GES 340 – German Masterworks in Translation (3 credit hours)
Examines selected works of German, Austrian, and Swiss fiction in English translation. Literary periods, genres, and authors vary according to instructor. (D) Second Session Course:
MSC 100 – Introduction to Western Music (3 credit hours)
Survey of Western musical styles, composers, and selected works from the Middle Ages through the present day. (D) Second Session Course:
MSC 100 – Introduction to Western Music (3 credit hours)
Survey of Western musical styles, composers, and selected works from the Middle Ages through the present day. (D) First Session Course:
MSC 102 – Introduction to Modern Popular Music (3 credit hours)
Survey of the history of popular music, focusing on the United States. The course examines influential music genres and individual artists as well as situating their repertories within sociocultural, political, economic, and technological contexts. (CD, D) First Session Course: Cultural Diversity
MSC 101 – Introduction to the Music of World Cultures (3 credit hours)
Survey of music, history, and culture from selected societies around the world. (CD, D) Second Session Course: Cultural Diversity
MSC 108 – American Music (3 credit hours)
A study of the musical sources of American culture and the six streams of music in the United States: folk and ethnic musics, offsprings of the rural South (country music, blues, rock), jazz and its forerunners, popular sacred music, popular secular music, and art music. […]
PHI 111 – Basic Problems of Philosophy (3 credit hours)
Examines the basic concepts of several representative philosophers, including their accounts of the nature of knowledge, persons, God, mind, and matter. (D) Second Session Course:
PHI 116 – Meaning and Happiness (3 credit hours)
Examines the nature of happiness and meaning and the epistemic, ethical, and political issues surrounding their pursuit. Focus varies by instructor. (D) First Session Course:
PHI 161 – Introduction to Bioethics (3 credit hours)
A study of ethical issues that arise in health care and the life sciences such as informed consent, experimentation on human subjects, truth-telling, confidentiality, abortion, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (D) Second Session Course:
PHI 164 – Contemporary Moral Problems (3 credit hours)
A study of pressing ethical issues in contemporary life, such as abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, affirmative action, marriage, cloning, pornography, and capital punishment. (D) First Session Course:
