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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 4: Social Institutions and Behavior

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: Institutions

Foundation Courses

COMM-100 Understanding Mass Media

ECON-100 Macroeconomics

GOVT-110 Politics in the United States

SOCY-150 Global Sociology

Second-Level Courses

AMST-240 Poverty and Culture

COMM-275 Dissident Media: Voices from the Underground

ECON-200 Microeconomics

FIN-200 Personal Finance and Financial Institutions

GOVT-210 Political Power and American Public Policy

GOVT-215 Civil Rights and Liberties

PHIL-240 Ethics in the Professions

SOCY-210 Inequality: Class, Race, Ethnicity

WGST-225 Gender, Politics, and Power

Cluster Two: Social Behavior

Foundation Courses

ANTH-150 Anthropology of American Life

PSYC-105 Psychology: Understanding Human Behavior

SOCY-100 American Society

WGST-125 Gender in Society

Second-Level Courses

EDU-205 Schools and Society

HFIT-245 Gender, Culture and Health

HIST-210 Ethnicity in America

HIST-220 Women in America

IDIS-210 Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Voices

JLS-200 Deprivation of Liberty

JLS-215 Violence and Institutions

JLS-235 Justice in America

JLS-245 Cities and Crime

PSYC-205 Social Psychology

PSYC-215 Abnormal Psychology and Society

PSYC-235 Theories of Personality

SOCY-205 The Family