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There are many great A&S courses available for the upcoming semester! This electronic bulletin board is designed to highlight a number of new and featured classes offered across the College of Arts and Sciences. Once you have identified a class of interest, log in to Class Search to add the relevant class(es) to your shopping cart and finalize the enrollment process.

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Upper-Division Electives

Each semester, the College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Office puts together a list of upper-division classes that are NOT restricted to specific majors or minors and do NOT have prerequisites. The list is designed to help Juniors and Seniors in A&S work toward the 45 upper-division credit hours (at least 30 of which must be in A&S) that are required for graduation.

Click here to see the list(Spring 2027 list pending)

Spring 2027 Featured Classes

Spring 2027 classes are not visible in the Class Search until October 12.

Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures

GRMN 3504: Babylon Berlin / Weimar Cinema
From the turbulent financial situation of 1929 to the rise of National Socialism and Hitler, Babylon Berlin recreates hedonistic nightlife and suffocating societal clashes in the final years of the Weimar Republic. But what was Weimar Germany actually like? Through a mix of fictional and historic sources, we will delve into the many faces of the Weimar Republic’s political, artistic, and societal movements to think about how Weimar was viewed during its time and its significance today. Throughout the course, our emphasis will be on the visual arts and film, both from the Weimar era and works about Weimar. Taught in English. Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities.
 
Explores the contributions to Russian/Soviet literature, film, and the performing arts by such LGBTQ cultural icons as Nikolai Gogol, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Eisenstein, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The course also surveys the history of social and legal restrictions on non-heteronormative behaviors in Russia from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the emergence of LGBT rights activism and the reactionary rise of homophobia as a tool of nationalist politics in Putin’s Russia. Taught in English. Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities and Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective.
 
SCAN 3207-001: Beyond Middle Earth: Tolkien’s Nordic Sources II
This course explores source criticism and creative analysis of Tolkien's work outside of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Students will read and analyze Tolkien's transformative versions (fanfictions) of The Saga of the Volsungs, Kullervo's Tale, and more, comparing them to the originals and discussing why Tolkien made the changes that he did. Students will comprehensively apply these critical analysis skills to a different piece of transformative media at the end of the semester. Having taken SCAN 1202: Tolkien's Nordic Sources in The Lord of the Rings is helpful, but not required. Taught in English. Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities.