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Aug 04, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDEA Course Requirement
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The Idea course requirement provides undergraduate students the opportunity to explore historical, societal, and intercultural perspectives in the U.S. and global contexts. These courses may be taught at any school and college at the university and may satisfy requirements in the students’ program of study.
*Crosslisted courses - Students can take any one course within a crosslisted set of courses and it will fulfill the IDEA requirement.
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Arts & Sciences/Maxwell
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- AAS 232 - African American Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
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- ANT 121 - Peoples and Cultures of the World
- ANT 131 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- ANT 145 - Archaeology of and in the Modern World
- ANT 185 - Global Encounters:Comparing World Views & Values Cross-Culturally
- ANT 325 - Anthropology of American Life in Film
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- ANT 373 - Magic and Religion
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- BIO 479 - Mind the Gap: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in STEM
- CSD 426 - Sociocultural Bases for Communication
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- ECN 304 - The Economics of Social Issues
- ENG 145 - Reading Popular Culture
- ENG 171 - World Cinema, Beginnings to Present
- ENG 174 - World Literature, Beginnings to 1000
- ENG 181 - Class and Literary Texts
- ENG 182 - Race and Literary Texts
- ENG 184 - Ethnicity and Literary Texts Introduction to Latino Literature
- ENG 184 Ethnicity and Literary Texts: Great Jewish Writers
- ENG 184 Ethnicity and Literary Texts: Arab American Literature and Culture
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- ENG 193 - Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENG 194 - Introduction to Latina/o/x Literature
- ENG 195 - Arab American Literature and Culture
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- ENG 352 - Race, Nation, and Empire
- ENG 353 - Race, Nation, and Empire before 1900
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- GEO 272 - World Cultures
- GEO 273 - Geography of Capitalism: The Political Economy of Global Inequality
- GEO 304 - Sustainability on Trial: Environmental Justice in Northern Europe
- GEO 321 - Latin American Development: Politics & Environment
- GEO 353 - Geographies of Environmental Justice
- GEO 440 - Race and Space
- HNR 360 - Topics in the Social Sciences Honors The “Born-Free” Generation in the Rainbow Nation
- HOA 176 - The Visual Arts of the Americas
- HOA 377 - Nineteenth-Century American Art
- HOA 378 - Twentieth-Century American Art
- HOA 387 - Native North American Art
- HOA 585 - Topics in Native North American Art
- HOM 372 - Music in Multicultural America
- HOM 376 - Hip-Hop Studies
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- HOM 482 - Global Popular Music
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- HST 222 - History of American Sexuality
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- HST 347 - Modern American Politics Through Film
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- HST 362 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
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- HST 407 - Iraq: Modern Nation to US Occupation
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- LIT 424 - Sex, Politics, Religion in Italian Literature
- MAX 123 - Critical Issues for the United States
- PAI 415 - Poverty Policy
- PHI 177 - Race and Racial Justice
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- PSC 310 - Refugees in International Politics
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- PSC 354 - Human Rights and Global Affairs
- PSC 374 - Law and Society
- /REL 300 - Religion and Politics
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- PSC 429 - European Human Rights
- PSY 379 - The Social Psychology of Stigma
- QSX 101 - Queer Lives
- QSX 111 - Queer Histories, Communities, and Politics
- QSX 112 - Sexualities, Genders, Bodies
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- REL 125 - Religion and Sexuality
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- SOC 102 - Social Problems
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- SOC 301 - Contemporary Asian Americans
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- SOC 305 - Sociology of Sex and Gender
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- WGS 101 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
- WGS 201 - Global Feminisms
- WGS 395 - Gender and Popular Culture
- WRT 301 - Advanced Writing Studio: Civic Writing
- WRT 413 - Rhetoric and Ethics
- WRT 423 - African American Rhetoric
- WRT 424 - Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, Identity
- WRT 440 - Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing
Visual and Performing Arts
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