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Course Descriptions

• Curricular Area 1: The Creative Arts
• Curricular Area 2: Traditions that Shape the Western World
• Curricular Area 3: Global and Multicultural Perspectives
• Curricular Area 4: Social Institutions and Behavior
• Curricular Area 5: The Natural Sciences

Curricular Area 2: Traditions that Shape the Western World

Foundation Courses: Students select a 100-level course in one of the two clusters.

Second-level Courses: Students select a 200-level course in the same cluster as the foundation course.

Cluster One: Cultures of the West

Foundation Courses

ARTH-100 European Art: From Cave to Cathedral

LIT-125 Great Books That Shaped the Western World

HIST-100 Historians and the Living Past

HIST-110 Renaissance and Revolutions: Europe, 1400-1815

WGST-150 Women's Voices through Time

Second-Level Courses

ANTH-235 Early America: The Buried Past

ARTH-205 Art of the Renaissance

HIST-205 American Encounters: 1492-1865

HIST-215 Social Forces that Shaped America

JWST-205 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Civilization

JWST-210 Voices of Modern Jewish Literature

LIT-235 African American Literature

LIT-240 Asian American Literature

LIT-265 Literature and Society in Victorian England

Cluster Two: Western Heritage and Institutions

Foundation Courses

GOVT-105 Individual Freedom vs. Authority

HIST-115 Work and Community

JLS-110 Western Legal Tradition

PHIL-105 Western Philosophy

RELG-105 The Religious Heritage of the West

Second-Level Courses

COMM-270 How the News Media Shape History

HIST-235 The West in Crisis, 1900-1945

JLS-225 American Legal Culture

LFS-230 The Modernist Explosion: Culture and Ideology in Europe

PHIL-220 Moral Philosophy

PHIL-235 Theories of Democracy

PHYS-230 Changing Views of the Universe

RELG-220 Religious Thought

SOCY-215 The Rise of Critical Social Thought