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Course Descriptions COURSE NOTES: H=Humanities, H/SP=Humanities/Skills Performance Course Descriptions NSNS=Natural=Natural Science,Science, SS SS=Social=Social Science ACCT&202–Prin of Accounting II ACES 110–Monsters & American Culture Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture NOTE TO STUDENTS: Includes accounting for xed assets, liabilities, H/SS - Monsters...and slashers…and ghosts! partnerships and corporations. Also includes the Oh, my! This course provides an opportunity to Common Course Numbers &�Titles statement of cash ows as well as the underlying explore American culture and society through To make it easier for students to transfer principles of accounting. a history of monsters in literary ction, folklore, lm, television, and popular culture. We will credits among the State’s 34 community Prerequisite: ACCT& 201. examine monsters in context, thinking about and technical colleges, some courses are ACCT&203–Prin of Accounting III the ways in which they reveal broader cultural numbered and titled in a similar way at Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture fears and anxieties concerning race, class, every community college in the state. Development and analysis of accounting infor- gender, sexuality, ability, sustainability, immigra- mation for managerial decision-making. tion, religion, and science. An eclectic, fun, and Courses that have been identi ed as rigorous collection of texts will be examined. Common Course Numbers have “&” Prerequisite: ACCT& 202 and high school algebra or its equivalent. in the course number, for example: ACES 160–Latina/os and Hollywood Imagery ENGL& 101. Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture H/SS - This course is devoted to analyzing Many courses without an “&” also American Culture and representations of Latina/os and Chicana/ transfer between two-year and four- Equity Studies os in Hollywood culture and cinema. How year colleges. are actors and lmmakers working to chal- HACES 100–Intro to American Ethnic Studies lenge stereotypes? How do past patterns of Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture Hollywood imagery remain in our present? H/SS - This course introduces students to Through the study of narrative and cinematic art Unless otherwise speci ed, a minimum American Ethnic Studies through an emphasis on forms, students will decipher and critique how meanings of race, class, gender, and sexuality grade of 2.0 in prerequisite courses is the wisdoms and activisms of African Americans, get produced and sometimes contest long-held required to enroll. Native Americans, Chicana/os, Latina/os, and Asian and Paci c Islander Americans. Attention beliefs about Latina/o and Chicana/o identities. is also given to contemporary social movements Films, literary ction, and television programs and the ways race and ethnicity intersect with will be historically and theoretically situated in gender, sexuality, class, nationality, ability, and order to examine the social signi cance and the environment. political impact of Hollywood’s imagery on one Independent Study of the fastest growing social groups in American ACES 101–Diversity and American Culture society. Special attention may be given to issues Independent Study (can be off ered in all subjects) Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture of labor, language, immigration, and Latina and H/SS - This course introduces students to the Chicana feminism. *Note: “Latina/o” refers to Cr: 1-5 Wkly hrs: 30 hours per credit Clinic interdisciplinary study of diversity in American people of Latina American descent in the U.S., Courses can be off ered as: 195/295. May be culture and society through the synthesis of while “Chicana/o” refers to people of Mexican repeated for a maximum of 15 credits. theories, concepts, and insights from literature, descent in the U.S. (Same as HUMAN 160) Allows the student to pursue topics not off ered sociology, and history. Students will have the Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL& 101 with a grade in the College Catalog through in-depth course- opportunity to examine various media and their of 2.0 or above is strongly recommended. work under the direction of an instructor. This own complex identities and families in speci c course may include directed readings, coverage socio-historical and cultural contexts. Through ACES 170–Black Voices in America of special topics, and other independent study. careful reading and discussion of novelists, Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture The topic and scope of study, learning objec- short story writers, artists, activists, historians, H/SS - This course focuses on the voices and tives, work required, methods of evaluation, and sociologists, we will explore how meanings experiences of black people in the United States, and academic level (195 versus 295) will be of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and emphasizing ideas and concepts in black social determined in conference between the student disability are formed in relationship to lived thought, political protest, and artistic eff orts to and instructor. experiences and American ideologies. (Same as initiate social change. By drawing from visual art, Prerequisite: Instructor permission. HUMAN 101) music, literature, history and the social sciences, Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL& 101 with a grade the course will examine how the wide-spectrum of 2.0 or above is strongly recommended. of black leaders, intellectuals, and organizations Practicum have focused their energies in nding ways to ACES 102–The LGBTQ Experience thrive and to work toward the elimination of Practicum (can be off ered in all subjects) Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture institutional racism, sexism, homophobia, and Cr: 1-5 Wkly hrs: 10 hours Lab H/SS - This course provides students with an classism. Overall, students will acquire a fuller Courses can be off ered as: 199/299. introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans- understanding of the cultural and historical A practical application in the working world of gender, and Queer Studies. Students will become developments of black America as they relates to the basic theories studied in the above program familiar with critical approaches to the study of issues of social justice. (Same as HUMAN 170) or discipline. sexuality and gender from an interdisciplinary Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL& 101 with a grade Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. perspective. Focus will be on investigating the of 2.0 or above is strongly recommended. production and regulation of sexualities in relation to gender identities, popular culture, racial and national formations, and media aesthetics. The class will also engage varying Accounting competing arguments about contemporary ACCT&201–Prin of Accounting I controversies. Readings and primary texts will include historical materials, sociological Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture studies, queer and transgender theory, activist Accounting as an information system, the publications, memoirs, literary ction, nightclub accounting cycle, accounting for a merchandising culture, drag performances, and lm. (Same as operation, cash, receivables, and inventories. HUMAN 102) Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL& 101 with a grade of 2.0 or above is strongly recommended. 10093 Olympic CollegeCollege Catalog Catalog 2020–2021 2020-2021 *See course description for prerequisite. Unless otherwise specified, a minimum of 2.0 is required in the prerequisite. COURSE NOTES: H=Humanities, H/SP=Humanities/Skills Performance COURSE NOTES: H=Humanities, H/SP=Humanities/Skills Performance CourseNS=Natural Descriptions Science, SS=Social Science NS=NaturalCourse Science, Descriptions SS=Social Science ANTH&205–Biological Anthropology ANTH 350–Applied Anthropology American Sign Language Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture ASL 101–Fingerspelling and Numbering NS/SS - Views humans as biological organisms SS - This course explores the practical applica- within the framework of culture. Attention is tion of anthropology’s methods and theories Cr: 2 Wkly hrs: 1 hours Lecture, 2 hours Lab given to HUMAN variation and adaptation; to address the needs of society, including the This course includes an introduction to historical genetics, primate studies, fossil evidence for challenges and research needs of communities an physiological aspects of ngerspelling and HUMAN evolution. and organizations. number use in American Sign Language (ASL). Specialized instruction will be given to develop Prerequisite: Recommend ANTH& 100. Prerequisite: Acceptance into BAS OLTM program or BAS DF program or Instructor Permission and master their abilities of expressive spelling, ANTH&206–Cultural Anthropology reading ngerspelled words and numerical Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture incorporation including focus areas involving: time signs, money, measurements, game scores, SS - Cross-cultural comparison of non-Western Art and other amounts. and Western cultures; includes history, theories, and methods of the eld. ART& 100–Art Appreciation ASL& 121–Am Sign Language I ANTH&207–Linguistic Anthropology Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 4 hours Lecture, 2 hours Lab Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture Cr: 5 Wkly hrs: 5 hours Lecture H - Student nds personal meaning in visual H - An introductory course focusing on expres- arts, painting, sculpture, and architecture with H/SS - Linguistic methods and theories used sive and receptive signing in the context of emphasis on diversity of form, content, and within anthropology; includes a variety of everyday situations. In addition to basic vocabu- comparative styles. lary and grammar, the culture