World Studies: Popular Uprisings & Revolutions in World Cinema
Instructor: Daniel Dickinson
This class will examine popular uprisings and revolutions from various periods of history and how they have been portrayed on film. Class work will include film viewing and analysis; readings and lectures; weekly homework; 3 quizzes; a midterm project; and a final exam.

U.S. Government
Instructor: Rikki Edelman
This class will encompass a comprehensive study of national, state, and local government with additional foci on law, economics, and contemporary issues. Included will be overviews of the origin and modern use of The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, the three branches of government, and civil rights and liberties. This course will require debate and class participation in addition to two argumentative five-paragraph essays as well as the required research project.

US Studies: Early California History
Instructor: Jason Leach
This class is designed to be an interdisciplinary approach to California History up until about 1900. Students will be required to do either a research paper or a creative project. There will be periodic quizzes and 3-4 hours of homework per week.

Psychology: Personality
Instructor: Renee Beck
Personality: the amalgamation of beliefs, emotional and thought patterns, temperament and behaviors that make each person a unique individual. Are we born that way? How do we develop? Where do our beliefs come from? How are we similar to and different from other people? How much of our personalities are conscious and how much unconscious? What is the unconscious? We’ll explore a few theories of personality structure and development. We’ll take different personality tests. Assignments will include weekly readings and writings (including some self-analysis), regular dream-journaling, a few quizzes and tests, a creative arts project, and a 3-4 page research paper.

Minimum requirements for all social science classes:
Minimum requirements for all 5-credit social science classes: work on note-taking skills; critical thinking and discussion; and a research paper or project with a minimum of 2 sources and a list of works cited. All classes contain a geography component.