University Requirements: Cross-disciplinary Issues (3 credits)

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Cross-disciplinary Issues courses combine two or more relevant disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives are used to understand and propose solutions to complex problems that impact society and are relevant to students of all fields and career paths. Focus on issues of significant and current concern.

An academic discipline is defined as a well-established and widely acknowledged branch of knowledge for which there are national organizations and professional, peer-reviewed journals dedicated to its study and advancement, as well as terminal degrees available.
Disciplinary perspectives are defined as the body of theories, concepts, methodologies, and ways of looking at the world that are central to an academic discipline, as opposed to a skill set or content area.
The General Education Committee (GEC) requires course proposers to identify at least one additional academic discipline outside their area of expertise that will be used, and to consult with experts on campus from that discipline in creating course documentation.
Evidence of consultation must be provided, including commentary on the integration of their discipline, although ultimate course alignment with the CISS category is determined by the GEC.

Cross-disciplinary Issues

Courses must be selected from the list of approved Cross-disciplinary Issues courses.

AEC-191 The Built Environment (3 cr.)
ANTH-290 Global Political Ecology (3 cr.)
BIO-111 Science, the Environment and Sustainability (4 cr.)
BIO-130 Human Sexual Biology (3 cr.)
BIO-141 Plants and People (4 cr.)
BIO-226 Contagious Diseases (3 cr.)
BUFIN-227 Financial Wellness (3 cr.)
CHEM-110 Chemistry in Our World (4 cr.)
DES-150 Introduction to Sustainable Design and Development (3 cr.)
ECON-310 Economics of Conflict (3 cr.)
EDUC-210 Impacts of Technology on Learning (3 cr.)
EDUC-211 Technology, Fab Lab, and Society (3 cr.)
EDUC-260 Images of Education: Not Another Brick in the Wall (3 cr.)
EDUC-320 Racism and Colonialism: Impact on Communities and Education (3 cr.)
EDUC-330 Multiculturalism: Dialogue and Field Experience (3 cr.)
ETECH-100 Impacts of Engineering (3 cr.)
FN-244 Farm to Fork: Food Issues (3 cr.)
GEOG-290 Global Political Ecology (3 cr.)
GEOG-310 Food Justice (3 cr.)
HDFS-460 Religious Diversity and the Workplace (3 cr.)
HIST-230 Sexualities in Historical and Social Perspective (3 cr.)
HIST-296 Filming Capitalism and Culture in Modern Greece (3 cr.)
HIST-310 Sexualities in Historical and Social Perspective (3 cr.)
ICT-103 Information and Communication Technologies (3 cr.)
LIT-205 The Short Story (3 cr.)
LIT-265 Literature and Economics (3 cr.)
LIT-307 After 9/11: American Literature of Public Crisis and Trauma (3 cr.)
LIT-308 Alice Walker: Beyond Purple (3 cr.)
MUSIC-231 Honors Jazz History (3 cr.)
NANO-101 Explorations in Nanotechnology (3 cr.)
PAX-201 Introduction to Applied Peace Studies (3 cr.)
PAX-210 Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement (3 cr.)
PAX-271 Conflict Resolution and Analysis (3 cr.)
PAX-310 Food Justice (3 cr.)
PE-205 Lifelong Wellness (3 cr.)
PHYS-301 Physics for Future Presidents (3 cr.)
POLS-250 History of Race, Politics and Technology (3 cr.)
SOC-230 Sexualities in Historical and Social Perspective (3 cr.)
SOC-290 Global Political Ecology (3 cr.)
SOC-291 Sociology of Health and Illness (3 cr.)
SOC-325 Society and Leisure (3 cr.)
SOC-355 Social Psychology (3 cr.)
SOC-385 Globalization and Social Change (3 cr.)
WGS-205 Introduction to Queer Studies (3 cr.)
WGS-210 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies (3 cr.)

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University Requirements: Cross-disciplinary Issues (3 credits)

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