)

    Prerequisites: BUAD 301 , senior standing and approval of department chair. Open to qualified undergraduate students desiring to pursue directed independent inquiry. May be repeated for credit. Not open to students on academic probation.
  

  • ACCT 502 - Seminar in Accounting Theory (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 301B , classified MCBE status. Effects of professional, governmental, business and social forces on the evolution of accounting theory.
  

  • ACCT 503 - Seminar in Contemporary Accounting Problems (3)

    Prerequisite: classified MCBE status. Current issues in financial reporting, including pronouncements by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Topics will change as new issues in accounting emerge.
  

  • ACCT 505 - Seminar in Auditing (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 402 , classified MCBE status. Auditing theory and practices; professional ethics; auditing standards; Securities and Exchange Commission and stock exchange regulations; auditor’s legal liability; statement trends and techniques.
  

  • ACCT 506 - Seminar in Professional Accounting Communications (3)

    Prerequisite: classified MCBE status. Compilation and composition of accounting reports and client presentations relating to accountants’ working papers, client engagement letters, management advisory reports and prospectuses.
  

  • ACCT 507 - Seminar in Accounting Information Systems (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 307  or equivalent; classified MCBE status. Case studies of computer-based accounting systems used by organizations such as universities, banks, industrial corporations and CPA firms. Accounting information, reports and internal controls.
  

  • ACCT 508 - Seminar in Tax Planning (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 ; classified MCBE status. Substantive provisions of federal law; tax planning from a corporate viewpoint; case studies of the effect of federal tax law on business decisions.
  

  • ACCT 509 - Accounting for Information Technology (3)

    Prerequisite: classified MCBE standing. Information processing procedures to support financial and managerial accounting processes, concepts and standards; preparation of financial statements and management reports; use of financial information for management decision making.
  

  • ACCT 510 - Financial Accounting (3)

    Prerequisite: classified MCBE status. Accumulation, organization and interpretation of financial and quantitative data relevant to the activities of corporate business enterprises; analysis of financial reports; current regulatory reporting requirements with attention to business ethics and an understanding of global reporting issues.
  

  • ACCT 511 - Seminar in Managerial Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 201B  or ACCT 510 ; classified MCBE status. Design and development of cost accounting systems; contemporary cost management concepts; measurement, analysis and use of accounting information for management decisions, with attention to ethical, global and environmental issues in today’s corporate governance. Measurement, analysis and use of information contained in standard and various other cost systems for industry sectors such as manufacturing, distribution, service and retail.
  

  • ACCT 518 - Seminar in International Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 201B   or ACCT 510 ; classified MCBE status. Comparative analysis of accounting principles and practices outside the United States; international financial accounting standards; current problems of international financial reporting, accounting planning and control for international operations; multinational companies.
  

  • ACCT 521 - Seminar in Management Control Systems (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 302  or ACCT 511 ; classified MCBE status. Integrative aspects of accounting, financial and quantitative data for managerial decision-making; long-term, short-term profit planning; budgetary control; cost analysis; financial analysis and planning; taxation; and transfer pricing.
  

  • ACCT 572 - Seminar in Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Federal taxation relating to sales, exchanges and other transfers.
  

  • ACCT 573 - Seminar in Taxation of Property Transactions (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Federal taxation relating to sales, exchanges and other transfers.
  

  • ACCT 574 - Seminar in Taxation of International Business Operations (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Federal taxation relating to U.S. citizens and corporations with foreign source income and of foreign persons with U.S. source income; planning for foreign operations.
  

  • ACCT 575 - Seminar in Estate, Gift, Inheritance Taxes and Estate Planning (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Federal and California death taxes and the planning of personal estates.
  

  • ACCT 576 - Seminar in State and Local Taxation (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Application of interstate income allocations; multi-state tax compact; separate apportionment accounting; foreign country sourced income. California taxes as applied to businesses and individuals.
  

  • ACCT 577 - Seminar in Taxation of Employee Compensation (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Federal taxation relating to employee compensation including pensions and profit sharing, stock options, ESOPs, IRAs, Keoghs, maximum tax 5-year averaging, death benefits, group term life, etc.
  

  • ACCT 578 - Seminar in Taxation of Partnerships (3)

    Prerequisites: ACCT 308 , classified MCBE status. Federal taxation relating to partnerships, estates, trusts and other special entities.
  

  • ACCT 580 - Seminar in Taxation of S Corporations, LLCs and LPPs (3)

    Prerequisite: ACCT 308 . Tax consequences of electing and operating as a subchapter S corporation, including entity level taxes, distributions and computation of basis. Terminating the S corporation election and liquidations.
  

  • ACCT 597 - Project (3)

    Prerequisite: classified MCBE status. Directed independent inquiry. Not open to students on academic probation.
  

  • ACCT 599 - Independent Graduate Research (1-3)

    Prerequisites: classified MCBE status, approval of department chair and Associate Dean. May be repeated for credit. Not open to students on academic probation.

African American Studies

Courses are designated as AFAM in the class schedule.
  

  • AFAM 101 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of General Education (G.E.) Category D.1. Perspective through which people of color have come to see themselves in terms of their own heroes, culture and contributions to societies in which they live, and world society in general. (Same as ASAM 101 / CHIC 101 / WMST 101 )
  

  • AFAM 107 - Introduction to Afro-American Studies (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Aims and objectives of African American studies. Basic terms and references that give substance to African American studies.
  

  • AFAM 108 - Linguistics and Minority Dialects (3)

    (Same as LING 108 )
  
  

  • AFAM 210 - Introduction To Hip Hop (3)

    Origins and influences of hip hop on culture, fashion, movies, television, advertising, attitude, music, dancing and slang among African Americans. The impact of the hip hop culture phenomenon on American and global societies.
  

  • AFAM 301 - African-American Culture (3)

    African cultural characteristics in the New World and contemporary events, including art, ideas, dance and literature.
  

  • AFAM 304 - The Black Family (3)

    Prerequisite: SOCI 101  or completion of G.E. Category D.1. American social conditions that shaped the black family from the African cultural patterns to the family that exists today. Roles of poverty, racism and discrimination. (Same as SOCI 304 )
  

  • AFAM 306 - American Indian Women (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Female role in American Indian tribal lifestyles. Labor divisions, leadership, political and social activities from a number of tribes. Historical and contemporary issues as they affect American Indian women. (Same as WMST 306 )
  

  • AFAM 307 - Research and Writing in Ethnic Studies (3)

    (Same as ASAM 307 )
  

  • AFAM 308 - African American Males in American Social Systems (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Critical examination of the significant life experiences of African American males. Emphasizes family, community, school and broader social systems that affect African American males’ functioning within legal, educational, economic and social environments.
  

  • AFAM 310 - Black Women in America (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Issues in the study of black women in America, including social, political, economic and intellectual development. Historical and contemporary issues as they affect black American women. (Same as WMST 310 )
  

  • AFAM 311 - Intracultural Socialization Patterns (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Patterns of role learning as they vary within subpopulations; changes over time in the values, attitudes and goals of the general culture and of subcultures; stereotypes and realities; understanding and dealing with cultural variation, as well as cultural “norms.” (Same as HUSR 311 ) One or more sections offered online
  

  • AFAM 314 - Pan-African Dance and Movement (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.1. or C.2. Theory and practice of movement of African and Haitian peoples. Movement (dance) as quasi-language in perpetuating the lifestyle of African cultures and cultures of African descent.
  

  • AFAM 317 - Black Politics (3)

    Prerequisite: POSC 100 . Blacks’ struggle for political equality and relief from political oppression. Public policies concerning blacks’ freedoms, liberties and property rights. (Same as POSC 317 )
  

  • AFAM 320 - Black Political Thought (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of the G.E. Category C.2. Black American intellectual from slavery to contemporary times, with special emphasis on black contributions to American political and social thought, as well as their contributions in America’s social development.
  

  • AFAM 321 - Grassroots Planning and Community Development Planning In Minority Communities (3)

    Planning and community development trends in minority communities in urban, suburban and rural areas. Theoretical perspectives and practices embraced by grassroots planners. Public and private sector approaches. Topics include neighborhood planning, community development, economic development and grassroots organizing.
  

  • AFAM 322 - Psychology of African Americans (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Uses psychological principles and practices to guide students’ comprehension of life as an African American. Introduction to a holistic perspective that expands ways of conceptualizing psychology from an African American world view. (Same as PSYC 322 )
  

  • AFAM 324 - African-American Literature (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2. Literary contributions by major black American authors. Contemporary black writers and the recurring themes of protest and quest for identity. (Same ENGL 324 ) Not available for graduate degree credit.
  

  • AFAM 325 - African-American Religions and Spirituality (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. African- American belief systems and denominations. Folk beliefs among Blacks, African-American religious groups, and the role of the Black Church in politics and social change in the Black community. (Same as CPRL 325 )
  

  • AFAM 335 - History of Racism (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Historical roots and current expressions of racism. How racism manifests itself through individual, social, political, economic and religious institutions and proposes methods of combating it.
  

  • AFAM 337 - American Indian Religions and Philosophy (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of the G.E. Category C.2. American Indian religious and philosophic perspectives. Religious interpretations and thought in various facets of belief, ranging from traditional Indian religion to Christianity. Highlights contemporary religious activities. (Same as CPRL 337 ) Not available for graduate degree credit.
  

  • AFAM 346 - The African Experience (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. African history from the origin of the black man and traditional African civilization through the African diaspora to the institutional realities of Africa today. Not available for credit to students who have completed HIST 355 .
  

  • AFAM 356 - African-American Music Appreciation (3)

    Prerequisite: junior/senior standing. Black music in America; the sociological conditions that help produce various forms of black music. (Same as MUS 356 ) One or more sections offered online
  

  • AFAM 357 - Blacks in the Performing Arts (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.1. African- American culture through the performing arts. Examines Blacks in the entertainment industry as a means of understanding and revealing important aspects of African-American culture. (Same as MUS 357 / THTR 357 )
  

  • AFAM 370 - Development of African American Children and Youth (3)

    (Same as CAS 370 )
  
  

  • AFAM 405 - Hollywood v. History: An Interpretive History of Blacks through Film (3)

    Prerequisite: AFAM 107 . Critical study of black images in motion pictures, past and present. Explores the tension between historical Black consciousness, authenticity, imitation and alternative adaptation.
  

  • AFAM 430 - A Social Psychological Study in Ethnic Minority Behavior (3)

    Prerequisites: AFAM 101  or AFAM 107 ; or PSYC 101  . Central role of culture, race and ethnicity in the human condition. Social psychological theory and research provides the context of the course. Cultural pluralism and diversity. (Same as PSYC 430 ) Course offered online.
  

  • AFAM 458A - West Africa and the African Diaspora (3)

    (Same as HIST 458A )
  

  • AFAM 458B - Southern Africa in the 20th Century (3)

    (Same as HIST 458B )
  

  • AFAM 458C - African History Since 1935 (3)

    (Same as HIST 458C )
  

  • AFAM 485 - Schools, Education and Ethnic Minority Groups (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.5. Ways in which the constraints of formal schooling affect the behaviors and attitudes of ethnic minority group members. Role of the community and family in school readiness and the psychological consequences of schooling. One or more sections offered online.
  

  • AFAM 490 - Ethnic Studies Senior Seminar (3)

    Prerequisites: completion of G.E. Categories C.2, D.1, D.5, E; completion of African American Studies core requirements. Required senior seminar for Ethnic Studies majors with an option in African American, Asian American or Chicana/o Studies.
  

  • AFAM 499 - Independent Study (1-3)

    Prerequisites: junior/senior standing and acceptance of the subject by department chair and instructor directing the study.

American Studies

Courses are designated as AMST in the class schedule.
  

  • AMST 101 - Introduction to American Culture Studies (3)

    Concepts of interdisciplinary culture studies, focusing on analysis of cultural change in complex, literate society, American culture, including cross-cultural comparisons. Popular culture, subcultures, regionalism, myths and symbols, and culture and personality. One or more sections offered online.
  

  • AMST 201 - Introduction to American Studies (3)

    With the concept of culture as a unifying principle, focus is on four separate time periods in order to provide the framework for an understanding of American civilization. Several different kinds of documents will be used to illustrate the nature and advantages of an interdisciplinary approach.
  

  • AMST 300 - Introduction to American Popular Culture (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of General Education (G.E.) Category D.1. Historical exploration of popular culture in America as it both reflects and contributes to the search for meaning in everyday life. Heroes, myths of success, symbols of power, images of romance, consumerism, race and sexual identity. One or more sections offered online.
  

  • AMST 301 - American Character (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of the G.E. Category D.1. Cultural environment and personality. Extent to which there have been and continue to be distinctly American patterns of belief and behavior. Similarities, as well as class, ethnic, sex and regional differences among Americans. One or more sections offered online.
  

  • AMST 312 - Multicultural Identities and Women’s Experience (3)

    Diversity of women’s experiences, focusing on both historical and contemporary analysis of African American, Asian American, Latina and white ethnic women. Course materials include autobiography, fiction, visual and popular arts, and feminist cultural criticism. (Same as WMST 312 )
  

  • AMST 318 - Hollywood and America: Using Film as a Cultural Document (3)

    Hollywood as a cultural institution. Concentrating on films of selected periods, the course analyzes Hollywood’s ability to create and transmit symbols and myths, and legitimize new values and patterns of behavior.
  

  • AMST 320 - Women in American Society (3)

    Socio-cultural history of women and women’s movements in American society. Emphasizes 19th and 20th centuries. Cultural models of American womanhood - maternal, domestic, sexual, social - their development and recent changes.
  

  • AMST 345 - The American Dream (3)

    Interdisciplinary analysis, in settings both historical and contemporary, of the myth and reality surrounding the notion of America as a land of unparalleled and unlimited possibilities, especially in the achievement of personal material success.
  

  • AMST 346 - American Culture Through Spectator Sports (3)

    Shifting meaning of organized sports in changing American society. Includes analysis of sports rituals, symbols and heroes. Cultural significance of amateur and professional football, baseball and basketball.
  

  • AMST 350 - Seminar in Theory and Method of American Studies (3)

    Prerequisites: AMST 201 , AMST 301 . Understanding and appreciation of methodology, theories of society and images of humanity as they affect American studies contributions to scholarship. Fulfills course requirement of the university upper-division baccalaureate writing requirement for American studies majors.
  

  • AMST 377 - Prejudice and American Culture (3)

    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. Concepts and methods of American culture studies as tools for better understanding the origins and appeal of intolerance, past and present. Particular focus on racism, ethnic and religious bias, sexism and homophobia.
  

  • AMST 395 - California Cultures (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. How various cultures - Native American, European, Latino, Asian, African- American - have interacted in California’s past and present. Cultural diversity in frontiers and borderlands; shifting meanings of gender; function of regional and racial myths.
  

  • AMST 401T - Proseminar in American Studies (3)

    Prerequisites: AMST 201 , AMST 301 . Relationship between theory and application. Analytic readings and research. Check the class schedule for topics being considered. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • AMST 402 - Religion and American Culture (3)

    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. Interdisciplinary analysis of the religious dimensions of American core culture from colonial settlement to the present. Puritanism; rationalization, secularization and feminization; the conversion experience, revivalism and revitalization; fundamentalism and modernism; and civil religion.
  

  • AMST 404 - Americans and Nature (3)

    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Examines shifting attitudes toward the natural environment among a range of Americans over time, from native inhabitants and early colonists to rural and urban dwellers today. Topics include agrarian expansion, industrialization, transcendentalism, tourism, humans’ roles in “natural” disasters and the history of environmental activism.
  

  • AMST 405 - Images of Crime and Violence in American Culture (3)

    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Cultural analysis of meanings ascribed to law and order, authority, violence and punishment in the American past and present. Examined in selected symbols, images, traditions and realities.
  

  • AMST 407 - American Humor (3)

    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Cultural significance of various types of American humor in past and present settings. How humor reinforces existing culture and also serves as an index and agent of cultural change. Humor’s relationship to ethnicity, region, social class and sex.
  

  • AMST 409 - Consumer Culture (3)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.3. Consumerism in America, from the Boston Tea Party to today, from an interdisciplinary perspective using literature, music, clothing, advertisements and consumer-based social movements to analyze the power of consumer culture.
  

  • AMST 410 - The Office: White-Collar Work in American Culture (3)

    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion on G.E. Category D.3. Interdisciplinary exploration of history and culture of white-collar work through film, television, novels, ethnographies and historical works. Topics include: work and identity; gender, race and corporate hierarchy; work/life balance; corporate ethics; flexible work arrangements; and layoffs.
  

  • AMST 413 - The Shifting Role and Image of the American Male (3)

    Effect of economic, social, political and cultural changes on American males. Emphasizes 19th and 20th centuries.
  

  • AMST 416 - Southern California Culture: A Study of American Regionalism (3)

    Regionalism as a concept and as a fact of American life. Theories of regionalism measured against a study of Southern California and one other distinct American region.
  

  • AMST 419 - Love in America (3)

    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. Changes in the emotional lives of American men and women from the 17th century to the present. Enduring and innovative views on the nature of love and the cultural forces that shape its “legitimate” and “illegitimate” expression.
  

  • AMST 420 - Childhood and Family in American Culture (3)

    Historical and contemporary culture study of childhood and family in America. Idea of childhood, changing concepts of child-rearing, growing up in the American past, the impact of modernization, mother and home as dominant cultural symbols.
  

  • AMST 423 - The Search for Community (3)

    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. Historical transformation and modern reformulation of community in America. Relationship of the individual to the larger social group. Freedom, need to belong, alienation and search for identity.
  

  • AMST 433 - Visual Arts in Contemporary America (3)

    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Visual phenomena in America as they reveal changes in recent American culture. The “high” arts (painting, sculpture) as contrasted with the “low” arts (advertising, television); the artist as innovator; alienation; the business world; and American values in art.
 

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