Proposing faculty member: Rowenna Miller Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 6.13.2025 (provisional) Category: Common Core Component: Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity Note: Course (ENG- A 399) previously approved. VT previously approved at A190 level and now provisionally approved for A399; need full Gen Ed committee approval in fall 2025.
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FYS: THTR-A 190 / Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity / VT: Intro to Theatre
Proposing faculty member: Aimee Cole Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 6.09.2025 Categories: Common Core and Additional Requirements Component: Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity and First-Year Seminar Note: Course and VT already previously approved. Now provisionally approved as FYS; need full committee approval in fall 2025.
CC-HBSI: NURS-B 399: Human Behavior & Social Institutions // VT: Death and Dying (approved 4.2.2025)
Proposing faculty member: Myra Swintz Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 4.2.2025 Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description: Course Description: In this course, we will discuss the universal experience of mortality and loss. Topics will include attitudes toward death and those who are dying; the process of dying; palliative care… Read more »
CC-AAC: EDUC-A 390: Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity. Teaching About the Arts Methods. (approved 3.26.2025)
Proposing faculty member: Sydney Beauchamp Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 3.26.2025 Category: Common Core Component: Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity Note: As of 8.11.25: Not yet fully through Carmin. EDUC-A 399 is a new course, and this is a new VT.
CC-HBSI: SOC-B 399: Human Behavior & Social Institutions. New VT approved: Consumer Society and the Environment. (Approved 2.26.25)
Proposing faculty member: Zach Schrank Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 2.26.25 Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description (abbreviated): A critical examination of consumerism as a defining feature of modern societies and its profound impact on the environment. Students will analyze the mutually reinforcing dynamics of production and consumption, examining… Read more »
CC-LIT: HIST-T 390 Literary and Intellectual Traditions / New VT: History of the Jewish People in Poland, c.960-1968 (approved as of 1.27.2025)
Proposing faculty member: Lisa Zwicker Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 1.27.2025 Category: Common Core Component: Literary & Intelectual Traditions Description: This course explores the experiences of Jews in Poland from the first settlements in the tenth century up to the present day when only 4,500 Jews remain in Poland. Some students in this… Read more »
CC-HBSI: WGS-B 190 Being American: Race and Gender in the Construction of Identity and Citizenship (approved as of 11.11.2024)
Proposing faculty member: Darryl Heller Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 11.11.2024 Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Note: This is new VT for WGS-B 190. Description: This course will critically engage how notions of race and gender have informed how we understand equality, citizenship, and rights, especially as applied to… Read more »
SUST-B 399 (VT: Germany – Sustainable Development and Green Urbanism)
Proposing Faculty Member: Scott Sernau Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description: What are the elements of balanced, sustainable development? We will look at what they mean for the various social problems facing the planet. We will look at path–breaking efforts to forge alternative paths to development and quality of life in… Read more »
Literary & Intellectual Traditions: WGS-N 390 (VT: Women in Social Movements)
Proposing Faculty Member: Darryl Heller Category: Common Core Component: Literary & Intellectual Traditions Description: This class will explore significant social movements from the 19th through the 21st Century. Unlike a course in sociology, which tend to look at social movements from a structural and organizational perspective, this course will use the lens of gender as an analytical framework… Read more »
Natural World: CLS-N 190 (VT: Uncovering a Diagnosis)
Proposing Faculty Member: Barbara Spinda Category: Common Core Component: Natural World Description: Have you ever been sick and wondered how the doctor knew you were sick, what was causing your illness, and how to treat it? Did you know that there is a whole profession dedicated to the diagnosis, interpreting, and monitoring illness in society? The Medical Laboratory Scientist… Read more »