COLLEGE ELECTIVE COURSES
The Social Studies Department offers electives that let students chart their own path through the curriculum’s intellectual diversity, while gaining a critical set of skills in historical and cultural analysis. The following courses exemplify this diversity.
• The History of Wealth & Inequality in High Income Nations
• Feeding Ourselves/ Feeding the World
• Sources of Chinese History
• Gender and History
• The Ottomans: Themes in Cultural History
• Empire: Wealth, Race and Nation
• The Cultural History of Food
• Modern Revolutions
• Art History I
• Art History II
• The Renaissance
• Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology
• Introduction to Russian Culture
• Cervantes’ Don Quixote
• History Workshop: Post-War New York
• World War I and the Making of the Modern Era
• Latin America (U.S. – Latin American Relations)
• Modern Latin America
• Reason & Politics
• Topics in Applied Ethics
• Environmental Ethics: “Ethics in the Anthropocene”
• Advanced Humanities: “The University: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?”
• Archival Research
• American Environmental History
• The American City
• The History of Wealth & Inequality in High Income Nations
• History Workshop: Post-War New York
• American Social History
• Feeding Ourselves/ Feeding the World
• History of American Education
• History of Jazz
• Reason & Politics
• World War I and the Making of the Modern Era
• Topics in Applied Ethics
• Harlem and Strangers
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