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Courses Approved to Meet the General Education Requirements in Internationalism, Multiculturalism, Quantitative Thinking and Writing

(these requirements only apply to students matriculated in Fall 2007 and beyond)



Fall 2008
Spring 2008



 


Fall 2008 Last Updated 05/28/08

* courses with an asterisk are awaiting final approval

Internationalism (also count toward old International Diversity requirement)
ANTH 111-01, Cultural Anthropology (Dean)
ANTH 239-01, Medical Anthropology (Patten)
ASIA 111-01, Introduction to Asian Studies (Jim Laine)
ASIA 194-01, China on Screen (Yang)
FREN 305-01, Advanced Expression (Fritz)
GEOG 111-01, Human Geography of Global Issues (Hazen)
GEOG 111-02, Human Geography of Global Issues (Lanegran)
GEOG 232-01, People and the Environment (Moseley)
GEOG 246-01, Regional Geography of Latin America (Hazen)
GEOG 488-01 and ENVI 477-01, Comparative Environment and Development Studies (Moseley)
GERM 306-01, Introduction to German Studies (Huener)
GERM 394-01, French-German Dialogue in Philosophy and Theory (Kordela)
HIST 110-01, Introduction to European History (Weisensel)
HIST 294-02 and HMCS 294-01 and RUSS 294-01, Making History: Russian Cinema as Testimony, Propaganda and Art (Weisensel/Chadaga)
HIST 351-01, Tudor-Stuart England (Itzkowitz)
HIST 366-01, Europe in the Age of Upheaval and Revolution (Itzkowitz)
INTL 110-01, Introduction to International Studies: Globalization (Samatar)
INTL 113-01, Introduction to International Studies: Globalization Theory/Context (Nedelsky)
INTL and HMCS 202-01, Global Media Industries (Ciafone)
INTL 245-01, Introduction to Human Rights (Weber)
INTL 294-01, Latin American Media and Cultural Studies (Ciafone)
INTL 345-01, Advanced Themes in Human Rights (von Geldern)
INTL 485-01, Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred (Nedelsky)
PHIL and ASIA 136-01, Indian Philosophies (Joy Laine)
POLI and LATI 141-01, Latin America through Women's Eyes (Dosh)
POLI 221-01, Global Governance (Weber)
POLI and LATI 245-01, Latin American Politics (Dosh)
RELI and ASIA 127-01, Religions of India (Jim Laine)
SOCI 370-01, Political Sociology (Larson)

Multiculturalism (also count toward old Domestic Diversity requirement)
AMST 394-01, U.S. Racial Formations and the Global Economy (San Juan)
ENGL 130-01, American Voices (Cohen)
ENGL 375-01, African American Literature to 1900 (English)
GEOG 242-01, Regional Geography of the U.S. and Canada (Smith)
HIST and AMST 233-01, Intro to the History of the U.S. Working Class (Rachleff)
PHIL 119-01, Critical Thinking (Warren)
POLI 204-01, Urban Politics (Shah)
RELI 125-01, Love and Death (Cooey)
SOCI 190-01, Criminal Behavior and Social Control (Larson)

Quantitative Thinking
Q1

ANTH 115-01, Biological Anthropology (Legge)
BIOL and ENVI 285-01, Ecology (Dosch)
CHEM 111-01, General Chemistry I (Splan)
CHEM 115-01, Accelerated General Chemistry (Kuwata)
CHEM 311-01, Physical Chemistry I (Kuwata)
GEOG 262-01, Metro Analysis (Smith)
MATH 135-01 and -02, Applied Calculus (Topaz)
MATH 135-03, Applied Calculus (Saxe)
PHYS 113-01, Modern Astronomy (Cannon)
PHYS 494-01, Cosmology (Cannon)
PSYC 100-01, Introduction to Psychology (Strauss)
SOCI 190-01, Criminal Behavior (Larson)
THDA 125-01, Technical Theater (Barrett)

Q2
GEOL and ENVI 120-01, Environmental Geology (MacGregor)
PSYC 300-01, Directed Research in Psychology (Strauss)

Q3
ECON and MATH 108-01, Quantitative Thinking for Policy Analysis (Bressoud)
ECON 119-05, Principles of Economics (West)
MATH 155-01 and -02, Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Addona)
POLI 269-01, Empirical Research Methods (Shah)

Writing (The Writing requirement can only be satisfied AFTER taking a First Year Course--it must be taken AFTER the first semester and before the senior year. Transfer students may satisfy the requirement in any semester prior to the senior year.)
ANTH 230-01, Ethnographic Interviewing (Patten)
ENGL 303-01, Chaucer (Krier)
ENGL 375-01, African American Literature to 1900 (English)
ENGL 402-01, Seminar in British Authors (Krier)
GEOG and ENVI 232-01, People and the Environment (Moseley)
GERM and HMCS 394-01, Topics: French-German Dialogue in Philosophy and Theory (Kordela)
HISP and LATI 307-01, Introduction to the Literary Analysis of Hispanic Texts (Mesa)
HMCS 110-01, Texts and Power (Doyle)
PHIL 115-01 and -02, Problems of Philosophy (Wilcox)
PHIL and CNS 362-01, Philosophy of Mind (Joy Laine)
POLI and LATI 141-01, Latin America through Women's Eyes (Dosh)
POLI and LATI 245-01, Latin American Politics (Dosh)
PSYC 300-01, Directed Research in Psychology (Strauss)
RELI 235-01, Introduction to Theory and Method in the Study of Religion (Cooey)
RELI 294-01, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity (Drake)






Spring 2008 Updated 05/28/08

* courses with an asterisk are awaiting final approval

Internationalism
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Guneratne)
ANTH 258-01 Peoples and Culture of Africa (Patten)
ART and ASIA 171-01 Japanese Art and Culture (Kyan)
ART and ASIA 257 The Image in 20th Century China (Kyan)
ART and ASIA 394-01 The Buddhist Body (Kyan)
ASIA 294 20th Century Chinese Literature (Xin Yang)
CLAS, HIST and HMCS 122-01 The Roman World (Rife)
CLAS 129 Greek Myths from Troy to Hollywood (Severy-Hoven)
ECON and INTL 225 Comparative Economics Systems (Krueger)
ENGL and RUSS 268 Nabokov (Chadaga)
ENGL 341-01 and INTL 394-02 Diasporic London (Jarrin)
FREN 204-02 Text, Film and the Media (Vitiello)
FREN 305 Advanced Expression (Carayon)
FREN 306 Introduction to Literary Analysis (Brown)
FREN 307 Contemporary French Culture (Vitiello)
FREN and HMCS 411-01 Challenges of Modernity and Literature: Violence et littérature (Denis)
FREN 494-01 Voies Cartographiques et litteraires (Sauret)
GEOG 111-01 Human Geography of Global Issues (Muehlenhaus)
GERM 305 German Through the Media (Huener)
GERM 365 Modernism and the Avant-garde (Schulte-Sasse)
GERM 394-01 and PHIL 394-02 Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida (Martyn)
GERM 488 Senior Sem. In German Studies: Translingual Interventions: Immigrant Culture in Contemporary Germany (Martyn)
HISP and LATI and LING 436-01 Spanish Dialectology (Kauffeld)
HISP 441-01 Hispanic Film and Other Media (Mesa)
HIST 110-01 Introduction to European History: Europe Since 1789 (Weisensel)
HIST and ASIA 275 History of Modern China (Yue-him Tam)
HIST and ASIA 277 History of Modern Japan (Yue-him Tam)
HIST and ASIA 278 War Crimes and Memory in Contemporary East Asia (Yue-him Tam)
HIST 364-01 Modern Germany: Bismark to Merkel (Weisensel)
HIST 305 Comparative Freedom Movements (Rachleff)
HIST 352 Modern Britain (Itzkowitz)
INTL 111-01 Introduction to International Studies: Literature and Global Cultures (Moore)
INTL 114 Introduction to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct (von Geldern)
INTL 317 Writers and Power (Nedelsky)
INTL 345 Advanced Themes in Human Rights (Nedelsky)
INTL 480 Paradigms of Global Leadership (Samatar)
INTL 485 Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred (Nedelsky)
MUSI 111 World Music (Wong)
JAPA 294 Race and Ethnicity in Japan (Scott)
JAPA 488 Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice (Scott)
PHIL and ASIA 136 Indian Philosophies (Joy Laine)
POLI 120 International Politics (Ozkececi-Taner)
POLI 242 Development Politics (Blaney)
POLI 320 Global Political Economy (Blaney)
RELI 194-01 The Sacred, the Sword and the Marketplace (Cooey)
RUSS 251 19th Century Russian Literature (Hammarberg)
RUSS and HMCS 256-01 Mass Culture Under Communism (von Geldern)
SOCI 290 Islam and the West (Samman)
WGSS 105-01 Introduction to Transnational Feminism (Arora)

Multiculturalism
AMST 101 Explorations of Race and Racism (Rhodes)
AMST 110 Intro to African American Studies (Harris)
AMST 140 Black Public Intellectuals (Harris)
ANTH and AMST 254 Peoples and Cultures of Native North America (Dean)
EDUC 280 and POLI 211 Reenvisioning Education and Democracy (Jongewaard)
ENGL 130-01 and AMST 194-02 American Voices: Multi-ethnic Literature and U.S. History (Cohen)
ENGL 401 History of a Literary Genre: African American Detective Fiction (English)
GEOG 341 Urban Social Geography: City Life and Landscapes (Trudeau)
HIST 194-03 American Violence II: A Cultural History of Warefare from 1800-1865 (Cremer)
HIST and AMST 232 Immigration and Ethnicity in U.S. History (Rachleff)
HIST 240 Jews in America (Itzkowitz)
HIST 294-05 and AMST 294-03 The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Lynn Hudson)
HIST 305 Comparative Freedom Movements: The U.S. and South Africa (Rachleff)
HMCS and AMST 354-01 Blackness in the Media (Johnson)
PHIL 125 Ethics (Warren)
PHIL and ENVI 229 Environmental Ethics (Warren)
PHIL 368 Feminist Philosophy (Warren)
POLI and AMST 203-01 Race, Ethnicity and Politics (Shah)
PSYC and AMST 264-01 and WGSS 294-01 Psychology of Gender (Ostrove)
RELI 348 Contemporary Christian Thought and Practice (Cooey)
SOCI 230-01 Affirmative Action Policy (Boychuk)

Quantitative Thinking
Q1

BIOL 161 Cell Biology and Genetics I: Biotechnology and Society (Montgomery)
BIOL and ENVI 180 Ecology (Dosch)
BIOL 358 Microbiology (Sundby)
BIOL 361 Animal Diversity (Boyer)
CHEM 312 Physical Chemistry II (Kuwata)
EDUC and PSYC 220-01 Educational Psychology (Kruse)
GEOG 365 Advanced Cartography and Urban GIS (Laura Smith)
GEOL 102 Exploring the Solar System (Wirth)
GEOL 155 History and Evolution of the Earth (MacGregor)
MATH 135-01 Applied Calculus (Beveridge)
MATH 135-02 Applied Calculus (Topaz)
MATH 237 Multivariable Calculus (Flath)
MATH and COMP 365-01 Scientific Computation (Topaz)
MUSI 314-01 Theory IV, Contemporary Theory and Literature (Macy)
PHYS 113 Modern Astronomy (Cannon)
PHYS 226 Principles of Physics I (Vierira)
PHYS 227 Principles of Physics II (Vierira)
PHYS 440 Observational Astronomy (Cannon)
PSYC 100 Intro to Psychology (Wenner)

Q2
CHEM 112 General Chemistry II (Fischer)
CHEM 112-02 General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Splan)
CHEM 222 Analytical Chemistry (Kuwata)
MATH 153-01 and -02 Data Analysis and Statistics (Lane-Getaz)
MATH 253 Applied Multivariate Statistics (Lane-Getaz)
PHYS 194-01 and ENVI 194-02 Science of Renewable Energy (Doyle)
PSYC and CNS 248 Behavioral Neuroscience (Wiertelak)
PSYC 300 Directed Research in Psychology (Ostrove/Lea)

Q3
ECON 119-01 and -02 Principles of Economics (Sarah West)
ECON 119-05 Principles of Economics (Ding)
GEOG 378 Discipline and Methods of Geography (Laura Smith)
GEOL 302 Petrology (Wirth)
MATH 155 Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Addonna)
PSYC 201 Research in Psychology I (Wenner)
PSYC 202 Research in Psychology II (K. Brown)

Writing
ANTH 230 Ethnogrpahic Interviewing (Guneratne)
ART and ASIA 171 Japanese Art and Culture (Kyan)
ART and ASIA 257 The Image in Twentieth Century China (Kyan)
ART and ASIA 394-01 The Buddhist Body (Kyan)
ART 261 History of Art II (Inglot)
ART 262 Contemporary Art (Inglot)
CLAS 272 Studies in Classical Civilization: Age of Augustus (Severy-Hoven)
COMP 120 Introduction to Computing and Its Applications (Shoop)
ECON and INTL 225-01 Comparative Economic Systems (Krueger)
ENGL 137 Novel (Celikkol)
ENGL 270 Literature and Sexuality: Subversive Sexualities (Celikkol)
ENGL and ENVI 294 Poetry of Environment (Krier)
ENGL 311 Shakespeare: Comedy and Romance (Krier)
ENGL 401 History of a Literary Genre: African American Detective Fiction (English)
FREN 306 Introduction to Literary Analysis (Brown)
GERM 394-01 and PHIL 394-02 Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida (Martyn)
GERM 488 Senior Sem. In German Studies: Translingual Interventions: Immigrant Culture in Contemporary Germany (Martyn)
HMCS 110 Texts and Power: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Doyle)
INTL and ENGL 384 Langston Hughes: Global Writers (Moore)
MUSI 343 Western Music of the 19th Century (Mazullo)
MUSI 494 Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Wong)
PHIL 115-02 Problems of Philosophy (Joy Laine)
PHIL 125-01 Ethics (Warren)
PHIL 125-02 and -03 Ethics (Gunderson)
PHIL 125-04 Ethics (Wilcox)
PHIL 229-01 Environmental Ethics (Warren)
PHIL 294 Mill's Utilitarianism (Henry West)
PSYC 300 Dir. Research in Psychology (Ostrove and Lea)
PSYC and LING 378 Psychology of Language (Lea)
RUSS 251 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Hammarberg)
WGSS 200 Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies (Morgensen)
WGSS 400 Senior Sem.: Linking Theory and Practice (Morgensen)

 
 
 
 


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