Charting New Courses
Arts & Sciences introduced 50 new courses in 2022–23, many of them crossing departmental boundaries to bridge disciplines.
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Arts & Sciences introduced 50 new courses in 2022–23, many of them crossing departmental boundaries to bridge disciplines.
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 America
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 549S: 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 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