Online Classes
2025 Online Summer GE Courses
Looking for a course to take online from anywhere? Here's the list for you.
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.
• 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-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, 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-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, 2025 – August 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025TWTh, 12:30-3:20 p.m., Online
Chrisshonna Nieva
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, 2025 – August 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
• GE-C, Social Analysis
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GE-C, GE-G
July 2, 2025 – August 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, 2025 – August 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, 2025 – August 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.
• GE-E, Physical Sciences
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GE-E
July 2, 2025 – August 6, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 9, 2025MTWTh, 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
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
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.)