New Courses for the 2026-27 Course Catalog

Last updated 2026-03-30.

New Courses Approved Through March 30, 2026

New Courses Approved Through March 30, 2026

AAST 113 - Rest: Ideas and Praxis
AAST 210 - Black Masculinities
AAST 214 - Imagining Africa
AAST 284 - Somatics: AfriCognoSomatics
AAST 286 - Intro to Africana Aesthetics and Aesthesis
AAST 288F - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique
AAST 288H - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique
AAST 306 - African American Business History
APST 125 - Intermediate Voice Class
ARST 002 - 2D Foundations
ARST 003 - 3D Foundations
ARST 004 - 4D Foundations
ARST 030 - Introduction to Digital 3D Modeling & Printing
ARST 855 - Introduction to Humor as Material: Play, Power, and Risk
ARST 856 - Introduction to Glitched Futures
ARTH 151 - Approaches to Modern Architecture
ARTH 205 - Art and Architecture of Ancient and Medieval Spain
ARTH 240 - Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East
ARTH 264 - Realism: Art and Politics in Europe, 1848-1968
ARTH 265 - History and Practice of Art Criticism
ARTH 366 - Mysticism and Modernism, 1850-1950
ATHL 164 - Basketball Skills and Fundamentals
BUSI 126 - Business Ethics
BUSI 231 - Marketing for the Solo Entrepreneur
BUSI 290 - Business and Games
CAIS 100 - Introduction to Critical AI Studies
CAIS 400 - Critical AI Studies Culminating Reflection
CHEM 304 - Biochemistry Fundamentals
CHIN 403 - Contemporary China
CIME 389 - Advanced Editing
CMPL 104 - Literature Before the Law: On Atrocity and Justice
CMPL 224 - Passport, please: Mobility, Borders, and Freedom of Movement
CMPL 276 - Home and Away: Migration and Homecoming in Jewish Literature and Film
CMPL 322 - Global Surrealisms
CMPL 371 - In Babel: Translation and Global Jewish Cultures
COMP 100 - Composition for Non-Majors
COMP 150 - Intermediate Composition for Non-Majors
CRWR 253 - Poetry of Science
CRWR 292 - The Art of Flash Fiction
CRWR 293 - The Art of Revision
CRWR 327 - Brevity
CRWR 491 - Long Projects Seminar
DANC 099 - Production Crew and Service Practicum
DANC 125 - Devising Design
DANC 284 - Somatics: AfriCognoSomatics
DANC 286 - Intro to Africana Aesthetics and Aesthesis
DANC 288F - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique
DANC 288H - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique
DANC 300F - Contemporary Dance Technique III
DANC 320 - Live Arts in the Archive: Dance and Interdisciplinary Performance Histories
DATA 231 - Causal Inference
DATA 320 - Essentials of Epidemiology
EAST 226 - Monks, Miracles, and Merit
EAST 284 - Tokyo
EAST 312 - Her-stories: Rethinking His-story of Early Modern East Asia
ECON 249 - Behavioral Economics
ECON 345 - Risk and Insurance
ENGL 198 - Cards, Letters, Poems
ENGL 224 - Sports and Literature
ENGL 314 - Queer Ecologies
ENGL 406 - It’s Alive!: Stitching the Monster
EVSS 212 - Logistical Worlds: Nature, Capital, Power
EVSS 245 - Planetary health: the human health impacts of the environmental crisis
EVSS 490 - Sustainable Urban Design Practicum
FREN 390 - The Film Artist Agnès Varda, From Photography to Installations
FREN 444 - Inheriting the Black Atlantic: Slavery, Memory, and the Work of Mourning
FREN 450 - Atelier lyrique: poésie, chanson, opéra
FYSP 009 - Managing Political Disagreement
FYSP 023 - The Academy and the Arena
FYSP 051 - 23 and Us: Genetics in Contemporary Society
FYSP 060 - Theater and Politics
FYSP 163 - Research and Reasoning in NSCI
GEOS 111 - At Home in the Critical Zone
GEOS 112 - Rivers of Earth
GERM 362 - German Art in Oberlin and Beyond
GERM 367 - History Through Cinema: A Divided Nation in German Film
GERM 427 - Beauty and Terror: Weimar Germany on the Page, Stage, and Screen
GLBH 320 - Essentials of Epidemiology
GSFS 365 - End Stage: Performing Health and Inequality
HISP 104 - Literature Before the Law: On Atrocity and Justice
HISP 224 - Passport, please: Mobility, Borders, and Freedom of Movement
HISP 307 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
HISP 322 - Visions of Mexican Women
HIST 166 - Modern African History
HIST 203 - Sport in America
HIST 248 - Cities of Sacrifice: Pre-Columbian Histories of Mesoamerica
HIST 252 - Colonialism and Decolonization Through Francophone Film
HIST 334 - From Empires to Aid Workers: Critical Histories of Humanitarianism in Africa
HIST 339 - Witches and Inquisitors in the Vast Early American Archives
HIST 359 - The Mughal Empire and the World
HIST 391 - America in the 20th Century
HIST 408 - Drugs in Modern History
HIST 428 - Dungeons to Panopticons: A Long Carceral History
HIST 445 - Colonial Intimacies: Gender and Sexuality in European Imperialism
JAPN 410 - Japanese Popular Culture in Japanese
JAPN 415 - Japanese Society Today in Japanese
JWST 115 - Death and the Afterlife
JWST 275 - Body and Soul: Dis/ability in Jewish Cultures
JWST 276 - Home and Away: Migration and Homecoming in Jewish Literature and Film
JWST 360 - Park Arts Humanities Lab
JWST 371 - In Babel: Translation and Global Jewish Cultures
LEAD 118 - Introduction to STRONG
LEAD 128 - Intercultural Humility and Communicating Across Diverse Communities
LEAD 167 - Ashby Business Scholars
MATH 359 - Partial Differential Equations
MTHR 200 - Music Theater Onstage Experience
MTHR 210 - Music Theater Practicum
MTHR 327 - Advanced Ballet for Music Theater
MTHR 351 - Special Topics in Music Theater - Dance
MUSY 106 - History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place
MUTH 270 - Writing in Style: The Grammar of Tonal Music
NSCI 401 - Senior Seminar Brain Basis of Timing
NSCI 420 - Senior Seminar Addiction: Reinforcement Gone Wrong
NSCI 425 - Senior Seminar: Neurobiology of Mental Illness
NSCI 435 - Senior Seminar The role of Glia during Neurodegenerative Disease and Psychiatric Disorders
NSCI 439 - Senior Seminar Neurogenesis and Neuroregeneration
NSCI 444 - Nature-nurture interactions in neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders
NSCI 457 - Senior Seminar Mind, Brain, Eyes, and Ears
NSCI 499 - Honors in Neuroscience
PACE 109 - Music Advocacy and Administration
PACE 221 - Well-Being for Musicians
PHIL 227 - Philosophy of Work
PHIL 320 - Agency, Emotion, and Morality: Evolutionary Perspectives
POLT 300 - Public Opinion, Polarization, and the Courts
PSYC 203 - Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
PSYC 225 - Sports and Exercise Psychology
PSYC 318 - Advanced Methods in Programming Experiments for the Study of Cognition
PSYC 319 - Advanced Methods in Longitudinal Research
PSYC 402 - Seminar in Children’s Mental Health
RELG 295 - Spiritual But Not Religious
RELG 360 - Park Arts Humanities Lab
SPRT 100 - Introduction to Sport Studies and Management
SPRT 201 - The Meaning of Movement
SPRT 210 - Sport, Power, and Society
THEA 407 - Directing III
WRCM 208 - Writing in a Multimedia World