Jan Term 2025 Courses

Jan Term: On-Campus, Remote, and Hybrid

to take whatever captivates your imagination and turn it into a subject of academic inquiry capable of being probed and examined analytically.

competencies in applied learning, moving beyond what you already know to something you can transfer into innovative and novel situations.

your full and sustained attention on one subject, developing the ability to master topics quickly through focused intensity.

200 Level (1 Unit)
	• JAN 250 - Confections of a Chocoholic
	• JAN 251 - Mobility and Injury Prevention for Athletes
300 Level (1 Unit)
	• JAN 350 - The Psychology of Becoming Happier
	• JAN 351 - Lessons from the Ramayana

PLEASE NOTE: 100-level courses are open ONLY to first-year students.

100 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 100 - African American Art and Cultural Expression
	• JAN 101 - Atlantis and Aliens: Examining History’s Biggest Hoaxes, Myths, and Pseudoscientific Claims
	• JAN 102 - Beyond #Cottagecore: Self-Sufficiency as a Sustainable Lifestyle
	• JAN 103 - Check All That Apply: Being Multiracial and Multiethnic in the US
	• JAN 104 - Coding is Fun!
	• JAN 106 - Designing the Quest Board Game: Heroes, Heroines, Healers
	• JAN 107 - Energy Sustainability: Build Passive Solar Home
	• JAN 108 - Experiencing Museums
	• JAN 109 - Experiments in Stop Motion Animation & Video
	• JAN 110 - Hamilton, Waitress, and Rent Oh My! Deconstructing the Broadway Musical
	• JAN 111 - Hands-on STEM Exploration for the Science Inspired
	• JAN 113 - Introduction to Magic
	• JAN 114 - Japanese in the Bay Area: Culture, History, and Language
	• JAN 115 - Local Pilgrimage: Encounters with a Catholic Sacred Geography of the Bay Area
	• JAN 116 - Sports Writing: The “I” in Team
	• JAN 117 - Taylor Swift as Mirrorball: Reflections of Ourselves & Culture
	• JAN 119 - The Art of Race
	• JAN 120 - The Case for Literary Merit in Video Games
	• JAN 122 - Time and Time-Timekeeping
	• JAN 124 - Welcome to the Atomic Age!
	• JAN 125 - West African Dance, Drumming, and Culture
	• JAN 126 - Writing and Publishing a Romance Novel

	• JAN 200 - Banned in the USA: Books Some Consider Too Dangerous to Read
	• JAN 201 - Can Comedy Save Our Democracy? Understanding and Making Comedy News
	• JAN 202 - Choice: Can Video Games Teach Empathy?
	• JAN 203 - Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
	• JAN 204 - Devising Defiance: An Introduction to Devised Performance for Social Change
	• JAN 205 - Screenwriting: Core Elements & Writing Your 1st Act
	• JAN 206 - Stories of the Universe

	• JAN 300 - ”Nothing About Us Without Us”- Unpacking the History, Policy, and Cultural Implications of the Disability Community
	• JAN 301 - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
	• JAN 302 - Bay Area Social Justice Movements and Student Leadership
	• JAN 304 - Capoeira Angola: A Liberatory Practice From Somatic Movement Approach
	• JAN 305 - Decoding the Subtext of Labels
	• JAN 306 - Digital Storytelling
	• JAN 307 - Ecofeminism: Women, Land, and Resistance
	• JAN 308 - Fencing and Swords in History and Popular Culture
	• JAN 309 - Finding the Human Place in Nature
	• JAN 310 - Great Company or Great Stock? How to Make the Investment Connection
	• JAN 311 - How Modernism Made Our World
	• JAN 313 - Lasallian Service Internship
	• JAN 314 - Love Poetry, Philosophy, and God
	• JAN 315 - Nightmare Futures
	• JAN 316 - Reading and Writing Young Adult Literature
	• JAN 317 - The Holocaust: Antisemitism Through the Ages and The Rescue of Jews
	• JAN 318 - The Science of Cooking
	• JAN 319 - The Science of Well-Being and Happiness
	• JAN 320 - Tolstoy: Art, Faith, Philosophy, Politics
	• JAN 321 - Why Work? Finding Work’s Place in our Lives

	• JAN 401 - TRAVEL: Broadway: Behind the Scenes
	• JAN 402 - TRAVEL: New Horizons: Empowering Refugee & Migrant Entrepreneurs in Greece
	• JAN 403 - TRAVEL: Living in the Costa Rican Blue Zone: The Art of Being Whole through Yoga, Food, Nature, & Community
	• JAN 405 - TRAVEL: Endangered Australia: Wildlife & Culture
	• JAN 407 - TRAVEL: Indian Aesthetics: Education, Religion, & Culture in India
	• JAN 408 - TRAVEL: Decadence in Venice
	• JAN 409 - TRAVEL: Engaging Christian Art: Italy & France
	• JAN 410 - TRAVEL: Globalized Mexico
	• JAN 411 - TRAVEL: Coral Reefs & Culture in the Philippines
	• JAN 412 - TRAVEL: Creative Geniuses or Hard Workers: Innovation Insights from South Korea

100 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 100 - African American Art and Cultural Expression
	• JAN 104 - Coding is Fun!
300 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 300 - ”Nothing About Us Without Us”- Unpacking the History, Policy, and Cultural Implications of the Disability Community
	• JAN 305 - Decoding the Subtext of Labels
	• JAN 306 - Digital Storytelling
	• JAN 318 - The Science of Cooking
	• JAN 319 - The Science of Well-Being and Happiness
300 Level (1 Unit)
	• JAN 350 - The Psychology of Becoming Happier
	• JAN 351 - Lessons from the Ramayana

200 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 201 - Can Comedy Save Our Democracy? Understanding and Making Comedy News
	• JAN 205 - Screenwriting: Core Elements & Writing Your 1st Act
300 Level (3 Units)
	• JAN 316 - Reading and Writing Young Adult Literature
	• JAN 317 - The Holocaust: Antisemitism Through the Ages and The Rescue of Jews

300 Level (3 Units+ 1 Unit EL )
	• JAN 307 - Ecofeminism: Women, Land, and Resistance
	• JAN 313 - Lasallian Service Internship
400 Level (Travel, 3 Units+ 1 Unit EL)
	• JAN 402 - TRAVEL: New Horizons: Empowering Refugee & Migrant Entrepreneurs in Greece
	• JAN 405 - TRAVEL: Endangered Australia: Wildlife & Culture

300 Level (3 Units)
	• CORE 311 - Identity, Power, Equity and Social Justice in the Bay Area
	• CORE 320 - Film Music: Sounding the Screen and the Pursuit of the Extra-Narrative
100 Level (1 Unit)
	• CORE 125 - Introduction to Laboratory Practicum in the Sciences