UCSB Summer Sessions Off Campus

San Fernando Valley Center—High Tech High, 17111 Victory Blvd., Lake Balboa, CA

2007 Course Listing

Note: All courses are live broadcasts unless noted otherwise. In GOLD, course location is noted as Los Angls

Course Title

Description

Lecture

Disc Section

EC#

ANTH 2

Intro to Cultural Anthropology

This 4-unit course examines the nature of culture through a survey of the range of cultural phenomena, including material culture, social organization, religion, and other topics.

MTWR

2:00-3:10

Fri

9:30-10:40

17632

ANTH 109

Human Universals

This 4-unit course takes up the issues related to the human universals: patterns of behavior, psyche, society, or culture. The course will examine the problems of defining universals, constructing a list of universals, and determining the causes, consequences, meaning, and significances of universals in understanding human society, culture and behavior. The topic is controversial and is debated among anthropologists and other scholars of human behavior.

MTWR

9:30-10:50

None

00166

CLASS 130

Comedy and Satire in Translation (rebroadcast)

This 4-unit course covers the comic playwrights, such as Aristophanes and Plautus, and satirists, such as Lucian and Juvenal, in English translation.

MTWRF

8:30-9:20

None

17665

COMM 114

Media Effects on Individuals

This 4-unit course covers the theories of mass communication in relation to interpersonal communication processes and provides an analysis of behavior of audiences of the mass media. Emphasis on family interaction, persuasion theory, media effects on children and minorities, sex-role stereotyping, and techniques of audience measurement.

TWF

12:30-1:55

None

17731

ENG 15

Intro to Shakespeare

This 4-unit course provides an introduction to Shakespeare. A number of major plays are read with close attention to language, dramatic structure and historical context.

MTWR

3:30-4:55

None

17699

ESS 40

Human Physiology

This 3-unit course is an integrated survey of human physiology that includes the skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, circulatory, digestive and urinary systems and how they function in homeostasis and human health.

TWTRF

11:00-12:20

None

05975

GLOBL 1

Global History, Culture and Ideology

This 4-unit course is a survey of the historical processes that have brought different areas of the world into closer contact. Topics include ideologies of nationalism, democracy, and liberalism; international trade and migrations; technological changes; colonialism; the globalization of culture; and the reactions to them.

MTWR

2:00-3:15

Fri

12:30-1:20

17657

HIST 8

Intro to History of Latin America

This 4-unit course deals with major issues in Latin America's historical formation: pre-Hispanic cultures, the Spanish conquest, the role of colonial institutions, the development of trade, 18 th -century reform, independence, the formation of nations; and identify major issues in current Latin American affairs.

MTWR

11:00-12:15

Fri

11:00-11:50

17483

MCDB 24

Genetics and Human Disease

This 3-unit course is an introduction to genetics with an emphasis on humans. Topics focus on human diseases with strong evidence for genetic components. Diseases covered include cancer, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's, muscular dystrophy, and others.

MTW

3:30-4:55

None

17426

RGST 110B

Religion and Journalism

This 4-unit course explores how the place of religion has changed in American journalism, how journalists are involved in the articulation of religion, and how journalism of religion is related to the larger issue of the changing nature of American religious pluralism.

MTWR

9:30-10:50

None

12708

SOC 1

Intro to Sociology

This 4-unit course covers the basic concepts and issues in the study of human society. The structures and processes of human conduct, social organization, and social change.

MTWR

12:30-1:50

Fri

9:30-10:30

17525

Application/Registration Process

The application process depends on your student status. Please read below:

UCSB Students and Newly Admitted UC Students—If you are a continuing UCSB student, or newly admitted UC student, taking courses Off Campus, you will need to complete the Application Form so that we can charge you correctly on your BARC bill. Please ensure that this application is received by Summer Sessions before the June 15 deadline. You may register by using GOLD on-line within three working days of submission of the Application Form.
Returning UCSB Students and Students from Another UC Campus—If you are a student from another UC campus, taking courses Off Campus, you will need to complete the Application Form and ensure it is received by Summer Sessions before the June 15 deadline. Upon receipt of your application, a Registration Information E-Mail, containing your PIN and PERM numbers, will be sent to you so that you can access our GOLD on-line registration system.
Visiting Non-UC Students —Non-UC students taking courses Off Campus will need to complete the Application Form ensure it is received by Summer Sessions before the June 15 Application Deadline. A $140 Non-refundable Application Fee must be sent with the Application Form to cover processing costs. Upon receipt of this application, complete with the $140 fee, a Registration Information E-Mail, containing your PIN and PERM numbers, will be sent to you so that you can access our GOLD on-line registration system.
High School Students—If you are a high school student and would like to take courses, please look at the Off Campus Pre-College Website and contact Doris O'Leske at Summer Sessions.

Mail completed application to:

UCSB Summer Sessions, Off Campus Program, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2010

Registration Process

Within three working days of receiving your application, you will be able to register for Off Campus courses. Look on the Summer Sessions website, for the enrollment codes for these courses. Once you have your enrollment codes, go on to GOLD and register for your courses.

Off-Campus Fees*
$96 per off-campus unit
$140 Application Fee for Visiting Non-UC Students

*Note: Fees are proposed pending approve and are subject to change.
Also Note: If a student elects to take both on and off campus courses, their fees on BARC will reflect the on campus rate of $147 per unit as well as the campus based fee of $317.19. BARC accounts will be credited the difference between the on campus rate ($147 per unit) and the off campus rate ($96 per unit) as soon as possible after June 29, 2007, for courses that were taken off campus.

For additional information, contact:
Marco Dominguez-Lerma, Director, Off Campus Studies
(805) 644-7261 or (805) 893-7154