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= Recommended classes =

**HUM 314**

 * Class Name **: Key Issues: Art & Social Protest
 * Course description **: The class analyses art beginning in the 1800’s to the present. It addresses key concepts in history and how art was influenced by it. For example civil rights, women rights, visions of Los Angeles and gay rights to name a few.
 * Importance ** : This class is important because it helps you understand art and historical events in a more humanistic perspective.
 * Professor's name ** : Patricia Gamon
 * Difficulty **: About average 2 - Agree


 * CIS 275**
 * Class Name** : Internet Literacy
 * Course Description** : the professor uses his own material and experiences to teach about the internet
 * Importance** : its more useful than most classes
 * Professor's Name** : Larry Press
 * Difficulty** : 3 - About Average

CHS 100

 * Class Name:** Cultural/Historical Synthesis
 * Course Description:** This course teaches students about Chicanos/ Mexicans history. It covers history from the pre-Columbian days to the Mexican Cession.
 * Importance:** This class is important because a lot of the students that attend CSUDH are Latinos and it will help them learn their history. It's also important to know how we became to be since Mexican history comes across ours.
 * Professor's Name:** Michael Gutierrez
 * Difficulty:** 4 - Disagree

MAT 131

 * Class Name:** Elm Stat & Probability
 * Course Description:** This class gives students the tools to solve binomial and normal distribution equations, confidence intervals, etc.
 * Importance:** This class not only stratifies a General Education requirement, but also prepares the student for OMG 321.
 * Professor's Name:** Fransisco Romero
 * Difficulty:** 4 - Disagree

MAT 131

 * Class Name:** Elm Stat & Probability
 * Course description:** A practical course in probability and statistics including such topics as the binomial and norman distribution, confidence interval, t, F, and chi-square test, linear regression and correlation and conditional probability.
 * Importance:** This class will teach you how statistics is used on a day to day basis. This class will satisfy one of your general education for undergrad class.
 * Professor's Name:** Edgar Perez
 * Difficulty:** 4 - Disagree

Kin 235
 * Class Name:** Lifetime Fitness
 * Course Description:** Clarifies the proper intake the body should have. Goes over the seven dimensions of wellness with various examples. Introduces workouts that everyone should have in their daily life. Gives a wake up call for all the diseases and infections we are prone to.
 * Importance:** I truly enjoyed Kin 235 because it was a class that taught me how to stay fit and eat clean. I am a fan of working out and staying in shape so this class was perfect for me. At times i had difficulty keeping an accurate count on the appropriate calorie intake, and this class clarified that for me along with other things.
 * Professor's Name:** Todd Butler
 * Difficulty:** 2- Agree

ENG 99
1) have the skill and assurance in using the conventions of standard written English; 2) learn that writing is a process invoking a number of elements, including collecting information and formulating ideas, determining their relationships, drafting, arranging paragraphs in logical and appropriate order and transitions between them, and revising what has been written; 3) have ability to write appropriately for different occasions, audiences, and purposes.
 * Class Name:** Basic Writing Workshop
 * Course Description:** The course introduces students to the process of creating, developing, and revising paragraphs and short essays based on personal experience, observations, and reactions to short-reading sections. Students learn basic principles of grammar, mechanics, and usage. Students practice a variety of sentence types and paragraph structure.
 * Importance:** At the end of the course, the successful students will:
 * Professor's Name:** Stefan Bergman
 * Difficulty:** 2 - Agree

MAT 131

 * Class Name:** Elementary Statistics and Probability
 * Course Description:** In this math class you will learn the basic fundamentals needed to understand statistics. You learn how to find regression lines, how to figure out the curve for standard deviations, and how to identify what type of distribution it is. You also learn about probability distributions and probability density functions.
 * Importance:** This class teaches the basic ideas and terminology needed for statistics. If you want to pursue an undergraduate degree in any field this is one of the required courses you need to take. If you plan on taking upper level math classes this is the entry level math class you must take and pass.
 * Professor's Name:** Susan Huniu
 * Difficulty:** 4 - Disagree

CIS 275

 * Class Name** : Internet Literacy
 * Course Description** : Preparing students for success in an era of internet relations and concepts. Syncing students with social networking and relations they can build by utilizing the internet as a tool. Skills using and developing Internet applications in everyday life. Also, giving students the confidence to apply their knowledge in real life practices.
 * Importance** : Personally, it is important to me because of the era we live in. Today we are interconnected by the internet. This class gives me a strong foundation on the principles of internet technology.
 * Professor's Name** : Larry Press
 * Difficulty** : 5 - Disagree Strongly

BUS 300

 * Class name:** Business Communications
 * Class description:** The class was about the various ways communication is important into today's era.
 * Importance:** This was a very important class to me because it challenged me to be a better writer as well as it taught me various things necessary for my career.
 * Professor's name:** Michael Manahan
 * Difficulty:** 2 - Agree

MGT 130

 * Class name:** Management Theory
 * Class description:** This class covers management processes of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. It also includes discussions of social and ethical issues in business; case studies and written reports.
 * Importance:** All Business Administration majors are required to take this upper division business core course. This course is very heavy on the information side but it’s offered on McGraw Hill Connect. Which makes it more interesting than the tradition class.
 * Professor's name:** Dr. Farhana Siddiqi
 * Difficulty:** 3 - About Average

=POL 101=
 * Class name**: Political Science
 * Course description**:In my opinion, this class covers the basics of Political Science. It covers the philosophy, structure, and the behavior of the America political system. This class is a heavy reading class. It isn't a hard class, but at the same time it isn't an easy class.
 * Importance**: It fulfills one of the General Education Requirements. Even though it is a required class, I still find our class discussions pretty interesting. There is always some kind of "atmosphere change" when the students (not just the teacher) add their opinions to the class.
 * Professor's name**: Maria Montero
 * Difficulty**: 3 - About Average

Professor's name: Dorothy Fisher
 * CIS 272 **
 * Class name**: Business Programming I
 * Course description**: This course introduces business programming with Visual Basic 2012. It provides fundamental programming concepts with business applications and also simple and fun game applications. Learning to program starts with the basics, such as creating user interfaces and understanding variables, constants, and calculations.
 * Importance**: The importance of this class is that it will teach students to find and create ways to apply business programming concepts into solving real world business problems. Having an efficient user interface can improve productivity and can represent the core of how a business runs.
 * Difficulty**: 2 - Agree


 * ACC 230 **
 * Class name ** : Introduction to Accounting
 * Course description ** : This class was the introduction to finance. It taught us how to read balance sheets, how to distinguish between liabilities and assets and so forth. This class helps you understand the basics and how to summarize financial information.
 * Importance ** : The importance of this class was that it allows you to take the information you have learned and apply it towards your future. This class is especially helpful if you want to own your own business or work for a company.
 * Professor's name ** : Gregory Bell
 * Difficulty ** : 2 - Agree

= CIS 370 = **Importance**: This class is highly important because it shows you how to use Information Systems in improving your productivity. **Professor's name**: Myron Sheu = OMG 321 = Learning analysis of variance, multiple regression, time series forecasting and their application in business decision making process by using Excel. It doesn't matter what your major is, what your future occupation is, you must have the knowledge of statistics to be able to get through in the field you specialize in. Everyone uses statistics in their lives without knowing it and this class offers in depth knowledge on just the basics. **Professors Name**: Fahimeh Rezayat
 * BIO 102 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Class name: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General Biology
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Course Description: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Representative topics in modern biology, emphasizing the present state of knowledge and the major means whereby this knowledge is being expanded. Three hours of lecture per week.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Importance: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This class gives you a basic understanding of biology and it will help you better understand the basics that will be needed for more advanced biology classes that you will need if it is required in your major. I took this class because it is part of a requirement, but there were other classes to choose but I decided to take this one because it is interesting and I like science.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor’s Name: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Begona de Velasco
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Difficulty: Strongly Disagree 5 **
 * Class name ** : Information Systems Theory
 * Course description ** : The course gives you an introduction to how to use computers to organize, planning, and make decisions.
 * Difficulty ** : About Average - 3
 * Class name:** Business Statistics
 * Course Description:**
 * Importance: **
 * Difficulty:** 4 - Agree

= MAT 195 = This class teaches you the fundamentals of Statistics and Probability. You will learn all you need to know for the basics of stats such as variables and distributions, confidence intervals, and linear regression. This class will teach you what you need to know for the basics of Statistics and it is a required general education undergrad class. **Professors Name**: Susan Huniu **Class name**: Elementary Statistics & Probability **Course Description**: A practical course in probability and statistics includes such topics as binomial and normal distributions, confidence intervals, linear regression and correlation, and conditional probability. **Importance**: It satisfies the General Education Quantitive Reasoning Requirement. It also covers MAT 131. Shows the basics of statistics. **Professors Name**: Susan Huniu **Difficulty**: 4- disagree
 * Class name:** Statistics
 * Course Description:**
 * Importance: **
 * Difficulty:** About Average
 * MAT 195 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Course description**: Introduction of basic laws that will help you in legal situations in a business environment.The teacher is very clear and more than willing to answer any questions. She'll even give scenarios to ad the understanding of the topic. This is a good class to start off with especially if if you have an interested in opening a private business.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">LAW 240 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Class name **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Legal Environment of Business
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Importance **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">: Learning the laws has a high importance for you as a citizen and as a working professional in my opinion. This class has shown the correct ways to handle law if your at fault or not.
 * Professor's Name**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">: Meredith Caliman
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Difficulty **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 4 - disagree

=** Class Name: Fundamentals Of Speech **=
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">THE 120 **
 * Course description: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction to the basic principles of speech. Class covers how to plan and organize speeches . Given helpful tips and strategies to use while we perform our written speeches.
 * Importance: ** Students learn how develop and present speeches. Helps gain confidence by practicing public speaking skills to classmates.
 * Professor’s Name: ** Donis Leonard
 * Difficulty: 3 about average **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Course description**: In this class, you will learn some fundamental skills for financing. For instance, information is given to us to help when we are considering buying a new home. You can calculate your home mortgage before you decide to commit to this really big debt. There are many ways to calculate the right home loan for you. Also, if you are looking to invest in the stock markets, this is the class for you <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">FIN 360 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Class name **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Business Finance
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Importance **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">: The best class I have taken at CSUDH would be FIN 360. Since this is my first semester here, I have to choose one of the classes I am enrolled in now. The professor for this class is very clear getting the class objective across. At least to me, he is. Although he can be difficult to understand, I try to ignore his accent to get through the class. A few things that help me get through this barrier are reading the chapters beforehand and print and follow along with his PowerPoint presentations. Everything we learn in this class is very useful for your everyday life. Good stuff to know.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Professor's name **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">: Bi Yi
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Difficulty **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">: 4 - disagree

=**BUS 300**=
 * Class Name:** Business Communications
 * Course Description:** Introduces student to effective business communications tools and techniques. Includes all standard forms of contemporary business communications, both written and oral.
 * Importance:** I found this class to be very helpful because it taught me the fundamentals to do well in the business world. It also taught me to be able to communicate across clearly and quickly when writing. Professor Teller was a very helpful teacher and I knew from the beginning that she was a professor who was going to be there for her students. She was always willing to help her student in any given occasion. She also has experience of her own that was very helpful for her students. It is a different writing style in the business world and professor Teller does a great job in teaching those writing skills that are necessary for any business career.
 * Professor's Name:** Elvira Teller
 * Difficulty:** 2 - Agree

=**MKT 350**=
 * Class Name **:Principles of Marketing
 * Course Description :**The class covered several fundamentals of marketing. There were all sorts of topics such as a company's target market to demographics. The course talks about the importance of marketing and how it is essential for companies to invest a significant amount of time and money to get their product or services out to consumers.
 * Importance**: I selected this class not only because it was required, but to also learn the different techniques of marketing. Before taking this class I had no idea how marketing was essential for any business to succeed. But because of this class and great professor I learned that marketing plays a big role in influencing people to purchase a company's product or service.
 * Professor's name**: Kirti Celly
 * Difficulty**: 2 - agree

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Course description:** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">This course provides the understanding of the financial side of business. It is asurvey of financial statements under existing generally accepted accounting principles. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Importance**: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">This class is important to me because I am an accounting major. It will help prepare me with the knowledge and skills to be successful in the my future career or profession. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Professor's name**: Dennis McLean <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Difficulty**: 2 - agree
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">ACC 230 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Class name **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Principles of Financial Accounting

=ENG 230=


 * Class name: **Lit & Pop Culture
 * Course Description:** Learn the history and techniques of writers from the 1950's and 1970's that are underestimated.
 * Importance:** It helps with your writing and reading skills by getting in touch with culturally and politically eventful years.
 * Professor's Name:** Dr. Hauss
 * Difficulty:** 3 - About Average

**MAT 09**

 * Class Name**: Intermediate Algebra
 * Course Description**: Quadratic formula, solving quadratic equations, graphs, brief and practical introduction to logarithms and exponential functions, word problems, applications
 * Importance**: This class is important because it covers the basic math concepts required for higher levels of science.
 * Professors nam**e: Carla Gorbea
 * Difficulty**: About Average

BUS 300

 * Class name: ** Business Communications
 * Course Description: ** This class introduces the necessary business-communicating skills to students. Through assignments and discussions, students will have a chance to understand and learn how to effectively communicate with others in a business setting.
 * Importance: ** This course is extremely helpful even for those who are not business-major related. Students will learn how to improve their resumes and prepare for job interviews, how to communicate both orally and in written formats. Most importantly, classroom interactions will give students the chance to practice and learn how to put those useful skills into use. Professor Manahan also incorporates real-life experience (as well as giving tips on the do's and don'ts) into the learning context so that students are prepared for the professional fields.
 * Professor's name: ** Michael Manahan
 * Difficulty: ** 3 - about average

=**CIS 275**=


 * Class Name:** Internet Literacy
 * Course Description:** It is an introduction course to network based applications. It introduces students to protocol networks, WWW authoring and design, applications and implications of networks.
 * Importance:** I chose CIS 275 as my favorite course because it really teaches us to think outside the box. My teacher is great—he is down to earth and actually wants us to learn about the internet as well as update us on current events around the world. CIS 275 is a well-rounded class, and it is my favorite class that I have taken at CSUDH.
 * Professor's Name:** Lawrence Press
 * Difficulty:** 3 - About Average

=**SMT 310**=
 * Class Name:** Science and Technology
 * Course Description:** The class was about science and how it influenced technology. Items that were discovered or used for scientific purposes were then applied to advancing technology.
 * Importance:** The class took us from farming technology at the start of civilization all the way up to current technology. We also learned a brief history of the earth and human beings. We learned about the origins of the atomic bomb, radar, telephone, television, and evolution of weapons and warfare. I found the class to be extremely fascinating and interesting.
 * Professor's Name:** Do not remember.
 * Diffculty:** 3 - About Average

=**MKT 350**=
 * Class Name:** Principles of Marketing
 * Course Description:** This class is basically an intro to marketing. The principles are taught while also going into detail on these principles. It shows that marketing isn't all about sales and that there's much more to the subject than being a great salesperson and highly social.
 * Importance:** This class didn't seem important at first, but halfway through the class, I realized that marketing is important. After all, if a business doesn't market its product(s) well, the business isn't likely to do well either.
 * Professor's** **Name:** Dr. Holguin
 * Difficulty:** 2 - Disagree

=**ENG 110**=
 * Class Name:** Freshman Composition
 * Course Description:** This class teaches students how to write and how to write correctly. It gives you proper training on what to write about for certain situations and how to deliver your thoughts.
 * Importance:** This class actually helps you write. It helpes you become a better writer. Every lesson we have relates to whatever we're writing about. It's always on topic.
 * Professor's Name:** Clayton Brockman
 * Difficulty:** 4- Disagree

CIS 275
**Professor Name**: Larry Press **Difficulty**: 3- About Average
 * Class Name**: Internet Literacy
 * Course Description**: This course teaches the applications, skills and concepts of networks. We create content and practice our user skills.
 * Importance**: This class is important to people that use computers. It has taught me the different skills I need to know about how to and how a computer operates.


 * LAW 340**


 * Class Name**: Law of Business Organizations


 * Course Description**: Legal consequences of selection of one form of Business organization over another analysis of the law of corporations’ partnership, and agencies, law of the workplace corporate ethics and social responsibilities.


 * Importance**: This class is important because if someone wants to open or own their own business they would need to know the laws and the stipulations that come along with being a partner or a limited liability corporation. This class allows you to understand at a level that makes sense and is easy to comprehend. Professor Thomas made it easy to understand and fun to learn his jokes were welcoming as well.


 * Professo**r: Charles Thomas


 * Difficulty**: 3 Agree


 * BUS 301**
 * Class Name:** Employment Communication
 * Course Description:** Provide student with techniques and skills for job interview and how to create a resume that will attract employer
 * Importance:** This class is very important because it help student with interview skills and proper communication techniques, Professor Cassanova is extremely informative about the real world work place. She taught the class as if she's the employer and show students what employer want from employees. After completing the class student will have the proper 1 on 1 interviewing skills and how to write a strong resume.
 * Professor:** Deborah Cassanova


 * Difficulty:** 3 Agree.