College of San Mateo Courses

This course covers musculoskeletal anatomy, kinesiology, injury prevention and performance enhancement through lectures and hands-on activities like clay modeling and movement analyses. Students learn

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Successful completion of this course prepares students to take a variety of national certification exams including the National Council of Strength and Fitness (NCSF), and the National Academy of Spor

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Explores a variety of procedures for understanding and utilizing effective peer tutoring practices. Under guided supervision, students use classroom experiences to connect theory to practice. Communic

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This course assists new, first time students in making a successful transition to college life. Students receive information and engage in exercises that will make academic requirements more clear and

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This course assists students in understanding and engaging in college success skills and strategies. Designed to improve academic and personal success, this course takes students through a journey tha

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An introduction to library resources and research. Provides a practical, critical, hands-on introduction to library research and beyond. Topics covered include formulating and refining a research ques

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Study of a representative selection of twentieth-century fiction, poetry, and drama. Authors may include T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Marq

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Lit. 231 examines selected texts from the Old and New Testaments and from the Apocrypha. It emphasizes literary study of the Bible, with attention to the many genres of literature represented in the B

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This class will focus on a range of novels from this genre’s long history. We will analyze novels as aesthetic, but also material productions, as representations of individual selves grappling with th

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The study of short poems in English from the late medieval period to the present time, with a critical emphasis on poetry’s artistic and cultural transformations.

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Study of representative works from the genres of detective and crime fiction, with an emphasis on crime and detective fiction as a literary tradition, as well as its influence on a broad range of crea

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Study of representative plays and poems, with a focus on exploring the development of Shakespeare’s art — in its poetic, dramatic, and philosophical dimensions —over the course of his career. The cour

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Study of representative works from the genre of comics and graphic novels with an emphasis on the unique tools inherent to the genre, their influence on English language literature, and thought and on

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Study of representative works from the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy, examining their roots, twentieth-century rise, and contemporary status. Focus is on how the genres interact with mythology

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Study of American Literature from indigenous narratives to the European arrival in the Americas and through the 1870s with a focus on representative authors from the 18th and 19th centuries. Lectures,

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