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Approved Themes and Perspectives Courses

This section provides a listing of courses that have been approved by the Committee on College-wide Requirements for the ICC. Please check back regularly for updates. For perspectives, CA = creative arts; HM = humanities, SC = natural sciences; SO = social sciences.

Identities Theme

ANTH10400 Cultural Anthropology (SO)

ANTH22800 Critical Issues in Asian America (SO)

ANTH27300 The Iroquois and Their Neighbors (SO)

ART18400 Creative Arts Perspective Painting: Identity Re-imagined (CA)

ART18500 Imagining Identities through Sculpture (CA)

ARTH19601 Reading Buildings (CA)

BIOL10700 Human Genetics (SC)

CMST12000 Communication, Culture, and Rhetoric (HM)

CMST14000 Small Group Communication (SO)

ENGL11300 Introduction to Poetry (HM)

ENGL19401 Novel Identities, Fictional Selves (HM)

ENGL19404 American Masks (HM)

ENGL19406 The Search for Self in Short Stories (HM)

GERO19501 Age Matters: Discovering the Possibilities Beyond Midlife (SO)

HIST19400 The Islands: Caribbean History 1492-2000 (HM)

HIST19402 Women in Search of Utopia (HM)

LNGS19400 Memory, Exile, and Revolution in Caribbean Literature and Film (HM)

LNGS25000 You Are What You Speak: Language and Identity (SO)

MUNM25500 Women in Music (CA)

MUNM25900 African American Popular Music: Blues to Hip Hop (CA)

MUNM26300 Opera as a Forum for Nationalism in 19^th-Century Italy and Germany (CA)

PHIL10100 Introduction to Philosophy (HM)

PHIL21200 Introduction to Ethics (HM)

PHIL26000 Difference and Community (HM)

PHYS17500 Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe (SC)

POLT12900 Explorations in Global and Comparative Studies (HM, SO)

SOCI13000 Youth and Youth Cultures (SO)

SOCI21300 Sociology of Sexualities (SO)

SOCI21800 Individual and Society (SO)

SOCI29200 The Changing Family (SO)

Inquiry, Imagination, & Innovation Theme

ANTH10300 Biological Anthropology (SC)

ANTH10700 World Archaeology (SO)

ART18300 Creative Arts Perspective Drawing: Inquiry, Imagination, and Innovation (CA)

ARTH19600 Understanding Art (CA)

BIOL10700 Human Genetics (SC)

BIOL11010 History of Life on Earth (SC)

BIOL11400 Exploring the World through Evolutionary Biology (SC)

BIOL19700 Understanding Biotechnology: Promise and Problem (SC)

BIOL19703 Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Fiction (SC)

CMST13200 Storytelling (CA)

CMST23000 Analysis & Performance of Literature (CA)

ENGL11300 Introduction to Poetry (HM)

ENGL19407 'Tis Folly to Be Wise: Fools, Madmen, and Saints (HM)

HIST23000 Early Science and Medicine (HM)

MUNM25600 Women in Popular Music: From Bessie Smith to MTV (CA)

PHIL22300 Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (HM)

PHYS17400 Solar System Astronomy (SC)

PHYS17500 Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe (SC)

RLST20100 Religion and Culture (HM)

Mind, Body, Spirit Theme

BIOL19701 Bird Brains and Mind Games (SC)

ENGL19402 "Oh Cruel World": The Literary Character in Crisis (HM)

ENGL19403 Madness and Modern Literature (HM)

MUNM14000 Rock Styles Since 1955 (CA)

PHIL10100 Introduction to Philosophy (HM)

PSYC10000 Psychology of Adjustment (SO)

PSYC23100 Health Psychology (SO)

PSYC23200 Matters of the Mind: The Neuron and Beyond (SC)

RLST10500 Introduction to World Religions: Indigenous and Eastern (HM)

RLST20700 Death and Immortality

Power and Justice Theme

ANTH22800 Critical Issues in Asian America (SO)

ARTH19601 Reading Buildings (CA)

ENGL19408 The Power of Injustice and the Injustice of Power: Life at the Margins in American Literature (HM)

ENVS11200 Sustainability Principles and Practices (SC, SO)

HIST19402 Women in Search of Utopia (HM)

HIST27300 Global Revolutions in the 20th and 21st Centuries (HM)

PHIL22000 Political Philosophy (HM)

PHIL26000 Difference and Community (HM)

POLT12200 Politics and Society (SO)

POLT12800 Understanding International Relations (SO)

POLT12900 Explorations in Global and Comparative Studies (HM, SO)

POLT14200 Ideas and Ideologies (HM, SO)

POLT14300 Understanding Capitalism (HM, SO)

SOCI10100 Introduction to Sociology (SO)

SOCI20700 Race and Ethnicity (SO)

SOCI20800 Social Change (SO)

SOCI21200 Changing Contours of Work (SO)

SOCI24601 Introduction to Globalization: Missing Links in Commodity Chains (SO)

SOCI25000 Gender, Environment, and Global Change (SO)

SOCI29300 Introduction to Social Institutions and Organizations (SO)

Quest for a Sustainable Future Theme

BIOL10400 Environmental Biology (SC)

BIOL10600 Plants, People, and Food Production (SC)

BIO19700 Understanding Biotechnology: Promise and Problem (SC)

ENVS11000 The Environmental Crisis (SC, SO)

ENVS11200 Sustainability Principles and Practices (SC, SO)

HIST19400 The Islands: Caribbean History 1492-2000 (HM)

HIST19401 Critical Issues in China: In & Beyond the Headlines (HM)

PHIL25000 Environmental Ethics (HM)