Approved Courses

Term Summary of Courses - WN25

Winter 2025 At a Glance

STS 105/CHEM 105/CLIMATE 105/ENSCEN 105/ENVIRON 105 - Our Changing Atmosphere S, T

STS 110/ALA 119/SI 110 - Introduction to Information Studies T

STS 209/HISTORY 209/INTLSTD 209/RELIGION 209 - Death, Immortality, and the Afterlife

STS 220/NURS 220/WGS 220 - Perspectives in Women's Health M

STS 237/ENVIRON 237/HISTORY 237 - Global Environmental History S

STS 244/ANTHRCUL 244 - Introduction to Medical Anthropology: Systems of Health and Healing M

STS 285/HISTORY 285/RCSSCI 275 - Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society

STS 330/ENGLUSH 343/ENVIRON 320 - Environmental Journalism: Reporting About Science, Policy, and Public Health S, M

STS 392/CLCIV 392/HISTORY 292 - Ancient Medicine in Greece & Rome M

STS 399.007/SOC 495.004 - Technology and Social Change T

STS 399.008/JUDAIC 318.002 - American Jewish Life of DNA T

STS 418/AMCULT 410/DIGITAL 410/SI 410 - Ethics and Information Technology T

Science, Technology & Society

STS 105 - Our Changing Atmosphere S, T

STS 110 - Introduction to Information Studies T

STS 171 —Intro to Global Change: The Science Behind Sustainability S,T

STS 201 — Ecological Issues S

STS 202 - Madness, Medicine, and Magic in the Middle East M

STS 207 - Sustainability and Society S, T

STS 209 — Death and Immortality S

STS 220 - Perspectives in Women's Health M

STS 234 — History of Medicine M

STS 237 — A Global Environmental History S,T

STS 238 — A History of Everything S,T

STS 249 — Sound, Music, Noise S,T

STS 265 — Minds and Brains in America M

STS 244 -- Introduction to Medical Anthropology: Systems of Health and Healing M

STS 285 — Science, Technology, Medicine & Society S,T,M

STS 296 — Reproductive Medicine in the U.S. T,M

STS 299 — Special Topics

STS 302 - Contemporary Social and Cultural Theory S, T

STS 305 — American Addictions S,M

STS 308 - Sustainability and Health S, M

STS 327 - Critical Theory in Medicine and Healing M

STS 330 - Environmental Journalism: Reporting About Science, Policy and Public Health

STS 341 - The Globalization of Biomedicine M

STS 342 —Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East S,T

STS 344 —Medical Anthropology M

STS 376 —Epidemics M

STS 381 —Science & Objectivity S

STS 392 —Ancient Medicine M

STS 399.007— Special Topics: American Jewish Life of DNA T

STS 399.008— Special Topics: Technology and Social Change T

STS 410 —Ethics and Information Technology T

STS 430 —Information Technology and Global Society T

STS 499 —Special Topics

African and African American Studies

DAAS 103 —Reconsidering African Environments S,T

DAAS 261 —Intro to Political Ecology S

DAAS 309 —Global Health in Africa S,M

DAAS 322 —Intro to Environmental Politics S,T

DAAS 328 —Women, Agency, and Safe Sex S,M

DAAS 335 —Medical Anthropologies of Relatedness, Kinship, and the Human M

DAAS 357 —Environmental Governance and African Development S,T

DAAS 365 —Global Gender Health S,M

DAAS 432 —Violent Environments S,T

DAAS 443 —Race, Gender & Health M

DAAS 457 —Africa-China Environmental Development T

DAAS 458 —Health and African Development M,T

DAAS 462 —Globalization and African Health M

DAAS 495 —Exploitation and the Environment: Conservation, Extraction, and Uneven
Development S,T

American Culture

AMCULT 202 —Digital Cultures T

AMCULT 233 —Genes and Society: Comparative and International Perspectives M

AMCULTC 239 — Gender, Sexuality, and Health in America. M,S

AMCULTC 241 —Health, Biology, and Society: What is Cancer? M

AMCULT 333 —Green Indigeneity S

AMCULT 334 —Race, Gender and US Culture in Video Games T

AMCULT 346 —Media Matter T

AMCULT 347 —Politics of Code T

AMCULT 358.001 —Topics in Digital Studies T

AMCULT 365 —AIDS and America M

AMCULT 410 —Ethics and Info Technology T

AMCULT 498 —Surveillance in Society S

Anthropology

ANTHRBIO 167— Evolution, Environment, Global Health S,M

ANTHRBIO 342— Nature/Culture Now! S,T

ANTHRBIO 363— Genes, Disease, Culture S,M

ANTHRBIO 373— Humans and Environmental Change S,T

ANTHRCUL 244-- Introduction to Medical Anthropology: Systems of Health and Healing M

ANTHRCUL 249— Sound, Music, Noise T

ANTHRCUL 254— Anthropology of Food S,T

ANTHRCUL 256— Culture, Adaptation and Environment S,T

ANTHRCUL 258 — Culture and Medicine (Honors only) S,M

ANTHRCUL 298— Mental Health, Illness, Psychopharmaceuticals M

ANTHRCUL 325— Childbirth and Culture S,M

ANTHRCUL 327.001 - Medicine and Healing M

ANTHROCUL 341 - The Globalization of Biomedicine M

ANTHRCUL 344 — Medical Anthropology S,M

ANTHRCUL 352— Anthropology of the Body S

ANTHRCUL 365 — Health, Gender and Reproduction S,M

ANTHRCUL 440— Environmental Anthro S

ANTHRCUL 458 — Writing Illness Experience: Sense and Affect in Clinical Medicine M

ANTHRCUL 458.003 — Cultures of Piracy S, T

Asian Studies

Biology

BIOLOGY 101— Energy, Food, Environmental Justice S

BIOLOGY 109— Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem Solving S

BIOLOGY 110— Global Change: Sustainable Science S

BIOLOGY 112— The Evolutionary Influence of Humans (Minicourse) S

BIOLOGY 118— Plagues M

BIOLOGY 120.001 — Evolutionary Biology Outside the Natural Sciences S

BIOLOGY 120.002 — Biological and Social Aspects of Brain Disorders S,M

BIOLOGY 120.004 — Biology and Society S,M

BIOLOGY 121.001 — Plants and Human Conflict S,T

BIOLOGY 121.003 — Health, Politics & Ethics in Post-Genomic Era S,T

BIOLOGY 144— Genetics in Society M,S

BIOLOGY 197— Science Writing S, M

BIOLOGY 212— Plants & Human Health S, M

BIOLOGY 241— Health, Biology & Society M,S

Chemistry

Classic Civilizations

Climate and Space Sciences & Engineering (formerly AOSS)

Communication and Media

Comm 271 —Communication Revolutions S,T

Comm 281 —Media Psychology S,T

Comm 307 —Communicating Science, Health & Environment S,T,M

Comm 313 —Behind the Digital Screen T

Comm 334 —Race, Gender, and Video Games T

Comm 346 —Media Matter T

Comm 348 —Media and the Body S,M

Comm 362 —Digital Media Foundations T

Comm 371 —Media, Culture & Society T

Comm 413 —Environmental Communications T,S

Comm 417 —Marketing Social Change T

Comm 421 —Media Law and Policy T

Comm 424 — Race, Gender & New Media T

Comm 425 —Internet, Society & the Law T

Comm 428 —Gender , Media & Law T

Comm 453 —US Media History T

Comm 460 —History, Technology and Culture T

Comm 464 —Social Consequences of Mobile Communications T

Comm 465 —Health Comm Behavior T, M

Comm 467 —Debating Politics and Science S, T

Comm 469 —Play & Technology T

Comparative Literature

Complex Systems Program

Digital Studies

Digital 190— From Sci-Fi to AI: A History of Artificial Intelligence in Popular Culture T

Digital 202— Digital Culture T

Digital 220— Digital Media T

Digital 346— Media Matter T

Digital 347— Politics of Code T

Digital 354— New Media History T

Digital 357— The History of the Internet T

Digital 376— New Media Theory T

Digital 410— Ethics and Info Technology T

Digital 411— Becoming Digital T

Earth and Environment

EARTH 102 — Energy from Earth (minicourse) S

EARTH 108 — When Earth Attacks S

EARTH 109 — Water and Society S

EARTH 110 — Evolving Oceans (minicourse) S

EARTH 111 — Climate & Humankind (minicourse) S

EARTH 114 — Global Warming (minicourse) S

EARTH 122 — Extreme Weather S

EARTH 140 — Climate and the Media S

EARTH 141 — Climate Change in the Age of Humans S

EARTH 144 — Climate and Humans S,T

EARTH 158 — Environmental Impact: Energy S,T

EARTH 159 — Sustainable Futures S,T

EARTH 171 — Global Change: Sustainability Science S

EARTH 172 — Climate and Sustainability S

EARTH 178 — Science and Sustainable Development S,T

EARTH 262 — Plants and People S,T

EARTH 277 — Water in the 21st Century S,T

EARTH 310 — Toxicology: The Study of Environmental Chemicals and Disease S,T

EARTH 331 — Climate and Climate Change S

EARTH 333 — Inexhaustible Seas S

EARTH 380 — Natural Resources, Economy & Environment S,T

Economics

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Engineering

English Language and Literature

ENGLISH 242— The Science in Science Fiction S

ENGLISH 280— Digital Culture S

ENGLISH 328— Writing and Environment S

ENGLISH 320— Literature and Environment S

ENGLISH 333— Green Indigeneities S, T

ENGLISH 342— Science Fiction & Social Justice S

ENGLISH 343.001 - Environmental Journalism S,M

ENGLISH 390 How to Save the Planet: Fictions of Climate Disaster and Preservation S,T

ENGLISH 420 — Technology and the Humanities T

Environmental Science and Engineering

Program in the Environment

Environ 101— Energy, Food, Environmental Justice S,T

Environ 102— Extreme Weather S

ENVIRON 105 — Our Changing Atmosphere S

Environ 109— Science and Sustainable Development S

Environ 110— Intro to Global Change: The Science behind Sustainability S,T

Environ 111— Climate and Sustainability S,T Environ 112 — Climate and Humans (minicourse)
S

Environ 152— Reconsidering African Environments S, T

Environ 167— Evolution, Environment, Global Health S

Environ 201— Ecological Issues S Environ 206 — Water & Society S, T

ENVIRON 207.001 - Sustainability & Society S

Environ 208— Business and Sustainability S

Environ 209— Intro to Political Ecology S

Environ 211— Social Science and Environmental Problems S

Environ 223— Garbage in the Modern World T

Environ 235— Environ Economics & Policy S

Environ 236— Environment and History in Preindustrial Europe S,T

Environ 237— Global Environmental History S

Environ 238— A History of Everything S

Environ 240— Environmental Ethics S

Environ 242— 2.5 Jillion Yrs Human Food and Foodways S, T

Environ 244— Intro to Environmental Humanities S

Environ 250— Energy and Climate Change S, T

Environ 256— Culture, Adaptation, and Environment S

Environ 262— Plants and People S,T

Environ 270— Globalization and Its Discontents S,T

Environ 277— Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean S

Environ 290— Food S

Environ 302— Environmental Governance and African Development S,T

Environ 306— Global Water S

ENVIRON 308.001 - Sustainability & Health S,T

Environ 310— Toxicology: Environmental Chemicals and Disease S

Environ 312— Environ Politics and Policy S,T

Environ 314— Food Literacy for All S

ENVIRON 320.001 - Environmental Journalism S

Environ 324— Introduction to Water Law and Policy S

Environ 332— Climate and Climate Change S

Environ 333— Inexhaustible Seas? S

Environ 335— Introduction to Environmental Politics S

Environ 350— The Built Environment: Introduction to Landscape Change S,T

Environ 351— China Food Crisis S,T

Environ 357— Architecture, Sustainability and the City T

Environ 360— Behavior and Environment S

Environ 361— Psychology of Environmental Stewardship S

Environ 365— International Environmental Policy S

Environ 367— Global Enterprise and Sustainable Development S

Environ 375— Environmental and Resource Economics S

Environ 376— Environmental Ethics S,T

Environ 377— Literature and Environment S

Environ 380— Natural Resources, Economics, and the Environment S,T

Environ 390— Environmental Activism S

Environ 391— Sustainable Campus S

Environ 407— Sustainable Cities S,T

Environ 408— Land use Policy & Law S,T

Environ 412— Environmental Values in Public Policy S

Environ 413— Environ Communication S,T

Environ 415— Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology S

Environ 432— Violent Environments: Oil. T

Environ 462— Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems S, T

Environ464.002 — Public Discourse Around Poverty & the Environment in the USA
&Colombia S,T

Environ 468— Oil & Gas Policy in the US S,T

Environ 475— Environmental Law S

Film, Television, and Media

German

GERMAN 232.005 —Environment and Sustainability S,T

GERMAN303.002 — Hitler's Berlin: The Heavy Metropolis T

GERMAN 323 —Environmentalism and Ecocriticism S,T

GERMAN 326.002 — Germany and the Environment S,T

GERMAN 326.004 — The Birth of Psychology S D

GERMAN 346 —Media Matter T

GERMAN 378 —Topics in the History of German Science S,T

GERMAN 416 —German Ecocriticism S,T

History

HISTORY 102— A History of the Present: Climate Change, Nuclear Power, and Energy Futures,
post-Fukushima S,T, M

HISTORY 209— Death, Immortality and the After Life S

HISTORY 215— Catastrophe: A History of Disaster S,T

HISTORY 223— Garbage in the Modern World T

HISTORY 230.001 Health and Disease in Chinese History S,M

HISTORY 231— Histories of Human Experimentation S,M

HISTORY 233— Sexually Transmitted Diseases from Syphillis to AIDS M

HISTORY 234— Medicine in the Western World from the 18 c to the present M

HISTORY 236— Environment and History in Preindustrial Europe S,T

HISTORY 237— Global Environmental History S,T

HISTORY 238— A History of Everything S,T

HISTORY 242.001 — Medical Traditions in the Middle East: Madness, Medicine, and Magic in the Middle East S,M

HISTORY 265— Minds and Brains in America S, M

HISTORY 277— Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean S

HISTORY 283—Work in the West T

HISTORY 285— Science, Technology, Medicine and Society S,T,M

HISTORY 292— Ancient Medicine in Greece and Rome S,M

HISTORY 296— Reproductive Medicine in the U.S. T,M

HISTORY 297— Health and Disease in China S,M

HISTORY 305— American Addictions S,M

HISTORY 355— Health and Illness in African Worlds M

HISTORY 376— Epidemics M

HISTORY 385— The Environmental History of China S,T

HISTORY 399.006 — Blood, Oil & Water in Ancient History T

HISTORY 407— History of Medicine, Disease & Bodies M

HISTORY 491— Environmental Justice HistoryLab: Great Lakes Areas of Concern S,T

HISTORY 497— Human Nature and its Sciences S

HISTORY 497— Health and Medicine in US Culture since 1875 S,M

HISTORY 497— Climate Change in History S

International and Comparative Studies (CICS, INTLSTD)

Organizational Studies

Middle East Studies

Philosophy

PHIL 155 —The Nature of Science S

PHIL 196.001 (FYS) Nuclear Weapons and the Ethics of Apocalypse S

PHIL 240 —Environmental Ethics S

PHIL 298 —Bioethics S

PHIL 314-- Astronomy Before the Telescope

PHIL 320 —Worldview of Modern Science S

PHIL 322 —Methods of Science S

PHIL 323 —The Scientific Revolution S

PHIL 340 —Minds and Machines S,T

PHIL 348 - Greek Science S,T,M

PHIL 356 —Issues in Bioethics S,M

PHIL 376 —Environmental Ethics S

PHIL 381 —Science and Objectivity S

PHIL 424 —Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics S

Political Science

Psychology

PSYCH 112 —Psychology as a Natural Science S,M

PSYCH 211.004 — Project Outreach: Health, Illness and Society M

PSYCH 265 —Minds and Brains in America S,M

PSYCH 291 —Introduction to the Psychology of Women M

PSYCH 321 —American Addictions M

PSYCH 360 —Behavior and Environment S

PSYCH 362 —Psychology of Environmental Stewardship S

PSYCH 389 —Psychology and Law S

PSYCH 401.008-009 — Health Psychology M

PSYCH 413 —A History of Modern Psychology M

PSYCH 477.002 — Mental Health: National and International Perspectives M

Public Health

PUBHLTH 200— Healthy & Society: Introduction to Public Health M

PUBHLTH 305— Environment and Human Health T, M

PUBHLTH 312— Public Health Politics S, T

PUBHLTH 318— Food Literacy for All S,M

PUBHLTH 350— Global Public Health M

PUBHLTH 381— Public Health Systems M

PUBHLTH 401—Public Health: Cancer M

PUBHLTH 403— Obesity: Cells, Society M

PUBHLTH 405— Social History of Infectious Disease M

PUBHLTH 413— Vaccines in Public Health M

PUBHLTH 450— Critical Reflections on Global Public Health M, T

PUBHLTH 465— The Science of Medicine S,M

Public Policy

PUBPOL 210 —Health and Society: Intro to Public Health S,M

PUBPOL 240 — Introduction to Technology Policy

PUBPOL 250 —Energy and Climate Change: Technology, Markets, Policy S,T

PUBPOL 312 —Environmental Politics in Policy S,T

PUBPOL 313 —Environmental Management & Policy S,T

PUBPOL 412 —Environmental Values in Public Policy S T

PUBPOL 468 —Oil & Gas Policy in the US S, T

PUBPOL 474 —Science, Technology and the Public Good S,T, M

PUBPOL 475 —Race, Technology & Public Policy T

Residential College

RCIDIV 270 —Globalization and Its Discontents S,M

RCIDIV 305 —Environment and Social Justice Literature S,T

RCIDIV 341 —Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East S,T

RCIDIV 390 —Environmental Activism SRCIDIV 391 — Sustainable Campus S, T

RCNSCI 110 —Global Change: Sustainability Science S,T

RCNSCI 202 —Ecological Issues S,T

RCNSCI 260 —Mind, Medicine & the Arts M, S

RCNSCI 419 —Sustainable Energy Systems S,T

RCSSCI 275 —Science, Technology, Medicine and Society S,T,M

RCSSCI 302 —Social and Cultural Theory: Paradigm and Paradigm Shifts S,T

RCSTP 327.001 - Medicine and Healing M

School of Information

SI 106 —Programming, Information & People T

SI 110 — Introduction to Information Studies T

SI 302 —Introduction to Information Ethics T

SI 310 —Information Environments T

SI 311 —Self Organized Science S, T

SI 316 —Designing and Analyzing Socla Media Feeds T

SI 335 —Social Media in Organizations T

SI 365 —Cyberscience T

SI 379 —History of Computers and the Internet T

SI 410 —Ethics and Information Technology T

SI 429 — Online Communities T

SI 430 — IT & Global Society T

SI 431 —Algorithms and Society T

SI 446 —Personal Privacy: Policy, Practice and Technology Issues T

SI 489 —Designing Engagement thru Social Media T

SI 514 —Digital Humanities: Debates & Techniques T

School of Nursing

Sociology

SOC 270 —Gender and the Law S, M

SOC 285 —Social Life in the Digital World S,T

SOC 302 —Intro to Sociology: Health & Society M

SOC 315 —Economic Sociology: Money, Markets, Power T

SOC 345 —Sociology of Sexualities S,M

SOC 346 —Sociology of the Body S, M

SOC 380 —Public Opinion Analysis S,T

SOC 445 —Diagnosis, Sex, and Society S,M

SOC 447 —Sociology of Gender S, M

SOC 474 —Health Inequalities M, T

SOC 475 —Health, Medicine, and Society M

SOC 476 —The Sociology of Bioethics S,M

SOC 477 —Death and Dying S,T,M

SOC 495.003/ORG 495.008 - Topics in Sociology S,T

University Courses / Applied Liberal Arts

ALA 109 —Perspectives on Health & Health Care M

ALA 118 —Programs, Information and People T

ALA 119.001 - Introduction to Information Studies T

ALA 160 —Introduction to Medical Humanities (Minicourse) M

UC 151 —Medical Ethics: At the Bedside M

UC 154.001 —Viruses and Society S,M

UC 154.002 —Health and Happiness: Exploring the Science M, S

UC 252 —Diagnosis of Human Diseases MUC 270 — Health Career Observations M

Urban Planning/Architecture

ARCH 357 —Sustainable City T

ARCH 423 —Intro Urban & Environmental Planning S,T

ARCH 425 —Environmental Systems S,T

ARCH 503 —Zombie Urbanism S,T

ARCH 506-- Theories of Design and Health M (open to grad/undergrad)

UP 263 —Energy and Environment S,T

UP 402 —Food Literacy for All S

UP 423 —Intro Urban & Environmental Planning S,T

UP 427 —Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems S,T

Women and Gender Studies

WGS 212 — Global AIDS Epidemic M

WGS 220.001 - Women's Health M

WGS 270 —Gender & the Law S,M

WGS 291 —Psychology of Women and Gender S

WGS 296 —Reproductive Health in the U.S. T,M

WGS 300 —Men's Health M

WGS 307.001 — Medicine and Healing M

WGS 324 —Childbirth and Culture M

WGS 331 —Feminist Theory of Gender and Health M

WGS 342 —Topics in Gender and Health S,M

WGS 348 —Sociology of Sexualities S,M

WGS 365 —Global Perspectives on Gender, Health S, M

WGS 400 —Women's Reproductive Health M

WGS 408 —Women, Gender & Health in East Asia M

WGS 410 —Reproductive Justice M

WGS 417 —19th C Race and Mental Health S, M

WGS 447 —Sociology of Gender S,M

WGS 449 —Diagnosis, Sex & Society M

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