About the Program
Program Requirements
For current program requirements -> 2024-2025
Program Goal: Local
GE Pattern(s): None
Program Code: PEACEGLOBAL.CC
Program Learning Outcome(s):
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
Define the many forms of violence that exist from within one's mind to all levels of social construction.
Interrelate direct violence to deeper structural issues.
Recognize and articulate how core values, worldviews, and communication patterns shape cultural and individual identities.
Identify and describe barriers to effective intercultural communication such as stereotyping, prejudice, and ethnocentrism.
Analyze and discuss the promotion of ethical living by enhancing personal integrity in daily life.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course examines the social-psychological themes, theories, causes, and practices of violence and peace in relationship to self, others and the natural world. We will address how one comes to tolerate and rationalize violence as the means for resolving complex social and environmental problems. Students will explore the threats to peace from a psychological foundation and examine how peacemaking and peace building promotes understanding, empathy, and compassion for personal, social, global, and environmental justice.
Unit(s): 1.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
17.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 17.00
This capstone course should be taken in the last semester when completing requirements for either Certificate of Achievement or Certificate in Peace and Global Studies. This course offers a venue for an interdisciplinary discussion on global issues and personal responsibility. Students will have the opportunity to synthesize ideas from each of the disciplines defined by the Peace and Global Certificates and how these courses interconnect. From this perspective one may become a more effective global citizen and assist in the advancement of personal, social, global and environmental recovery and transformation.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
34.00 hours Lecture
/ 51.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 85.00
This course is an introduction to Eastern Psychology. The theories of Eastern Psychology are practiced and reinforced through the Yoga Sutras. This foundation highlights self analysis through hatha yoga postures (asana), breathing techniques (pranayama), mental concentration (dhyana), sense withdrawal (pratyahara), and meditation (dharana). This course is experiential and is designed for self-enhancement, relaxation, stress management, and increased mindfulness.
Unit(s): 3.00
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
34.00 hours Lecture
/ 51.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 85.00
This course is an introduction to the psychological principles of mindfulness through meditation. Students will explore the psychology of meditation, including major theories and forms of meditation from ancient Eastern traditions and practices to contemporary Western research on the benefits of meditation. Emphasis will be on ego-fixation and identification with the root causes of human suffering. Internal and external stresses will be examined.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level V; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
An introduction to political science designed to familiarize students with basic political concepts, political ideologies, political systems, and subfields within political science. (C-ID POLS 150)
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level III
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course introduces students to the principles of 'Sustainability' within the global, national, regional, and local contexts. This course will increase students' literacy of the three interconnected 'pillars' of sustainable systems, the ecosystem, human society, and the economy. To develop these literacies, students will begin by investigating the perils that currently effect each system, for example, resource depletion, species extinction, pollution, and global warming in the ecosphere; population growth, social inequality, disease, violence and conflict in human societies; and imperialism, unemployment, consumerism and waste in the global economy. The majority of the course will focus on social institutions and organizations that are re-imagining our common future by rethinking and redesigning how we live. Students will learn of new and innovative uses of renewable resources, production processes, and human capital; alternative forms of energy, transportation, building materials, food production, media, education, and urban planning; and new ways to build coalitions, community, trust, and democratic participation. Case studies will highlight sustainability practices in different parts of the world from a variety of perspectives.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course provides an understanding of the dynamics of intercultural communication. Students will develop knowledge, attitudes, and skills to become more effective intercultural communicators. (C-ID COMM 150).
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental elements of leadership. Students will explore leadership theories and models as well as their own values and beliefs to develop a personal philosophy of leadership that includes an understanding of self, others and community. Students will learn how to apply theory into practice as they prepare for leadership roles in college and community settings.
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Contacts
Heather Valle, Chair
(530) 895-2553
Department Office: LRC 304
(530) 895-2471
Counseling and Advising:
(530) 895-2378
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