04/04/2025
Looking for courses for next semester?
Academic Affairs has a list of interesting courses offered in the spring semester with only one or zero prerequisites. Course topics include cyborg brains, multi-media performances, understanding “evil”, and more.
- CHEM 245: Molecular Modeling & Computational Chemistry — Could be a great course for chemistry students, as well as physics, math, computer science and more!
- COGS 205: Cyborg Brains and Hybrid Minds — This course explores the ways that our bodies and brains absorb external technologies.
- EDYS 276: Ecology, Development and Education — Drawing on theories and practices from the West and the East, and the ancient and the contemporary, we examine key concepts such as sustainability, ecology, modernity, and development from interdisciplinary and international perspectives.
- ENVS 280 B1/GEOL 250 B1: Water Resources — This course will cover aspects of water resources management including water sources, water quality, and wastewater treatment. (This is a 0.5 unit Mod1 course. It was not originally listed as a mod course)
- ENVS 280 02/GEOL 251 01: Soils in the Environment — investigate the formation, properties, classification, and distribution of soils across natural and managed environments through fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and classroom study.
- PART 143 and 243: Collaboration Theory and Practice — this is a great class for folks who expect to be working as part of a team – whether you’re a business person, a surgeon, or an artist.
- PART 120: Create-a-thon — Need .25 credit? Love making things with other people? One weekend + One group + One Creation = A Festival of New Art!
- PART 248: Performance Composition — How is space used to create a message? Learn how artists approach and create a spatial world.
- PART 351: Devising New Work — Work with renowned devising artist Julia Stemper to create a multi-media performance piece that incorporates dance, acting, music, writing, and production.
- PHIL 240 01: Something Animal — This course will explore human agency as a form of animal life.
- PHIL 240 02: Evil — This course explores varied historical, religious, and philosophical understandings of “evil” and how these might problematize or benefit our conception and realization of human flourishing.
- POLS 213: Politics of Space and Place — This course provides an overview of the role that geography plays in political processes. Students discuss how space and place affects policing, incarceration, electoral representation and attitude formation.
- PRAX 286: Impact Beloit: Community & Civic Engagement — Work with local organizations and businesses that serve the city of Beloit! Each student is assigned a placement with a community partner where they are supervised by experienced community leaders and assist in supporting the mission of the institution.
- PSYC 285: Environmental Psychology — This course examines the bidirectional relationship between psychology and humans’ natural and constructed surroundings, enriching students’ understanding of the dynamic relationship between humans and their physical surroundings