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EXSC 205: The Science of Human Performance

This course is designed to allow students to understand the scientific basis of human performance. What are the underlying factors that cause fatigue during exercise? Are these factors the same, regardless of what kind of exercise? What can be done to prevent or reduce levels of fatigue? In addition, the course looks at factors that can improve exercise tolerance, such as training, ergogenic aids and drugs. It is a course that will be of interest to the general student as well as the elite athlete. Lectures include discussions of the physiological, biochemical, morphological and nutritional contributions.

•  Fulfills GE Category IV

SOCI 350: Deviant Behavior  

Another popular upper-division course well suited for students interested in current theories of origin, distribution, and control of deviant behavior.  In this course students will examine the processes involved in the career deviance of drug addicts, alcoholics, sexual deviants, gamblers, and mentally disordered.   This course is great for students both in the social sciences as well as student with an interest in criminality and law.

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SOCI 360:  Social Inequality: Class, Status and Power

The greater Los Angeles area serves as a natural laboratory for studying such sociological themes are race relations, work and the workplace, the family in a changing society, population trends, crime and more. This class will discuss inequalities in wealth, prestige, and power in the United States; the American class structure and the extent of upward mobility in that structure.

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ANTH 200:  The Origins of Humanity

This class explores the evolutionary roots of humanity. It is intended to provide a foundation in how the scientific method can reveal aspects of our ancestry, using the fossil record of early humans, the behavior of living primates, and the behavior of living hunter-gatherer people. The course is a lecture format with a weekly lab and a field project. The core of this course is Darwinian theory, and all components of it. These principles explain how an ape ancestor evolved and diversified over 5 million years, leading to modern homosapiens.

•  Fulfills GE Category IV

IR 310: Peace & Conflict Studies 

This upper division introductory course if perfect for any student interested in looking at a specific topic from an interdisciplinary point of view.  Course discussions will include the pursuit of peace, including causes of wars, arms races, conflict resolution, peace movements, domestic violence, nonviolent resistance, and peace with justice.  

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POSC 366: Terrorism and Genocide

Part of the Peace and Conflict Studies minor, this course provides students with a comparative analysis of the determinants of political violence, terrorism, and genocide from multiple perspectives.  This is a great course for students interested in studying the social and moral consequences involved in terrorism and genocide as well as the application of theories to contemporary world issues.