Signature Courses

School of Arts and Sciences Signature Courses are foundational courses covering engaging topics of grand intellectual sweep and enduring importance. They are designed and taught by our renowned scholars and scientists who are not only recognized for their specialized research but are also eloquent and demanding award-winning teachers. Each course is made up of a combination of capacious lectures by faculty and small discussion sections led by graduate students from our nationally ranked graduate programs. They establish a common basis for intellectual exchange and define us as the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) community of students and scholars working together.

Data 101

Fall 2021
01:198:142 (4 credits)
Core: CCO; QQ or QR
Professor Amélie Marian, Computer Science
Black Lives Matter

Fall 2021
01:512:264; 01:014:264 (3 credits)
Core: CCD
Professors Erica Dunbar and Tiffany Gill, History
Understanding COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Fall 2021
01:450:280 (4 credits)
Core: CCO
Professor Nathaniel Gabriel, Geography
Famous Trials

Fall 2021
01:512:216 (3 credits)
Core: CCD, HST
Professor Paul G. E. Clemens, History
Extinction

Fall 2021
01:070:111 (4 credits)
Core: CCD or CCO; NS
Professors Rob Scott and David Hughes, Anthropology
Heroism

Fall 2021
01:098:255 (4 credits)
Core: CCO, AHp
Professor Wendy Swartz, Asian Languages and Cultures
Human Nature and Human Diversity

Spring 2021
01:730/185:253 (4 credits)
Core: CCD, CCO, and AHo
Professor Stephen Stich, Philosophy, Cognitive Science
Sea Change: The Rise and Fall of Sea Level and the Jersey Shore

Spring 2021
01:460:110 (3 credits)
Core: CCO, NS
Professor Kenneth Miller, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Cities

Spring 2021
01:450:250 (4 Credits)
Core: CCO, SCL
Professor D. Asher Ghertner, Geography
The Arts of Power

Spring 2021
01:510:245 (4 Credits)
Core: HST or SCL
Professor Alastair Bellany, History
Religions Now: 21st Century Controversies

Spring 2021
01:840:105 (4 credits)
Core: CCD, AHo
Professors Tia Kolbaba and Joseph Williams, Religion
Wars, Wayfarers, and the Wall

01:506:260 (3 credits)
Core: CCO, HST
Professor Camilla Townsend, History
Inequality

01:220:120 (4 credits)
Core: CCO, SCL
Professor Colin Campbell, Economics
Writing after the End of the World

01:358:207 (4 credits)
Core: CCO, AHp
Professor Richard Miller, English
Once Upon A Time

01:358:200 (4 credits)
Core: AHp
Professor Chris Iannini, English
The American Dream

01:050:210 (4 credits)
Core: CCD, AHp
Professor Louis P. Masur, American Studies and History
The Coming Apocalypse

01:358:205 (4 credits)
Core: CCO, AHp
Professor Richard Miller, English

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Signature Courses

Data 101

Black Lives Matter

Understanding COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Famous Trials

Extinction

Heroism

Human Nature and Human Diversity

Sea Change: The Rise and Fall of Sea Level and the Jersey Shore

Cities

The Arts of Power

Religions Now: 21st Century Controversies

Wars, Wayfarers, and the Wall

Inequality

Writing after the End of the World

Once Upon A Time

The American Dream

The Coming Apocalypse

Previous Signature Courses

Global East Asia

Past Today: Why Conflicts Endure

Color-Lines and Borderlands

Our World: Social Justice and the Environment

Normality and Abnormality

Energy and Climate Change

Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences

Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy

Immigrant States: Jersey's Global Routes

From Plantation to White House

War: Critical Perspectives

Conservation

Genetics, Evolution, and Human Health

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