Diversity Courses
The College diversity requirement is intended to help students better understand the perspectives of others whose histories, experiences, cultures, and social conditions may differ from their own.
Diversity courses are designed to provide students with the analytical skills needed to develop critical and reflective perspectives on difference within both domestic and global spheres, and to prepare them to function, thrive, and provide leadership in multicultural, multiethnic, transnational, and interconnected global societies. Frames of difference include but are not limited to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, language, nationality, citizenship status, and place of origin.
Students in the College satisfy the diversity requirement by completing one course from a faculty-approved list of diversity courses. The course must be taken for a letter grade, and passed with a grade of C or better (a grade of C– is not acceptable). The course may also satisfy a GE requirement, a major or minor course, or an elective.
The Division of Humanities supports the diversity requirement through offering the following courses:
Ancient Near East
Catalog Number Course Title
10W Jerusalem: Holy City
15 Women and Power in Ancient World
M50B Origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
162 Archaeology, Identity, and Bible
Applied Linguistics
Catalog Number Course Title
40W Language and Gender: Introduction to Gender and Stereotypes
Arabic
Catalog Number Course Title
M50 Islam and Other Religions
Chinese
Catalog Number Course Title
M60 Introduction to Chinese Religions
Classics
Catalog Number Course Title
60 Fantastic Journey: Antiquity and Beyond
130 Race, Ethnicity, Identity in Greco-Roman World
150B Female in Roman Literature and Culture
175 Classics in Central and South America
Comparative Literature
Catalog Number Course Title
1D Great Books from World at Large
2CW Survey of Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century
2DW Survey of Literature: Great Books from World at Large
4DW Literature and Writing: Great Books from World at Large
CM170 Alternate Traditions: In Search of Female Voices in Contemporary Literature
Digital Humanities
Catalog Number Course Title
30 Los Angeles Tech City: Digital Technologies and Spatial Justice
English
Catalog Number Course Title
11 Introduction to American Cultures
87 Topics in American Cultures
100 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
M105A Early Chicana/Chicano Literature, 1400 to 1920
M105B Chicana/Chicano Literature from Mexican Revolution to el Movimiento,1920 to 1970s
M105C Chicana/Chicano Literature since el Movimiento, 1970s to Present
108 Interracial Encounters
115SL Community-Based Studies of Popular Literature
132 Culture and Imperialism
148 Cultures of Middle Age
161C Novel in English to 1850
163C Jane Austen and Her Peers
170A American Literature, 1865 to 1900
176 Hemispheric American Literature
English Composition
Catalog Number Course Title
3D English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
3DS English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language (Service Learning)
French
Catalog Number Course Title
41 French Cinema and Culture
112 Medieval Foundations of European Civilization
160 French Cultures in English
171 Medieval Flix
Islamics
Catalog Number Course Title
M50 Islam and Other Religions
Italian
Catalog Number Course Title
77 Encounters between Christianity, Islam, and New Worlds in Age of Discovery
152 Italy between Europe and Africa
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies
Catalog Number Course Title
M114 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
M137 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Perspectives in Pop Music
Linguistics
Catalog Number Course Title
M7 Language and Identity
Middle Eastern Studies
Catalog Number Course Title
M50B Origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Philosophy
Catalog Number Course Title
M24 Language and Identity
Religion, Study of
Catalog Number Course Title
11 Religion in Los Angeles
M40 Christianities East and West
M50 Origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
M60B Introduction to Chinese Religions
M142C History of Religion in U.S.
Scandinavian
Catalog Number Course Title
50 Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures
50W Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures
60W Introduction to Nordic Cinema
C174A Minority Cultures in Scandinavia
Slavic
Catalog Number Course Title
M40 Christianities East and West
87 Languages of Los Angeles
90 Introduction to Slavic Civilization
Southeast Asian
Catalog Number Course Title
157 Gender Issues in Southeast Asia
Spanish
Catalog Number Course Title
44 Latin American Cultures
M172SL Latinos, Linguistics, and Literacy
Vietnamese
Catalog Number Course Title
40 War in Vietnamese Popular Culture