Current GEC Clusters
Please check back during registration for official course numbers and call numbers. You can also email mercerhill.1@osu.edu and we will let you know the information as it becomes available.
Current GEC Clusters
Before History: The Science of Origins
Examine our understanding of the universe, planet Earth, and the human species before civilization. Discover the history of Earth from the beginning of the universe to the origination and evolution of humans, a complete prehistory of our planet and our place on it. Answer the questions: When did the universe begin and how did this lead to origination of our solar system? When were trilobites the dominant form of life in the oceans? Was the extinction of dinosaurs the greatest mass extinction of Earth’s biodiversity to ever occur? When and why did early hominids begin a bipedal way of life? This cluster will provide a chronology of major events before history and satisfies all of the Natural Science requirements for GEC-R BA students.
Autumn Quarter 2010
Astronomy 143: The History of the Universe
Winter Quarter 2010
Earth Science 110, The History of Life on Earth
Every Quarter
Anthropology 200, Introduction to Physical Anthropology
Media and Representation
Explore the role of media in shaping cultural perceptions. You will also learn to recognize and understand the complex social interactions among media representations, consumers, and creators of such representations. You will be involved in exploring key issues in media representation by interpreting and analyzing significant media texts, and also by engaging in producing media texts in digital communication environments.
This GEC Cluster satisfies the Visual/Performing Arts, Culture and Ideas, and Writing and Related Skills (2nd course) requirements. You can register for 3 of the 4 classes listed below, in any order:
- English 269: Digital Media Analyzing and Composing
- Art Education 255: Engaging Visuality: The Power of Seeing and Being Seen
- Art Education 367.03: Criticizing Television or English 367.01: The American Experience: Digital Documentary
Human-Animal Interactions
Explore modern contact between animals and humans. Examine the place of nonhuman animals in our global and local communities and understand how animals inextricably affect human health and welfare in many diverse ways. Due to the processes of domestication, human population growth, and the continual expansion of our habitat, very few animal species remain unaffected by human activities. This course will help you gain an understanding of theories and methods of social science, principles and fundamentals of natural sciences, and familiarity with factors underlying those human actions that affect other species.
This GEC Cluster satisfies the Social Science, Natural Science, and International Issues Western Non-US requirements.
Autumn Quarter 2009
Animal Science 240: Animals in Society
Animal Science 494: Human and Animal Interactions in the United States
Animal Science 697.05: Human and Animal Interactions in Europe. Students in this course can travel to Ireland during winter break.
EEOB TBA, Human Impacts on Animal Populations
Living Chemistry
Gain a holistic understanding of chemistry and biology as a non-science major. Discover how chemistry and biology integrate in a way that is both exciting and informative. Examine the affects of chemicals in antibiotics, chocolate, and poison on our biology. Only one final paper/project for both classes!
This GEC Cluster satisfies two Natural Science requirements in one quarter! By adding one more sequenced chemistry course with a lab, BA students can complete their Natural Science requirements. The following courses must be taken concurrently:
Chemistry 100: Chemistry and Society
Biology 103: Living Chemistry
Image, Presence and Religious Identity
Explore how religious traditions especially as they are articulated and transmitted through works of art (visual and literary) help to construct, validate, channel, and challenge personal and social identities. The three courses that comprise this cluster will concentrate on three religious traditions of the Western world that have been intertwined for 2000 years: Christianity, Judaism, and pre-Christian Greek and Roman religions (collectively called paganism by the Christians). Each of the courses will concentrate on one of these traditions, but each will also consider the effects that a given religion has had upon the others.
This GEC Cluster satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts, Culture and Ideas, and Literature GEC requirements.
History of Art 301: Christian Art
Hebrew 294 (# subject to change): Art and Judaism
Classics 327: Ancient Gods, Changing Identities
History of the Body: Ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy
Trace the history of the body in all its manifestations from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval and Renaissance Italy. Investigate how definitions of the human body in ancient Greece and Rome were received and transformed in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Understand the implications for how modern science, literature, and culture have attempted to disentangle themselves from the classical and Renaissance past and to forge more autonomous notions of the body.
This GEC Cluster satisfies the Culture and Ideas, and Literature GEC requirements.
Winter Quarter 2010
*Greek and Latin TBA, The History of the Body in Greece and Rome
Please check back during registration for official course numbers and call numbers. You can also email mercerhill.1@osu.edu and we will let you know the information as it becomes available.
