First-Year Experience

Current Courses

FYE-Supported Courses

JOUR 130W: Professional Writing for Public Audiences • Fall & Spring

Course Description: An intensive writing course designed to introduce students to professional expository writing by using media content as models and a platform. Emphasis is on clarity, conciseness, and consistency in style, along with form, content, context, and effectiveness of communication. Writing for various audiences will feature the Internet, academic writing, persuasion, description and other rhetorical models.

Required Attendance: Sense of Place, April 24, 2025

Instructor: Stephen Caldes

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"If it weren't for [JOUR 130] I wouldn't have met the friends I hang out with everyday and wouldn't have the confidence I have today." Fall 2024

"Not only is [JOUR 130] a way to get out of your comfort zone but also a way to bring out who you are and bring out what you feel and want to change about our school." Fall 2024

Town Hall Meeting Courses

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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