Course Guides
In conjunction with some of your BU professors, we’ve developed these guides to assist with many of the courses that require research. You’ll find curated lists of resources pertaining to the course topic as well as tips to help you investigate effectively.
Select a program below to see which guides are currently available:
College of Arts & Sciences / Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
- AA371/HI298: African American History
- African History: Colonial Period
- AH/ AA 215: Arts of Africa & Its Diaspora
- AH201: Understanding Architecture (Fall 2023)
- AH240: Medieval Art in Europe (Spring/Fall 2023)
- AH317: Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the Saharan Crossroads
- AH353: Renaissance Architecture
- AS413: Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology
- BI/NE520: Sensory Neurobiology
- CAS EN 122 Medieval Romance & Daily Life
- Environmental History of Africa
- HI227: Living in the City
- HI339: U.S. since 1968
- HI588/ AA588: Women, Power and Culture in Africa
- LT388 World Cities: Istanbul
- NE370: Neuroscience Communications
- Proposal Writing for Social Science Research
- WR150 Exploring American Gun Politics
- WR151 Dissenting Channels- An American Foreign Policy Tradition
- WR151 United States since 1964
- XL223: Introduction to Middle Eastern Literatures
- XL342: Travel Writing and the Muslim World
- XL344: Global Shakespeares
- XL441: 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
CAS Writing Program
- African Fiction and Film
- Library Resources for ELL Students
- WR 150: Walking in Berlin: Conflict and Culture in Weimar
- WR 151: "I Want to Believe:" UFOs & BigFoot in Myth & Fact
- WR 151: Oratory in America (Shawn)
- WR 152: American Environmental History
- WR120: Global Literature
- WR120: The Graphic Memoir
- WR150: Africa in the Western Imagination
- WR150: Animal Ethics
- WR150: Ethical Missteps in Public Health
- WR150: The Civil War: Experience and Meaning
- WR151 - Imagining the South Pacific.
- WR151: Readings in Dream Theory
- WR151: 1968-1969: Hope and Horror
- WR151: American Conversations: Jews and Blacks / Blacks and Jews
- WR151: American Gothic Tales
- WR151: Commerce and Character
- WR151: Debating Hollywood
- WR151: Gothic Tales of Gender & Sexuality
- WR151: Hispanic New York
- WR151: Narrating Identity (Spring 2023)
- WR151: Sports & Social Issues
- WR152 Creative Nonfiction and Journalism
- WR152: Anatomy of Identity
- WR152: Art & Social Justice in Boston Now
- WR152: Breaking the Class Ceiling
- WR152: BU & the Culture of College
- WR152: Education & Social Issues
- WR152: Emotions in Politics
- WR152: Family Politics
- WR152: History of American Photography and Photojournalism
- WR152: Holidays, Diasporas and U.S. Culture
- WR152: Medical Debates - (Fall 2025 - Kinraide)
- WR152: Public Gardens & Urban Wilds: Boston's Natural History
- WR152: Religion and American Identity
- WR152: Sex in Space: Communities of Sexualities (Spring 2024)
- WR152: The 2008 Crisis and its Aftermath
- WR152: The Brothers Coen
CELOP (Center for English Language & Orientation Programs)
College of Communication
College of Fine Arts
College of General Studies
HUB XC (Cross College Challenge)
Metropolitan College
Questrom School of Business
- FE449/820: Corporate Financial Management
- HUB XC 397: Marketing for New Product Development and Sustainability
- IM475: Global Management Experience: Hong Kong
- IM475: Global Management Experience: Vietnam
- IS711: DigITal Strategies for a Networked Economy
- LA245: Introduction to Law
- MBA Integrated Project – Module 1
- MG737: Action Learning Capstone
- MK200: Principles of Marketing
- MK467: Global Marketing Management
- MK854: Branding Management
- MS in Management (MiM)
- MS764: Insights and Analytics Client
- MSBA Capstone Project
- Online MBA
- SI422: Strategy, Innovation, and Global Competition
- SI750 and SI751: Competition, Innovation and Strategy
- SI830: Corporate Strategies for Growth
- SI849: Corporate Sustainability Strategy
- SM131: Business, Markets and Society
- SM275: Management Communications (Formerly ES275)
- SM323 Library Portal
Sargent College
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
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