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General Education Requirements Approved Sections for Spring 2023

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 445-01
LATI 385-01
SPAN 385-01
Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border (Leah Sand)
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 194-01 Anthropology of Work (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 253-01
INTL 253-01
Comparative Muslim Cultures (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 294-02 Psychiatry and Culture (Eva Corsiglia-Melstrom)
ANTH 294-04
GEOG 294-04
Indigenous Futures (Rupak Shrestha)
ART 171-01
ASIA 171-01
Introduction to the Art of Japan (Kari Shepherdson-Scott)
ART 282-01
CLAS 294-01
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)
ASIA 194-01
JAPA 194-01
WGSS 194-02
Bad Women: Portrayals of Female Villains in Japanese Popular Culture (Sachiko Dorsey)
ASIA 194-02
THDA 112-01
Reading Plays: Asian and Asian American Playwrights (kt shorb)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ASIA 244-01
GEOG 244-01
Geography of Asia: the Political Economy (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
ASIA 277-01
HIST 277-01
The Rise of Modern Japan (Yue Him Tam)
ASIA 294-02
CHIN 294-01
China on the Map (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)
ASIA 394-01
CHIN 394-01
Translating Chinese (Xin Yang)
CLAS 101-01 The Classical Mediterranean and Middle East (Beth Severy-Hoven)
CLAS 194-02 Classics in Film (Brian Lush)
ECON 221-01
ECON 221-02
Introduction to International Economics (Felix Friedt)
ECON 225-01
INTL 225-01
Comparative Economic Systems (Gary Krueger)
ENGL 294-08 Reading Along the Silk Roads (Coral Lumbley)
ENVI 230-01
GERM 230-01
Green Germany (Michael Powers)
ENVI 232-01
GEOG 232-01
People, Agriculture and the Environment (William Moseley)
ENVI 375-01
GEOG 375-01
Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods (Holly Barcus)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
FREN 305-01 Advanced Expression: Communication Tools (Claude Cassagne)
FREN 306-01 Introduction to Literary Analysis (El Hadji Diop)
FREN 394-01 Quebec (Juliette Rogers)
FREN 494-02 Environment/Culinary Culture/Sustainability in 20th/21st C French/Francophone Literature/Art/Life (Joelle Vitiello)
GEOG 111-01 Human Geography of Global Issues (Rupak Shrestha)
GEOG 113-01 World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization (William Moseley)
GEOG 234-01 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 239-01
LATI 239-01
Neotropical Landscapes (Xavier Haro-Carrion)
GEOG 294-02 Borders and Belonging (Rupak Shrestha)
GEOG 363-01 Geography of Development and Underdevelopment (William Moseley)
GERM 276-01
MCST 276-01
POLI 276-01
RELI 276-01
Marx, the Imaginary, and Neoliberalism (Kiarina Kordela)
GERM 309-01 German Cultural History II: Ruptures and Remakings of Modern Germany (Rachael Huener)
GERM 366-01
MCST 266-01
Cinema Studies (Kiarina Kordela)
HIST 115-01 Africa Since 1800 (Tara Hollies)
HIST 164-01 Global Health Histories (Jessica Pearson)
HIST 258-01 Postwar Europe (Jessica Pearson)
HIST 262-01
RUSS 262-01
Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union, 1856-2000 (Maria Fedorova)
HIST 283-01
LATI 283-01
Amazon: A Cultural History (Ernesto Capello)
HIST 294-02
RELI 294-03
Religion and Law in Africa (Tara Hollies)
INTL 114-01
INTL 114-02
Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct (James von Geldern)
INTL 265-01
LING 265-01
RUSS 265-01
Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication (Julia Chadaga)
INTL 280-01
SOCI 280-01
Indigenous Peoples' Movements in Global Context (Erik Larson)
INTL 290-01 World to Table: Global Food Studies (David Moore)
INTL 294-02
MCST 294-03
Spying, Sensing, Sorting: Surveillance and Power (Alix Johnson)
INTL 294-03 Infrastructuring Inequality (Alix Johnson)
INTL 294-04
MCST 294-02
Media, War and Conflict (Michael Griffin)
INTL 301-01
POLI 333-01
Power and Development in Africa (Ahmed Samatar)
INTL 352-01
POLI 352-01
Transitional Justice (Nadya Nedelsky)
INTL 487-01 Senior Seminar: Globalization and its Discontents (James von Geldern)
INTL 488-01 Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale (David Moore)
INTL 489-01 Senior Seminar: Capitalism and World (Dis)Order (Ahmed Samatar)
POLI 120-01 Foundations of International Politics (Bora Jeong)
POLI 140-01 Foundations of Comparative Politics (Paul Dosh)
POLI 222-01 Regional Conflict/Security (Andrew Latham)
POLI 323-01 Humanitarianism in World Politics (Wendy Weber)
RELI 100-01 Introduction to Islam: Formation and Expansion (Ahoo Najafian)
RELI 136-01 World Religions and World Religions Discourse (James Laine)
RELI 194-02 Islam and the West (Ahoo Najafian)
RELI 394-01 Islamic Republic: Explorations in Religion and Nationalism (Ahoo Najafian)
SPAN 305-01 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Rosa Rull-Montoya)
SPAN 305-02 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Claudia Giannini)
THDA 113-01 The Artistic Power and Politics of the Dancing Body (Wynn Fricke)

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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 322-01 Advanced Genetics (Mary Montgomery)
CHEM 312-01 Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy (Thomas Varberg)
EDUC 220-01
PSYC 220-01
Educational Psychology (Tina Kruse)
GEOL 303-01 Surface/Groundwater Hydrology (Kelly MacGregor)
MATH 135-01
MATH 135-02
Applied Multivariable Calculus I (Lori Ziegelmeier)
MATH 135-03 Applied Multivariable Calculus I (Rachael Norton)
MATH 137-01 Applied Multivariable Calculus II (Alireza Hosseinkhan)
MATH 137-02 Applied Multivariable Calculus II (David Ehren)
MATH 236-01
MATH 236-02
MATH 236-03
Linear Algebra (Kristin Heysse)
MATH 237-01
MATH 237-02
Applied Multivariable Calculus III (Lisa Naples)
MATH 279-01
MATH 279-02
Discrete Mathematics (Andrew Beveridge)
PHYS 348-01 Laboratory Instrumentation (James Doyle)
PSYC 100- 01
PSYC 100-02
Introduction to Psychology (Cory Fleck)
PSYC 244-01 Cognitive Neuroscience (Darcy Burgund)

Q2

BIOL 180-01
BIOL 180-02
Biodiversity and Evolution (Sarah Boyer)
BIOL 190-01
BIOL 190-02
Genetics (Robin Shields-Cutler)
BIOL 190-03 Genetics (Marc Pisansky)
CHEM 112-01
CHEM 112-03
General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Paul Fischer)
CHEM 112-02 General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity (Kelsey Boyle)
CHEM 222-01 Analytical Chemistry (Keith Kuwata)
COMP 112-01
STAT 112-01
Introduction to Data Science (James Normington)
COMP 112-02
STAT 112-02
Introduction to Data Science (Lauren Milne)
COMP 112-03
STAT 112-03
Introduction to Data Science (Brianna Heggeseth)
ENVI 360-01
GEOL 360-01
Paleoclimate (Louisa Bradtmiller)
GEOG 225-01 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Holly Barcus)
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 (Brooke Lea)
PSYC 401-02 Directed Research in Moral Psychology (Steve Guglielmo)

Q3

BIOL 170-01
ENVI 170-01
Ecology and the Environment (Mary Heskel)
BIOL 170-02
ENVI 170-02
Ecology and the Environment (Stotra Chakrabarti)
BIOL 359-01
ENVI 359-01
Big Data in Ecology (Mary Heskel)
COMP 440-01 Collective Intelligence (Shilad Sen)
ECON 119-01
ECON 119-02
Principles of Economics (Sarah West)
ECON 119-03
ECON 119-04
Principles of Economics (John Gruidl)
ECON 361-01
ECON 361-02
Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis (Gabriel Lade)
GEOG 362-01 Remote Sensing of the Environment (Xavier Haro-Carrion)
GEOL 194-01 Volcanoes (Emily First)
PHYS 227-02 Principles of Physics II (Christopher West)
POLI 269-01 Empirical Research Methods (Lisa Mueller)
PSYC 201-01 Research in Psychology I (Steve Guglielmo)
PSYC 201-02 Research in Psychology I (Annie Pezalla)
SOCI 269-01 Social Science Inquiry (Christina Hughes)
STAT 125-01 Epidemiology (Vittorio Addona)
STAT 155-01
STAT 155-02
Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Kelsey Grinde)
STAT 155-04
STAT 155-05
Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Bryan Martin)
STAT 155-06
STAT 155-07
Introduction to Statistical Modeling (Laura Lyman)

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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 112-01
AMST 112-02
ENGL 112-01
ENGL 112-02
Introduction to African American Literature (Daylanne English)
AMST 194-01
POLI 194-01
The Obama Presidency (Duchess Harris)
AMST 194-02
ENGL 105-01
Identities and Differences in U.S. Literature: Intro to Asian American Literature (Michael Prior)
AMST 237-01
ENVI 237-01
Environmental Justice (Christie Manning)
AMST 241-01
ASIA 241-01
RELI 241-01
Reclaiming Zen, Yoga and Church: Asian American Religions (Jake Nagasawa)
AMST 250-01
GEOG 250-01
Race, Place and Space (Jesse McClelland)
AMST 251-01
POLI 294-08
Race and the Law (Duchess Harris)
AMST 281-01
ASIA 283-01
MCST 281-01
Bruce Lee, His Life and Legacy (Karin Aguilar-San Juan)
AMST 294-08
RELI 294-02
Representing Malcolm X: Religion, Hip Hop, Mythmaking (William Hart)
AMST 294-09
EDUC 294-01
Black and Latinx Educational Histories and Voices (Gonzalo Guzmán)
AMST 341-01
GEOG 341-01
City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification (Daniel Trudeau)
AMST 355-01
WGSS 355-01
Abolition Feminism: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Critical Prison Studies (Myrl Beam)
AMST 394-01
HIST 394-01
Marronage (Walter Greason)
ANTH 111-01 Cultural Anthropology (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 194-01 Anthropology of Work (Hilary Chart)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ANTH 253-01
INTL 253-01
Comparative Muslim Cultures (Jenna Rice Rahaim)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
ASIA 194-02
THDA 112-01
Reading Plays: Asian and Asian American Playwrights (kt shorb)
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 276-01 African American Literature 1900 to Present (Daylanne English)
ENGL 294-10
PHIL 294-01
Philosophy of Literature and Race (Hannah Kim)
ENVI 375-01
GEOG 375-01
Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods (Holly Barcus)
Counts for either Internationalism or U.S. Identities and Difference but not both.
GEOG 234-01 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 394-01 Unearthing the Poor Farm: Local Geographies of Land, Law and Livelihood (Jesse McClelland)
HIST 244-01 US Since 1945 (Amy Sullivan)
HIST 294-03 Frontiers, Borderlands, and Wests: Indigenous and Settler Encounters (Jacob Jurss)
HIST 350-01
WGSS 250-01
Race, Gender, and Medicine (Amy Sullivan)
HIST 394-04
WGSS 394-02
Telling Trans Stories: Trans Oral History Project (Myrl Beam)
LING 175-01
SOCI 175-01
Sociolinguistics (Marianne Milligan)
LING 332-01
SPAN 332-01
Spanish in the United States (Cynthia Kauffeld)
MCST 126-01 Local News Media Institutions (Michael Griffin)
MCST 128-01 Film Analysis/Visual Culture (Bradley Stiffler)
MCST 268-01 On Television (Bradley Stiffler)
MUSI 354-01
WGSS 354-01
Gender and Music (Victoria Malawey)
PHIL 202-01 American Philosophy (Geoffrey Gorham)
PSYC 264-01
WGSS 264-01
The Psychology of Gender (Theresa Glaser)
PSYC 350-01 Race in Developing Lives (Cari Gillen-O'Neel)
PSYC 368-01
WGSS 368-01
Psychology of/and Disability (Joan Ostrove)
RELI 238-01 Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics (James Laine)
RELI 294-01 Love in the Ancient World (Susanna Drake)
RELI 294-04 Gender, Caste, and Race: The Biological Readings of the Socio-Religious (Hart, Laine)
SOCI 150-01 Prius or Pickup? Political Divides and Social Class (Khaldoun Samman)
SOCI 194-01 Children and Childhood in Times of Change and Crisis (Lisa Gulya)
SOCI 194-02 Eat, Pay, Leave: Power and Politics of Food and Eating (Lisa Gulya)
THDA 217-01
WGSS 217-01
Gender and Race Theory in Performance (kt shorb)

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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 112-01
AMST 112-02
ENGL 112-01
ENGL 112-02
Introduction to African American Literature (Daylanne English)
AMST 194-02
ENGL 105-01
Identities and Differences in U.S. Literature: Intro to Asian American Literature (Michael Prior)
AMST 288-01
INTL 288-01
JAPA 288-01
Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan (Arthur Mitchell)
ANTH 230-01 Ethnographic Interviewing (Hilary Chart)
ART 282-01
CLAS 294-01
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)
ASIA 194-02
THDA 112-01
Reading Plays: Asian and Asian American Playwrights (kt shorb)
ASIA 320-01
GEOG 320-01
Asian Cities (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
BIOL 400-01 Seminar in Neuropharmacology (Marc Pisansky)
CLAS 194-01 Greek and Arabic Myths (Klasova, Lush)
CLAS 194-02 Classics in Film (Brian Lush)
CLAS 200-01
PHIL 200-01
Ancient and Medieval Philosophies (Geoffrey Gorham)
CLAS 362-01 Intermediate Greek: Poetry (Beth Severy-Hoven)
ECON 225-01
INTL 225-01
Comparative Economic Systems (Gary Krueger)
ECON 381-01
ECON 381-02
Introduction to Econometrics (Gary Krueger)
ECON 431-01 Economics of Public Policy (Sarah West)
ENGL 200-01 Major British Writers: The Self and Society (Coral Lumbley)
ENGL 276-01 African American Literature 1900 to Present (Daylanne English)
ENGL 294-05 Down the Rabbit Hole (Andrea Kaston Tange)
ENGL 331-01 19th Century British Novel: Ladies and Monsters (Andrea Kaston Tange)
ENVI 225-01
LING 225-01
100 Words for Snow: Language and Nature (Marianne Milligan)
ENVI 236-01
HIST 236-01
Consumer Nation: American Consumer Culture in the 20th Century (Chris Wells)
ENVI 280-01 Environmental Classics (Christie Manning)
ENVI 280-02 Environmental Classics (Chris Wells)
ENVI 375-01
GEOG 375-01
Rural Landscapes and Livelihoods (Holly Barcus)
FREN 306-01 Introduction to Literary Analysis (El Hadji Diop)
GEOG 363-01 Geography of Development and Underdevelopment (William Moseley)
GERM 309-01 German Cultural History II: Ruptures and Remakings of Modern Germany (Rachael Huener)
HIST 164-01 Global Health Histories (Jessica Pearson)
HIST 244-01 US Since 1945 (Amy Sullivan)
HIST 350-01
WGSS 250-01
Race, Gender, and Medicine (Amy Sullivan)
INTD 101-01 College Writing (Alyssa Adkins)
INTL 280-01
SOCI 280-01
Indigenous Peoples' Movements in Global Context (Erik Larson)
INTL 488-01 Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale (David Moore)
MCST 110-01 Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies (Michael Griffin)
MUSI 354-01
WGSS 354-01
Gender and Music (Victoria Malawey)
PHIL 100-02
PHIL 100-03
Introduction to Philosophy: Time, Truth, and Meaning (Hannah Kim)
PHIL 121-01
PHIL 121-02
Ethics (Amy Ihlan)
POLI 140-01 Foundations of Comparative Politics (Paul Dosh)
PSYC 301-01 Research in Psychology II (Cari Gillen-O'Neel)
PSYC 401-01 Directed Research in Psychology (Brooke Lea)
PSYC 401-02 Directed Research in Moral Psychology (Steve Guglielmo)
PSYC 450-01 Research in Hemisphere Asymmetries (Darcy Burgund)
RELI 100-01 Introduction to Islam: Formation and Expansion (Ahoo Najafian)
RELI 194-02 Islam and the West (Ahoo Najafian)
SPAN 305-01 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Rosa Rull-Montoya)
SPAN 305-02 Advanced Oral and Written Expression (Claudia Giannini)
THDA 113-01 The Artistic Power and Politics of the Dancing Body (Wynn Fricke)
THDA 217-01
WGSS 217-01
Gender and Race Theory in Performance (kt shorb)

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WC

ENGL 150-01 Introduction to Creative Writing (Peter Bognanni)
ENGL 150-02 Introduction to Creative Writing (Matt Burgess)
ENGL 150-03 Introduction to Creative Writing (Rachel Gold)
ENGL 150-04 Introduction to Creative Writing (Aurora Masum-Javed)
ENGL 150-05 Introduction to Creative Writing (Cody Klippenstein)
ENGL 280-01 Crafts of Writing: Poetry (Aurora Masum-Javed)
ENGL 282-01 The Crafts of Writing: Creative Nonfiction (Melissa Cundieff)
ENGL 294-01 Crafts of Writing: Fantasy Fiction (Emma Torzs)
ENGL 294-03 Crafts of Writing: Young Adult Fiction (Peter Bognanni)
ENGL 294-04 Crafts of Writing: Fanfiction and Revisions (Matt Burgess)
ENGL 385-01
THDA 385-01
Intermediate Playwriting (C. Meaker)
LING 220-01
MUSI 220-01
Language and Music (Morgan Sleeper)
RELI 238-01 Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics (James Laine)

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WP

AMST 294-09
EDUC 294-01
Black and Latinx Educational Histories and Voices (Gonzalo Guzmán)
AMST 341-01
GEOG 341-01
City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification (Daniel Trudeau)
ANTH 387-01 Darwin and Evolutionary Thought (Scott Legge)
ASIA 244-01
GEOG 244-01
Geography of Asia: the Political Economy (I-Chun Catherine Chang)
CHIN 306-01 Third Year Chinese II (Lulu Qiu)
CLAS 145-01
RELI 145-01
Pagans, Christians and Jews in Classical Antiquity: Cultures in Conflict (Andrew Overman)
CLAS 332-01 Intermediate Latin II: Poetry (Nanette Goldman)
ECON 356-01 Capital Markets (Liang Ding)
EDUC 260-01 Critical Issues in Urban Education (Brian Lozenski)
EDUC 330-01 Philosophy of Education (Gonzalo Guzmán)
GEOG 494-01 Our Changing Planet: a Seminar in Land Change Science (Xavier Haro-Carrion)
HIST 115-01 Africa Since 1800 (Tara Hollies)
HIST 251-01 Pirates, Translators, Missionaries (Karin Velez)
HIST 258-01 Postwar Europe (Jessica Pearson)
HIST 283-01
LATI 283-01
Amazon: A Cultural History (Ernesto Capello)
HIST 294-02
RELI 294-03
Religion and Law in Africa (Tara Hollies)
INTL 294-02
MCST 294-03
Spying, Sensing, Sorting: Surveillance and Power (Alix Johnson)
INTL 294-03 Infrastructuring Inequality (Alix Johnson)
PSYC 100- 01
PSYC 100-02
Introduction to Psychology (Cory Fleck)
PSYC 250-01 Developmental Psychology (Annie Pezalla)
RELI 194-01 Jewish Messianism from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the State of Israel (Nicholas Schaser)
SOCI 150-01 Prius or Pickup? Political Divides and Social Class (Khaldoun Samman)
THDA 230-01 The Art of Play: Action, Invention, and Chaos (Robert Rosen)

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