Featured Spring 2023 Courses

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The College of Arts and Sciences curriculum is designed to provide you with the right tools and expertise to expand your educational landscape. This spring semester we have created a diverse portfolio of courses to engage your intellectual curiosities as you work toward fulfilling your degree requirements. It’s always the perfect time to study what you love. Register today.

General Education Requirements

New GE Requirements
For students who first enrolled AU22 or later

Legacy GE Requirements
For students who first enrolled before AU22

Newly added courses next semester

SLAVIC 3320: Queer Comrades: Sexual Citizenship and LGBTQ Lives in Eastern Europe

Countering ideas of inherent backwardness, which tend to erase the existence of a diverse group of people, we will get to know works of art that bear witness to the wealth of queer experiences in 20th century Eastern Europe.

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World

ENGLISH 2221: Introduction to Shakespeare, Race, and Gender

Students will learn how Shakespeare's formulations of issues of race and gender are products of a time when both categories were undergoing significant conceptual development and how Shakespeare's ways of imagining this turbulence continues to resonate today.

GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

FRENCH 2501: Rebels and Runaways

Explore how maroons, or fugitive slaves, embroiled in the violent history of transatlantic slavery, rejected their oppression through tactics of flight, practices of resistance and resiliency, and modes of belonging and community-formation.

GEL Literature

SASIA 2230: Living Everyday Lives: Systems of Discrimination in the United States and South Asia

Learn 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.

GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

MUSIC 3010: Public Health and Opera

Students will be introduced to the public health aspects of the issue and then presented with information about how the issue has been represented in multiple operas, ranging from the 1700's to current day.

GEN Theme: Health and Well-being

PHILOS 2456: Philosophy of Sport

What is sport? How are sports similar to, and different from, games and arts? What can philosophical analysis add to scientific findings about sporting performance? What, if any, contribution does playing and/or watching sports make to a good, happy, and/or meaningful life?

GEN Theme: Health and Well-being

MUSIC 2208.20: African Drumming Ensemble

A great opportunity to meet people and build community, while immersing yourself in African culture through hands-on engagement with its various drumming traditions. All levels welcome. No prior experience required.

HISTART 3010: Gender and Sexuality in Western Art

An introduction to the intersectional study of European Art, exploring the intertwining ideologies of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity from the Ancient Mediterranean World to the Twentieth Century.

GEL Visual and Performing Arts
GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts; Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

POLISCI 2120: Follow the Science: The Politics of Health

Examine how powerful interest groups and patient advocates mobilize to influence the political process and exploit unsettled scientific debates to enact policies most aligned with their own self-interest.

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World; Health and Well-being

Newly added courses next semester

SLAVIC 3320: Queer Comrades: Sexual Citizenship and LGBTQ Lives in Eastern Europe

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World