CMST 132-50: Small Group Communication • Fall & Spring
Course Description:This course examines communication in small group processes such as group development, group climate, leadership and roles, problem solving, and conflict. Student participate in a small group and practice gathering, organizing, and presenting research-based group speeches.
Required Attendance: Sense of Place, December 4, 2025
Instructor: Jolene Moore
!["Honestly my experience in [CMST 132] was extremely helpful. I realized I could achieve more in my academics and that I am capable of achieving great things. It also connected me more with people and overall the community of Chico." Fall 2024](../_assets/images/cmst132quote1.png)
!["[CMST 132] was so fun, although there is a lot of work, you will really enjoy having a group that has your back and supports you. Having this group also helped me expand my social group and helped me make more friends." Fall 2024](../_assets/images/cmst132quote2.png)
GEOG 139-50: Visualizing Local Landscapes • Fall & Spring
Course Description:Cultural landscapes are works of the human imagination, and thus can be examined via complementary visual media representing our deepest feelings, beliefs, and intuition about a place. They are a palimpsest that contains the etchings that past and present cultures have inscribed on Earth's surface. Cultural landscapes teem with information about the relationship between different cultures and the physical world, the relationships between privileged and marginalized communities, and, also, reflect how cultures change through time. This course develops a student's appreciation of cultural landscapes by exploring and creating visual media representations using the landscapes of the Greater Chico area. This course acknowledges the wholeness of nature and human experiences in the world, a consciousness approach to viewing, interpreting, and representing landscapes. Students read about, observe, illustrate, and think about local landscapes.
Required Attendance: Sense of Place, December 4, 2025
Instructor: Scott BradyUNIV 120: Transitions & Transformation: Academic Identity & Success • Fall only
Course Description:This course explores the modern university system and its support for and barriers to student success. Topics include emerging adulthood, liminality, sense of belonging, hidden curriculum, student support programs, and academic identity. Students serve as researchers, using self-reflection, interviews, and library research to produce preliminary findings and suggest pathways to increased belonging and student success.
Required Attendance: Sense of Place, December 4, 2025
Instructors: Cassandra Faith, Jeremy Miller, & Jolene Moore!["[UNIV 120] honestly helped me with knowing what resources we have on campus. Not only that but it also helped with taking a step back and realizing that not matter who you are, you have a place on campus, It's all about finding it." Fall 2024](../_assets/images/univ120quote1.png)
!["[UNIV 120] is great as a first year or any because it gets you familiar witht he resources on campus, clubs/programs that they have to help you and it gets you to communicate with other people in class and be more open." Fall 2024](../_assets/images/univ120quote2.png)
POLS 155-01: American Government: National, State, & Local • Fall & Spring
Course Description: An investigation of Who gets What, When, and How in national, state, and local politics. Also includes principles of American governmental institutions, federal systems, congress, president, and courts. Fulfills California state graduation and credential requirements for the American Constitution. (Satisfies requirement in California Administrative Code, Title 5, Section 40404.)
Required Attendance: Town Hall Meeting, April 3, 2025
Instructor: Charles Turner
