• The General Education Curriculum
  • What is the difference between a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts Degree?
  • Bachelor of Arts General Education Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science General Education Requirements
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts – College of the Arts
  • Middle Childhood Education
  • Sample Syllabi
  • Group Studies Courses
  • Schedule Classes
  • Academic Advising

Issues of the Contemporary World

Required for the Bachelor of Arts degree only. This is a challenging upper-level course chosen to make connections among different areas in your curriculum, discussed from different vantage points.

Goals/Rationale

• Thematic upper-division course work, drawing upon multiple disciplines, enriches students’ experiences of the contemporary world.

Learning Objectives

• students synthesize and apply knowledge from diverse disciplines to contemporary issues
• students write about or conduct research on the contemporary world