Subject Guides
From Luria Library
About this Resource
Students and faculty will find assignment or course specific guides created by the SBCC Librarians. Each resource has a space for students to contribute resources they found especially useful.
Guides Arranged by Class or Topic
Alcohol and Drug Counseling
American Ethnic Studies
- ASAM 101 - Comparative Asian American History
- ASAM 102 - Contemporary Asian American History
- Black Studies 101 - The African-American in U.S. History to World War II
- Black Studies 102 - The African-American in U. S. History from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present
- Black Studies 103 - African American Culture
- Ethnic Studies 101 - The Immigrant Experience in the United States
Art
Automotive Services and Technology
Biology
Business
Communication
- Communication Journals (Print and Online)
- Comm 131 -- Public Speaking
Culinary Arts
- Finding materials in food safety
- CA 111 Hospitality Controls
- CA 113 Safety and Sanitation -- Library Investigation on Sustainability and Diversity
- Culinary Supervision
- CA 261 Restaurant Ownership
Early Childhood Education
Earth Science
- ERTH 101H - O'Connor - Poster Exhibit Project (Introductory Astronomy, Honors)
English
- English Skills - How to find periodical Articles
- English 60 - Hardin - Thousand Pieces of Gold
- English 70 - Cruse - Religions
- English 70 - Gloger - Secret Life of Bees
- English 70 - Gloger - Of Mice and Men
- English 80 - Cole-Broughton - Santa Barbara Water Pollution
- English 80 - L. Spaventa - Resources for Research on Animals
- English 80 - L. Spaventa - Resources for Research on Poverty
- English 80 - L. Spaventa - Resources for Research on Freedom of Speech and Comedy
- English 80 - L. Spaventra - Resources on Intelligence
- English 80 - L. Spaventa - Islamic Spain
- English 100 - Senn - Credible Sources
- English 100 - S. Senn - Ocean Pollution
- English 100 - Molloy - Cause/Effect Essay
- English 100 - Arrington - Presidential Campaign
- English 103 - Brody -Credible Sources
- English 103 - Peterson - Maravilla
- English 110 - Arrington - Food
- English 110 - Barber - Debate Topics
- English 110 - Barber - National Health Care Debate
- English 110 - Barber - Torture, Government-Sanctioned
- English 110 - Barber - Reinstatement of Military Draft
- English 110 - Bell - Research Resources for Persuasive Essay
- English 110 - Corman - Research Resources
- English 110 - Davis - Family History
- English 110 - Davis - Marine Pollution
- English 110 - Eckford-Prossor - History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- English 110 - Garcia - Research Resources
- English 110 - Lukomski - Research Resources
- English 110 - Menendez - Research for Cultural Phenomenon
- English 110 - Monda - Research Resources
- English 110 -Oropeza - League of Revolutionary Black Workers
- English 110 - Oropeza - Rastafarians
- English 110 - Ouwehand - Essays 2 and 3 Research
- English 110 - Ouwehand - Novel Context and Criticism
- English 111 - Arrington - One Hundred Years of Solitude and Things Fall Apart
- English 111 - Brody - Medicine and Literature
- English 111 - Lukomski - Research on plays and theatre criticism
- English 111 - Menendez - Literary Research
- English 111 - Monda - Paper 3/The Research Paper
- English 111 - Oropeza - Mentor Project
- English 111 - Skytt - Literary Research
- English 111 - Stevens - The Shadow Research Project
- English 231 - Arrington - Don Quijote
- Finding Periodical Articles, from Glendale Comm College
- Researching Shakespeare
ESL: English as a Second Language
- ESL 62 Reading - Civil Rights and Human Rights Activists
- ESL 124 Reading. Immigration Scrapbook Project
- ESL 124 Writing Level 4 - Culture comparison
- ESL Reading Level 5 - Research
- ESL 100, Introduction to ECE for ESL Students
Environmental Science
Faculty
Film Studies
Geography
Literature
Journalism
Marine Diving Technologies
Marketing
Native Americans and the Environment
Nursing
Physical Education
Poetry
Political Science
- Political Science - Eskandari-Qajar/Haupt - International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Political Science 134H - Eskandari-Qajar - Political Violence
- Political Science - 2008 Presidential Campaign
Psychology
Radiology
SBCC Reads
School of Justice Studies
Digital Book Sources
Full-Text Journals Online
Search Engines
Lesser known search engines to try
- Clusty Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.
- Intelways Intelways.com is a one-stop online search service, a convenient and fast way to search for (almost) anything on the web, through its comprehensive set of search channels organized into different categories.
- Scandoo Search results are scanned for malware, phishing, offensive content, adding a symbol next to result.
- Findsounds Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples

