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| Course | Title | Co-Req | Pre-Req | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALST 199 | Entangled Intimacies: Introduction to Africana and Latin American Studies | |||
| ALST 281 | Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa | |||
| ANTH 102 | Culture, Diversity, and Inequality | |||
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Archaeology | |||
| ARAB 121 | Elementary Arabic I | |||
| ARAB 201 | Intermediate Arabic I | ARAB 122 or MIST 122 | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| ARTH 105 | Introduction to Architecture in Cultural Context | |||
| ARTH 107 | What is Modern Art? | |||
| ARTH 220 | Early Modern European Architecture | |||
| ARTS 100 | Introduction to Studio Art | Seniors require class year override | ||
| ARTS 211 | Drawing | |||
| ARTS 221 | Video Arts | ARTS-221L | ||
| ARTS 231 | Painting | |||
| ARTS 241 | Analog Photography | |||
| ARTS 242 | Digital Photography | |||
| ARTS 251 | Printmaking | |||
| ASTR 101 | Solar System Astronomy | |||
| BIOL 101 | Topics in Organismal Biology: Invasive Species | First-year students and non-science majors. May be beneficial for entering students who do not have extensive biology background in preparation for enrollment in the foundation courses (BIOL 181 and BIOL 182). Not intended for students who have completed a biology foundation course. This course counts as a 100-level biology elective for students who do not receive credit for AP Biology. | ||
| BIOL 181 | Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity | BIOL-181L | ||
| BIOL 181L | Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity Lab | BIOL-181 | ||
| CHEM 101 | General Chemistry I | CHEM-101L | Students who repeat the lecture component are required to repeat the laboratory component if their grade in the lab was lower than B-. | |
| CHEM 101L | General Chemistry I Lab | CHEM-101 | ||
| CHEM 111 | Chemical Principles | CHEM-111L | Open to First-Years with AP CHEM score of 4 or 5; open to others with class year override | |
| CHEM 111L | Chemical Principles Lab | CHEM-111 | ||
| CHIN 121 | Elementary Chinese I | |||
| CHIN 201 | Intermediate Chinese I | CHIN 122 or equivalent experience | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| CLAS 230 | Classical Mythology | |||
| CORE 111 | Conversations | |||
| CORE C124 | Nigeria | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C125 | American Jews | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C126 | Families | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C128 | Armenia | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C129 | U.S.-Mexico Borderlands | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C130 | Korean Peninsula | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C131 | Native Oklahoma | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C142 | Literature of Addiction and Recovery | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C157 | France | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C177 | Peru | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C181 | Arabs | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C187 | Russia at the Crossroads | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE C197 | Tibet | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Communities course | ||
| CORE S110 | Discovering Biology: Hormones | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course | See revised course description | |
| CORE S110 | Discovering Biology: Microbes | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course | See revised course description | |
| CORE S118 | The Science of Language | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course | ||
| CORE S130 | The Social Life: The Paradox of Cooperative Behavior | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course | ||
| CORE S143 | Statistics in Real Life | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course | ||
| CORE S145 | Hive Mind | Students may not take more than 1 CORE Sciences course | ||
| COSC 101 | Introduction for Computing I | COSC-101L | ||
| COSC 101L | Introduction for Computing I Lab | COSC-101 | ||
| COSC 102 | Introduction for Computing II | COSC-102L | COSC 101 or equivalent programming experience. | Prereq or prereq override required |
| COSC 102L | Introduction for Computing II Lab | COSC-102 | ||
| ECON 151 | Introduction to Economics | |||
| EDUC 101 | The American School | |||
| ENGL 150 | Dangerous Selfies: Division, Disorder, and Psychic Disruption in Early Modern England | |||
| ENGL 152 | Plant, Animal, Mineral: American Literature and Extractive Industry | |||
| ENGL 200 | British Literary Traditions | |||
| ENGL 201 | American Texts and Contexts | |||
| ENGL 202 | Justice and Power in Postcolonial Literature | |||
| ENGL 217 | Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing | See revised course description | ||
| ENGL 217 | Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing | |||
| ENGL 240 | Latinx Literature | |||
| ENGL 266 | Introduction to Theater History: Rituals & Revolutions | Seniors need class year override | ||
| ENST 200 | Environmental Science: Challenges and Solutions | ENST-200L | ||
| ENST 202 | Environmental Ethics | Juniors and Seniors need class year override | ||
| FMST 200 | Introduction to Film and Media Studies | FMST-200L | ||
| FMST 200L | Required Film Screening | FMST-200 | ||
| FREN 121 | Introduction to French Language & Culture I | Not open to students with more than 1 year of high school study or who have taken a higher level FREN course | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. See course description for placement info; Seniors need class year override | |
| FREN 201 | Intermediate French: Conversation and Composition | Not open to students with more than 3 years of high school study or who have taken a higher level FREN course | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. | |
| FREN 202 | Intermediate French: Language, Culture, and Literature | Not open to students with more than 5 years of high school study or who have taken a higher level FREN course | ||
| FREN 352 | Introduction to Literature in French: Birth of the Modern | Not open to students who have taken a 400-level FREN course | ||
| FREN 354 | Introduction to Literature in French: The Francophone World | Not open to students who have taken a 400-level FREN course | ||
| FREN 361 | Advanced French Composition, Grammar, and Conversation | Prereq or prereq override required | ||
| GEOG 105 | Climate and Society | |||
| GEOG 122 | The City | |||
| GEOG 231 | Geography of the Physical Environment | |||
| GEOL 102 | Sustainable Earth | This course can not be taken during the same semester as another GEOL course with a course number less than 150 | ||
| GEOL 135 | Oceanography and the Environment | This course can not be taken during the same semester as another GEOL course with a course number less than 150 | ||
| GEOL 190 | Evolution of Planet Earth | GEOL-190L | Recommended for students interested in concentrating in geology or environmental geology. | |
| GEOL 190L | Evolution of Planet Earth Lab | GEOL-190 | ||
| GERM 121 | Beginning German I | |||
| GERM 122 | Beginning German II | GERM 121 or equivalent | ||
| GERM 201 | Intermediate German I: Germany in Europe | GERM 122 or equivalent | ||
| GERM 202 | Intermediate German II: Germanophone Europe | GERM 201 or equivalent | ||
| GERM 351 | Introduction to German Literary Studies | GERM 202 or equivalent | ||
| GREK 122 | Elementary Classical Greek II | GREK 121 | ||
| HEBR 121 | Elementary Hebrew I | |||
| HEBR 201 | Intermediate Hebrew I | HEBR 122 | ||
| HIST 102 | Europe in Crisis Since 1815 | |||
| HIST 199 | History Workshop | |||
| HIST 209 | The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 | |||
| HIST 210 | The History of Health, Disease and Empire | |||
| HIST 243 | Native American History | |||
| HIST 248 | Women's Lives in Europe, 1500-Present | |||
| HIST 261 | Modern Irish History | |||
| HIST 265 | War and Violence in East Asia | |||
| HIST 276 | Racial States: The Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany | |||
| HIST 281 | Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa | |||
| HIST 288 | Animals in History | |||
| ITAL 121 | Elementary Italian I | Not open to students who have studied Italian | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor; Seniors need class year override. | |
| ITAL 201 | Intermediate Italian | Not open to students with more than 3 years of study, a placement score higher than 4, or who have taken a higher level ITAL course | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. | |
| JAPN 121 | Elementary Japanese I | |||
| JAPN 201 | Intermediate Japanese I | JAPN 122 or JAPN 124 or equivalent experience | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| JWST 226 | Reason, Religion, & God | |||
| JWST 276 | Racial States: The Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany | |||
| LATN 201 | Intermediate Latin: Prose | LATN 122 or LATN 123 or equivalent | ||
| MATH 105 | Introduction to Statistics | Three years of secondary school mathematics; Not open to students who have either received credit for or are currently enrolled in CORE 143S or CORE S143 or MATH 240 or MATH 354 or MATH 416 or MATH 454 | ||
| MATH 161 | Calculus I | Three years of high school mathematics, including trigonometry | ||
| MATH 162 | Calculus II | MATH 161 with a grade of C- or higher or equivalent experience in a secondary school calculus course | Students using prior high school experience for the prereq must submit an override request to obtain permission to register. | |
| MATH 163 | Calculus III | (MATH 162 with a grade of C- or higher or equivalent experience in a secondary school calculus course) or (MATH 161 with a grade of B- or higher AND concurrent enrollment in PHYS 232) | Students using prior high school experience for the prereq must submit an override request to obtain permission to register. | |
| MIST 215 | Comparative Politics: Middle East | |||
| MUSI 101 | The Beatles | |||
| MUSI 103 | Musicianship and Songwriting (TH) | |||
| MUSI 131 | Music and Protest | |||
| MUSI 151 | The Musical Experience (H&A) | |||
| MUSI 161 | History of Jazz (H&A) | |||
| MUSI 203 | Harmony I (TH) | Music background required | ||
| MUSI 215 | Music History I: Medieval through Baroque Periods (H&A) | Music background preferred | ||
| MUSI 217 | Chamber Music I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 221 | World Music (H&A) | |||
| MUSI 230 | University Orchestra I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 232 | Colgate Concert Jazz Ensemble I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 234 | University Chorus I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 236 | Private Instruction I (PF) | Student must have studied at Colgate with their studio instructor for at least two semesters before applying to take lessons for credit. Proposal required. | ||
| NAST 243 | Native American History | |||
| PCON 201 | Processes of Peace & Conflict: Histories, Theories, Technologies | Declared junior and senior majors/minors may request a class year override | ||
| PCON 202 | Practices of Peace & Conflict: Politics, Cultures, Societies | Declared junior and senior majors/minors may request a class year overrride | ||
| PCON 245 | Organizing War: Technologies, Logistics, and Infrastructures of Militarization | PCON 201 or PCON 202 | ||
| PHED 000 | Physical Education | |||
| PHIL 101 | Introduction to Philosophical Problems | |||
| PHIL 111 | Ethics | |||
| PHIL 202 | Environmental Ethics | Juniors and Seniors need class year override | ||
| PHIL 225 | Logic I | |||
| PHIL 228 | Philosophy of Science | |||
| PHYS 105 | Mechanical Physics I | |||
| PHYS 111 | Fundamental Physics I | PHYS-111L | ||
| PHYS 111L | Fundamental Physics I Lab | PHYS-111 | ||
| PHYS 125 | How Physics Sees the World: Atmosphere and Climate | PHYS-125L | ||
| PHYS 125 | How Physics Sees the World: Comparative Biomechanics | PHYS-125L | ||
| PHYS 125 | How Physics Sees the World: Nanophysics | PHYS-125L | ||
| POSC 150 | Introduction to American Politics | |||
| POSC 151 | Politics and Moral Vision (TH) | |||
| POSC 153 | Introduction to Comparative Politics (CO) | |||
| POSC 215 | Comparative Politics: Middle East (CO) | |||
| POSC 232 | Fundamentals of International Relations (IR) | Students who have taken POSC 152 are not eligible to take POSC 232. (IREL majors who took POSC 152 prior to declaring may request a prereq override for POSC 232.) | ||
| POSC 260 | Foundations of Political Thought (TH) | |||
| PSYC 150 | Introduction to Psychological Science | Juniors and Seniors need instructor permission | ||
| RELG 101 | The World's Religions | |||
| RELG 215 | Buddhism | |||
| RELG 226 | Reason, Religion, and God | |||
| RELG 230 | Feasting and Fasting: Religion and Food | |||
| RELG 245 | Religion in Contemporary America | |||
| RELG 246 | Race, Ethnicity, Religion in the Ancient World | |||
| RELG 249 | Apollo’s Arrow: Global Medical Racism(s) and Religion | |||
| RELG 254 | AI and God: Reconciling Science, Religion, Artificial Intelligence | |||
| REST 121 | Elementary Russian I | |||
| REST 201 | Intermediate Russian I | |||
| SOCI 101 | Introduction to Sociology | |||
| SPAN 121 | Elementary Spanish I | Not open to students with more than 1 year of high school study or who have taken a higher level SPAN course. | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by by instructor; See course description for placement information; Seniors need class year override | |
| SPAN 201 | Intermediate Spanish | Not open to students with more than 3 years of high school study or who have taken a higher level SPAN course. | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. | |
| SPAN 202 | Intermediate Spanish: Language and Literature | Not open to students with more than 4 years of high school study or who have taken a higher level SPAN course. | ||
| SPAN 354 | Latin American Literature: Colonialism, Mestizaje, and Independencies | Not open to students who have taken a 400-level SPAN course | ||
| SPAN 355 | The Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century | Not open to students who have taken a 400-level SPAN course | ||
| SPAN 361 | Advanced Composition and Stylistics | Not open to students who have taken a 400-level SPAN course | ||
| THEA 252 | Scenic Design | |||
| THEA 254 | Acting I | |||
| THEA 266 | Introduction to Theater History: Rituals & Revolutions | Seniors need class year override | ||
| THEA 271 | Introduction to Contemporary Dance | |||
| THEA 272 | Dance Imagery & Improvisation | |||
| THEA 276 | Playwriting I | |||
| THEA 353 | Theater, Play, and Improvisation | |||
| WGSS 202 | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies | |||
| WRIT 102 | Introduction to Rhetoric in the Liberal Arts Tradition | |||
| WRIT 103 | Rhetoric and Writing | |||
| WRIT 215 | Public Speaking |