Gen-Ed course recommendations

Gen-Ed course recommendations

As you prepare your semester schedules be mindfull of University degree requirements, diversity requirements and Gen-Ed requirements. The lists below were compiled with the advise and recommendations made by physics majors past and present. Personal advise; world literature courses can be extremely interesting, and will introduce you to points of view very different from your own. I highly recommend them. I also recommend any courses dealing with world religion, and philosophy of science.

Majors should fill in the degree requirements chack-list to be found in the majors handbook to keep track of their progress towards degree. You might be asked to produce this by your advisor prior to registration.

Before you buy a book check www.gutenberg.org, you may be able to download it for free.

Before you buy classical music, check http://www.classiccat.net, an indispensible source of free classical music, very useful in a music appreciation course.

Jazz appreciation resources. See http://www.emusic.com/genre/291.html for MP3 files and links.

Resources for art appreciation. See http://www.abcgallery.com/ for a very complete collections of artists (all countries and eras) and their works. Nobody paints a tree like Shishkin, or a portrait like Kramskoy.

Humanities and the Arts (minimum of 12 credits)

Literature (three credits, at least one)

ENGL 112 Intro Women's Studies: Women's Lit
ENGL 167 Intro to Literature
ENGL 246 Intro to World Literature

The Arts (three credits, at least one)

ART 122 Intro to Drawing
ENGL 252 Intro to Film
MUS 206 Jazz Apreciation (meets DIV req.)

Systems of Thought

PHIL 101 Intro to Philosophy
HUMA 335 World Religions

Social and Behavioral Science (12 credits)

Human Science (at least two courses, six credits)

HPEA 270 Lifetime Wellness
HPEA 271 Lifetime Wellness Lab
SOCA 101 Intro to Anthropology
SOCA 202 Cultural Anthropology
SOCA 208 Intro to Archaeology

Historical Background (at least two courses, six credits)

ART 125 Art History-I (Ancient/Medieval)
ART 126 Art History-II (Renaissance-Modern)
PHIL 102 Great Thinkers
HIST 118 History (Ancient/Medieval)
HIST 102 US History (Reconstruction-Modern
SOCA 206 American Minority Groups (meets DIV req.)
SOCA 226 People of Africa
SOCA 227 North Americal Indians (meets DIV req.)

For Physics majors the natural sciences requirements are fullfilled by taking PHYS 201/202 and MATH 221/222. However you may wish to consider

HIST 222 History of Modern Science (1750-present)
PHIL 105 Intro to Scientific Thought

Last modified: Sat Mar 20 07:52:09 CST 2004