Las Positas College - Spring 2025 - Class Schedule

SPRING 2025 9 25. 424. 1 000 | l p c - a d m i s s i o n s @ l a s p o s i t a s c o l l e g e . e d u S P R I N G 2025 - C O U R S E L I S T I N G S Please refer to the onl ine schedule on CLASS-Web to access course section detai ls and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. GLOBAL STUDIES GS 1 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES 3.0 Units This course looks at the economic and political forces that have led to rapid changes in global interaction and culture over the past century, with special emphasis on the last twenty years. It explores the issues of nationalism, global citizenry, state violence, terrorism, the global economy, migration, the threatened environment, technology, and the role of multinational media industries on culture. Students who have completed, or are enrolled in, SOC 5 may not receive credit. GRAPHIC DESIGN & DIGITAL MEDIA GDDM 45A DIGITAL PAINTING I 3.0 Units Students will be introduced to fundamental techniques of digital painting as well as hardware and software considerations. Students will create paintings from observation as well as from imagination. Course will focus on translating traditional painting principals into the digital realm. Recommended Course Preparation: GDDM 53 with a minimum grade of C ARTS 2A with a minimum grade of C GDDM 45B DIGITAL PAINTING II 3.0 Units Students will build upon the fundamental techniques of digital painting. Students will create paintings from references as well as from imagination, paying close attention to lighting and color. Course will focus on development of style for commercial illustration. Prerequisite: GDDM 45A with a minimum grade of C Recommended Course Preparation: GDDM 53 and ARTS 2A with a minimum grade of C GDDM 50 INTRO TO ADOBE DIGITAL TOOLS 3.0 Units Introduction to fundamental practices of digital art production using contemporary digital tools. Learn how Adobe Creative Cloud applications are used in graphic design, packaging design and web design. Students will use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and other software to create a variety of projects including branding, packaging, advertising, and websites. GDDM 51 COLOR THEORY 3.0 Units A basic-level course highlighting color as an element for communication and expression in all visual fields. Covers key color systems and their relevance to graphic and other visual arts and creative and technical aspects of color. Students who have completed, or are enrolled in, ARTS 26 may not receive credit. GDDM 52 INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY 3.0 Units An Introduction to typography for visual communications in the graphic design industries. The class emphasizes the use of typography in the design process, including aspects of analytical and creative design through typical media, for example: a brochure, poster, or magazine ad. Considering typographic graphic design projects for traditional and emerging technologies. Students explore the evolution and classification of letterforms from ancient to contemporary, and feature the investigation of structure, format, legibility, and expression. Exercises include both hand and digital skills, with an emphasis on the application of typography. Recommended Course Preparation: GDDM 64 with a minimum grade of C GDDM 53 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP I 3.0 Units Learn to use Adobe Photoshop at the introductory level to create and manipulate digital images, photographs and illustrations. Emphasis on basic to lower-intermediate level techniques and GEOG 5 WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY 3.0 Units Survey of the world’s culture regions and nations as interpreted by geographers, including physical, cultural, and economic features. Emphasis on spatial and historical influences on population growth, transportation networks, and natural environments. Identification and importance of the significant features of regions. GEOG 12 GEOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA 3.0 Units A thematic approach to the state’s issues, processes and topics relevant to geography including climate, landforms, natural vegetation, water resources, cultural landscape, ethnic diversity, urban and agricultural regions, and the economy. This course explores the physical, and human landscapes that have evolved as a result of the human-environment interface. GEOG 15 INTRODUCTION TO GIS 3.0 Units Study of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) science and its applications to spatial data management. Identification and acquisition of GIS data. Assessment of vector and raster systems, scale, resolution, map projection, coordinate systems, georeferencing and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Spatial analysis and modeling with GIS. GEOLOGY GEOL 1 PHYSICAL GEOLOGY 3.0 Units The Earth, its materials, its internal and external processes, and its development through time. Emphasis is placed on a thorough global understanding of Plate Tectonics as a framework and foundation for subsequent geologic topics and concepts. Topics include volcanoes, earthquakes and seismology, the Geologic Time Scale and the formation of the earth, rocks and minerals, hydrology, erosion, beach systems, environmental geology, glaciation, groundwater, etc. Course content includes the differencebetween theory and fact and thehistorical development of key geologic concepts. This is the foundation course for almost all subsequent geology courses for both geology majors and non- majors. GEOL 1L PHYSICAL GEOLOGY LABORATORY 1.0 Units Laboratory course to supplement the physical geology lecture course. Introduction to the materials and techniques of geology. Includes minerals, rocks, topographic and geologic maps, structural geology, identification and interpretation of landforms, geologic time and relative age dating analysis, etc. Prerequisite: GEOL 1 or GEOL 5 or GEOL 7 with a minimum grade of C (May be taken concurrently). GEOL 12 INTRODUCTION TO OCEANOGRAPHY 3.0 Units Introduction to the oceans, the history of oceanic science, instrumentation and exploration; marine geology including plate tectonics and shoreline processes; physical and chemical properties of sea water; causes and effects of currents, tides, and waves; introduction to the basic types of marine life, the basic marine habitats and ecosystems; distribution of marine resources and the Law of the Sea. GEOL 12L INTRO TO OCEANOGRAPHY LAB 1.0 Units Laboratory course to supplement the oceanography lecture course. Introduction to the materials and techniques of oceanic science. Includes sea floor rocks, oceanic geography, bathymetric maps, seismic reflection, seawater physics and chemistry, beach sand, tides, waves, marine life and marine fossils, sea floor spreading rates, etc. Prerequisite: GEOL12 (may be taken concurrently).