General Studies

200. Professional Experience and Community Service (1-3)
Cr/NC

Prerequisites: Twelve units of college credit, minimum grade point average of 2.0, concurrent participation in professional or community service activity, and approval of course contract.

Academic work designed with faculty approval to complement concurrent paid or unpaid professional or community service experience. Information and course contract forms available in Division of Undergraduate Studies. Applications must be submitted to the Division prior to the end of the first week of classes. May be used to satisfy major or minor requirements only upon written approval of department chair. No combination of General Studies 200 and 400 in excess of six units may be counted for credit toward a bachelor's degree.

275. Honors Special Study (1)

For further information contact the Division of Undergraduate Studies.

Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program.

Special study associated with a lower division course offered as an honors section, and serving as an extension of the course.

UPPER DIVISION COURSES
(Intended for Undergraduates)

330. Plagues Through the Ages (3) I, II

Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Political, economic, religious, and cultural effects of disease. Significant role epidemics and disease played in development of civilizations from beginning of recorded history to present.

340. Confronting AIDS (3)

Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.A. Natural Sciences and Quantitative Reasoning, II.B. Social and Behavioral Sciences, and II.C. Humanities.

Examines the AIDS epidemic from historical, epidemiological, biological, medical, psychological, political, legal, and ethical perspectives.

400. Professional Experience and Community Service (1-3)
Cr/NC

Prerequisites: Upper division standing, minimum grade point aver- age of 2.0, concurrent participation in professional or community service activity and approval of course contract. Completion of prerequisites required.

Academic work designed with faculty approval to complement concurrent paid or unpaid professional or community service experience. Information and course forms available in Division of Undergraduate Studies. Applications must be submitted to the Division prior to the end of the first week of classes. May be used to satisfy major or minor requirements only upon written approval of department chair. No combination of General Studies 200 and 400 in excess of six units may be counted for credit toward a bachelor's degree.

410. Civilization Through Travel-Study (2-3)

Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

Civilization through faculty-supervised foreign travel-study. Requires lecture attendance, excursions and site visits, examinations and written reports.

420. Disability and Society (3) I, II

Prerequisites: Psychology 101, Sociology 101, or Anthropology 101, and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Range of human experience of handicapped individuals; attitudes toward handicapped individuals; interrelationship between societal institutions and needs of disabled people; historical response to these needs and contemporary issues with particular emphasis on normalization, integration, and community living.

450. Life and Culture Semester Abroad (3)

Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

Life and culture of a foreign country through an approved "semester abroad" program. Requires lecture attendance, excursions and site visits, examinations and written reports.

Interdisciplinary Courses

General Studies courses (250 or 350) are interdisciplinary selected topics courses.

Students interested in enrolling in General Studies 250 or 350 should contact the faculty adviser of the department(s) offering the course for further details.