Core Courses

Courses

First Year Seminar (FYS)

FYS 100 is required in the freshman year, with sections on a wide variety of topics. Each section is discussion-based and focused on developing critical thinking, oral communication, research fluency, and written communication. FYS 100 will not be offered in the summer or the early spring sessions. Students who enter the college as transfer students are not considered first-year students and are exempt from this requirement. Courses are limited to twenty students

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
FYS 100	First Year Seminar	4	Fall, Spring.

First Year Writing (FYW)

FYW 100 (or FYW 100P) is required in freshman year. Either course introduces students to college-level writing and helps them develop the writing skills needed for success in college courses. Successful completion of the course (a final grade of C or better) will also meet the College Writing Requirement. Courses are limited to twenty students for FYW 100 (four credit hours); courses are limited to fifteen students for FYW 100P (six credit hours).

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
FYW 100	Introduction to Academic Writing	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
FYW 100P	Introduction to Academic Writing PLUS	6	Fall, Spring

Connections (C)

Courses in the Connections category are upper-level courses on topics that emphasize comparative perspectives, such as across disciplines, across time, and across cultures. Students must complete the FYS 100 and FYW 100/FYW 100P/FYW 100H courses and must have earned at least 45 college credits before taking a Connections course. Connections courses cannot be included in any major or minor program.

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
AFRI 262	Cultural Issues in Africana Studies	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
ANTH 262	Indigenous Rights and the Global Environment	4	Fall, Spring.
ANTH 265	Anthropological Perspectives on Childhood	4	Fall, Spring.
ANTH 266	Anthropological and Indigenous Perspectives on Place	4	Fall, Spring.
ART 261	Art and Money	4	Spring.
ART 262	Encounters with Global Arts	4	Spring.
BIOL 261	The World's Forests	4	Fall (even years).
COMM 261	Issues in Free Speech	4	Annually.
COMM 262	Dialect: What We Speak	4	As needed.
COMM 263	East Asian Media and Popular Culture	4	Spring, Summer.
ENGL 261	Arctic Encounters	4	As needed.
ENGL 262	Women, Crime, and Representation	4	As needed.
ENGL 263	Zen East and West	4	Spring (alternate years).
ENGL 265	Women's Stories across Cultures	4	As needed.
ENGL 266	Food Matters: The Rhetoric of Eating	4	Spring (alternate years).
ENGL 267	Books that Changed American Culture	4	Alternate years.
FILM 262	Cross-Cultural Projections: Exploring Cinematic Representation	4	As needed.
GEND 261	Resisting Authority: Girls of Fictional Futures	4	Spring (alternate years).
GED 262	Native American Narratives	4	Fall, Spring.
GEOG 261	Globalization, Cities and Sustainability	4	Spring.
HIST 263	Christianity	4	Fall, Spring.
HIST 267	Europe and Beyond: Historical Reminiscences	4	Annually.
HIST 268	Civil Rights and National Liberation Movements	4	Annually.
HIST 269	Jazz and Civil Rights: Freedom Sounds	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIST 272	Globalization, 15th Century to the Present	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIST 273	Latin America and Globalization, 1492-Present	4	Annually.
HIST 275	Russia from Beginning to End	4	Fall, Spring.
MUS 261	Music and Multimedia	4	As needed.
NURS 262	Substance Abuse as a Global Issue	4	Fall.
NURS 264	Status of the World's Children	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
NURS 266	Health and Cultural Diversity	4	Fall, Spring.
PHIL 262	Freedom and Responsibility	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHIL 263	The Idea of God	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHIL 265	Philosophical Issues of Gender and Sex	4	Fall, Spring.
PHIL 266	Asian Philosophies: Theory and Practice	4	Fall, Spring.
POL 262	Power and Community	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
POL 266	Investing in the Global Economy	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
POL 267	Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity	4	Annually.
SOC 262	Sociology of Money	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
SOC 264	Sex and Power: Global Gender Inequality	4	Fall, Spring
SOC 267	Comparative Perspectives on Higher Education	4	Even years.
SUST 261	Exploring Nature Through Art, Science, Technology	4	Fall, Spring.
THTR 261	Contemporary Black Theatre: Cultural Perspectives	4	Annually.