Humanities Course Offerings:
Introduction to the New Testament
Course Number: HUMAN 6
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Introduction to the New Testament: Emphasis on the
history, culture, teachings, and development of the New
Testament and its impact on Western culture.
Introduction to the Old Testament
Course Number: HUMAN 7
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Introduction to the texts and development of the Torah,
Old Testament and Apocrypha: Emphasis on the history,
cultural influences, language, authorship, events, and
beliefs of ancient Israel.
Introduction to Islam
Course Number: HUMAN 16
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Introduction to Islam: Emphasis on the history, major
figures, texts, and guiding principles of Islam
Human Values/Ethics
Course Number: HUMAN 30A
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Analysis of concepts of good and right in our society and
of criteria of conduct: Various religious, philosophic,
scientific, and aesthetic aspects of moral behavior
integrated with reason and emotion of the individual.
Human Values/Aesthetics
Course Number: HUMAN 30B
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
HUMAN 30A is not prerequisite to HUMAN 30B
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Analysis of the nature of the beautiful as expressed in
visual arts, music, and literature of Western and other
cultures: Integration of various aspects of daily and
transitory activities of the individual to permanent,
recorded expression of the human spirit through the use
of major works of art.
Arts and Ideas of Western Culture
Course Number: HUMAN 31A
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: History of ideas from ancient Greece to the Renaissance:
Ideas as expressed in literature, theater, architecture,
sculpture, and painting; the lasting importance of basic
Religions of the World
Course Number: HUMAN 40
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Comparative study of the world’s great religions:
Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam; original sources stressed.
Selected Topics in Humanities
Course Number: HUMAN 48GA-MZ
Units: .5-5
Class: 0-5 hours lecture, 0-15 hours laboratory
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Independent Study in Humanities
Course Number: HUMAN 49
Units: .5-5
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Selected Topics in Humanities
Course Number: HUMAN 248GA-MZ
Units: .5-5
Class: 0-5 hours lecture, 0-15 hours laboratory
Philosophy Course Offerings:
Introduction to Philosophy
Course Number: PHIL 1
Units: 3
Class: 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Description: Study of selected classic examples of original
works of philosophers literature of the discipline
and analytical methods, aims, goals, and types of
problems peculiar to philosophers and philosophical
inquiry; metaphysics, epistemology, valuing and
axiology, aesthetics, and religion.
PHIL 2
Social and Political Philosophy
3 units, 3 hours lecture
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Focus on classic examples of social and political
philosophy in Western civilization: Original
writings by classic Greeks (Plato and Aristotle),
Americans (Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson),
modern Europeans (Marx and Mills), and
appropriate contemporary philosophers.
PHIL 4
Philosophy of Religion
3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR)
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Philosophy of religion from both an existential and
historical perspective: Existentially, through an
examination of “religion” as personal, social and
theological; and historically, through an examination
of common doctrines in the Semitic, Vedic and East
Asian religions.
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PHIL 10
Logic
3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR)
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Consideration of logical problems of language:
Deduction and induction, fallacies, theory of
argument and the scientific method, and study of
correct reasoning in Aristotelian and modern logic.
PHIL 14
Introduction to the Philosophy of Death
3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR)
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Analysis of the concepts of life, death and meaning
as expressed in classical East and West, modern and
contemporary perspectives.
PHIL 20A
History of Ancient Greek Philosophy
3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR)
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Chronological development of leading philosophical
perspectives of Ancient Greece from the Ionians to the
Scholastics.
PHIL 20B
History of Modern European Philosophy
3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR)
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Chronological development of leading philosophical
perspectives of Modern Europe from the Renaissance to
present.
PHIL 37
Introduction to Asian Philosophy
3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR)
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Major philosophies and religions of Asia: Emphasis on
the origins, myths, and basic teachings of Hinduism,
Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto;
special attention to current influences of Eastern
philosophy and religion on Western culture.
PHIL 48GA-MZ
Selected Topics in Philosophy
.5-5 units, 0-5 hours lecture, 0-15 hours laboratory
Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC
Selected Topics in Philosophy
PHIL 248GA-MZ
.5-5 units, 0-5 hours lecture, 0-15 hours laboratory
