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Two hours lecture for the two units course (24 hours total per quarter); two hours lecture, three hours laboratory for the three units course (60 hours total per quarter). Continuation of Literary Magazine I, National Edition (EWRT 65A or EWRT 65AX), with emphasis on individual and team leadership in magazine work, including screening, evaluation and selection of fiction, poetry, art and other submissions for national literary journal as well as coordinating subcommittees in copy editing, issue planning, management, production, or design.
Environmental Science
ESCI 1 Environmental Science
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EWRT 68A
EWRT 68AX
Literary Magazine I, Student Edition
2 Units 3 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
An introductory course designed to expose students to environmental science. Human interactions with the environment and their consequences for living and nonliving systems will be examined. Topics will include evolution, ecology, biodiversity, human population dynamics, natural resource use, pollution, environmental degradation, climate change, marine and freshwater resources, and environmental policy.
(One-day field trip outside of scheduled class time may be required for this course.)
ESCI 1L Environmental Science Laboratory 1 Unit
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.) Prerequisite: ESCI 1 (may be taken concurrently).
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Three hours laboratory (36 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to environmental science as a branch of the sciences including the scientific method and its relation to the scientific field in a laboratory and field setting. Applications of scientific, environmental, ecological and sustainability principles as they relate to human societies will be explored.
ESCI 19 Environmental Biology 5 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to environmental biology as a branch of the environmental sciences and its relation to the scientific field. Review of the principles of environmental biology, ecology and conservation as they relate to natural resource use, the biodiversity crisis, pollution, human population, climate change and the impacts on all cultural, ethnic and gender groups.
(Field trip outside of scheduled class time may be required for this course.)
ESCI 21 Practices of Environmental Stewardship 5 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
A focus on the California Floristic Province, emphasizing the ways California’s biodiversity is sampled and studied. Includes hands-on fieldwork surveying vegetation and animal populations, discussion of societal impacts of biodiversity loss and conservation, and the importance of biodiversity conservation today. (Off-campus field trips may be required.)
ESCI 30 Introduction to Conservation Biology 5 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to biodiversity and conservation biology as a branch of the environmental sciences. This course will focus on species richness, genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity through the exploration of contemporary biodiversity and conservation issues. Adaptive, community-based conservation techniques applied to develop practical problem-solving approaches to the biodiversity crisis including habitat fragmentation and biological monitoring. In addition cultural, economic and philosophical aspects of biodiversity conservation will be explored.
(Off-campus field trips will be required.)
ESCI 50 Introduction to Urban Ecology 4 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course examines how nature and wildlife in urban spaces face different constraints than that of “untouched” wilderness and aims to introduce the intersection of nature and human-constructed civilizations. Students will learn about the methods of analysis in urban ecology and apply their knowledge to a case study.
ESCI 54 Environmental Analysis 3 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Three hours lecture (36 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the data analysis techniques, protocol, and equipment utilized in Environmental Science. Students will apply the data analysis techniques utilized in the preservation, protection, and restoration of environmental systems.
ESCI 56 Plant Survey Techniques 3 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Three hours lecture (36 hours total per quarter).
This course examines the plant survey techniques and plant community ecology principles utilized in wildlife science corridor and landscape design, preservation, or restoration. Students will apply these plant survey techniques to assist in the preservation, protection, and restoration of native species and ecosystems.
(Formerly EWRT 68 and EWRT 68X respectively.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Two hours lecture for the two units course (24 hours total per quarter); two hours lecture, three hours laboratory for the three units course (60 hours total per quarter). Collaborative evaluation and selection of fiction, poetry, photography, drawings, and other literary and artistic work for student edition of literary magazine. Emphasis on layout, design, production, publicity, event planning, and magazine distribution along with soliciting, submission management, manuscript evaluation, and copy editing.
EWRT 68B Literary Magazine II, Student Edition EWRT 68BX
2 Units 3 Units
Prerequisite: EWRT 68A or EWRT 68AX.
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Two hours lecture for the two units course (24 hours total per quarter); two hours lecture, three hours laboratory for the three units course (60 hours total per quarter). Continuation of Literary Magazine I, Student Edition (EWRT 68A or EWRT 68AX) with emphasis on genre-specific and specialized work in layout, design, production, publicity, event planning, and magazine distribution along with soliciting, submission management, manuscript selection, screening, and copy editing. Collaborative evaluation of fiction, poetry, photography, drawings, and other literary and artistic work for student edition of literary magazine.
EWRT 68C EWRT 68CX
Editorial Leadership Literary Magazine, Student Edition
2 Units 3 Units
Prerequisite: EWRT 68A or EWRT 68AX.
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Two hours lecture for the two units course (24 hours total per quarter); two hours lecture, three hours laboratory for the three units course (60 hours total per quarter). Continuation of Literary Magazine I, Student Edition (EWRT 68A or EWRT 68AX), with emphasis on independent and team leadership in magazine organizational processes including layout, design, production, publicity, event planning, and magazine distribution along with soliciting, submission management, manuscript selection, screening, and copy editing. Includes collaborative evaluation of fiction, poetry, photography, drawings, and other literary and artistic work for student edition of literary magazine.
EWRT 77
EWRT 77X
EWRT 77Y
Special Projects in English
1 Unit 2 Units 3 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and division dean.
Three hours laboratory for each unit of credit (36 hours total for each unit of credit per quarter).
Pass-No Pass (P-NP) course.
This course includes special reading, writing, or study projects in English as determined in consultation with the instructor.
EWRT 200 Fundamentals of Writing
Credit course - Does not apply to De Anza Associate degree. Requisite/Advisory: None.
Five hours lecture (60 hours total per quarter).
Pass-No Pass (P-NP) course.
5 Units
Practice focused, purposeful writing in several formats to different audiences with a variety of sentence structures responding to, engaging with or inspired by written or visual texts. Edit writing to correct errors in the major conventions of Standard Written English.
EWRT 211 Preparatory Writing Skills
Credit course - Does not apply to De Anza Associate degree. Requisite/Advisory: None.
Five hours lecture (60 hours total per quarter).
Pass-No Pass (P-NP) course.
5 Units
Develops the abilities necessary for college-level writing by introducing students to critical thinking via text-based analysis. Essay construction including thesis statements and paragraph organization and development, as well as focusing on the mechanics of writing, such as sentence-level skills will be covered.
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All courses are for unit credit and apply to a De Anza associate degree unless otherwise noted.
4 Units