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New GE Requirements
(for students who first enrolled AU22 or later)
Legacy GE Requirements
(for students who first enrolled before AU22)
PHILOS 2465: Death and the Meaning of Life
What is a meaningful life? What role, if any, does the afterlife play in conceptions of meaningfulness?
GEL: Literature
GEN: Health and Well-Being
ENGLISH 2276: Arts of Persuasion
Introduces students to the study and practice of rhetoric and how arguments are shaped by technology, media, and cultural contexts.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas
GEN: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
FRENCH 2501: Rebels and Runaways
Fugitive slave narratives of the Caribbean and US in literature, art, film, and culture of the last three centuries.
GEL: Literature
GEN: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity (pending approval)
MUSIC 3344: Film Music
Be introduced to film theory and musical styles, become more film-literate, and learn the methods of prominent filmmakers and composers.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
NELC 3667: Messages from the Beyond: Divination, Prophecy, and the Occult in Religion and Culture
Students will learn how messages from beyond guide their daily lives, provide them with sources of authority or companionship for their art of philosophy.
GEN: Lived Environments (pending approval)
THEATRE 2811: Craft of Acting
Learn basic acting techniques in service of creation of character, the art of storytelling, and expanding the capacity to communicate physically and vocally.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
COMM 2367: Persuasive Communication
As an advanced level writing course, the course is specifically designed to improve your persuasive writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as specific citizenship behaviors.
GEN: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World
EARTHSC 2203: Environmental Geoscience
Concepts and challenges of geological hazards and resources, environmental pollution, and health; regional and long-range planning; and global change and sustainability.
GEL: Natural Science: Physical Science
GEN: Sustainability
PHILOS 2465: Death and the Meaning of Life
What is a meaningful life? What role, if any, does the afterlife play in conceptions of meaningfulness?
GEL: Literature
GEN: Health and Well-Being
ENGLISH 2276: Arts of Persuasion
Introduces students to the study and practice of rhetoric and how arguments are shaped by technology, media, and cultural contexts.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas
GEN: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
FRENCH 2501: Rebels and Runaways
Fugitive slave narratives of the Caribbean and US in literature, art, film, and culture of the last three centuries.
GEL: Literature
GEN: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity (pending approval)
MUSIC 3344: Film Music
Be introduced to film theory and musical styles, become more film-literate, and learn the methods of prominent filmmakers and composers.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
NELC 3667: Messages from the Beyond: Divination, Prophecy, and the Occult in Religion and Culture
Students will learn how messages from beyond guide their daily lives, provide them with sources of authority or companionship for their art of philosophy.
GEN: Lived Environments (pending approval)
THEATRE 2811: Craft of Acting
Learn basic acting techniques in service of creation of character, the art of storytelling, and expanding the capacity to communicate physically and vocally.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
COMM 2367: Persuasive Communication
As an advanced level writing course, the course is specifically designed to improve your persuasive writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as specific citizenship behaviors.
GEN: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World
EARTHSC 2203: Environmental Geoscience
Concepts and challenges of geological hazards and resources, environmental pollution, and health; regional and long-range planning; and global change and sustainability.
GEL: Natural Science: Physical Science
GEN: Sustainability
GEOG 2400: Economic and Social Geography
Geographic analysis of relationships between society and economy; focusing on such issues as globalization, production and consumption, inequality and social difference.
GEL: Diversity: Global Studies, Social Science: Human, Natural and Econ Resrcs
GEN: Social and Behavioral Sciences
AFAMAST 2101: Introduction to African Art and Archaeology
Emphasizing cultural diversity and complexity, we explore the arts of a wide range of African peoples, from precolonial civilizations until contemporary times.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
HISTART 3603: Introduction to Modern Latin American Art and Culture
This course pays special attention to the development of specific artistic movements and methods, major artists, political graphics, and social movements.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
SPHHRNG 4530: Introduction to Autism
An overview of the identification and diagnosis of autism, scientific perspectives on etiology, and the neurobiological underpinnings of autism, as well as treatment components of autism.
GEN: Health and Wellbeing
NELC 3111: Ancient Empires
This is an introduction to the history and cultures of the ancient empires of southwestern Asia, focusing on the period from the Akkadian empire to the establishment of Islam (ca 2340 BCE–ca 750 CE).
GEL: Historical Study
GEN: Historical and Cultural Studies
LING 3902: Language Endangerment and Language Death
What are the factors causing language endangerment? How does minority status of a language affect its speakers? Can language endangerment be reversed?
GEL: Cross-disciplinary Seminar
GEN: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility
PHILOS 2680: Scientific Controversies
What is life? Can computers think? What is intelligence? Are there male and female brains? Readings will be drawn from the sciences and the philosophy of science.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas
GEN: Historical and Cultural Studies
MUSIC 3352: Ohio Soundscapes
How do public sound-discussions shed light on different subcultures? Who decides the worth of different musical traditions? Students will record their city’s environs and learn to make sound art and tell stories with their recordings.
GEN: Lived Environments
GEOG 2400: Economic and Social Geography
Geographic analysis of relationships between society and economy; focusing on such issues as globalization, production and consumption, inequality and social difference.
GEL: Diversity: Global Studies, Social Science: Human, Natural and Econ Resrcs
GEN: Social and Behavioral Sciences
AFAMAST 2101: Introduction to African Art and Archaeology
Emphasizing cultural diversity and complexity, we explore the arts of a wide range of African peoples, from precolonial civilizations until contemporary times.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
HISTART 3603: Introduction to Modern Latin American Art and Culture
This course pays special attention to the development of specific artistic movements and methods, major artists, political graphics, and social movements.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
SPHHRNG 4530: Introduction to Autism
An overview of the identification and diagnosis of autism, scientific perspectives on etiology, and the neurobiological underpinnings of autism, as well as treatment components of autism.
GEN: Health and Wellbeing
NELC 3111: Ancient Empires
This is an introduction to the history and cultures of the ancient empires of southwestern Asia, focusing on the period from the Akkadian empire to the establishment of Islam (ca 2340 BCE–ca 750 CE).
GEL: Historical Study
GEN: Historical and Cultural Studies
LING 3902: Language Endangerment and Language Death
What are the factors causing language endangerment? How does minority status of a language affect its speakers? Can language endangerment be reversed?
GEL: Cross-disciplinary Seminar
GEN: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility
PHILOS 2680: Scientific Controversies
What is life? Can computers think? What is intelligence? Are there male and female brains? Readings will be drawn from the sciences and the philosophy of science.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas
GEN: Historical and Cultural Studies
MUSIC 3352: Ohio Soundscapes
How do public sound-discussions shed light on different subcultures? Who decides the worth of different musical traditions? Students will record their city’s environs and learn to make sound art and tell stories with their recordings.
GEN: Lived Environments
MUSIC 2250: Music Cultures of the World
The listening experiences in this course will enable culture-specific understandings of non-Western music and will help students locate themselves in the current ever-changing synergy between musical communities across the globe.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
FRENCH 2803.01: Paris
In reading and viewing representations of the city of Paris in a variety of media, we will explore how the city’s landscape has shaped its society and how its increasingly diverse society has in turn shaped its landscape.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas
GEN: Lived Environments
LING 2501: Linguistics for Language Learning
Students explore how other languages differ from English in various dimensions, and how understanding linguistic concepts at various levels can help with the process of learning a new language.
GEL: Social Science: Individuals and Groups, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Social & Behavioral Sciences
AAAS 3376: Arts and Cultures of African and the Diaspora
This course introduces students to the diaspora — the scattering of a group of people away from their point of origin — and the role of this concept in the exploration of Black cultural life within its global interconnections.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Migration, Mobility and Immobility
ANTHROP 1101: Archaeology and Human Diversity, Lessons from the Past
Examines how power relations shaped racial, ethnic, and gender identities in ancient societies by examining archaeological sites and showing how they have been misrepresented in the media and misused by governments to promote racism and inequality.
GEN: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
THEATRE 2100: Introduction to Theatre
An emphasis on evaluating and appreciating live performance, theatre’s cultural importance, its contribution to social diversity, and the different roles of the theatre practitioners who work to bring a play from the page to the stage.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity-Social Diversity in the U.S.
GEN: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts
HISTART 2003: The Art and Visual Culture of East Asia
The course examines in particular the relationship between cultural production and changing notions of authority in East Asia in a comparative historical perspective.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, Historical and Cultural Studies
FRIT 3061: Mediterranean Food Culture
This course approaches food as key to culture and identity in an ever-changing world full of human and environmental interactions.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Lived Environments
MUSIC 2250: Music Cultures of the World
The listening experiences in this course will enable culture-specific understandings of non-Western music and will help students locate themselves in the current ever-changing synergy between musical communities across the globe.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
FRENCH 2803.01: Paris
In reading and viewing representations of the city of Paris in a variety of media, we will explore how the city’s landscape has shaped its society and how its increasingly diverse society has in turn shaped its landscape.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas
GEN: Lived Environments
LING 2501: Linguistics for Language Learning
Students explore how other languages differ from English in various dimensions, and how understanding linguistic concepts at various levels can help with the process of learning a new language.
GEL: Social Science: Individuals and Groups, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Social & Behavioral Sciences
AAAS 3376: Arts and Cultures of African and the Diaspora
This course introduces students to the diaspora — the scattering of a group of people away from their point of origin — and the role of this concept in the exploration of Black cultural life within its global interconnections.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Migration, Mobility and Immobility
ANTHROP 1101: Archaeology and Human Diversity, Lessons from the Past
Examines how power relations shaped racial, ethnic, and gender identities in ancient societies by examining archaeological sites and showing how they have been misrepresented in the media and misused by governments to promote racism and inequality.
GEN: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
THEATRE 2100: Introduction to Theatre
An emphasis on evaluating and appreciating live performance, theatre’s cultural importance, its contribution to social diversity, and the different roles of the theatre practitioners who work to bring a play from the page to the stage.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity-Social Diversity in the U.S.
GEN: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts
HISTART 2003: The Art and Visual Culture of East Asia
The course examines in particular the relationship between cultural production and changing notions of authority in East Asia in a comparative historical perspective.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, Historical and Cultural Studies
FRIT 3061: Mediterranean Food Culture
This course approaches food as key to culture and identity in an ever-changing world full of human and environmental interactions.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Lived Environments
SASIA 2230: Living Everyday Lives: Systems of Discrimination in The United States and South Asia
The course shows how everyday life in South Asia where caste is a category of oppression compares to everyday life in the United States where race is a category of oppression. Everyday life will also introduce students to how race and caste as categories of oppression interact with gender and ethnicity in the United States and South Asia.
GEN: Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity
PHILOS 2660: Metaphysics, Magic, and the Scientific Revolution
The seventeenth century saw revolutionary developments in natural science, specifically, in matter theory, mechanics, chemistry, and astronomy. Our main goal is a richer understanding of this crucial period in the development of modern science.
GEL: Historical Study
GEN: Number, Nature, Mind
AFAMAST 4342: Religion, Meaning and Knowledge in Africa and is Diaspora
This class offers an introduction to some of the variety of traditions and movements native to and popular in the African continent, a brief engagement with the construction of “African Religion” as a category (by scholars, missionaries, political activists), and attention to specific case studies in diasporic “Black Atlantic” religion.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
HISTART 3605: East West Photography
This course will begin with the emergence of photography and will examine the medium’s pivotal role in shaping relations between Asia and Europe and North America. We will explore early portraiture, architectural sites, colonial tourism, popular culture, family photographs, and contemporary art photography.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
MEDREN 2666: Magic and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
We’ll try to understand why/how that belief might have made enough sense in their world that some turned to magic to improve lives or harm enemies and others felt so compelled to oppose magic that they were willing to hunt down and execute those they regarded as witches.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Historical and Cultural Studies
AFAMAST 3260: Global Black Cultural Movements
This course offers an overview of Black cultural movements in the current global context as well as in a historical perspective, with a focus on the twentieth century. The course’s topic — “cultural movements”, rather than “culture” as such — means that we will not be primarily concerned with analyzing cultural identities.
GEL: Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Lived Environments
LING 2051: Analyzing the Sounds of Language
This course introduces some of the quantitative analytical tools that are used in phonetics, and gives a sense of the diverse research methods that scientists from various disciplines have developed to try to determine how speech is produced and perceived by humans.
GEL: Data Analysis
GEN: Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning or Data Analysis, Embedded Literacy: Data Analysis
THEATRE 2367.02: African American Theatre History
This course explores the aesthetic and sociological evolution of African American and Black theatre and performance in the United States, drawing upon theatre, literature, and criticism.
GEL: Literature, Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, Writing and Communication
GEN: Writing and Information Literacy, Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
SASIA 2230: Living Everyday Lives: Systems of Discrimination in The United States and South Asia
The course shows how everyday life in South Asia where caste is a category of oppression compares to everyday life in the United States where race is a category of oppression. Everyday life will also introduce students to how race and caste as categories of oppression interact with gender and ethnicity in the United States and South Asia.
GEN: Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity
PHILOS 2660: Metaphysics, Magic, and the Scientific Revolution
The seventeenth century saw revolutionary developments in natural science, specifically, in matter theory, mechanics, chemistry, and astronomy. Our main goal is a richer understanding of this crucial period in the development of modern science.
GEL: Historical Study
GEN: Number, Nature, Mind
AFAMAST 4342: Religion, Meaning and Knowledge in Africa and is Diaspora
This class offers an introduction to some of the variety of traditions and movements native to and popular in the African continent, a brief engagement with the construction of “African Religion” as a category (by scholars, missionaries, political activists), and attention to specific case studies in diasporic “Black Atlantic” religion.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
HISTART 3605: East West Photography
This course will begin with the emergence of photography and will examine the medium’s pivotal role in shaping relations between Asia and Europe and North America. We will explore early portraiture, architectural sites, colonial tourism, popular culture, family photographs, and contemporary art photography.
GEL: Visual and Performing Arts
GEN: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
MEDREN 2666: Magic and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
We’ll try to understand why/how that belief might have made enough sense in their world that some turned to magic to improve lives or harm enemies and others felt so compelled to oppose magic that they were willing to hunt down and execute those they regarded as witches.
GEL: Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Historical and Cultural Studies
AFAMAST 3260: Global Black Cultural Movements
This course offers an overview of Black cultural movements in the current global context as well as in a historical perspective, with a focus on the twentieth century. The course’s topic — “cultural movements”, rather than “culture” as such — means that we will not be primarily concerned with analyzing cultural identities.
GEL: Diversity: Global Studies
GEN: Lived Environments
LING 2051: Analyzing the Sounds of Language
This course introduces some of the quantitative analytical tools that are used in phonetics, and gives a sense of the diverse research methods that scientists from various disciplines have developed to try to determine how speech is produced and perceived by humans.
GEL: Data Analysis
GEN: Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning or Data Analysis, Embedded Literacy: Data Analysis
THEATRE 2367.02: African American Theatre History
This course explores the aesthetic and sociological evolution of African American and Black theatre and performance in the United States, drawing upon theatre, literature, and criticism.
GEL: Literature, Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, Writing and Communication
GEN: Writing and Information Literacy, Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
