New & Featured Classes
There are many great A&S courses available for the upcoming semester! This electronic bulletin board is designed to highlight a number of new and featured classes offered across the College of Arts and Sciences. Once you have identified a class of interest, log in to to add the relevant class(es) to your shopping cart and finalize the enrollment process.
Spring 2025 Upper-Division Electives
Each semester, the College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Office puts together a list of upper-division classes that are NOTrestricted to specific majors or minors and do have prerequisites. The list is designed to help Juniors and Seniorsin A&S work toward the 45upper-division credit hours (at least30 of which must be in A&S) that are required for graduation.
Spring 2025 Featured Classes
Arabic Languages/Linguistics
ARAB/LING 3251:
In Person
T/Th 3:30-4:45pm
This course introduces the multilingual situation of Arab societies and presents fundamental concepts in sociolinguistics. Students will understand the relationship between language, identity and ideology revealing power dynamics in Arab communities. The course is taught in English and no prior knowledge of Arabic language is required.
Cinema Studies/Ethnic Studies
CINE/ETHN 2203:
In Person
T/Th 11:00am-12:15pm, M 7:00-9:50pm
Surveys the image of American Indians in American (especially Hollywood) film with an emphasis on "revisionist," or “breakthrough” films. It follows the creation of "the Hollywood Indian" from early literature to contemporary motion pictures. Near the end of the course we will look at what happens when Native Americans write, direct, and act in their own independent films.
Classics/Linguistics
CLAS/LING 2030: (Search for LING 2030. CLAS side is full)
In Person
M/W 11:15am-12:05pm + recitation section
Dive into the origins of medical terminology, exploring how ancient Greek and Roman language and society influenced the language and the ideas of modern healthcare. Available for Arts & Humanities OR Social Sciences Gen Ed credit. No prerequisites. Open to all, may be of particular interest to Pre-Health students.
Geological Sciences
GEOL 3005:
In Person
M/W/F 9:05-9:55am
Origin and evolution of the reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era, including dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, and plesiosaurs. Course will focus on evolution, paleobiology, paleoecology, and extinction of these extraordinary animals, and a history of their discoveries. The course also introduces students to the scientific method and how hypotheses in paleontology are formulated and tested.
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
GRMN 3141:
001: Museums and Colonialism
003: Psychology in German Film, Lit
REES 4251:
REES 4871:
SCAN 3110:
SCAN 3202:
History
For expanded descriptions of the courses below, please review the History Department's Spring 2025 Courses page or look them up in the !
HIST 2110-001: Living the Revolution: English & French Revolutions
HIST 2316-001: History of American Popular Culture
HIST 2629: China in World History: China and the United States
HIST 4020: Topics in Comparative History: Modernity in China and Japan
HIST 4222: War and the European State, 1618-1793
HIST 4238: History of Southern Africa
HIST 4329: Islam in the Modern World: Revivalism, Modernism, and Fundamentalism, 1800-2001
HIST 4713: History of 91Ƭ through the 17th Century
HIST 4800-002: Special Topics in Global History: Antisemitism
Linguistics
LING 1020:
In Person and Online offered
Explores the issue of human diversity by examining how languages vary around the world. Outlines historical, geographic, and typological classifications of languages across human societies, and the criteria used by linguists for grouping them into language families.
LING 2000:
In Person
M/W 1:25-2:15pm + recitation section
Introduces the study of languages as structural systems. Describes principles of sound patterns, word formation, meaning, and sentence structure. Gives attention to language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language families, dialects, historical change in languages, and different language types.
LING 2500:
In Person
11:15am-12:05pm + recitation section
Explores the relationship between race, ethnicity, and language and how they are co-constructed. How do speakers of different racial and ethnic groups use language differently, and what are the social implications of these different language varieties? Recommended prerequisite: LING 1000
Religious Studies/Jewish Studies
RLST 3040:
RLST/JWST 3150:
RLST 3200:
RLST 3550:
RLST/JWST 3820: (Search for JWST 3820. RLST side is full)
Spanish and Portuguese
PORT 3800:
In Person
T/Th 9:30-10:45am
Discusses art, literature, and political engagement of Indigenous populations in contemporary Brazil. With a Decolonial viewpoint, this course analyses a series of works by Indigenous authors that underscores their culture, identity, and political expression. Taught in English.
Theatre & Dance/Environmental Studies
THTR 4173/ENVS 3173:
In Person
T/Th 9:30-11:15am
We work to deepen our understanding of how issues associated with climate change are or can be communicated, by analyzing previously created expressions from a variety of media (interactive theatre, film, fine art, television programming, blogs, performance art, for example) and will then be creating our own work.
Writing and Rhetoric
WRTG 2090:
In Person
M/W/F 11:15am-12:05pm
Participate in peer tutoring activities, learn to write a competitive cover letter and resume, compose response papers and a research paper, lead occasional class discussions, and compile an end-of-term portfolio. Prerequisite: completion of lower-division writing requirement.
Students will have the opportunity to complete an optional six-week unpaid tutoring internship in the Writing Center starting in March. NOTE: Eligibility to apply for future paid writing tutor positions requires successful completion of the course and internship.
WRTG 2095:
In Person
M/W/F 12:20-1:10pm
Introduces key concepts and practices central to understanding historical and contemporary social movements in the U.S. Students will discover, identify, and analyze social issues of significance to them; practice developing their own visions for social change; and present their visions in public-facing multi-modal genres.
A&S Honors Program Courses
If you are qualified for our A&S Honors Program, you can enroll directly in Honorscourses by visiting during your enrollment window.
ANTH 3110-880: Ethnography of Mexico and Central America
ASIA/GEOG 2852-888R:
CLAS 4040-880:The Historian as Exile
ECON 3818-880: Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications
ENGL 1240-880: Planetarity
GEOL 1060-888R:
HIST 1012-880: Empire, Revolution, and Global War: European History Since 1600
HIST 2166-888R:
HONR 3900-880: Honors Internship Class
REES 3705-880: Crimes of Passion: Gender and Sexual Politics in Tolstoy's 91Ƭ
RLST 2800-888R:
SPAN 3010-880: Spanish: Advanced Rhetoric and Composition
WRTG 3020-888R: