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	Offered fall and spring.

First Year Writing (FYW)

FYW 100 is required in freshman year. It 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.

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
FYW 100	Introduction to Academic Writing	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.

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 and FYW 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	Offered fall, spring, summer.
ANTH 265	Anthropological Perspectives on Childhood	4	Offered fall and spring.
ANTH 266	Anthropological and Indigenous Perspectives on Place	4	Offered fall and spring.
ART 261	Art and Money	4	Offered spring.
BIOL 261	The World's Forests	4	Offered F (even years).
COMM 261	Issues in Free Speech	4	Offered annually.
COMM 263	East Asian Media and Popular Culture	4	Offered spring, and summer.
ENGL 262	Women, Crime, and Representation	4	Offered as needed.
ENGL 263	Zen East and West	4	Offered spring alternate years.
ENGL 265	Women's Stories across Cultures	4	Offered as needed.
GED 263	The Holocaust and Genocide	4	Offered as needed.
GED 264	Multicultural Views: Same-Sex Orientation and Transsexuality	4	Offered fall and spring.
GED 265	Disability Viewed Through Cross-Cultural Lenses	4	Offered fall and spring.
GED 268	Bullying Viewed from Multicultural Lifespan Perspectives	4	Offered fall and spring.
GEND 261	Resisting Authority: Girls of Fictional Futures	4	Offered spring (alternate years).
GEOG 261	Globalization, Cities and Sustainability	4	Offered spring.
HIST 267	Europe and Beyond: Historical Reminiscences	4	Offered Annually.
HIST 268	Civil Rights and National Liberation Movements	4	Offered Annually.
HIST 269	Jazz and Civil Rights: Freedom Sounds	4	Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIST 272	Globalization, 15th Century to the Present	4	Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIST 273	Latin America and Globalization, 1492-Present	4	Offered Annually.
HIST 275	Russia from Beginning to End	4	Offered fall and spring.
MUS 261	Music and Multimedia	4	Offered as needed.
PHIL 262	Freedom and Responsibility	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
PHIL 263	The Idea of God	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
POL 266	Investing in the Global Economy	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
POL 267	Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity	4	Offered annually.
SOC 261	Fountain of Age	4	Offered spring, summer.
SOC 262	Sociology of Money	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
SOC 264	Sex and Power: Global Gender Inequality	4	Offered fall and spring
SOC 267	Comparative Perspectives on Higher Education	4
THTR 261	Contemporary Black Theatre: Cultural Perspectives	4	Offered annually.