BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES

Classes for SSU students at Napa Valley College

Sonoma State University offers an upper-division program in Napa Valley leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. The program offers a wide variety of courses from the social sciences, humanities and natural
sciences. Four to five courses taught by regular SSU faculty are offered each semester, scheduled evenings and weekends for the benefit of the working student. The Liberal Studies major is excellent preparation for students interested in careers in teaching, counseling, social work, public service, law or business as well as graduate work in the social sciences and humanities.

Information Meetings:

Wednesday, April 30 and May 14, 2008, 4:30-6pm,
Napa Valley College
Transfer Center (Library)

Applications for Spring, 2008 are now being accepted.

Applications for an Osher Scholarship are now available.

Napa Valley College
2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway
Napa California 94558

Admission Criteria

• Students must have completed 56 or more transferable units. (SSU accepts up to 70 transferable community college semester units of course credit.)
• Students must have completed all nine units required in General Education, Area A - Communication and Critical Thinking.
• Students must have completed both the science laboratory requirement and the Mathematics requirement in General Education, Area B - Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
• Students need to have a GPA of 2.0

Major Requirements

(All upper division)

• Sonoma State University requires passing theWritten English Proficiency Test (WEPT) by the second semester of the junior year and completion of 9 units of upper division GE classes. A total of 120 units (including transfer units) are needed to complete the Bachelor of.Arts degree (54 Upper Division Units).
  
• Arts & Humanities 16 Units
  Art, Art History, American Multicultural studies, English, Chicano and Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Philosophy
  
• Behavioral Sciences 16 Units
  Anthropology, Environmental Studies and Planning, Geography, Gerontology, History, Human Development, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies
  
• Physical Sciences 6 Units
  Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics
  
• Electives 16 Units
  These courses can be taken from the listed disciplines or in consultation with the program advisor.
• GE Patterns

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Application

Students can obtain an application for admission to the Napa B.A. program by calling Carol Tremmel in Extended Education at 707/664-2611, email carol.tremmel@sonoma.edu It is also available on the SSU website at www.sonoma.edu/exed/applyenroll/napa_reg.html.

Send the completed application, with your $55 application fee, along with two sets of official transcripts from all colleges and universities you have attended to:

Sonoma State University, Extended Education
Stevenson Hall Rm. 1012
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA.  94928

Napa Program Coordinator:
Sandra Feldman

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Advising

Wednesdays by appointment 3:30-5:00
Professor Bob Karlsrud
707-664-3279
karlsrud@comcast.net

Tuesdays by appointment 3:30-5:00
Professor Sandra Harrison Feldman
707-664-2437
sandra.feldman@sonoma.edu<

STUDENTS MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
Mendocino College Office
707-467-0810, Room 6004

FORMS:
Advising Check List
Advising Questionnaire
Napa Major Worksheet

For Dates, Deadlines, and the SSU Calendar see
http://www.sonoma.edu/ar/calendars/index.shtml

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Class Book List

FALL2007 CLASS BOOK LIST

MON
Code: 4220
EDMS 420 - Child Dev Fam, Sch&Comm
Professor: Stephanie Wayment
Meeting Time: Monday August 27 from 4:30-5:45 ONLY
all other mondays class will be from 4:30-9:00
9-17,9-24,10-1,10-8,10-22,10-29,10-5,11-19,12-10
3 Units

REQUIRED TEXTS

* Author: Diessner, Sources Human Development
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780073379685
* Author: Hughes, Paving Pathways
ISBN: 9780534348090
* Author: Gopnik, Scientist in the Crib
ISBN: 9780688177881

TUES
Code: 6088
ENGL 314 - Modern World Literature
Professor: Sandra Feldman
GE: C2
Meeting Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Plus On-Line Instruction
3 Units

* Things Fall Apart by C. Achebe
* The House of the Spirits by I. Allende
* When Rain Clouds Gather by B. Head
* The Kite Runner by K. Hosseini
* Enemy of the People by H.Ibsen
* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by A. Solzhenitsyn
* Bread Givers by A. Yezierska

WED
Code: 6156
HIST 458 - Modern America Since WWII
Professor: Robert Karlsrud
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
3 Units

* Paul Boyer, Promises to Keep
Third edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
(2nd edition will work, too)
* Dominick Cavallo, A Fiction of the Past: the Sixties in American History
Martins Press, 1999
* Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
(many publishers of this work)
* James Loewen, Lies My Teacher told Me
Touchstone, Simon and Schuster, 1996
* Bruce Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
Da Capo Press, 2001

SAT
Code: 6213
PSY 412– Adolescent Psychology
Professor: Pat Hansen
Meeting Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
3 Units

* Adolescent Development (Third Edition) by
John Dacey, Marueen Kenny, Deborah Margolis Thomson
(1-583-16107-4)

 

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Schedule

Classes for Fall 2007
Classes for Spring 2008

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Fall 2008 (Tentative) SCHEDULE

MON
Code: 3876
THAR373 - Dances of the World
Professor: Leslie Saxon West
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room: #

TUES
Code: 3851
ENG 349 - Special Topics Youth Literature In America 1945-1960
Professor: Sandra Feldman
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room: #

WED
Code: 1109
SSCI 300 - Intro to Portfoilio Dev. & Sp. Proj.
Professor: Bob Karlsrd
1 Unit
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

WED
Code: 1402
HIST 375.2 - Not So Happy Times.......America 1945-1960
Professor: Bob Karlsrd
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm

THUR
Code: 2658
EDUC 417 - School And Society
Professor: Michael Lesch
3 Units
Meeting Time: 4:00 pm to 6:40 pm

TBA
Code: 2636
EDMS 470 - Multicultural Pedagogy
Professor: Staff
3 Units
Meeting Time:

SAT
Code: 3877
AMCS 392.2 – Ethnic Images in Film and Media
Professor: Velma Guilery-Taylor
3 Units
Time: 9:00 - 12:00 pm
Room: #6020

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SPRING 2008 (Tentative) SCHEDULE

MON
Code: 3876
ENSP 301 - The Human Environment
Professor: Erv Peterson
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room: #6020

TUES
Code: 4148
ANTH 384 - Culture, Language, and Education
Professor: Birch Moonwoman
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room: #6020

WED
Code: 4128
BIOL 312 - Biological Oceanography
Professor: Alan West
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room: #9110 - Mendocino College Science Bld
SYLLABUS

THUR
Code: 1160
SSCI 400 - Portfolio Evaluation
Professor: Marianne Loeser
3 Units
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room: #6020

SAT
Code: 4043
PSY 303.4 – The Person in Society
Professor: Pat Hansen
3 Units
Time: 9:00 - 12:00 pm (first class only)
Room: #6020

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Forms

(You may Fax forms to: 664-3332)

GRADUATION
Graduation Application (Req'd)
Major/Minor Requirements (Req'd)
Graduation/Major-Minor Addendum
(Addendum is only if you make changes after submitting the application and major/minor requirements)

INTERNSHIPS
Internship Agreement
General Internship Information
Special Study Form

MAJOR WORKSHEET
Napa Major Worksheet (doc)
Napa Major Worksheet (pdf)

GE PETITION
Petition for General Education Course Substitution
GE Sub - Page 1
GE Sub - Page 2

FIELD TRIPS (Req'd)
Medical Release
Volunteer Driver

CHANGE MAJOR
Change of Major

 

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