2012-2013 Catalog (all pages) - Ohlone College

110 7 CURRICULUM GUIDES
GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
This curriculum is designed to prepare students to explore the condition of
women’s lives, in of themselves, in relation to each other, and to men. We will
assume that these conditions are not the same for all women, that they change
historically and oftentimes according to culture, race, ethnicity, class, or
sexuality.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Explain key issues in gender and women’s studies, including women’s
equality and political change; masculinity and femininity; racism and racial
equality; marriage and the family; sexuality; the representation of gender,
race, and sexuality in the mass media; differences between women; and
global human rights and violence against women.
2. Evaluate feminist theoretical perspectives, and compare and contrast
multiple approaches to the study of women and gender construction.
3. Analyze intersections between gender and other social and cultural
identities, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, national origin,
religion, class, and sexuality.
4. Articulate connections between global, regional, and local issues, and their
relationship to women’s experiences and to human rights, with an
awareness of the importance of context.
5. Evaluate the ways in which societal institutions and power structures impact
the material realities of women's lives.
WS-101 Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies 3
Choose three courses from the following: 9
CHS-112 Contemporary Issues of Chicanas (3)
HIST-119A Bad Girls: Women in America Before 1890 (3)
HIST-119B Bad Girls: Women in America From 1890 (3)
SPCH-108 Gender Communication (3)
WS-115 Women in Literature (3)
WS-120 Women of the Western World (3)
WS-132 Introduction to US Muslim Women and Islam (3)
WS-150 Women’s Health Issues (3)
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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
GIS is a computer-based database management system for capture, storage,
retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data. Students who complete this
program will be better prepared to map data for decision-making in business,
environmental protection, risk assessment, utility planning and management,
emergency response, land use planning, transportation planning, delivery route
planning, real estate, and crime prevention.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Distinguish the characteristics and key principles of geography, specifically
the subdivision of cartography.
2. Develop an understanding of uses, organization, and analysis of
geographical data.
3. Select appropriate techniques and technology to analyze geographic
problems.
4. Demonstrate technical skills in data management including data input,
editing, query, analysis, and display.
5. Produce and arrange a GIS project using GIS technical skills.
GEOG-101 Physical Geography 4
GEOG-120 Introduction to Global Positioning Systems (GPS) 1
GEOG-121 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2
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GEOGRAPHY: CULTURAL
This Certificate of Accomplishment signifies that students have received basic
training in regional variations of the world, as well as human modification of the
physical environment. Upon completion of this certificate students will have lab
experience with map analysis, weather, and the earth’s landform features and
will be educated in current theories of how different cultures use, abuse, or
otherwise change the earth. This certificate provides an excellent background
for careers in public policy and environmental impact.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the background, the sequence, and
effects of the origin and spread of people as users and change agents of the
earth, with particular reference to how different cultures have used and
interacted with the natural environment.
2. Discuss and describe the major concepts in human geography including
place, space, scale, landscape, etc.
3. Demonstrate and explain important characteristics of the major world
regions and discuss and compare the major issues confronting that region.
4. Assess earth’s physical environment and explain how various physical forces
shape those environments.
5. Evaluate the components and elements of the natural environment and the
interrelationships of those components and environments as they relate to
the continuance of all life on earth.
ENVS-108 Human Ecology 3
GEOG-101 Physical Geography 4
GEOG-102 Cultural Geography 3
GEOG-104 The World’s Nations 3
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GEOLOGY
This Certificate of Accomplishment signifies that students have received basic
knowledge in geological sciences and skills, which facilitate paraprofessional
employment such as geological technician and geological field assistant. It also
provides a good foundation for continued study in the field of geology.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Demonstrate scientific literacy by defining and explaining the major steps in
the scientific method of investigation, specifically the difference between
empirical data, interpretation, testable hypothesis, theory, paradigm,
speculation, and pseudo-science.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the geologic time scale and methods of
measuring geologic time.
3. List, explain, and evaluate global and local (county-wide) geological hazards
such as earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and seismic sea waves in terms
of appropriate geological processes and the theory of plate tectonics.
GEOG-121 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2
GEOL-101 Introduction to Geology 4
GEOL-102 Introduction to Oceanography 3
GEOL-102L Oceanography Laboratory 1
GEOL-103 Paleontology and Dinosaurs 3
GEOL-103L Earth History and Paleontology Laboratory 1
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2012-2013 OHLONE COLLEGE CATALOG