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2011 – 2012Course DescriptionsHIST 436 PSYCHOLOGY ANDHISTORY OF EAST ASIANWARRIOR CULTURES (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: Upper division standing orConsent of instructorExamines the psychological andhistorical roots of warrior cultures inEast Asia. Characteristics such as duty,enlightenment, honor, loyalty, anddiscipline will be examined in the contextof the individual and group psychologyof warrior cultures throughout history.Psychological and historical conceptionsof violence, aggression, and strategywill also be explored. Students will beencouraged to relate values derived fromAsian warrior cultures to their own lives,while reflecting on the applicability ofthese ideas to modern life.Same as PSY 436GenEd: D, E, InterdisciplinaryHIST 442 THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (3)Three hours lecture per weekExamines the dispersal of Africans to othercontinents over the last two thousandyears. Special attention will be paid tothe African slave trade, identity formation,and nationalism. The course employsinterdisciplinary methods borrowed fromanthropology, art history, linguistics, andliterature.Same as ANTH 442GenEd: D, InterdisciplinaryHIST 445 CHICANO CHILD ANDADOLESCENT (4)Three hours lecture and two hours servicelearning per weekExamines the socio-cultural experiencesand historical political realities pertinent tothe daily lives of Chicano, Mexican-origin,and/or Latino children and adolescents.Focus is on historical periods, events, andpolicies affecting youth populations, itsdemography, migration and immigrationpatterns. Consideration of contemporaryissues and effective educational andcultural practices will be used as aresource for teacher knowledge andpertinent classroom projects. Field studyrequirement involves working in a childcenteredsetting or related service project.Same as EDUC 445, CHS 445GenEd: C3B, D, InterdisciplinaryHIST 451 HISTORY OF AFRICASINCE 1800 (3)Three hours lecture per weekExamines the social, political, economic,and cultural history of Africa since 1800,from the era of the slave trade, throughthe imposition of colonial rule, to theestablishment of modern nation states.GenEd: DHIST 452 HISTORY OF SOUTHERNAFRICA SINCE 1600 (3)Three hours lecture per weekExamines the social, political, economic,and cultural history of southern Africafrom the pre-colonial era, through theestablishment of a permanent Europeanpresence, to the establishment of modernnation states.GenEd: DHIST 470 PEOPLE AND EVERYDAY LIFEIN EARLY AMERICA (3)Three hours lecture per weekThe course focuses on those ordinarymen and women whose daily worksand activities made what Americansociety was. It covers the time span fromthe 1600s to the early 1800s. Topicsinclude, but not limited to, popularreligion, work ethics and labor systems,family and marriage, festivities, leisure,and games, law and order, mass-controlpolicies, crime and punishment, trades,craftsmanship, farming and industries,issues of gender, race, and ethnicities,early popular unrest, collective actions,and protests.HIST 490 SPECIAL TOPICS (3)Three hours lecture per weekInvestigates a prominent topic of historicalinterest. Topics vary by semester.Repeatable by topic.HIST 491 HISTORIOGRAPHY (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: HIST 280, Senior standing,or Consent of instructorThis course surveys major historians andtheir theoretical and methodologicalapproaches to the discipline from thenineteenth century to the present day. Thecourse is designed to update students tothe most influential theories in the studyof history. Included in this survey aretheoretical approaches based on thewritings of Braudel, Foucault, Freud, andMarx.HIST 492 INTERNSHIP/SERVICELEARNING (1-3)Provides students with ‘hands-on’experience and/or Service Learningopportunities in the historical field.Student Option: Graded or Credit/No CreditHIST 494 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH (1-3)Prerequisites: Junior standing and Consentof instructorIndependent reading and/or researchproject under the direction of a facultymember. Repeatable.Student Option: Graded or Credit/No CreditHIST 497 DIRECTED STUDIES (1-3)Prerequisites: Junior standing and Consentof instructorExploring an important historical topicunder the direction of a faculty member.Significant written reports expected.Topics vary and repeatable.Student Option: Graded or Credit/No CreditHIST 499 CAPSTONE IN HISTORY (1-3)One to three hours per week.Prerequisites: Upper division standing as aHistory Major or Consent of the program.Under the supervision of a faculty advisor,students complete a project approved bythe faculty advisor which will integrateprior course work with the generalexpectations of the Program. Completedprojects may be disseminated to thecampus community.Student Option: Graded or Credit/No CreditHealthHLTH 100 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY (1)One hour lecture per weekProvides working knowledge of theterminologies used in the medical field.HLTH 101 OVERVIEW OF HEALTH CAREINDUSTRY AND ITS DELIVERY (3)Three hours lecture per weekCovers the conceptual basis for the healthcare industry, the structure of the UShealth service systems and their functions,operations and service deliveries topopulations and individuals. Discusses theissues with the US health care system andother countries’ health care systems andthe efforts in health care reform.HLTH 102 COMMUNITY HEALTHORGANIZATIONS ANDTHEIR FUNCTIONS (2)Two hours lecture per weekApplies a holistic wellness perspectiveto community health and focuses oncommunity strengths and resilience ratherthan risks and disease. Topics includecommunity health organizations, models,administration, and their services as wellas instruction on the basic principlesand practical design and managementelements that are needed to createeffective community-based healthorganizations through effective coalitionsand partnerships for the purposes ofcommunity wellness.264 www.csuci.edu • California State University Channel Islands • 2011 - 2012 Catalog