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• Advisory: ESL 905 or ESL 975.

This noncredit ESL course is mirrored to the credit course ESL 28-Academic Vocabulary Skills. This course is designed for noncredit students who wish to transition to credit coursework and develop their techniques for understanding academic vocabulary and using English words idiomatically. It emphasizes context and usage of vocabulary from the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000) or a similar corpus. Students will learn to comprehend and use approximately 200 words from the AWL to improve their reading comprehension, speaking, listening, and writing skills for academic success.

This course prepares students to pass all three parts of the US Citizenship Test: 1) English Reading and Writing, 2) Civics and History, 3) Personal Questions.

This high intermediate/advanced ESL course introduces English language speaking, writing, listening, reading, vocabulary, and study skills as related to specific academic and career pathways. Students in this course are introduced to critical thinking, teamwork, cultural awareness and autonomous learning strategies that are transferable to college and career pathways.

This high intermediate/advanced ESL course focuses on English language speaking, writing, listening, reading, vocabulary and study skills as related to specific academic and career pathways. Students produce written work and oral presentations relevant to their field as they apply critical thinking, cultural awareness, and autonomous learning strategies that are transferable to college and career pathways.

Students are recommended to complete ESL 994 prior to taking this course.

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IGETC AREA 4 (Social & Behavioral Sciences) and 7 (Ethnic Studies). IGETC credit for ETH ST 1 starts effective Fall 2023. Students who took ETH ST 1 prior to Fall 2023 will not receive IGETC credit for Area 4 and/or 7.

Ethnic Studies is the critical and interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with a focus on the experiences and perspectives of Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latina/o/x Americans, and other people of color within and beyond the United States. This course explores key theories, scholarly works, and ideas that have formed the basis of the broad multidisciplinary field of Ethnic Studies. Various perspectives are examined to discover the ways in which race and racism have been, and continue to be, powerful social, cultural and political forces, and their connections to other axes of stratification including gender, class, sexuality and legal status. This course examines the effects of institutional racism, coloniality, marginalization, socio-economic and political discrimination, and ethnocentrism on American ethnic and racial groups.

IGETC AREA 4 (Social & Behavioral Sciences)

This introductory-level course provides an interdisciplinary exploration of historical and contemporary Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x political, social, and cultural practices and experiences in the United States. This course examines the foundations and theories of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies and contemporary approaches to the study of Chicana/o/x/and Latina/o/x communities. Course topics include history, social movements, politics, community, art, spirituality, cultural production, intersectional identity formation, gender, sexuality, class, family, and social justice, and agency and self-affirmation. Moreover, the course critically analyzes race and ethnicity, racialization, equity, ethno-centrism, Eurocentrism, and white supremacy.

IGETC AREA 4 (Social & Behavioral Sciences)

This course introduces students to the field of African American and Black studies. As a survey course, it traces the historical and current social conditions and contributions of Black and African-descended people in the U.S. and provides broad and interdisciplinary perspectives examining and exploring major figures, ideas, issues, and methodologies central to understanding the African American experience. Course topics include history, social movements, politics, community, art, spirituality, cultural production, intersectional identity formation, gender, sexuality, class, family, social justice, and agency and self-affirmation. Moreover, the course critically analyzes race and ethnicity, racialization, equity, ethno-centrism, Eurocentrism, and white supremacy. Students will develop critical tools, frameworks, and vocabulary for further study in the field.

This course is designed to serve both students of fashion design and fashion merchandising in preparing them to become familiar with the nature of fashion design and its components and to understand how environmental factors influence the style, color, texture, and design of garments. Fashion materials, theories of fashion adoption, sources of design inspiration, and manufacturing a garment will be discussed.

• Advisory: FASHN 3.

Emphasis on unique and creative designs with manipulation of appropriate and more difficult fabrics. Students will gain more confidence and speed in their design developments, pattern making and construction.

• Advisory: FASHN 3.

This course explores traditional and contemporary tailoring techniques as applied to the design and construction of men’s and women’s coats, suits, jackets and other tailored garments. It includes a study of the ready-to-wear and retail clothing fields, with emphasis on the individual as a consumer of tailored garments.

• Advisory: FASHN 6A or FASHN 13.

This course is designed to give students of Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising the opportunity to learn how to plan and develop a Fashion Show.

• Advisory: FASHN 6A.

This course covers the principles of draping and the ability to develop a pattern in three-dimensional form, opening new ways of designing and creating and recognizing the qualities of a well-designed garment.

• Advisory: FASHN 13.

This course is a continuation of Fashion 13 and deals with more complex and original designs for draping. Students will learn how to analyze and interpret complicated designs by means of draping and gain enough experience and speed to create and develop more advanced designs.

Apparel worn as national dress by people all over the world is surveyed. The origins and functions of clothing in different cultures are examined. Creative designing is inspired by ethnic costumes.