The following new major was launched during the 2021-2022 academic year:

  • Chemistry & Physics BA

The following new majors were approved during the 2021-2022 academic year:

  • African American & Black Diaspora Studies
  • Archaeological & Environmental Sciences
  • Chemical Biology
  • Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies
  • Mathematics and Physics
  • Science Education 

The following new courses were approved during the 2021-2022 academic year: 

CAS AA 410:  The Poetics and Politics of Hip Hop

CAS AA 411:  Race, Memory, and Diaspora in US Popular Music

CAS AH 113:  Arts and Monuments of Asia

CAS AH 114 / CAS AA 114:  Kongo to Cuba: Art, Exchange, and Self-Determination in Africa and Latin 

CAS AN 235:  Introduction to the Primate Senses

CAS AN 262:  The Evolution of Culture and Society

CAS AN 562:  The Evolution of War

CAS AR 369 / CAS AN 369:  Indigenous Archaeology

CAS AR 520 / CAS EE 520 / CAS AN 519:  Theory and Method in Environmental Archaeology

CAS BI 510:  Institutional Racism in Health and Science

CAS BI 521:  Quantitative Marine Fisheries

CAS BI 559 / CAS PY 559:  Quantitative Microbiology

CAS BI 566:  DNA Dynamics in Disease

CAS CI 330 / CAS EN 329:  Film Genres & Movements

CAS CI 430 / CAS EN 397 / CAS AA 430 / GRS AA 630:  Black American Cinema

CAS CS 115:  Academic Writing in Computer Science

CAS CS 519:  Spark! Software Engineering X-Lab Practicum

CAS CS 539:  Spark! Data Science X-Lab Practicum

CAS CS 549:  Spark! Machine Learning X-Lab Practicum

CAS CS 582:  Geometry Processing

CAS EC 405:  Applied Econometrics: Time Series

CAS EE 499:  Student Internship

CAS EE 513:  Institutional Analysis and Environmental Governance

CAS EN 101:  Encounters: Reading across Time and Space

CAS EN 178:  Introduction to Latinx Literature

CAS EN 437:  Thinking with Animals

CAS EN 542:  Asian American Studies: Theory and Methods

CAS EN 549 S:  Interdisciplinary Studies in Creative Writing

CAS EN 567:  Freedom and Slavery on the Verge of the U.S. Civil War

CAS HI 207:  Game of Thrones: Power and Politics in Pre-Modern Europe

CAS HI 238:  Modern Africa

CAS HI 275:  Divided Nation: Germany 1945–1990

CAS HI 515 / CAS PH 493:  Meaning, Memory, and History

CAS IR 295:  Quantitative Methods for Global Policy

CAS IR 379:  Civil-Military Relations: Theory and Practice

CAS IR 495:  Internship in International Relations and Regional Studies

CAS IR 553:  Digital Diplomacy

CAS JS 385 / CAS EE 385:  Israel and the Environment

CAS LJ 360:  Haiku

CAS LJ 383 / CAS CI 383:  Auteur Studies: Japan

CAS LR 444:  Advanced Russian: Fairy Tales

CAS LS 410:  Religion and Literature in Medieval Spain

CAS LY 283:  Arab Culture Through Film (in English translation)

CAS MA 301:  Writing in Mathematics

CAS NE 370:  Neuroscience Communications

CAS PH 489 / GRS PH 689 / CAS EN 500:  Henry James and the New Media

CAS PO 560 / GRS IR 660:  Rwanda: Genocide and Its Aftermath

CAS PY 565:  Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems

CAS PY 580:  Machine Learning for Physicists

CAS SO 391:  Social Inequality

CAS SO 497 / GRS SO 897:  Understanding Meritocracy