The AS degree in Addiction Studies prepares students for work with populations most affected by addiction and other substance use
dependence issues. The AS degree provides academic preparation and training needed for transfer to a 4-year college or university as well as employment and career advancement in the field of addiction prevention, treatment, and counseling services.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Examine the prevalence, impact, and cost of substance use, abuse, and dependence to the individual and society.
🗸 Synthesize client-centered counseling skills, motivational strategies, harm reduction, and cultural humility and their importance for working with diverse and cultural populations.
🗸 Discuss the various models and theories of addiction and apply an interdisciplinary approach to addiction prevention, treatment, recovery, and policy, including the influence of the social, political, economic, and cultural environment.
🗸 Assess diagnostic criteria, treatment modalities and placement criteria for substance use disorders and apply treatment services in culturally appropriate ways.
🗸 Demonstrate professional readiness through adherence to addiction professional standards and legal and ethical codes of conduct including the importance of on-going supervision and the application of self-care principles and practice.

The Associate in Arts in Art Photography provides students with a strong foundation in the use of traditional and digital photographic and video technologies. Students study the evolution of photography and video aesthetics, visual communication, and the application of the ways in which images function in culture and society (image literacy/use). The course of study bridges traditional black-and-white photography, digital photography, video and moving image art, alternative processes, lighting, history of photography, professional image use, and contemporary trends. Classes emphasize the technical, creative image making, critical analysis, and visual communication skills needed to prepare for transfer to four-year institutions or for pursuit of a wide variety of employment opportunities in professional fields of photography, video, and design.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ Produce photographic imagery and/or moving image projects utilizing diverse equipment and a variety of methods such as, but not limited to, historical, traditional, digital, experimental, or alternative processes.

✔ Analyze significant social, cultural, aesthetic and historical trends in photography and moving image art and assess the implications and consequences of these trends.

✔ Synthesize technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge with principles of design and visual communication to produce and evaluate photographic imagery and/or moving image art.

The Associate in Arts in Art History for Transfer (A.A.-T in Art History) is intended for students who plan to transfer and complete a bachelor's degree in a similar major at a CSU campus. Art History explores the human experience through material and cultural objects and imagery, including art, architecture, and artifacts. While not every culture has produced or does produce written documents, every culture has produced and does produce material and cultural objects and images. Art history treats these objects and images as equally valuable and informative to the understanding of human history as written text. Objects and images are even more valuable and informative for those cultures and periods that had or have no need for writing and for groups that have systematically been denied literacy. These groups include women, Indigenous, and enslaved peoples.

Through illustrated lectures, discussions, readings, films, gallery, studio, and museum visits, research, and written assignments, students enrolled in art history courses learn how to analyze objects and images as mirrors and agents of social, political, economic, and religious systems. Additionally, students learn to understand and analyze the roles of and relationship between the maker, patron, viewer, and object or image within these systems and in communicating or creating a personal or collective experience.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ Identify cultural objects from a range of artistic traditions by period, culture, and/or genre.

✔ Analyze cultural objects in relationship to the contexts in which they were created.

✔ Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills through convincing written and/or oral arguments, employing appropriate art history terminology, theories, and methods, and research of primary and secondary sources.

The Associate in Arts in Art History explores the human experience through material and cultural objects and imagery, including art, architecture, and artifacts. While not every culture has produced or does produce written documents, every culture has produced and does produce material and cultural objects and images. Art history treats these objects and images as equally valuable and informative as text to the understanding of human history, and even more valuable and informative for those cultures and periods that had or have no need for writing and for groups that have systematically been denied literacy, including women and Indigenous and enslaved peoples of and forcefully brought to colonized lands.

Through illustrated lectures, discussions, readings, films, gallery, studio, and museum visits, research, and written assignments, students enrolled in art history courses learn how to analyze objects and images as mirrors and agents of social, political, economic, and religious systems. Additionally, students learn to understand and analyze the roles of and relationship between the maker, patron, viewer, and object or image within these systems and in communicating or creating a personal or collective experience.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ Identify cultural objects from a range of artistic traditions by period, culture, and/or genre.

✔ Analyze cultural objects in relationship to the contexts in which they were created.

✔ Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills through convincing written and/or oral arguments, employing appropriate art history terminology, theories, and methods, and research of primary and secondary sources.

The Ethnic Studies program provides an interdisciplinary academic curriculum that provides students with an in-depth analysis of the rich life experiences of African American, Chicano/a, and Latino/a/x people, and in comparison to the experiences of other people of color. The program emphasizes the comparative and transborder study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. Major areas of study include history, culture, politics, contemporary social issues, literature, and the arts. In addition to acquiring a critical understanding of social and racial justice issues, students who take Ethnic Studies classes will gain the necessary skills to pursue career opportunities in education, public health, social services, government, community-based agencies, and beyond.

Program Outcomes

-Distinguish key theoretical concepts critical to the analysis of the experiences of racial & ethnic groups in the U.S.

- Evaluate social constructions of race in a domestic and/or international context.

- Discuss historical racial-ethnic conflicts and the strategies used by members of diverse racial, ethnic, or national groups to secure justice.

- Analyze representations and cultural practices as means to construct or sustain cultural identities.

- Evaluate the production of and responses to social inequities and forms of discrimination experienced by racial and ethnic groups.

Physics is the science concerned with the properties of matter and energy and the relationships between them. It relies on making observations and mathematics to describe mechanics, electricity and magnetism, optics, acoustics, and heat. Modern physics, based on quantum theory, includes atomic, nuclear, particle, and solid-state studies. A background in physics is important not only to physicists, but also to students interested in chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine. Details of the CCC physics program appear below. In addition to physics courses, physics students will need to develop a strong background in math. Successful completion of an Associate in Science in Physics for UC Transfer Pathway degree guarantees admissions into one of the University of California system that only accepts Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) and satisfactory completion of the following: (A) A minimum of 64 semester UC transferrable units, which includes major and general education courses. Students must meet the minimum grade of “C” for each course in the major. This program is an extension of Pathways+, which combines Transfer Pathways and a Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG). Students completing the UCTP Associate's Degree in Physics must submit a TAG to one of the six campuses to guarantee a spot at a UC campus. 

The minimum GPA is the minimum required for TAG at the TAG campus. Students who complete the UCTP will have completed lower-division major prep for Physics, and so will have the appropriate preparation to enter any UC campus. Students with a strong GPA will have a better chance of gaining admission to multiple UC campuses, not just the TAG campus (but only the TAG campus is guaranteed). Completing a Transfer Pathway or the UCTP degree can be one factor considered under Comprehensive Review. The degree itself will likely not be the deciding factor, but the major prep covered by the degree will help students be more competitive. (B) Complete a minimum of 20-semester transferable units from the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) pattern, which the courses must aligned with the UC Transfer Admissions Eligibility Course List on ASSIST. This template's general education requirements presume completion of two courses in Area 3 and two courses in Area 4 after transfer to the University of California to complete the entire IGETC pattern. This represents typical course taking patterns for the discipline.

Program Outcomes

- Solve problems in mechanics, including mechanical waves and fluids, using calculus.

- Solve problems in thermodynamics using calculus.

- Solve problems in electromagnetism using calculus.

- Solve problems in optics using calculus.

- Solve problems in special relativity using calculus.

- Solve problems in quantum physics, including its applications, using calculus and differential equations.

- Apply concepts of physics to other sciences and applied sciences.

This program is designed to introduce students to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer studies from a variety of academic disciplines and prepare them for transfer into university programs in these areas.  Intersections between sexual orientation, gender identity, and other social statuses will be explored.  Students will engage with a growing body of work in feminist and queer theory that broadens our understanding of sexual orientation, gender identity, society, and culture.

To fulfill the requirements for this degree, students will complete the required and elective courses in the area of emphasis and the appropriate general education pattern (either CSU GE or IGETC) totaling 60 semester CSU-transferable units.

PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES

✔ Demonstrate an understanding of the intersections between sexual orientation, gender identity, and other social statuses. 

✔ Demonstrate an understanding of current issues and socio-political movements of the LGBTQ+ community. 

✔ Critically assess and analyze cultural artifacts and social phenomena using feminist and/or queer theory.

This program is designed to introduce students to studies of sex, gender, and sexuality from a variety of academic disciplines and prepare them for transfer into university programs in these areas. Intersections between sex, gender, sexuality, social class and race/ethnicity will be explored. Students will engage with a growing body of work in feminist and queer theory that broadens our understanding of gender, sexuality, society, and culture.

To fulfill the requirements for this degree, students will complete the required and elective courses in the area of emphasis and the appropriate general education pattern (either CSU GE or IGETC) totaling 60 semester CSU-transferable units.

PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES

✔ Demonstrate an understanding of the intersections between sex, gender, sexuality, social class, race and ethnicity.

✔ Demonstrate an understanding of current issues and socio-political movements related to sex, gender and sexuality.

✔ Critically assess and analyze cultural artifacts and social phenomena using feminist and/or queer theory.

The Women, Gender and Queer Studies Associate in Arts degree, which requires 22 units in the major, offers students an interdisciplinary, social justice approach to examining the complex ways that gender informs identity, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender with other identity markers such as race, class, sexuality, ability, ethnicity, nation, and religion, in cultures around the world. A field at the forefront of multicultural and transnational scholarship, Women, Gender and Queer Studies is dynamic and constantly evolving. In WGQS core courses, students have the opportunity to study the history of women in various world cultures through the millennia, as well as historical changes in Western culture forged by the suffrage, civil rights, gay liberation, and labor movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Students also have the opportunity to examine contemporary social justice movements and activism in their local communities and around the globe on topics ranging from voting rights to representation in government, from sex work to human trafficking, and from the wage and education gaps to the division of labor. Drawing on concepts from Global Feminist Studies and Queer Theory, WGQS courses prepare students to analyze gender and sexuality as social constructs both performative and fluid; to think critically about power dynamics based on race, gender, sexuality, social class, ability, and nation; and to develop global perspectives on inequality, development, and human rights issues.

The A.A. degree in Women, Gender and Queer Studies also prepares students to contribute to dialogue on issues of fairness and justice locally, nationally, and globally. The WGQS AA program of study offers lower division courses that help students prepare for transfer to four-year institutions where students have opportunities to engage in advanced scholarship in the vibrant, expanding fields of Social Justice, Gender, Ethnic, and Global Studies leading to careers in professional fields such as humanities, law, education, psychology, administration of justice, and social work; for positions in government agencies and non-governmental organizations focused on human rights and social justice.

Career Options: Education, Social Justice Studies, Civil Service, Social Work, Business, Psychology, Sociology, Law, Ethnic Studies, Management, Marketing Communications, Politics, Public Relations, Research, Teaching, Technical Communications, and Writing. Note: Some career options require more than two years of college study.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program a student will be able to:

🗸 Examine women’s access to political, social, and economic power throughout history and across cultures.
🗸 Analyze gender roles using intersectional analysis, via lenses of race, ethnicity, sex identity, gender, sexuality, social class, and ability, in various cultural and historical contexts.
🗸 Compare the social construction of gender, race, class, sexuality, and disabilities in different cultures and historical periods; analyze the intersection of these social constructs in the lives of women, men, and gender variant individuals in different global societies.
🗸 Describe gender and sexuality as existing on a continuum rather than as static identities, using historical, psychological, sociological, and semantical language analysis as evidence.
🗸 Analyze cultural attitudes about sexuality using intersectional, feminist, and historical perspectives.
🗸 Analyze and critique the social construction of sexuality and gender categories such as man, woman, non-binary, lesbian, gay, straight, bisexual, trans, and queer.
🗸 Analyze and critique gender images in literature, visual and performing arts, media, and popular culture.
🗸 Participate in dialogue about fairness and justice in matters related to sex identity, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, ability, culture and religion

The Associate of Arts in Spanish (AA in Spanish) provides students with a solid foundation of the Spanish language and of the diverse cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. The courses introduce students to the basics of language so that they gain confidence in reading, writing, and conversing in the Spanish language. Courses present students a variety of texts in different formats and genres to reveal the rich history, customs, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. The Associate of Arts in Spanish provides students with the necessary coursework to transfer to a four-year university where students will have the opportunity to complete a bachelor's or graduate degree in Spanish. Depending on their entry level of Spanish, students can choose to start among the following courses: SPAN 1A, SPAN 1B, or SPAN 2A.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program a student will be able to:

🗸 Explain aspects of diverse cultural and global awareness relevant to Spanish speaking countries.
🗸 Speak and convey information with accuracy and pronunciation acceptable to native-speakers of the Spanish language.
🗸 Communicate about common daily topics in Spanish.
🗸 Customize the mode of communication appropriate to specific Spanish speaking audiences.
🗸 Read and demonstrate understanding of the main concepts of a written text, such as newspaper articles and short stories.
🗸 Demonstrate critical thinking skills in relation to intercultural aspects and social global matters.