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POLI 17H Grassroots Democracy: Leadership and Power - HONORS
4 Units
POLI 75 Principles and Procedures of the 4 Units P Justice System
Advisory: EWRT 211 and READ 211, or ESL 272 and 273.
(Also listed as ADMJ 75 and PARA 75. Students may enroll in only one
department for credit.)
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Procedures followed by law enforcement and courts in criminal cases; constitutional principles governing those procedures.
POLI 95 Overview of American Law 4 Units
Advisory: EWRT 211 and READ 211, or ESL 272 and 273.
(Also listed as ADMJ 95 and PARA 95. Students may enroll in only one department for credit.)
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Overview of the major substantive areas of American law: contracts, constitutional law, corporations, criminal law, family law, property, torts, wills and estates.
Psychology
PSYC 1 General Psychology 4 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).
This course examines the factors influencing human behavior including biological and neurological basis of behavior, gender, life span development, cognition and consciousness, attention, sensation, perception, learning, memory, intelligence, motivation, emotion, stress, personality, psychological disorders and psychotherapy, social psychology, and applied psychology.
PSYC 2 Research Methods in Psychology 6 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.) Prerequisite: PSYC 1; and PSYC 15, SOC 15, MATH 10 or MATH 10H. Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Five hours lecture, three hours laboratory (96 hours total per quarter).
This course is an introduction to the scientific method and research design as applied to psychological topics, including developing research questions, comprehensive literature review, generating a testable hypothesis, design considerations including ethics, data collection, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings. Students will apply the steps of the scientific method as they design, conduct, analyze and report findings of their own psychological research project.
PSYC 3 An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology 4 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; PSYC 1.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course provides an overview of theory and research in Cognitive Psychology. Topics related to cognition including: perception, language acquisition and development, reasoning and decision-making, attention and learning and memory will be investigated and applied.
PSYC 4 Abnormal Psychology 4 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).
This course explores psychological disorders and treatments, past and present, emphasizing current paradigms for the purpose of understanding what constitutes abnormal behavior, how disorders are assessed, classified, diagnosed and treated. Cultural, social, biomedical, gender and age influences will be addressed.
PSYC 5 Introduction to Theories of Personality 4 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; PSYC 1.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course is a survey of major theories and concepts of personality. Topics include Freudian, neo-Freudian, interpersonal, dispositional, behavioral and phenomenological theories.
PSYC 6 Introduction to Humanistic Psychology 4 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).
This is a survey of humanistic, existential-phenomenological psychology and Eastern thought. The course is a cross-cultural survey of humanistic personality principles including Western European existential-phenomenological psychology and the current and historical impact of Eastern thought.
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ICS 27 or ICS 27H or POLI 17.)
(Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.) Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. (Also listed as ICS 27H. Students may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.)
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Applied and theoretical training for students of social justice, this course is a multidisciplinary exploration of social change and popular democratic action with a focus on the meaning and development of political power in modern democracies. Topics to be explored include: gender and race sensitive approaches to leadership style, institutional and mass forums for civic engagement, mass recruitment and mobilization, consciousness development, democratic ethics, and strategic and tactical action. As an honors course the students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain deeper insight into the issues raised in this class.
POLI 60A Introduction to Community Organizing 4 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.
(Also listed as SOSC 60A. Students may enroll in either course, but not both, for credit.)
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Community organizing efforts by people working together to improve their campuses, neighborhoods, and cities is the focus of this course. The course prepares students at an introductory level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The introductory history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing sometimes using selected case studies as illustration will be explored. Ideas from the current context for organizing, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and new methodologies used in community organizing will be analyzed and then applied.
(Off campus field trips may be required.)
POLI 60B Intermediate Community Organizing 4 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; POLI 60A or SOSC 60A.
(Also listed as SOSC 60B. Students may enroll in either course, but not both, for credit.)
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Community organizing efforts by people working together to improve their campuses, neighborhoods, and cities is the focus of this course. The course prepares students at an intermediate level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing, sometimes using selected case studies as illustration, will be explored at an intermediate level. Ideas from the current context for organizing, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and new methodologies used in community organizing will be analyzed and then applied.
(Off campus field trips may be required.)
POLI 60C Advanced Community Organizing
4 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;
POLI 60B or SOSC 60B.
(Also listed as SOSC 60C. Students may enroll in either course, but not both, for credit.)
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Community organizing efforts by people working together to improve their campuses, neighborhoods, and cities is the focus of this course. The course prepares students at an advanced level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing, sometimes using selected case studies as illustration, will be explored at an advanced level. Ideas from the current context for organizing, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and new methodologies used in community organizing will be analyzed and then applied.
(Off campus field trips may be required.)
POLI 64
POLI 64X
POLI 64Y
POLI 64Z
Political Science Internship
1 Unit 2 Units 3 Units 4 Units
Advisory: POLI 1 or POLI 1H.
Three hours laboratory per unit of supervised internship in an authorized office or agency (36 hours total for each unit of credit per quarter).
This is a program of work experience and studies in a political office, government agency, or community organization under the supervision of the instructor and office, agency, or organization personnel.
2O21-2O22 DE ANZA COLLEGE CATALOG
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All courses are for unit credit and apply to a De Anza associate degree unless otherwise noted.
 
















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