Winter Session classes are a great opportunity to accelerate your graduation, return to school, or explore a new area of interest. This intensive session between the Fall and Spring semesters offers online courses from SDSU’s degree programs. Enrollment to these online winter break classes is open to current SDSU students, students from other colleges and universities, high school graduates, and working professionals.
Registration for Winter Session 2021 is now open!
Students are limited to 3 units during Winter Session. Courses are offered ONLINE.
Winter Session 2021
December 17, 2020 - January 14, 2021
Key Dates
- Dec 15, 2020 - Registration ends
- Dec 16, 2020 - Last day to drop with a full refund (minus $21 processing fee)
- Dec 17, 2020 - Courses start
- Dec 20, 2020 - Last day to drop with a 65% refund (minus a $21 processing fee)
After this date, there is no refund and a "W" will be recorded for the course - Jan 14, 2021 - Courses end
- Jan 15, 2021 - Grades end (11 pm deadline)
- Jan 16, 2021 - End of Winter Term
Winter Session courses are accelerated and rigorous in terms of format and timeline; please plan accordingly to dedicate sufficient time in your schedule.
For additional information, please email wintersession.ces@sdsu.edu or call (619) 594-3946.
Courses
Format: Online
Theory and practice of accounting applicable to recording, summarizing, and reporting of business transactions for external reporting and other external uses. Asset valuation; revenue and expense recognition; various asset, liability, and capital accounts.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Selection and analysis of accounting information for internal use by managers. Using financial information for planning and control purposes.
Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C in Accountancy 201. Proof of completion of prerequisite required: Copy of transcript.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Taxation of individuals, including income, deductions, credits, social security taxes, and property transactions.
Prerequisites: Accountancy 201 and 202. Approved upper division business major, business minor, or other approved major.
Proof of completion of prerequisites required: Copy of transcript.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Skills and tools for auditors, consultants, tax professionals, managers. Techniques and technologies for fraud investigation and interviewing. Case analysis, research of public records, ethical decision making for accountants. Service learning project.
Prerequisites: Accountancy 431 or 626. Proof of completion of prerequisite required: Copy of transcript.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Interpretation and application of constitutional principles and judicial decisions to political and social problems faced by Afro-Americans.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Theoretical concepts and dimensions of ethics in business decisions. Ethics of decision alternatives using different approaches and philosophies, with application of an integrative ethical decision model to cases from various business subdisciplines.
Prerequisites:Approved upper division business major or another major approved by the Fowler College of Business.
Proof of completion of prerequisite required: Copy of transcript
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Introduction to the program of study leading to the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Integration of various business disciplines to accomplish strategic goals. Presentation of the concept of global awareness, one of the fundamental pillars of global competency necessary in today’s business world.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Objectives of financial management. Financing the business enterprise. Internal financial management. Introduction to the cost of capital, valuation, dividend policy, leverage, international finance, and the techniques of present value and its applications. Sources of capital. (Formerly numbered Finance 323.)
Prerequisites: Approved upper division business major, business minor, or another major approved by the Fowler College of Business.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Systems of the human body, their interrelationships and control systems which regulate them. Not open to students with credit in a college course in human physiology. Not applicable to biological sciences majors.Prerequisites:: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.A.2. Life Sciences. If a biological sciences course is not taken to satisfy General Education II.A.2. Life Sciences, college course in biological sciences is required.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Latin and Greek words and bases and their English derivatives. Etymology, word analysis and construction, language history, and structure.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Theory and practice of interpersonal communication. Role of communication in developing, initiating, maintaining, and transitioning through everyday social relationships. Challenges of managing interpersonal communication; contexts, and verbal and nonverbal messages.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Study of communication with emphasis on influence of cultural background, perception, social organization, language and nonverbal messages in the intercultural communication experience.Prerequisites: Communication 103. Open to majors and nonmajors.
December 17 - January 14
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Principles of economic analysis, economic institutions, and issues of public policy. Emphasis on macroanalysis including national income analysis, money and banking, business cycles, and economic stabilization.Prerequisites:: Satisfaction of the SDSU Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning Assessment requirement.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Principles of economic analysis, economic institutions, and issues of public policy. Emphasis on direction of production, allocation of resources, and distribution of income, through the price system (microanalysis); and international economics.Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the SDSU Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning Assessment requirement.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Behavior of consumers, firms and industries with respect to product and input markets. Price system and other models of economic decision making. Economic efficiency and welfare; property rights and externalities.Prerequisites:: Economics 102 with approval of department.
Recommended: Mathematics 120 or 124 or 150.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Face to Face
Hands-on experience working with individuals with a variety of physical and neurological disabilities through prescribed fitness programming at San Diego State University. Maximum credit four units. Three hours of laboratory per unit.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and consent of instructor.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Business legal environment system, sources of law, procedures and ethics associated with implementation of law. Law of torts and intellectual property; contracts and sales; agency and employment; negotiable instruments and banking; business organizations.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Growth of civilizations and interrelationships of peoples of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas to 1500.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Developments and emerging trends in use of social media for company and brand promotion. Case studies. Strategic planning options for current and emerging social media environments. Segmentation and approaches for community engagement. Metrics and evaluation.Prerequisites:: Upper division standing
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Process of initiating, expanding, purchasing, and consolidating businesses. Concepts, theories, and techniques of managerial innovation and implementation.Prerequisites:: Approved upper division business major, business minor, or another major approved by the Fowler College of Business. Proof of completion of prerequisite required: Copy of transcript.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Elements of music as exemplified by works representing different areas, cultures, styles, and forms. See Class Schedule for specific content.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Role of nutrition in health promotion and disease prevention. Current concepts, controversies, and dietary recommendations from a scientific perspective.Prerequisites: Biology 100; Chemistry 100 or 200. Proof of completion of prerequisites required: Copy of transcript.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Theory and practice of governmental administration in differing environments, role of administrators in public policy, issues facing administrators, techniques of administration.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Focus on urban areas and urbanism from a public policy perspective; course examines and critiques the physical, economic, social and political dimensions of contemporary American cities utilizing a multidisciplinary approach.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Each student will develop an indepth understanding of a specialized topic in public policy or public administration. By the conclusion of this course, students will have developed and demonstrated effective research, analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills. Students will work independently in the preparation of a public agency report. The professor will supervise students’ progress and help expand their skills by showing how to analyze and interpret data, use effective data visualization techniques, and how to craft a solid report.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Introduction to deductive and inductive logic. Logic and language. Analysis of fallacies. Uses of logic in science and in daily life.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Ethical issues of contemporary life. Individualism vs. collectivism; democracy vs. dictatorship; ethical problems arising in law, medicine, business, government and interpersonal relationships.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Major problems and findings concerning group behavior and group membership, the socialization of the individual, and processes of social interaction.Prerequisites:: Psychology 101
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Causes and treatment of abnormal behavior with emphasis on major behavior disorders.Prerequisites: Psychology 101.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Major theoretical approaches to individual differences and the study of the person. Techniques of personality assessment. Selected research findings.Prerequisites: Psychology 101.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Religious identities and traditions of diverse peoples living in the US. Major world religions in context of contemporary multicultural America. Religions of indigenous peoples and religious movements which have arisen in US.December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Concepts, definitions, and measures of essential cultural components of tourism. Integrated view of interrelated socio-cultural tourism issues with an understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures.Prerequisites: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences.
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
Critical approaches to study of film, television, and new media. Analyses of media perspectives, to include ideology, semiotics, genre, gender, and spectatorship.Prerequisites:: Television, Film and New Media 160
December 17 - January 14
Format: Online
This course provides an introduction to mastering the basic techniques in patternmaking that includes measurement taking, pattern drafting and pattern manipulation.December 17 - January 14