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.

The American Dream

Fall 2022
01:050:210 (4 credits)
Core: CCD, AHp
Professor Louis P. Masur, American Studies and History
Banned Books

Fall 2022
01:013/195:206 (4 credits)
Core: CCD, AHO
Professors Preetha Mani and Samah Selim, AMESALL
Black Lives Matter

Fall 2022
01:512:264; 01:014:264 (3 credits)
Core: CCD
Professors Tiffany Gill and Donna Murch, History
Data 101

Fall 2022
01:198:142 (4 credits)
Core: CCO; QQ or QR
Professor Amélie Marian or Samaneh Gholizadeh Hamidi, Computer Science
Extinction

Fall 2022
01:070:111 (4 credits)
Core: CCD or CCO; NS
Professors Rob Scott and David Hughes, Anthropology
Heroism

Fall 2022
01:098:255 (4 credits)
Core: CCO, AHp
Professor Wendy Swartz, Asian Languages and Cultures
Rhymes and Reasons: Hip Hop and Philosophy

Fall 2022
01:730:256 (3 credits)
Core: CCD
Professor Derrick Darby, Philosophy
Cities

Spring 2023
01:450:250 (4 Credits)
Core: CCO, SCL
Professor Nathaniel Gabriel, Geography
The Arts of Power

Spring 2022
01:510:245 (4 Credits)
Core: HST or SCL
Professor Alastair Bellany, History
Inequality

Spring 2022
01:220:120 (4 credits)
Core: CCO, SCL
Professor Colin Campbell, Economics
Sea Change: The Rise and Fall of Sea Level and the Jersey Shore

Spring 2022
01:460:110 (3 credits)
Core: CCO, NS
Professor Kenneth Miller, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Human Nature and Human Diversity

Spring 2021
01:730/185:253 (4 credits)
Core: CCD, CCO, and AHo
Professor Stephen Stich, Philosophy, Cognitive Science
Famous Trials

Fall 2021
01:512:216 (3 credits)
Core: CCD, HST
Professor Paul G. E. Clemens, History
Religions Now: 21st Century Controversies

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

01:450:280 (4 credits)
Core: CCO
Professor Nathaniel Gabriel, Geography
Wars, Wayfarers, and the Wall

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

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

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