Humanities HUMN

HUMN 101 Introduction to the Arts

Units

3

Hours

Lecture 3 hours

Transfers to

CSU, UC

Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in HUMN 101H.

Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course introduces students to interdisciplinary humanities. The course explores at least six humanities subjects, such as cinema, dance, music and opera, architecture, theater, literature, painting and other two-dimensional art, and sculpture. An entrée to cultural literacy, this course studies both genres and examples of the arts to better understand various art forms, the cultures, eras, and styles which they exemplify, and essential elements of our individual humanness, including creativity and a sense of the aesthetic.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

HUMN 202 Humanities of the Western World: The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

Units

3

Hours

Lecture 3 hours

Transfers to

CSU, UC

Course Typically Offered: Spring

This interdisciplinary course surveys major works, figures, styles, concepts, and techniques in the liberal and fine arts of the Western world. It draws from the Renaissance, baroque era, neoclassicism, romanticism, Industrial Age, modernism, and postmodernism. Students study examples of creative genius in such fields as art, literature, music, philosophy, history, theater, and architecture to better understand the heritage of Western civilization, the cultures of multiple peoples, and ways that the past and its arts are relevant to themselves and contemporary life.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

HUMN 205 Women in Western Art and Literature

Units

3

Hours

Lecture 3 hours

Transfers to

CSU, UC

Course Typically Offered: Spring

This interdisciplinary course surveys and examines the art and literature of Western civilization form an intersectional feminist lens, with an emphasis on the construction of gender and the framework of historiography throughout the centuries.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

HUMN 292 Internship Studies

Units

0.5-14

Corequisite

Complete 54 hours of work per unit, paid or unpaid

Transfers to

CSU

Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. Fourteen unit maximum in any combination of work experience education and/or internship studies per semester.

Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)