Lectures by a succession of faculty members from various disciplines, will present issues and information from multiple perspectives. Faculty lectures will be supplemented by guest speakers from the private and public sectors, and two field trips. The course is designed to build a base of knowledge for the CSUN graduate anticipating employment in the Los Angeles region or more meaningful civic participation. The discovery of the lecture material's meaning to the course emerges only in the weekly discussion sessions.
Exams are in essay form.
There will be SIX unannounced 15-minute Reading Quizzes. They will take place during the first 15 minutes of discussion sections. They will ask you to integrate assigned reading with classroom material. It is due within 3 weeks of the field trip. The student has the option of submitting a paper on a second field trip, with only the higher of the two grades counted.