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2025 Summer GE Courses
Looking to get a jump on next year or just check off those requirements? Here's the full list of on-campus and online courses!
First Summer Session
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• GE-A, The Arts
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GE-A, GE-G
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TWTh, 10 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., Online
Leon Garcia Corona
Exploration of music and cultures of the world. Engagement with international musicians, global issues, field work and musical diasporas in Los Angeles.
• GE-B, Humanistic Inquiry
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GE-B
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MWF, 9-11:50 a.m., Online
Joshua Mitchell
Examines the relation between U.S. national culture, race, and popular culture.
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GE-B
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MWF, 1-3:50 p.m., THH 121
Elda Maria Roman
Study of prose written in English since 1945, principally fiction of the past two decades.
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GE-B
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 9-10:50 a.m., MHPB 7B
Zlatan Damnjanovic
Exploration of the philosophical and religious implications of major scientific revolutions, such as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin. (Duplicates credit in former PHIL 220g.)
• GE-C, Social Analysis
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GE-C, GE-G
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TWTh, 12:30-3:20 p.m., Online
Alicia Chavez
An introduction to cultures and people in the Americas; the social, historical, economic and cultural formations that together make up the Latino/a American imaginary.
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GE-C
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TWTh, 9-11:50 a.m., Online
Alicia Chavez
Introduction to American studies and ethnic studies. Provides an overview of major theories, concepts, and issues.
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GE-C
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTuW, 9-11:50 a.m., Online
Xochitl Ruiz
An introduction to the field of food studies, as a historical and cross-disciplinary study of the place of food in culture and society.
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GE-C
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MW, 10 a.m. – 2:10 p.m., Online
Juliana Mc Gene
The peculiarity of the “modern” Western family system in historical and cross-cultural perspective; focus on the “postmodern” family crisis in the United States.
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GE-C
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TTh, 10 a.m. – 2:10 p.m., Online
Juliana Mc Gene
Basic concepts of sociology with special reference to group life, social institutions, and social processes.
• GE-D, Life Sciences
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GE-D
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m., ZHS 163
Multiple Instructors
In-depth survey of key topics related to advances in our knowledge of the diversity of life and evolution; origin of life; eukaryotes/prokaryotes; ecology.
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GE-D
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TWThF, 10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m., HNB 100
Rita Barakat
In-depth survey of key topics related to advances in our knowledge of cellular biology and physiology; cell composition/metabolism; gene action; organism structure and function. Recommended preparation: high school chemistry; BISC 120L or BISC 121L.
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GE-D
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TTh, 9 a.m. – 12:40 p.m., GFS 222
Clayton Stephenson
Introduction to psychological science, including historical and contemporary approaches. Behavior examined from biological, cognitive, social, developmental, and personality perspectives. Disorders and treatments.
• GE-E, Physical Sciences
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GE-E
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 10-11:50 a.m., Online
Survey of the universe: planets, satellites, comets, stars, nebulae, galaxies. Practical component includes planetary observations and dark-sky field trip. Not available for major credit.
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GE-E
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m., ZHS 252
Sylvain Barbot
Geologic structure and evolution of planet earth. Principles of plate tectonics, rocks and minerals, processes of mountain building, continent and ocean formation, earthquakes, volcanism, development of landforms by running water and glaciers. Lecture, 3hours; laboratory, 2 hours. One all-day or two-day field trip required.
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GE-E
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 12-1:50 p.m., SLH 200
Fundamental laws and principles of physics emphasizing areasrelated to life sciences. Prerequisite for Biological Sciences,Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy. Lecture, 4 hrs.; Lab, 3 hrs.
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GE-E
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 12-1:50 p.m., Online
Gateway to the majors and minors in Physics and Astronomy. Statics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, conservation principles, gravitation, simple harmonic oscillators, thermodynamics, heat engines, entropy.
• GE-F, Quantitative Reasoning
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GE-F
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TTh, 9 a.m. – 12:40 p.m., SGM 601
Canan Ipek
Introduction to the use of statistics in psychology: basic ideas in measurement; frequency distributions; descriptive statistics; concepts and procedures in statistical inference.
• GE-G, Equity in a Diverse World
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GE-G
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MWF, 9-11:50 a.m., Online
Chris Finley
Examination of the constructions of American ethnicity/race in film.
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Second and Special Summer Sessions
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• GE-B, Humanistic Inquiry
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025TWTh, 12:30-3:20 p.m., Online
Chrisshonna Nieva
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025
Examines political and cultural change in the United States during the decade of the 1960s.
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GE-B, GE-H
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025MTW, 10 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., Online
Chris Finley
Introduction to an interdisciplinary study of American political, cultural and social life with a particular emphasis on the Western United States as a region. Recommended preparation: HIST 200, ENGL 263
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025TTh, 9 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., THH 121
Thomas Gustafson
An exploration of the culture, vibrance, heritage, mythology, variety, and pathology of a city that was born in hopes and captured the worlds imagination. Duplicates credit in ARLT 101g.
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025OFF CAMPUS
Andrew Chater
Literary travel using novels to explore regional culture and unify the study of literature, history, geography, politics and social studies.
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025TWTh, 1-3:50 p.m., THH 110
Brighde Mullins
Literary studies in the relationship between fiction and drama and their adaptation as films.
• GE-C, Social Analysis
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GE-C, GE-G
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025TWTh, 9-11:50 a.m., Online
Chrisshonna Nieva
Analysis of race and the economic, political, gender, and social dimensions of contemporary Los Angeles including topics such as residential segregation, economic inequality, and city politics.
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GE-C
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025Course offered at two times:
- TWTh, 9-11:50 a.m., Online
- TWTh, 1-3:50 p.m., Online
Lanita Jacobs
Examines history of popular cultural forms such as literature, music, dance, theater, and visual arts produced by and about African Americans.
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GE-C, GE-G
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025MW, 12-4:10 p.m., Online
Sellers, Jefferey
Examination of the challenges of environmental problem-solving at the personal, local, national and global scales, focused on the issue of climate change.
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GE-C
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025MW, 10 a.m. – 2:10 p.m., SGM 226
Miranda Barone
Scientific perspective of close relationships: intimate relationships, friendships and others, evolutionary and biological bases of attraction and love, historical, social , cultural influences. Prerequisite: PSYC 100. (Duplicates credit in PSYC 359.)
• GE-E, Physical Sciences
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GE-E
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
MTWTh, 10-11:50 a.m., Online
Survey of the prospects for life in our solar system and beyond, based on the evolution of life on Earth.
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GE-E
May 19 – June 20, 2025
MTWTh, 9-11:30 a.m., GFS 106
Jessica Parr
Fundamental principles and laws of chemistry; laboratory work emphasizes quantitative procedures. Prerequisite to all more advanced courses in chemistry. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory and discussion, 4 hours. Quiz, 1 hour.
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GE-E
July 2 – Aug. 6, 2025
MTWTh, 10-11:50 a.m., Online
The fundamentals of physics are presented, exploring the structure and beauty of physical laws and their manifestations, ranging from events observed in everyday life to subatomic and cosmic phenomena.
• GE-F, Quantitative Reasoning
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GE-F
May 21 – Aug. 12, 2025
MW, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Online
Keith Robinson
Statistical methods for business analysis; data exploration and description; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression; model building. Extensive computer applications. (Duplicates credit in BUAD 312 and the former ITP 251.)
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., KAP 163
Derivatives and extrema. The definite integral and u-substitutions. Functions of several variables and their extrema; constrained optimization.
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 1-2:50 p.m., KAP 147
Limits; continuity, derivatives and applications; antiderivatives; the fundamental theorem of calculus; exponential and logarithmic functions.
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 1-2:50 p.m., KAP 148
A continuation of MATH 125: trigonometric functions; applications of integration; techniques of integration; indeterminate forms; infinite series; Taylor series; polar coordinates.
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 1-2:50 p.m., KAP 163
Vectors, vector valued functions; differential and integral calculus of functions of several variables; Green’s theorem, Divergence theorem, Stoke’s theorem.