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General Education Requirements Approved Sections for Spring 2021

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

Internationalism

Spring 2021 M3

AMST 288-01
ASIA 294-03
INTL 288-01
JAPA 288-01
Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan (Arthur Mitchell)
AMST 384-01
ENGL 384-01
INTL 384-01
Langston Hughes: Global Writer (David Moore)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 111-03 Cultural Anthropology (Arjun Guneratne)
ANTH 294-01 Defense Against the Dark Arts (Ron Barrett)
ANTH 335-01
INTL 335-01
Global Generosity (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
ART 161-01 Art of the West II (Joanna Inglot)
ART 270-01
ASIA 270-01
Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ASIA 124-01
RELI 124-01
Dharma and Dao: Asian Religions in India and China (James Laine)
CLAS 101-01 The Classical Mediterranean and Middle East (Beth Severy-Hoven)
ECON 221-01
ECON 221-02
Introduction to International Economics (Lucas Threinen)
ENVI 343-01
HIST 343-01
Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment (Chris Wells)
FREN 306-01 Introduction to Literary Analysis (Juliette Rogers)
GEOG 111-01 Human Geography of Global Issues (John Bowman)
GEOG 243-01 Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context (William Moseley)
GEOG 248-01 The Political Geography of Nations and Nationalism (Daniel Trudeau)
GEOG 261-01 Geography of World Urbanization (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
GEOG 363-01 Geography of Development and Underdevelopment (William Moseley)
GERM 366-01
MCST 266-01
Cinema Studies: Road Movies Between USA and Europe (Kiarina Kordela)
GERM 394-01
HIST 394-01
Holocaust (Abel, Pearson)
HIST 260-01
RUSS 260-01
Rise/Fall of Tsarist Russia (Maria Fedorova)
HIST 290-01 History: Then and Now (Ernesto Capello)
INTL 114-01 Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct (James von Geldern)
INTL 202-01
MCST 202-01
Global Media Industries (Michael Griffin)
INTL 282-01
INTL 282-02
Introduction to International Public Health (Vanessa Voller)
INTL 285-01
POLI 285-01
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe (Nadya Nedelsky)
MUSI 111-01 World Music (Chuen-Fung Wong)
POLI 140-01 Foundations of Comparative Politics (Paul Dosh)
POLI 294-02 Women, Peace, and Security (Wendy Weber)
RELI 100-01 Introduction to Islam: Formation and Expansion (Ahoo Najafian)
RELI 111-01 Introduction to Buddhism (Erik Davis)
SPAN 305-01 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Margaret Olsen)
WGSS 100-01 Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Sonita Sarker)

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Spring 2021 M4

ANTH 111-02
ASIA 111-01
Cultural Anthropology: Introduction to Asian Societies and Cultures (Arjun Guneratne)
ANTH 194-01 Worlds of Work (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 294-03
LING 294-02
Poetics, Performance, and Political Speech (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ART 171-01
ASIA 171-01
Art of the East II: Japan (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ART 281-01 Art and Architecture of Ancient Near East (Serdar Yalcin)
ASIA 294-02
CHIN 294-01
Death and Dying in Modern Chinese Literature (Andrew Kauffman)
ASIA 320-01
GEOG 320-01
Asian Cities (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
CLAS 127-01
WGSS 127-01
Women, Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Beth Severy-Hoven)
CLAS 129-01 Greek Myths (Brian Lush)
CLAS 194-01 Migrants, Exiles and Travelers in the Medieval Middle East (Pamela Klasova)
CLAS 294-01 Art and Architecture of the Ancient Near East (Serdar Yalcin)
ENGL 262-01
ENVI 262-01
Literature and the Natural World: Reading Nature in the Global Novel (Amy Elkins)
ENGL 263-01
INTL 263-01
WGSS 263-01
Muslim Women Writers (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
ENVI 254-01
GEOG 254-01
Population 8 Billion: Global Population Issues and Trends (Holly Barcus)
ENVI 281-01
HIST 281-01
LATI 281-01
The Andes: Landscape and Power (Ernesto Capello)
GEOG 113-01 World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization (William Moseley)
GEOG 256-01 Medical Geography (Eric Carter)
GERM 294-01
MCST 294-01
RELI 294-01
Marx, Religion, and Biopolitical Race (Hart, Kordela)
HIST 258-01 Europe Since 1945 (Jessica Pearson)
HIST 262-01
RUSS 262-01
Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union, 1856-2000 (Maria Fedorova)
INTL 290-01 World to Table: Global Food Studies (David Moore)
INTL 294-01 Global Perspectives on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (Vanessa Voller)
INTL 301-01
POLI 333-01
Power and Development in Africa (Ahmed Samatar)
INTL 320-01
POLI 320-01
Global Political Economy (David Blaney)
INTL 352-01
POLI 352-01
Transitional Justice (Nadya Nedelsky)
INTL 487-01 Senior Seminar: Rule of Law and the Chaos of Globalization (James von Geldern)
LATI 245-01
POLI 245-01
Latin American Politics (Paul Dosh)
MUSI 294-02 World Music Theories (Chuen-Fung Wong)
POLI 120-01 Foundations of International Politics (Andrew Latham)
POLI 242-01 Political Economy of Development (Lisa Mueller)
POLI 294-03 Marx/Relig/Biopolitical Race (Hart, Kordela)
POLI 323-01 Humanitarianism in World Politics (Wendy Weber)
RELI 111-02 Introduction to Buddhism (Erik Davis)
RELI 394-01 Religion of Love in Persian Literature (Ahoo Najafian)
RUSS 270-01 Wrongdoing in Russian Literature (Julia Chadaga)
SPAN 305-02 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Teresa Mesa Adamuz)

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Quantitative Thinking

Q1

Spring 2021 M3

ANTH 115-01 Biological Anthropology (Scott Legge)
CHEM 312-01 Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy (Thomas Varberg)
EDUC 220-01
PSYC 220-01
Educational Psychology (Tina Kruse)
MATH 137-01 Applied Multivariable Calculus II (David Ehren)
MATH 236-01
MATH 236-02
Linear Algebra (Thomas Halverson)
MATH 279-01
MATH 279-02
Discrete Mathematics (Kristin Heysse)

Spring 2021 M4

MATH 135-01
MATH 135-02
Applied Multivariable Calculus I (Lori Ziegelmeier)
MATH 137-02 Applied Multivariable Calculus II (Taryn Flock)
MATH 237-01
MATH 237-02
Applied Multivariable Calculus III (Lisa Naples)
MATH 279-03 Discrete Mathematics (Kristin Heysse)
THDA 125-01 Technologies of Performance (Thomas Barrett)

Q2

Spring 2021 M3

BIOL 180-01 Biodiversity and Evolution (Michael Anderson)
CHEM 112-01 General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Rice, Splan)
CHEM 112-03 General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Fischer, Rice)
COMP 112-01
COMP 112-02
STAT 112-01
STAT 112-02
Introduction to Data Science (Lisa Lendway)
COMP 194-01
MCST 194-01
Introduction to Data Storytelling (Aisling Quigley)
GEOG 225-01 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Holly Barcus)
GEOL 165-01 History/Evolution of Earth (Raymond Rogers)
PHIL 110-01
PHIL 110-02
Critical Thinking (Diane Michelfelder)
PHYS 226-01 Principles of Physics I (Anna Williams)
PSYC 301-01 Research in Psychology II (Morgan Jerald)

Spring 2021 M4

CHEM 112-02 General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Rice, Splan)
CHEM 112-04 General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Fischer, Rice)
CHEM 222-01 Analytical Chemistry (Susan Green)
GEOG 225-02 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Holly Barcus)
GEOL 160-01 Dynamic Earth/Global Change (Anna Lindquist)
PHYS 331-01 Modern Physics (James Heyman)
SOCI 190-01 Criminal Behavior/Social Control (Erik Larson)

Q3

Spring 2021 M3

ECON 119-01
ECON 119-02
Principles of Economics (Amy Damon)
GEOG 378-01 Statistical Research Methods in Geography (Laura Smith)
GEOL 103-01 Geocinema (Kelly MacGregor)
POLI 269-01 Empirical Research Methods (Lisa Mueller)
PSYC 201-01 Research in Psychology I (Brooke Lea)
SOCI 269-01 Social Science Inquiry (Erik Larson)
STAT 155-01
STAT 155-02
Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Alicia Johnson)

Spring 2021 M4

BIOL 170-01
ENVI 170-01
Ecology and the Environment (Christine O'Connell)
ECON 119-03 Principles of Economics (Lucas Threinen)
ECON 119-04
ECON 119-05
Principles of Economics (Charlotte Tuttle)
GEOG 362-01 Introduction to Remote Sensing (Xavier Haro-Carrion)
PHYS 227-01
PHYS 227-02
Principles of Physics II (John Cannon)
STAT 155-03 Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Kelsey Grinde)
STAT 155-04
STAT 155-05
Introduction to Statistical Modeling (David Shuman)

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U.S. Identities and Differences

(Also meets U.S. Multiculturalism for students entering before Fall 2014.)

Spring 2021 M3

AMST 203-01
POLI 203-01
Politics and Inequality: The American Welfare State (Lesley Lavery)
AMST 226-02
HIST 226-01
American Indian History since 1871 (Katrina Phillips)
AMST 294-02 Sovereignty Matters: Critical Indigeneity, Gender and Governance (Kirisitina Sailiata)
AMST 294-06
RELI 252-01
Martin and Malcolm: Racial Terror and the Black Freedom Struggle (William Hart)
AMST 294-07
POLI 294-04
Understanding Obama's Legacy (Duchess Harris)
AMST 384-01
ENGL 384-01
INTL 384-01
Langston Hughes: Global Writer (David Moore)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 206-01
LING 206-01
Endangered/Minority Languages (Marianne Milligan)
ECON 294-01 Poverty and Policy in the U.S. (Charlotte Tuttle)
ENGL 105-01 Identities and Differences in U.S. Literature: Introduction to Asian American Literature (Michael Prior)
ENGL 275-01 African American Literature to 1900 (Daylanne English)
HIST 194-01
WGSS 194-01
History of Childhood and Youth (Amy Sullivan)
HIST 350-01
WGSS 250-01
Race, Gender, and Medicine (Amy Sullivan)
INTD 194-01 Writing in US Academic Culture (Jake Mohan)
LATI 294-02
SOCI 220-01
Sociology of Race/Ethnicity (Erika Busse-Cardenas)
LING 294-01 Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Jessica Love-Nichols)
MCST 194-02 Introduction to the Cultural Politics of Difference (Tia-Simone Gardner)
MUSI 354-01
WGSS 354-01
Gender and Music (Victoria Malawey)
POLI 301-01 Law, Economy, and Identity (Patrick Schmidt)
RELI 238-01 Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics (James Laine)
SOCI 110-01 Introduction to Sociology (Khaldoun Samman)
SOCI 194-02 Care versus Cure: Sociological Approaches to Disability Studies (Lisa Gulya)
THDA 105-01 Seeing Performance: Dance and Theater in the Twin Cities (Claudia Tatinge Nascimento)
THDA 110-01 Introduction to the Study of Performance (Beth Cleary)

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Spring 2021 M4

AMST 222-01
HIST 222-01
Imagining the American West (Katrina Phillips)
AMST 281-01
ASIA 294-01
MCST 281-01
Bruce Lee, His Life and Legacy (Karin Aguilar-San Juan)
AMST 294-05
HIST 294-01
WGSS 294-02
US Since 1920: Fear, Anxiety, Safety, and Security (Amy Sullivan)
AMST 308-01
LATI 308-01
SPAN 308-01
Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies (Alicia Munoz)
AMST 341-01
GEOG 341-01
City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification (Daniel Trudeau)
AMST 394-01
ART 375-01
WGSS 394-02
Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in American Art (Joanna Inglot)
ANTH 194-01 Worlds of Work (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 294-03
LING 294-02
Poetics, Performance, and Political Speech (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
EDUC 230-01 Community Youth Development in Multicultural America (Tina Kruse)
ENGL 380-01 Topics in African American Literature: Afrofuturism (Daylanne English)
GEOG 242-01 Regional Geography of the US and Canada (Laura Smith)
HIST 394-02 Native Minnesota (Katrina Phillips)
LING 175-01
SOCI 175-01
Sociolinguistics (Jessica Love-Nichols)
PHIL 202-01 American Philosophy (Geoffrey Gorham)
PSYC 264-01
WGSS 264-01
The Psychology of Gender (Morgan Jerald)
PSYC 368-01 Psychology of/and Disability (Joan Ostrove)
SOCI 190-01 Criminal Behavior/Social Control (Erik Larson)

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Writing

WA

(Also meets Writing GER for students entering before Fall 2015.)

Spring 2021 M3

AMST 226-02
HIST 226-01
American Indian History since 1871 (Katrina Phillips)
AMST 288-01
ASIA 294-03
INTL 288-01
JAPA 288-01
Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan (Arthur Mitchell)
AMST 384-01
ENGL 384-01
INTL 384-01
Langston Hughes: Global Writer (David Moore)
ANTH 206-01
LING 206-01
Endangered/Minority Languages (Marianne Milligan)
ART 270-01
ASIA 270-01
Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ART 380-01 Art and Iconoclasm from the Ancient World to Early Modern Era (Serdar Yalcin)
ECON 381-01 Introduction to Econometrics (Gary Krueger)
ENGL 105-01 Identities and Differences in U.S. Literature: Introduction to Asian American Literature (Michael Prior)
ENGL 194-01 Once Upon a Crime (Penelope Geng)
ENGL 225-01
MUSI 225-01
Musical Fictions (Mark Mazullo)
ENGL 275-01 African American Literature to 1900 (Daylanne English)
ENGL 294-02 Down the Rabbit Hole (Andrea Kaston Tange)
ENVI 280-01 Environmental Classics (Chris Wells)
ENVI 343-01
HIST 343-01
Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment (Chris Wells)
FREN 306-01 Introduction to Literary Analysis (Juliette Rogers)
GEOG 243-01 Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context (William Moseley)
GEOG 248-01 The Political Geography of Nations and Nationalism (Daniel Trudeau)
GEOG 261-01 Geography of World Urbanization (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
GEOG 363-01 Geography of Development and Underdevelopment (William Moseley)
GEOG 475-01 Medical Geography Seminar (Eric Carter)
GERM 394-01
HIST 394-01
Holocaust (Abel, Pearson)
HIST 260-01
RUSS 260-01
Rise/Fall of Tsarist Russia (Maria Fedorova)
INTD 194-01 Writing in US Academic Culture (Jake Mohan)
INTL 114-01 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)
MUSI 354-01
WGSS 354-01
Gender and Music (Victoria Malawey)
PHIL 201-01 Modern Philosophy (Geoffrey Gorham)
POLI 101-01 Political Argumentation and Debate (Adrienne Christiansen)
POLI 140-01 Foundations of Comparative Politics (Paul Dosh)
POLI 160-01 Foundations of Political Theory (David Blaney)
PSYC 301-01 Research in Psychology II (Morgan Jerald)
RELI 100-01 Introduction to Islam: Formation and Expansion (Ahoo Najafian)
SOCI 269-01 Social Science Inquiry (Erik Larson)
SPAN 305-01 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Margaret Olsen)
STAT 453-01
STAT 453-02
Survival Analysis (Vittorio Addona)
THDA 105-01 Seeing Performance: Dance and Theater in the Twin Cities (Claudia Tatinge Nascimento)
THDA 110-01 Introduction to the Study of Performance (Beth Cleary)
WGSS 100-01 Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Sonita Sarker)

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Spring 2021 M4

ASIA 294-02
CHIN 294-01
Death and Dying in Modern Chinese Literature (Andrew Kauffman)
ASIA 320-01
GEOG 320-01
Asian Cities (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
CLAS 194-01 Migrants, Exiles and Travelers in the Medieval Middle East (Pamela Klasova)
ECON 225-01
INTL 225-01
Comparative Economic Systems (Gary Krueger)
ECON 381-02 Introduction to Econometrics (Amy Damon)
ENGL 125-01 Studies in Literature: Craft, Activism, and Subversive Stitchers (Amy Elkins)
ENGL 137-01 Novel: "Madness" as Oppression and Transgression (Melissa Merte)
ENGL 200-01 Major Medieval and Renaissance British Writers (Penelope Geng)
ENGL 380-01 Topics in African American Literature: Afrofuturism (Daylanne English)
ENVI 225-01
LING 225-01
100 Words for Snow: Language and Nature (Marianne Milligan)
ENVI 254-01
GEOG 254-01
Population 8 Billion: Global Population Issues and Trends (Holly Barcus)
HIST 262-01
RUSS 262-01
Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union, 1856-2000 (Maria Fedorova)
HIST 394-02 Native Minnesota (Katrina Phillips)
INTL 320-01
POLI 320-01
Global Political Economy (David Blaney)
LATI 245-01
POLI 245-01
Latin American Politics (Paul Dosh)
MUSI 294-01
RELI 294-02
J.S. Bach and the Modern Passion Tradition (Michael McGaghie)
MUSI 343-01 Western Music-19th Century (Mark Mazullo)
PHIL 100-01 Introduction to Philosophy (Janet Folina)
PHIL 226-01 Animal Ethics (Diane Michelfelder)
POLI 272-01 Persuasion and Political Change (Adrienne Christiansen)
PSYC 394-06 Key Theories of the Brain: Exploring Theoretical Neuroscience (Nate Powell)
SPAN 305-02 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Teresa Mesa Adamuz)
SPAN 330-01 Advanced Spanish Grammar: Meaning and Communication (Cynthia Kauffeld)

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WC

(Does not meet Writing GER for students entering before Fall 2015. See WA instead.)

Spring 2021 M3

BIOL 180-01 Biodiversity and Evolution (Michael Anderson)
ENGL 150-01 Introduction to Creative Writing (Rachel Gold)
ENGL 150-02 Introduction to Creative Writing (Emma Torzs)
ENGL 150-03
ENGL 150-07
Introduction to Creative Writing (Melissa Cundieff)
ENGL 285-01
THDA 242-01
Playwriting (Miranda Hall)
HIST 194-01
WGSS 194-01
History of Childhood and Youth (Amy Sullivan)
RELI 238-01 Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics (James Laine)

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Spring 2021 M4

ENGL 150-04
ENGL 150-05
Introduction to Creative Writing (Sally Franson)
ENGL 150-06 Introduction to Creative Writing (Melissa Cundieff)
FREN 320-01
THDA 394-02
Francophone Theater of Exile and Immigration (Juliette Rogers)

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WP

(Does not meet Writing GER for students entering before Fall 2015. See WA instead.)

Spring 2021 M3

AMST 203-01
POLI 203-01
Politics and Inequality: The American Welfare State (Lesley Lavery)
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Hilary Chart)
ANTH 111-03 Cultural Anthropology (Arjun Guneratne)
HIST 290-01 History: Then and Now (Ernesto Capello)
INTL 202-01
MCST 202-01
Global Media Industries (Michael Griffin)
POLI 301-01 Law, Economy, and Identity (Patrick Schmidt)
RELI 111-01 Introduction to Buddhism (Erik Davis)

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Spring 2021 M4

AMST 341-01
GEOG 341-01
City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification (Daniel Trudeau)
ANTH 111-02
ASIA 111-01
Cultural Anthropology: Introduction to Asian Societies and Cultures (Arjun Guneratne)
CLAS 127-01
WGSS 127-01
Women, Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Beth Severy-Hoven)
ECON 231-01
ENVI 231-01
Environmental Economics and Policy (Sarah West)
ENGL 263-01
INTL 263-01
WGSS 263-01
Muslim Women Writers (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
ENVI 234-01
HIST 234-01
U.S. Environmental History (Chris Wells)
ENVI 281-01
HIST 281-01
LATI 281-01
The Andes: Landscape and Power (Ernesto Capello)
HIST 250-01 Science, Magic and Belief (Karin Velez)
HIST 258-01 Europe Since 1945 (Jessica Pearson)
POLI 323-01 Humanitarianism in World Politics (Wendy Weber)
PSYC 242-01 Cognitive Psychology (Ariel James)
RELI 111-02 Introduction to Buddhism (Erik Davis)
RUSS 270-01 Wrongdoing in Russian Literature (Julia Chadaga)

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