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General Education Requirements Approved Sections for Spring 2020

Internationalism |  Quantitative Thinking |  U.S. Identities and Differences |  Writing | 

Internationalism

Students must take at least one course devoted to the study and analysis of social, cultural, scientific, aesthetic or ethical questions that arise through transnational or international encounters, systems, economies, processes, or dynamics. Courses listed as Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Difference will only count for one designation and not both.

AMST 294-07
POLI 294-03
Contemporary Politics of Race and Racialization in North America (Althea Sircar)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
AMST 294-08
HIST 294-01
LATI 294-01
The Native Southwest (Naomi Sussman)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Hilary Chart)
ANTH 111-02 Cultural Anthropology (Arjun Guneratne)
ANTH 194-01 Worlds of Work (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 239-01 Medical Anthropology (Ron Barrett)
ANTH 294-02 Children and Youth in Africa (Hilary Chart)
ART 161-01 Art of the West II (Joanna Inglot)
ART 171-01
ASIA 171-01
Art of the East II: Japan (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ART 252-01 Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture (Joanna Inglot)
ART 272-01
ASIA 272-01
Embodiment and Subjectivity in Later Chinese Art (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ART 282-01 Art and Architecture of the Islamic World (Serdar Yalcin)
ASIA 111-01 Introduction to Asian Studies: Asian Humanities (Rivi Handler-Spitz)
ASIA 194-01
RELI 194-01
Cambodia: Empire to Today (Erik Davis)
ASIA 258-01
CHIN 258-01
WGSS 258-01
Gender and Sexuality in China (Xin Yang)
ASIA 260-01
JAPA 260-01
Narratives of Alienation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film (Arthur Mitchell)
ASIA 294-01
CHIN 294-01
Opulence and Decadence: China, Europe, and the Early Modern World (Rivi Handler-Spitz)
ASIA 320-01
GEOG 320-01
Asian Cities (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
ASIA 378-01
HIST 378-01
War Crimes and Memory in East Asia (Yue-him Tam)
CLAS 294-01 Frenemies: Byzantine-Islamic Relations is Late Antiquity (Andrew Overman)
CLAS 294-03 Art/Arch of Islamic World (Serdar Yalcin)
ECON 221-01
ECON 221-02
Introduction to International Economics (Felix Friedt)
ENGL 294-01
MUSI 294-01
Adaptations: Shakespeare, Verdi and the Politics of Art (Geng, Mazullo)
ENGL 294-06
GERM 294-01
Short Forms: Novella, Essay, Aphorism from Boccaccio to Brecht (David Martyn)
GEOG 111-01 Human Geography of Global Issues (John Bowman)
GEOG 113-01 World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization (William Moseley)
GEOG 243-01 Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context (William Moseley)
GEOG 249-01
LATI 249-01
Environment and Society in Latin America (Xavier Haro-Carrion)
GEOG 256-01 Medical Geography (Eric Carter)
GEOG 294-01 Migration, Environment and Place Identity(ies): Exploring Geographies of Home, Mobility and Place (Holly Barcus)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
GEOG 363-01 Geography of Development and Underdevelopment (William Moseley)
GERM 309-01 German Cultural History II (Brigetta Abel)
HIST 260-01
RUSS 294-01
Rise/Fall of Tsarist Russia (Maria Fedorova)
HIST 294-02
RUSS 294-02
Food, Science and Technology (1914-1939): A Transatlantic Perspective (Maria Fedorova)
HIST 294-03 "Many Mexicos": Social Movements and Nation-Formation since Independence (Naomi Sussman)
HIST 381-01
INTL 381-01
LATI 381-01
Transnational Latin Americas (Naomi Sussman)
INTL 110-01 Introduction to Intl Studies: Globalization - Homogeneity and Heterogeneity (Ahmed Samatar)
INTL 114-01
INTL 114-02
Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct (James von Geldern)
INTL 265-01
LING 294-02
RUSS 265-01
Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication (Julia Chadaga)
INTL 285-01
POLI 285-01
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe (Nadya Nedelsky)
INTL 290-01 World to Table: Global Food Studies (David Moore)
INTL 294-01
WGSS 294-03
Muslim Women Writers in the 21st Century (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
INTL 321-01
MCST 321-01
Cultures of Neoliberalism (Bradley Stiffler)
INTL 352-01
POLI 352-01
Transitional Justice (Nadya Nedelsky)
LATI 294-02 "Many Mexicos": Social Movements and Nation-Formation Since Independence (Naomi Sussman)
MUSI 111-01 World Music (Chuen-Fung Wong)
POLI 120-02 Foundations of International Politics (Alexander Salt)
POLI 140-01 Foundations of Comparative Politics (Paul Dosh)
POLI 160-01 Foundations of Political Theory (Althea Sircar)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
POLI 294-02 Comparative Foreign Policy (Alexander Salt)
POLI 323-01 Humanitarianism in World Politics (Wendy Weber)
POLI 394-01
WGSS 394-01
Intersectionality and Disability (Althea Sircar)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
POLI 394-02 Technology and International Relations (Alexander Salt)
RELI 102-01 Modern Islam (Candace Mixon)
RELI 111-01 Introduction to Buddhism (Erik Davis)
RELI 136-01 World Religions and World Religions Discourse (James Laine)
SPAN 294-01 Caribbean Oral Traditions (Margaret Olsen)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
SPAN 305-01 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Teresa Mesa Adamuz)
SPAN 305-02 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Antonio Dorca)
THDA 110-01 Introduction to the Study of Performance (Beth Cleary)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
WGSS 252-01 Gender, Sexualities and Feminist Visual Culture (Joanna Inglot)

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Quantitative Thinking

Students must take one or more courses with a Q3, Q2, or Q1 designation. A single Q3 course completely satisfies the requirement; alternatively, a Q2 course together with another Q2 or Q1 course, or three Q1 courses, can meet the requirement.

Q1

ANTH 115-01 Biological Anthropology (Scott Legge)
BIOL 194-01 Plants, Environment, and Society (Mary Heskel)
CHEM 312-01 Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy (Thomas Varberg)
EDUC 220-01
PSYC 220-01
Educational Psychology (Tina Kruse)
MATH 135-01 Applied Multivariable Calculus I (Joseph Benson)
MATH 135-02 Applied Multivariable Calculus I (Lori Ziegelmeier)
MATH 137-01 Applied Multivariable Calculus II (Taryn Flock)
MATH 137-02
MATH 137-03
Applied Multivariable Calculus II (Thomas Halverson)
MATH 236-01
MATH 236-02
Linear Algebra (Kristin Heysse)
MATH 237-01
MATH 237-02
Applied Multivariable Calculus III (William Mitchell)
MATH 279-01 Discrete Mathematics (Andrew Beveridge)
MATH 279-02 Discrete Mathematics (David Ehren)
PHIL 111-01 Introduction to Symbolic Logic (Janet Folina)
PSYC 100-01 Introduction to Psychology (Ariel James)

Q2

CHEM 112-01
CHEM 112-02
General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Paul Fischer)
CHEM 112-03
CHEM 112-04
General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Kathryn Splan)
CHEM 222-01 Analytical Chemistry (Keith Kuwata)
COMP 112-01
COMP 112-02
STAT 112-01
STAT 112-02
Introduction to Data Science (Shilad Sen)
COMP 194-01
MCST 194-02
Intro to Data Storytelling (Aisling Quigley)
GEOG 225-01 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Holly Barcus)
GEOG 262-01 Metro Analysis (Laura Smith)
GEOL 165-01 History/Evolution of Earth (Raymond Rogers)
GEOL 194-01 Geohazards (Alan Chapman)
LING 208-01 The Human Voice (Christina Esposito)
PHYS 114-01 Modern Astronomy II (Anna Williams)
PSYC 242-01 Cognitive Psychology (Brooke Lea)
PSYC 301-01 Research in Psychology II (Cari Gillen-O'Neel)
PSYC 401-01 Directed Research in Psychology (James, Jerald)
PSYC 401-02 Directed Research in Psychology: Moral Judgement and Behavior (Steve Guglielmo)

Q3

BIOL 285-01
ENVI 285-01
Ecology and the Environment (Mary Heskel)
ECON 119-01
ECON 119-02
Principles of Economics (Samantha Cakir)
ECON 119-03
ECON 119-04
Principles of Economics (Amy Damon)
ENVI 240-01 The Earth's Climate System (Louisa Bradtmiller)
GEOG 378-01 Statistical Research Methods in Geography (Laura Smith)
PHYS 227-01 Principles of Physics II (John Cannon)
POLI 269-01 Empirical Research Methods (Lesley Lavery)
PSYC 201-01 Research in Psychology I (Steve Guglielmo)
SOCI 269-01 Social Science Inquiry (Erik Larson)
STAT 155-01 Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Kelsey Grinde)
STAT 155-02
STAT 155-03
Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Leslie Myint)
STAT 155-04 Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Lisa Lendway)

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U.S. Identities and Differences

Students must take at least one course devoted to the study of forms or forces that create, reflect, maintain, or contest identities of, and differences amongst, U.S. social groups (based in, for example, race, class, ethnicity, gender, language, nation, dis/ability, religion, sexuality). Courses listed as Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Difference will only count for one designation and not both.

AMST 101-01 Explorations of Race and Racism (Duchess Harris)
AMST 237-01
ENVI 237-01
Environmental Justice (Michelle Garvey)
AMST 281-01
MCST 281-01
Bruce Lee (Karin Aguilar-San Juan)
AMST 294-02 Sovereignty Matters: Critical Indigeneity, Gender, and Governance (Kirisitina Sailiata)
AMST 294-03 Troubled Waters: Race, the Environment, and the Law (Kirisitina Sailiata)
AMST 294-04 Reclaiming Zen, Yoga and Church: Asian American Religions (Jake Nagasawa)
AMST 294-05
RELI 294-02
James Baldwin and the Black Religious Imagination (William Hart)
AMST 294-06
SOCI 294-01
WGSS 294-02
Progress and Identity: Race, Gender and Social Movements (Aisha Upton)
AMST 294-07
POLI 294-03
Contemporary Politics of Race and Racialization in North America (Althea Sircar)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
AMST 294-08
HIST 294-01
LATI 294-01
The Native Southwest (Naomi Sussman)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
AMST 294-10
ENGL 294-07
African American Detective Fiction (Daylanne English)
AMST 294-11 Community-Based Theater (Harry Waters Jr.)
AMST 308-01
AMST 308-02
LATI 308-01
LATI 308-02
SPAN 308-01
SPAN 308-02
Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies (Alicia Munoz)
AMST 315-01
ASIA 315-01
HIST 294-05
U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam (Karin Aguilar-San Juan)
AMST 334-01
MCST 334-01
Cultural Studies and the Media (Leola Johnson)
ANTH 194-01 Worlds of Work (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ECON 294-01 Urban Poverty (Samantha Cakir)
EDUC 230-01 Community Youth Development in Multicultural America (Tina Kruse)
ENGL 105-01 Identities and Differences in US Literature: LGBTQ Literature in America (Rachel Gold)
ENGL 125-01 Studies in Literature: Writing the Body (Zoe Rodine)
ENGL 276-01 African American Literature 1900 to Present (Daylanne English)
ENVI 194-02
LING 194-02
Language and Climate Change (Jessica Love-Nichols)
ENVI 375-01
GEOG 375-01
Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods (Holly Barcus)
ENVI 394-04
POLI 394-03
Energy Justice (Roopali Phadke)
GEOG 294-01 Migration, Environment and Place Identity(ies): Exploring Geographies of Home, Mobility and Place (Holly Barcus)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
HIST 350-01
WGSS 250-01
Race, Gender, and Medicine (Amy Sullivan)
INTD 194-01 Writing in U.S. Academic Culture (Jake Mohan)
INTL 294-01
WGSS 294-03
Muslim Women Writers in the 21st Century (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
LING 332-01
SPAN 332-01
Spanish in the United States (Cynthia Kauffeld)
PHIL 294-01
WGSS 294-04
Philosophy of Race and Gender (Samuel Asarnow)
POLI 160-01 Foundations of Political Theory (Althea Sircar)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
POLI 394-01
WGSS 394-01
Intersectionality and Disability (Althea Sircar)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
PSYC 394-03 Culture and Developmental Psychopathology (Fanita Tyrell)
RELI 238-01 Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics (James Laine)
SOCI 110-01 Introduction to Sociology (Khaldoun Samman)
SOCI 185-01
WGSS 185-01
Masculinities (Khaldoun Samman)
SOCI 294-02 Childhood, Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood (Lisa Gulya)
SPAN 294-01 Caribbean Oral Traditions (Margaret Olsen)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
THDA 110-01 Introduction to the Study of Performance (Beth Cleary)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
THDA 210-01 Community-based Theater (Harry Waters Jr.)
THDA 215-01 Dance History: Reading the Dancing Body (Rae Charles)

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Writing

Macalester seeks to ensure that all students receive instruction in writing that gives attention to writing as a process (writing is rewriting), and that provides students individually with feedback on the mechanics and substance of their writing. Courses will be classified as teaching argumentative writing (WA), as providing instruction in writing as craft (WC) or as offering significant practice in writing (WP). All students must successfully complete at least three Writing courses. Of the three courses, at least one must be WA and no more than one may be WP. Every student must take either a WA or WC course during the first semester of college, a requirement which may be met by a designated WA or WC First Year course.

WA

AMST 294-10
ENGL 294-07
African American Detective Fiction (Daylanne English)
ANTH 230-01 Ethnographic Interviewing (Arjun Guneratne)
ANTH 335-01
INTL 335-01
Global Generosity (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
ART 252-01 Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture (Joanna Inglot)
ART 272-01
ASIA 272-01
Embodiment and Subjectivity in Later Chinese Art (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ASIA 111-01 Introduction to Asian Studies: Asian Humanities (Rivi Handler-Spitz)
ASIA 258-01
CHIN 258-01
WGSS 258-01
Gender and Sexuality in China (Xin Yang)
ASIA 294-01
CHIN 294-01
Opulence and Decadence: China, Europe, and the Early Modern World (Rivi Handler-Spitz)
ASIA 320-01
GEOG 320-01
Asian Cities (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
BIOL 348-01 Ornithology (Jerald Dosch)
BIOL 494-02 Neural Control of Movement (Martha Streng)
ECON 225-01
INTL 225-01
Comparative Economic Systems (Gary Krueger)
ECON 381-01 Introduction to Econometrics (Gary Krueger)
ECON 381-02 Introduction to Econometrics (Amy Damon)
ENGL 115-01 Shakespeare (Penelope Geng)
ENGL 125-01 Studies in Literature: Writing the Body (Zoe Rodine)
ENGL 212-01 Introduction to Literary Theory: Debates on Interpretation (Elisabeth Alderks)
ENGL 276-01 African American Literature 1900 to Present (Daylanne English)
ENGL 294-01
MUSI 294-01
Adaptations: Shakespeare, Verdi and the Politics of Art (Geng, Mazullo)
ENGL 294-06
GERM 294-01
Short Forms: Novella, Essay, Aphorism from Boccaccio to Brecht (David Martyn)
ENGL 394-03 Demonology (Penelope Geng)
ENVI 280-01 Environmental Classics (Christie Manning)
ENVI 375-01
GEOG 375-01
Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods (Holly Barcus)
FREN 306-01 Introduction to Literary Analysis (Andrew Billing)
GEOG 243-01 Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context (William Moseley)
GEOG 363-01 Geography of Development and Underdevelopment (William Moseley)
GEOG 475-01 Medical Geography Seminar (Eric Carter)
GERM 309-01 German Cultural History II (Brigetta Abel)
GERM 365-01 Kafka: Gods, Animals, and Other Species of Modernity (Kiarina Kordela)
GERM 394-01
PHIL 294-03
Reading Marx (David Martyn)
HIST 260-01
RUSS 294-01
Rise/Fall of Tsarist Russia (Maria Fedorova)
HIST 350-01
WGSS 250-01
Race, Gender, and Medicine (Amy Sullivan)
HIST 394-02 Festive Turmoil: Holidays, Protests and Riots in Medieval and Early Modern History (Linda Sturtz)
INTD 194-01 Writing in U.S. Academic Culture (Jake Mohan)
INTL 110-01 Introduction to Intl Studies: Globalization - Homogeneity and Heterogeneity (Ahmed Samatar)
INTL 114-01
INTL 114-02
Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct (James von Geldern)
INTL 285-01
POLI 285-01
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe (Nadya Nedelsky)
INTL 488-01 Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale (David Moore)
LING 208-01 The Human Voice (Christina Esposito)
LING 311-01
PHIL 311-01
Philosophy of Language (Joy Laine)
LING 378-01
PSYC 378-01
Psychology of Language (Brooke Lea)
MCST 110-01 Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies (Bradley Stiffler)
MCST 110-02 Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies (John Kim)
MUSI 194-02 33 1/3 (Mark Mandarano)
MUSI 343-01 Western Music-19th Century (Mark Mazullo)
PHIL 100-01 Introduction to Philosophy (Janet Folina)
PHIL 121-01
PHIL 121-02
Ethics (Samuel Asarnow)
PHIL 201-01 Modern Philosophy: Women Philosophers (Geoffrey Gorham)
PHIL 226-01 Animal Ethics (Diane Michelfelder)
POLI 140-01 Foundations of Comparative Politics (Paul Dosh)
POLI 160-01 Foundations of Political Theory (Althea Sircar)
PSYC 301-01 Research in Psychology II (Cari Gillen-O'Neel)
PSYC 385-01 Mind Reading: Understanding Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Darcy Burgund)
PSYC 401-01 Directed Research in Psychology (James, Jerald)
PSYC 401-02 Directed Research in Psychology: Moral Judgement and Behavior (Steve Guglielmo)
PSYC 450-01 Research in Hemisphere Asymmetries (Darcy Burgund)
SOCI 269-01 Social Science Inquiry (Erik Larson)
SPAN 305-01 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Teresa Mesa Adamuz)
SPAN 305-02 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Antonio Dorca)
WGSS 200-01 Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies (Sonita Sarker)
WGSS 252-01 Gender, Sexualities and Feminist Visual Culture (Joanna Inglot)

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WC

CLAS 294-02
ENGL 294-04
Homer's The Odyssey: A Literary and Historical Approach (Burgess, Goldman)
ENGL 150-01
ENGL 150-02
Introduction to Creative Writing (Sally Franson)
ENGL 150-03
ENGL 150-07
Introduction to Creative Writing (Emma Torzs)
ENGL 150-04 Introduction to Creative Writing (James Dawes)
ENGL 150-05 Introduction to Creative Writing (Melissa Cundieff)
ENGL 150-06 Introduction to Creative Writing (Matt Burgess)
ENGL 494-01 Seminar: Chapbooks (Michael Prior)
MUSI 194-01 Songwriting (Victoria Malawey)
POLI 394-01
WGSS 394-01
Intersectionality and Disability (Althea Sircar)
RELI 238-01 Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics (James Laine)

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WP

AMST 294-07
POLI 294-03
Contemporary Politics of Race and Racialization in North America (Althea Sircar)
AMST 294-11 Community-Based Theater (Harry Waters Jr.)
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Hilary Chart)
ANTH 111-02 Cultural Anthropology (Arjun Guneratne)
ANTH 387-01 Darwin and Evolutionary Thought (Scott Legge)
ART 130-01 Drawing I (Megan Vossler)
ART 282-01 Art and Architecture of the Islamic World (Serdar Yalcin)
ART 283-01
CLAS 283-01
Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome (Serdar Yalcin)
BIOL 194-01
ENVI 194-01
Plants, Environment, and Society (Mary Heskel)
BIOL 473-01 Research in Immunology (Devavani Chatterjea)
CLAS 294-03 Art/Arch of Islamic World (Serdar Yalcin)
ECON 231-01
ENVI 231-01
Environmental Economics and Policy (Sarah West)
ECON 356-01 Capital Markets (Liang Ding)
EDUC 260-01 Critical Issues in Urban Education (Brian Lozenski)
ENGL 105-01 Identities and Differences in US Literature: LGBTQ Literature in America (Rachel Gold)
INTL 294-01
WGSS 294-03
Muslim Women Writers in the 21st Century (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
INTL 321-01
MCST 321-01
Cultures of Neoliberalism (Bradley Stiffler)
MCST 234-01 New Media Theories/Practices (John Kim)
POLI 323-01 Humanitarianism in World Politics (Wendy Weber)
PSYC 100-01 Introduction to Psychology (Ariel James)
PSYC 250-01 Developmental Psychology (Cari Gillen-O'Neel)
RELI 111-01 Introduction to Buddhism (Erik Davis)
RELI 194-02 Modern Judaism in America and Israel (Nicholas Schaser)
SOCI 185-01
WGSS 185-01
Masculinities (Khaldoun Samman)
THDA 210-01 Community-based Theater (Harry Waters Jr.)
THDA 215-01 Dance History: Reading the Dancing Body (Rae Charles)
THDA 230-01 Physical Approaches (Robert Rosen)

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