West LA Dual Enrollment College Classes at VHS

Health 011 (3 units, UC/CSU transferrable): Principles of Healthful Living

History 044 (3 Units, CSU & UC transferable): The Mexican-American in the History of the United States II

Course Description: This course is a survey of the history of the Mexican people in the United States from 1848 to the present time. The content includes a discussion of the United States War with Mexico, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the subsequent incorporation of Mexicans into the United States. Emphasis is placed on the politics of race, its origin in the colonial process and its impact on the historical development of a Mexican-American ethnic identity in the United States.

Health 011 (3 units, UC/CSU transferable): Principles of Healthful Living

Course Description: This course is recommended for students entering the teaching profession, or in preparation for health care professions such as nursing, medicine, physical therapy, dentistry, and areas in biological sciences. This course develops health knowledge and values with the goal of promoting a high quality of life for each individual. Areas of focus include nutrition, physical fitness, communicable diseases and other major health problems, consumer and environmental health, human sexuality and family life, mental and emotional health, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, aging, death and dying. 

 

Admin of Justice 001 (3 units, UC/CSU transferable): Introduction to Administration of Justice

Course Description:This course presents the philosophy, history, and theories of the criminal justice system, including the origins and evolution of criminal law and due process, the roles and functions of the local, state, and federal jurisdictions, and the interrelationships among criminal justice agencies: law enforcement, courts, and corrections; crime causation, analysis and the social impact of crime. The conceptual approach utilized in this course recognizes that criminal justice is itself a distinct academic discipline rather than an interdisciplinary course of study.

 

Philosophy 028 (3 units, UC/CSU transferable): Environmental Ethics

Course Description: Relationship between human beings and the wilderness; human obligations to environmental systems. Study of traditional normative theories of ethics, morality, and rights, as applied to issues involving animals and other species. Critical examination of environmental ethical theories. Consideration of the value and moral status of the environment (animals, plants, ecosystems).